Lumoptik

Lumoptik is a private medical device company developing light-based precision guidance systems to improve needle placement during epidural and related procedures. Its lead product, the BrightPoint epidural needle guidance system, is designed to provide clinicians with real-time visual feedback on tissue at the needle tip during standard loss-of-resistance epidural workflows. The company positions BrightPoint as a low-cost, easy-to-use adjunct for childbirth epidurals, spine and pain procedures, and selected orthopedic applications. Lumoptik has also described broader platform potential beyond epidurals, including orthopedic and neurology uses, and has collaborated with Hospital for Special Surgery to evaluate and expand the technology. Overall, Lumoptik appears to be an active early-stage healthcare device company rather than a drug-development biotech or pharma company.