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American Battery Metals Corporation (ABML)

TipRanks, Penny Stock Hub, Proactive Investors, OTC Markets, Stockwatch, Real Investment Advice, Mining Journal, Investing.com, Wallet Investor, Simply Wall St, Big News Network, Mining Capital, Investors Hangout, Stockhouse, and Mining Stock Education reported previously on American Battery Metals Corporation (ABML), and today we highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

American Battery Metals Corporation is a premier battery metal exploration and development company. Its focus is on its Railroad Valley battery metal project in Nevada with the goal of becoming a major domestic supplier of battery metals to the growing electric vehicles (EV) and battery storage markets in the USA. American Battery Metals is headquartered in Incline Village, Nevada. The OTCQB-listed Company was formerly known as Oroplata Resources, Inc. It changed its corporate name to American Battery Metals Corporation in May of last year.

American Battery Metals, by way of its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration and development of lithium properties. The Company announced in July 2019 that results of its first geophysical exploration program demonstrate that a large and undefined reservoir exists on its property in Railroad Valley, Nevada. The geophysical Magnetotelluric (MT) Survey was conducted over a square mile area by Zonge International of Reno, Nevada. Zonge has wide-ranging experience in geophysical data acquisition and target identification on Lithium Exploration Projects.

The results of the geophysical survey indicate two large conductive zones located within the project area. "Conductive Zones" could indicate the presence of Lithium concentration in shallow clay deposits and in deeper Brine deposits. One of these conductive zones was previously drill tested to a depth of 3,000 feet.

Earlier this month, American Battery Metals announced plans for the immediate launch of its battery recycling plant in the State of Nevada. American Battery Metals Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Doug Cole, said, "Our scalable commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility will be fully operational in the second half of 2020. We will have a throughput of approximately 20,000 tons of feedstock per year."

Yesterday, American Battery Metals announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Ryan Melsert, was recently featured as an industry expert and keynote speaker at a workshop at the International Energy Agency in Paris, France. The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently called on greater than 60 clean energy technology experts representing international governments, academia, large corporations, and small businesses from around the world to join together at a workshop on "Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Innovation" to identify actionable pathways for new technologies to be developed and commercially deployed in a fast timescale that can address worldwide energy and climate challenges.

American Battery Metals Corporation (ABML), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0325, off by 4.4118%, on 8,189,347 volume with 138 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 2,616,684 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.02438/$0.370000004.

Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (CETY)

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Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (CETY) is a clean energy company concentrating on products in (i) the energy efficiency and (ii) the environmental sustainability markets. It designs, builds, as well as markets clean energy products centered on these two markets. The Company's main product is the Clean Cycle™ organic Rankine cycle heat recovery generator (HRG). It is offered by CETY's Clean Energy HRS, or Heat Recovery Solutions subsidiary.

CETY lists on the OTC Markets’ OTCQB. The Company has its head office in Costa Mesa, California. The Company previously went by the name Probe Manufacturing, Inc. It changed its name to Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. in November of 2015. Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. is a subsidiary of MGW Investments I Limited.

The Clean Cycle™ system captures waste heat from an array of sources. It turns it into electricity that can be used or sold back to the grid. The Company’s proven, reliable technology enables municipal, commercial, and industrial users with heat sources, such as from industrial processes or energy production, to increase their overall energy efficiency with no additional fuel, no pollutants, and little continuing maintenance. CETY's engineering and manufacturing resources support the Heat Recovery Solutions business and the Company's other technologies.

CETY’s corporate vision is to produce zero emission power from wasted heat and biomass, capture massive amounts of wasted heat, and convert it into low-cost clean energy. The Company’s initiatives started in 2016 with its acquisition of the GE Heat Recovery Solutions. GE spent more than $85 million to advance the frictionless magnetic bearing turbine product and technology and establish an international intellectual property (IP) and patent portfolio. Each Clean Cycle II Generator™, developed by GE, usually sells from $250,000 to $500,000 US Dollars, and generates roughly 1 GWH of zero emission electricity per year.

CETY sees more opportunities for its products in high rise and large commercial buildings in U.S. cities. In April of 2019, the Company installed its first system in a high-rise at 1540 Broadway in New York, New York.

Clean Energy Technologies, Inc. (CETY), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0358, off by 8.7898%, on 2,969,457 volume with 175 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 643,355 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.011099999/$0.150000005.

Cool Technologies, Inc. (WARM)

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Cool Technologies, Inc. is an innovator in efficient mobile electric power generation and power enhancement technologies for motors and generators. The Company is an intellectual property (IP) and product development enterprise commercializing patented thermal dispersion technology across numerous platforms. It formerly went by the name HPEV, Inc. It changed its name to Cool Technologies, Inc. in August of 2015. Established in February 2011, Cool Technologies has its corporate headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB.

Cool Technologies operates in three addressable markets. These are Mobile Generation, Motors & Generators, and Pumps. Mobile Generation (MG) removes the need for tow-behind generators. A Proprietary Gearing System draws power from the truck’s engine. MG reduces size and increases the efficiency of the generator. The MG system transforms any existing or new Class 3-8 truck into a mobile generator.

Motors & Generators removes heat more efficiently and increases power density. In addition, it reduces costs by up to 25 percent. Moreover, Pumps – Water and Wastewater - removes extremely high maintenance costs. It also doubles pump output.

Concerning the Company’s IP for Thermal Technology, 7 patents cover various types of heat removal from electric motors, generators, electronics, battery packs, controls, brakes, clutches, and more. All incorporate the inventive application of heat pipes. Cool Technologies’ thermal dispersion technology transfers heat through heat pipes with innovative capabilities. The heat pipes move heat in any direction (even against gravity) and necessitate little or no maintenance. The cooler a motor runs, the greater its potential output.

This month, Cool Technologies announced that its Board elected a new external member. The new member of the Board of Directors is Mr. Steven Wilburn. Mr. Wilburn brings considerable industry experience, a successful track record, as well as political clout to Cool Technologies. He is a chemical engineer with in-depth applications engineering experience and is an Executive with more than four decades of experience in alternative energy and water treatment.

Cool Technologies, Inc. (WARM), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0031, off by 17.1787%, on 13,337,517 volume with 70 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,727,490 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0031/$0.074.

Cresco Labs, Inc. (CRLBF)

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Cresco Labs, Inc. is one of the largest vertically integrated multi-state cannabis operators in the USA. The Company employs a consumer-packaged goods (CPG) approach to cannabis. The design of its family of brands is to meet the needs of all consumer segments. Its products sell in more than 700 dispensaries across the nation. Cresco Labs is a vertically integrated cannabis company. Cresco has 22 owned dispensaries. OTCQX-listed, Cresco Labs is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

The Company’s brands include some of the most recognized and trusted national brands. These include Cresco, Remedi, and Mindy’s, a line of edibles created by James Beard Award-winning chef Mindy Segal. Sunnyside is Cresco’s national dispensary brand. Sunnyside is a wellness-focused retailer designed to build trust, education, and convenience for existing and new cannabis consumers.

Cresco Labs controls its cultivation, manufacturing, extraction and packaging practices. The Company is involved at every point in the seed-to-sales process. Its facilities are powered by world-class agronomists, manufacturing experts and state-of-the-art agricultural equipment. Cresco packages, ships, and distributes its products throughout the nation. This includes locations owned and operated by its team.

Cresco announced in October 2019 that it received Early Approval Adult-Use Dispensing Organization Licenses for all five of its existing Illinois medical cannabis dispensaries. It received approval for adult-use cultivation on September 30, 2019. This makes it the only company approved for both adult-use cultivation and adult-use dispensary operations in Illinois.

Cresco Labs recognizes that the cannabis industry is set to become one of the top job creators in the nation. The Company has launched the industry’s first national comprehensive Social Equity and Educational Development (SEED) initiative. The design of it is to ensure that all members of society have the skills, knowledge, and opportunity to work in and own businesses in the cannabis industry.

This week, Cresco Labs announced that it closed on the agreement to sell its Yellow Springs, Ohio property to Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (IIP). The sale was for roughly $10.5 million. This includes funding for additional tenant improvements.

Simultaneous with the closing of the sale, Cresco will enter into a long-term, triple-net lease agreement with IIP. In addition, it will continue to operate the property as a licensed cannabis cultivation and processing facility. The property represents about 50,000 square feet of industrial space in total. This is Cresco Labs’ fourth completed sale-and-leaseback transaction, and its third with IIP.

Cresco Labs, Inc. (CRLBF), closed Thursday's trading session at $6.11, off by 0.163399%, on 177,122 volume with 661 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 414,791 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $4.46999979/$14.3900003.

Guyana Goldstrike, Inc. (GYNAF)

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Guyana Goldstrike, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of resource properties. The Company explores for gold deposits. It is developing the Marudi Gold Project, which has a 17-year mining license and is situated in Guyana, South America. The Company previously went by the name Swift Resources, Inc. It changed its name to Guyana Goldstrike, Inc. in March of 2017. Incorporated in 2006, Guyana Goldstrike is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It also has an office in Georgetown, Guyana. The Company lists on the OTC Markets.

Historic diamond drilling completed on the Marudi Gold Project by previous operators have delineated two zones of gold mineralization. These are Mazoa Hill and the Marudi North zones. A mineral resource estimate has been completed on the Mazoa Hill Zone. Data analyzed suggests the zone is open to mineralization in manifold directions and at depth.

Guyana Goldstrike, via its recent exploration program, has discovered a third mineralized zone, named Toucan Ridge. It is positioned roughly 1000 meters to the northeast of the Mazoa Hill Zone. In addition to the known gold zones and the new Toucan Ridge zone, Guyana Goldstrike has greater than 45 sq. kms of underexplored land. The Company’s belief is that the greater land position has first-rate upside potential for the discovery of new mineralized zones via the development of earlier and newly identified mineralized bedrock targets on the Project.

This week, Guyana Goldstrike announced that it signed a definitive gold forward purchase agreement, dated January 24, 2020, with an arms-length investor for proceeds of up to US$9,000,000, for the Marudi Gold Project. With this Agreement, the Investor will make an initial payment of US$2,000,000 on or before April 14, 2020. Subsequently, a second payment of US$7,000,000 will be advanced within 30 days of a royalty interest in the Project in favour of the Investor having been registered. The proceeds will enable Guyana Goldstrike to finalize its purchase of the Project and further explore and develop the resource potential of the Property.

Guyana Goldstrike, Inc. (GYNAF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.05, off by 13.7931%, on 114,700 volume with 14 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 22,059 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.024199999/$0.163900002.

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. (SGSVF)

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Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. is an emerging precious metals company listed on the OTC Markets’ OTCQX. It has district scale, advanced, high grade gold assets in one of the world’s newest, politically stable mining jurisdictions - Nunavut, Canada. The Company has its 100 percent owned Back River Gold Project. In addition, it owns a significant silver royalty on Glencore’s Hackett River Project. Sabina Gold & Silver is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Company released a Feasibility Study (FS) on its Back River Gold Project. The FS presents a project designed on a fit-for purpose basis, with the potential to produce roughly 200,000 ounces a year for approximately 11 years with a quick payback of 2.9 years.

On December 19, 2017, the Project received its final Project Certificate. On November 14, 2018, it received its Type A Water License. The Project is now in receipt of all major authorizations for construction and operations. Furthermore, the silver royalty on Hackett River’s silver production consists of 22.5 percent of the first 190 million ounces produced and 12.5 percent of all silver produced afterwards.

Earlier this month, Sabina Gold & Silver announced plans for the upcoming 2020 spring exploration program at its 100 percent owned Back River Gold Project in Nunavut.

Mr. Bruce McLeod, President & Chief Executive Officer of Sabina Gold & Silver, said, “We are pleased to be fully funded for the planned 2020 Winter exploration program with our recently completed flow-through financing. The drill program will target a 600m down plunge portion of the Umwelt underground where high grade Au ounces are projected along a favourable secondary structural setting between the currently defined high grade Vault zone and the limits of the planned Umwelt open pit.

Mr. McLeod further stated, “The high grade corridor represents an exciting opportunity to optimize the underground mine plan with additional high grade ounces that could positively impact the gold production profile of the Back River Gold Project. Drilling is expected to start in early March of 2020.”

Additional exploration work for this year will include continued exploration modelling of the Nuvuyak discovery, Llama Extension zone, as well as an extensive project wide target pipeline.

Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. (SGSVF), closed Thursday's trading session at $1.34, off by 2.9689%, on 122,910 volume with 148 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 157,520 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.730000019/$1.72459995.

Vibe Bioscience Ltd. (VBSCF)

OTC Markets, Market Wire News, GuruFocus, Wallet Investor, Morningstar, Dividend.com, TradingView, Ceo.ca, Investors Hangout, News Break, Stockhouse, Seeking Alpha, Stockwatch, and Nasdaq reported earlier on Vibe Bioscience Ltd. (VBSCF), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Vibe Bioscience Ltd. engages in the cultivation, production, retail, and also distribution of cannabis for recreation and medicinal use in California, Canada, and around the world. The Company operates dispensaries in the State of California. In addition, it sells its products by way of online. Vibe Bioscience has its corporate office in Calgary, Alberta. Its U.S. head office is in Sacramento, California. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets.

In essence, Vibe Bioscience is a vertically integrated cannabis business. The Company’s mission is to become a dominant California cannabis retailer and multi-state operator. Vibe Bioscience delivers premier retail experiences with its Vibe by California brand and ethos, first-class cultivation product, and high-efficiency delivery and distribution.

The Company has a management team experienced at branding and scaling businesses. Its management team brings expertise in retail, cannabis cultivation, and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to support its United States expansion through accretive acquisitions and organic growth. Vibe Biosciences’ intention is to consolidate existing dispensaries and develop new retail opportunities.

Vibe’s California dispensaries are in Stockton and Sacramento. A Redding location will open soon. Vibe sells, flowers, concentrates, cartridges, edibles, drinks, topicals, pre-rolls, tinctures and gear. The Company delivers as well. Its dispensaries are open 9AM – 9PM, 7 days a week.

Brands that Vibe carries include Absolute Xtracts, Heavy Hitters, Hype Cannabis, Kushy Punch, Moxie, Select, Tyson Ranch, Alien Labs, Raw Garden, NUG, Papa & Barkley, Seven Leaves, Floracal, and High Garden. In addition, brands carried include KingPen, Viola, Wyld, PAX, Sublime, Friendly Farms, ASCND, Beezle, Cookies, Heavenly Sweet, Korova, Kiva, as well as many more.

Furthermore, Vibe sells clones occasionally. Customers can check with the Company’s online menu located at Weedmaps.com for up-to-date items. Vibe offers online ordering.

At the end of December 2019, Vibe Bioscience announced that it completed its acquisition of all of the membership interests in the outstanding securities of EVR Managers, LLC (the Redding Acquisition), which holds a license for an adult-use cannabis retail operation located in Redding, California. The Redding Acquisition was earlier announced on April 3 and May 30, 2019; the transaction closed on December 30, 2019.

