JP Laboratories, Inc is a small research and development company inventing mega, novel products/technologies. Typically, we do not develop just one product but rather a group of products for a given technology/industry. These technologies have the potential to yield highly profitable global annual business ranging from of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Many of these technologies can save lives, e.g., time-temperature indicators, sterilization indicators and extending shelf-life of foods. These technologies also have the potentials of universalizing technologies, with products such as universal sterilization indicators and set standards for the industry with products like ultrasonic cleaning indicators. It takes multi-millions of dollars and years of dedicated efforts with highly skilled manpower to develop a novel/innovative product/technology having a market of hundreds of millions of dollars. Developing novel/innovative products/technologies is the high-risk business of multi-billion dollars corporations. JP Labs is in a business (of innovations) which is none of its business (innovation is generally a business of multi-billion dollars corporations). Even though we are a small company, as displayed above, we have been successful in developing new and novel products/technologies in highly diverse disciplines of science and technology.

Dr. Gordhan Patel started JP Labs in 1983 to follow his passion of developing products based on his own ideas. His objective remains to invent/develop new/novel products/processes, patent and license them. Dr. Patel has a highly diverse, multi-disciplinary experience in different disciplines of science such as chemistry, physics, biology, agriculture, metallurgy, color changing chemical indicators, radiation, glass-lining and preservation of foods. He has either papers or patents in all these disciplines. His research was mainly funded with a number of multimillion dollars grants under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program before Y2002. All product development is self-funded since Y2002.

Dr. Gordhan Patel, is a dedicated lifelong pioneering research scientist and inventor. His first patent on chemical indicators (time-temperature indicators) was in 1976. He has ~150 patents and patent applications, published ~70 research papers, delivered ~125 invited lectures around the world, and has received numerous prestigious awards and recognitions, such as the Edison Patent Award, R&D-100 Award and an honorary doctorate degree (D.SC. Honoris Causa). He was invited by a US Congressional Subcommittee to testify on a technology he developed for combating terrorism.

He is educated at the world’s top research universities (Ph.D. from Sardar Patel University/India/1970, and post-doctoral experience from University of Bristol/England/1970-1973 and Baylor University, Waco, TX/1973-1974). NIST University, Berhampur, Odish (India) bestowed upon him an Honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc., Honoris causa) on December 19, 2025. He was trained as an innovator at the corporate R&D center of Honeywell, Morris Town, NJ (USA). At JP Labs, with help from many scientists, he pioneered many novel technologies in diverse fields of science and technology. He visits India frequently and gives lectures on his research and innovations. He is also a visiting faculty member, an advisor and a member of the board of governors of some Indian universities. He co-mentors Ph.D. students at a few Indian Universities.

Awareness and status of JP Labs’ products/technologies: The products/technologies of JP Labs are not turn-key products/technologies (i.e., not ready for manufacturing and marketing). The terms “Product” and “Product Developed” used herein mainly means the product is invented, the feasibility of concepts has been demonstrated, patent applications are filed or issued, the product is optimized in the laboratory but not yet scaled-up or manufactured. The products need to be scaled up using pilot plants before they can be manufactured. As the products are new/novel, they require skilled scientists/engineers, management, manufacturing and marketing personnel. We have invested millions of dollars and it has taken years, often a decade or more, to develop them. The licensee(s) may have to invest millions of dollars and it may take more than one year before the products can be introduced in the market and become profitable. They are “high risk – high reward” type products/technologies. Some of the products/technologies have potentials to be unicorns and bring lots of recognitions and awards.