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Second Patent Granted to ClearPlay Core patent covers skipping and muting of movie content. Seven additional patent applications have been filed in support of this product. Salt Lake City, May 26, 2005—ClearPlay Inc., the leader in parental control technology, has been awarded its second patent. Patent number 6,898,799—Multimedia Content Navigation and Playback—was awarded to ClearPlay on May 24. ClearPlay has applications pending for this patent in several international markets as well.This is the second patent to be awarded to ClearPlay in as many months, and strengthens its position in the growing market for filtering of unwanted content from movies. ClearPlay has patent applications pending for seven additional U.S. patents around this core product. The company has also applied for several other patents pertaining to upcoming parental control products for consumer electronics. “The potential for this technology is enormous,” said ClearPlay co-founder and inventor Matthew Jarman. “We continue to develop and add valuable innovations to our ClearPlay parental control products.” ClearPlay introduced the first and only DVD filtering technology along with RCA in 2004. It has two new products which will be introduced this summer. The company is a beneficiary of The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which was passed into law by Congress in April of this year. “We have been getting an extraordinary amount of business development interest,” said Jarman. “It is clear that the applications for ClearPlay go beyond DVD, and include cable, satellite, video on demand and other movie applications.” About ClearPlay: ClearPlay Inc. develops advanced parental control technologies for consumer electronic products, including DVD players and recorders, TV’s, cable and set-top boxes, digital video recorders, etc. ClearPlay gives consumers the ability to skip and mute over graphic violence, sex, nudity and profanity if they choose. The company’s first products allow consumers to view DVDs, purchased or rented through conventional retailers, free of unwanted content, and two new ClearPlay DVD players will be introduced this summer. ClearPlay DVD players and Filters can be purchased at www.ClearPlay.com. Using ClearPlay does not touch, alter or change the DVD in any way. The technology can also be applied to cable, satellite, PVR and video on demand. ClearPlay has been awarded patents number 6,898,799 and number 6,889,383. See www.clearplay.com for more details. Contact: Richard Grove Ink inc. 816-753-6222 dgrove@inkincpr.com Lee Jarman ClearPlay Inc. (801) 463-4899 lee@clearplay.com |
