The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), but don't blame the company if your train was running late this morning. B&W designs, supplies, and services power generation systems and equipment, from boilers to nuclear steam generators. The company provides about 25% of the world's boiler-powered electricity, and it has made nearly half of the process recovery boilers used in paper mills in the US. The boiler maker's products can be found in more than 800 utilities in 90-plus countries. B&W also owns specialty nuclear fuels company Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS), which has a production plant in Tennessee. B&W owner, McDermott International looks to spinoff B&W in 2010.

MOSAID Technologies Incorporated engages in the licensing of patented semiconductor and telecommunications intellectual property (IP), complemented by the development of memory and other technologies. The company has right to license approximately 50 patents and foreign counterparts relating to digital signal processors (DSPs), reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), application specific standard products (ASSPs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and semiconductor memory and processing technologies. The company also owns a portfolio of 400 patents relating to DRAM, Flash memory and semiconductor process technology. It also owns patents relate to technologies, including power over Ethernet (PoE), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), IP private branch exchanges (IP-PBXs), wireless access points (WAP), IP digital subscriber line access multiplexers (IP-DSLAMs), cable modems, and asynchronous DSL (ADSL) modems. Licensing Programs The company has two major licensing programs, including the semiconductor licensing program and the telecommunications licensing program. The semiconductor licensing program focuses on licensing its memory patent portfolio, which includes patents related primarily to DRAM, Flash memory and PSRAM, and its microcomponents patent portfolio. The telecommunications licensing program focuses on licensing the company’s wireless patent portfolio, and on licensing the communications portfolio. As of April 30, 2008, the company had granted 33 patent licenses to companies headquartered in Asia, Europe and North America. The company, under its semiconductor licensing program, licenses to the DRAM market. It has signed a license agreement with Etron Technology, Inc., a DRAM vendor based in Taiwan. Under its telecommunications licensing program, it granted wireless patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic). Panasonic was granted a six-and-a-half year license under its patents for its Wi-Fi, WiMAX and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)-enabled notebook personal computers (PCs) and other products sold globally, with the exception of mobile handsets.

Brooks Automation Inc. company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Brooks Automation, Inc. (Brooks) is a provider of automation, vacuum and instrumentation solutions and is a business partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and equipment users throughout the world. The Company also provides solutions to customers in data storage, advanced display, analytical instruments and solar markets. Brooks operates in three segments: Critical Solutions Group, Systems Solutions Group and Global Customer Operations. The Critical Solutions Group segment provides a variety of products critical to technology equipment productivity and availability. The Systems Solutions Group segment provides a range of products and engineering and manufacturing services. The Global Customer Operations segment provides a range of support services.

Elektron company provides electronic components to industrial, utility, transport, mechanical, and commercial customers worldwide. The company's US-based Arcolectric unit manufactures and sells appliance switches, fuseholders, and indicator lights. Elektron's UK-based subsidiary, Bulgin Components, offers products including industrial connecters, fuseholders, switches, mains filters, and battery holders. Elektron has divested several other units to focus on these core operations.

Molecular Imprints, Inc. (MII) makes specialized lithography equipment used to imprint circuit designs onto semiconductor wafers and to fabricate nanoscale devices, micromachines, and structures. MII's Imprio systems use a technology called step-and-flash imprint lithography. Molecular company has installed advanced lithography tools at Cardiff University in the UK, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Molecular company was established in 2001. MII has offices in Germany, Japan, and the US.

Ansen provides services such as printed circuit board surface mounting and assembly from manufacturing facilities in China, Hong Kong, and the US. It also offers design, prototyping, and engineering services, as well as packaging, distribution, warranty, and support. The company's products are used in medical instruments, computers, telecommunications gear, and industrial controls. Ansen was taken private by management in 2003, and then combined with fellow EMS firm InnerStep in 2004.

Arryx, Inc is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Haemonetics. Arryx Research facilities, personnel, and operations will remain in Chicago. Arryx's patented HOT technology uses focused light to form optical traps that function like microscopic "tractor beams" to grab small objects. These optical traps (also known as laser tweezers) can hold, move, rotate, join, separate, stretch, and otherwise manipulate hundreds of microscopic and nanoscopic objects, ranging from the size of a human cell down to less than 1/1000th the diameter of a human hair. Arryx's proprietary technology gives rise to multiple applications. Arryx's first product, the BioRyx® 200 optical trapping system, is able to produce and move multiple optical traps for manipulating cells, beads, or other objects.

Hunzicker Brothers distributes electrical equipment and supplies to customers from seven locations throughout Oklahoma. It also conducts educational classes in power quality, electric motors, and heat tracing, among others. The Hunzicker Lighting Gallery, complete with showroom, offers professional lighting design services. The Hunzicker family, now in its fourth generation of ownership, holds controlling interest. Hunzicker Sales was founded in 1920 by brothers Walter and Frederick Hunzicker; its name was changed to Hunzicker Brothers four years later. The brothers started the business by buying a rail car full of light bulbs and reselling them. It later expanded into electrical fixtures and related products.

SpectraSensors, Inc. manufactures and supplies precision optical laser-based gas analyzers for the energy and petrochemical industries. Its products include air monitoring, moisture, dew point, hydrogen sulfide, H2S, dual channel, and atmospheric and portable gas analyzers for natural gas pipelines and processors, petrochemical refineries, and chemical companies. The company’s solutions measure and monitor gas and petrochemical concentrations in a variety of applications, such as environmental, energy, water, and chemical process monitoring. Its gas analyzers measure moisture, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, methane, ammonia, and ethylene oxide. The company also provides communication software systems, such as SCADA2000 for data acquisition, control, and monitoring of custody transfer metering; and CMC, a communications management center for automated and on-demand polling of field monitoring devices. SpectraSensors offers its products through an international distribution network and installation base in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Australia, and Asia. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas with engineering, design, and manufacturing operations in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Wellex was founded in 1983 by Jackson Wang (CEO), Chern Lee (former CEO), and Danny Lee (former chairman). Wellex provides a welcome break from manufacturing chores. As a contract electronics manufacturer, Wellex makes printed circuit boards (PCBs) for OEMs in the computer, data storage, industrial equipment, medical equipment, networking, security systems, and telecommunications industries. The company offers surface-mount and pin-through-hole PCB assemblies, along with design, testing, and repair services, to such diverse customers as Eastman Kodak, Ingersoll-Rand, St. Jude Medical, and Sun Microsystems, with plants in China and the US.

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