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Gordhan Patel. Ph.D.
JP Laboratories, Inc is a small research and development company inventing mega, novel products/technologies. Typically, we do not develop just one product but rather a group of products for a given technology/industry. These technologies have the potential to yield highly profitable global annual businesses ranging from of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Many of these technologies can save lives, e.g., time-temperature indicators, sterilization indicators and extending shelf-life of foods. These technologies also have the potentials of universalizing technologies, with products such as universal sterilization indicators and to set standards for the industry with products like ultrasonic cleaning indicators. It takes multi-millions of dollars and years of dedicated efforts with highly skilled manpower to develop a novel/innovative product/technology having a market of hundreds of millions of dollars. Developing novel/innovative products/technologies is the high-risk business of multi-billion dollars corporations. JP Labs is in a business (of innovations) which is none of its business (innovation is generally a business of multi-billion dollars corporations). Even though we are a small company, as displayed above, we have been successful in developing new and novel products/technologies in highly diverse disciplines of science and technology.
Dr. Gordhan Patel started JP Labs in 1983 to follow his passion of developing products based on his own ideas. His objective remains to invent/develop new/novel products/processes, patent and license them. Dr. Patel has a highly diverse, multi-disciplinary experience in different disciplines of science such as chemistry, physics, biology, agriculture, metallurgy, color changing chemical indicators, radiation, glass-lining and preservation of foods. He has either papers or patents in all these disciplines. His research was mainly funded with a number of multimillion dollar grants under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program before Y2002. All product development is self-funded since Y2002.
Examples of include:
- Extending the shelf-life of foods such as liquid foods (milk and juices), preventing sprouting of potatoes and onions, preventing fungus on foods and delayed ripening of fruits and vegetables with naturally occurring compounds.
- Making non-palatable foods palatable: Removing bitterness/astringency of nuts such as mango seed kernel (Gutli) and that of avocado with baking soda, so they can be eaten.
- Indicators for monitoring freshness of perishables: Time-temperature, freeze, thaw and humidity indicators.
- Indicators for healthcare industry: Sterilization indicators for steam, ethylene oxide, hydrogen peroxide, radiation, and ultrasonic cleaning.
- Devices for monitoring radiation: Radiation therapy film, blood radiation indicators, radiation sterilization indicators and emergency personal radiation dosimeters.
- Rust-proofing steel by lining with a flexible glass.