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MedTech Color Pitch Competition

This year, understanding the need for health equity in underrepresented populations, ÌÇÐÄÓ°ÊÓÊÓƵ participated in the MedTech Color Pitch Competition, an event that supports Black and LatinX entrepreneurs and innovators in the medical device industry.

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Medical Technologies

The Path to a Patent

How do a few sketches in a lab notebook turn into a patented, FDA-designated breakthrough medical device? A team of ÌÇÐÄÓ°ÊÓÊÓƵ Redmond employees prepared and presented to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) about how the Spiration® Valve System became a commercial product.

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How It Started vs. How It’s Going

Throughout our history, we have brought products for visualizing our world to market, constantly innovating in technologies that help us to see more. But what did our earliest innovations look like, and how have they evolved over time? Let’s examine some of our most dramatic product evolutions…

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20 ÌÇÐÄÓ°ÊÓÊÓƵ Voices Bringing Us Into the Roaring '20s

As we venture into a new decade, what is being called the "Roaring '20s" yet again, here are twenty quotes from people who work at ÌÇÐÄÓ°ÊÓÊÓƵ or who have been impacted by ÌÇÐÄÓ°ÊÓÊÓƵ in some way, reminding us of how we touch society and inspiring us for the future.

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Medical Technologies

SOLTIVE: Changing the Game in Kidney Stone Treatment at MetroHealth-University of Michigan Health

Soltiveâ„¢ SuperPulsed Laser System (Soltive Laser System), the first major innovation in fiber laser technology in the past twenty years, has been generating a lot of excitement among urologists as more and more hospitals begin to adopt this new laser technology for kidney stones.

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