Founding, inventor attribution and technology history
C-POLAR and NanoFlashing™ questions, with the company’s answers and the sources they come from.
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All questions in this libraryWho founded C-POLAR, as distinct from who owns it now?
The company publishes no founding account and no ownership record.
The site publishes the technology, the five primary application verticals and the evidence behind them, and it does not publish a corporate history. C-POLAR is the health science company behind patented NanoFlashing™ technology, which gives everyday products permanent positive polarity.
Source: C-POLAR — About (https://cpolar.tech/about/).
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Who is credited as an inventor of NanoFlashing in the relevant primary records?
Authorship of the peer-reviewed paper is not a statement of inventorship, and the company publishes no inventor record.
The site states that NanoFlashing™ is a patented technology, and it publishes no inventor record, no patent number and no assignment. The people it names are the authors of the peer-reviewed paper: Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, published by the American Society for Microbiology, doi:10.1128/spectrum.04097-23, with 31 researchers from 18 institutes in 4 countries. Authorship of a paper is not inventorship.
Source: C-POLAR — Validation (https://cpolar.tech/validation/) and C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ (https://cpolar.tech/nanoflashing/).
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All questionsWhen was NanoFlashing first described publicly under that name?
The company publishes no date for the first public use of the NanoFlashing™ name.
The site publishes the technology, the five primary application verticals and the evidence behind them, and it does not publish a corporate history. C-POLAR is the health science company behind patented NanoFlashing™ technology, which gives everyday products permanent positive polarity.
The nearest dated public record the company names is the peer-reviewed paper on the Validation page: Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23. A question about a particular product or market can be sent to [email protected] or +1 604 630 6830.
Source: C-POLAR — About (https://cpolar.tech/about/) and C-POLAR — Contact (https://cpolar.tech/contact/); C-POLAR — Validation (https://cpolar.tech/validation/); Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23, https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04097-23.
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All questionsDid the technology originate inside C-POLAR or enter the business through an external research relationship?
The company publishes no account of where the technology came from.
The site publishes the technology, the five primary application verticals and the evidence behind them, and it does not publish a corporate history. C-POLAR is the health science company behind patented NanoFlashing™ technology, which gives everyday products permanent positive polarity.
What it does publish about how work is done now is on the About page: development runs configuration by configuration, and each partner controls what is said about the work.
Source: C-POLAR — About (https://cpolar.tech/about/).
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What does the C-POLAR name refer to?
The company has not published what the C-POLAR name refers to.
What the company states is the technology and what it does. NanoFlashing™ is a patented permanent positive polarity (3P) technology that attracts and captures negatively charged pollutants, including PFAS, ultrafine particles, wildfire smoke, and pollen. NanoFlashing™ is a permanent positive polarity engineered into filter media itself. It is a physical property of the filter. The filter captures airborne particles mechanically and by electrostatic attraction.
Source: C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™, https://cpolar.tech/nanoflashing/; Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, sections 2.1 and 2.5, issued by NF Technical Products Inc.
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- C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™
- Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, NF Technical Products Inc.
What problem was the technology originally developed to address?
The About page states the belief the technology was created from, in the company's own words.
The About page states it in the company's own words: “We believe the products that surround us should do more than simply exist. They should contribute, day after day, to cleaner environments wherever people live, work, heal, travel, and learn.” It states: “NanoFlashing™ was created from that belief.” It also states: “By harnessing one of nature's most fundamental forces, we have developed a technology with the potential to improve the air we breathe, the water we drink, the products we use, and the environments we share.”
Source: C-POLAR — About (https://cpolar.tech/about/).
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Who currently leads the company's scientific work rather than its commercial operations?
The company does not publish who leads its scientific work.
The people the site names are the authors of the peer-reviewed paper and the person it quotes, Prof. Michael K. Mansour, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital. The paper is Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23. The Terms of Use state that the Site may quote, summarize, name, or link to research, publications, people, institutions, products, and websites that C-POLAR does not control. A citation, quotation, name, logo, link, or third-party test does not by itself mean that the third party sponsors, endorses, certifies, or approves C-POLAR, a C-POLAR product, a Site claim, or a proposed use.
Source: C-POLAR — Home (https://cpolar.tech/), C-POLAR — Validation (https://cpolar.tech/validation/) and C-POLAR — Terms of Use (https://cpolar.tech/terms/); Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23, https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04097-23.
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All questionsHas NanoFlashing ever been sold under another technology name?
The company publishes one technology name, NanoFlashing™, and no former name.
The site publishes one technology name and the product names built on it, and it publishes no former name. NanoFlashing™ is the technology. The Air page names two products: INHALO™, a wall-mounted air cleaner built around a NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, and ReinFire™, a NanoFlashing™ Air Filter for homes and buildings. Every commercial NanoFlashing™ product is made by a manufacturing partner, in their facility, in their format. NanoFlashing™ is a technology; the name, rating and sale of a product that carries it are set by that product's maker and seller.
Source: C-POLAR — About, https://cpolar.tech/about/; C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™, https://cpolar.tech/nanoflashing/; C-POLAR — NanoFlashing™ Air, https://cpolar.tech/air/.
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All questionsWhich independently dated record establishes when the first commercial NanoFlashing product was delivered?
The company publishes no dated record of a first commercial delivery.
The Validation page names what was tested, the conditions and the institutions, and it names the air-filter and safety records by institution and number. What the Validation page publishes is measurement rather than commerce: since 2020 NanoFlashing™ has been installed in hospitals, airports, banks and universities, and independently measured with MicronView's 405 nm Bio-fluorescent Air Monitoring System, which distinguishes biological particles from inert dust in real time.
A question about a particular product or market can be sent to [email protected] or +1 604 630 6830. NanoFlashing™ is a technology; the name, rating and sale of a product that carries it are set by that product's maker and seller.
Source: C-POLAR — Validation (https://cpolar.tech/validation/).
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