[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 247 (Friday, December 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80840-80841]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32630]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Corps of Engineers Availability of Exclusive or Partially 
Exclusive Licenses

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
announces the general availability of exclusive, or partially exclusive 
licenses under the following pending patents. Any license granted shall 
comply with 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR Part 404.
    Serial Number: 09/229,161.
    Filing Date: 1/13/99.
    Title: Method for Attaching Fabric and Floor Covering Materials to 
Concrete.
    Serial Number: 09/397,071.
    Filing Date: 9/16/99.
    Title: Groundwater Flow Measuring System.
    Serial Number: 09/408,911.
    Filing Date: 9/30/99.
    Title: Retrievable Filter Element for Subsurface Drainage.
    Serial Number: 09/418,367.
    Filing Date: 10/14/99.
    Title: A Method for Measuring Depths of a Waterway and for 
Determining Vertical Positions of a Waterborne Vessel.
    Serial Number: 09/418,481.
    Filing Date: 10/15/99.
    Title: Method of CEL Hybrid Modeling for Simulation of Ecosystem-
Level Processes in Aquatic Environments.
    Serial Number: 09/418,482.
    Filing Date: 10/15/99.
    Title: Method and System Capable of Performing a Substantially 
Continuous Uptake During a Trawling Operation.
    Serial Number: 09/432,213.
    Filing Date: 11/3/99.
    Title: A Wearable Computer Configured for Geophysical Radar 
Profiling Applications.
    Serial Number: 09/551,860.
    Filing Date: 4/18/00.
    Title: Instrument Channel Approach.
    Serial Number: 09/553,613.
    Filing Date: 4/20/2000.
    Title: Method and Apparatus for Measuring and Assessing Corrosive 
Conditions of a Surface by a Remotely Controlled Robotic Vehicle.
    Serial Number: 09/564,030.
    Filing Date: 5/4/2000.
    Title: Method and Apparatus for Installing a Small-scale 
Groundwater Sampling Well.
    Serial Number: 09/572,942.
    Filing Date: 5/18/2000.
    Title: Method of Manufacturing Cement Board Incorporating Recycled 
Carpet Fiber and Cement Board Made in Accordance Therewith.
    Serial Number: 09/628,940.
    Filing Date: 7/28/00.
    Title: Bag Dispenser.
    Serial Number: 09/628,941.
    Filing Date: 7/28/00.
    Title: Detection of Sub-Surface Failures in Barriers

DATES: Applications for an exclusive or partially exclusive license may 
be submitted at any time from the date of this notice. However, no 
exclusive or partially exclusive license shall be granted until 90 days 
from the date of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, Office of 
Counsel, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22315-3860.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia L. Howland (703) 428-6672.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Method for Attaching Fabric and Floor Covering Materials to 
Concrete. A method of bonding a variety of moisture-sensitive 
materials, such as vinyl, wood, pressed boards, and textile materials 
to concrete, utilizing a steel foil or plate layer as an effective 
vapor barrier, that protects the adhesive beneath the floor covering 
from the moisture which moves through the concrete, preventing the 
adhesive bonding between the covering material, such as carpeting, and 
the concrete from failing, preventing permeation of moisture from the 
concrete to the adhesive bonding area, protecting the concrete and the 
covering material from premature weathering and providing a surface for 
paint or spray-on coatings.
    Title: Groundwater Flow Measuring System. An apparatus and method 
of measuring and monitoring groundwater flow at extremely low seepage 
velocities (0.1-1.0 ft/day). The use of temperature sensors with a 
linear temperature response, as opposed to the highly nonlinear 
temperature response provided by thermistors, employs a groundwater 
monitoring probe comprising a central electric heater and three or more 
temperature sensors surrounding the heater, which are immersed in the 
groundwater in a slotted, perforated, or screened section of a casing 
inserted in a monitoring well, and which are electrically connected to 
electronic measuring, computing, and recording means at the surface.
    Title: Retrievable Filter Element for Subsurface Drainage. The 
filter elements and process for constructing leach fields. The filter 
elements are assembled by placing rubber or plastic scrap pieces, in 
the form of chips, in net sacks. The net sacks containing the aggregate 
are attached to pieces of fabric filter cloth, which may be wrapped 
around the net sacks or draped around adjacent filter elements so that 
the soil surrounding the net sacks cannot infiltrate into the enclosed 
aggregate chips, but water draining into the aggregate chips can escape 
through the filter cloth into the surrounding soil.
    Title: A Method for Measuring Depths of a Waterway and for 
Determining Vertical Positions of a Waterborne Vessel. A method for 
determining, on a continuous basis, the clearance between the bottom of 
a waterborne vessel and the bottom of a waterway.
    Title: Method of CEL Hybrid Modeling for Simulation of Ecosystem-
Level Processes in Aquatic Environments. A method for coupling Eulerian 
and Lagrangian reference frames so higher tropic levels of an aquatic 
ecosystem, such as fish and shellfish, can be systematically and 
realistically simulated, allowing for the

