TUSTIN, CA--(Marketwire - October 15, 2007) - Franek Technologies, Inc., the leader in certified Category III-3 Laboratory Battery Backup Power Protection Systems (LPS/UPS), has installed 10 more power protection systems at the nationally accredited Orange County (CA) Sheriff’s Department Forensics Science Laboratory, now protecting 12 of its critical Applied Biosystems (ABI) PCR and Genetic Analyzers. As a result of these installations, key instrumentation, valued at approximately $1 million, at the state-of-the-art laboratory is protected against power fluctuations or failure that could otherwise cause loss of irreplaceable crime-related samples and data, costly damage to instrumentation, as well as significant lost productive time.