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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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