Gen-Probe Incorporated develops, manufactures, and markets nucleic acid probe-based products used for the clinical diagnosis of human diseases, and for screening donated human blood in North America and internationally. The company markets and sells its clinical diagnostic products in the United States directly and outside the United States primarily through distributors, as well as through its direct sales force, and the company also markets and sells its other products through collaborative partners. The company's blood screening products are marketed and distributed worldwide by Novartis. In addition, the company has agreements with Siemens (as assignee of Bayer Corporation), bioMérieux, Inc., or bioMérieux, and Fujirebio, Inc., through its subsidiary Rebio Gen, Inc., or Rebio Gen, to market products in various overseas markets. The company is developing NAT assays and instruments for the detection of harmful pathogens in the environment and biopharmaceutical and beverage manufacturing processes. The company has entered into collaboration agreements with GE Infrastructure Water and Process Technologies, or GEI, a unit of General Electric Company, and Millipore Corporation, or Millipore, under which the company would be primarily responsible for developing and manufacturing assays for exclusive use or sale by its collaborative partners in specified fields with in the industrial testing market. Products The company has applied its core technologies to develop multiple product lines, all of which utilize its expertise in NAT probes, sample collection and processing. The company categorizes its products into clinical diagnostic products and blood screening products. Clinical Diagnostic Products Within its clinical diagnostic product group, the company has developed products for the detection of non-viral and viral microorganisms and for the detection of markers for cancer. Clinical Diagnostic Products for the Detection of Non-Viral Microorganisms The company has developed FDA-approved amplified and non-amplified NAT assays that detect non-viral micro-organisms primarily for use in clinical diagnostics. The company's principal products for the detection of non-viral microorganisms include its non-amplified AccuProbe and PACE family of products and its amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test and amplified APTIMA products. AccuProbe Products: The company's AccuProbe Culture Identification products are tools for the identification of mycobacterial, fungal and bacterial pathogens, with sensitivities and specificities approaching 100% in most cases. These products allow for the detection of target organisms from primary cultures, eliminating the additional labor of purifying secondary cultures. All AccuProbe Culture Identification assays are based on its HPA technology. As part of its AccuProbe Culture Identification product line, the company also has developed a procedure to detect GBS from broth culture. Group A Streptococcus Direct: The Group A Streptococcus Direct Test, or GASDirect assay, is a NAT assay for the direct detection of Streptococcus pyogenes in one hour from a throat swab. PACE Product Family: The company's PACE 2C offers the testing for both chlamydia infections and gonorrhea from a single patient specimen.

Chevron, Inc. manufactures towing and recovery equipment. Its products include fuels and stations, gift and credit cards and motor oils and fuel & additives. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Mercer, PA.

Octapharma is a privately-owned global human proteins manufacturer headquartered in Lachen, Switzerland. Since its establishment in 1983 the company has been dedicated to improving the lives of patients. Octapharma was founded in 1983 on the fundamental principle of improving the lives of patients. Since then we have remained focused on our collective responsibility for the trust instilled in us by physicians and patients worldwide. In 2012, the Octapharma Board identified the core strategic pillars which will lead to the achievement of the organization’s ambitious long term goals.

Svenska Milj��bolaget SVV AB is a private company headquartered in J��rf��lla, Sweden. The firm engages in scientific and technical research and development.

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), led by President Chubachi, is a public research institution funded by the Japanese government to a large extent. The present AIST is a rather new research organization established in 2001. However, AIST and its predecessor organizations have been contributing to society through continuous advancement in technologies and support to Japanese industries since 1882. Headquarters of AIST are located in Tsukuba and Tokyo. AIST has over 40 autonomous research units in various innovative research fields, and the units are located at ten research bases and several sites (smaller than research bases) of AIST all over Japan. About 2300 researchers (about 2000 with tenure: about 80 from abroad) and a few thousands of visiting scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and students from home and abroad are working at AIST. About 650 permanent administrative personnel and many temporary staff support research works of AIST.

Makes systems for blood and cell analysis

Fenwal, Inc. is a global medical technology company focused on improving transfusion medicine through expertise in blood separation, collection, filtration, storage, and transfusion. It offers apheresis collections, manual collections, therapeutics, specialty products, platelet safety, data management, data management, and customer solutions The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Lake Zurich, IL.

Abbott Laboratories engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a broad and diversified line of health care products. It operates through the following business segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The Established Pharmaceutical Products segment refers to the international sales of a line of branded generic pharmaceutical products. The Diagnostic Products segment markets diagnostic systems and tests for blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories, and alternate-care testing sites. The Nutritional Products segment caters to the worldwide sales of adult and pediatric nutritional products. The Medical Devices segment includes electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes care products for people with diabetes, as well as neuromodulation devices for the management of chronic pain and movement disorders. The company was founded by Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 and is headquartered in Abbott Park, IL.

Infimer Technologies Ltd. is engaged in creation of a thermoplastic composite material that serves as a raw material for the plastic industry originating from municipal waste. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Avihayil, Israel.

