afontechnology.com
www.med-technews.com
Eddy,Checking the European patent register, Afon acquired the technology last year out of bankruptcy from something called Orsus Medical, which seems to have been working on it for a while. Orsus is now defunct.
More detail: https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/n...-medical-research-firm-bought-administration/
Diabetes monitoring startup seeks buyer
A start-up business that is aiming to revolutionise the way that diabetes is monitored and managed is seeking a buyer after entering administration.
Despite claims to be "patented", there doesn't seem to have been a patent granted yet. The patent prosecution was interrupted by the Orsus bankruptcy.
They make repeated claims like:
... recent clinical trials carried out by Afon Technology at a world leading clinical trial facility in Germany have yielded exciting results. The ability of the Afon technology device to detect changes in blood glucose compared favourably with a market leading minimally invasive blood glucose monitor.
But as far as I can see they don't include any details of the trial, which is a pretty bad look. And I don't see anything at www.clinicaltrials.gov, which you would normally expect to have a listing if there had been a genuine "clinical trial". I guess there's a faint chance it was sponsored by some entity other than Orsus or Afon ....
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
blog.profil.com
www.ucjournals.com
Accuracy sucks. So (like the other non-invasive device that Tim Cook was seen using for a while) maybe it's of value to people with prediabetes (or the worried well). If it can be improved a lot, maybe of use for some T2. But it's not the kind of thing that looks useful for bolus calculation, say.
I'm not saying it's not worth pursuing, let alone that they shouldn't work on it. I've no idea whether it'll eventually work well. (And obviously new things tend not to work well at first.) I'm just imagining (based on the article) it'll be 5 years of development if its ever useful to me.
Hi Bruce, I was refering to Eddy's forensic effort to investigate the company and discredit the new gadget. The way I see it, just be grateful there are people out there actually getting off their backside to try and develop new products, which one day might be of benefit to us. I'm tired of hearing all the complaints, why not use that energy to write to them and give them some encouragement or back them financially or perhaps offer some time to try and help.
I do tech start-ups for a living. If these guys said, "This is really early, a gadzillion miles away from a working product and no assurance it will get there, and also we have very limited funding, no fiirm data, no partnerships with validating industry/tech/research entities and no corporate history of successful product development - but we think it's a nifty approach with the following key conceptual advantages over all the other players working on NI CGM: ...." then I'd respect them more. But as it is, they're putting out hype.
More than just cynicism for me too. I thought it was unnecessary. I dont mind a bit of cynicism, keeps people on their toes.
Thanks Inka, I'll have a look at that link.
