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Ion Optics, Inc.

Spire Corporation

Nomadics, Inc.

Smartlok LLC

Smartlok Systems, Inc.

John S Wollam

Edward A Johnson

James T Daly

Glen L Aronson

W Andrew Bodkin

A method for controlling access to a storage unit owned by an owner, wherein a renter has access to the storage unit unless the owner receives the legal right to deny the renter access to the storage unit and decides to do so. In this method, the storage unit is secured by a lock that is, at least in part, controlled by the renter. A remotely controllable lockout assembly, however, is capable of over locking the storage unit so that the renter can no longer gain entry when the lockout assembly is activated. The method includes remotely controlling the lockout assembly to deny the renter access to the unit when the owner receives the legal right to deny the renter access to the storage unit and decides to do so.

Lock with remotely activated lockout feature

A blackbody radiation device () includes a planar filament emission element () and a planar detector () for respectively producing and detecting radiation having width dl/l less than about 0.1 to test a sample gas, where l is the wavelength of the radiation; a reflector (); a window (W); an electrical control (); and a data output element ().

Infrared radiation sources, sensors and source combinations, and methods of manufacture

A method for controlling access to a storage unit owned by an owner, wherein a renter can obtain and maintain rights to said storage unit by paying a first rental fee and subsequent periodic rental fee payments according to a schedule. In this method, the storage unit is secured by a lock that is, at least in part, controlled by the renter. A remotely controllable lockout assembly, however, is capable of over locking the storage unit so that the renter can no longer gain entry when the lockout assembly is activated. The method includes remotely controlling the lockout assembly to deny the renter access to the unit when the when said renter has failed to pay said periodic rental fee on schedule and a grace period has passed since said renter's rights to said storage unit have elapsed.

Storage locker having a remotely activated lockout feature

A blackbody radiation device () includes a planar filament emission element () and a planar detector () for respectively producing and detecting radiation having width dl/1 less than about 0.1 to test a sample gas, where 1 is the wavelength of the radiation; a reflector (); a window (W); an electrical control (); and a data output element ().

A process of improving the sensing function of biocompatible electrodes and the product so made are disclosed. The process is designed to alter the surfaces of the electrodes at their tips to provide increased surface area and therefore decreased contact resistance at the electrode-tissue interface for increased sensitivity and essentially includes rendering the tips atomically clean by exposing them to bombardment by ions of an inert gas, depositing an adhesion layer on the cleaned tips, forming a hillocked layer on the adhesion layer by increasing the temperature of the tips, and applying a biocompatible coating on the hillocked layer. The resultant biocompatible electrode is characterized by improved sensitivity, minimum voltage requirement for organ stimulation and a longer battery life for the device in which it is employed.

Method of making biocompatible electrodes

A reflective window for providing an indirect optical path to an object including an array having a plurality of reflective elements, each being disposed at an acute angle to the plane of the window and parallel to each of the other reflective elements; each of the reflective elements having a length, along its dimension which intersects with the plane of the window, capable of producing on the window a projection which is at least as great as the distance between each pair of the reflective elements, each of the reflective elements having first and second reflective surfaces for receiving radiation on its first reflective surface and reflecting it to the second reflective surface of one adjacent reflective element and for receiving on and reflecting from its second surface radiation from the first reflective surface of another adjacent reflective element.

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Acton, MA, United States of America

John S Wollam