Vibe Bioscience Ltd. (VBSCF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0639, up 2.0767%, on 400 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 950 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0445/$0.529999971.

Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. (PGTK)

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Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. is the owner of the ENVI-Marine™ and ENVI-Clean (TME) Exhaust Gas Scrubbing Systems. The Company has developed a portfolio of patented, emission control technologies. These remove pollutants from marine engine, power plant and waste incinerator exhaust streams to meet increasingly stringent environmental standards. Its solutions utilize its patented “Turbo Head Technology™”. Established in 2011, Pacific Green Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California.

The “Turbo Head Technology™” enables a more thorough mixing of exhaust gases and a chosen reagent solution, which delivers more effective contaminant removal in a system that is smaller and more efficient to build and operate. Pacific Green Technologies uses a global network of experts in the field of emissions control, with the technology proving to be very effective and cost efficient.

Moreover, the Company created a strategic joint venture (JV) with PowerChina SPEM, a unit of China's largest engineering, procurement, and construction firm. This JV is to support the manufacture, design, and installation of its solutions on a worldwide scale, while also serving as an in-country sales agent for commercial opportunities in mainland China. In August 2017, Pacific Green Technologies announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PowerChina SPEM Co. Limited to incorporate a new company whereby Pacific Green Technologies own 50.1 percent and PowerChina SPEM 49.9 percent.

ENVI-Marine™ is a new generation of scrubbing technology. It has a simple patented design, no moving parts or media, and industry leading efficiency. In addition, the Company’s ENVI-Clean (TME) captures sulphur at the source before it pollutes the atmosphere.

In December 2018, Pacific Green Technologies announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pacific Green Marine Technologies, Inc. (PGMT), executed an agreement to manufacture its System for 52 vessels owned or managed by Scorpio Tankers, Inc. (STNG). The Agreements provide for 42 vessels in 2019 and 10 vessels in 2020.

This past February, Pacific Green Technologies announced the appointment of Mr. Richard Oliver as Chief Financial Officer, a new position at Pacific Green, effective May 24, 2019. Before the start of Mr. Oliver’s employment, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Neil Carmichael, has served as Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer, which roles will be assumed by Mr. Oliver. He is a finance professional with 33 years’ of financial accounting, auditing and management experience in manufacturing, fabrication and inventory management.

Pacific Green Technologies, Inc. (PGTK), closed Thursday's trading session at $3.30, up 31.4741%, on 4,125 volume with 8 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 2,540 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.95000004/$4.25.

Uniroyal Global Engineered Products, Inc. (UNIR)

NetworkNewsWire, StockPulse, Zacks, Simply Wall St, Infront Analytics, Wallet Investor, Stockhouse, Proactive Investors, Capital Network, Proactive Investors, Market Screener, and OTC Markets reported previously on Uniroyal Global Engineered Products, Inc. (UNIR), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Uniroyal Global Engineered Products, Inc. (UNIR) is a worldwide provider of vinyl coated fabrics products that have diverse high performance characteristics and capabilities. These products are manufactured by the Company’s subsidiaries Uniroyal Engineered Products, LLC and Uniroyal Global Limited. UNIR is a foremost manufacturer of vinyl-coated fabrics, which are durable, stain resistant, cost-effective alternatives to leather, cloth and other synthetic fabric coverings. OTCQB-listed, UNIR is headquartered in Sarasota, Florida.

The Company’s coated fabrics products are frequently used in applications that require rigorous performance characteristics. These include automotive and non-automotive transportation, certain indoor/outdoor furniture, commercial and hospitality seating, healthcare facilities and athletic equipment. UNIR’s main brands names include Naugahyde®, BeautyGard®, Flameblocker™, Spirit Millennium®, Ambla®, Amblon®, Velbex®, Cirroflex®, Plastolene® and Vynide®.

UNIR’s products for the automotive industry are chiefly used in seating, door panels, head and arm rests, security shades and trim components, including instrument panels, door casings, seating, gear lever and steering column gaiters, headliners and load space covers. Moreover, non-automotive applications include outdoor seating for utility and sports vehicles, and sheeting used in medical, nuclear protection, personal protection, moisture barriers, pram and nursery, movie screen and decorative surface applications.

In 2018, UNIR’s revenue was derived 66.2 percent from the automotive industry. Roughly 33.8 percent was derived from the recreational, industrial, indoor and outdoor furnishings, hospitality and healthcare markets.

UNIR has opened a new Detroit, Michigan area office dedicated to the North American automotive market. This new office features a design studio along with a sales team committed to serving existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers and new automotive clients. The office is in Farmington Hills. It joins other UNIR offices in Stoughton, Wisconsin; Sarasota, Florida; Earby, Lancashire, UK; and Shanghai, China.

Recently, UNIR reported its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2019. Net Sales for the three months ended March 31, 2019 decreased $1,035,827 or 3.9 percent to $25,393,860 from $26,429,687 recorded in the year prior. Excluding the negative currency effect of the exchange rates, Total Revenue would have only decreased by about $33,000 or 0.1 percent.

Operating Income for the three months ended March 31, 2019 was $880,397, in comparison to $898,200 in the prior year. This represents a decline of $17,803 or 2.0 percent. The main reasons for the drop were lower sales and a contraction in Gross Profit margins to 17.0 percent this year in comparison to 17.5 percent in the prior year.

Uniroyal Global Engineered Products, Inc. (UNIR), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.80, up 45.4545%, on 500 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 540 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.550000011/$1.50.

WEED, Inc. (BUDZ)

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WEED, Inc. is a multi-national, multi-faceted, vertically-integrated world class cannabis organization. The Company’s commitment is to its worldwide goals and outreach across the complete spectrum of the cannabis industry to find treatments, therapies and medical cures using the Cannabaceae plant family. WEED has established WEED Israel (Cannabis) Ltd. as a wholly-owned subsidiary of WEED, Inc. (USA). OTCQB-listed, WEED has its head office in Tucson, Arizona.

WEED is structured as a holding company. It does business by way of its divisions, wholly-owned subsidiaries, and strategically placed collaborative partners to attain and promote its worldwide brand. WEED does not grow, harvest, produce, or sell any substance in violation of US Federal law under The Federal Controlled Substances Act. Furthermore, WEED meets all standards of international law for WEED, Inc. and its subsidiaries in foreign locales.

WEED has purchased a 4-acre property in La Veta, Colorado. This is where its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sangre AgroTech, is engaged in the previously announced 5-year, $15-plus million Cannabis Genomic Study. In association with the La Veta property, WEED received unanimous approval of the La Veta Town Council for a Commercial Redevelopment Permit to commence planned renovations and construction of the Bioscience Research Center for the operations of WEED’s subsidiary, Sangre AgroTech, to convert the existing buildings into laboratory facilities required for Sangre to conduct its research, along with additional security and ground buildout.

Sangre AT, LLC, d/b/a Sangre AgroTech, has started a five-year Cannabis Genomic Study to complete a genetic blueprint of the Cannabis plant genus, through creating a global genomic classification of the entire plant. Through targeting cannabis-derived molecules, which stimulate the endocannabinoid system, Sangre AgroTech’s research team plans to develop scientifically-valid and evidence-based cannabis strains for the production of disease-specific medicines. The aim of the research is to identify, collect, patent, and archive a collection of highly-active medicinal strains.

This past December WEED announced that its first of numerous cultivar DNA sequencing tests have been perfected and finalized. The Company's team of scientists is now going through the analytics evaluation. Reports are forthcoming.

Mr. Glenn E Martin, WEED’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “During this time our team designed, tested, and refined standard operating procedures for efficient DNA isolation and sequencing of Cannabis genomes. Extensive bioinformatics analysis of repeatable and variable regions has been performed on newly-generated DNA sequencing data of 26 landrace cultivars and several publicly available genomes.''

WEED, Inc. (BUDZ), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.41775, up 32.1994%, on 527,053 volume with 229 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 95,772 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.289999991/$1.70000004.

Sutter Gold Mining, Inc. (SGMNF)

Penny Stock Hub, Stockhouse, Streetwise Reports, InvestorsHub, 4-Traders, MarketWatch, Investors Hangout, Cardinal Weekly, TradingView and The Northern Miner reported on Sutter Gold Mining, Inc. (SGMNF), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Sutter Gold Mining, Inc. engages in the exploration of mineral properties. The Company primarily explores for gold deposits. Sutter currently controls a considerable land position of the Mother Lode in California. The Company has advanced work and exploration programs completed on surrounding land holdings. Sutter Gold Mining has its management office in Lakewood, Colorado. It has its mine office in Sutter Creek, California. The Company lists on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB.

Sutter Gold Mining has two projects. One is the Lincoln Project situated in Amador County, on the California Mother Lode Gold Belt. The other is the Santa Teresa Project situated in the Northern Baja area of Mexico.

Regarding Mexico and the Santa Teresa Concession, the Company entered into an exclusive option agreement with The Alamo Group in October of 2006 to acquire a 100 percent interest in the Santa Teresa Mineral Concession. Santa Teresa is in the historic El Alamo gold mining district, southeast of Ensenada. The property is positioned contiguous to and on strike with the past-producing Princessa Mine.

Sutter Gold released in 2009 the assay results from the initial 32-hole Phase 1 program. The results included intercepts as high as 21.10 grams per ton or 0.62 ounces of gold per ton across 1.35 meters and 16.68 g/t of gold across 3.1 meters. These results continued to reveal the potential of this underexplored district. In addition, the results confirmed manifold high-grade veins up to 260 meters along strike from the historic Princessa Gold Mine and that all known structures remain open in all directions.

Sutter Gold Mining also holds the rights to the geologically similar, high-grade El Alamo district of northern Baja in Mexico. This is where historic mining to the water table produced mined grades of 30 to 60 g/t gold.

Regarding the Sutter Gold Project, California, the Lincoln and Comet properties are located on a 551-acre block of mining claims and surface rights 45 miles east southeast of Sacramento, California, in the central part of the 121-mile-long Mother Lode gold belt.

Sutter Gold Mining, Inc. (SGMNF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0009, up 50.00%, on 22,310 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 15,589 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000000999/$0.013299999.

Blow & Drive Interlock Corp. (BDIC)

MarketWatch, YCharts, TradingView, Equities.com, and News to Watch reported on Blow & Drive Interlock Corp. (BDIC), and we report on the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Blow & Drive Interlock Corp. provides automotive and criminal offender monitoring security products. The Company has its state-of-the-art ignition interlock device, the BDI-747. The device is approved and available in eight states for evidentiary and preliminary screening use. In essence, Blow & Drive Interlock is an offender monitoring and police-grade alcohol detection device manufacturing and offender monitoring business.  Blow & Drive Interlock is based in Los Angeles, California. 

Interlocks are required for use by DUI or DWI (Driving Under The Influence or Driving While Intoxicated) offenders. This is as part of their mandatory court or motor vehicle department program. The Company’s aim  is to have the BDI-747 available to customers across the U.S.

In addition, Blow & Drive Interlock continues to do research and development (R&D) on the next stage of offender monitoring. The Company believes this will be Smartphone enabled monitoring applications, which could reduce or eliminate  the requirement for ankle bracelets or hand-held breathalyzers.  

The BDI-747 is an ignition interlock device, breath-alcohol testing device about the size of a Smartphone. The ignition interlock device requires the driver to exhale into the device prior to starting the vehicle. The device will prevent the vehicle from starting if the driver's blood-alcohol content exceeds a predetermined set level. 

The BDI-747 can record BAC levels. It provides 2-way communication, GPS location technology, and image technology. Moreover,  the BDI-747 is wireless.

One of Blow & Drive Interlock’s new products is its Home Alcohol Monitoring Device. This handheld device has a camera and GPS/WIFI & live streaming. It enables those in Judicial and Probation departments to monitor offenders who are required to stay sober from alcohol while on probation.

The Company also has its 4G LTE Live-Streaming Video Body Worn Camera for Law Enforcement. With the 4G LTE Live-Streaming Video Body Worn Camera, Law Enforcement Personnel on the scene can transmit a live feed from their body cameras to headquarters. This allows police decision makers’ access to real time information regarding what each officer is seeing.

The body camera weighs roughly 210g. It provides up to 32 GB of memory and 5-megapixel recording.

In February, Blow & Drive Interlock introduced BADGECAM. This is a body worn camera akin to the models law enforcement officers use but to protect anyone at anytime. The BADGECAM can be heavily incorporated by Human Resources (HR) departments, security personnel, counter staff, or any other jobs that come with a potential confrontation.

The intention of BADGECAM is to become a vital preventative measure against workplace violence, discrimination, or personal/sexual harassment. With BADGECAM, one can immediately begin recording up to 6 hours of high quality video and audio with a single pull.

The design of BADGECAM is to be affixed to any article of clothing. Blow & Drive Interlock plans to launch the BADGECAM between Q2 and Q3 of 2018.

Blow & Drive Interlock Corp. (BDIC), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.04881, up 56.5678%, on 20,500 volume with 3 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 4,080 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.019999999/$0.100000001.

Bravo Multinational,  Inc.  (BRVO)

RedChip, InvestorsHub, and MarketWatch reported on Bravo Multinational,  Inc. (BRVO), and we highlight the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter. 

Bravo Multinational,  Inc. is a diversified Company listed on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB. Its primary focus is the development and expansion of the Casino Gaming Equipment holdings and business-related activities in Central and South America (specifically Nicaragua, El Salvador, and San Andres, Columbia). The Company’s multi-divisional growth strategy is driven via mergers, acquisitions, as well as new ventures. 

The Company previously went by the name Goldland Holdings Co. It changed its corporate name to Bravo Multinational, Inc. in April 2016. Bravo Multinational has its head office in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.   

At present, Bravo Multinational has divisions in Mining Properties and Casino Equipment. The Company, as it develops, will be adding divisions in International Business Consulting, Wholesale and Manufacturing, and Real Estate Acquisitions. In addition, Bravo holds gold/silver mining properties and claims in North America. 

Pertaining to Mining Assets, this involves War Eagle Mines, Silver City, Idaho. Bravo executed a lease agreement with Silver Falcon Mining. This agreement provides for a yearly lease payment of $1,000,000 payable in monthly installments of $83,333 per month, and a royalty equal to 15 percent of the proceeds of any ore mined from Bravo Multinational property on War Eagle Mountain. 

The Company’s Mining Assets (Current Claims) include the Poorman Lode Claim – Ownership Interest (OI) 29.167 percent; the London Lode Claim – OI 29.167 percent; the North Empire Lodge Claim - OI 29.167 percent; and the Illinois Central Lode Claim - OI 29.167 percent. 

Current Claims also include the South Poorman Lode Claim – OI 29.167 percent; the Jackson Lode Claim - 29.167 percent; and the Oso Lode Claim - 29.167 percent. 

