30th November 2006

UTEK Corporation Completes Technology Transfer with Cyberlux


Cyberlux Corporation announced that Cyberlux has acquired SPE Technologies, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of UTEK Corporation in a restricted stock transaction. Cyberlux also showcased its Covert/Visible solid-state semiconductor security lighting systems and made 21 claims awarded by the US Patent Office for Emergency Safety Lighting to accelerate pursuit of providing long-term solutions for interim and emergency lighting in hotels

Prior to the Cyberlux acquisition, SPE Technologies, Inc. held the worldwide exclusive license to a number of pending patents for the Scattered Photon Extraction (SPE) methodology, developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. These packages are designed to enable higher luminous efficacy with down-converted white light illuminators constructed with LEDs. In contrast to traditional white LED packages, the SPE packages place the phosphor and/or down-conversion materials, such as quantum dots, at locations remote from the LEDs. The optic surrounding the LED’s die is shaped to extract a significant portion of the down-converted white light that is otherwise absorbed and lost as waste heat within the traditional LEDs packages.

“The SPE technology increases light output and efficacy of white LEDs, and could play a important role in the evolution of white LEDs for lighting in homes and offices,” said Nadarajah Narendran, Director of Research at Rensselaer’s Lighting Research Center, where the technology was developed.

“This newly acquired technology gives Cyberlux the ability to ultimately hold the proprietary rights to a technology that could provide major advancements in the LED marketplace,” says Mark Schmidt, President, Chief Operating Officer of Cyberlux. “With the development of the SPE technology, the Rensselaer researchers have developed what we believe to be novel white LED packages that may achieve a brighter, more efficient illumination system. We hope that this acquisition will bring a greater value to our company and compliment our existing suite of products sold both to the commercial and residential lighting market,” added Schmidt.

“UTEK is pleased to consummate this technology transfer between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cyberlux Corporation,” said Claire Guyer, Manager of Technology Licensing at UTEK Corporation.

Secondly, Cyberlux showcased its Covert/Visible solid-state semiconductor security lighting systems at the 38th Annual National Airlift/Tanker Show and Symposium in Orlando.

Major General George W. Norwood, USAF (Ret), an Associate of the Peduzzi Associates Group of Alexandria, VA, served as a spokesperson for Cyberlux and was instrumental in advising other General Officers in the range of applications provided by the Covert/Visible lighting systems.

WatchDog is an advanced solid-state lighting security system selected by the USAF Air Mobility Battlelab for the USAF Ravens. The Ravens are the USAF Security Forces charged with asset and force protection. The system illuminates an exterior boundary of 300 x 300 feet from a parked aircraft with either visible ultra-bright white light or covert infrared light visible through night-vision goggles (NVGs). It was designed to protect military aircraft assets on the ground by creating a "lightless" zone around the asset while illuminating the surrounding protection boundary. In covert illumination mode, the system increases the outreach visibility of NVGs by over 4-fold.

Finally, Cyberlux says it has created breakthrough LED lighting technology that provides the most energy efficient and cost effective lighting solutions available for consumer, commercial and military uses. The Military and Homeland Security products deliver unique covert and advanced visible lighting capability for threat detection, force and asset protection. Cyberlux uses solid-state semiconductors, trademarked as its 'diodal' lighting elements, which consume 75% less energy than incandescent lighting elements and perform for over 20 years in contrast to 750 hours for conventional bulbs.

"Cyberlux is a leader in the field of solid-state LED lighting," observed Donald F. Evans, CEO. "The Company's ability to patent innovative lighting technology for recurring problems such as power outages demonstrates the opportunity for major advances in the lighting industry where fail-safe, long-term solutions for interim and emergency lighting are in high demand," continued Evans. "The 21 claims awarded by the U.S. Patent Office for our Emergency Safety Lighting will accelerate our further pursuit of providing long-term solutions for interim and emergency lighting in hotels, hospitals, elder care facilities, apartment complexes and residences," concluded Evans.

The claims awarded by the U.S. Patent Office address a solid-state lighting device capable of transforming existing electrical wall outlets into an emergency lighting system for homes, hospitals, hotels, nursing homes and businesses. The lighting device, designed as a replacement electrical wall outlet, simply plugs into an existing outlet after removal of its cover plate. Although the lighting device continues to operate as an electrical outlet, it also contains a constant charge battery; a motion sensor for initiating low levels of lighting for gentle illumination of a darkened room or navigation of a corridor; a power sensor for broadcasting a high level of light up the attendant wall surface to reflect off of the ceiling thereby illuminating a room or corridor; and a photo cell that detects ambient light in the space which disables the system. The lighting device is intended to provide long- term solutions for emergency and interim lighting.

The patent addresses an electrochemical lighting system capable of providing prolonged illumination with the use of LEDs as the illumination source.

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