Leto Solutions, San Antonio, Texas, an early-stage medical device startup company that is focused on improving the comfort and quality of life for lower-limb amputees was recognized as one of ten companies with the best business opportunity and promise for high-value commercialization at the Texas Life Science Forum held in Houston on February 20. The company was founded by students at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). Its first product, expected to be commercially available in the first half of 2014, is the Aquilonix™ Prosthesis Cooling System, a thermoelectric cooling and heat dissipation system that can be integrated into a transtibial prosthetic socket and thereby reduce sweating.
