[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5623-5624]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2191]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Patent Licenses; ND Resources, Inc.

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 [[Page 5624]] 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 to practice 
the invention embodied in U.S. Patent Serial No. 08/237,099, titled, 
``Method and Apparatus For Visualization Of Internal Stresses In Solid 
Non-Transparent Materials By Ultrasonic Techniques and Ultrasonic 
Computer Tomography Of Stresses'' to ND Resources, Inc., having a place 
of business in Cincinnati, Ohio. 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 CFR 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 CFR 404.7.
    U.S. Patent Serial No. 08/237,099 relates to a process for the 
detection and mapping of internal stresses in the interior of bulk 
materials by scanning acoustic technique.
    NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research and Development 
Agreement (``CRADA'') to perform further research on the invention for 
purposes of commercialization. The CRADA may be conducted by NIST 
without any additional charge to any party that licenses the patent. 
NIST may grant the licensee an option to negotiate for royalty-free 
exclusive licenses to any jointly owned inventions which arise from the 
CRADA as well as an option to negotiate for exclusive royalty-bearing 
licenses for NIST employee inventions which arise from the CRADA.
    The availability of the invention for licensing was published in 
the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 195 (October 11, 1994). NIST is also 
contemplating the grant of a field of use exclusive license for related 
patent, ``Method And Apparatus For Visualization Of Internal Stresses 
In Solid Nontransparent Materials by Elastoacoustic Technique,'' U.S. 
Patent No. 5,307,680, to ND Resources, Inc. The notice of availability 
of U.S. Patent No. 5,307,680 for licensing was published in the Federal 
Register, Vol. 58, No. 49 (March 16, 1993), and notice of prospective 
grant of exclusive license of U.S. Patent No. 5,307,680 was published 
in the Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 187 (September 28, 1994). A copy 
of the patent application may be obtained from NIST at the foregoing 
address.

    Dated: January 18, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 95-2191 Filed 1-27-95; 8:45 am]
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