[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 5 (Thursday, January 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1119-1120]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-461]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Dynamically Stable 
Associative Learning Neural Network System

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, DHHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is notice in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 
Department of Health and Human Services, is contemplating the grant of 
an exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in U.S. Patent 
Numbers 5,119,469, 5,222,195, 5,402,522, 5,588,091, and U.S. Patent 
Application Number 08/331,554, entitled ``Dynamically Stable 
Associative Learning Neural Network System'', to Distil Technologies, 
Inc., having a place of business in New York, New York. The patent 
rights in this application have been assigned to the United States of 
America.

DATES: Only written comments and/or applications for a license which 
are received by the NIH Office of Technology Transfer on or before 
March 9, 1998 will be considered.

ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of this patent application, inquiries, 
comments, and other materials relating to the contemplated license 
should be directed to: John Fahner-Vihtelic, Office of Technology 
Transfer, National Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Boulevard, 
Suite 325, Rockville, Maryland 20852-3804; Telephone: 301/496-7735 
extension 270; Fax: 301/402-0220; e-mail: [email protected]. A signed

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Confidentiality Agreement will be required to review copies of the 
patent application.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The present inventions generally relate to 
the field of artificial neural networks. More specifically, these 
patents and patent application describe a dynamically stable 
associative learning neural network. Included in their basic 
architectural units are, at least one each of a conditioned signal 
input, an unconditioned signal input, and an output. Interposed between 
input and output elements are ``patches,'' or storage areas of the 
dynamic interaction between conditioned and unconditioned signals. 
These signals process information to achieve associative learning 
locally under rules designed for application-related goals of the 
system. Patches may be fixed or variable in size. The neural network is 
taught by successive application of training sets of input signals to 
the input terminals until dynamic equilibriums are reached. This 
technology is useful in pattern classification and completion, 
robotics, and control applications.
    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 60 days 
from the date of this published Notice, NIH receives written evidence 
and argument that establishes that the grant of the license would not 
be consistent with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
    Properly filed competing applications for a license filed in 
response to this notice will be treated as objections to the 
contemplated license. Comments and objections submitted in response to 
this notice will not be made available for public inspection, and, to 
the extent permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of 
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552.

    Dated: December 18, 1997.
Barbara M. McGarey,
Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transfer.
[FR Doc. 98-461 Filed 1-7-98; 8:45 am]
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