Inventions that define the state of the art.

In 1995, Forrest Gauthier invented and filed the patents that made high-volume data driven marketing practical: mine scattered databases, connect the dots until a real person comes into focus, and put a relevant offer in front of that person at the moment they are most likely to buy.

That invention, and the family of continuations, raster processing and image registration patents that followed it, became foundational to the digital press industry. More than twenty patents issued from the Varis program alone. Tesseron's licensing program brought these patents to the world's largest press manufacturers, software companies and print service providers, through negotiated license agreements and, where necessary, enforcement in United States federal courts.

A second family of inventions solved a different problem, and its consequences were just as large. An inkjet printhead fires from a piezoelectric crystal, and every crystal runs on its own clock. Put four heads in a row for cyan, magenta, yellow and black, and those clocks drift apart within seconds. At production speed the colors land out of register and the image falls apart, which is why early industrial inkjet was effectively monochrome.

Gauthier's solution was to embed timing in the data itself and derive a common clock at every head, so an array of independent printheads behaves as one instrument. That is the invention that made true CMYK inkjet possible at speed, and it is the genesis of the high-speed color inkjet presses now used across commercial printing. The family covers synchronizing piezoelectric clock sources, generating a common stroke frequency across a plurality of printheads, and synchronizing pixel deposition frequencies between print engines.

Beginning in 2014, the enforcement phase of the program was carried out with Industrial Print Technologies LLC, consolidating actions covering two patent families: variable data printing and inkjet printhead synchronization. Tesseron manages the resulting sublicenses and continues to administer its agreements today.

The program established the operating pattern Tesseron still follows: invent at the fundamental level, hold the intellectual property, and license it widely enough that the solution becomes the industry norm.