software services founded 1990 headquarters charlotte nc united states key people mohammad daher chairman co founder products developer tools divisions medicor imaging subsidiaries m solutions inc. website leadtools.com lead technologies inc. is a privately held software company headquartered in charlotte north carolina usa . lead develops markets and supports a line of imaging toolkits called leadtools . contents 1 history 2 products 3 subsidiaries 4 divisions 5 awards 6 references history edit the company was founded by mohammed daher and rich little in the summer of 1990 as a partnership called compression technology and was later incorporated as lead technologies inc. in april 1991 . 1 in july 1994 daher was awarded a patent 5 327 254 method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data . 2 this invention became the foundation of lead s product line and business ventures . lead gained a worldwide presence in 1993 by signing its first international reseller agreement with unirent ltd to represent lead in germany switzerland and austria . two years later it signed a publishing agreement with bunka orient corporation in sendai japan for the rights to localize leadtools in japanese and to market and support the product in japan . products edit lead was established to commercialize daher s inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology . the primary product leadtools is a family of raster document medical multimedia and vector imaging toolkits that allow programmers and developers to incorporate digital imaging technologies into applications that they are creating . in addition to selling leadtools directly to software developers lead technologies its divisions and subsidiaries use the sdk within several end user products including eprint mipacs m convert and filewiggler . 3 subsidiaries edit in 2006 lead created m solutions inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary . m develops markets and supports a product line called m convert which helps end users convert from one multimedia format to another . m has primarily focused on the mobile and handheld market for people using apple ipods and ipads and microsoft windows phones . divisions edit in 2001 lead created a division called medicor imaging . medicor develops markets and supports a product line called mipacs . medicor s primary product mipacs dental enterprise solution is an application for large digital dental providers such as universities the united states department of defense and veterans affairs . when selected for use by the va the primary reason was that it was the only solution able to automatically acquire images from any device view images with templates and save images electronically to vista imaging . 4 awards edit 2011 2012 the code project members choice award 5 6 2012 2016 sd times 100 7 8 9 10 11 2006 2015 visual studio magazine readers choice award 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 references edit lead technologies inc. private company information . businessweek . retrieved 2011 07 18 . us patent 5327254 mohammad a. daher method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data issued 1994 07 05 nelson mark 2003 06 23 . dr. dobb s data compression newsletter issue 43 june 2003 . dr. dobb s journal . retrieved 2011 07 18 . mipacs dental enterprise imaging solution award notice . www.fbo.gov . 2009 04 15 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . the code project announces third annual members choice awards . the code project . 2011 05 16 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . press release codeproject announces fourth annual members choice award winners . the code project . 2012 06 10 . retrieved 2012 06 15 . the 2012 sd times 100 best in show in software development . sd times . 2012 06 01 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . the 2013 sd times 100 best in show in software development . sd times . 2013 06 04 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . the 2014 sd times 100 best in show in software development . sd times . 2014 06 05 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . the 2015 sd times 100 best in show in software development . sd times . 2015 06 05 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . the 2016 sd times 100 best in show in software development . sd times . 2016 05 31 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . top visual studio products honored . visual studio magazine . 2006 06 08 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . the best . net products of 2007 . visual studio magazine . 2007 06 01 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . category imaging & graphics . visual studio magazine . 2008 08 01 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . visual studio magazine 2009 readers choice awards . visual studio magazine . 2009 08 01 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . vsm 2010 readers choice awards . visual studio magazine . 2010 11 01 . retrieved 2011 07 18 . 2011 visual studio magazine readers choice winners . visual studio magazine . 2011 11 01 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . visual studio magazine 2012 readers choice winners . visual studio magazine . 2012 11 06 . retrieved 2016 07 26 . visual studio magazine announces 2015 reader s choice award winners . prweb . 2015 11 11 . 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