Abstract: A medical gown constructed by heat sealing a tube made by a blown film process. The medical gown having a front panel and a rear panel, a vertical perforation running along the rear panel centerline, two sleeves for covering the arms of a wearer, a sleeve perforation for enabling the wearer to penetrate a portion of their hand therethrough. Each sleeve of the medical gown having an upper seal portion and a lower seal portion, a neck opening between the upper seal portions of the two sleeves, a gap between the lower sealed portions of the two sleeves for accommodating the body of the wearer. An underarm perforation below each sleeve facilitates severing of each of the sleeves from the gown material. Supplemental perforations on either side of the gown are also provided for yielding a pair of straps that can be tied at the rear of the gown.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems of authenticating an integrated circuit (IC). The manufacturing location of an IC is authenticated by storing in the IC a local signature derived from a GPS signal that was received at the manufacturing location at the time of manufacture. A remote signature is derived from a GPS signal that was received at a remote site nearly simultaneously as the reception of the GPS signal at the manufacturing location. The local signature is compared to the remote signature at an authentication site to determine the authenticity of the IC.