[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1966-1967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-997]


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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.

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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, and 
are 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, Office of Technology Partnerships, 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research 
and Development Agreement (''CRADA`) with the licensee to perform 
further research on the inventions for purposes of commercialization. 
The inventions available for licensing are:
    NIST Docket Number: 99-039US.
    Title: Fiber Optic Tomographic Plasma Uniformity Monitor.
    Abstract: The tomographic plasma uniformity monitor simultaneously 
measures the optical emissions of a plasma from many different 
directions through two small windows in order to determine the plasma 
distribution within a vacuum chamber. This accomplished with two lens 
arrays coupling the light from the plasma into fiber optic cables. The 
light transmitted through each fiber optic cable is simultaneously 
recorded with a CCD camera. An appropriate tomographic

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inversion program can then be used to convert the measured intensities 
into a two dimensional map of the plasma density. This technology is 
available only for non-exclusive licensing.

    NIST Docket Number: 99-002US.
    Title: Three Degree-Of-Freedom Telescoping Geometry Scanner.
    Abstract: The invention relates to a three-dimensional measuring 
device, comprising a rotating 360 degree sensor head, a laser scanner 
and an extendable mast system. The sensor head contains a 360 degree 
rotating multi-faceted mirror, which determines total path distance 
from the laser scanner to a particular target. Angular orientations on 
both the scanner and the faceted mirrors are calculated by a precision 
encoding system. The measured total path distance, mast system 
extension, scanner head rotation, mirror rotation angles, and mast 
deflection are all used to calculate the location of a target point in 
3-D space relative to the scanner. The sensing device can be utilized 
in the construction and nuclear power areas. In the nuclear power area, 
the mast system can be extended into a contaminated area which the 
sensor remains outside the contaminated area, thereby avoiding 
contamination problems.

    NIST Docket Number: 98-001US.
    Title: Electrophoresis Gels.
    Abstract: The present invention provides electrophoresis apparatus 
and electroporesis methods employing the present invention provides 
electrophoresis apparatus and electrophoresis methods employing gellan 
gum based gels employing divalent metal cation and diamine cross-
linking agents. The gels are reversible under conditions that do not 
damage the biomolecules separated using the gels. The present invention 
also provides novel gellan gum-based gels which are cross-linked which 
employ a diamine cross-linking agent.

    NIST Docket Number: 00-002US.
    Title: Crosslinked Micellar Gel Composition.
    Abstract: A crosslinked micellar gel composition is comprised of a 
polymer formed by a reaction between (a) ionic surfactant units which 
include ionic surfactant molecules, each of which includes a counterion 
which has a first polymerizable functional group, (b) crosslinking 
agent molecules, each of which includes two second polymerizable 
functional groups, and (c) a reaction initiator selected from the group 
consisting of reaction initiator molecules and ultraviolet light 
radiation, wherein the reaction initiator initiates a reaction between 
a plurality of the ionic surfactant units with each other and a 
plurality of the ionic surfactant units with the second polymerizable 
functional groups. The ionic surfactant molecules are rodlike in shape. 
The ionic surfactant units can consist essentially of ionic surfactant 
molecules or, alternatively, can also include co-monomer molecules. The 
polymer compositions formed from the reactions are crosslinked micellar 
gels which include a network structure of rodlike micelles forming a 
soft gel material which retains features and utility of rodlike 
micelles and benefits from the structural stability of a crosslinked 
ploymer matrix. Dilute hydrophobic solutes can be solubilized and 
concentrated in the micellar gel, removing the containants from 
solution. The gel which contains the absorbed solute can then be 
physically separated from the solution. The crosslinked micellar gel 
composition is not limited to aqueous solutions and can also be used as 
a delivery vehicle for solutes.

    Dated: January 3, 2002.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 02-997 Filed 1-14-02; 8:45 am]
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