Finalists Named in the 2006 Idaho Innovation Awards
8/29/2006

CONTACT: Nicole Larson, Marketing Manager - Boise, (208) 389-9000 nlarson@stoel.com

BOISE- Twenty-two innovations and the Idaho companies that created them have been selected as finalists in the first annual Stoel Rives Idaho Innovation Awards program. This program is presented by the Idaho Office of Science & Technology, and sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and the Idaho Business Review.

“We are very pleased with the response we received for this first time event,” said Kris Ormseth, Stoel Rives Boise Office Managing Partner. “We not only exceeded our goal of receiving 50 nominations, but we were very impressed with the wide variety of technology that the nominations represented.”

The Idaho Innovation Awards program recognizes innovations in eight categories: agriculture/environmental/aquaculture, chemical/materials science, computer hardware/electrical devices, software, imaging/optical technology, mechanical devices, biosciences/medical devices and semiconductor manufacturing.

Eight winners—one from each category—will be announced at an Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at the Boise Centre on the Grove, held in conjunction with the Intermountain Venture Forum. The entries were judged by a Selection Committee composed of more than 40 leaders from private industry, government and higher education, many of whom are experts in the eight fields of invention represented. Votes were tallied by the accounting firm Cooper Norman.

LIST OF FINALISTS (BY CATEGORY)

Finalists, listed alphabetically within each category, are as follows:

Agriculture/Environmental/Aquaculture

• Idaho National Laboratory, Xtreme Xylanase
• North Wind, Inc., Innovative Process Accelerates Groundwater Cleanup
• PakSense, Inc., TXi Label

Biosciences/Medical Devices

• Idaho National Laboratory, Medical Actinium for Therapeutic Treatment (MATT)
• North Wind, Inc., Applied Enzyme Activity Probes
• OX-GEN, Inc., 2 hr. Self-Contained Self-Rescue Unit

Chemical/Materials Science

• Idaho National Laboratory, Blue Mussel Adhesive
• Idaho National Laboratory, Compact High Efficiency Natural Gas Liquefier
• Positron Systems, Inc., Induced Positron Analysis

Computer Hardware/Electrical Devices

• Beckmer Products, Inc., Dental R.A.T.™
• MetaGeek, LLC, Wi-Spy
• Micron Technology, Inc., 512Mb Low Power Mobile DRAM

Computer Software

• DigiTar LLP, Medusa - Omni-Adaptive Architecture
• Idaho National Laboratory, Robot Intelligence Kernel
• Neoreef Corporation, The Builder Website Management System

Imaging/Optical Technology

• Hewlett-Packard Company, Automatic Color Management
• Micron Technology, Inc., 8-Megapixel Image Sensor

Mechanical Devices

• Richard B. Tremblay, INTEGRATED BI-MODAL WHEEL ASSEMBLY
• Ugobe, Pleo - Ugobe Life Forms

Semiconductor Manufacturing

AMI Semiconductor, Low Power RF System-on-Chip IC

Micron Technology, Inc. – Fab 4 Process Development, Batch Reactor ALD HfO2

Micron Technology, Inc., Selective Epitaxial Silicon Growth into DRAM

To register for the Innovation Awards Luncheon on September 26, please call or email Tammie Brennan at (208) 387-4244 or tlbrennan@stoel.com no later than Friday, September 15. Ticket prices are $20 per person or $200 for a table of ten. More information is available at www.stoel.com/innovation.