User:Csbruggers/Stanley Kaplan (Entrepreneur)

Stanley Kaplan (January 1929 – present) is an American industrialist and entrepreneur. Kaplan is a lifelong serial entrepreneur with over twenty design and improvement patents to his name, mostly for hardware and construction components, some also relating to body armor and various health and fitness devices. Kaplan was the President of Unifast Industries, which he founded in 1958 to develop and manufacture his own patented hardware and construction fasteners and anchor bolts. Unifast's commercial products included but were not limited to, The Thunder Bolt Sleeve Anchor, Thunder Stud Wedge Anchor, Coil Anchor, and the Kaptoggle. Unifast was headquartered in Hauppauge, New York until 1988 at which time it was taken over by its employees through a leveraged buyout. Unifast Industries is now defunct and its copyrights and patents are all public domain. Kaplan's fastener designs continue to be manufactured and have become staples throughout the construction industry worldwide. Kaplan continues to develop new fastener technology.

Unifast Industries
Kaplan founded Universal Fasteners in 1958 to capitalize on a major gap in the market for safe and reliable concrete anchors.

American Body Armor
Kaplan was also heavily involved in the early stages of developing effective personal body armor for military and civilian applications. Unifast's body armor division eventually became American Body Armor, at one time the single largest provider of Kevlar armor to the US Government.

Myogauge
Myogauge, founded by Kaplan in 1995, is the developer of The Myogauge System, an isometric muscle evaluation tool and proprietary suite of analytic software. The Myogauge System is a device utilized by various types medical professionals and Physical Therapists to monitor injuries and determine maximum medical improvement (MMI). It is also a health and wellness product utilized in gyms and health clubs by Personal Trainers and Sport Specific Trainers for setting fitness goals and progress reporting.

It is primarily used to determine the strength of any of the major muscle groups in the body, measuring right and left sides separately for the sake of determining balance or imbalance. It is also used to monitor stamina, coordination and consistency of these same muscle groups through a varying time element and graphic depiction of the subjects' maximum effort over the specified testing duration, ranging from .7 to 10 seconds.

Kaplan purchased the assets of the Myotech Corp in 1988 which included the underlying technology that eventually led to The Myogauge System. Due to changes in Medicare reimbursement laws the technology was shelved temporarily. Beginning in 1995 Kaplan started to reevaluate the usefulness of accurate isometric muscle testing. Over the next fifteen years Myogauge went through numerous prototypes and design improvements to arrive at the market ready product it is today. Myogauge is privately held and is headquartered in Deer Park, New York.