A former professor at the University of Arkansas was sentenced on June 16 to a year and a day in prison followed by one year of supervised release on one count of providing a false statement to the FBI regarding the existence of patents for his inventions in China, according to the Department of Justice.
Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 64, of Fayetteville, filed 24 patents that bear Ang’s name or Chinese birth name in the country, according to court documents. However, he did not disclose his Chinese patents to the university, where he worked as a professor.
