Discovery Machine™ Inc. Announces Patent Award

Williamsport, PA, December 22, 2006—Discovery Machine Inc. (DMI) has announced the US Patent Office awarded them their first patent award entitled: "System & Method for Collecting & Representing Knowledge Hierarchies."

This technology, in development for over seven years, combines the Task-Method-Knowledge and Structure-Behavior-Function ontologies into one language that combines robust modeling capabilities of both strategies and knowledge.

“This patent represents a key differentiator of our products,” said Todd Griffith, Discovery Machine’s co-founder and CTO.  “There are cognitive science based tools that model process and there are tools that model concepts, but our language provides a relationship between these two ontologies that is unique.  We have solved real-world problems with our language and products that showed we can address the difficulties often associated with knowledge acquisition.”

Discovery Machine provides a portfolio of products including a methodology and services.  These products are all based on the language that started as this combination of the TMK and SBF ontologies. 

“This is an important event for Discovery Machine, its partners, and investors,” said Howard Lewis, DMI’s President and CEO.  “This award validates what we knew all along – we provide a unique and proven solution for capturing and leveraging real-world expertise into software systems.”

About Discovery Machine Inc.
Discovery Machine Inc. is a privately-held woman-owned firm, with headquarters in Williamsport, PA, and offices in Raleigh, NC. DMI provides software, methodology, and consulting services that enable knowledge capture and engineering. Discovery Machine products and services give “knowledge experts”—strategists, scientists, researchers and others—the ability to build working process models, simulations and intelligent agents without the need for scripting languages or complex rule-based systems. Discovery Machine has a successful history in the defense, aerospace, and biomedical research industries including work with the Navy, DARPA, ONR, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and many others.

Contacts
Howard Lewis President & CEO
570-601-1858
hlewis@discoverymachine.com

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