The Big Screen Store, 5271 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD 21704, US

Bobby and Burt Patton founded Patton Electronics in 1984, while students in college with the help of their moonlighting older brother, Bruce. Within two years their father, Robert, joined them in leading the company toward success. Patton's niche is making modems and connectivity products for the telecommunications industry. It has taken those simple beginnings and expanded into a manufacturing company that today employs more than 170 people and provides a product line in excess of 300 items. In the past few years, Patton has built on its transmission expertise by investing heavily in product developments in the G.SHDSL transmission and VoIP technologies. Patton has no geographic boundaries, but over half of its corporate revenue comes from international customers deploying our products overseas. Patton has its headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., with sales and support operations in Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific, Middle East, the Caribbean and Latin America. Patton, an ISO 9001 manufacturer, has over 200 distributors worldwide.