BINGHAMTON — A Binghamton University researcher, Ron Miles, received $100,000 in funding from the State University of New York Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF), with $100,000 in matching funds from the university, to bring digital microphone technology to the marketplace.
Miles invented a tiny directional microphone suitable for use in hearing aids that filters out unwanted sounds. His research received several million dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health nearly a decade ago, but that money focused on scientific discovery and not the development of a commercial product, according to the university.
Last year, the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF) supported development of the technology with $50,000 from the TAF. The latest round of funding along with the matching funds from the university will allow Miles to focus on marketing his product.
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“As part of the review process, the RF team did a marketing study to determine potential markets for licensing and commercialization,” Miles said in a release. “We ended up modifying our design to improve the marketability of our technology.”
In addition to the funding for Miles’ project, TAF also awarded first-round funding for six other projects, including one by Binghamton University bioengineer Kenneth McLeod, who proposed a plan to develop a personalized heating system. The system would save energy by using an infrared-based system to heat people inside rooms in a building rather than blindly heating all spaces equally whether they are occupied or not.
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