[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 15126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7057]



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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 Commercializa-
tion, 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. 93-051
Title: Process For The Chemical Preparation of Bismuth Telluride and 
Bismuth Telluride Composite Thermoelectric Materials
Description: An aqueous chemical route to a bismuth telluride precursor 
is described. Bismuth telluride is readily generated from the precursor 
by hydrogen reduction at 275 deg C, and exhibits a particle size of 
about 100nm. This process provides fine-particle, polycrystalline 
bismuth telluride from commonly available chemicals in yields exceeding 
90%.
NIST Docket No. 93-059
Title: Strut Structure and Rigid Joint Therefor
Description: This NIST invention is a system of mechanical joints and 
clamps for assembling lightweight struts into a rigid structure. The 
system is designed to hold several large objects, such as telescope 
mirrors, in precise and stable positions relative to each other.
NIST Docket No. 94-005
Title: Particle Calorimeter With Normal Metal Base Layer
Description: NIST researchers have designed a microcalorimeter based x-
ray detector using a normal-metal absorber and a normal-insulator-
superconductor tunnel junction thermometer. The detector has very fast 
response time, on the order of 10 to 100 microseconds, and is capable 
of detecting a minimum energy of 1 eV.
NIST Docket No. 94-008
Title: Josephson D/A Converter With Fundamental Accuracy
Description: The invention is a superconducting integrated circuit that 
uses a digital input to rapidly select any one of several thousand 
quantized output voltages. The voltages are generated directly by 
microwave synchronized Josephson junctions and are as accurate as the 
externally generated microwave frequency. The circuit makes fast 
voltage comparisons and the digital synthesis of ultra-accurate AC 
waveforms possible. These AC waveform's amplitude derives directly from 
the internationally accepted definition of the volt.
NIST Docket No. 94-019
Title: Transparent Carbon Nitride Films, Process For Making Carbon 
Nitride Films And Compositions Of Matter Comprising Transparent Carbon 
Nitride Films
Description: This invention is a novel process to produce transparent, 
hard carbon nitride films. The films are useful on lenses, windows, and 
mirrors where durability is often limited by scratches or other means 
of surface damage.

    Dated: March 15, 1995.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 95-7057 Filed 3-21-95; 8:45 am]
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