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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-010410"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AIMD"
cik: "0001014763"
company_name: "Ainos, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T16:13:55.984159+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ainos signs co-development deal with Nisshinbo & Inabata for VOC sensing platform

## Summary
- Ainos will receive one-time upfront development fee plus per-unit fees for AI Nose tech.
- Partnership targets telehealth, automotive, industrial, and environmental safety applications.
- Agreement effective Aug 9, 2023 through Aug 31, 2026, with normal termination rights.
- Ainos brings over 50 active/pending patents and deep-learning algorithm to the platform.
- Nisshinbo outsources development; Inabata coordinates logistics between the parties.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-010410
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AIMD
- cik: 0001014763
- company_name: Ainos, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423010410/0001654954-23-010410-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423010410/aimd_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-23-010410.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Ainos, Inc. entered into Co-Development Agreement with Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. and Taiwan Inabata Sangyo Co., Ltd. (effective 2023-08-09).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: collaboration
  - Counterparty: Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. and Taiwan Inabata Sangyo Co., Ltd.
  - Effective: 2023-08-09
  source text: On August 9, 2023, Ainos, Inc., a Texas corporation (the “Company”), entered into Co-Development Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc., a Japan corporation (“NISD”), and Taiwan Inabata Sangyo Co., Ltd., a Taiwan corporation (“Inabata”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014763/000165495423010410/0001654954-23-010410-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.