About
Treble Innovations, and the clinician who could not see the line.
Vividose® is a product of Treble Innovations, LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. The effort was established in 2017 to make a syringe a person could read.
The company describes its start as four people with ties to healthcare — a physician, an administrator, a clinician, and an attorney — who wanted a device that measures and delivers medication more accurately. One of them gives syringe-based medication to hundreds of patients a week and found the black markings and the black plunger harder to read with age. A change in seal color and barrel markings, tried in prototypes, made the dose easier to recognize.
The mission they wrote down is to help medical professionals, patients, families, and anyone who has to give or take a syringe-based medicine do that with a clearer read on the volume. Improper dosing can mean harm, a longer stay, and higher cost. The design is aimed at that misread. It is not presented here as a completed clinical result.
Relatively few companies supply syringes in bulk, which has meant less pressure to change a part as small as a plunger tip. Vividose is that change: fluorescent seals and fill indicators, protected by an issued patent and a registered trademark, still moving through development.
People named with the work
Roles below are the ones stated in the company’s own materials. The original group was described as four people; the list includes the contributors named for the technology, regulatory work, and operations.
Scott Carper
Clinician and co-inventor
Clinician in IV therapy and the person who originated the concept, after reading doses against black plunger tips in a high-volume practice. Co-inventor, and exclusive licensor of the colored-plunger technology to Treble Innovations.
R. Clifford “Cliff” Park
Manager and co-inventor
Healthcare executive with about 25 years in hospitals, and manager of Treble Innovations, LLC. Co-inventor. The company looks to his hospital relationships as a way to reach health systems.
Brian D. Owens
Patent counsel and co-inventor
Patent and trademark attorney, co-inventor, and counsel of record on the Vividose registration. Provides intellectual-property counsel and engineering support for the technology.
Spencer Walker
Regulatory and distribution
Regulatory and compliance experience with medical devices, and relationships on the distribution side.
Logan Wood
Operations and materials
Operations. Principal investigator for materials research prepared in connection with an NSF SBIR Phase I proposal.