Attorneys' Docket No: 12543-005001


                                   ASSIGNMENT

         For valuable consideration, we, PAUL AMADEO of San Diego, California,
and JOSE FLORES of San Diego, California, hereby assign to American Pacific
Technology, a California corporation having a place of business at 6827 Nancy
Ridge Drive, San Diego, CA 92121; and its successors and assigns (collectively
hereinafter called "the Assignee"), the entire right, title and interest
throughout the world in the inventions and improvements which are subject of an
application for United States Patent signed by us, entitled INTEGRATED
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD) AND ROBOTIC SYSTEMS FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING AND
MANUFACTURER OF SMART CARDS, filed October 12, 2001, and assigned U.S. Serial
Number ____________, and we authorize and request the attorneys appointed in
said application to hereafter complete this assignment by inserting above the
filing date and serial number of said application when known; this assignment
including said application, any and all United States and foreign patents,
utility models, and design registrations granted for any of said inventions or
improvements, and the right to claim priority based on the filing date of said
application under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the European Patent Convention, and all
other treaties of like purposes; and we authorize the Assignee to apply in all
countries in our name or in its own name for patents, utility models, design
registrations and like rights of exclusion and for inventors' certificates for
said inventions and improvements; and we agree for ourselves and our respective
heirs, legal representatives and assigns, without further compensation to
perform such lawful acts and to sign such further applications, assignments,
Preliminary Statements and other lawful documents as the Assignee may reasonably
request to effectuate fully this assignment.


Date:    10/24/01                              PAUL AMADEO
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                                               PAUL AMADEO


Date:    10/24/2001                            JOSE FLORES
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                                               JOSE FLORES