[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 230 (Thursday, November 29, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59573-59574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29664]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Government owned inventions available for licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Government owned inventions available for licensing.

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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 interest in the inventions is availble for 
exclusive or non-exclusive 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 investions may be obtained by writing to: National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, Building 
820, Room 213, Gaitherburg, MD 20899; Fax 301-869-2751. Any request for 
information should include the NIST Docket number and title for the 
relevant invention as indicated below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research 
and Development Agreement (``CRADA'') with the license to perform 
further research on the inventions for purposes of commercialization. 
The inventions available for licensing are:
    NIST Docket Number: 99-013US.
    Title: Efficient Microwave Magnetic Recording System.
    Abstract: A microwave magnetic recording system can enable magnetic 
recording heads for computer disk drives to record efficiently at data 
rates in excess of 500  x  10 -\6\ bits per second. The 
microwave magnetic recording system permits a recording head to operate 
a bandwidths which are limited only by the fundamental physical limits 
of electron spin precession rates. The system includes a microwave 
waveguide as the source of the energizing field, shaped write pulses to 
reduce overshoot due to ferromagnetic resonance, an rf ac bias signal 
to thermally excite the recording medium and thereby reduce the 
necessary recording field, higher moment magnetic head materials to 
increase the spin precession rate in a thin-film geometry, and hard-
axis biased magnetic head materials to increase the flux conduction 
efficiency of thin pole tip materials. All of these features complement 
thin-film head designs or may be used with exotic planarized head 
structure.

    NIST Docket Number: 00-010US.
    Title: Reagents For Water Determination In Samples Containing 
Iodine-Reacting Interfering Substances.
    Abstract: The present invention relates to reagents for water 
determination in materials containing iodine-reacting interfering 
substances. The reagents are use for corrrection of

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results of Karl Fischer (KF) water determination in matters such as 
oils, drugs, cosmetic products, foodstuffs, chemical products and other 
polar- and non-polar materials containing iodine-reacting substances, 
which interfere with the Karl Fischer methods for water determination. 
The Reagents of the invention comprise iodine, an iodide and a buffer 
in mixture of solvents in which at lease one is a polar non-aqueous 
solvent and at least one is a non-polar non-aqueous solvent.

    NIST Docket Number: 03-033US.
    Title: Electrochemical Fluidized Bed Coating of Powders.
    Abstract: A method for coating particulate substrate materials is 
provided which comprises (a) combining particles and an electrolyte in 
an imperforate container; (b) vibrating the container to generate a 
fluidized bed of particles in the electrolyte; and (c) 
electrochemically depositing a coating on the particles from reactants 
in the electrolyte. An apparatus for coating particles is also provided 
which comprises an imperforate containere for receiving particles to be 
coated and an electrolyte and a device for generating afluidized bed in 
the container, the device being operatively associated with the 
container.

    Dated: November 20, 2001.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 01-29664 Filed 11-28-01; 8:45 am]
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