Its AED has won a number of honors, including a Medical Design Excellence Award. It has won praise for being affordable and easy to use. In order to be eligible, firms had to be based in North American and have had at least $50,000 in revenues in 2002 and at least $50 million in 2006. It also had to derive a significant portion of its revenues from proprietary technology or intellectual property, or invest a significant portion of revenues into R&D.