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In this blog, I will talk about our UC Davis Patent, as I am very excited about the potential it has to be commercialized. However, I do not have a lot of specific information available to talk about, as the patent is currently pending. We have reached out to UC Davis for more information about the patent, and have in fact received a response from their IP lawyers about how to move forward with learning more about the patent. Hopefully, by next week, I will have more information for you about the patent specifics. Regardless, our patent seems to revolve around a wearable device that uses Galvanic Skin Response (a sweat sensor), Heart Rate Sensors, and Heart Rate Variability Sensors in order to determine information about the wearer’s emotional responses to internal and external stimuli. According to the patent’s description, the wearable that was developed for this device is a glove that can be worn and has the sensors embedded in the device. The inventors of the device have said...

This week, our team settled on a new set of patents to build our startup off of. As I mentioned earlier, we decided last week to move away from the CRISPR patent and have spent our time since scouring through the UC Technology Transfer website looking for new patents to study. We have decided on two patents, one from UC Berkeley and one from UC Davis. The UC Berkeley patent focuses on a bodily sensor array that measures sweat profiles, while the UC Davis patent focuses on a wearable that measures various bodily processes to help Autism patients. We hope to use these patents together to enhance each other and build a health and fitness wearable that enhances people’s lives. Our developed wearable may focus on helping the wearer better determine their emotions - we have not figured out the specifics yet. One of our first tasks is to figure out a market to target with our wearable. Currently, we think that we could start out by targeting individuals with Autism, and then broad...

This week, my team and I decided to make a pivot away from the CRISPR patent and towards a different patent. Though we have spent a considerable amount of time researching the patent and discussing business propositions regarding the patent, we have ultimately decided that a startup around the patent is not financially or commercially viable - such a startup requires far too much capital and domain knowledge for college students without advanced training in biology to understand. However, we have been looking hard for other patents to pick up as our primary patents.  A number of patents look particularly interesting to me. As a CS student, I’m particularly drawn to computer-related technologies that I believe have high potential to be commercialized. Some of the patents I’m personally interested in pursuing with my team are ' Dynamic Searchable Encryption with Minimal Data Leakage’  https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/24053.html  and ' First Practica...