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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology

 

Inventions, Government-Owned; Availability for Licensing

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. 91-020CIP2

Title: Electric Test Structure and Method for Measuring the Relative 
Locations of Conducting Features on an Insulating Substrate
Description: NIST researchers have invented a new electrical test 
structure to provide measurements of the separations of conducting 
features on an insulating substrate with uncertainties typically below 
10 nm. Measurement dynamic repeatability is nominally less than 1 nm. 
Absolute accuracy has been determined by comparing measurements of the 
same feature separations with those made by the NIST line-scale 
interferometer which has traceability to absolute length standards.

NIST Docket No. 92-017

Title: Electroforming of Metallic Glasses for Dental Applications
Description: A method of electroforming metallic glasses to produce 
dental prostheses and the resulting prostheses. The method uses a 
cobalt-phosphorus metallic glass alloy that produces prostheses with 
superior strength and high corrosion resistance.

NIST Docket No. 93-040

Title: Underwater Work Platform Support System
Description: NIST researchers have developed a system to stabilize an 
underwater work platform in six degrees of freedom. Suspended by cables 
beneath a surface vessel, the platform is stabilized through the use of 
winches and motion sensors even when the surface vessel is disturbed by 
waves.

NIST Docket No. 93-057

Title: Prevention of Contact Tube Melting In Arc Welding
Description: NIST engineers have developed a technique to detect and 
prevent the onset of contact tube melting in gas metal arc and flux 
cored arc welding. Anticipating the problem enables interruption of the 
welding power supply and prevention of contact tube melting.

NIST Docket No. 93-012

Title: Accumulator Distillation Insert for Zeotropic Refrigerant 
Mixtures
Description: NIST researchers have developed an accumulator 
distillation insert that improves the efficiency of heat pumps. The 
insert is cost-effective because it only requires minor modifications 
to an existing system, it does not change the basic refrigeration 
cycle, and it adds no additional moving parts or valves.

    Dated: December 19, 1994.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 94-31504 Filed 12-21-94; 8:45 am]
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