Awards

SK is proud that many of our projects have earned awards for the technology SK developed on behalf of clients. Recent awards are listed below:

LeapFrog — LeapPad Learning Systems

Chip used in LeapPad Learning Systems includes audio and speech DSP SK developed for the Odyssey educational globe

3rd consecutive Toy of the Year award from the Toy Industry Association for the Quantum Pad Learning System (2003)

Sportvision — 1st and Ten™ Virtual First Down Line

Two Emmy awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development, Innovative Technical Achievement (2000)

Coinstar — Coin Counting Kiosk

Early model kiosk accepted into New York's Museum of American Financial History's archive collection to celebrate its impact on coin flow in the U.S. (2002)

Patents

Patents listing SK engineer(s) as inventor(s), for product design work done while employed by SK Communications.

	Description	Client	Patent #
	Coin discrimination apparatus and method	Coinstar	5,988,348
	Coin sensing apparatus and method	Coinstar	6,047,808 6,056,104 6,471,030
	Electromagnetic transmitting hockey puck	Fox Sports	5,564,698
	System for enhancing the television presentation of an object at a sporting event	Fox Sports	5,912,700 6,154,250
	System for determining the end path for a moving object	Sportvision	6,304,665
	Method and apparatus for performing a lateral flow assay	PraxSys BioSystems	6,136,610
	Patents listing SK engineer as inventor, for product design work done prior to being employed by SK Communications.
	Description	Client	Patent #
	Directional hearing system	Cardinal Sound Labs	5,793,875