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EMRISE CORPORATION AWARDED PATENT FOR VERY LOW PROFILE (VLP®) SWITCHES AND ENCODERS RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, September 22, 2006 - EMRISE CORPORATION (NYSE Arca: ERI), a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic components and communications equipment, today announced that EMRISE Corporation has been awarded Patent No. 7,109,430 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its Very Low Profile (VLP®) Rotary Switches and Encoders. Commenting on receipt of the patent, William J. Miller, President of the Digitran Division, and Executive Vice President of EMRISE Electronics Corporation, said, “We are extremely pleased to finally receive this patent which covers our basic design features that give our Digitran VLP® rotary switches and encoders their significant weight and space savings and improved reliability over competitive standard designs. This new patented technology affords our switches the competitive advantage of typically 80% less post panel depth, 75% less weight and fewer internal parts for higher reliability and longer life. Weight and space savings of panel mounted switch components provide EMRISE customers with significant competitive advantages in their systems, making Digitran VLP® rotary switches a desirable component especially for aerospace and military applications. This patent issuance also now opens new and potentially larger markets and sales opportunities for EMRISE Corporation beyond our traditional military and aerospace markets.” Carmine T. Oliva, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMRISE CORPORATION, commented, “The issuance of this patent allows EMRISE to proceed with new marketing and sales projects that have been initiated, but have been awaiting the added benefits that patent protection provides. “These projects include licensing our VLP® technology for higher volume applications such as industrial electronic systems where we have limited or no market presence, and completing private label agreements with internationally established electronic component distributors seeking to broaden their product lines. We believe this patent award helps justify the substantial investment we have made in the development of new products.” About EMRISE CORPORATION EMRISE Corporation is a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic components and communications equipment. EMRISE’s electronic components group, which consists of EMRISE Electronics Corporation and its international subsidiaries, provides custom power conversion, RF components and subsystems as well as digital and rotary switches to the North American, European and Asian electronic components market. These products are primarily used for defense, aerospace and industrial applications. EMRISE’s communications equipment group, consisting of CXR Larus Corporation and its subsidiary CXR Anderson Jacobson, provides network access, satellite timing and synchronization and transmission products as well as communications test equipment to the North American, European and Asian communications industry. Founded in 1983, EMRISE operates out of facilities in the United States, England, France and Japan. As of August 31, 2006, EMRISE had a total of 307 employees in its various subsidiaries and divisions. Website: www.emrise.com. Listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol: ERI. Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 With the exception of historical information, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The actual future results of EMRISE CORPORATION could differ from those statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, our ability to successfully market our VLP® rotary switches as competitively desirable components for aerospace and military applications, our ability to successfully expand our sales efforts in new markets; our ability to successfully license our VLP® technology for higher volume applications; general market and economic conditions, changes in technology and governmental regulations and policies, competitive products and services, unforeseen technical issues and those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” Section of EMRISE Corporation’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005.
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