Can you tell me a little bit about that and how, how that group came together?

Yeah, you bet.

So, uh, yeah, uh, this is, uh, serendipity at its best.

So i- in the, in the fall of, of '22, uh, I had, I had made the decision that I was gonna leave the university and, and, uh, see if we could, uh, you know, do something, uh, with, with Dean that, that would let us, you know, get to this clinically practical, uh, examination.

And a buddy of mine, John Cox, uh, he's a PhD, um, nuclear engineer who'd been in the, the X-ray imaging business for 40 years.

Uh, out of the blue, I get a voice message: "Hey, we should get together for lunch." And, uh, we did, and the conversation is basically boiled down to me saying, "Yeah, I think I'm gonna leave the university and, and figure out how to make joint kinematics measurements practical." And John says, "Oh, my partner George Decote and I started a imaging company here in Gainesville in 2019, and we have an FDA-approved all-digital image chain that might be useful." And, and so, uh, you know, [chuckles] it was like, holy cow.

And so, so there's, uh, you know, amongst our founding group, um, the, the hardware experts were already here in Gainesville, uh, with FDA-approved image chains that we have subsequently adapted, uh, to work on the, the C-arm and the, and the orthopedic, uh, application space that we're interested in.

Was that a deliberate call from the beginning, or was that something that you came to over a period of time, trial and error maybe?