1987 Stratos Founded

1988 1st In-flight Video Entertainment: British Airlines 1st Class

1989 Lowest-cost Electrostatic Printer: Rastergraphics

1990 1st Automated Gas Meter Reader: Itron

1991 1st Portable Computer Input Device: Microsoft BallPoint

1992 1st PC Audio System: Microsoft Windows Sound System

1993 1st Laptop Touchpad: Apple Computer

1994 1st In-flight Passenger Phone: AT&T Wireless/McCaw

1995 Top-of-line Digital Multimeter: Fluke 70 Series

1996 Top-of-line Portable Laptop: Apple 3400

1997 1st Wearable Thin-client Computer: Stratos/Inroad

1998 Stratos Incubation Fund Created

1st Automated Tagging and Marking of Live Fish: NMT

National Grand Prize Engineering Award: Design News

1999 1st Imaging Flow Cytometer: Stratos/Amnis

1st Non-invasive Ultrasonic Therapy: Stratos/Therus

2000 Game Controller: Microsoft Xbox

1st Multiple Medical Imaging Dry Printer: Codonics

2001 1st Low-cost Internet Data Collection Appliance: Sportbrain

1st Optical Orthodontics Modeling of Teeth: Orametrix

2002 1st Commercial Microfluidic Station: Stratos/Micronics

2003 1st Mass Video Storage SATA-based MAID System: Copan

2004 1st Electro-wetting Protein Array: Stratos Biosystems

2005 Cleavable Surface Chemistry: Stratos Biosystems

2006 Focusing BioChips for Affinity Mass Spectrometry: Stratos Biosystems

2007 Medical Design Excellence Award: Datascope Netguard

2008 Nucleic Acid Sequencing by Expansion: Stratos Genomics watch video >>

2009 OpGen Argus Optical Mapping System, for Automated, Microbial Whole Genome Analysis

2010 Nucleic Acid Probe Analyzer Single-molecule, Multiplex Pathogen Identification: Stratos Genomics

2011 Amnis (co-founded by Stratos Group) acquired by EMD Millipore

2011 Micronics (a Stratos Group investment) acquired by Sony