Xcellerex is a supplier of manufacturing technologies, developing and producing biomanufacturing systems and production-scale bioreactors. The biomanufacturing solutions transform the speed and economics of producing therapeutic proteins, including biosimilars and vaccines. Its proprietary products offer significant advantages such as faster installation, lower capital investment, reduced risk of cross-contamination, and significantly increased flexibility compared with traditional manufacturing technologies. The company’s FlexFactory® is a completely modular and portable production train based on single-use technologies, advanced process automation, and compact cleanroom architecture. In 2002, the company was founded by Parrish M. Galliher inMarlborough, Massachusetts.

HTC Corp is engaged in the design, development, and manufacture of smartphones and tablets in Taiwan. The company offers PDA phones and smartphones for mobile operators and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Asia. These machines are available as HTC devices and as products individually customized for operators and device partners. The company provides its own HTC self-branded products as well as supports operator-branded products and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. It owns Dopod as a subsidiary company and is a member of the Open Handset Alliance. The company’s products are sold under various brand names such as HTC, Dopod, and Qtek and are often rebranded by major telecommunication carriers. Its products also include pocket PC phones (PDA Phone), ultra mobile phones, HTC kovsky (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1), and HTC dream (T-mobile G1). HTC Corp was founded by Cher Wang and Peter Chou in 1997. It is headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Part of BP Plc, Atlantic Richfield Corp. is a company headquartered in the United States. The firm provides logging services.

Oblong Industries is a design-driven software and hardware company whose mission is to put a new user interface on every computer in the world. Oblong’s technology has roots in more than two decades of research at the MIT Media Lab and was the direct basis for the computers depicted in the film “Minority Report”. The company, founded in 2006, maintains global headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. The g-speak™ Spatial Operating Environment (SOE) is Oblong’s application development and deployment platform. It's the only general purpose platform designed from the ground up to give programmers access to the principles of spatial (and gestural) computing and real-world pixels, and to enable applications that are inherently multi-screen, multi-user, and multi-device. Oblong has used g-speak to help Global Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Saudi Aramco, and GE (as well as government agencies and universities) build and deploy profoundly productive solutions in areas including modeling and simulation, logistics and supply chain management, natural resource discovery and extraction, energy grid management, and financial and scientific data navigation and visualization. Oblong’s Mezzanine™ product, built atop the g-speak platform, is a room-scale visual collaboration system offering a unique shared pixel workspace: multiple participants work across multiple screens, sharing data, live video, and applications -- and exercising collaborative control -- from every device (phones, tablets, laptop browsers) they bring with them into the room. Telepresence capabilities, collaborative whiteboarding, and presentation design and delivery are integrated into the Mezzanine experience. Each Mezzanine room can join up to three other Mezzanine rooms (or connect to standard telepresence / videoconference endpoints) to enable distance collaboration of unprecedented immediacy and fluidity. The Oblong team comprises former executives, developers, and engineers from (among others) Apple, Google, Pixar, Microsoft, Accenture, and Disney. Oblong is privately held; investors include The Foundry Group, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, and Energy Technology Ventures.

Kurita Water Industries Ltd. (栗田工業株式会社 Kurita Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese manufacturer, providing water treatment chemicals and facilities as well as process treatment chemicals. During the 50´s Kurita Water Industries expanded the portfolio and started with the water treatment facilities business, chemical cleaning business (Kurita Engineering Co., Ltd.) and maintenance services. In her second decade, the 60´s, Kurita Water Industries entered the process treatment market, especially in the pulp and paper, petrochemical and steel industries. Since the mid of the 70´s up to now, Kurita Water Industries established 14 overseas subsidiaries and affiliates. Since 2003 Kurita Water Industries is listed in the Nature Stock Index (NAI = Natur-Aktien-Index).

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company, the largest provider of mobile telephone services, and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States through AT&T Communications. Since June 14, 2018, it is also the parent company of mass media conglomerate WarnerMedia, making it the world's largest media and entertainment company in terms of revenue. As of 2018, AT&T is ranked #9 on the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

Corning, Inc. engages in the provision of glass for notebook computers, flat panel desktop monitors, display televisions, and other information display applications, carrier network and enterprise network products for the telecommunications industry, ceramic substrates for gasoline and diesel engines in automotive and heavy-duty vehicle markets, laboratory products for the scientific community and polymer products for biotechnology applications, optical materials for the semiconductor industry and the scientific community, and polycrystalline silicon products and other technologies. It operates through the following business segments: Display Technologies, Optical Communications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences. The Display Technologies segment manufactures glass substrates for flat panel displays, including organic light-emitting diodes and liquid crystal displays that are used primarily in televisions, notebook computer, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. The Optical Communications segment is classified into two main product groupings: carrier and enterprise network. The carrier network group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data, and voice communications. The enterprise network group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments, and individuals for their own use. The Environmental Technologies segment manufactures ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile and stationary applications. The Specialty Materials segment engages in the manufacture of products that provide material formulations for glass, glass ceramics and crystals, and precision metrology instruments and software. The Life Sciences segment develops, manufactures, and supplies laboratory products. The company was founded by Amory Houghton Sr. in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning, NY.