During the course of employment, the Executive agrees to promptly disclose in confidence to the Company all inventions, improvements, designs, original works of authorship, formulae, processes, algorithms, compositions of matter, computer software programs, databases, mask works, and trade secrets (“Inventions”) that the Executive makes or conceives or first reduces to practice or creates, either alone or jointly with others, whether or not in the course of his employment, and whether or not such Inventions are patentable, copyrightable, or protectable as trade secrets.