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GameCom/Ferris Notified of Patent Allowance
GameCom, Inc. today announced that it has received a notice of allowance of all claims made on the revised patent application with regard to the company's Universe Control Board ("UCB").
UCB technology, used in the company's "VR Zone" arcades and in custom applications for Fortune 100 clients, can transform any off-the-shelf PC game or application into a coin-op-ready program without requiring software modifications to either the PC application or the operating system. The average UCB conversion takes about 24 hours. Without the UCB technology, video game manufacturers must adjust the program's source code, requiring
hundreds of hours and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to convert.
The Universe Control Board also extends a PC's ability to control many different types of peripherals. The UCB controls such items as laser disc players, CD players, DVD players, electro-counters, video inputs/outputs, joystick outputs, magnetic card readers, bill acceptors, coin acceptors, LED light boards, 25-pin switch inputs, a JAMMA harness, networking, player-to-player microphone communications, standard arcade controls,
keyboard emulation, mouse emulation, external virtual reality effects, and head tracking.
Bob Ferris, GameCom/Ferris' president and inventor of the Universe Control Board, commented, "Having this proprietary technology to convert PC games to arcade machines allows easy and inexpensive conversion of off-the-shelf software. This technology moves us far beyond the capabilities of any other public game purveyor that we know of. Considering the size of the PC game market, this could translate into a fast-track for adding the most popular PC games to VR Zone equipment already in place, thereby vastly increasing our potential audience. In addition, our UCB controls many different
multisensory peripherals in our proprietary virtual reality systems, and is a key competitive advantage in the commercial application marketplace."
"We are pleased to receive this notice from the Patent & Trademark Office,"commented Steve Haag, GameCom/Ferris' vice president of business development. "Although our immediate focus is on the unique Homeland Security opportunities presently afforded the Company in the areas of simulation and training, this patent indicates that the Company is moving forward with our pre-September 11th business plan in our core technological
areas."
SOURCE: Press Release.
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