Invention

• Lennart Lopin, Byte Federal co-founder and CTO, expressed the vision behind the innovation: "Sound money is essential for creators and inventors, driving societal progress.
• After a successful beta testing program, Byte Federal's merchant POS system is now available throughout most of the United States.
• Headquartered in Florida, Byte Federal has a dedicated team to provide expert integration assistance to merchants seeking to expand their payment options.
• For additional information about the merchant point of sale system, please send an email to: [email protected].

• Once issued, the patent will provide protection into at least January 2031, without accounting for a potential Patent Term Extension (PTE).
• “Allowance of this patent significantly strengthens our intellectual property portfolio around our innovations for an intragastric balloon system and is a significant accomplishment, ensuring comprehensive protection,” stated Paul F. Hickey, President and Chief Executive Officer of ReShape Lifesciences.
• “Since the initial filing of our patent application in 2011, we have secured over 50 patents around the intragastric balloon system and ReShape has an extensive family of over 160 patents issued and pending for a wide range of new and protected inventions.
• Going forward, we will continue to build a defensive ‘moat’ around our product portfolio, innovation and commercialization efforts.

• CHENNAI, India, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HSG Laser, a global leader in metal shaping equipment, is intensifying its business expansion efforts in India.
• For over ten years, HSG Laser has built up a strong presence in the Indian metal shaping equipment industry.
• HSG Laser has established global research and development (R&D) institutions, including an R&D center in Japan, representing a frontrunner in the photonics industry.
• It is poised to solidify its position as a global leader in the metal shaping industry.

• The researchers modified the genes of silkworms to make them produce spider silk instead of their own silk.
• Harnessing the properties of spider silk has been a longstanding aim because the material is as strong as steel, yet also highly elastic.
• However, the idea of using silk to make bulletproof vests is not a new idea.

• Five years later, Dr Goodfellow published further observations in “Notes on the Impenetrability of Silk to Bullets” in a journal called The Southern California Practioneer.
• Using Goodfellow’s findings, the Catholic priest Casimir Zeglen (1869–1927) would later invent a silk bulletproof vest.
• But the potential for silk as ballistic body armour had been recognised more than two centuries earlier, by Leibniz.
• Instead, he thought silk was the most promising material for a bulletproof fabric due to being lightweight, flexible, and strong.
• His idea for silk bulletproof clothing therefore did not get off the drawing board.

Lloyd Strickland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.