Opticology Research Files Patent For Field Portable Detection Device
January 20, 2020

The company announced today the filing of an important patent as a result of the work of its research business unit of a field portable system for the detection of chemical and biological agents. Principal Engineer Anthony Cappo comments "We are considered experts in the field of custom surface plasmon resonance (SPR) instruments and in particular miniaturized units. Our clients have expressed a need for a field portable version of the technology that can be used in hostile environments and our latest technology developments fits that bill."
The company intends to commercialize the field-portable sensor platform for a host of detection modalities including heavy metals, residual explosives, or infectious disease that can be measured with precision without the need for laboratory analysis.
Opticology, Inc. has acquired a new facility in Brooklyn New York in the waterfront manufacturing district known as Redhook. The century old buildings are being renovated to include design offices and state-of-art optical laboratories for optical test, measurement, and assembly. The new space will include an area dedicated to manufacturing of optical and mechanical components as well as a prototyping shop.

Opticology celebrates 20 years of successfully serving customers in optical design, engineering, and fabrication. Established in January 1999, the company has evolved as one of the leading service provider for outsourced optical engineering and design. Providing fabrication and prototype building services is an essential part of the business and important and necessary to customers in R&D and product development. Entrenched in the industry, Opticology also supplies optical and mechanical components on an OEM basis with the same level of service. Customers primarily consist of large corporations in the fields of medical device and industrial systems.

In partnership with New York Eye & Ear Infirmary and the Lighthouse International, both of New York, Opticology principals Anthony Cappo and Matthew Orr will present their findings from a clinical study entitled A New Method to Depict Central Scotomas: Automated Stereocampimetry at the 2013 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in Seattle this coming May.