[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 93 (Friday, May 14, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26423-26424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12206]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: Dust Detector Tube

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (DHHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a) that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 
Technology Transfer Office, Department of Health and Human Services 
(DHHS), is contemplating the grant of a worldwide, limited field of 
use, exclusive license to practice the invention embodied in the patent 
application referred to below to SKC, Inc., having a place of business 
in Eighty-Four, Pennsylvania. The patent rights in this invention have 
been assigned to the government of the United States of America. The 
patent application to license is:
    Title: Dust Detector Tube.
    U.S. Patent Application Serial No.: 60/052,719.
    Filing Date: 7.3.97.
    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.
    Current methods of airborne dust sampling and detection require 
expensive instantaneous and short-term monitors or gravimetric filters. 
Current gravimetric dust filtering techniques are cumbersome. A need 
exists for an inexpensive and noncumbersome method to detect personal 
dust exposure to aid in assuring the respiratory health of workers.
    CDC scientists at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory have invented 
a dust detection tube device that provides an individual sampling 
method and apparatus for real-time respirable dust dosimetry for dust 
exposure assessment. This device can be standardized with other types 
of gas detection tubes so that it can be used with the same pump system 
to measure both dust and gas.

ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of this patent application, inquiries, 
comments,

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and other materials relating to the contemplated license should be 
directed to Thomas E. O'Toole, Deputy Director, Technology Transfer 
Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton 
Road, NE, Mailstop E-67, Atlanta, GA 30333, telephone: (404) 639-6270; 
facsimile: (404) 639-6266. Applications for a license filed in response 
to this notice will be treated as objections to the grant of the 
contemplated license. Only written comments and/or applications for a 
license which are received by CDC within sixty days of this notice will 
be considered. 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. A signed Confidential Disclosure 
Agreement will be required to receive a copy of any pending patent 
application.

    Dated: May 10, 1999.
Joseph R. Carter,
Acting Associate Director for Management and Operations, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-12206 Filed 5-13-99; 8:45 am]
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