Concerning Casino Gaming,  Bravo completed an acquisition transaction on May 6, 2016 with Centro de Entretenimiento y Diversion Mombacho S.A., based in Managua, Nicaragua.  Bravo received its first income from this business venture on June 1, 2016. Additional income payments will be received on the first of each month.   

Regarding this transaction, the Company is purchasing, in total, 500 slot and video poker gaming machines. All machines have been fully nationalized and are to be operated under a long-term (year 2033) nationwide national license.   

On August 16, 2017, Bravo completed an asset purchase for 300 slot and video poker machines. This provided an immediate new revenue stream for the Company. 

The value of the contract is $3,618,000. The Company expects a roughly 30 percent annual return on the assets in Latin America, based on historical income data in comparable locations.  

Bravo Multinational announced in August of 2017 its current review of a potential new “Casino Gaming” operation venture. Moreover, the Company announced its review of diversified business opportunities in the legalized marijuana (MJ) sector in Canada. 

The Company commenced a comprehensive review of a large pending commercial “Marijuana Grow” operation with related real estate holdings for a possible joint venture (JV) investment, in Central Ontario, Canada. The licensing process for this venture is currently pending Health Canada’s government approvals.  

Bravo Multinational,  Inc. (BRVO), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.29, up 43.7066%, on 1,328 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 14,619 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.143000006/$0.800000011.

Innovative Designs, Inc. (IVDN)

Greenbackers, Pennybuster, and PennyStocks24 reported earlier on Innovative Designs, Inc. (IVDN), and today we report on the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Innovative Designs, Inc. manufactures Insultex® House Wrap, the Arctic Armor® Line, hunting apparel, swimwear, wind shirts, jackets, and the multi-function "All in One" under the "IDI Gear" label featuring Insultex®. All of its products contain Insultex®. The Company’s products deliver premier warmth and comfort with insulating, windproof, as well as waterproof protection. Insultex® is the lightest and thinnest thermal insulation. Established in 2002, Innovative Designs is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Since its establishment, Innovative Designs has centered its efforts on completing the development, design, and prototypes of its products, and obtaining retail stores or sales agents to offer and sell its products. The Company primarily sells its products via agencies, distributors, independent sales agents, retailers, and a Website in the United States and Canada.

Additionally, the Company has concentrated its efforts on developing its website to sell more of its products, and on establishing distribution channels for its House Wrap® product.

Arctic Armor™ by IDI Gear is a 100 percent waterproof and windproof breathable nylon shell with Insultex® Thermal Insulation. The Company offers the Arctic Armor™ Suit. Each Arctic Armor™ suit uses three layers of its exclusive thermal insulator Insultex®. Moreover, Innovative Designs offers the Arctic Armor™ Ice Fishing Suit. The Company can also supply national home builders with its Insultex® House Wrap.

An example of Innovative Designs’ clothing products is its “Arctic Armor Extreme Cold Base Layer Shirt”. This shirt is 68.5 percent Thermo Cool Polyester and 31.5 percent Bamboo Charcoal. It is highly breathable and the wicking yarn keeps one comfortable and dry. It is ion-treated to promote oxygen uptake. It is also UV stable, and anti-static. The shirt also has anti-microbial technology to control odor.

Insultex® is the newest thermal insulation on the market. The material can be used in outerwear, gloves, hats, pants, tents, sleeping bags, coolers, boots, swimsuits, blankets, comforters, and other items.

Insultex® incorporates countless micro air cells. These individual pockets trap air and do not allow it to escape. This is the key to keeping people warm. Insultex® directly reflects the body’s radiant heat back to the body. Insultex® is windproof, waterproof, and buoyant.

This past June, Innovative Designs announced that it entered into a sales agreement with New Thinking Fashion USA, Inc. New Thinking Fashion USA specializes in the sale of finished fabrics to a broad assortment of apparel manufacturers. It will present Insultex™ to several of their present clients. New Thinking Fashion USA is a multilevel selling organization in the heart of the garment district on West 38th Street, New York, New York.

Also in June, Innovative Designs, in an attempt to grow its worldwide business, entered into a 2 year agreement with Epoch Consultants LLC, who has been granted exclusive rights in India. Epoch Consultants will be conducting marketing of Insultex™ to apparel manufacturers and the Indian military.

Innovative Designs, Inc. (IVDN), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.24, up 32.5967%, on 500 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 6,020 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0271/$0.50.

The QualityStocks Company Corner

InsuraGuest Inc.

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight InsuraGuest Inc..

The vacation rental market is booming as more and more travelers opt for the bespoke benefits that come with a hotel alternative. With the boom, however, come concerns about unexpected vacation problems – both minor and major. Property owners and guests need worry no more, for InsuraGuest Inc.is providing a suite of insurance products tailored to the vacation-rental industry.

InsuraGuest Inc. is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) company utilizing its proprietary flagship InsurTech software platform to provide specialized insurance products to end users in the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets. The company’s first focus is on the B2B hotels and vacation rentals sectors, where its API integrates with the clients’ property management systems to offer guests a specialized guest protection policy. The platform and policy combination “InsurTech” product helps transfer the exposure to liability away from the client/property while guests benefit from potential accident and loss coverage during their stay.

InsuraGuest’s platform is currently capable of integrating with approximately 70 different hotel and vacation rental property management systems, giving it access to roughly 40,000 properties worldwide.

The company continues to pursue expansion opportunities and recently signed a Letter of Intent with a master general agent in the United Kingdom and Europe to distribute its platform and products to hotel and vacation rental markets in those regions, as well as plans to expand to Asia in 2020.

Protecting Guests, Enhancing Customer Experience

InsuraGuest is the first line of defense for both the property and the guest.

InsuraGuest is purchased by the hotel or vacation rental “property,” which offers the policy to each registered guest and its occupants for an additional fee. The specialized policy affords coverage for theft of personal property while in the hotel, as well as accidental medical expense and accidental death and dismemberment, up to the policy limits of $2,500 to $50,000.

Market Opportunity

The U.S. hotel industry generated more than $218 billion in annual revenues in 2018, an increase of $10 billion from the previous year, according to STR’s 2019 HOST Almanac. The European market is more than double the size of the U.S. market. According to Oxford Economics, there were 6.4 billion nights stayed in the world, with 2.6 billion hotel nights in Asia, 2.8 billion nights stayed in Europe, and 1.1 billion nights in the United States. Additionally, $100 billion was spent on vacation rentals in the United State alone, where there are approximately 4.5 million second homes are being managed by a third-party rental company.

With distribution in Europe and the United States, InsuraGuest’s demographics combined will total 3.9 billion nights stayed, and will more than double its vacation rental opportunities.

Within this burgeoning, high-demand industry is risk of liability to guest injury. For example, gym injuries are among the top five most common hotel accidents. Without proper hedges in place, the property may be liable in a personal injury claim or lawsuit.

Though the potential for accidents, slip and falls and mishaps can be widespread, it can be covered under the InsuraGuest Specialized Guest Protection Policy to provide guests a worry-free and enjoyable stay that potentially increases loyalty for the property.

Business Highlights

  • Targeting hotels and vacation rentals, a multi-billion-dollar industry
  • Providing the first line of defense in case of accident, loss or death
  • Expanding distribution reach with footing in European hotel and vacation rental markets
  • Expansion into Asia by 2020

Executive Team

Douglas Anderson, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Douglas Anderson has been a businessman in the real estate industry for nearly 30 years. His business expertise includes master planning and development implementation for larger-scale resorts, business parks and commercial developments across the USA and two provinces in Canada. His business endeavors include the founding of the 7th larger private equity fund in America focusing on multifamily and senior care (ROC Fund/Bridge IPG Fund). He serves as chairman/founder of a golf and winter sports ski holding company with operations in four major east coast markets and British Columbia, Canada.

Anderson earned a BS undergraduate degree in Consumer Studies with an emphasis in Architecture as an undergraduate at the University of Utah. He subsequently earned his Master’s in Business Administration. He also attended a three-year OPM Program a postgraduate business education at Harvard Business School in Boston. Anderson is an avid skier and outdoor enthusiast.

Charles James Cayias, President & Director
Charles James Cayias is also the president and owner of Charles James Cayias Insurance Inc. He is a third-generation insurance professional whose creativity and artistic vision have enabled him to establish a full-service agency combined with the personal service each client deserves. His outstanding people skills, honesty, integrity and fairness are evident by his loyal and growing clientele, the majority of which are referrals who become long-time customers and friends.

Cayias began his insurance career in the early 1970s and has been licensed since 1977. He is licensed in all 50 states and specializes in niche programs. He has extensive expertise in all aspects of the insurance industry including commercial insurance, employee benefits, workers’ compensation, professional liability, risk management and bonding.

Christopher J. Panos Vice President & Director
Christopher J. Panos is a highly competitive sales professional with over 15 years of territory manager sales experience and an award-winning record of achievements. He is exceptionally well organized with a proven work history that demonstrates self-discipline, superb communication skills, and the initiative to achieve both personal and corporate goals. Panos is successful in building relationships with a large network of industry professionals in order to grow and maintain new and existing business, exceed new sales objectives and provide in-depth product training to authorized dealers and sales personnel.

Alexander Walker III ESQ, Corporate Counsel & Director
Alexander Walker III ESQ has served as director of the company since September of 2018. He also has served as counsel to the company since July of 2018. Walker is an attorney and has been a member of the Utah Bar Association since 1987 and a member of the Nevada State Bar since 2003. His practice has involved general business litigation, in both federal and state courts, and transactional work, including securities offerings and registration, corporate formation and periodic reporting compliance. Walker has provided legal services to emerging businesses throughout his carrier and at times has served as an officer and board member as well as legal counsel public companies. His duties as legal counsel for a public company engaged in the business of ownership and operation of coal-producing properties in the western United States included oversight of corporate-related legal matters including securities reporting, corporate compliance, federal and state mining regulation, and employment law oversight. He also has served as the chair of the Mining Committee of the Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section of the Utah State Bar, a member of the board of directors of the South East Utah Energy Producers Association, the co-chair of the board of the Western Energy Training Center, a board member of the Utah Supreme Court Committee to Review the ABA Recommendations Regarding the Office of Professional Conduct, and a board member of the University of Utah Crimson Club.

Roger Bloss, Corporate Consultant & Board Advisor
Roger Bloss joined InsuraGuest in August of 2019 to advise the company and its board on hotel transactions, contributing his knowledge from more than 40 years in the hospitality industry. Bloss previously served in executive positions with several major hotel franchise companies and in 1996 founded Vantage Hospitality Group hotel brands. Under his leadership, Vantage became a Top 10 global hotel company and made the Inc. 500/5000 list of Americas’ fastest-growing private companies for eight straight years. Bloss was named Lodging Magazine’s “Innovator of the Year” in 2006 and 2010, and in 2009 earned a spot on HSMAI’s “Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales and Marketing.” Bloss joined Red Lion Hotels Corporation (RLHC) in September 2016 in conjunction with the acquisition of Vantage.


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MCTC Holdings Inc. (OTC: MCTC)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight MCTC Holdings Inc. (MCTC).

MCTC Holdings Inc. (OTC: MCTC) was featured today in a publication from CBDWire, examining how the PGA Merchandise Show is the golf industry’s leading trade-only event, and it gives PGA professionals and the golf industry a platform to meet and discover the latest trends in golf equipment, technology, apparel, and accessories. This year’s show started on January 26, and it was graced by a number of CBD companies offering a variety of interesting products.

MCTC Holdings Inc. (OTC: MCTC) is an innovator in the field of cannabinoid nanoparticles and infusion technologies with several important cannabinoid patents filed and an active research and development program underway. The company was reorganized during June of 2019 and announced its intent to enter the cannabis sector and change its corporate identity to Cannabis Global Inc. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

With the hemp and cannabis industries rapidly expanding in terms of market size, acceptance and number of market participants, MCTC plans to concentrate its efforts on the middle portions of the hemp and cannabis value chain. The company is actively pursuing R&D programs and productization of advanced cannabinoid delivery systems, based on solid polymeric nanoparticles and fibers. These technologies hold the promise to revolutionize the science of cannabinoid bio-enhancement for use in foods, beverages, consumer products and in transdermal applications. Because of nanoparticles’ ability to be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, nanotechnology has been utilized in the food and drug industry for some time and has the potential for tremendous growth in the cannabis industry (http://nnw.fm/v6RQ6).

Cutting-Edge Technology

MCTC is at the cutting-edge of the cannabis industry’s trends with its emphasis on polymeric nanotechnology. This is not to be confused with the more basic oil-in-water nano-emulsions currently marketed to the food and beverage industry. The company’s polymer-based particles offer significant loading of active ingredients and unmatched flexibility and customization, allowing for myriad combinations of cannabinoids with unique performance characteristics. MCTC believes polymeric nanotechnology particles will be a critical technology area for the cannabinoid formulation marketplace.

The company continues to build its R&D program, specifically researching the development of improving methods to make cannabinoids available to living systems. Instrumental in the research program is the development of novel polymeric nanoparticles and nanofibers. These have the potential to elevate the potential of cannabinoid products in the following ways (http://nnw.fm/cK3Bl):

  • Significantly improving bioavailability
  • Allowing for ultra-high loading rates
  • Enhancing customization of cannabinoid combinations
  • Improved dosing precision
  • Providing more control in release parameters

MCTC leadership understands the importance of developing intellectual property (IP) in the ever-evolving cannabis industry. A recent Forbes article described IP as “critical for creating true differentiation between companies and their product and service offerings” (http://nnw.fm/57Fjh). Recognizing the importance of IP, MCTC has been consistent in its application for patents to protect its innovative nanotechnology applications.

Patents

MCTC has now filed four patents on its cannabinoid delivery technology systems:

  • The company first collaborated with Cannabis Nanosciences Inc. on technologies. This became the basis for its first patent filing on an innovative edible dissolvable film for cannabinoid ingestion.
  • Its second patent filing for cannabinoid nanoparticles combined TPGS, a water-soluble form of vitamin E.
  • Its third patent filing involved a unique 4th dimension, 3D printed cannabinoid delivery system for beverages.
  • Its fourth patent, considered its most significant, broadly covers many aspects of nanoparticles and nano fibers comprising one or more cannabinoids disposed at least partially within a water-soluble medium.

Collaborations

MCTC collaborated with Marijuana Company Inc. (OTCQB: MCOA) subsidiary hempSmart Inc., under a hemp extract and CBD product supply agreement wherein hempSmart will utilize its extensive network of marketing partners to market MCTC’s powered drink mixes and other CBD edibles online. These products are designed for the dry beverage and edibles sector and will be supplied by MCTC. They incorporate the company’s patent-pending cannabinoid infusion technologies and will be trademarked as Hemp You Can Feel (TM) and Gummies You Can Feel (TM).

