COMMERCIALIZATION
- Ciencia owns U.S. Patent No. 5,818,582
covering certain aspects of this technology issued on October 6, 1998.
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- A commercial instrument targeted
to the laboratory research market is being manufactured and marketed
worldwide under the name of LifeSense TM by Oriel Instruments under
a license agreement with Ciencia, Inc.
- Ciencia recently entered into
a joint development agreement with Packard Instrument Company to develop
applications of this technology for High Throughput Screening (HTS)
in drug discovery.
- A spin-off application of the
lifetime sensing technology subject of this SBIR was developed for
lidar ranging.
- Ciencia has been awarded a $270,000
contract to apply the lidar ranging technology to the development
of a sensor for ocean level measurements.
- Ciencia is involved in ongoing
discussions with world leading bioanalytical company for application
of the technology to the molecular biology and life sciences research
markets.
- The technology has broad potential
commercial applications in precision agriculture, aquaculture, forestry
and food safety.
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- Stennis Space Center is using
the shipboard prototype system developed through the SBIR program
in coastal studies of primary production.
- Technology is ready to be transitioned
into an in situ vertical profiler instrument.
- Applications include ground truth
for satellite measurements of primary production from remote sensing
of ocean color, human habitability and biology in space, and microgravity
research. NASA programs to benefit include, Mission to Planet Earth,
Sea Viewing Wide Field-of-View System (SeaWIFS), the Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), CELLS, and the Space Station Biological
Research Program.
- Ames Research Center is funding
development of a fluorescence cell analyzer based on related technology
for application in the International Space Station . NIH is funding
molecular biology applications.
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