Project Description

The company has hard assets which include prototyping machinery, tooling, electronic equipment, test equipment, and computer software and hardware. Computer-controlled precision manufacturing equipment and its tooling have been purchased to provide the capability to rapid prototype

and to supply initial production quantities of disposable tips. The company has obtained high-end electronic equipment and software to generate and analyze test signals. The prototypes are constructed from standard modern components and engineered to be easily built and assembled without

the development of special processes. The prototypes will be optimized by comparative testing on tissue substitutes (phantoms), animal tissues, and preclinical patient examinations. The test equipment and fixtures for manufacturing are being built in-house. The components of the  bioprobe system that contact the cervix will be manufactured and assembled at very low cost so that the tip will be disposable. As with cryotips, two or three styles of tip will be built as necessary to fit a range of canal sizes, depending on such factors as previous births.

The initial handpiece incorporates multiprocessors, a signal generation and signal analysis chip, memory, a stepper motor, a rechargeable power source, and BlueTooth wireless communication.  The handpiece will communicate wirelessly with a standard desktop or laptop which will then generate the tissue analysis and produce the tissue map. This will make the system portable and inexpensive, and will directly produce electronic data records. The bioprobe system handpiece will signal the operator through LEDs to direct proper contact throughout the examination.  The progress of the tissue scan will be indicated by the LEDs and by the simultaneous graphic display on the computer screen.