BlackTurtle

Korea's dormant technologies, woken up by the right problem.

Stuck on a problem?
Look outside
your domain.

While you keep searching within your own field, somewhere in Korea sit roughly 3 million registered patents and hundreds of thousands of national R&D projects, waiting for a problem from another industry. BlackTurtle surfaces the ones already doing the job you need done.

The backbone of cross-domain technology transfer

~3M

Registered patents searched as exploration context

Hundreds of thousands

National R&D projects reviewed alongside

1-3

Field-ready scenarios distilled from each query

With sources

Patent number, project ID, and official applicant

Powering ideas across industries.

The breakthrough solution
was usually right next door.

Sketch illustration of a 1941 walk in the Swiss Alps
Velcro

1941, a walk in the Swiss Alps

George de Mestral was hiking with his dog when he noticed burrs clinging to his trousers and the dog's fur. Under the microscope, he asked one question: why does this hold so well? Botany answered a problem the textile industry had been carrying for decades.

Sketch illustration of a 1960s NASA crash test lab
NASA

1960s, NASA's crash test lab

NASA needed a material that could absorb impact and protect pilots in a crash. The foam they engineered slowly conformed to the body, then returned to its original shape. Aerospace safety ended up answering a problem in the bedroom.

Sketch illustration of Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, in 2001
F1 / Hospital

2001, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

Watching the chaos of newborn handovers, surgeons recognized the same choreography in a Formula 1 pit stop: several people transferring one object in a matter of seconds. Motorsport answered a problem in the delivery room.

Pro Intelligence Preview

One problem in.
A board-ready match brief out.

800C coating for hydrogen storage

4 sources · 9 links · functional fit High

AI reasoning trace

We need a coating that survives 800C for hydrogen storage.

BlackTurtle

Pro Intelligence

Question intent
Applicable source families
Holder and validation path
Executive brief

72-hour validation design

Define three stack candidates on Inconel or stainless coupons.

Run 50 thermal cycles at 800C in hydrogen, then measure adhesion and crack maps.

Pass criteria: no delamination, mass change below 1%, hydrogen permeability reduced by at least 50%.

Functional match thesis

AI reasoning trace

4 sources · 9 links · functional fit High

Marketplace

Find the technology you need,
list the technology you have,
and start the licensing conversation.

If you need the technology

Three years of in-house R&D could be six months of licensing the answer someone already found. Get a shortlist of candidate technologies and the institutions behind them, ready for acquisition or licensing conversations.

Find acquisition candidates

If you hold the technology

That single patent sitting in your cabinet might be the missing line in an industry you've never worked in. List your technology for sale or licensing, and we'll route it to the people who need it most.

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Ready to license, backed by data.

It doesn't stop at ideas.
We connect technologies you can deploy today.

Every answer our AI surfaces is mapped to a real registered patent or a national R&D project. With the official applicant on file, you can move straight into licensing conversations with someone who can actually deliver.

*Matching results are a starting point for technology discovery and do not constitute legal advice.

Patent number

KR registration / application number

Project ID

NTIS project identifier

Official applicant

Universities, government research institutes, enterprises

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