Ric Richardson

Who is Ric Richardson?

Ric Richardson is an Australian inventor. He is the holder of multiple granted patents including the Uniloc patent US5490216 and the Logarex patent 6400293. Although he spent twelve years in California to promote and develop products produced by Uniloc, Richardson grew up in Sydney and currently resides just outside Byron Bay. He also has been accused of patent trolling.

He is the founder of Uniloc, a company based on the technology he first patented in 1992. The machine fingerprinting technology is used to stop copyright infringement; it was developed as Richardson worked on his own software called One-Step. He is an independent inventor with a role as founder of the online publication technology called zkimmer.

Richardson began tinkering with bicycle design in the mid-1970s. Richardson and one of his brothers are the progenitors of the "shade saver", cords used to keep sunglasses on the wearer.