[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 1998)] [Notices] [Pages 10593-10594] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-5330] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned in whole or in part by the U.S. Government, as represented by the Department of Commerce. The Department of Commerce's ownership interest in the inventions is 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: 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. SUPPLEMENTAL 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: 96-050US. Title: Implementation of Role-Based Access Control in Multi-Level Secure Systems. Abstract: Role-based access control (RBAC) is implemented on a multi-level secure (MLS) system by establishing a relationship between privileges within the RBAC system and paris of levels and compartments within the MLS system. The advantages provided by RBAC, that is, reducing the overall number of connections that must be maintained, and, for example, greatly simplifying the process required in response to a change of job status of individuals within an organization, are then realized without loss of the security provided by MLS. A trusted interface function has been developed to ensure that the RBAC rules permitting individuals access to objects are followed rigorously, and provides a proper mapping of the roles to corresponding pairs of levels and compartments. NIST Docket Number: 96-052US. Title: Process for the Enactment of Workflow Using Role-Based Access Control. Abstract: A workflow sequence specified by a process definition is managed by a workflow management system which enacts each segment in the order specified by that process definition. Role-based access control (RBAC) is used to define membership of individuals in groups, i.e., to assign individuals to roles, and to then activate the roles with respect to the process at appropriate points in the sequence. Any individual belonging to the active role can perform the next step in the business process. Changes in the duties and responsibilities of individuals as they change job assignments are greatly simplified, as their role memberships are simply reassigned; the workflow process is unaffected. NIST Docket Number: 97-017US. Title: Domain Engineered Ferroelectric Optical Radiation Detector. Abstract: The invention uses electric field poling at room temperature to selectively reverse the direction of the spontaneous polarization in a z-cut LiNb03 electret to produce a bicell pyroelectric detector. Microphonic noise that is typical of monocell pyroelectric detectors is reduced in the present device. Investigation of the pyroelectric electret geometry and the vibration modes of the detector assembly may lead to designs with even greater microphonic suppression. More complicated domain reversal patterns may accommodate refined detector designs and could be used to create multi-element sensors. NIST Docket Number: 97-021US. Title: Temperature Calibration Wafer for Rapid Thermal Processing Using Thin-Film Thermocouples. [[Page 10594]] Abstract: This invention enables the measurement of temperature and the calibration of temperature measurements in rapid thermal processing tools for silicon wafer processing to a greater accuracy than previously possible. The invention is a device which is a calibration wafer of novel construction and capabilities. The calibration wafer is comprised of an array of junctions of thin film thermocouples which traverse the silicon wafer (typically 200 mm in diameter) and are welded to thermocouple wires of the same composition as the thin films. The advantages of very low mass thin-film thermocouples in making these measurements are greatest under the extremely high heat flux conditions present in rapid thermal processing tools (100 w/cm\2\). In order to achieve these measurements with thin-film thermocouples at temperatures ranging up to 900 degrees celcius a novel approach was taken in the design and fabrication of the wafer including the incorporation of an adhesion film for the thermoelements, diffusion barriers, and high temperature dielectric insulators. Dated: February 26, 1998. Robert E. Hebner, Acting Deputy Director. [FR Doc. 98-5330 Filed 3-3-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-13-M