Awards bestowed
John C. Pemble, vice president of special projects for investment-broker Fechtor, Detwiler & Co. Inc. (Boston, MA), was presented the 1998 Automating Imaging Achievement Award at the Automated Imaging Association?s recent 6th Annual Business Conference. He was cited for his leadership roles at several top machine-vision companies, such as Robotic Vision Systems, Acuity Imaging, and Itran Corp., and for bringing the industry greater visibility and success. . . . Universal Display Corp. (UDC; Bala Cynwyd, PA) has announced that its research partner, Princeton University, has been awarded US patent #5,721,160 for Multicolor Organic Light-Emitting Devices. The patent relates to packaging and sealing aspects of the devices. UDC has the exclusive worldwide license to the patent.