Scientific and industrial equipment and instruments, namely scanners; devices for monitoring optical signals or wavelengths; devices for reading or detecting optical codes; hybridization equipment; molecular detection and analysis equipment; fluidics equipment; equipment for detecting the presence of analytes in samples and identifying sample type; devices for reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, dispensing, tracking, screening, verifying, or authenticating encoded substrates, beads, particles, or microbeads; devices for reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, tracking, screening, verifying, or authenticating labeled items, namely, chemicals, molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, cells, liquids, solids, gases, powders, fluids, steam, slurries, organic or inorganic materials, animals, plants, people, or objects; or devices for detecting optical, electromagnetic, or radioactive, emissions or absorption; substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, or encoded, coated, or polarized substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads having labels, tags, codes, digital codes, or bar codes; optically readable encoded substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; diffraction gratings; holograms; light filters; encoded substrates, beads, particles, or microbeads for labeling, identifying, monitoring, sensing, sorting, tracking, tagging, screening, verifying, or authenticating items, namely, chemicals, molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, cells, liquids, solids, gases, powders, fluids, steam, slurries, organic or inorganic materials, animals, plants, people, currency, or objects; kits comprising substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, or encoded substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; holders, plates, slides, vials, cuvettes, cassettes, or containers for holding, aligning, or reading substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads, or for performing identification, screening, experiments, evaluations, or assays; reaction vessels; vessels for performing screening, experiments, evaluations, or assays; computer programs for use in reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, tracking, verifying, or authenticating encoded substrates, beads, particles, or microbeads; and computer programs for use in monitoring or analyzing data in the fields of chemical, biochemical, biomedical, combinatorial chemistry, pharmaceutical, drug discovery, genomics, proteomics, identification, verification, authentication, sensing, anti-counterfeit, anti- terrorism, or security applications

Design and development for others of scientific and industrial equipment and instruments, namely scanners; devices for monitoring optical signals or wavelengths; devices for reading or detecting optical codes; hybridization equipment; molecular detection and analysis equipment; fluidics equipment; equipment for detecting the presence of analytes in samples and identifying sample type; devices for reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, dispensing, tracking, screening, verifying, or authenticating encoded substrates, beads, particles, or microbeads; devices for reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, tracking, screening, verifying, or authenticating labeled items, namely, chemicals, molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, cells, liquids, solids, gases, powders, fluids, steam, slurries, organic or inorganic materials, animals, plants, people, or objects; or devices for detecting optical, electromagnetic, or radioactive, emissions or absorption; design and development for others of substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, or encoded, coated, or polarized substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads having labels, tags, codes, digital codes, or bar codes; optically readable encoded substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; diffraction gratings; holograms; light filters; fabrication of kits for others comprising substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, or encoded substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; performing for others the encoding, labeling, or tagging of substrates, particles, beads, or microbeads; performing for others of assays, identification, verification, authentication, testing, screening, profiling, diagnostics, experiments, sensing, sorting, labeling, tagging, monitoring, or tracking using substrates, particles, beads or microbeads; and computer programming for others or updating of computer software for others in the fields of chemical, biochemical, biomedical, combinatorial chemistry, pharmaceutical, drug discovery, genomics, proteomics, identification, verification, authentication, sensing, anti-counterfeit, anti- terrorism, or security applications