A New Kind of FDA Approval: Design Clearance —Robert L. Read 50-Word Summary By creating a new process for clearing tested device designs independently from manufacturing plans as a prelude to full approval to market a medical device, the FDA can allow medical devices to come to market more safely and spur cooperative innovation. 50-Word […]
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Meet David Jeschke. David has partnered with Dr. Robert Read to work on his Euler Notebook project, which is a computer-based math program with a stylus that acts like a good old fashion pen and pencil. David is the founder of XtraMath, a nonprofit offering a free online supplementary math education program, and prior to
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Introduction This is the final report for grant: #MOSS-2004-07366 to Public Invention from the Mozilla Open Source Software Foundation. Although the grant seems to be closed, based perhaps on our interim report, a final report is worthwhile. Executive Summary In fulfillment of the grant, we spent almost all ($19,795.40) of the $20,000 by Jan.
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On January 9, 2021, Public Invention hosted our virtual “year in review” conference titled PubInvCon 2021: Work To Be Done. The conference was a coming together of dedicated inventors, volunteers, scientists, students, and more interested in humanitarian inventing “in the public, for the public.” We discussed our successes of 2020 and outlined the hard work
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By Ben Coombs “As to diseases, make a habit of two things – to help, or at least to do no harm.” written by Hippocrates in Epidemics. A Diagram of Major Humanitarian Engineering Efforts (Link allows zooming) The 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Early in 2020 the alarm bells rang out. All across the world people tuned
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Recently, Public Invention President Robert L. Read and other volunteers assisted a project with students from Fraunhofer Institute. The Institute released a press release summarized here: Open-Source Ventilator Manufacturing Project The Pandemic In April, COVID-19 began straining healthcare systems as we saw supply-chain breakdowns leading to ventilator shortages. To help mitigate this, individuals, communities, companies,
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Avinash Baskaran has been with Public Invention since it was just him and Dr. Robert Read inventing in a basement. And as Public Invention has grown, so has Avinash. “I met Rob at Engineers Without Borders a few years ago, and we talked about our interests, what we were thinking about, and the kinds of
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— Robert L. Read In June and July, Public Invention applied for and received two $20,000 grants, one from the Mozilla Open Source Software (MOSS) Foundation, and one from Protocol labs, specifically to develop, make, and give away free-of-charge, the “VentMon” tester for invasive and non-invasive ventilators. The MOSS foundation grant had stronger legal language
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Lauria Clarke knew she wanted to be an engineer from the time she was a little kid. “I heard that engineers got to make things,” she said. “And I thought that was really cool, because I was like, that’s what I like doing.” Now, Lauria is a valued member of the Public Invention team as
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Protocols Labs has been a major support for organizations such as Public Invention which have been addressing the most extraordinary health crisis of this century: the COVID-19 pandemic. The Open-Source Response to the Pandemic VentCon 2020 – Ventilator Conference Public Invention co-hosted free virtual mini-cons VentCon 2020 and VentConQA, attended by 115 and 50 people
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