SuperMatics, Inc.
Berkeley, California
The U.S. company. Runs the AI platform, research collaborations, and commercial pipeline. Raises capital on its own balance sheet and holds the exclusive license to the MEL framework.
Company
A standalone U.S. company, built on licensed physics.
SuperMatics, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in Berkeley, California. It holds an exclusive license to the Modulated Electron Lattice framework, the body of physics developed over eighteen years at Hyunsung TNC. This page states the corporate and intellectual-property structure directly, because it is the first thing diligence asks.
Structure at a glance
- Entity
- Delaware C-Corporation
- Headquarters
- Berkeley, California
- Origin
- Hyunsung TNC · Suwon, South Korea
- IP position
- Exclusive license to the MEL framework
- Counsel
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Stage
- Seed · by invitation
The relationship
SuperMatics and Hyunsung TNC.
The Modulated Electron Lattice framework was developed at Hyunsung TNC by Dr. James Kim, its Chief Technology Officer and the Scientific Founder of SuperMatics. SuperMatics is the U.S. company built to bring that framework into AI-native materials discovery. It operates independently and runs its platform, partnerships, and commercial pipeline from Berkeley.
Hyunsung TNC
Suwon, South Korea
The materials-science company where the MEL framework was developed over eighteen years. Holds the underlying patent portfolio and licenses it exclusively to SuperMatics.
Intellectual property
The IP chain of title.
Foundational IP
Held by Hyunsung TNC
The MEL patent portfolio, 10+ issued and pending filings covering the framework and candidate materials, is owned by the parent company that developed it.
SuperMatics' rights
An exclusive license
SuperMatics holds an exclusive license to the MEL intellectual property, with the right to build on it and commercialize what the platform produces.
Counsel
Wilson Sonsini
Corporate structure and patent strategy are handled by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, standard counsel for U.S. venture-backed technology companies.
For investors, the structure is deliberately clean. You fund a U.S. C-Corporation that controls its own commercial destiny and holds exclusive rights to the physics it is built on. You are not subsidizing the research arm of a foreign parent. The foundational science has an eighteen-year head start, and the license gives SuperMatics the exclusive right to commercialize it.
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