{"id":20,"date":"2010-01-12T11:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:00:20","slug":"outreach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Technology Transfer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FIRST has a long track record of interacting with Maine companies as well as national and international partners.&nbsp; These activities have been supported by federal SBIR\/STTR programs, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainetechnology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maine Technology Institute<\/a>, and industrial funding.&nbsp; Service agreements, confidential disclosure agreements, collaboration agreements, patent disclosures, and license agreements are coordinated through UMaine\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umaine.edu\/dic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Industrial Cooperation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2018\/07\/circuit-board-317x272.jpg\" alt=\"photo of circuit board\" style=\"width:263px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Patents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A portfolio of patents from FIRST research &amp; development activities includes technology related to sensors, ion detectors, and microdevices.&nbsp; The following high-tech start-up companies have emerged from FIRST technology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BiODE Inc., Westbrook, ME (acquired by Vectron International)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environetix Technologies Corp., Orono, ME<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mainely Sensors, Orono, ME<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microconversion Technologies, Brookings, SD (acquired by Midwest Micro-Tek)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orono Spectral Solutions, Old Town, ME<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sensor Research &amp; Development Corp., Orono, ME<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stillwater Scientific Instruments, Orono, ME<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology Transfer FIRST has a long track record of interacting with Maine companies as well as national and international partners.&nbsp; These activities have been supported by federal SBIR\/STTR programs, the&nbsp;Maine Technology Institute, and industrial funding.&nbsp; Service agreements, confidential disclosure agreements, collaboration agreements, patent disclosures, and license agreements are coordinated through UMaine\u2019s&nbsp;Department of Industrial Cooperation. Patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}