Ex-Professor Gets Year in Prison for Lying to FBI About China Patents

Former University of Arkansas professor Simon Saw-Teong Ang was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for lying to the FBI about the existence of patents for his inventions in China, said DOJ Thursday. Ang filed 24 patents in China that bear his name, it said. The school requires their faculty to declare all inventions, but Ang didn't disclose the patents, and subsequently lied about them when interviewed by the FBI. Ang was ordered to serve a year of supervised release after his sentence is complete..