Indian biomedical tech entrepreneur Bhargav Sri Prakash has been awarded the first patent globally by the US patent office for a ' digital vaccine’, a platform that prevents real world health issues through the metaverse.
Digital vaccines use applications via smart-phones, tablets, and other similar devices for nudging positive human behaviour through neurocognitive training. Sri Prakash, founder of the life sciences startup FriendsLearn, recently received the patent for the ’systems and methods for digital vaccine’ that he developed as part of Carnegie Mellon University's digital vaccine project.
The work involves the use of artificial intelligence and a gamified metaverse platform.
“It is a milestone for the scientific field of digital vaccines. It also represents an uncommon milestone for an Indian deep tech startup’s biomedical innovation on the world stage. The platform has broad applications - it can potentially prevent a wide spectrum of diseases ranging from Covid-19 and influenza to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and certain cancers, and even cognitive diseases,” Sri Prakash, who spends time between Chennai and Palo Alto, says.
Sri Prakash’s mobile gamefooyai, developed using the patented technology, has been used to conduct clinical trials on children between 3 and 18 years. In the game, the child is a superhero fighting junk food that an evil scientist is developing. Children who played fooya! for just 20 minutes a week made significantly healthier food choices immediately, and successive weekly sessions reproduced positive health outcomes.
The opportunity to safely and effectively prevent disease by non-invasively stimulating the body's immune system and biomarkers through software presents a vast potential.
Bhargav Sri Prakash, Founder, FriendsLearn
Digital vaccines are currently being deployed in selected school partners of Carnegie Mellon’s project across the world. Bhargav applied for the patent in the US about five years ago. His patent applications are pending in India, Europe, China, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
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