[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26160-26161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12506]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Availability of U.S. Patents for Non-Exclusive, Exclusive, or 
Partially Exclusive Licensing

AGENCY: U.S. Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1), announcement is made of 
the availability for licensing of the following U.S. Patents for 
nonexclusive, exclusive or partially exclusive licensing. All of the 
patents listed below have been assigned to the United States

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of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC.

``Controlled Multi-Purpose Chemical Agent Vapor Generator System'', 
U.S. Patent 5,728,927, Issued 17 Mar 98

    A system for generating a chemical agent airstream for testing 
chemical agent detection devices. The system includes subsystems for 
generating the chemical agent airstream, a parallel subsystem for 
generating an airstream for preconditioning the detection device and a 
subsystem for generating an interferant airstream for further 
determining the reliability of the detection device.

``Super Toxic Analytical Glove Box System'', U.S. Patent 5,730,765, 
Issued 24 Mar 98

    The field of the invention is the detection and analysis of toxic 
matter. More particularly, the invention relates to a portable 
analytical glove box system used to analyze highly toxic chemical 
samples.

``Method of Measuring the Decomposition of a Gaseous Material Under 
Controlled Temperature and Time Conditions'', U.S. Patent 5,719,323 
issued 17 Feb 98

    A method and apparatus for measuring the decomposition of a gaseous 
material under controlled temperature and time conditions. The method 
is particularly useful for testing the decomposition of pyrotechnic 
compositions useful in grenades.

``Oxidative Detoxification of Phosphonothiolates and Phosphonothioic 
Acids'', U.S. Patent 5,710,358 Issued 20 Jan 98

    A method for detoxifying substituted and unsubstituted 
phosphonothiolates and phosphonothioic acids.

``Panoramic Infrared-Imaging Spectroradiometer with Reverse Phase 
Modulation Beam Broadcasting'', U.S. Patent 5,708,503, Issued 13 Jan 98

    A spectroradiometer for analyzing chemicals located within a 
panorama comprised of hyperboloid mirrors for directing light received 
from the panorama through a collimator and via an interferometer to an 
array of detectors, the signals from which are subjected to parallel 
discrete Fourier transform and parallel spectra pattern recognition 
systems. Transmissions of data is achieved by using an interferometer 
having modulated photoelastic modulators positioned between linear 
polarizers, directing laser light through the interferometer to the 
hyperboloid mirrors and providing a receiver comprised of a linear 
polarizer, a detector, a plurality of band pass amplifiers, and a 
processor for recognizing the different patterns in the output of the 
amplifier that result from rotating at least one of the photoelastic 
modulators and polarizers to a different position.

``Thermite Destructive Device'', U.S. Patent 5,698,812, Issued 16 Dec 
97

    This invention relates to destructive devices using thermite 
reactions and in particular concerns improved means of utilizing such 
reactions in the destruction of metallic targets.

``Multifuel Combustion Engine and Use in Generating Obscurant Smoke'', 
U.S. Patent 5,665,272, Issued 9 Sep 97

    This invention pertains generally to the field of combustion 
engines and more particularly to combustion engines capable of 
operating on diverse fuels. In general, modifications are made to a 
combustion engine so that it is capable of operating on diverse fuels 
such as gasoline, diesel and kerosene.

``Frustum Layered Canister'', U.S. Patent 5,660,173, Issued 26 Aug 97

    This invention is a design improvement of the cylindrical canister 
or respirator filter that is used in conjunction with a gas mask for 
individual protection against respiratory hazards. This invention 
improved the problem of sacrificing protection time, against chemical 
and biological warfare agents, for pressure drop, in canister design.

``Earth Monitoring Satellite System with Combined Infrared 
Interferometry and Photopolarimetry for Chemical and Biological 
Sensing'', U.S. Patent 5,659,391, Issued 19 Aug 97

    Apparatus for remotely sensing chemical and biological material 
which produces interferograms and scattergrams on an array of light 
detectors, and provides a means for determining the distance between 
the apparatus and an area under examination.

``Neural Network Computing System for Pattern Recognition of 
Thermoluminescence Signature Spectra and Chemical Defense'', U.S. 
Patent 5,631,469, Issued 20 May 97.

    The present invention is related to the use of a neural network 
computing system recognizing the thermoluminescence signature spectra 
of chemical compounds and finds particular utility in the recognition 
of nerve and blister agent compounds.

``Competitor Primer Asymmetric Polymerase Chain Reaction'', U.S. Patent 
5,627,054, Issued 6 May 97

    This invention relates generally to the detection of nucleic acid 
sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). More particularly, this 
invention relates to a process for efficiently producing single-
stranded PCR products in an amount proportional to the amount of a 
target nucleic acid sequence present in a sample being analyzed.

``Apparatus and Method for Measurement of Offgassing Rate'', U.S. 
Patent 5,606,111, Issued 25 Feb 97

    This invention relates generally to testing apparatus and more 
particularly to test cells for measuring the offgasses emitted from a 
test sample.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John Biffoni, Patent Attorney, 
U.S. Army CBDCOM, AMSCB-GC, APG, MD 21010-5423, Phone: (410) 671-1158.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: None.
Mary V. Yonts,
Alternate Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-12506 Filed 5-11-98; 8:45 am]
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