Chennai-based healthcare technology start-up Perfint Healthcare has been granted its first patent by the US patent office for its robotic targeting technology for image guided cancer care. The private-equity funded company started in 2005 is in the process of bringing out its fourth product into the market.
“This is an important milestone in our R&D efforts. More patent applications are in the pipeline and we expect a few of them to be granted soon,” said David Gustafson, Seattle, WA, USA-based CTO and VP of R&D of Perfint Healthcare.
Perfint’s products, ROBIO and MAXIO, based on this patented technology have installations in about 20 countries across the world. These products help physicians with procedure planning and robotic assistance to perform minimally invasive cancer care procedures like tumor ablation under image guidance. These procedures are increasingly preferred as an alternate or in addition to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
“The technology is also being deployed for performing image-guided pain care procedures of the spine and liver,” said S Nandakumar, co-founder and CEO of Perfint Healthcare.
Perfints’s Sonio, the fourth product that works on ultra sound scanners, is in the prototype stage. In order to accelerate new product development and their commercialisation, the company had recently raised $11 million from Norwest Venture Partners. Perfint had earlier received $3.5 million from Accel Partners and IDG Ventures in 2007. In 2010, Norwest Venture Partners joined the existing investors to fund $7.2 million and in 2011 they further invested $6 million.
Shuffling in 50 to 60 people within an hour can be challenging, especially on busy days when 100 people could line up outside.
Johnson estimated that people at the soup kitchen are fed for $1.01 each, thanks to volunteer cooks and donations from local restaurants and grocery stores.
The ministry also relies on churches, individuals and the Second Harvest Food Bank to meet the need for the food boxes and bags.
Individuals are especially giving around Thanksgiving and Christmas. But Christian Ministry of Lincoln County counts on the generosity of the community year round, as it has for more than 30 years.
Tom and Bea Levenhagen take Southwest Airlines when they can.
The couple from Elizabethtown, Pa., look at things like the availability of a direct flight instead of those that require numerous connections. Good customer service. And the fees that some airlines charge enter into the final decision.
"We traveled with them for a lot of years -- originally because they were a discount carrier," Bea Levenhagen said last week, while waiting for a flight near the Southwest ticket counters at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. "We don't look at it that way anymore. It is more the convenience."
Southwest Airlines, which pioneered the concept of low-cost, no-frills flying, has seen its typical base airfares surge to the rest of the pack at a time of continued airline consolidation, soaring fuel costs and rivals that charge fees for checked bags and ticket changes, according to interviews and government data.
Average one-way airfares between St. Louis and seven other cities have increased 25 percent since the fourth quarter of 2008, according to a review of the most recent U.S. Department of Transportation's Domestic Airline Fares Consumer Reports.
The average fare between St. Louis and Dallas increased to $194 in the fourth quarter of 2012 from $122 in 2008 -- a 59 percent increase. That is a sizable jump, considering Southwest competes with American Airlines in that market. Fares between St. Louis and Cleveland rose more than 50 percent during those four years.
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