HoloTouch technology and its sophisticated refinements were already the subject of Australia Patent 2004258513, Canada Patents 2,160, 245 and 2,530,987, Japan Patents 4130957 and 4741488, US Patents 6,377,238 and 7,054,045 as well as UK Patent 2292711.  An additional patent application is pending in the European Union.  The company’s intellectual property is now fully protected in major commercial markets.

McPheters observed “the granting of Japan Patent 5113922 is particularly encouraging because it recognizes a variety of sophistications to our core technology by the Japanese IP protection scheme.  The Japan Patent Office is well-known for its attention to detail and demanding standards for recognizing novelty in patent application, factors which make the granting of this far-reaching and important patent even more satisfying.  Innovative use of these intuitive but touchless human-machine interfaces, employing these enhancements to our core technology forecasts a wide variety of comfortable virtual interfaces even as the size of hardware continues to shrink beyond the size of human fingers.  We continue to innovate in order to offer technology to build creative, virtual HMIs with no moving parts to fail under use or abuse and no contamination transfer issues.”

HoloTouch, Inc. works with licensees of its HoloTouch technology to apply it to their specific devices and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to build prototypes of those devices. 

HoloTouch, Inc. is a Connecticut Technology Council and FastTrack company and has been repeatedly recognized by industry groups and publishers for its technological excellence, innovation and product development including readers and editors of Control Engineering, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Connecticut Technology Council, Product Development and Management Association and International Hologram Manufacturers Association.

Contact:     

HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

Incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur, inventor and veteran R. Douglas McPheters, HoloTouch, Inc.  licenses its widely patented technology for use in interactive   holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications.  The company offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology.  For more information about HoloTouch technology, licensing and product opportunities and how HoloTouch can provide turn-key solutions for customized HMI applications, please call 203.588.9808 or write to info@holotouch.com.

Reached at his Stamford office, McPheters observed: “allowance of our latest Canadian patent application, resulting in the issuance of Canadian Patent 2530987, completes an important step in growing and strengthening our intellectual property portfolio and foreshadows development of Canadian markets for products using HoloTouch technology and those of Canadian exporters.  By devising ways to enclose all essential parts of any controls using HoloTouch technology inside a sealed enclosure, they’re more durable (no moving parts to fail under use or abuse) and without contamination transfer issues (nothing to actually touch in using them).  As part of our commercialization process, we license HoloTouch technology for use in specific devices and are moving toward manufacture and sale of a commercial version of a single-function switch (picture at the right).  A switch like this, which fits into a standard wall box and operates on 110 or 240 VAC, has been flawlessly opening doors at Yale-New Haven Hospital for nearly two (2) years in an area where hospital administrators tell us the tactile switches it replaced only last six to eight weeks before people destroy them through use or abuse.  To operate this switch and other controls using HoloTouch technology, people need only pass a finger through holographic images of what would otherwise be the device’s buttons or keys, floating freely in the air at a convenient location.”

HoloTouch technology can be customized to controls in a variety of sectors including automotive, aviation, banking, consumer electronics, “factory floor,” food processing, games and gaming, medical and military, just to name a few.

 Contact:

HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

 HoloTouch, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur, inventor and veteran R. Douglas McPheters. The company licenses its widely patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology.

R. Douglas McPheters, President of HoloTouch, Inc., a veteran-owned Delaware corporation, observed, “being invited to join the EDGE® Innovation Network is further evidence of the wide appeal of our HoloTouch® touchless, holographic human-machine interface technology. HoloTouch technology allows people to intuitively enter commands and data into a wide range of electronic equipment by simply passing a finger through a holographic image.  This capability has unlimited potential for the EDGE user community.”

Pete Palmer, EDGE director, said, “The EDGE provides a new military and government acquisition paradigm by using both physical and virtual environments where EDGE members and users can collaborate and innovate together to deliver gap-filling capabilities in months rather than years.”

Sponsored by General Dynamics C4 Systems, there are seven EDGE Innovation Centers worldwide and over 200 EDGE members. Recent new members include Acellent Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif.; Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, Mass.; Real Time Companies, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz.; Abrams Learning and Information Systems, Inc., Arlington, Va; and Advanced Ground Information Systems, Inc., Jupiter, Fla. More information can be found online at www.edge-innovation.com.

Contact:

HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

HoloTouch, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur, inventor and veteran R. Douglas McPheters. The company licenses its widely patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology. 

Japan Patent Number 4741488 validates the use of composite holograms in connection with the company’s core touchless, holographic actuation and control technology.  HoloTouch core technology is already the subject of Canada Patent 2,160, 245, Japan Patent Number 4130957, US Patent 6,377,238 and UK Patent 2292711.  Substantial enhancements to HoloTouch technology, in both compactness and durability, are subject to US Patent 7,054,045 and Australia Patent 2004258513 while additional patent applications are pending in Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States.

McPheters observed, “Japan Patent 4741488 protects the use of composite holograms in virtual human-machine interfaces, making use of HoloTouch technology ideal for virtual, intuitive HMIs, floating freely in the air, which are larger than underlying hardware.  Innovative use of these enhancements to our core technology forecasts a wide variety of comfortable virtual interfaces even as the size of hardware continues to shrink beyond the size of human fingers.  We continue to innovate in order to offer technology with which to build creative, virtual HMIs.”

HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its HoloTouch technology for use in specific devices and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to build prototypes of those devices. 

