The Office of Brown Technology Partnerships is charged with managing the patenting and commercialization of intellectual property generated by members of the Brown Community via partnerships with industry or via the creation of start-up ventures. This “Brown in the Marketplace" webpage features the contribution Brown intellectual property has made in the marketplace in the recent past.

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Acoustic Magic Inc.
Acoustic Magic is a start-up company based upon “beam-forming” technology developed by Drs. Harvey Silverman and Michael Brandstein of Brown University’s Division of Engineering.

Analytical Edge
Analytical Edge provides statistical methodology for clinical trials that yield highly efficient, accurate, and flexible adaptive designs.

Axon Sleep Research Laboratories
Axon Sleep Research Laboratories is a start-up founded by Brown University students that utilizes neuroscience research to develop consumer products that enable peak performance and improve quality of life.

Bio-Tree Systems
Bio-Tree Systems is a medical imaging application software company focusing on tracking and analyzing blood vessel trees, vascular networks, and other tubular networks with complex branching patterns in the human body.

Corum Medical, Inc.
Corum Medical is a start-up company developing LumenI™, a portable, real-time, non-invasive instrument for the measurement of blood hemoglobin. The core technology is based on the work of Dean Gregory Crawford and John McMurdy of Brown University Division of Engineering and Drs. Selim Suner and Gregory Jay of Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital.

Creative Health Communications
Creative Health Communications was founded in 2006 as a means to distribute educational materials generated by faculty in Brown's Institute for Community Health Promotion.

Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc.
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, a leader in brain-machine interface technology, is developing products to treat nervous system diseases and disorders by bringing together advances in neuroscience, computer science and engineering.

EpiVax, Inc.
EpiVax Inc. has developed a suite of bioinformatics tools and techniques for use in designing effective therapeutics for smallpox, AIDS, TB, cancer and other diseases.

Freedom-2
Leading dermatologists and academic institutions, including Brown University, have come together to address the potential negative impact of the inks currently used in the creation of tattoos and permanent cosmetics. Presently, inks not specifically created for tattoos may result in numerous complications for the user. Freedom-2's technology combines materials and products known to be safe for human usage. Using well-known biocompatible compounds, Freedom-2's research team is successfully engineering products designed to address the two most important aspects of the tattoo industry today: Safety and Removability. Today's inks have known toxic and carcinogenic properties and even with expensive and painful laser treatments, may not be entirely removable in the future. The innovation of safe, quality inks for the purpose of tattoos, permanent cosmetics, and the creation body art is at the heart of Freedom-2. Not only do Freedom-2 inks provide the consumer peace-of-mind that the materials used are safe for tattoo and permanent cosmetic purposes, but Freedom-2 inks are specifically designed to be easier to remove in the future.

Fidia Advanced Biopolymers S.r.l. (FAB)
The majority of FAB’s research is focused on hyaluronic acid, which occurs naturally in the human body and is thus biocompatible and non-toxic.

IAM Technology, Inc.
IAM Technology, Inc. is a leader in Internet security and Domain Assurance.

LTCQ Inc.
LTCQ, Inc. was founded in 1992 as a data-driven consulting partnership by four experts in long-term care from Brown University, Harvard University, and the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged of Boston.

Micro Magnetics
Founded by Professor of Physics, Dr. Gang Xiao, and located in the Industrial Park of Fall River, MA, this company is based on proprietary technology related to the design, production and use of spintronic magnetic sensors, such as magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ).

NABsys, Inc.
NABsys is developing a next-generation nanopore-based DNA sequencing technology to enable personalized medicine.  The company’s research is based on the work of Brown University Associate Professor of Physics, Dr. Sean Ling.

Nanovis, Inc.
Brian Emerick, CEO of a Columbia City medical device manufacturer, Micropulse, Inc., is overseeing Nanovis, a new startup company developing and marketing nanotechnology that, when added to a knee or other implant surface, will help the body grow around the device instead of fighting it. Thomas Webster, who was an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University and is now a researcher at Brown University, discovered the technique. Nanovis will begin operations in Columbia City, IN near Fort Wayne in 2007.

Neuronal Calcium Channel Clones Developed by the Lipscombe Laboratory
Dr. Diane Lipscombe, Professor of Neuroscience, studies voltage-gated calcium channels in the brain.  Through the course of her research, her lab has developed a number of calcium channel clones, as published in prestigious journals such as Nature, and offers a number of these clones for license.

Neurotech USA
Neurotech USA, located in Lincoln, Rhode Island, is engaged in the development of encapsulated cell therapies (ECT) for retinal diseases (e.g., age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa).

Microsoft Corporation
Brown University and Microsoft Research are launching a three-year research alliance to create innovative software for pen-based computers such as Tablet PCs. The goal of the alliance - the first of its kind in the nation - is to make using computers easier for scientists, artists and others who routinely use handwriting and sketching to create and communicate.

Rudolph Technologies, Inc.
Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ RTEC) is a world-wide leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of high-performance process control metrology and defect inspection equipment used by semiconductor device manufacturers.

Ryon Technologies, Inc.
Ryon Technologies Inc. is a start-up company out of Brown University that develops a new generation of mass spectrometers with the ability to distinguish between molecules of similar or identical molecular weight.

Seaside Therapeutics
The mission of Seaside Therapeutics is to develop new treatments to improve the quality of life for individuals with disorders of brain development such as autism and mental retardation.

Solaris Nanosciences
Solaris Nanosciences has created rechargeable dye-sensitized solar cells which have a lower manufacturing cost and a longer life than any other photovoltaic system in the world.

Sound View Systems, Inc.
Sound View Systems, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.  Sound View has licensed technology from Brown University which provides new capability to improve the detection of target objects in extremely low signal-to-noise-ratio conditions.

Spectra Systems Corporation
Spectra Systems Corporation develops advanced materials and systems for document security optical disc technology that are changing the way businesses mark, sense, track and authenticate their products from production line to point of purchase.

Spherics Inc.
Spherics Inc. has recently received substantial venture capital funding to commercialize a portfolio of patents exclusively licensed from Brown University for oral and parenternal drug and diagnostic agent delivery.

StreamBase Systems, Inc.
StreamBase Systems is a leader in the complex event processing (CEP) market. CEP is a programming language for building and managing event-driven information systems, with the goal of identifying meaningful events from an "event cloud." Examples of events include church bells ringing, the appearance of a man in a tuxedo, a woman in a flowing white gown and rice flying through the air. A complex event is what is inferred from the simple events: a wedding is happening. CEP is a programming language that helps discover complex, inferred events by analyzing and correlating other events: the bells, the man and girl in wedding gear and the rice flying through the air.

Turbine, Inc.
Founded in 1994 by Brown University undergraduates, Turbine, Inc. has evolved into the largest privately held online game studio in North America.

Universal Trends
Universal Trends is a research and consulting company focused on analyzing historical housing values to predict future trends, then plotting these trends on a geographical map for user-friendly interpretation.

Upstate Biotechnology
Upstate Biotechnology develops innovative cell signaling products, technology platforms and services to accelerate life science research and drug discovery efforts.

Vertica Systems, Inc.
Vertica Systems is a software startup company developing data warehouse solutions.

ZYGO Corporation
Humphrey Maris, Professor of Physics, and Arto Nurmikko, Professors of Engineering, are collaborating with ZYGO Corporation to develop a new opto-acoustic microscope.