Software and Services

Software Disclosures

UC Berkeley Office of Technology Licensing assists inventors and authors in licensing software under a variety of distribution strategies. In addition to licensing software code for commercial development and distribution, OTL licenses research code for non-commercial and/or academic purposes and assists authors in offering software via open source licenses.

Hybrid Wisdom Labs, Inc.

Brief Description

Hybrid Wisdom Labs patented and launched the “Collaborative Discovery Engine”, a scalable way for companies to rapidly generate realtime insight from their customers and employees.

Acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2012.

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2012. Acquired by SurveyMonkey. Inventors

Ephrat Bitton, Siamak Faridani, Kenneth Yigael Goldberg, David Wong

SirenOpt

Brief Description

SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions that accelerate research and development and enable cost-effective manufacturing of high-performance micro- and nano-materials, including lithium-ion batteries, membranes, semiconductors, flexible electronics, packaging materials, and many others. The company's real-time manufacturing intelligence platform, designed for cost-effective manufacturing of thin films, utilizes cold atmospheric plasma and physics-informed machine learning to collect critical manufacturing data and improve manufacturing quality and output....

Innovative Guidance Technologies

Brief Description

Automated vehicle control utilizing an intelligent roadway reference system for vehicle lateral guidance and control.

Timeline 2003. Company founded. Inventors

Robert E. Parsons, Wei-Bin Zhang

Isatis, LLC

Brief Description

SASSI software for analysis of soil-structure interaction.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Chih Cheng Chin, John Lysmer, Farhang Ostadan

Videnda, Inc.

Brief Description

Cellular Neural Network universal machine and super computer, nonlinear networks.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

Secured Streams, Inc.

Brief Description

Software for document content search and comparison from large sets or across the web.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Alexander Aiken, Joel Auslander, Steve Fink, Saul Schleimer, Anthony Tomasic, Daniel Wilkerson

Target Analytics

Brief Description

Statistical consulting services and software developer for translating causal interference methodology.

Timeline 2007. Company founded Inventor

Mark van der Laan

Transformational Transportation Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

Transformational Transportation Technologies develops infrastructure-assisted approaches facilitate self-driving cars, including automated vehicle lateral guidance. The company's rail-like automated mobility provides a fail-safe system with measurable reliability for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) fleets.

The company was spun out to deploy magnetic guidance technology developed at UC Berkeley by researchers Drs. Wei-Bin Zhang and Robert Parsons, in the California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) program. Transformational Transportation...

Viasense, Inc.

Brief Description

ViaSense, Inc. developed software for image and video processing based on the biology of human vision. ViaSense IPeG software compressed still and video images two to four times better than any other available technology while preserving the same quality. The company's image-processing principles were further developed for transmitting DVD-quality video through the internet, adapting automatically to the bandwidth available. The ViaSense perceptual processing tool kit is still being used today in professional pay TV encoders.

The startup was spun out of...