Leadership

MCTC CEO and chairman Arman Tabatabaei boasts 15 years of management and operations experience and is considered an expert at data collection and analysis relative to resource management, risk forecasting, and profit and loss management. He has acted as a consultant with Cannabis Strategic Ventures (OTCQB: NUGS) and played an instrumental role in improving operations at Sugarmade Inc. (OTCQB: SGMD) relative to the company’s hydroponic growth supplies initiatives.

MCTC founder and director Robert Hymers also brings a seasoned perspective, having had significant experiences in the cannabis industry and as a financial executive and consultant. He is the managing partner of Pinnacle Tax Services in Los Angeles and was previously CFO and director of Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA). He is currently a member of the Strategic Advisory Board at Massroots Inc. and acts as a consultant to both Cannabis Strategic Ventures Inc. and Sugarmade Inc. Hymers’ background in tax accounting, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance has immense value in his current position at MCTC Holdings.

MCTC Holdings Inc. (MCTC), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.301, off by 5.9375%, on 4,352 volume with 6 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 16,364 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.090000003/$3.00.

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Sigma Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: SGLB)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB).

Sigma Labs (NASDAQ: SGLB), a leading developer of quality assurance software for the commercial 3D printing industry, today announced that it has been invited to present at the Imperial Capital Advanced Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/foQ4D.

Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB) is the only provider of in-process quality-assurance software to the commercial 3D printing metal industry that enables operators of machines making 3D metal parts to offset emerging quality problems, sustain part quality, and avoid rejects. Sigma’s software is the singular solution that enables both real-time, in-process detection of quality control manufacturing irregularities for critical metal parts and then provides the operator the actionable information needed to adjust and mitigate the developing anomaly. Sigma Labs’ software represents a paradigm shift in the quality control process for the manufacture of 3D printed metal components. The nascent 3D metal printing industry is on the verge of radically altering the speed and technical complexity of manufactured parts. Further, it makes possible just-in-time availability of critical components – all at reduced cost, time, waste and weight. 3D printing, heralded as the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing, will only truly surpass traditional techniques when the additive manufacturing industry moves from “post process” quality control to “in process” quality assurance.

For the industry to move from prototype manufacturing of critical components to economically viable commercial production, the 3D metal printing industry must find ways to dramatically increase production speed and quality yields, and to dramatically decrease the excessive cost of quality control. To achieve these prerequisites and move 3D metal printing into the mainstream, parts must be inspected and certified during the manufacturing process rather than after. Parts in the production process that are developing signs of quality control problems must be identified in real-time and alerts must be issued. The problem, along with the solution, must then be communicated to the machine operator to implement repairs.

Revolutionizing Additive Manufacturing

Sigma Labs, with its PrintRite3D® brand, has established a new benchmark in the development and commercialization of real-time computer aided inspection (“CAI”) solutions. Sigma Labs resolves the major roadblocks and costly quality control challenges that impede the 3D manufacture of precision metal parts. The company’s breakthrough computer-aided software product revolutionizes commercial additive manufacturing, enabling non-destructive quality assurance during production, uniquely allowing errors to be corrected in real-time.

Sigma Labs was founded in 2010 by a team of Los Alamos National Labs scientists and engineers to develop and commercially license advanced metallurgical products for the military ordinance, dental implants, and then for additive manufacturing (3D printing). After assessing 3D metal printing technology and the costly, inconsistent quality control issues, Sigma Labs concluded that the enormous potential of 3D metal printing could only scale up if in-process quality-assurance tools were developed to observe, manage and control the manufacturing complexities in such a manner that reliability and repeatability of very high precision quality metal parts could be achieved in the process. Sigma Labs’ patented and third-party validated software has achieved these objectives and now delivers the critical elements needed to unleash the promise of 3D metal printing.

Sigma Labs’ products and services are engineered, manufactured and qualified for use in the highly demanding and hyper precise production environments of the aerospace, defense, transportation, oil and gas, biomedical and other precision-dependent industries.

The Challenge

Additive metal manufacturing combines multiple processes and parts into one single 3D printed part. Due to variances in the additive manufacturing process, parts of consistent quality currently can’t be reliably produced in either large or small quantities without substantial postproduction inspection and rejection costs. Parts are inspected after production using CT scans and other means, so the manufacturer doesn’t know until the very end which of the finished parts meet design specifications. This means lost time, lost profits and inability to economically scale up production.

Innovative Approach

Sigma Labs solves this problem with its patented, in-process quality control technology that informs operators and engineers how to improve both the manufacturing process and quality by capturing meaningful data about inconsistencies in real-time. Sigma Labs is also partnering with OEMs, working toward the visionary introduction of revolutionary closed-loop control that will bypass the machine operator and automatically make in process corrections by reducing machine variations.

Sigma Labs’ next generation technology gives manufacturers the ability to make fast, virtual real-time adjustments so that each finished part is uniform and within critical specifications, thereby improving production quality, decreasing end-users’ risks and waste, and increasing profits and speed to market. Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D® IPQA Software monitors and assesses the quality of each production part in the 3D additive manufacturing process – layer by layer, and in real-time. This has never been available until now.

Sigma Labs maintains a strong intellectual property portfolio consisting of trade secrets, process know-how and 34 patents either granted, pending or awaiting pre-publication around the globe. These patents encompass the fundamental technologies underlying Sigma Labs’ melt pool process control, data analytics, anomaly detection, signature identification, and future “closed-loop control” of 3D metal printing.

Market Opportunity

Providing advanced quality assurance software to the commercial 3D printing industry is currently a $1.4 billion addressable market expected to grow to $3.9 billion by 2023. Integrating Sigma Labs’ groundbreaking software helps arm the industry with a necessary catalyst to help enable and optimize the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing.

Sigma Labs’ global client base includes 23 installations across 19 different users. Tier-1 OEM enterprises and end-users such as Siemens, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney and others are currently evaluating PrintRite3D® for production lines.

Management Team

John Rice, CEO and chairman of the board of directors, has extensive experience as a CEO, lead negotiator, turnaround expert, business financier and crisis management executive/consultant. Prior to becoming chair and CEO of Sigma Labs, he was the CEO of a successful turn-around of a Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Rice has led a variety of companies in diverse business sectors and worked on a host of products and technologies including design and manufacture of high-end jet engine test equipment for the U.S. Airforce, chaff dispensers for F16s, software for modeling naval exercises, software for controlling warehouse distribution systems, medical radioisotopes, cancer detection, and cybersecurity. He is an honor’s graduate of Harvard College.

Darren Beckett, CTO, has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including Intel Corporation, where he held various technical and managerial positions. His expertise in process engineering for advanced manufacturing technology includes statistical process control for fabrication of semiconductor devices.

CFO Frank D. Orzechowski also serves as treasurer, principal accounting officer, principal financial officer and corporate secretary. He has more than 30 years of distinguished financial and operational experience. Orzechowski began his career at Coopers & Lybrand in 1982, received his CPA certification in 1984, and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in accounting from Georgetown University in 1982.

Ronald Fisher, vice president of business development, is leading the commercialization of PrintRite3D® 5.0. Fisher is a mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in quality, manufacturing and product development. He has distinguished himself as a lead sales and marketing officer as well as a chief operating officer most recently before joining Sigma in technology startup that grew from market entry to successful exit by merger-acquisition.

Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB), closed Thursday's trading session at $1.03, up 8.1933%, on 162,240 volume with 258 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 193,017 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.451099991/$2.45000004.

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HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF).

HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF) was featured today in the 420 with CNW by CannabisNewsWire. The new recreational marijuana market in Chicago is still facing some challenges. However, the challenge of being restricted from consuming pot in accomodations that fall within the ambit of the Chiacgo Housing Authority is being addressed in light of the state law allowing recreational marijuana.

HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF) has developed and optimized proprietary technologies designed for biomass extraction, distillation and purification of ethanol and ethanol-based solvents used for the hemp biomass and cannabidiol (“CBD”) industry, as well as gas and liquid extraction. HTC’s extraction & purification systems are engineered to large-scale to reduce capital and operating costs while delivering superior performance measured by reduced energy usage, lowered emissions and improved quality of the product produced.

Advanced Extraction Technologies

For more than 14 years, HTC has developed and optimized proprietary technology and purification systems used for biomass, gas and liquid extraction. These technologies include:

  • LCDesign® – Low-cost design for modular gas, liquid and biomass extraction systems optimizes plant design, thus reducing capital and operating costs.
  • PDOEngine™ – Software-based design algorithms accurately model and simulate gas, liquid and biomass extraction processing.
  • Delta Solvents™ – Custom-designed, ethanol-based solvent mixtures and additives that optimize production and reduce costs. Technology development is being conducted at HTC’s sponsored research facilities at the University of Calgary.

Delta Purification® Technology

HTC’s patented Delta Purification® technology will purify, recycle and reuse the extraction ethanol used in the CBD extraction process while managing and reducing any CBD waste losses through the re-extraction of all wastes collected from the purified ethanol. Current and new technologies include:

  • Delta CBD Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying ethanol for use in CBD extraction from biomass. Reduces required heat to prevent damage of the chemical attributes of the CBD molecule, allowing extracted CBD to meet food-grade targets for human consumption.
  • Delta Solvent Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying ethanol-based solvents, such as single, mixed and formulated amines, for use in natural gas processing and post-combustion CO2 capturing processes.
  • Delta Glycol Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying glycols, such as mono-ethylene glycol and tri-ethylene glycol for use in natural gas dehydration processes.

Hemp Biomass and Tolling Contracts

HTC has entered into a hemp biomass tolling agreement for the 2019 crop year involving a supply of hemp biomass from a hemp grower in Saskatchewan, Canada. The hemp grower utilizes five varieties of Health Canada-approved cultivars as the genetic foundation. HTC will process and extract CBD FSO distillate from the hemp biomass. As a tolling fee payment, HTC will receive a percentage of the extracted CBD FSO distillate for its processing, extraction, purification and distillation services.

Additional hemp biomass tolling contracts with producers and hemp biomass providers are being negotiated in the U.S. for the 2020 hemp crop growing year. HTC will provide “local-to-grower” drying-to-biomass storage capability and transportation of dried biomass to an HTC, location to be determined, future US based, extraction facility. HTC is also in negotiation with a 60,000-acre, recognized Canadian farm leader, who is a significant hemp biomass producer, for a similar hemp biomass tolling contract.

re3™ Technology

Large users of ethanol and solvents for plant oil extraction demand reduced capital and operating costs. HTC’s re3™ (reclaim, recycle, reuse) technology can save up to 30% of the required fluid costs. The increasing cost of new extraction ethanol, combined with the cost of used ethanol disposal, creates a unique opportunity whereby the re3™ technology will create cost savings, while meeting environmental responsibilities.

The growth of ethanol and CO2 used in CBD production has created a new demand for reliable commercial scale ethanol reclaimer systems. The Delta Purification® ethanol system meets this new demand.

Sales and Offtake Agreements

HTC intends to leverage its relationship with its related entity, Purely Canada Foods™, to provide sales and distribution for its Ingredient CBD market under the brand of Purely Canada Hemp™, Purely Canada CBD™, Purely Canada Cannabinoids™. Purely Canada Hemp™ will develop risk managed multi-year ingredient supply contracts with its existing and new Global Food, Beverage and Animal Food Industry Customers.

Project Construction

HTC has focused the Canadian implementation of its BOOM (build, own, operate and maintain) extraction tolling strategy on a location near Regina, Saskatchewan. HTC is currently constructing a 19,000-square-foot GMP Euro compliant extraction tolling facility on six acres of land that will include biomass processing, extraction, implementation of DeltaSolv™ technologies and Delta Purification® systems, distillate and refining equipment, laboratory quality control and testing operations, and on-site office and admin facilities.

Leadership

Chairman, CEO and Director Lionel Kambeitz is a recognized professional in business development and international business relations. He has played a founding role in many other Canadian and U.S.-based companies. Kambeitz has executive experience in a variety of industries including energy, agriculture, food production engineering, and manufacturing.

Jeff Allison, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director, has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and business development. Prior to joining HTC in 2005, Allison as Vice President assisted with the founding and setup of CUCORP Financial Services in Saskatchewan.

HTC Extraction Systems (OTCQB: HTPRF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.178, off by 3.8877%, on 306 volume with 2 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 2,841 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.100299999/$0.920000016.

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Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTC: LXRP)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (LXRP).

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTCQX: LXRP) was featured today in a publication from HempWireNews, examining how the road to mainstream acceptance hasn’t been easy for cannabis. The industry has made a lot of steps in the right direction, but there’s still a long way to go. For decades, the crop was classified as a controlled substance, right next to hard drugs like heroin and cocaine, and this has cast a shadow that cannabis hasn’t been completely able to shake off.

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTC: LXRP) has developed and out-licenses its proprietary DehydraTECH™ technology for improved taste, rapidity and delivery of bioactive compounds, including nicotine and cannabinoids. To achieve higher absorption rates and fast onset, consumers traditionally defaulted to smoking. Lexaria provides a superior administration method by delivering these substances through a patented process within edible food products, thus eliminating all the harmful health consequences of smoking.

Lexaria’s technology is unique in that it takes advantage of GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) food ingredients processed with its patented DehydraTECH technology to improve taste, remove odor and decrease the time to onset of bitter-tasting drugs. Lexaria is primarily a B2B enterprise and has existing cannabinoid licensing agreements with companies in Canada and the United States. Lexaria has also developed its own hemp-oil brands partly for demonstration purposes, utilizing its patented technology to infuse hemp oil ingredients within popular foods such as coffee, tea and supplements. These brands include ViPova™, TurboCBD™ and ChargD+™.

Virtually unique across both the hemp and the cannabis industries, Lexaria has successfully entered into a R&D and product development partnership with one of the largest cigarette companies in the world for oral forms of nicotine delivery. Only a small handful of hemp or cannabis-related companies have achieved formal relationships with Fortune 500 industry leaders, demonstrating the wide applicability of Lexaria’s technology.

In June 2019, building on its original 2015 independent, third-party laboratory in vitro lab experiments, which confirmed the absorption levels of cannabidiol (“CBD”) into human intestinal cells rose by 499% through the utilization of the DehydraTECH technology, Lexaria completed a series of animal studies using an enhanced formulation of its DehydraTECH technology. The results of the animal studies using the enhanced DehydraTECH formulation showed an increase of CBD delivery into the blood when compared to generic industry MCT coconut-oil formulations by 811%. In addition, the animal studies also showed delivery of 1,937% more CBD into animal brain tissue after 8 hours using the enhanced DehydraTECH technology when compared to generic industry MCT coconut-oil formulations.

