General Manifolds LLC Announces Issuance of US Patent in Computational Neuroscience

CARLSBAD, California, November 1, 2010 - General Manifolds LLC, a technology company focused on fundamental
cognitive algorithms, announced today that the United States Patent and
Trademark Office has issued US Patent 7,805,386 covering a computational
system and method for simulating functions within the cerebral cortex of the
human brain. This ground-breaking technology is relevant to a broad range of
applications from artificial intelligence to pharmacology.

The patent, titled "A Method of Generating an Encoded Output Signal Using
a Manifold Association Processor Having a Plurality of Pairs of Processing
Elements Trained to Store a Plurality of Reciprocal Signal Pairs" describes
how physiologically realistic algorithms found in natural intelligence can be
used for signal processing, information retrieval, and pattern recognition.

"Neuroscientists have known for some time that sounds, visual images,
muscle forces, and the skin surface map topographically onto areas of the
brain," said Douglas S. Greer, PhD, President of General Manifolds. "The
principles behind the computational manifold automata disclosed in this
patent describe how association operators between these maps can be used to
create a cognitive symbolic processing system. Moreover, it explains how
neurotransmitter molecules can store information efficiently and form the
basic substrate of short-term memory."

Traditional approaches in computer vision, speech recognition, and
robotics have focused on reducing the images and sounds of the world around
us to bits, characters, and other discrete symbols. The invention disclosed
describes how a cognitive system based on continuous symbols makes this
reduction unnecessary. In addition, the patent discloses a new and more
powerful model of neural processing that unifies chemical and electrical
computations. Neurotransmitter field theory describes how synapses function
as chemical memory cells, forming images like dots of ink on a sheet of
paper. Each neuron detects a neurotransmitter image with its dendrites and
writes a neurotransmitter image with its axons. Computer simulations of this
process may provide important tools in neuropharmacology and medical
treatment research.

Since its founding in 2006, General Manifolds has been building an
intellectual property portfolio that bridges the gap between biological
systems and artificial intelligence.

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Douglas S. Greer of General Manifolds LLC, +1-760-420-1228