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

design and development for others of scientific and industrial equipment and instruments, namely scanners; devices for monitoring optical signals and wavelengths; devices for reading and 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, and authenticating encoded substrates, beads, particles, and microbeads; devices for reading, identifying, analyzing, monitoring, sorting, tracking, screening, verifying, and authenticating labeled items, namely, chemicals, molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, cells, liquids, solids, gases, powders, fluids, steam, slurries, organic and inorganic materials, animals, plants, people, and objects; and devices for detecting optical, electromagnetic, and radioactive, emissions and absorption; design and development for others of substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, and encoded, coated, and polarized substrates, particles, beads, and microbeads; substrates, particles, beads, and microbeads having labels, tags, codes, digital codes, and bar codes; optically readable encoded substrates, particles, beads, and microbeads; diffraction gratings; holograms; light filters; design and development of kits for others comprising substrates, particles, beads, microbeads, and encoded substrates, particles, beads, and microbeads; and computer programming for others and 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, and security applications