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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

National Institute of Standards and Technology

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of government owned inventions available for licensing.

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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: Marcia Salkeld, 
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. 91-007

    Title: X-Ray Photoelectron Emission Spectrometry System.
    Description: New NIST technology using x-ray photoelectron emission 
spectroscopy makes it possible to obtain depth information on chemical 
species located 1 to 5 nanometers beneath a material surface. The 
technique eliminates distortions in the data which may result from 
changes in position between the sample and electron spectrometer during 
analysis. It also takes advantage of the x-ray reflectivity of the 
sample.

NIST Docket No. 92-049

    Title: Faraday Effect Magnetic Field Sensor.
    Description: NIST researchers have successfully demonstrated a 
flux-concentration technique for enhancing the sensitivity of magneto-
optic magnetic field sensors. The resulting Faraday effect sensor is 
200 times more sensitive than the magneto-optic material alone.

NIST Docket No. 93-024

    Title: Piezoelectric Linear Stepping Motor.
    Description: The NIST ``Miliped'' is a piezo driven linear stepping 
motor that uses a novel application of the expansion properties of 
piezo ceramics coupled with a novel motor housing. This design provides 
greater clamping/driving force in a robust and stiff actuator that is 
easily manufactured. Range of travel is limited only by housing length 
with a minimum step size limited only by the quality of the power 
supply.

NIST Docket No. 93-053

    Title: Thin Film High Temperature Silicide Thermocouples.
    Description: The invention includes a method of preparing a thin 
film metal silicide thermoelements for thermocouples with superior 
durability in air at 700-900 degrees Celsius and thermocouples made 
using this structure.

NIST Docket No. 93-072C

    Title: Multiple Memory Self-Organizing Pattern Recognition Network.
    Description: A NIST neural network has been developed which allows 
patterns to be filtered, recognized, and classified with no 
prespecified class or filtering information. The technology allows 
adaptive, high accuracy, parallel classification of complex noisy 
patterns from a small set of training examples.

    Dated: August 9, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-19996 Filed 8-15-94; 8:45 am]
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