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Vermont Development Credit Union Funds Urinary Control Invention

An entrepreneurial inventor who received loans from the $31 million Opportunities Credit Union to help him develop a product has received a $3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to produce it.

By Staff Writer | Updated on July 17, 2007

BURLINGTON, Vt. — An entrepreneurial inventor who received loans from the $31 million Opportunities Credit Union to help him develop a product has received a $3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to produce it.

Harvie, an engineer, approached Opportunities (formerly the Vermont Development Credit Union) in 2002 for loans to help him develop a bladder relief system suitable for Air Force and other long-range pilots, the CU explained. Harvie had approached banks for help, but had been consistently turned down, the CU said. Harvie invented, developed and holds a patent on the system.

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