It’s Been a While!

SINCE LAST WE SPOKE…

I won’t bore you too much with the details! In a nutshell, we had some investor funding coming in at the end of March 2020 which was leading to alpha testing and focus group campaigns we had been looking to launch that next month in April 2020 (for which some of you may remember having gotten a notification about!)…

Well, best laid plans, right?

After the global quarantine was initiated, we got a call saying the funding we expected was being pulled because investors were concerned about what the pandemic was going to do to their portfolios (honestly, that’s completely understandable), with an insistence from the rep that it was not only us being affected. They even sent us a $500 check as an apology, which was a kind gesture.

I had two choices: use the funding we had left over from grants and business competition winnings we’d used to build the foundation of our software to either continue our plans for alpha testing and focus groups (while everyone was distracted by a pandemic that was turning their lives upside down), or focus everything into seeing if we were truly innovative by securing a patent (which would also open us up to be more “investable” in the future).

I decided on the latter and we began working to secure that patent!

Once the remainder of our funds had been exhausted, Mica and I began putting our own money into the patent fees to keep things going. With the amazing help of our legal team, taking over where Mica and I had left off when we submitted our napkin drawings, we received the amazing news April 2022 that our medical device was indeed considered novel!

Beacon Sleep Solutions was granted a patent by the USPTO!

Instead of diving right back into operations I requested to wait until I finished my research dissertation for my DBA, which I successfully defended at Drexel University in August of 2023. The very next month, with newly appointed COO Krischa Arrington, we began piecing everything back together to get our medical device into the hands of people like me who greatly need it.

And boy do I need it!

You think that over the past 3 years my sleep paralysis episodes have stopped? Especially with working full-time in hospital operations while fully completing a doctoral research dissertation, and after that pursuing a full-time PhD?

That we didn’t find our kids in wandering aimlessly in the hallway with hauntingly empty gazes during an episode of sleepwalking?

That when I headed to conferences without my wife I didn’t feel extremely concerned about having a sleep paralysis attack in my hotel room without anyone there to intervene and kick me out of my episode?

These events have definitely continued happening!

With my professional career evolving and more demands added to my schedule, the frequency of episodes have increased (especially over the past year and a half)! I am desperately wanting a tried and proven solution for my sleep paralysis, and I know many others with SP, sleepwalking, night terrors, and the like want a solution, too!

That’s what Beacon Sleep Solutions is here to do. We’re back and better than ever!

We have some exciting news coming, including new members of the team (interviews are ongoing!) and overall plans moving forward. My personal goal that I will be striving to hit is to have initial software that can act as a supplement to aid sleeping issues in the hands of users by the end of 2024!

Thank you all for your ongoing support of our mission, and for the constant and continued requests through our website to want to be part of alpha testing. Stay tuned! More to come soon!

dream better, sleep better

Dr. Joseph B.V. Arrington

Founder & CEO, Beacon Sleep Solutions