Dr. Edward Wuori, Ph.D. Dr. Wuori received his BSEE in 1965, MSEE in 1970 and Ph.D. in 1984, all from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wuori has been working at MinforMed L.L.C. as CEO since the company was founded. He is a founder and director. He has also worked at Tech9 Corporation since 1998 as CEO and as circuit designer on proprietary company products involving data transfer by IR and RF. He's worked since the early 1980's as engineering consultant to local companies in analog/digital circuit design and CMOS IC designs for pacemakers, defibrillators, implantable hearing aids and CMOS chips for magnetic memory. From 1989 to 1997 he worked for Control Bits Corporation in IR remote control and wireless data transfer. From 1984 to 1990, he worked for Megabyte, Inc. on magnetic crosstie domain wall memories. From 1981 to 1984, he completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota involving vacuum sputtering fabrication and analysis of Co-Cr film memory, x-ray diffraction, SEM microscopy of film structure, ESCA compositional analysis, Auger electron spectroscopy and other techniques. From 1978 to 1981 he worked at Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center involved in sub-micron VLSI integrated circuit process characterization. Prior to that, from 1973 to 1978 he worked at 3M Co. In 3M's Magnetic Products Group, he worked on Winchester type flying heads for hard disk applications. In 3M's Duplicating Products Division, he studied the electrophotographic properties of several photoconductors for copy machine applications (such as Se, CdS, ZnO, TiO2, PVK-TNF) and the magnetic properties and physics of interaction with the 3M toner powders. The photoconductor work involved extensive optical lab measurements to determine spectral sensitivities, exposure characteristics and other electrophotographic properties. Prior to that, 1963 to 1973 he worked at Honeywell Aerospace Division as a circuit designer in the Fluidics Group and in the Aircraft Instrumentation Group on such projects as PLZT, liquid crystal and LED displays, liquid hydrogen mass flow meter, fluidic jet turbine gas temperature sensors. He holds three patents and is the author of many papers in the area of magnetic films.
Patents
6,859,063 Transpinnor Based Transmission Line Transceivers and Applications. February 22, 2005
4,580,178 Magnetic Data Storage-System. April 1, 1986
3,715,920 Apparatus for Determining Damping Ratio of Second Order Vibration Systems. February 13, 1973
Patent Applications
20,040,075,152 Interfaces Between Semiconductor Circuitry and Transpinnor-based circuitry. April 22, 2004
20,030,050,541 Non Invasive Blood Analyte Measuring System and Method Utilizing Optical Apsorption. March 13, 2003
Mr. Allen Wuori, BA. Mr. Wuori is a founder and director of MinforMed L.L.C. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1966 with a BA in Journalism with minors in Marketing and Speech. He has been President of Wuori Advertising and Al's Photography since 1971, providing advertising services to a wide variety of industrial and retail customers. Prior to that he worked for Faber Advertising and M.R. Bolin Advertising as an Account Executive.
Dr. Terese Rakow, Ph.D. Dr. Rakow is an advisor to MinforMed in the areas of blood chemistry and biochemistry (and Intellectual Property related documents). Currently Dr. Rakow is a Senior Licensing Associate for Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Prior to this, she worked as a Clayton Research Fellow in the Department of BioImmuno Therapy at the M.D. Anderson Center in Houston. Her research involved the generation of targeted cancer therapies using single chain antibody molecules conjugated to a cellular toxin. Prior to this she held two postdoctoral positions; from 1995-1007, she worked at University of California at San Diego, where she studied the role of serotonin in addiction and adaptation. From 1993-1995 she was at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. At Scripps, her research centered on neuronal development and synapse formation. Dr. Rakow received her Ph.D. in 1993 from the department of Zoology and Genetics at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Mary Gmitter, B. S. Ms. Gmitter received her B. S. in biology with a minor in chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2001. She has worked at MinforMed since its inception on a variety of projects including the NIH funded glucose meter and the Hemoglobin meter in development.
