Formerly doing business as Advanced Photometrics, in January 2005, the firm changed its name to Aspectrics Inc.. Headquatered in Pleasaton, CA, the firm supplies innovative Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers to OEMs who supply detector instrumentation to chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and automotive markets. Aspectrics holds several U.S. patents and one E.U. patent for its encoding disc technology and associated optics. The SBIR award was made to the R&D arm of the firm