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analysis of higher tropic level processes with minimal distortion and 
loss of information by coupling two frames of reference and exploiting 
the advantages associated with each.
    Title: Method and System Capable of Performing a Substantially 
Continuous Uptake During a Trawling Operation. A trawler method and 
system achieving an increased consumption ratio of catch-to-bycatch 
during the trawling operation, reducing the mortality of the bycatch in 
commercial trawling, and also minimizing loss of the target species.
    Title: A Wearable Computer Configured for Geophysical Radar 
Profiling Applications. A portable, lightweight system, fully 
integrated for using penetrating ground radar for taking simplified 
field geophysical measurements and can be operated from the body of an 
operator while the operator is moving. The system operates for extended 
periods of time using light-weight portable rechargeable and 
replaceable batteries and facilitates continuous, glare-free viewing of 
computer screens associated with the scanning system. The computer-
controlled radar system boards are easily changeable for a wide variety 
of different environments. Real-time viewing of radar data and 
integration with other real-time data input sources create an 
integrated data stream with accurate time correlation between all data 
inputs.
    Title: Instrument Channel Approach. A system to determine the water 
depth in a channel or harbor below a low water reference permitting the 
navigation of a channel or harbor having a reference GPS signal 
receiving station on land which sends information to a ship with its 
GPS signal receiving system.
    Title: Method and Apparatus for Measuring and Assessing Corrosive 
Conditions of a Surface by a Remotely Controlled Robotic Vehicle. A 
remotely controlled robotic vehicle is used for inspecting the interior 
of ferrous structures such as liquid storage tanks without removing the 
stored liquid. The robotic vehicle cleans the surface of debris and 
corrosive deposits prior to inspection, measures and assesses wall 
integrity and thickness, and communicates the results to a computer 
which continuously ascertains the position of the robotic vehicle. The 
robotic vehicle can navigate in various orientations, including 
vertical and inverted orientations throughout the interior of a 
substantially cylindrical tank.
    Title: Method and Apparatus for Installing a Small-scale 
Groundwater Sampling Well. A method and apparatus for installing a 
small-scale groundwater sampling device which is easy to construct and 
inexpensive to manufacture. The device can be used by the conventional 
push-in equipment associated with a civil engineering cone 
penetrometer. The conventional penetrometer can install a well that can 
be used for continuous monitoring of groundwater quality using two 
penetrometer operators with only one or two hours of work and uses the 
same design that the U.S. EPA requires for a full-scale monitoring 
well. The installation of the well is done by pushing and not drilling 
and does not generate any well cuttings which typically have to be 
tested prior to disposal to determine if the soil is contaminated.
    Title: Method of Manufacturing Cement Board Incorporating Recycled 
Carpet Fiber and Cement. A method of manufacturing a smooth surface 
cement board incorporating recycled carpet fiber which produces a 
strong cement board even with a fluid mortar. Air-filled voids or 
``bugholes'' are eliminated. The use of tangled fibers produces a 
cement board in which the fiber has high pull-out resistance. The mixed 
fiber and mortar can be placed as a discrete layer thereby making it 
possible to make a cement board that has two exterior layers containing 
fiber and a central layer containing only mortar.
    Title: Bag Dispenser. Plastic, paper, aluminum foil, or aluminum 
foil laminated with plastic bags are dispensed, one at a time, from a 
bag dispenser. Bags are either provided in rolls connected top-to-top 
and bottom-to-bottom, nested with one bag inside the next adjacent bag, 
or are nested and attached to a perforated central tab that passes 
through the bottom seam of each bag, which may be placed in a funnel-
like dispenser that holds the nested bags in an upright position.
    Title: Detection of Sub-Surface Failures in Barriers. An early 
warning method to remotely and continually monitor the structural 
integrity of a barrier such as levees and dams. Failure mechanisms due 
to the existence of water or moisture content within the structure and 
structural irregularities due to changes in moisture content such as 
boils are detected in their early stages thus allowing remedial 
measures.

Richard L. Frenette,
Counsel.
[FR Doc. 00-32630 Filed 12-21-00; 8:45 am]
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