[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3872-3873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1812]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology


Government Owned Inventions Available 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, Industrial Partnerships 
Program, 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: NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research 
and Development Agreement (``CRADA'') with the licensee to perform 
further research on the invention for purposes of commercialization. 
The inventions available for licensing are:

    NIST Docket Number: 95-024.
    Abstract: The device allows the utilization of existing 
chromatography equipment for electrochromatography.

    NIST Docket Number: 95-025.
    Abstract: The invention describes a process to purify nucleic acids 
and viruses using the application of an electrical field to a porous 
media. Nucleic acids and viruses can be concentrated from solution and 
purified from other components in mixtures. The invention also 
describes methods to separate individual nucleic acid molecules based 
on their mass and physical form. The variables of the separation 
include: flow rate, electrical

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field strength, electrical field polarity, and the chemical and 
physical nature of the porous media. These variables can be changed to 
give selective separations.

    NIST Docket Number: 95-031.
    Abstract: This acoustic microscope analyzes the properties of a 
solid using an ultrasonic transducer having a curved piezoelectric 
element, mounted in a curved insulating material, that generates and 
receives coherent, short-duration ultrasonic pulses through its 
coupling fluid. The received echo waveforms are recorded and compared 
with reference samples or known theory and computer simulations.

    Dated: January 16, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Director, Program Office.
[FR Doc. 97-1812 Filed 1-24-97; 8:45 am]
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