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Actually the dirty little secret is although green is best color for night adapted eye, the real reason most likely is that green phosphor after WW-II had good efficiency, small grain size (better spatial resolution), fast decay time (temporal resolution), we're not too dangerous, and the biggest factor, green phosphor was cheap and known when the initial image intensifier technology was being developed. Actually black and white, white phosphor tubes do much better in the real world than green. I delivered white phosphor rubes in 1998 and they are just now being adopted.

Inventions do not take place in a vacuum. Patents are awarded to "advance the state of the art". If you don't like the idea that improvements to existing inventions can be granted patents, ask your Government representatives to change the laws.

I have, strengthen the existing SBIR process to protect the IP of the small business and provide funding for transition to procurement for products that are worthy. Enforce the existing laws (Technical Leveling and Technology Transfusion), they basically say it's against the law for the Government to supply information from a vendor to another vendor so the award to go to a pet company. No one ever gets prosecuted and it's done all the time. The current situation in very bad for business.

If that is true I will remove it. Please show me link to rule that says that.

Choose to? This product (at least for many years) could only be sold to the US Government, you couldn't even get components unless the suppliers were leaned on by the Government Program Manager. And since the design details were released, every dirtbag with money can purchase the European version. And try and get ITAR permission for export to friendly nations from the same Government you are in court against, it ain't happening. I think I will go to YouTube and watch President Eisenhower's farewell address about the Military Industrial Complex. What this is about is how one sided every process has become in the pay to play world of Washington DC.