ATTI and David Wagner: the story of the company and its patent

A small grey disk in the palm of your hand, with a logo on it. Anyone who holds a tachyonized product for the first time usually asks two things: who came up with this, and how do I know it's the real thing? The answer to both leads to California, to a company called Advanced Tachyon Technologies and to the man who founded it.

David Wagner and the company's early days

David Wagner lives in Santa Rosa, California. In his own words, he worked in experimental physics and on alternative sources of energy, and he was drawn to the idea of an energy that is all around us and from which, according to his theory, everything else arises. In the early 1990s he founded Advanced Tachyon Technologies, ATTI for short, and over the years built up a whole range with it: silica disks, glass, jewellery, bars and larger systems such as the Ultra Cocoon.

After a number of failed attempts, Wagner found a method that, in what he calls a tachyon chamber, turns a natural material into an antenna for tachyon energy in 14 days. How he describes the process is covered in the article Tachyonization. Together with the physician Gabriel Cousens he wrote the book Tachyon Energy, which is still one of the core texts on the subject. A community of therapists and users grew up around the company, people who tend to hear about the products from friends rather than from advertising, and ATTI ran courses in Central Europe too, including the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

A patent granted by the US office

Wagner is the inventor named on US patent no. 7,760,357. He filed application no. 12/141,463 on 18 June 2008, and the US Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent on 20 July 2010. In the US classification it falls under classes 356/366, 356/364, 435/219 and 435/29, and in the international classification under G01J 4/00, C12N 9/50 and C12Q 1/02. These are the fields of optical polarisation measurement and of tests with enzymes and microorganisms. The office's search covered classes 356/364 to 370, 435/4, 7.22, 7.92, 29, 34 and 219, and class 424/94.6.

The patent cites three earlier US documents: patent 5698411 by Lucas et al. from December 1997, patent 5849513 by Jaffe et al. from December 1998, and application 2004/0170618 by Davis et al. from September 2004. The primary examiner was Sang Nguyen, and Wagner was represented by the patent attorney Edward S. Sherman. You can read the full text in the USPTO database or on Google Patents under the number US7760357.

Negative entropy, as the manufacturer explains it

The manufacturer links the patent with the idea of negative entropy. In physics, entropy is a measure of disorder. A hot cup of tea goes cold, a sandcastle crumbles over time, and things left to themselves drift towards chaos. Negative entropy means the opposite direction, from imbalance and chaos towards ordered structures. Tachyon says that tachyonized materials support this direction, and the result, according to the manufacturer, is a smoother flow of energy that makes it easier for the body to recover and regenerate. The original website compared it to a home where you have finally put everything back in its place, so nothing stops you from enjoying the space to the full.

How to spot a genuine product

As the products grew more popular, a lot of goods appeared using the Tachyon® name or logo. If you want to be sure that what you are holding is an original ATTI product, with the quality the manufacturer stands behind, a few steps will help.

Look for the ATTI® logo on the product. Find out where the seller gets their stock from, and feel free to ask that of me too. Be careful with people who distance themselves from ATTI and try to win you over to their own version of the truth. Compare the price with the manufacturer's price list, because a much lower figure is usually the first warning sign. Take a closer look at products sold as a "special new release" that the manufacturer does not list, since ATTI publishes its entire range on its official website. And finally, read reviews, ask friends who use the products, and check the seller where you can. It works much like buying a designer handbag second hand: the logo alone tells you little, the seller and the price tell you more.

You will find the full steps in the guide How to spot genuine products, and how to order directly from the manufacturer in the guide How to buy from Planet Tachyon. The range itself is in the product overview.

Sources

• United States Patent 7,760,357, USPTO, issued 20 July 2010, inventor David Wagner.
• Advanced Tachyon Technologies, the manufacturer's official website, section on the US patent.