2024-05-14T10:58:51Z 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 834036254 Public Invention PUBL 5129136103 1709 Norris Dr Austin TX 78704 Robert L Read President 5129136103 2024-05-14 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X https://www.pubinv.org/ X X 166981 X 66471 100484 26 166981 173 131687 2860 35287 170007 -3026 15530 12504 15530 12504 15530 12504 15530 12504 Public Invention forms teams that make humanitarian invention "in the public, for the public". Everything we do is fiercely open source and shared to all humanity. We strive to create new inventions that benefit the public, specifically the poor and distressed. As a side-effect we help our volunteers develop new technical and project management skills, making them better able to gain employment or attend graduate school or college. Our inventions focus on global health and sustainability. For NASA, we delivered a digital control system for a revolutionary ceramic oxygen generator that has no moving parts. If deployed in rural clinics with unsteady O2 access, this technology could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year. 106290 The Global Open Source Quality Assurance System's first project is Global Distributed Tracking (GDT), a fully encrypted "last mile" tracker for medical supplies that does NOT require login or authentication. GDT has the potential to make global distribution of medical supplies trustworthy through transparency, fighting counterfeiting and low-quality goods. 12718 The PolyVent is the world's most open open source research and teaching mechanical ventilator. Any firm in an LMIC may choose to manufacture it as a medical device, drastically lower the price and increasing the availability of respiration support globally. 10162 129170 Robert L Read Preseident 55.00 0 0 0 Marc T Jones Director 1.00 0 0 0 Stephanie Liu Vice-President 1.00 0 0 0 Sabia Abidi Director 1.00 0 0 0 John K Gibbons Director 1.00 0 0 0 Sarah Benson-Konforty Director 1.00 0 0 0 Avinash Baskaran Director 1.00 0 0 0 Victoria Jaqua Director 1.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false Robert L Read 1709 Norris Dr Austin TX 78704 5129136103 false false false false false false false false false false true false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 17020 88748 29275 91800 65174 292017 17020 88748 29275 91800 65174 292017 180868 111149 14 26 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 292057 100484 X 0.38060 0.42410 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Part I, Line 16 Equipment: $17,912.50 -- Equipment is our largest expense. We purchase equipment for volunteer, unpaid engineers to prevent them having out of pocket expenses. Part I, Line 16 Research -- $61.58 -- pay wall research papers Part I, Line 16 Travel $6,501 -- All of our travel is to confereces of conventions. This year we presented at Maker Faire Bay Area and the IEEE IMBH conference in Pittsburgh, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the Open Source Hardware Alliance. Part I, Line 16 Job Supplies -- $659 -- expendable supplies, such as jumper wire, solder, etc. Part I, Line 16 Books -- $584 -- technical books required to be cited in our peer-reviewed publications. Part I, Line 16 Bank Chargers and Fees -- $73.86 Part I, Line 16 PolyVent (deleted): -$2,706.39 : This year we shifted to "Fund accounting": but had left over expense categories. Part I, Line 16 NASA-COG (deleted) : -$28.53 : This year we shifted to "Fund accounting", but had left over expense categories. Part I, Line 16 Advertising and Marketing $3,952 -- This includes our website, MailChimp, and other expenses. Part I, Line 16 Tools -- $324 -- Reusable tools, such as wire crimpers Part I, Line 16 Meais and Entertainment $2,239 -- meals while traveling for conference presenters. Part I, Line 16 Charitable Contributions -- $172.50 -- sometimes it was cheaper to buy a student a charitable membership than a full conference ticket Part I, Line 16 Uncategorized Expenses -- $758 -- expenses that could not be categorized. Part I, Line 16 Reconciliation Error -- $2,239 -- a reconciliation of an accounting error between 2022 and 2023 Part I, Line 16 Public Invention does not pay its board members, or its President and Founder, who acts as an executive director, in any way. This year we did a major contract for NASA to develop a digital control system for a Ceramic Oxygen Generator (COG). This technology can fill spacesuits and generate an oxidizer from the Martian atmosphere but more importantly, it can revolutionize the delivery of therapeutic oxygen, which is a miracle drug for those diseases that require it, in rural low- and middle-income countries. The PolyVent Ventilator is the worlds most open source education and research ventilator. The project was winding down, but has recently been delivered to Colorado Mesa University for both research and classroom instruction in 2024. Public Invention runs a number of small projects, each aimed at academic publication, which do not require large amounts of money, and so are not listed on this form. For example, we have developed a passive ferrofluid check valve that is a true invention. Public Invention is a driving part of a coalition of nonprofits in the Global Opens Source Quality Assurance Systems (GOSQAS) alliance. We are innovating the last-mile tracking of medical goods outside of normal inventory control systems with a camera based system that requires no authentication and no login at all. We hope this will lead to a revolution in the quality of medical supplies globally, an increase in medical philanthropy, and will fight counterfeiting. The expenditures listed on this form fell into no other categories and total $35,287