Martineau & Associates Timeline

• July, 2022: MAGNATANK™ utility patent
  The USPTO granted US patent number 11,388,889 for “Systems And Methods For Aquatic Organism Imaging” on July 19, 2022. This patent protects two fundamental differentiators of our core technology: Remanent Imaging capture and darkfield illumination in ambient illumination.
• June, 2022: INTRODUCED WatchYourFish™ larval behavior analysis service
  On June 22, 2022, Martineau & Associates the introduction of its WatchYourFish™ service at the 17th International Zebrafish Society (IZFS) Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.The WatchYourFish™ service enables scientists to conduct naturalistic behavior experiments remotely in the revolutionary MagnaTank™ behavior monitoring platform. The first Experiment-As-A-Service offering, WatchYourFish™ frees researchers from the costs and burdens associated with the increasingly important larval behavior assays in zebrafish research.
• May, 2021: RIC continuation patent
  The USPTO grants US patent number 11,343,430 for “Method and apparatus for Remanent Imaging Control” on May 24, 2022. This patent expands the claim of the original RIC patent granted on July 19, 2021.
• July, 2021: ORIP awards SBIR Phase I grant for a CanaryTank proof of concept
  The Office of Research Infrastructure Projects (ORIP) of the National Institutes of Health awards a SBIR Phase I proof of concept grant to demonstrate CanaryTank, a plug-in husbandry behavior tracking system for health of fish facilities (patent pending).CanaryTank video records a sentinel population of zebrafish using Remanent Imaging, and analyses its behavior as a proxy for their health.
• October, 2020: RIC (Remanent Imaging Control) utility patent
  Over the period 2012-2016, we designed a method to leverage Remanent Imaging for process control applications and filed a provisional patent for Remanent Imaging Control (RIC for short) on December 16, 2015. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ultimately granted utility patent number 10,805,538 for “Method and apparatus for Remanent Imaging Control” on October 13, 2020.
• June, 2017: NIMH awards SBIR Phase II grant for commercialization of Zebratrack
  NIMH awards a Phase II SBIR grant to transform the Zebrafish Behavior Research Platform and Repository for Mental Health and Neuroscience into a marketable product. The work produced the MagnaTank™ zebrafish behavior research platform (patent no. 11,388,889 – see above) and its PiscisTrack™ operating and analysis software (patent no. 11,388,889).
• December, 2009: NIMH awards SBIR Phase I grant for a Zebratrack proof of concept
  The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awards a Phase I Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) grant to demonstrate a proof of concept Zebrafish Behavior Research Platform and Repository for Mental Health and Neuroscience based on Zebratrack.The video capture method used in the platform is named “Remanent Imaging,” as opposed to “Snapshot Imaging.” “Remanent,” a term inspired from magnetic remanence, connotes the fact that larval tracks and motion remain visible in images over an extended period of time, as opposed to the stop motion images captured in Snapshot Imaging.
• 2006: MARTINEAU & ASSOCIATES conceives Zebratrack with HHMI funding
  Martineau & Associates receives funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to develop the concept of a larval behavior quantification method and prototype system named Zebratrack.Zebratrack records groups of zebrafish larvae in Petri dish-like tanks isolated in opaque cylinders, using one camera per tank. The camera frame rate is set to 3.75 frame per second and the exposure time to 266ms. As a result, images show the motion blur created by zebrafish larvae, and these images can be stacked to display larvae motion over user adjustable periods of time.
• 2005: NEW FOCUS on contract R&D
  Martineau & Associates’s focus shifts from consulting to contract R&D.
• 1995: COMPANY incorporation
  The company is incorporated in California as Martineau & Associates, Inc.
• 1991: COMPANY creation
  Pierre Martineau creates Martineau & Associates as a technology management consulting practice in Menlo Park, California.