John Santini, its boss, says his company is working on drug delivery with a big pharmaceuticals firm, and that his laboratory curiosity will be a commercial reality within three to five years.
"We've got the black holes cornered, " said Daniel Stern of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), lead author of one of the three studies presented on Wednesday.
My quest took me to three continents, from the US, to Italy, to Jerusalem and the radiocarbon dating laboratory in Oxford, which was part of the original test 20 years ago.