2.19.14 Royalty checks were presented to 126 Berkeley Lab inventors in the Lab’s annual royalties ceremony.The event highlighted the broad range of licensed technologies, software and published books now in the marketplace. Among them: a charge-coupled device licensed by both Digirad, for use in medical imaging, and Hamamatsu, for telescopes; process equipment incorporated by Veeco into devices for coating read/write heads; a low NOx emission burner technology used in industrial heaters sold by Maxon; quantum dots used as probes for biomedical assays by Life Technologies; and a robotics technology licensed by Takeda California for use in drug discovery. In addition, over 30 startups including Seeo, Aeroseal, Berkeley HeartLab and TeselaGen were founded on Berkeley Lab technologies.