THE GROUP

Two companies, one intellectual property.

SGDL Innovation SA in Geneva and Ariadne Geometry Inc. in Montreal hold the intellectual property of the SGDL+Ariadne Group. That property is built on five operations: modelling, simulation, indexation, encryption and communication of spatial information.

The SGDL+Ariadne Group: SGDL Innovation SA and Ariadne Geometry Inc., linked by one intellectual property. ONE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY patents · proofs · software · language SGDL Innovation SA Geneva Ariadne Geometry Inc. Montreal
Two companies, one intellectual property.

SGDL Innovation SA — Geneva.

Holds the intellectual property of the group — the patent families, the corpus of proofs, the software — and employs the team. Carries on no commercial activity. What it holds is built on five operations: modelling, simulation, indexation, encryption and communication.

Ariadne Geometry Inc. — Montreal.

Holds, through Parallel Geometry Inc., the encoding family filed in 2011. The SLWM, the world-model product, is read on its site.

ariadnegeometry.com

Geneva and Montreal

Research and engineering in Geneva and in Montreal. Two anchors, one intellectual property. The products, the SLWM and WMCP, are carried on the sites of the entities.

Four dates

1997
the Arithmetics of Forms (thesis, Université de Montréal).
2003
MPEG-4 AFX, the first standard (ISO/IEC 14496-16).
2011
the encoding family.
2026
Alliance for OpenUSD, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Khronos, and ISO/ASTM 52915.