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Fermentation is an old method used mainly for food preservation. However, when the technology is well known and controlled, it can be a great asset for:1. Taste: improving the taste of foods and drinks or providing exotic flavors (umami)2. Texture: Improving the structure of foods and drinks by making them smoother, more tender or creamier, or in gluten-free baked products, making them crispier, chewier or with improved raising doughs.3. Nutrition value: improving the bioavailability of vitamins and minerals or other health promoting compounds.4. Health: when foods and drinks are fermented with probiotic bacteria, they can improve gut healthy and consumers lifestyleAny food company interested in having a premium quality in their product portfolio, should partner with us to developed better foods.We own the bacteria used for improving foods and drinks as well as the knowledge of how to use them in product development.

Human DNA contamination is an issue in the process of manufacturing devices for molecular and genomic applications. Such devices need to be certified human DNA free for sensitive downstream processes. Therefore, there is a need to monitor human DNA residual level in factory surfaces and in final products. The technology provider had identified a novel target for detection of human DNA and developed a highly sensitive PCR based detection method for presence of human DNA based on this target. They have demonstrated that the method is specific, sensitive and with low cost. Compared to a commercial kit available in the market, this method is at least 500 times more sensitive. This method will be a valuable tool for device manufacturers. In addition, it can also be applied on forensic as well as environmental samples. Furthermore, the principle of the method can be adapted to detect other animal species for either identification or monitoring purposes.

A 3D print jobs can take several hours to complete. When a print fails, a user may be outside house or sleeping, and the printer will just keep running. That wastes can cause damage and even a fire hazard. This Ai-based failure detection solution utilizes the web camera of a printer or home computer to detect when a print job has gone wrong and started extruding ‘spaghetti’. It will then pause the process and alert the user through an email or text message.  

This innovation provides an easy to use, accurate wearable motion tracking and digitalization technology. Healthcare, sport, work, and in basically every field objective data acquisition and its comparison to reliable data from other sources is required to make the right decisions. The proposed product brings the essence of digitized motion, which is needed for next generation movement-based applications.

Strongly corrosive acids and highly toxic cyanide-based solutions are currently the most commonly used lixiviants for extraction of silver from solid wastes through hydrometallurgy. While acids are generally able to achieve high extraction of silver, it is non-selective and leaches most of the other metals present, resulting in a complex mixture that needs rigorous segregation and purification downstream. Cyanide solutions are comparatively more selective towards silver but require costly safety infrastructure and measures to be put in place as they generate large amount of hazardous wastes.         The lixiviant developed offers a more user and environmentally friendly means to efficiently extract silver selectively from silver-coated solid waste. The formulation is free of cyanide and omits the use of any strong acids, making it relatively easy to handle and eliminates the safety, health and environmental problems associated with the use and post-treatment of conventional lixiviants, as the waste stream is mildly acidic and can be easily treated as normal acid waste. The raw chemical materials are also easily available in the market.The technology provider is seeking industry partners to test-bed the lixiviant and is open to license the technology to interested partners.

Multiple Pickup and Delivery Planning (MPDP) is very common in both passenger and cargo transport operations. However, due to the planning complexity, it is impossible to quickly generate good solutions manually to support daily transport operation planning. The MPDP solution developed by the team is able to close the gap by quickly generating transport plans for multiple vehicles with multiple pickup locations and multiple delivery locations.

Digestion is a complex process involving various enzymatic processes and conditions. Digestion is important as food is broken down into nutrients, which the body uses for energy, growth, and cell repair. An in-vitro digestion model has been develop to provide a representative assessment of the digestion processes for food and pharmaceuticals. This model considers the important features of the digestion processes such as the digestive enzymes and their concentrations, pH, digestion time and salt concentrations. The model has been validated by scientists and researchers from AgResearch in New Zealand. In comparison with human clinical study or animal model, the in vitro digestion is normally faster, less expensive and less resource intensive.

This Internet of Things (IoT) software architecture addresses a decentralized framework to provide the ability to exchange data between IoT devices autonomously without any centralized server. In recent years, the development of IoT applications has become increasingly complex. Thus, this technology addresses the problem by providing the ability to simplify the streaming of data to the IoT platforms over the web. The IoT platform is designed to assist modern-day farmers in monitoring the entire farm seamlessly. It can be customized to suit each farm depending on the type of sensors, machine vision camera, cloud storage, etc. Equipped with detailed data tracking and analytics to provide the most accurate growth process from start to finish. This design can be customized for other applications. The technology owner is looking for partners and collaborators to further co-develop this technology in urban farming. 

This technology offer is a soft tactile sensor with low operation voltage and ultralow power consumption, intended for use in robotic devices, human-machine interactions and health monitoring devices. This flexible tactile sensor uses low-cost printing processes and is adaptable on any active surfaces. The technology is also amenable to fabrication of flexible, large area sensor arrays as well as high density, high spatial resolution active matrix tactile sensors.