Davenport SAF-T Systems

Davenport SAF-T Systems is developing the SAF-T VEST (U.S. Patent No. 10,897,938 B2), a wearable “smart” vest designed to reduce the risk of injury in falls. Injuries suffered from falls are a public health crisis. In 2015, the direct medical cost of fall injuries in the U.S. topped $50 billion. 

The SAF-T VEST was invented by Co-Founder Jay A. Davenport, M.D., a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon. It’s equipped with sensors that continuously monitor the user’s center of balance. When an unrecoverable fall is detected, a microprocessor triggers a network of airbags to inflate in a fraction of a second, absorbing the impact of the fall and deflating rapidly for a soft landing. The airbags protect the pelvis, hips, upper extremities and head. Our SAF-T VEST is in prototyping and not yet available to the public.