Awards, patents, and certifications get used loosely in wellness marketing — sometimes stacked together to imply more than any one of them actually proves. We'd rather list ours individually, in plain language, so it's clear what each one does and doesn't tell you.
2009: two industry awards
In 2009, three years after the company was incorporated, Zazen received the Malaysia Business Leadership Award and the Malaysia Spa & Wellness Award for Best Wellness Equipment, given to the Zazen Far Infrared Thermal System. These are industry recognitions, judged by industry peers and event organisers rather than a clinical or regulatory body, so we treat them as a mark of early industry standing among Malaysian wellness brands, not a health claim.
A patent, not a clinical trial
The Zazen Scalar generator — developed in 2008 and launched in 2014 — is covered by a patent application, PCT WO 2017/026889 A2. A patent protects the design of a device from being copied; the patent office examines novelty and originality, not whether the device produces a health benefit. So a patent number is a real, checkable fact about the design — it just isn't evidence of what the device does for the person using it, no matter how technical or official the number looks on a page.
A 2025 testing certification
In March 2025, the Scalar I-Wear received a Malaysian regulatory testing certification, serial MOSTI/2025/STI202500861. Like the patent, this is a verifiable credential about the product's testing and registration status with a Malaysian authority — not a statement about clinical effect. We publish the serial number so it can be checked rather than taken on faith, the same way we'd expect to check it ourselves before buying from anyone else.
What we'd rather you look at
None of the three above substitute for a clinical study. If you want to know what a Zazen product has actually been shown to do — including where the evidence is still early — the more useful read is our writeup of the preliminary UPM sleep study, which states plainly what was, and wasn't, statistically significant.
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