T M M Inc (TMMI)

[jay14]

I thought that more than twenty-five years ago, two Georgia Tech University mathematics professors, Dr. Alan Sloan and Dr. Michael Barnsley, teamed up through their company, Iterated Systems, Inc., to create a new practical algorithm to compress digital images based on fractal theory. Outside of academic and scientific circles, their efforts were not well-understood.
Since they developed the algorithm originally to compress still images, not video, Barnsley and Sloan decided to work with TMMI on creating a video codec. Eventually TMMI acquired all the rights to TRUDEF™ because Iterated didn't want to invest any more money and time on video. There was a very interesting episode on "Suits", USA network this week, dealing with algorithm's on where they start, and whose mind' created them;Seems they stay with the original source, no matter what, even if the person is under contract and that would of been Kramer, Dr. Barnsley and Dr. Sloan!!.04/08/2014
Hearing (8:30 AM) (Judicial Officer Gonzalez, Elizabeth) FYI the two patents that are active with the current codec run through 2015 and 2018 as TMMI TRUDEF moves onward and upward!!.