Location Alameda, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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While working at Hewlett-Packard Labs from 1994 to 2000 in Palo Alto and Bristol, England, Mr. Kahn invented and implemented key components (illumination/optical capture, stitching/compression algorithm, and ASIC design) for a $40M development effort on a handheld solid-state scanner. The key component was an surface texture-navigating
digital microscope, which was later licensed to Logitech, Microsoft, and others, who used it to build optical mice which operate on any surface (previously, optical mice required gridded mirror mouse pads). During this time, Mr. Kahn filed twelve patents in the fields of document scanning, automatic photography, stroboscopy circuits, and data compression.
Mr. Kahn left HP Labs to start Tactility Inc., a research company specializing in tactile human-machine interaction technologies. Between 2000 and 2003, Mr. Kahn personally marketed prototypes he developed to senior divisional management at Panasonic and Omron in Japan and filed seven patents in the fields of hydrotherapy and automated massage.
Between 2003 and 2004, Mr. Kahn served as Director of Engineering and managed engineering resources for Vapore, a twenty-person high-tech startup. He was the architect of a laboratory system to characterize Vapore's module in customer applications, requiring approximately two hundred parts, optical sensing, high-power electronics, precision positioning, microliter fluid metering, and LabView integration. He directed in-house manufacture and testing of system and traveled with marketing team to Korea and Japan to support customers developing applications based on the module.
Mr. Kahn began work on patent preparation software in 2005 and formed TeamPatentâ„¢ as a California LLC in March 2006. In January, 2009, TeamPatent began providing a patent preparation web service to attorneys and their clients. The core of the editing software, codenamed Swymr, turned out to be attractive to other industries which needed a browser-based, collaborative, multimedia editor to streamline authoring and review of technical documents. In 2010, Swymr will be showcased as part of a publishing service and extended to electronic medical records later in in the year. For inquiries, please contact [rocky at teampatent.com]
Mr. Kahn received both a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering/Mechatronics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993 and currently resides in Alameda, CA.
