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In article <BvEorr.n00@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Jon E. Meyer) writes:
|> Does anyone know about this company?
|> They're in Schaumburg, IL and I've
|> heard they have a lot of the original
|> patents in fuzzy logic?  Is this right?
|> Who knows more?

They have a subsidiary, Omron Electronics, in Schaumburg, IL.  I 
believe that this is a subsidiary of Omron Corporation, located in
Japan.  They're mainly known in our office for selling the world's
first fuzzy *decellerator*.  It's a hardware fuzzy inference chip,
the FP3000, which actually performed *slower* in all of the
benchmarks
done by Siemens in Germany than the output of our *software*
product, the FCDS, did on a 80486-based PC.

Sorry for the "commercialism", but I still get a very unprofessional
giggle every time someone brings their stuff up.

As far as patents are concerned, I believe that they do have some
on certain *applications* of fuzzy logic.  I have yet to see one
that they hold on fuzzy logic or fuzzy expert systems, per se.

PS:  The FP3000 was about a factor of 5 times slower than our FC110
hardware product in these same benchmarks.  The FC110 is the lowest-
performance hardware device we supply.  Our latest operates about
four times faster than the FC110, and a new version that is under
development will be faster yet.
-- 
Erik Horstkotte, Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
erik@til.til.com, uunet!til!erik - (714) 975-8522
Standard disclaimer: the preceding are my opinions, not TIL's.