HoloTouch, Inc. is a Connecticut Technology Council and FastTrack company and has been repeatedly recognized by industry groups and publishers for its technological excellence, innovation and product development including readers and editors of Control Engineering, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Connecticut Technology Council, Product Development and Management Association and International Hologram Manufacturers Association.

Contact:

HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

Incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur, inventor and veteran R. Douglas McPheters, HoloTouch, Inc.  licenses its widely patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications.  The company offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology.  For more information about HoloTouch technology, licensing and product opportunities and how HoloTouch can provide turn-key solutions for customized HMI applications, please call 203.588.9808 or write to info@holotouch.com.

Located within the Stamford, Connecticut campus of the University of Connecticut, edgelab is a state-of-the-art, information technology and e-business facility that works with students, faculty and business executives in an environment that promotes new ideas, solutions to real business problems and feedback through cutting-edge research and curricula development.  Edgelab bridges the gap between academic research and applied corporate practice in a graduate research facility that melds capability of senior faculty, GE executives, business students and public-private partnerships.

McPheters observed, “working with edgelab offers excellent opportunities for enhanced collaboration with GE senior management, UConn students and faculty and members of the general public and press interested in “over-the-horizon” technologies that bring competitive advantages to companies that adopt them such as HoloTouch technology.”

HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its HoloTouch technology for use in specific devices and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to build prototypes of those devices. 

Complimentary trial demonstration units of this touchless switch are available to qualified OEMs by request to newproducts@holotouch.com.

HoloTouch, Inc. is a Connecticut Technology Council and FastTrack company and has been repeatedly recognized by industry groups and publishers for its technological excellence, innovation and product development including readers and editors of Control Engineering, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Connecticut Technology Council, Product Development and Management Association and International Hologram Manufacturers Association.

Contact:
HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808

About HoloTouch – incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur and inventor R. Douglas McPheters, HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications. The company offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology. For more information about HoloTouch technology, licensing and product opportunities and how HoloTouch can provide turn-key solutions for customized HMI applications, please call 203.588.9808 or write to info@holotouch.com.

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McPheters observed, “this new Australian patent builds on previously issued Japan Patent 4130957 and the company’s pending patent application in Japan underline our commitment to developing markets in Asia for our intuitive touchless, holographic HMI technology and products which have no moving parts to fail under use or abuse and nothing to actually touch in operating them. The latter offers significant hygiene advantages in our germ-ridden world.”

HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its HoloTouch technology for use in specific devices and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to build prototypes of those devices.

The company recently launched one example of its widely applicable HoloTouch technology, the touchless, holographic switch shown at the right. This device is presently in use at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut where it allows healthcare personnel and others to intuitively open electro-mechanical doors by simply passing a finger through a holographic image, floating freely in the air. Complimentary trial demonstration units of this touchless switch are available to qualified OEMs by request to newproducts@holotouch.com.

HoloTouch, Inc. is a Connecticut Technology Council and FastTrack company and has been repeatedly recognized by industry groups and publishers for its technological excellence, innovation and product development including readers and editors of Control Engineering, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Connecticut Technology Council and International Hologram Manufacturers Association.

Contact:
HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

About HoloTouch – incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur and inventor R. Douglas McPheters, HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications. The company offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology. For more information about HoloTouch technology, licensing and product opportunities and how HoloTouch can provide turn-key solutions for customized HMI applications, please call 203.588.9808 or write to info@holotouch.com.

To view the full color version of this article, download the pdf here.

Shown at the right being operated by YNHH’s Physical Security Manager, Marvin L. White, this innovative device employs widely patented touchless, holographic HoloTouch® human-machine interface technology that allows people to intuitively operate controls by merely passing a finger through a holographic image floating freely in the air.

McPheters, a Yale College alumnus, noted: “bringing our touchless, intuitive control devices back to this forward-looking institution in New Haven is especially satisfying for me.” HoloTouch HMIs enhance durability because they have no moving parts to fail under use and neatly bypass hygiene issues in mission critical environments.

The largest hospital in Connecticut as well as New England, YNHH is a 944-bed tertiary referral center which includes Smilow Cancer Hospital, the 201- bed YNHH Children’s Hospital and the 76-bed YNHH Psychiatric Hospital. The primary teaching hospital for Yale Medical School, YNHH’s medical staff is enhanced by 471 supervised house staff physicians who add around-the-clock coverage and sharp inquisitive minds to patient care.

HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its HoloTouch technology for use in specific devices and offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to build prototypes of those devices.

Complimentary trial demonstration units of this touchless switch are available to qualified OEMs by request to newproducts@holotouch.com.

HoloTouch, Inc. is a Connecticut Technology Council and FastTrack company and has been repeatedly recognized by industry groups and publishers for its technological excellence, innovation and product development including readers and editors of Control Engineering, Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Connecticut Technology Council and International Hologram Manufacturers Association.

Contact:
HoloTouch, Inc.
R. Douglas McPheters, President
203.588.9808
rdmcpheters@holotouch.com

About HoloTouch – incorporated in Delaware by entrepreneur and inventor R. Douglas McPheters, HoloTouch, Inc. licenses its patented technology for use in interactive holographic controls that float in thin air to manufacturers for specific applications. The company offers design, engineering and manufacturing services needed to provide turn-key solutions utilizing its revolutionary technology. For more information about HoloTouch technology, licensing and product opportunities and how HoloTouch can provide turn-key solutions for customized HMI applications, please call 203.588.9808 or write to info@holotouch.com.

To view the full color version of this article, download the pdf here.