Chapter 89

Just two hours later, Zhao Mingjie returned, and Zhuo Chuan also received the answer he wanted: Philips Corporation was willing to participate in the bidding for the access qualification license. They also made a request, hoping to invest in Zhuo Chuan's company to establish a deeper partnership.

Of course, Zhao Mingjie knew that the other party would never sell shares, which was obvious to everyone. They only required a certain percentage of cash returns in the future.

But Zhuo Chuan naturally declined the offer. In a short while, there would be plenty of banks coming to him for loans.

After seeing Zhao Mingjie off, Zhuo Chuan cleared his thoughts. In the future, many companies would participate in the qualification bidding. Therefore, he needed to quickly apply for the copyright of the intelligent ECG analysis software and related patents to use as a basis for licensing and charging other companies, otherwise, there would be a lot of trouble.

Thinking of this key point, Zhuo Chuan called the business manager, Chen Zhengqian, on the internal line.

"Manager Chen, how is the progress on the copyright and patent applications I asked you to handle a while ago?"

"Oh, Mr. Zhuo, I was just about to report on this. The software copyright registration certificate has already arrived and was just mailed to the company. However, the patent application is still under review. Good news came today; I just received a call from Deputy Manager Xiao. There has been new progress. Previously, the process was very slow, going through formal procedures from preliminary review to actual review, and then to formal authorization and publication. It would take at least two to three years to get the patent."

"But after Mr. Zhuo's paper was published, the relevant department specially called him this morning to ask some details. They quickly processed it as a special case, urging the patent office to expedite the review and enter the preliminary review stage, which greatly sped up the process," Manager Chen said happily.

"This is really great," Zhuo Chuan knew that someone must have intervened from above. He understood the importance of world-class discoveries, and the publication of a significant paper by a Chinese person in the journal *Nature* was enough to elicit a response from the top. He believed that soon, CCTV would send people to interview him.

Everything has its pros and cons. While Zhuo Chuan's newfound fame would bring many troubles, such as the necessity to attend certain events and waste a lot of time, it also brought many conveniences. For instance, the patent application process, which saved a lot of time. In less than a month, there was new progress, and with the intervention from above, the review was just a formality.

Zhuo Chuan's old company had handled many software copyrights and applied for some patents before.

Copyrights are easy to apply for and can be obtained quickly. The process is not very strict, such as the source code review, which is just a formality. The reviewers don't have the time or expertise to go through the code line by line. At most, they might ask the applicant to explain a few things remotely before approving it.

However, patent applications are much more complicated and take a long time, often two to three years. The review process is much stricter. The old company spent a lot of effort applying for some simple algorithm patents.

This software is clearly more important than the application software of the old company, with a much higher technical content. But with the intervention from above, the patent office would likely not be too strict in the review.

"By the way, to publicly sell this software in the medical market, which involves medical examinations, we may also need medical device licenses and other qualification certificates. Previously, we cooperated with Starlight Company, which has been in business for decades and already has these qualifications. They sold the software under their name, so we didn't need these. Now that we are on our own and will be selling the software, we need to obtain these qualifications ourselves. Please梳理 and expedite the process," Zhuo Chuan said. The new company had to start from scratch with many certificates, and if possible, he would have simply acquired the old company, but he knew the old boss's character and wouldn't sell the company.

With subordinates to handle the details, Zhuo Chuan didn't need to do everything himself. He just needed to give instructions. Manager Chen Zhengqian nodded in agreement. These were all part of his responsibilities, and he had already dispatched people to handle them. If he needed the boss to remind him of everything, he wouldn't be a manager for long.

After handling the initial few matters, the subsequent developments largely matched Zhuo Chuan's and others' expectations, proceeding exceptionally smoothly. In the modern world, which is generally peaceful and lacks superhuman powers, Zhuo Chuan's paper contained real and reliable discoveries, and the principles had already been rigorously tested in the new world. Over time, the paper's influence naturally grew.

Many influential scientific journals, after repeatedly verifying the paper "On the Principle of Predicting Human Physiological Status Development from ECG Signal Changes" published in *Nature* by Zhuo Chuan, confirmed that it was not another fabricated major discovery. They obtained authorization from Zhuo Chuan and *Nature* to reprint the paper and published extensive validation processes and results by various experts, along with real patient cases.

The ability to accurately predict human physiological development and determine whether a person would face a life-threatening situation within ten days based on real-time changes in ECG signals was a capability that humans had never truly possessed before, not relying on so-called divine predictions. Its impact was like an unprecedented massive storm, quickly sweeping through the entire scientific community and spreading to various industries.

*Science* magazine, which is considered even more authoritative than *Nature* by insiders, also obtained authorization from its competitor and reprinted the paper. Like *Nature*, they couldn't handle deliberate fraudsters, but any medical expert could spend a few days finding a case to manually verify Zhuo Chuan's paper. The repeated experiments by numerous experts confirmed the reproducibility of the principles mentioned in the paper, proving it to be truly scientific and on par with other principles.

However, they didn't simply reprint the paper. They contacted many professionals to take it a step further. They asked people to statistically analyze the results of various speculative experiments published in numerous journals, judge their accuracy, and then publish the statistical results in the most prominent position in the journal.

To their surprise, after analyzing the results of the experts and combining them with the actual patient observations, they found that the accuracy rate between the calculated results and the real situations of the patients was as high as 97.8%. Not only was the timing almost perfectly accurate, but the severity of the conditions was also astonishingly predicted.

More importantly, these samples were randomly selected from different countries, times, and locations, yet they still had such a high hit rate. For medical diagnosis, which is inherently a somewhat ambiguous field, the publication of this accuracy rate provided ironclad evidence of the correctness of Zhuo Chuan's paper.

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