Lexaria also has completed the first phases of its collaborative research program with the Canadian government’s National Research Council (the “NRC”) under which several studies were designed to optimize Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology, enabling delivery of API’s within foods, beverages, capsules and other ingestible formats. These studies investigated the lipophilic active agent classes including cannabinoids, vitamins, NSAIDs and nicotine using advanced analytical techniques, including mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance testing, with the results of the studies confirming that Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology did not create any covalent-bonded new molecular entity (“NME”). Whenever an NME is created, regulatory bodies such as FDA and Health Canada routinely require extensive health, safety and efficacy studies prior to that product’s release into the marketplace. That the NRC program failed to find evidence of an NME suggests products utilizing the DehydraTECH technology may require a less burdensome regulatory pathway.

Results from this R&D have helped support B2B relationships with Fortune 500 companies. Lexaria has four distinct subsidiaries that focus on different market sectors: hemp/CBD; pharmaceutical; cannabis; and nicotine. In August 2019, Lexaria was issued its cannabis research and development licence from Health Canada which will allow Lexaria to continue its further investigations in-house of its DehydraTECH technology in connection with cannabinoids, along with ongoing work with vitamins, NSAIDs, PDE5-inhibitors, nicotine and other molecules.

Aside from testing, a critical component of Lexaria Bioscience’s business model is a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio. As of the August 2019, the company’s patent portfolio includes ~60 patent applications filed and pending in more than 40 countries around the world; and 16 patents granted to date. Lexaria is expecting additional new patent awards both in the U.S. and internationally by the end of 2019 and beyond. Some of its more recent areas of investigation have included human hormones and erectile dysfunction substances, among others. Lexaria’s granted patent portfolio related to cannabinoid delivery is one of the largest in the world.

Royalties play a vital role in Lexaria’s revenue-generating business model. The company out-licenses its technology to third-partners and has signed licensing agreements with start-up companies as well as with a Fortune 100 industry leader. The company’s growth initiatives are guided by a management team headed by CEO Chris Bunka, a serial entrepreneur who has contributed to several multi-hundred million-dollar valuations over the course of his career. He is supported by a growing team of professionals with extensive experience in pharmaceutical and bioscience sectors, invention, toxicology, consumer goods and other relevant skillsets.

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (LXRP), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.495, off by 1.5317%, on 47,346 volume with 38 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 112,983 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.3037/$1.57000005.

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Nightfood Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: NGTF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Nightfood Holdings, Inc. (NGTF).

Nightfood Holdings (OTCQB: NGTF), the award-winning ice cream company addressing America’s $50 billion-dollar nighttime snacking problem, today announced that it has partnered with WeStock’s new "Radish" service to add Jessie Trinchard as Nightfood’s Sales Director. According to the update, TechStars alum company WeStock introduced Radish, a shared Sales Director program. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/zG6y7

Nightfood Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: NGTF), a pioneering consumer goods brand development company headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, owns Nightfood, Inc., creator of delicious, award-winning and better-for-you ice cream formulated by sleep and nutrition experts, and its wholly owned subsidiary MJ Munchies, Inc., which seeks to capitalize on legally compliant opportunities in the CBD and marijuana edibles and related spaces. Known as “The Nighttime Snack Company,” Nightfood Inc. is focused on improving late-night snacking for consumers and solving America’s $50 billion-dollar nighttime snacking problem.

Nightfood Ice Cream

Nightfood’s higher-protein and sleep-friendly ice cream won the 2019 Product of the Year Award in the ice cream category in a Kantar survey of over 40,000 consumers. The annual Product of the Year survey, the world’s largest consumer-voted award for product innovation, is conducted by Kantar, a global leader in consumer research. In beating out the other finalists, consumers indicated that Nightfood’s one-of-a-kind innovation and unique value proposition made it a clear-cut winner in the ice cream space and a brand they were highly motivated to try.

Nightfood has secured distribution in several major regional supermarket chains and has landed media coverage in major outlets such as The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, USA Today, The Washington Post, Parents Magazine, and many more.

Over 80% of consumers snack regularly at night, and the most popular choices are cookies, chips, candy, and, of course, ice cream. These are understood to be both unhealthy and sleep-disruptive.

Research indicates that human biological programming combined with the trappings of modern life combine to drive this unhealthy behavior pattern. Every week, hundreds of millions of Americans combine to spend an estimated $1B on snacks consumed between dinner and bed.

In a recent Harris Poll online study, 54% of consumers who snack at night reported often feeling guilty about their nighttime snack choices. 58% said they wish they felt more in control of their nighttime snacking.

Nightfood management believes that the company that solves this massive consumer problem can become a national brand with a billion-dollar valuation.

Formulated by leading sleep and nutrition experts, including America’s most prominent sleep expert, Dr. Michael Breus, Nightfood’s higher protein/higher fiber, and lower sugar ice cream delivers great ice cream taste and texture, while minimizing sleep-disruptive ingredients such as caffeine, excess sugar, and excess fat and calories. The addition of certain minerals, enzymes and amino acids, which research suggests can support sleep quality, is another bonus. Nightfood only uses hormone-free milk, is certified Kosher, and offers eight original flavors, five of which are gluten-free. Nightfood ice cream also uses all-natural sweeteners with no Erythritol, no sucralose, or other artificial sweeteners.

Nightfood has developed a dynamic infographic resource that clearly illustrates the size and scope of the largely untapped nighttime snack category (http://NightSnacking.com). Americans everywhere are likely to identify with the infographic’s results that vividly illustrate late night snacking by age group, popular snack choice, and amount of money spent each week on feeding after-hour snack attacks. Available in eight delicious flavors, Nightfood ice cream can help consumers satisfy nighttime cravings in a better, healthier, more sleep-friendly way.

MJ Munchies, Inc.

MJ Munchies, Inc. was formed in 2018 as a new, wholly owned subsidiary of Nightfood Holdings, Inc. to capitalize on legally compliant opportunities in the CBD and marijuana edibles and related spaces. The Company is seeking licensing opportunities to market such products under the brand name “Half-Baked,” for which they’ve successfully secured trademark rights.

Management Team

Nightfood founder and CEO Sean Folkson is a formerly frustrated nighttime snacker whose late-night cravings led him to seek a better solution for himself and others through the creation, marketing and distribution of the Nightfood product line. Folkson also founded internet marketing company AffiliatePros.com which provided the startup capital to launch Specialty Equipment Direct, an online distributor of floor removal equipment that quickly grew to 7-figure revenues. Folkson received a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from S.U.N.Y Albany, New York, in 1991.

Jim Christensen, vice president of Nightfood Ice Cream, is the former vice president of Ice Cream Sales with global ice cream giant Unilever. In his over 20 years at Unilever, Christensen led sales and distribution initiatives for brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Klondike, Breyers and Good Humor. Christensen joined the Nightfood team in June of 2018 with the directive to launch Nightfood ice cream rapidly into national distribution. Understanding that the overwhelming majority of at-home ice cream consumption occurs in the hours before bed, Christensen has identified Nightfood as the next evolution in better-for-you ice cream.

CFO Mark Noffke, CPA, has over 37 years of experience as a seasoned financial and management professional. He has served as chief financial officer of several small-cap public companies since 2004 where he oversaw virtually every aspect of the company’s operations, administration, customer service and human resources. Noffke has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Valparaiso University in Indiana.

Advisory Board

The Nightfood advisory board includes Tom Morse, founder of 5-Hour Energy and Living Essentials, LLC.; Doron Stern, former vice president of marketing at Chobani and Popcorn, Indiana; restaurateur and celebrity Chef Chris Santos; Paul Jarrett, CEO of fast-growing nutrition startup BuluBox; Eric Egeland, president of Capacity Consulting Inc.; Dr. Michael A. Grandner, director/Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona; Dr. Michael Breus, sleep expert and best-selling author known to millions as The Sleep Doctor(TM); Dr. Lauren Broch, resident nutrition, sleep disorder expert and a member of the scientific advisory board.

Nightfood Holdings, Inc. (NGTF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.26, up 11.828%, on 215,713 volume with 54 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 107,697 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.187999993/$0.920000016.

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Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO).

Pressure BioSciences (OTCQB: PBIO), a leader in the development and sale of broadly enabling, pressure-based instruments, consumables, and platform technology solutions to the worldwide life sciences and other industries, today announced its plans to release a benchtop, R&D scale, Ultra Shear Technology(TM) (“UST”)-based BaroShear instrument to the market in the third quarter of 2020. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/A1piO. Also today, the company was highlighted in a publication from Financialnewsmedia.com, examining how a decade ago, almost nobody had heard of CBD aside from a handful of researchers. Today it’s a different story. The expanding CBD market is estimated to grow at an explosive rate – from $5 billion in 2019 to $23.7 billion by 2023. The infused beverages sub-market is expected to grow at for several years to come.

Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO) develops, markets and sells proprietary laboratory instrumentation and associated consumables to the life sciences sample preparation market. Sample preparation refers to the wide range of activities that precede most forms of scientific analysis. It is often complex and time-consuming, yet a critical part of scientific research. The market for sample preparation products is currently estimated at $6 billion worldwide.

The Company’s product line can be used to exquisitely control the sample preparation process. It is based on a patented, enabling technology platform called pressure cycling technology (“PCT”). PCT uses alternating cycles of hydrostatic pressure between ambient (14.5 psi) and ultra-high levels (up to 100,000 psi) to safely and reproducibly control critical biological processes, such as the lysis (breakage) of cells, the digestion of proteins, and the inactivation of pathogens.

Pressure BioSciences’ product line is led by its newly released, next-generation Barocycler 2320EXTREME instrument. Named a finalist in the prestigious 2017 R&D Awards (also known as the “Oscars of Innovation”), the Barocycler 2320EXT is already being touted by some key opinion leaders as an essential element of the $1.8 billion U.S. “Cancer Moonshot” program. For example, Professor Phil Robinson, Co-head of the cancer research center of the Children’s Medical Research Institute (Sydney, Australia), said in a recent interview: “We are collecting the whole proteome on 70,000 tumor samples from all classes where complete clinical outcome is known. Due to its unique capabilities, the Barocycler 2320EXT has become a critical part of our program. It is the primary enabler of the high-throughput component of the project. Without this step, our project simply could not be done. In fact, the Barocycler 2320EXT works so well we have just purchased two more.”

Momentum is building when it comes to the potential for using the Company’s unique PCT technology platform. Leading scientists are intrigued by Pressure BioSciences’ approach, which among other attributes, revolutionizes the process of rupturing cells (lysis) for further study, yielding superior biomolecules for investigation. The Company’s technology transcends current methods of breaking open cells, which use chemicals, blades, metal beads, or other damaging and altering methods that can ultimately adversely affect the result for researchers. Pressure BioSciences’ PCT technology utilizes customized, controlled hydrostatic (water) pressure to rupture cells in a chamber, enabling exquisitely customized levels of pressure to optimally break open different types of cells at prescribed pressure levels—something never before accomplished in a commercial setting. Using this pioneering method, the result is a truer, more legitimate sample, which boosts the efficacy of research and the quality of results. The potential impact of this technology on scientific advancement is enormous, enabling research scientists to begin their studies with biological samples of unprecedented integrity, with the potential to improve research outcomes at the earliest, most critical step. PCT can additionally inactivate pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria) using hydrostatic pressure, making the samples safer to study—another innovation with astronomical potential for application in a variety of markets.

The Company’s high-pressure instruments for research purposes are marketed throughout the United States, Europe, China and Japan. To date, Pressure BioSciences has installed nearly 300 PCT Systems in over 165 leading academic, government, biotech and pharma laboratories around the world. Its primary applications are in biomarker discovery, forensics, agriculture and pathology. Over 100 scientific papers have been published on the advantages of the PCT platform, which is also being used in the specialized fields of drug discovery and design, bio-therapeutics characterization, soil and plant biology, vaccine development and histology.

Impressive as their biotech business is, there is more to the PBI story. Pressure BioSciences recently received two patents in China for its novel Ultra Shear Technology (UST), a process that has potential in a wide range of industrial applications, including extending the shelf life of some food products and making two insoluble liquids (like oil in water) soluble. Patents have also been filed in many other countries worldwide. UST is a novel technique based on the use of intense shear forces generated from ultra-high-pressure valve discharge.

This important technology has the potential to play a significant role in a number of commercially important areas through its ability to create high-quality, stable nanoemulsions. Scientific studies indicate that improved absorption, higher bioavailability, greater stability, lower surfactant levels and other advantages can be achieved with nanoemulsions – all hugely important factors in the fields of nutraceuticals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and in various medical products. There is an enormous opportunity in the cannabis market, since the technology can potentially reduce oil droplets containing cannabidiol (CBD) to nanoparticles, after which they can be safely suspended in a stable water solution—something many companies have endeavored to achieve without success. Researchers looking for a way to increase the bioavailability of cannabinoids in the body will find this technology a game changer.

The Company’s UST technology also has possibilities in the production of clean label foods, which are currently processed using several innovative methods, including high-pressure treatments (such as Starbucks’ Evolution line of juices). In 2015, the worldwide market for high-pressure processed (HPP) food was estimated at U.S. $10 billion. UST uses ultra-high pressures and certain valves to generate intense shear forces under controlled temperature conditions to produce nanoemulsions, and which also significantly reduces food-borne pathogens. Pressure BioSciences’ initial focus with this technology will be to evaluate UST for the production of high-quality dairy products and beverages.

Pressure BioSciences Inc. (PBIO), closed Thursday's trading session at $2.95, up 18.00%, on 60,334 volume with 161 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 18,382 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.600600004/$4.0300002.

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SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX).

New research from SRAX, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX), a digital marketing and consumer data management technology company, shows that the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) isn't delivering on its promise.

SRAX Inc.'s (NASDAQ: SRAX) is a digital marketing and consumer data management technology company. SRAX’s technology unlocks data to reveal brands’ core consumers and their characteristics across marketing channels.

Through its BIGtoken platform, SRAX has developed a consumer-managed data marketplace where people can own and earn from their data, thereby providing everyone in the internet ecosystem choice, transparency and compensation.

SRAX’s tools deliver a digital competitive advantage for brands in the CPG, automotive, investor relations, luxury and lifestyle verticals by integrating all aspects of the advertising experience, including verified consumer participation, into one platform.

SRAX Verticals

  • SRAX Core: SRAX Core is a custom digital media management platform that enables brands and agencies to surpass the challenges of omnichannel marketing campaigns. It offers one comprehensive dashboard to manage digital media campaigns, inventory and reporting.
  • SRAX Social: SRAX Social is a free social media management tool that makes it easy for brands, agencies and individuals to grow their digital presence. It offers free and unlimited users, Facebook auto boosting, and a custom analytics dashboard. Its managed services team can also build and execute marketing plans for your unique specific needs.
  • SRAX IR: SRAX IR unlocks stock buyers’ behaviors and trends for issuers of publicly traded companies. The platform provides insights on shareholders and market makers, investor relations management, shareholder outreach tools and data-driven marketing.
  • SRAX Auto: SRAX Auto unlocks auto intenders’ data to create measurable connected experiences on the road to purchase. It offers proprietary auto intender profiles, multi touchpoint communication and custom location-based ads.
  • SRAX Shopper: SRAX Shopper delivers a cross channel, premium digital experience at scale to high value shopper audiences. It offers proprietary shopper profiles, cost per click pricing, and custom text and add to cart ad units.
  • SRAX Lux: Launched in June 2019, the SRAX Lux platform targets and reaches luxury consumers at luxury retail stores, high-end art, music, film, fashion and sports events, across all consumer devices.

