About the Inventor
Ken Wright
NOVACC Chief Executive Officer
With 30 years of manufacturing and industry recruitment experience, Ken Wright retired in 2021, or so he thought. He couldn’t help but feel pain, frustration and grief from watching from the sidelines as millions of people died from COVID. From his years of experience in manufacturing, he knew that many solutions to an industry’s greatest challenges came from outside that industry. So he thought about it, a lot. Not about how he could make money from the crisis or build a new business but about how many lives could be saved with the right solution.
Ken was especially concerned about the population that couldn’t take vaccines.
“I just wanted to save lives,” he says.
Ken came up with an idea that was so simple, so basic, that the patent attorneys were surprised it wasn’t already being explored. So was the Global Center for Medical Innovation. And even his associates in Georgia.
To evaluate the potential global impact for the new product, Ken reached out to contacts he’d met when he worked with globally throughout his manufacturing career and as Director of Business and Industry in his hometown. What emerged through his further research and development as well as initial design and engineering with Georgia Tech was not only an option to combat COVID, but truly the best option to prevent – and eliminate at the source – all viral infections.