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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

Notice of Government Owned Inventions Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology Commerce.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by the U.S. Government, 
as represented by the Department of Commerce, and are available for 
licensing in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR part 404 to 
achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally funded 
research and development.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Technical and licensing information on these inventions may be obtained 
by writing to: Nancy Hale, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, Office of Technology Commercialization, Physics Building, 
room B-256, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; Fax 301-869-2751. Any request for 
information should include the NIST Docket No. and Title for the 
relevant invention as indicated below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The inventions available for licensing are:

NIST Docket No. 89-031

Title: Highly Accurate In-Situ Determination of Refractivity of an 
Ambient Atmosphere
Description: A method of determining the index of refraction of an 
ambient atmosphere, such as air. This measurement can then be used to 
enhance the accuracy of a quantity measurement (such as measurement of 
distance or length), for example, during the ``step and repeat'' 
process of patterning integrated circuit wafers using photolithography.

NIST Docket No. 91-002

Title: Thermal Properties Measurement Using a Superconductor Sensor
Description: Superconducting materials are used to sense the thermal 
environment in low power cryogenic flow meters, bolometers, level 
detectors, etc. This invention uses derivative functions of the 
voltage/current relationship, or any other parameter indicative of the 
non-linearity of this relationship, to control the current in these 
devices via a feedback loop.

NIST Docket No. 91-010

Title: Corrosion Resistant Thin-Film Thermocouples and Method
Description: These thin-film thermocouples provide fast temperature 
measurements and can operate in highly corrosive environments. The 
response speed of these devices approach 1,000 times faster than 
commercially available sheathed sensors. They can be miniaturized for 
use in harsh environments.

NIST Docket No. 91-013

Title: Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Character Strings
Description: Newly developed NIST technology analyzes and corrects 
errors in electronically stored character strings derived from 
handwritten documents. A processor has been designed to incorporate the 
technology, which significantly improves optical character recognition 
of handwritten data.

NIST Docket No. 92-044

Title: Monitor for Gas-Metal-Arc Welding (GMAW) Process
Description: New NIST technology provides improved control of gas-
metal-arc welding (GMAW) and reduces material flaws caused by process 
perturbations. The technique relates arc light intensity to arc length, 
which corresponds with arc voltage, indicating metal-transfer 
frequency.

NIST Docket No. 93-016

Title: High Intermetallic Titanium-Aluminum-Vanadium-Chromium Alloys 
Combining High Temperature Strength with Excellent Room Temperature 
Ductility
Description: New NIST alloys are about 50 percent lighter than other 
alloys used in aerospace and industrial applications. They are very 
ductile at room temperatures and provide excellent strength at high 
temperatures.

NIST Docket No. 93-017

Title: Correlated Run Length Method for Detecting Form Structure within 
Digitized Documents
Description: A method of analyzing digitized form documents to identify 
lines, boxes and other shapes on the documents; this information allows 
a scanning system to identify the form being scanned and the data entry 
fields on that form.

NIST Docket No. 31-038

Title: Amperometric Flow Injection Analysis Biosensor for Glucose Based 
on Graphite Paste Modified with Tetracyanoquinodimethane
Description: NIST has developed a new biosensor for glucose based on 
using a graphite paste of glucose oxidase and tetracyanoquinodimethan 
(TCNQ) in a flow injection analysis system.

    Dated April 13, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-9414 Filed 4-18-94; 8:45 am]
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