[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 60718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24453]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration


Notice of Availability of Government-Owned Invention for 
Licensing

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration hereby gives notice of the 
general availability of exclusive or partially exclusive licenses under 
the following pending patent. Any license granted shall comply with 35 
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404. Applications will be evaluated 
utilizing the following criteria: (1) Ability to further develop the 
invention to practical application; (2) ability to manufacture and 
market the developed technology; (3) time required to bring technology 
to market and rate of production; (4) royalties and royalty structure; 
and, (5) small business status. Because the invention was made at the 
Federal Aviation Administration's William J. Hughes Technical Center 
and may require additional development, the FAA may license the 
invention under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement as 
provided for by the Federal Technology Transfer Act, as amended, 15 
U.S.C. 3710a.
    Patent application Serial Number 09/741,871 entitled ``Heat Release 
Rate Calorimeter for Milligram Samples'' was filed 22 December 2000. 
Corresponding foreign patent applications have been filed in select 
countries. The application discloses a calorimeter that measures heat 
release rates of very small samples (on the order of one to 10 
milligrams) without the need to separately and simultaneously measure 
the mass loss rate of the sample and the heat of combustion of the fuel 
gases produced during the fuel generation process. The sample is 
thermally decomposed in a small volume pyrolysis chamber. The resulting 
fuel gases are immediately swept by an inert gas stream from the 
pyrolysis chamber into a combustion furnace in the order in which they 
are produced, essentially in a plug-like flow. This plug flow 
substantially synchronizes the emerging fuel gases with the mass loss 
rate of the sample. Oxygen is metered into the fuel gas stream just 
before it enters the combustion furnace where the fuel gases are 
completely oxidized. The effluent from the furnace is analyzed to 
determine the amount of oxygen consumed per unit time and the heat 
release rate is computed using well-known transformations without the 
need to separately measure the mass loss rate of the sample. Results 
are comparable to time and labor intensive methods requiring the use of 
a thermogravimetric analyzer/gas chromatograph--mass spectrometer 
technique.

DATES: Applications for an exclusive or partially exclusive license may 
be submitted at any time from the date of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may contact James Drew, Senior Attorney, 
ACT-7, Federal Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical 
Center, Atlantic City International Airport, New Jersey 08405, or by 
email to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Richard E. Lyon, AAR-422, Federal 
Aviation Administration William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic 
City International Airport, New Jersey 08405, telephone (609) 485-6076, 
or by email to [email protected].

    Dated: September 16, 2002.
James J. Drew,
Senior Attorney, Intellectual Property.
[FR Doc. 02-24453 Filed 9-25-02; 8:45 am]
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