ORO VALLEY, Ariz., Jan. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tautachrome, Inc. (OTCQB:TTCM) today announced that it has been updated by its patent attorney, Benjamin Urcia of the patent firm Bacon & Thomas in Alexandria, Virginia, and the U.S. Patent Office on the timelines of issuance and examination of its patent and patent claims. The Company also explained its intentions regarding the use of the KlickZie technology it is developing under the protection of the allowed and pending claims.
Tautachrome’s KlickZie patent applications are currently being pursued in two principal areas: Trusted Imaging and Talk-to-the-Picture communications.
The Trusted Imaging patent area has a cloud-based component that certifies the authenticity of pictures and videos made in a KlickZie-equipped smartphone. As we announced on December 22, 2016, all of the authentication claims in this patent area have been allowed. Publication of this patent could occur from one to three weeks from today. The other KlickZie claims are being pursued in two separate patent applications making for a total of three patents in the Trusted Imaging patent area: one allowed and two pending.
The breakthrough novelty of KlickZie technology is that it is able to provide evidence-grade trustability of its pictures and videos, and the trustability it provides is a property of the pictures and videos themselves. Trust goes with the imagery. It doesn’t matter where the imagery goes or who handles it. It’s not a property of the chain of custody of the imagery, evidence lockers for the imagery, handling procedures for the imagery, or anything else of that sort. This is huge for certain companies and entities, and Tautachrome is working very hard on a relationship with a Fortune 50 company for which this will have great value. In addition, this technology makes every consumer smartphone a trusted imager, an absolute game-changer for society.
The Talk-to-the-Picture patent area adds an element to the pictures and videos that are made in a KlickZie-equipped smartphone that we call activation. An amazing thing happens when activated imagery is a part of the ordinary image making of smartphone users. It turns out that KlickZie activation adds a new world of usefulness to these pictures and videos. When you come across an activated picture, you can communicate with the author of the picture, or with others who have seen the picture or are seeing the picture at that moment, whether you know these people or not and wherever they may be on earth, merely by clicking or touching the picture (“touch-to-comm”). The picture itself makes the communication happen. It does not matter where or how you come across an activated picture, you can engage it, interact with it, or share it, just by touching or clicking it.
In addition, what happens to an activated picture from its creation onward gets invisibly added to the picture’s data and can be tracked into the future. Activated pictures can answer many questions. For example, in a group photo you could ask: Have any of the people in my contacts list interacted with this picture? Are any of them engaging it right now? Who else besides my contacts have already engaged this picture in some way? Who took it, where and when?
Our studies have shown us two things about activated imagery. The first is that our interactive and engageable activated imagery will act like a new language on the web, replacing text. The second is that our user base will grow to more than a billion users in record time, and will continue to grow after that to most of the smartphone users on the planet. The reason for this second factor is that every activated picture or video acts as an advertisement to anybody who sees it, shouting out I’m amazing! I’m free! Download me now! Monetizing such large user bases has been shown repeatedly to be both possible and extremely profitable.
The Talk-to-the-Picture patent application was filed with the US Patent Office (USPTO) fifteen months ago in August 2015, and has been caught in the giant patent backlog. We have requested and received a prediction-letter from the Patent Office which stated that examination of our application is estimated to occur in approximately seven months. The letter also stated “The USPTO is dedicated to minimizing [backlog], and we are targeting resources to help address backlogs...”
"We want our investors to know that our intention is to build out our technology, products and organization with no waiting. Patents are great and we expect to achieve all of our patent goals in due time. But nothing will stop our progress in funding and developing Tautachrome’s flagship KlickZie technology. When patents catch up, they will help cement and protect our competitive position," said Dr. Jon Leonard, CEO.
About Tautachrome, Inc.
Tautachrome, Inc. (OTCQB:TTCM) is an emerging growth company in the developing digital imagery technology sector. Tautachrome has revolutionary smartphone-image authentication allowed patent claims and breakthrough patents pending, including Talk-to-the-Picture social networking and trustable imagery-based interaction.
Forward-Looking Statements: Statements made in this press release are forward-looking and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions, managing growth, and political and other business risks. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph and the risks and other factors detailed in Tautachrome's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tautachrome undertakes no duty to update these forward-looking statements.