BIGtoken

BIGtoken, available for download on the App Store and Google Play, revolutionizes data collection. BIGtoken is a platform that creates a secure and transparent environment for consumers to own and earn from their data. To date, there are 15.9 million BIGtoken registered users worldwide.

The optimization and monetization of data is a multibillion-dollar business. Worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions reached $166 billion in 2018 and is projected to surge to $260 billion by 2022. BIGtoken’s consumer vision is committed to delivering choice, transparency and compensation to the individual.

Through BIGtoken, consumers earn rewards when they opt into sharing their data and when that data is purchased. Consumers decide what data is shared, who can buy it and how it’s used, and advertisers reach real, responsive audiences. The benefit of this is two-fold: consumers know how their data is used and advertisers gain verified consumer data for targeting.

Users of the BIGtoken app can officially be paid in cash or gift cards in exchange for giving brands access to their anonymized data, answering questions, checking into locations, recruiting new members, and more. Users can deposit their earnings directly into PayPal accounts or be paid through gift cards from favorite retailers such as Walmart.

SRAX has also partnered with several high-profile, nonprofit associations to provide BIGtoken users the ability to donate their earnings. Partnerships include the American Heart Association, dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke; HealthCorps, which helps high school students make better choices about health and physical fitness; and the ALS Association, which recently launched its Challenge Me campaign.

International Expansion

BIGtoken is formally launching into several international markets and partnering to foster local support. SRAX recently signed a joint venture with the Yash Birla Group to launch BIGtoken in India. Based in Mumbai, the Yash Birla Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, has diversified interests in consumer and industrial products.

The partnership will bring BIGtoken’s platform to India, which has a digital population of 627 million. The India digital advertising market is $3.6 billion and is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32%, making it one of the largest growing digital ad markets in the world.

SRAX Mexico is led by Moe Avitia, who has more than 18 years of experience in business development and building high-tech teams. SRAX Mexico includes a team of 90 employees, including 70 engineers.

BIGtoken Europe is currently evaluating data centers in individual countries for privacy laws.

Leadership

Christopher Miglino is CEO and founder of SRAX. He has spent the past 20 years working in the digital advertising space and has successfully launched and sold two internet companies. Both of these companies were sold to publicly traded companies on the NASDAQ. He has a detailed understanding of how technology interacts with brands.

Kristoffer Nelson is COO of SRAX and a founding member of BIGtoken. With over 15 years of technology and creative business experience, Nelson has been a guest speaker for Loyola Marymount University among other academic institutions, the National Association of Broadcasters, the IAB and numerous other professional and media organizations.

SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX), closed Thursday's trading session at $2.20, up 4.8718%, on 86,437 volume with 340 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 109,351 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.04999995/$5.8499999.

Recent News

Standard Lithium Ltd. (TSX.V: SLL) (FRA: S5L) (OTC: STLHF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Standard Lithium Ltd. (OTC: STLHF).

Standard Lithium Ltd. (TSXV: SLL) (OTCQX: STLHF) (FRA: S5L) is pleased to announce that it will conduct a non-brokered private placement of up to 8,000,000 special warrants (each, a “Special Warrant”), at a price of $0.75 per Special Warrant, for gross proceeds of up to $6,000,000. Long-standing strategic investor, Commodity Capital AG, has committed to invest and maintain their percentage interest in the Company and members of management, and the board of directors of the Company, intend to participate for a significant portion of the offering.

Standard Lithium Ltd. (OTC: STLHF) is focused on unlocking the value of existing large-scale U.S.-based lithium brine resources that can quickly be brought into production. The Company believes new lithium production can rapidly be brought on stream by minimizing project risks at selection stage; resource, political & geographic, and regulatory & permitting; and by leveraging advances in lithium extraction technologies and processes.

The Company’s flagship project is in southern Arkansas. The more than 180,000-acre “Smackover Project” is in the most prolific and productive brine processing region in North America. Agreements with large commercial brine operators in the region will allow Standard Lithium to utilize the extensive existing infrastructure, including brine supply and disposal pipelines, water, power and a trained workforce to fast-track project development timelines.

“Arkansas produces about 9.4 billion gallons of brine per year, according to 2010-2016 average statistics reported by the Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission.”

Standard Lithium signed a binding MoU with global specialty chemicals company LANXESS Corporation and its U.S. affiliate Great Lakes Chemical Corporation with the purpose of demonstrating the commercial viability of extraction of lithium from brine (“tail brine”) that is produced as part of LANXESS’ bromine extraction business at its three Southern Arkansas facilities.

LANXESS’ land operations in Southern Arkansas encompass more than 150,000 acres, 10,000 brine leases and surface agreements and 250 miles of pipelines. LANXESS extracts the brine from its wells located throughout the area, and the brine is transported to the three Arkansas plants through a network of pipelines. The three bromine extraction plants currently employ approximately 500 people and process and reinject several hundred thousand barrels of brine per day.

Standard Lithium has developed a breakthrough rapid lithium extraction process that reduces the recovery time of extracting lithium from brine to as little as several hours vs. the current industry method that takes years. The process is also much more environmentally friendly with a significantly smaller footprint than the conventional processes. The company has a signed agreement to locate a demonstration scale lithium extraction plant inside one of LANXESS’ chemical plants in Southern Arkansas.

The Company has also signed an option agreement with NYSE-listed Tetra Technologies for the lithium rights for exploration, extraction, and possible commercial development on approximately 30,000 acres of brine leases in Southern Arkansas. The largest available land package.

Recent laboratory results of four brine samples recovered from two existing wells in Standard Lithium’s project area showed lithium concentrations ranging between 347-461 mg/L lithium, with an average of 450 mg/L lithium in one of the wells and 350 mg/L in the other. Geological modeling of the project area is complete, and a maiden resource report is on the horizon.

Market Opportunity

World demand for lithium continues to surge. The global lithium compounds market is projected to reach U.S. $5.87 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate of 13.22% between 2015 and 2020. Lithium-ion batteries are the fastest growing segment of the market.

Leadership

Standard Lithium’s commitment to being a premier, innovation-driven company focused on developing and commercializing new modern processes for lithium extraction is bolstered by the leading experts that comprise the company’s Scientific Advisory Council. Each member was selected because of their experience and expertise in areas that are central to and/or complement Standard Lithium’s current development plans. Standard Lithium recently welcomed to the Council world-renowned chemist Dr. Barry Sharpless, the recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.

Standard Lithium is led by a team of professionals with proven strong technical and project development skills. CEO Robert Mintak has a global network of industry contacts and is a pioneer in the rapidly evolving lithium space. COO and President Dr. Andy Robinson is an experienced geoscientist with 20+ years of experience and a PhD in Geochemistry from the University of Bristol, UK. Dr. Robinson has worked on a wide range of projects in the resource, power and energy sectors in Europe, Africa, and North and South America.

The company recently appointed Robert Cross as non-executive chairman. Cross is an engineer with 25 years of experience as a financier and company builder in the mining and oil and gas sectors. He co-founded and serves as chairman of B2Gold, a top-performing growing gold producer which is expected to achieve nearly 1 million ounces of low-cost gold production in 2018. He was also co-founder and chairman of Bankers Petroleum Ltd.; co-founder and chairman of Petrodorado Energy Ltd.; and until October 2007 was the non-executive chairman of Northern Orion Resources Inc. He also was previously the chairman and CEO of Yorkton Securities Inc., and a partner in investment banking with Gordon Capital Corp. in Toronto. Cross has an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo (1982) and received an MBA from Harvard in 1987.

Following a multi-million-dollar financing in Q1 2018, Standard Lithium is well-positioned to meet its upcoming milestones including two maiden resource reports and the launch of its breakthrough rapid lithium extraction technology.

Standard Lithium Ltd. (OTC: STLHF), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.6384, off by 1.5775%, on 24,685 volume with 21 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 35,506 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.391999989/$1.09000003.

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Endonovo Therapeutics Inc. (ENDV)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Endonovo Therapeutics Inc. (ENDV).

Endonovo Therapeutics (OTCQB: ENDV) today announced that it has secured sales of SofPulse(R), the company’s FDA-Cleared, non-invasive device utilized for the reduction of postoperative pain and edema, to multiple plastic surgery centers. “SofPulse(R) main distribution model is marketing to major hospitals throughout the US and is beginning to be viewed as the standard of care for postoperative pain and edema reduction for numerous inpatient hospital procedures. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/6ZSp1

Endonovo Therapeutics Inc. (ENDV) develops, manufactures and distributes evolutionary medical devices focused on the rapid healing of wounds and reduction of pain, edema and inflammation on and in the human body. These wearable, non-invasive medical devices are designed to deliver the company’s proprietary, patent protected Electroceutical™ Therapy targeting inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease and central nervous system (“CNS”) disorders.

In accord with its mission to transform the field of medicine through innovation, Endonovo’s bioelectric Electroceutical™ devices harness bioelectricity to restore key electrochemical processes that initiate anti-inflammatory processes and growth factors in the body necessary for healing to rapidly occur. Endonovo’s current portfolio of commercial-stage devices address chronic kidney disease, liver disease non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease (PAD), and ischemic stroke.

Flagship Therapy

SofPulse® Electroceutical ™ Therapy is an easy-to-place, non-invasive device that delivers pulsed electromagnetic frequencies to enhance post-surgical recovery. Used as a stand-alone therapy or integrated into any treatment protocol, SofPulse®’s targeted pulsed electromagnetic field (tPEMF) transmits gentle pulses to the tissue causing a positive biological effect to help reduce swelling and accelerate the body’s natural recovery process. The low levels of electromagnetic fields are completely safe and are 1000 times lower than those emitted by a mobile phone. 

Because SofPulse® lessens the pain of post-surgical recovery, the patient requires far less prescription medications, thereby minimizing or eliminating the adverse side effects of narcotics and anti-inflammatory medication. Studies have shown a greater than 2.2-fold reduction in narcotic use over the first 48 hours post-procedure. Patients with less pain and medication may move around sooner, which further stimulates the body’s natural response to healing.

Certifications

Endonovo’s Electroceutical™ Therapy is cleared by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (“FDA”) for the palliative treatment of pain and post-surgical edema (swelling) and is CE-marked in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for the promotion of wound healing and the palliative treatment of pain and post-surgical edema. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has also certified Electroceutical™ Therapy for the treatment of chronic wounds.

Management

Alan Collier, Chairman and CEO
Alan Collier has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance, IP development, telecommunications and technology, with a concentration in healthcare and technology over the past five years. Collier has served as CEO and director of IP Resources International Inc., where he was instrumental in developing a platform the for the licensing and acquisition of life science and technology companies. He has held numerous board and executive positions throughout his career in the telecommunications, technology, specialty finance, corporate finance and healthcare industries. Collier has previously held FINRA Series 7, 79, 63 and 24 licenses.

Michael Scott Mann, President
Michael Scott Mann has over 30 years of experience in merger and acquisitions and operational management. In 2008, Mann acquired the assets of Hanover Asset Management, now Endonovo Therapeutics Inc., and led the company to become listed on the OTCBB in 2012. He was the founder, president and CEO of Frankfurt-listed U.S. Debt Settlement Inc. (USDS), where he implemented a growth by acquisition strategy. 

Don Calabria, Chief Operating Officer
Don Calabria has over 20 years of leadership and experience in national business operations to emerging growth companies, mergers and acquisitions, finance and business development. Calabria holds an MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University.

Nevena Zubcevik, Chief Medical Officer
Nevena Zubcevik, D.O., MSPT, ATC, on July 1, 2019, will lead Endonovo’s medical and clinical strategy, including the development and regulatory matters and new business development. Zubcevik, a licensed physician and educator, has more than 24 years of experience in the medical field and was an attending physician at Harvard Medical School/Partners Healthcare in the physical medicine and rehabilitation department.

Steven Ford, Vice President of Marketing
Steven Ford has 25 years of experience in the field of medical devices, including experience in sales management, product management, product development, business development and research & development at companies such as Baxter, CR Bard, Ethicon, Allergan, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Alphatec Spine. Throughout Ford’s career, he has led and participated on over 75 product development teams and has launched over 50 medical devices globally. Ford is an innovative problem solver and has many patents in the areas of hemostasis, sealing and tissue reconstruction. Most recently, Steve was the U.S. vice president of marketing for Biom’up where he was a co-lead on the high-profile successful launch of their surgical hemostat HEMOBLAST Bellows. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from California State University.

David Clark, Vice President of Sales
David Clark has extensive surgical device commercial experience which includes 25 years in the surgical device industry with leading companies including Medtronic and Baxter Healthcare. Most recently, Clark was the U.S. executive vice president of sales for Biom’up where he was a co-lead in the high-profile successful launch of their surgical hemostat HEMOBLAST. As part of the launch, he built and led the U.S. sales team which included over 200 in-direct sales representatives and direct commercial leadership. During his 15 years with Baxter, the BioSurgery Division grew from a small revenue business into a major market player in the advanced hemostasis space with products such as FloSeal and Tisseel. Clark has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University.

Roc Alan McCarthy, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Roc Alan McCarthy, D.O, will help Endonovo continue to advance its clinical pipeline and contribute to the strategic and clinical development oversight of the company. McCarthy is a urologist in North Carolina, currently serving as the robotic surgeon and chairman of the robotics committee at the New Hanover Regional Medical Center.

Steven C. Levin, M.D., Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Steven C. Levin is the regional medical director at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and medical director at Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Maryland. Additionally, he is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Levin is currently the co-chair of the Opioid Stewardship Clinical Community as well as a clinical design team leader of the Musculoskeletal Center in the Johns Hopkins Health System. Additionally, Dr. Levin has previously served on the medical school facility at Yale University and at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Levin received his undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania and medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His membership in professional and scientific societies has included the American Society of Anesthesiology, American Pain Society, American Society of Regional Anesthesia, Society in Anesthesia and International Association for the Study of Pain.

Peter Novak, M.D., Ph.D., Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Peter Novak is the director of the Autonomic Laboratory at the Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a board-certified neurologist and a board-certified autonomic specialist. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Autonomic Society and the Autonomic Board of United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Dr. Novak graduated from medical school in Bratislava, Slovakia, and completed his neurology residency at Ohio State University. He also completed postdoctoral studies focusing on cardiovascular and autonomic research at Charles University (Prague) the University of Montreal, McGill University (Montreal) and the Mayo Clinic. He has special interests in autoimmune, small fiber and autonomic neuropathies, autoimmune, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and multiple system atrophy. He has written over 70 papers and presented at numerous conferences.

