Winning team files provisional patent for medical device
In 2021, a group of campus stakeholders launched a competition for the most patentable capstone idea (recently renamed to FastTracking Founders Program). Now put on by the Berkeley Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and College of Engineering the annual competition is an excellent opportunity for students to capitalize on their ideas. The winners of the competition receive financial and organizational support to file a provisional patent. “From the campus perspective, this is exactly the stage of early enterprise creation that we want to support,” said Rich Lyons, UC Berkeley Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. And for a master’s graduate to have a provisional patent on their resume is a big win in any event. It’s great that CoE master’s programs can provide this.” Here, we take a look at the capstone project of the 2022 FastTracking Founders Competition winners. The team designed a splitter that allows up to four patients to safely share a single ventilator.
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