Fifteen years ago, Samuel Mazin was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, studying the inverse geometry of computer tomographic (CT) systems. He […]
Posts Tagged ‘Funding’
Another US Patent for CapeRay
Five years ago, we reported that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had awarded CapeRay a key patent to protect our novel dual-modality […]
Quarterback of Hip-Hop
This past Sunday, 13 February 2022, one of America’s great sporting traditions – the Super Bowl – was played in Inglewood, California. […]
Angels in the Crowd
When an entrepreneur has a novel idea for a medical device, her biggest challenge will be to secure the necessary […]
Turning Discovery into Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has its origins in a one-room laboratory in New York City in 1887 and […]
Cape Town Company Develops Covid-19 Test Kit
Five years ago, CapeRay joined a consortium of local manufacturers to establish a not-for-profit company called the Western Cape Medical Devices […]
Who Gets the Credit?
A patent provides protection to the inventor for 20 years, during which period the patent owner has an exclusive right […]
Banking on Stock Exchanges
One of the first stock exchanges was established in Amsterdam in the early 1600s, with the first shares offered for the Dutch […]
Hoofbeats of Zebras
There is an aphorism in clinical medicine – “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras” – which means young doctors […]
Has AI Been Overhyped?
Two weeks ago, The New York Times published an article entitled “Whatever happened to IBM’s Watson?” In 2011, the company’s supercomputer beat […]