Geoffrey Abrams, M.D., Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Geoffrey Abrams is an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the director of sports medicine for Stanford’s varsity athletes. He specializes in orthopedic sports medicine and arthroscopy of the shoulder, knee and elbow as well as upper extremity joint replacement surgery. Dr. Abrams is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) and the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), among others, and currently serves as assistant team physician for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers as well as head team physician for a number of Stanford University varsity athletic teams. He is actively involved in research focusing on the role of inflammatory mediators, and microRNA in particular, on cartilage and tendon damage. Dr. Abrams received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his doctorate of medicine from the University of California – San Diego. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Stanford University and went on to receive additional training in Orthopedic Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Abrams has authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles, over 20 book chapters, has presented original research at numerous national and international scientific meetings, and serves as a reviewer for numerous sports medicine scientific journals.

Dr. William Li, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. William Li is CEO and co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. He trained in the lab of Dr. Judah Folkman, pioneer of the angiogenesis field, and has been actively engaged in angiogenesis research and clinical development for 30 years. Under Dr. Li’s leadership, the foundation has developed a unique social enterprise model based on value-creating collaborations with leading biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Dr. Li is actively engaged in identifying unmet needs in the healthcare space for which clinical and cost-effective technology can offer beneficial solutions. He is a graduate of Harvard, and completed his medical residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He serves as advisor and consultant to leading global public and private companies.

Mykol Larvie, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Recipient of three Harvard Medical Student Teaching awards in Principal Clinic Experience, Mykol Larvie is currently a radiologist in the Cleveland Clinic’s Divisions of Nuclear Medicine and Neuroradiology as well as the director of Functional and Molecular Neuroimaging. With a completed internship in the Department of Medicine as well residency in the Department of Radiology and fellowship in the Division of Neuroradiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Larvie specializes in PET examinations of the brain performed typically for the evaluation of neurodegenerative disease, seizure and tumor. He delivers didactic lectures and case conferences to residents and fellows six times per year and serves as a mentor and advisor to medical students, residents and fellows.

Nathan L. Guerette, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Nathan L. Guerette is the director and president of the Female Pelvic Medicine Institute of Virginia; an associate clinical professor in the division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at the Medical College of Virginia; a full clinical professor in Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery at the Riverside Regional Medical Center; and the Robotic Surgery director at the Chippenham and Johnston Willis Medical Center. With a completed fellowship in urogynecology and pelvic reconstructive surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dr. Guerette has won seven awards in the medical and humanitarian departments. He has made nine media appearances, some of which were on PBS and NBC News. He has three board certifications and has ran a surgical mission trip to Trujillo, Peru, through Bon Secours.

Dr. Ashling O’Connor, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Currently a surgeon at the Comprehensive Breast Health Center of the Lahey Medical Center, Dr. O’Connor has won seven awards in the surgical department. She has completed a surgical internship at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin as well as a breast surgery fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship. She mentors medical students and surgical residents both in the operating room and in a clinical setting and enjoys biking and triathlons as well as trail and marathon running. She is certified in the Hidden Scar technique in breast surgery as well as in the advanced cardiac life support and is a member of the Protocol Review Committee Umass Memorial Medical Center, the New England Surgical Society and the American College of Surgeons.

Samir Awad, Scientific Advisory Board Member
Samir Awad has worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs since 2000. He has served as the operative care line associate executive, chief of general surgery, and medical director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the MEDVAMC. Dr. Awad’s areas of specialty include liver, pancreas, and acute care surgery, as well as minimally invasive surgical procedures. He is a member of the Association for Academic Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, the Surgical Infection Society, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Awad has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed and invited publications and is the recipient of numerous awards for surgical and research achievements. Dr. Awad is certified by the American Board of Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

Endonovo Therapeutics Inc. (ENDV), closed Thursday's trading session at $2.34, up 8.3333%, on 109,040 volume with 268 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 15,001 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.699999988/$30.00.

Recent News

OriginClear (OTC: OCLN)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight OriginClear (OTC: OCLN).

OriginClear (OTCQB: OCLN), a pioneer in decentralized water treatment and management, today announced its filing of an Offering Statement on Form 1-A with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to offer, up to approximately $19.1 million of preferred stock at a price of $25.00 per share, to qualified investors in a Reg A public offering. According to the update, the preferred stock will pay, on a monthly-payment basis, an annual dividend of 10%. OriginClear has engaged a FINRA member firm to file a FINRA application to be able to quote the Preferred Stock on the OTC market. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/LM85o

OriginClear (OTC: OCLN) leads the self-reliant water revolution, deploying advanced technologies at the point of use, with modular, prefabricated systems that create durable assets and water independence for industry, commerce and agriculture.

Failing infrastructure and the rising cost of water are driving businesses to treat their own water. OriginClear leads this megatrend with on-premise systems enabling very high purification and recycling levels that centralized systems cannot achieve.

Systems installed at the point of use become productive assets for businesses that also increase property values. And OriginClear helps corporations improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) standings with world-class water management.

Operations & Markets

OriginClear leads a new generation of water companies that focus on meeting the needs of businesses looking for compact, advanced technologies that can be shipped to and installed at the point of use. The company manufactures and distributes its professional-grade water treatment and conveyance products to commercial and industrial properties, fielding both direct and indirect sales channels to reach end-market clients such as hotels and resorts, real estate housing developments, office buildings, military installations, schools, farms, food and beverage manufacturers, industrial warehouse, oil and gas producers, and medical and pharmaceutical facilities.

From its Texas-based factory, OriginClear designs and prefabricates an entire line of plug-n-play containerized units called Modular Water Systems™ that enable water purification, recycling and wastewater management.


Industrial Pretreatment Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) designed by Daniel M. Early, using reinforced thermoplastic modules.

These onsite modular products provide clients with water independence through ownership and operational control over water quality, enabling them to increase productivity while reducing environmental, health and safety risks from pollution, contamination and corrosion. Modular water products are trusted to balance performance with cost-effectiveness, enabling business users to go well beyond municipal standards for water quality, therefore achieving high levels of satisfaction for their own customers, and improved sustainability for their properties.

OriginClear’s water treatment equipment can boost real estate asset value as a fundamental capital improvement, combined with long-lasting water savings for the corporate bottom line.

Product Portfolio

OriginClear groups its products into three main categories:

  1. Water Treatment: achieving high grade purification.
  2. Water Conveyance: water transportation and pumping.
  3. Advanced Technologies: commercialization of innovative technologies.

OriginClear’s complete line of compact, on-site, point-of-use products include: advanced purification systems that are skid, rack-mounted and containerized for reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, media filtration, disinfection, water softening, ion exchange and electrodeionization (EDI), combined as needed in small to medium commercial and industrial applications, and custom-build projects. Water conveyance products include pump and lifting stations, modular storage tanks, and control monitoring panels.

OriginClear’s line of modular water products and systems is key to the self-reliant water treatment revolution as they create “instant infrastructure” – fully engineered, prefabricated and prepackaged systems that use durable, sophisticated materials. The units are available in standard capacities for onsite closed-loop systems at commercial business locations.

The company’s rugged wastewater treatment plants, highly reliable pump stations, and premium water purification units typically offer 25 percent lower initial costs over conventional systems, with greater quality and full connectivity. These pump stations and wastewater treatment products utilize high density thermo-plastics (HDPE) and proprietary, innovative prefabrication methods and materials that deliver the longest life and strongest products.

Breakthrough Technologies

OriginClear has a long history of innovation through its OriginClear Technologies division, which is responsible for identifying leading-edge technologies to solve today’s toughest challenges. These advanced technologies are the centerpiece of the division’s international licensee network. The technologies are developed in OriginClear Technologies, and licensees integrate them into their own products.

Electro Water Separation™ (EWS) and Advanced Oxidation (AOx™) are the principal, well-proven technologies.

EWS is OriginClear’s breakthrough water cleanup technology which utilizes a catalytic process to concentrate and eliminate suspended solids in the worst commercial and industrial wastewater.

AOx is OriginClear’s proprietary advanced oxidation technology which generates a dense cloud of ozone, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals, dramatically reducing or eliminating dissolved organic microtoxins, including bacteria and viruses, hormones, drugs, pesticides such as Roundup, and synthetics. AOx has also been shown to effectively reduce harmful chemicals such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide – the “rotten egg” smell in crude oil that reduces its value.

Through international licensing and partnerships, OriginClear’s advanced technologies are being adopted to treat tough water problems in East and South Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and North America.

Market Opportunity

In just 10 years, the global water services market has doubled into a trillion-dollar industry, driven by improper sanitation and water scarcity. Only 20 percent of all sewage and only 30 percent of all industrial waste are ever treated. Additionally, water leakage results in the loss of 35 percent of all clean water across the planet; reducing that percentage by half would provide clean water for 100 million people. This is a situation of great danger, but also great potential.

The statistics demonstrate that we can no longer rely on the efficiencies of giant, centralized water utilities to meet these challenges. An increasing number of businesses are starting to take notice, instead conducting their own water treatment and recycling. Whether by choice or out of necessity, those businesses that do invest in onsite water systems get a tangible asset on their business and real estate, and can enjoy better water quality at a lower cost.

Out of the public’s eye and with OriginClear’s help, a growing number of self-reliant businesses are building Decentralized Water Wealth™ for themselves while also helping their community. They know that environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing guidelines, which represent $22 trillion of assets under management around the world, specifically note the key indicator of how well corporations manage their water.


10,000 Gallon per Day Industrial Membrane Bioreactor Waste Water Treatment Plant designed by Daniel M. Early, PE, using long-lived Structural Reinforced ThermoPlastic (SRTP)

OriginClear is a key enabler of ESG water management for corporations that are increasingly responsible for what was once delegated to central utilities. For example, when a corporation manages its own water, and uses OriginClear’s proprietary hybrid treatment methods, it can significantly reduce both water use and nutrient footprints (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) in one compact package.

These hybrid processes feature advanced blackwater treatment with advanced clean water processing. They can convert toxic nutrients to less harmful compounds, and even capture them for beneficial reuse purposes, as shown in OriginClear’s recent case study.

Revenue Growth through Synergy

Since OriginClear acquired it in 2015, Progressive Water Treatment has generated steady revenues in the range of a million dollars a quarter. It is now the Fabrication and Manufacturing Division for the whole company. The team at Modular Water Systems, headed by Chief Engineer Daniel M. Early, is responsible for overall design and high-level engineering. It relies on the Fabrication and Manufacturing Division to add incremental revenue for its modular product line, without requiring large increases in personnel.

OriginClear believes that these two business units can develop growing revenues through synergy and ultimately help achieve overall profitability. OriginClear also seeks to acquire profitable water companies that can complement the synergy of its existing units and accelerate both revenues and profitability. However, acquisitions are neither guaranteed, nor essential to OriginClear’s continued growth.

 

Leadership

OriginClear’s management team brings strong leadership and a background in managing business operations, sales, technologies, and finance. The team combines idealism with solid commercial skills, achieving a triple bottom line of environmental, social and financial gain.

Riggs Eckelberry – Chairman, CEO and Co-founder
Riggs Eckelberry is a veteran technology manager who led companies to multiple exits during the high-tech boom of the 90s and early 2000s. Eckelberry came to the water industry from a quarter century in high technology, specializing in commercializing breakthrough technologies. During the dotcom boom, he worked on a series of tech successes, such as Quarterdeck’s CleanSweep; security software vendor Panda Software; and the sale of companies to EarthWeb, BeFree, and BellSouth. Just prior to founding what is now OriginClear, he helped drive security software company CyberDefender to an IPO on the Nasdaq as its president and chief operating officer.

Thomas Marchesello – Chief Operating Officer
Thomas Marchesello is a business operations and technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in manufacturing and distribution of products and services. He has 12 years in private equity M&A, doing buyside acquisitions of small to midsize corporations. He has over 10 years advising innovative corporations on ESG strategy and speaks often about industry trends. He began his career in the U.S. Air Force, Space Command Headquarters for environmental sciences. He has held key roles for Fortune 500 companies such as Sony, Thompson Reuters, Morgan Stanley, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Daniel M. Early, PE – Senior Engineer
For the past 25 years, Dan Early has worked as an engineered products development specialist with very strong understanding of the complex and interconnected disciplines, economies, and governmental regulation needed to develop and sustain modern civil infrastructure systems that reflect a balance of environmental stewardship, social expectations, and cultural requirements. Since 2010, Early has specialized in the research, development, and deployment of next generation water infrastructure technologies using heavy plastic manufacturing. His initiatives and innovations anchor Modular Water Systems’ product line.

Marc Stevens – Director of Fabrication and Manufacturing
Marc Stevens brings nearly 40 years of experience to OriginClear’s manufacturing team. His experience in mechanical design, equipment fabrication, installation and a wide range of projects led to his founding what is now OriginClear’s Fabrication and Manufacturing Division. He supervises the design, building and installation of customized, large-scale water treatment systems, including purification technologies for process waters for boilers and cooling towers, drinking water and various industrial waste water applications. Stevens leads the team that also manufactures OriginClear’s standardized Modular Water Systems.

OriginClear (OCLN), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.115, off by 4.0867%, on 83,887 volume with 22 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 71,960 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.078749999/$4.00.

Recent News

CloudCommerce (OTCQB: CLWD)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight CloudCommerce (OTCQB: CLWD).

CloudCommerce (OTCQB: CLWD), a leading provider of data driven marketing solutions, today announced that it has been awarded two new contracts from an existing client. According to the update, the new contracts from a large public utility demonstrate that CloudCommerce’s proprietary SWARM solution is effectively driving measurable ROI across multiple divisions of the client’s organization. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/EW9mF

CloudCommerce (OTCQB: CLWD) is a leading provider of audience-driven business intelligence and marketing solutions. Together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, CloudCommerce delivers invaluable end-to-end business intelligence and marketing solutions through a range of services and capabilities.

Flagship Solution

SWARM is an end-to-end solution that applies advanced data science, behavioral science, artificial intelligence and market research techniques to deliver powerful audience-driven business intelligence that converts opportunities into business success.

Through marketing, brand perception, customer-relationship management, human-resources management and operational logistics applications, CloudCommerce’s SWARM solution helps businesses determine who to talk to, what to say and how to motivate targeted audiences to take meaningful action.

The Market

Marketers have largely taken a blanket approach to communication. The same messages are often sent across an entire customer audience with little regard for how different groups of people communicate, build communities and develop their purchasing habits. When marketers do segment audiences, they use objective selection criteria such as income, geography, education or purchase history to deduce attitudes or intentions.

