Intelligent Optical Systems Retracts ``World's First'' Claim.Business Editors TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2001 Intelligent Optical Systems Inc. (IOS (1) (Internetwork Operating System) An operating system from Cisco that is the primary control program used in its routers. IOS is widely used and robust system software that supports the common functions of all products under Cisco's CiscoFusion architecture. ), a privately held R&D company specializing in the design and development of proprietary optical communications, monitoring and signal processing technologies, was notified by DCH DCH Department of Community Health DCH Diploma in Child Health DCH Defend Council Housing (UK) DCH Data Channel DCH Dil Chahta Hai (movie) DCH Dhaka Community Hospital Technology Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :DCH), a developer and manufacturer of hydrogen sensor based equipment, that IOS' news releases of May 14, 2001, and June 13, 2001, were inaccurate. DCH notified IOS that DCH, in cooperation with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colorado, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy, is the United States' primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. (NREL NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) ), demonstrated a fully functional fiber optic hydrogen sensor in 1997 at the National Hydrogen Association Meeting in Washington, D.C. DCH informed IOS that the sensor earned recognition from the Department of Energy's Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel and that DCH and NREL have U.S. patents for fiber optic hydrogen sensors. The IOS news releases were intended to announce the successful test of the IOS prototype in a rocket motor firing at NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Stennis Space Center, and claimed it to be the "world's first fiber optic hydrogen leak detection system." IOS apologizes to DCH for any confusion or misunderstanding caused by the term "world's first" in its news releases. About Intelligent Optical Systems Inc. Intelligent Optical Systems Inc. (www.intopsys.com) is a privately held R&D company based in Torrance, that specializes in the design and development of proprietary optical communications, monitoring and signal processing technologies. |
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