Innovate Utah: NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

Lehi-based baby monitoring products company Owlet has introduced the Smart Sock Plus, a monitoring system designed for children from birth to 5 years old. Building on the company’s flagship product, the Smart Sock, the Smart Sock Plus allows parents to track heart rate, oxygen level and sleep trends for their children’s well-being from infancy through early childhood. The original Smart Sock was intended for use with babies up to age 18 months.

“The desire and need to continue tracking your child’s well-being doesn’t stop at 18 months and with the Smart Sock Plus we’re providing a solution that parents have long been asking Owlet for,” said Kurt Workman, Owlet co-founder and CEO. “As parents, just as we want to know our own sleep quality and well-being, we expect access to the same data and insights about our children. At Owlet, we fundamentally believe knowledge is power, so the more parents know about their little one’s well-being, including sleep trends and milestones, the more they’re empowered to provide the best care possible at home.”

In a survey of current Owlet customers, nearly three out of four caregivers said they wish they could use the Smart Sock beyond 18 months as their child continues to grow. The Smart Sock and the Smart Sock Plus leverage pulse oximetry technology — which many know as the little red light they clip on a finger at the hospital to track heart rate and oxygen levels. The Smart Sock allows parents to view their child’s readings in real time from the Owlet App. If the readings fall outside of preset zones, parents are notified through their phone and a base station. Since launch, over 1 million babies have been monitored by the Smart Sock.

Salt Lake City-based Strider Technologies Inc., a provider of intellectual property theft prevention and risk modelling solutions, has launched Strider Shield, a risk intelligence solution that allows organizations to take a proactive approach to protect employees, safeguard intellectual property (IP), and secure long-term competitiveness. “Every day, nation-state actors are engaged in sophisticated operations to compromise the people, supply chains and IP of organizations large and small,” said Greg Levesque, co-founder and CEO of Strider. “Until now, security leaders have had to rely upon constant vigilance and one-off investigations to protect themselves. Strider Shield enables organizations to identify high-risk activities across their systems and protect against economic statecraft related risks.” Strider Shield illuminates potential compliance, intellectual property theft and talent solicitation risks, the company said.

Merit Medical Systems Inc., a South Jordan manufacturer and marketer of disposable medical devices used in cardiology, radiology, oncology, critical care and endoscopy, has announced the commercial launch of the One-VacÊEvacuated Drainage Bottle for use to aspirate, remove or sample body fluids. Merit said the device is ideal for thoracentesis and paracentesis procedures and patients with diseases that require fluid drainage as part of their care plan. “We designed the One-Vac Evacuated Drainage Bottle to provide a smarter option for aspirating, removing or sampling percutaneous fluids,” said Fred P. Lampropoulos, Merit Medical’s chairman and CEO. “The product’s launch represents an important milestone for our expanding drainage portfolio, which we’ve developed by applying physician feedback, investing in new technologies, and improving upon legacy products.”

Consensus, a developer and marketer of a digital presale platform based in Lehi, has introduced Channel Accelerator, which adds to the traditional Consensus platform to facilitate the scaling of channel teams. With Channel Accelerator, Consensus customers can now extend the power of their digital demo experiences to onboard partners, assign content and analyze results to drive channel sales, Consensus said. “Working with resellers is a great business strategy, but companies often struggle with partner enablement, brand consistency and channel optimization,” said Brian Zurcher, head of product at Consensus. “The ability to assign demos and other content to distributors and reseller groups not only helps companies keep their messaging consistent but gives them a measurable way to identify their top partners and make channel revenue more predictable.”

Murray-based Finicity, a Mastercard company that develops and markets a cloud-based platform that offers transaction management, credit decisioning and data aggregation solutions for the financial sector, is expanding its one-touch Mortgage Verification Service (MVS) availability within ICE Mortgage Technology, a global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure. The integration enables borrowers to permission data quickly and easily so lenders can verify assets, income and employment in a streamlined interaction. “With MVS integrated into [ICE Mortgage products] Encompass and Encompass Consumer Connect, our goals are to reduce risk for lenders, create an overall improved consumer experience and ultimately simplify the mortgage process for everyone by helping borrowers prove their creditworthiness in a more robust, yet streamlined way,” said Steve Smith, Mastercard’s head of global open banking.

Joot Co., a Lehi-based developer of artificial intelligence-driven visual engagement analysis tools, has released new free software for e-commerce and social media marketers. The new product completes Joot’s corporate launch into the field of AI applications for social media commerce. “On digital platforms, the audience’s attention is the most scarce and valuable commodity that companies are constantly targeting. We created Joot for businesses who want to stop spending time and money on image selection and ads testing,” said Joot founder and CEO Brett Haskins. “Our software empowers users with data-driven predictions that were not possible or simply out of reach until now. With several new developments and updates on the way, we can’t wait to reveal more and more about the science behind social commerce success.”

Salt Lake City’s OrthoGrid Systems Inc., a medtech company that supplies software to guide musculoskeletal surgery, has launched its OrthoGrid Hip Preservation Application. The app is the latest version of OrthoGrid’s patented, distortion correcting, intraoperative-alignment technology for hip preservation procedures for young and active patients. “Peri-acetabular osteotomy is an invasive procedure and I feel an obligation to use any tool that supports my promise to provide these adolescents and young adults with the best results that I can,” said Dr. Chris Peters, vice chair of clinical operations in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Utah. “The OrthoGrid Hip Preservation app has helped me leave the operating room knowing that our goal in correcting a patient’s deformity was achieved against our plan.”

Spectrum Solutions, a life science medical device manufacturing company based in Draper, has announced the release of a COVID-19 Testing Toolkit that provides the process for K-12 schools and districts to implement a pain-free, noninvasive, 99.98 percent accurate and repeatable program for COVID-19 testing. “As school boards around the nation open their doors to students this fall, they are faced with a new wave of risks to student and community health,” said Leslie Titus Bryant, Spectrum Solutions spokesperson. “The world is facing another surge in COVID-19 cases with this delta variant spreading frighteningly fast around the world. It is absolutely imperative that accurate and reliable early detection for symptomatic and/or asymptomatic cases starts and continues all year to help safeguard students, their families and our communities.”