The conference featured presentations on a variety of fuel cell applications, including automotive applications as presented by Daimler Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd and Ford Motor Company, as well as advances in durability and testing by Ballard Power Systems and Los Alamos National Lab.

VIASPACE Energy has recently filed new patent claims covering use of its tunable laser-based VIASENSOR in the exhaust of internal combustion engines and as an embedded unit for control of future hybrid powered automobiles. The company has received very positive feedback from the early adopters of the VIASENSOR, as well as strong interest in these new applications from several automobile manufacturers and instrumentation companies.

About VIASPACE: Founded in 1998 to transform proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into commercial hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. VIASPACE focuses on alternative energy and fuel cell infrastructure, and on hardware and software for security and defense.

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