[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 40 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7475-7476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4540]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Government Owned Inventions

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 Partnerships, Building 820, Room 213, 
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. 93-061

    Title: Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Resin Crystallization 
and Shrinkage During Polymer Molding.
    Description: This device is an optical fiber sensor which can be 
inserted into the mold cavity of an injection molding machine. The 
sensor can ``view'' a polymer resin during the mold filling and resin 
cooling phases of the process cycle. By detecting light reflections 
from the polymer and back surface of the mold, it is possible to 
monitor crystallization and shrinkage of the resin.

NIST Docket No. 94-004

    Title: Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer and Methods of 
Determining Physical Properties of Cylindrical Bodies Using an 
Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer.
    Description: An encircling electromagnetic-acoustic transducer 
provides a means of exciting and detecting specified types of 
ultrasonic resonant vibrations in cylindrical metallic objects. This 
device is useful for a variety of sensing applications where material 
properties or external parameters must be determined.

NIST Docket No. 94-024

    Title: Construction of Large Structures By Robotic Crane Placement 
of Modular Bridge Sections.
    Description: This system for efficient, safe, cost-effective 
construction of highway bridges, traffic overpasses and bypasses, and 
causeways over water or wetlands provides continuous site assembly of 
repetitive modular elements. The payload (one or more modular bridge 
sections), attached to the crane's cables, becomes a component of a 
stable lifting and positioning system. Installed modular elements 
become a staging platform for constructing subsequent modular elements.

NIST Docket No. 94-037CIP

    Title: Arsenic Atom Source.
    Description: This invention provides a source of arsenic atoms, 
representative of Group V and VI elements, usable in molecular beam 
epitaxy (MBE) as a growth source in the manufacture of semiconductors.

NIST Docket No. 95-009CIP

    Title: Reference Substrates having Conducting Features Replicated 
in Single Crystal Films Formed on Insulating Material for Overlay- and 
Linewidth-Instrument Calibration and Method for Electrical 
Certification of Critical Dimensions.
    Description: This NIST invention provides an improved test 
structure for measuring width, spacing, or similar geometrical 
characteristics of conductive lines formed on substrates in 
semiconductor fabrication. The method enables the calibration of 
instruments used for such measurements.

    Dated: February 22, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-4540 Filed 2-27-96; 8:45 am]
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