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Three new IFAE patents

October 9, 2023

IFAE filed a new medical imaging technology patent application: “Proton CT System with Improved Proton Energy Detector” and a patent application was granted named “Devices, Systems, and Methods for Mammography with a Detector Having Reduced Dimensions.” The third is a PET technology based new patent application filed in the European Patent Office.

Spin-off

Bullnet Capital leads new investment in the IFAE spin-off Deep Detection

July 20, 2023

The IFAE spin-off Deep Detection, a cutting-edge X-ray inspection technology company, has secured a substantial investment led by Bullnet Capital, a prominent Spanish venture capital firm specializing in deep-tech companies.

New Projects

Two IFAE projects selected in the «Prueba de Concepto» 2022 call

November 9, 2022

Two IFAE projects were selected for funding in the “Prueba de Concepto 2022” call.

Patents

New IFAE Patent

January 19, 2022

The European Patent Office as communicated the intention to grant the European patent ARTIFICIAL VISION SYSTEM filed by IFAE. The inventors are M.Chmeissani, J G Macias and M. Verdaguer.

New Patent

New granted IFAE patent

October 29, 2021

IFAE’s patent “systems and methods for monitoring metabolic activity and detectors for detecting photons” based on the Compton PET technology, has been issued as United States Patent No. 11,141,117 on October 12, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

New Paper

New Timepix4 publication

October 13, 2021

“Timepix4, a large area pixel detector readout chip which can be tiled on 4 sides providing sub-200ps timestamp binning”, by R. Casanova and others, has been submitted to JINST.

Spin-off

Deep Detection selected for the Traction phase of the startup acceleration program Lanzadera

May 5, 2021

The IFAE spin-off Deep Detection has been selected for the Traction phase of the program Lanzadera, the startup acceleration program of Juan Roig , president of Mercadona.

Patent

Photon counting patent allowed

March 3, 2021

The US patent application based on the photon counting invention has been allowed.

In the Media

DeepDetection featured in El Correo

October 14, 2020

Deep Detection, the spin-off company created from the LINDA project in the innovation program The Collider (Mobile World Capital Barcelona) was featured in the ‘Economy’ section of El Correo