David Levy (inventor)

[1] Between degrees he worked for five years at Apple, replacing the Trackball with the first Touchpad and repositioning the laptop keyboard from the front to the back.

In 1999, Levy started a company called Digit Wireless, with the help of angel investors and venture capital, ultimately raising $21 million.

Digit Wireless was started with the purpose of developing Levy's Fastap keypad technology for cell phones/PDA devices.

In 2003, he invented the concept of tracing a finger over the image of a QWERTY keyboard to indicate which word the user is trying to type, for which he received US patent 7,175,438.

Levy restructured the company and renamed it "OH2 Laboratories", then to focus exclusively on monetizing a collection of patents on solubilizing G-Protein Coupled Receptors, a technology invented by Shuguang Zhang PhD and licensed from MIT.