All current team projects

PATENT PENDING — CFL owned

Research into a non-contact way to test a used helmet shell — not by calendar age, but by actual condition.

• Helmets and hard hats are currently retired by calendar age, not actual condition, because no quick per-unit field check exists
• Non-contact structural screening research — patent pending, wholly owned by CFL, no outside license
• Construction hard hats face the same gap

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Sports Medicine · Orthopedics

Students study a heated-filament approach to suture removal. Cutting a suture under tension pulls on skin that is still healing, which is why the moment is remembered long after the injury is forgotten.

• Ruptures a suture with heat instead of cutting it under tension — whether that takes the pull off healing skin is the question the team is studying
• Aimed at the high-tensile sutures common in sports medicine
• An education lab, not a clinical product — no claim about pain, recovery or outcomes

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Tampa, FL

A chest splint built around adhesive anchor patches and elastic straps, meant to support rib and sternum injuries without the rigid wrap athletes quietly stop wearing.

• Adhesive anchor patches and elastic straps in place of a rigid wrap athletes quietly stop wearing
• Aimed at rib and sternum injuries in competitive and recreational athletes
• Fit and materials are still under study — no claims about healing, breathing or return to play

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Sports medicine

Students explore whether bio-absorbable anchors could reduce the need for follow-up hardware removal. Education lab. No injury-prevention claims.

• Bio-absorbable by design — the aim is an anchor that does its job and then breaks down, rather than staying in the body
• Education lab — not a clinic, and no claim that it lowers any risk; that is what testing would have to show
• Screening literacy: teaches teams to read what the imaging actually shows

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