However, research shows that motivations and feelings are much more accurate at predicting behavior. The challenge for businesses is that these factors are also the hardest to gather from audience data. CloudCommerce provides that audience-intelligent data through SWARM, its proprietary behavioral-science approach to audience creation and communication. Through SWARM, CloudCommerce helps marketers identify consumer motivations and triggers in order to effectively predict and influence actions. When companies influence action, they can change opinions, gather support, motivate purchases and inspire change.

In a fast-developing global business intelligence market estimated to grow from $16.3 billion in 2016 to $34.3 billion by 2022, CloudCommerce stands apart as an innovator and true partner, able to deliver data-driven intelligence and solutions that enable its customers to strengthen their brands, deliver their messages and reach their goals.

SWARM Products

THE SWARM—Intelligent Audience Building
The core of the CloudCommerce solution – and what separates CloudCommerce from other audience data companies – is the company’s unique approach to audience building. The concept of “personas” has been around for decades, but CloudCommerce takes that concept to the next level. The SWARM was developed to identify not only who to talk to but also what to say in order to motivate target audiences to take meaningful action. Using CloudCommerce’s proprietary clustering and behavioral analysis techniques, businesses can identify target audiences and deliver messages that are more focused and efficient. CloudCommerce not only helps its client partners find the right people to talk to but also identifies the most powerful message to send.

BUZZ—Behavior-Based Market Research
Market research is evolving. Research techniques developed and used today are more sophisticated and backed by strong data science. Despite these changes, many traditional research firms have failed to innovate: small sample sizes, survey design bias, improper weighting and gut-intuition sampling are just some of the issues that plague the market-research industry. Through BUZZ, CloudCommerce has automated the market research process to provide a level of statistical depth beyond what traditional firms can offer. BUZZ offers businesses the ability to put their finger on the pulse of the marketplace in the moment. Using a wide range of internal and external data sources such as customer data, social media activity, and micro and macro trends, BUZZ deduces attitudes, emotions and opinions.

HIVE—Redefined Geographic Targeting
Conventional geographic audience targeting is outdated. Arbitrary units of location such as counties, cities, DMAs and regions were created centuries ago based on land-rights ownership. Their use in understanding people’s behavior, purchase habits and underlying values is minimal. CloudCommerce has found a much more powerful, efficient and effective way of targeting by clustering people into granular geographic tribes called HIVES. HIVES are defined by attributes such as common language (e.g., colloquialisms), shared experience and narratives (e.g., climate, history), and concentrated demography and biology (e.g., ethnicity, age). Based on the needs of its clients, CloudCommerce can completely redraw the geographic lines based on various Hive selection criteria. Using this exclusive HIVE approach, CloudCommerce clients experience more efficient and effective marketing, make more intelligent business decisions and enjoy more growth.

HONEY—Advanced Reporting and Visualization
Advanced-audience, data-analysis technologies are useless if they don’t produce simple, powerful and actionable business intelligence. HONEY comes with user-friendly reporting and visualization tools to organize and explain all of the advance-data science into a simple-to-understand format for decision makers. HONEY combines the intelligence of client CRM data with third-party consumer data and targeted market research to create a powerful foundation for any audience-intelligence solution.

Subsidiaries

Data Propria
Data Propria delivers the highest Return on Investment (“ROI”) for their customers’ digital marketing campaigns, by utilizing sophisticated data science to identify the correct universes to target relevant audiences. Their ability to understand and translate data drives every decision they make. By listening to and analyzing their customers’ data they are able to make informed decisions that positively impact their customers’ business. Data Propria leverages industry-best tools to aggregate and visualize data across multiple sources, and then their data and behavioral scientists segment and model that data to be deployed in targeted marketing campaigns. They have data analytics expertise in retail, wholesale, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, political, and several other industries.

Parscale Digital
Parscale Digital helps their customers get their message out, educate their market and tell their story. They do so creatively and effectively by deploying powerful call-to-action digital campaigns with national reach and boosting exposure and validation with coordinated advertising in print media. Parscale Digital’s fully-developed marketing plans are founded on sound research methodologies, brand audits and exploration of the competitive landscape. Whether their customer is a challenger brand, a political candidate, or a well-known household name, Parscale Digital’s strategists are skilled at leveraging data and creating campaigns that move people to make decisions.

Giles Design Bureau
Giles Design Bureau approaches branding from a “big picture” perspective, establishing a strong identity and then building on that to develop a comprehensive branding program that tells the customer’s story, and articulates what sets the customer apart from their competitors and establishes the customer in their market.

WebTegrity
WebTegrity develops commerce-focused, user-friendly digital websites and apps that elevate their customer’s marketing position and draw consumers to their products and services. Their platform-agnostic approach allows WebTegrity to architect and build solutions that are the best fit for each customer. Once the digital properties are built, their experts will help manage and protect the website or app and provide the expertise needed to scale the infrastructure needed as the customer’s business grows.

Leadership

Andrew Van Noy, CEO & Chairman of CloudCommerce Board of Directors
Andrew Van Noy has been a director of CloudCommerce since November 2012, president of the company since April 2012, and the CEO of the company since August 2012. He also served as executive vice president of CloudCommerce from November 2011 to April 2012 and vice president of Sales and Marketing of the company from May 2011 to November 2011. From January 2009 to April 2011, Van Noy served as the vice president of Sales and Marketing for PageTransformer, which provided web and software development for iPad, iPhone and Android devices. Van Noy came to CloudCommerce with experience in digital marketing, private equity and investment banking. During his years at the company, Van Noy led the efforts to rebrand and restructure the business and presided over the acquisition of a number of companies. Van Noy graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Gregory Boden, CFO and Board of Directors
Gregory Boden became a director at CloudCommerce in November 2011 and in February 2013 was named corporate secretary. In April 2012, Boden was also appointed CFO. In addition, Boden is the managing partner of a private equity company. Prior to joining the CloudCommerce team, Boden managed the franchise accounting and cash application departments of Select Staffing, a nationwide staffing company and was an accountant at KPMG LLP. Boden earned his master of accountancy degree from the University of Denver.

CloudCommerce (OTCQB: CLWD), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.0033, up 13.7931%, on 18,459,124 volume with 168 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 22,411,256 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.001399999/$0.0228.

Recent News

Quest Patent Research Corp. (OTCQB: QPRC)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Quest Patent Research Corp. (OTCQB: QPRC).

Quest Patent Research Corp. (OTCQB: QPRC), a New York City-based intellectual-property asset manager, completed an active year of licensing programs, resolving 14 matters in 2019. With 16 active programs and a 2020 docket that currently includes 10 claim construction hearings and 12 trials, Quest is well positioned to maintain an active calendar across a solid portfolio of diverse intellectual property (IP) assets this year. A summary of the upcoming events is available at http://nnw.fm/zNA8f.

Quest Patent Research Corp. (OTCQB: QPRC) is a New York City-based intellectual property (IP) asset management firm operating through majority-owned and controlled operating subsidiaries to deliver financial, strategic and legal resources for IP monetization. Quest currently owns, controls or manages over 115 patents across 11 intellectual property portfolios (https://www.qprc.com/portfolio). The company generates revenues from patent licensing fees of its IP property portfolios and from licensed packaging sales.

Quest creates shareholder value through investment and management interests in intellectual property assets, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, novel inventions and trade secrets. Through its business, shareholders have the opportunity to participate across a broad portfolio of dynamic assets in the burgeoning intellectual property space.

Objectives

Invention, protection and commercialization of IP require a deep understanding of dynamic technologies, market fundamentals, competitive landscapes and engagement strategies. Often, IP asset owners/stakeholders lack the requisite resources, experience and/or capacity to access the latent value of their IP assets and opportunities. Quest seeks to bridge this gap, partnering with asset owners – such as inventors, businesses, corporations and law firms – to help them fully realize the value of IP assets through:

  • IP Valuation
  • Structured Licensing Programs
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Partial or Full Liquidity
  • Portfolio Evaluation
  • Portfolio Maintenance
  • Legal Advisory
  • Attorney/Investor Referral
  • Patent Acquisition/Liquidation

At Quest, each partnership is treated as its own entity, with its own focused management comprised of Quest employees and seasoned industry associates. Many of technologies are placed in a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest, benefitting from the broader expertise of the company’s leadership.

Management

Quest’s management team delivers a wealth of experience in strategic business management, intellectual property, finance and marketing. The company’s internal resources, in tandem with its external network of financial, legal and managerial professionals, can develop creative solutions to the myriad of challenges involved in monetizing IP. Quest’s structured diligence and deployment procedures mitigate risks, maximize returns and deliver value to IP owners and shareholders alike.

Quest CEO and President Jon Scahill was the founder and managing director of the Urban-Rigney Group, LLC, a private consultancy specializing in new business/new venture development, operations optimization, and strategic analysis. Prior to launching his consultancy business, Mr. Scahill held numerous positions in sales and marketing, technical management, and product development in the consumer products/flexible packaging arena. Mr. Scahill holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, an MBA from Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business, and a JD from Pace University Law School. He is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice in New York, Florida, the District of Columbia and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Quest Chief Technology Officer Timothy Scahill recently completed a merger and buyout of Managed Services Team LLC, an IT Managed Services provider. Prior to Managed Services Team, he was president of Layer 8 Group Inc., which merged with Structured Technologies Inc. to form Managed Services Team LLC. In his roles he was responsible for business strategy, acquisition, execution, as well as financial management. Mr. Scahill’s entrepreneurial acumen and proven record of successful management with sole discretionary responsibility, demonstrate the scope of his capability and his value to delivering results. He successfully completed his term on the boards of the Upstate New York Technology Council and Pariemus Rochester. Mr. Scahill completed a six-year term as secretary, executive council and a seat on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity. He has served as president of the Western New York chapter of The Entrepreneurs Organization and continues to serve on the board as accelerator chair. Mr. Scahill is currently performing Cyber Intelligence, Security and Information Assurance work for an undisclosed organization.

Peter LaFauci is president of CFO Solutions, a Rochester, NY-based consulting firm offering knowledge-based financial and accounting solutions for emerging to medium-size companies. Mr. LaFauci is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of proven success in developing, leading and executing strategy in both publicly and privately held companies within the advertising, software development, internet, manufacturing and emerging technologies sectors. Peter possesses strong research and analytical skills as well as interpreting, summarizing and communicating financial and business information to others. Mr. LaFauci is a graduate of Saint Bonaventure University.

Quest Patent Research Corp. (OTCQB: QPRC), closed Thursday's trading session at $0.008, even for the day, on 128,000 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 161,706 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0051/$0.039999999.

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Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: FRSX) (TASE: FRSX)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (FRSX).

Foresight Autonomous Holdings (NASDAQ: FRSX) (TASE: FRSX), an innovator in automotive vision systems, today announced that its affiliate, Rail Vision Ltd., is in advanced negotiations regarding its first commercial agreement with a leading European train operator. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/QW1kU

Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: FRSX) (TASE: FRSX), founded in 2015 and headquartered in Israel, is a technological innovator in automotive vision systems and driver assistance technology. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Foresight Automotive Ltd., Foresight is engaged in the design, development and commercialization of stereo/quad-camera vision systems and V2X cellular-based solutions for the automotive industry based on 3D video analysis, advanced algorithms for image processing and sensor fusion. The company’s powerful and patented stereoscopic technology is derived from field-proven technology that has been deployed throughout the world for almost two decades.

Foresight’s innovative autonomous driving solutions are based on mature, proprietary stereoscopic image technology that uses two synchronized cameras to mimic human depth perception and produce a three-dimensional image. This 3D image can anticipate possible collisions with other vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians and other obstacles. The technology provides highly accurate real-time alerts about the vehicle’s surroundings while in motion. The systems are designed to improve driving safety by enabling highly accurate and reliable threat detection while ensuring the lowest rates of false alerts.

The company’s patents provide IP protection for its robust and proven proprietary stereoscopic technology, which was developed using the security technology of Foresight’s major shareholder, Magna B.S.P.

Foresight has developed three main products:

  • QuadSight™. This breakthrough detection system sets the bar for autonomous vehicle vision. It features nearly 100 percent obstacle detection with almost zero false alerts and operates optimally under all weather and lighting conditions, including darkness, rain, fog, haze and glare. QuadSight™ is the first quad-camera multi-spectral vision solution of its kind, driven by advanced and proven image processing algorithms. The system consists of two sets of stereoscopic infra-red and visible-light cameras that enable highly accurate and reliable obstacle detection for seamless 24/7 vision.
  • Eyes-On™. This solution uses advanced algorithms for accurate depth analysis and obstacle detection to provide a unique stereo vision Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). It can detect all potential obstacles regardless of shape, form or material, including other vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians and animals. It has an accuracy and reliability of almost 100 percent and near zero false alerts.
  • Eye-Net™. This is a cellular-based accident prevention solution that is designed to provide real-time pre-collision alerts to vehicles and pedestrians. This proprietary system is deployed on smartphones and cloud-based servers operating on existing cellular networks, and it eliminates the need for additional designated hardware. Eye-Net™ is designed to provide a complementary layer of protection to advanced driver assistance systems and extends this protection to road users who are not in direct line of sight. It is optimally designed for both urban environments and high-speed scenarios to provide protection for the most vulnerable road users. On March 28, 2018, Foresight announced that it had completed a successful feasibility study of its Eye-Net™ accident prevention solution involving 120 users of Android and iOS cell phones located across Israel.

In 2017, Foresight sought more opportunities within the international market. The Company signed pilot agreements with three leading car manufacturers in China and completed pilot projects meeting all pre-defined requirements and criteria. In addition, FRSX completed a pilot project with Uniti Sweden.

Studies by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety continue to emphasize the dramatic reduction in accidents and injury-related crashes reported when vehicles are equipped with collision avoidance systems. A recent study by the Institute states that the rate of single-vehicle, sideswipe and head-on crashes was 11 percent lower in vehicles with the warning systems. More importantly, the study shows collision avoidance technology cut the rates of injury crashes of the same type by 21 percent.

Foresight Autonomous Holdings, Inc. also holds a 32 percent interest in RailVision, a company that develops advanced systems for railway safety and maintenance. RailVision has successfully completed 13 tests in Israel, Germany, Italy and Switzerland in addition to a real-time system test with a European railway operator. Over the course of 2017, RailVision successfully completed rounds of financing totaling $5.8 million and started the process of licensing the system according to European standards.

Haim Siboni is the founder of Foresight and has served as the company’s chief executive officer and director since 2015. Siboni, a passionate entrepreneur, has an extensive background in the marketing and business management sectors in the fields of electronics, video, TV, multimedia, computerized systems, line and wireless telecommunication, design and development of systems and devices, including electro-optic radar systems. He is the founder and CEO of Magna B.S.P., Foresight’s major shareholder and a leading innovator in the field of homeland security surveillance solutions.

Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (FRSX), closed Thursday's trading session at $1.1401, off by 1.7155%, on 170,511 volume with 394 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 21,924 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.697000026/$2.94000005.

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