[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-15187]


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[Federal Register: June 22, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating 
the grant of a field of use exclusive license outside the United States 
to practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent 5,295,176, titled, 
``Method and Apparatus for Precisely Measuring Accelerating Voltages 
Applied to X-Ray Sources'' to Radical Corporation, having a place of 
business in Monrovia, California. The patent rights in this invention 
have been assigned to the United States of America.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bruce E. Mattson, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Technology Development and Small Business Program, Building 221, Room 
B-256, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be 
royalty-bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 
U.S.C. 209 and 37 C.F.R. 404.7 The prospective exclusive license may be 
granted unless, within sixty days from the date of this published 
Notice, NIST receives written evidence and argument which establish 
that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the 
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 C.F.R. 404.7.
    U.S. Patent 5,295,176 provides a method of precisely measuring the 
accelerating voltage applied to an x-ray tube using a simple apparatus 
with a direct reading taken from a spectrographic image of the 
radiation produced by the x-ray tube.
    The availability of the invention for licensing as published in the 
Federal Register, Vol. 58, No. 93 (May 17, 1993). A copy of the patent 
may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing address.

    Dated: June 17, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-15187 Filed 6-21-94; 8:45 am]
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