[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 10 (Thursday, January 15, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 2364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-840]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (04-004)]


Notice of Prospective Patent License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of prospective patent license.

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SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice that Bigelow Development Aerospace 
Division, LLC, having offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, has applied for an 
exclusive license to practice the inventions described and claimed in 
Patent No. 5,610,363 entitled ``Enhanced Whipple Shield''; Patent No. 
6,647,855 entitled ``Method for Deploying a Hypervelocity Shield''; 
pending U.S. patent application entitled ``Flexible Multi-Shock 
Shielding,'' Case No. MSC-23314-1; and pending U.S. patent application 
entitled ``Shielding Apparatus and Method of Use,'' Case No. MSC-22330-
1. Each of the above-listed patents and patent applications are 
assigned to the United States of America as represented by the 
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
Written objections to the prospective grant of a license should be sent 
to the Johnson Space Center. NASA has not yet made a determination to 
grant the requested license and may deny the requested license even if 
no objections are submitted within the comment period.

DATE(S): Responses to this notice must be received by January 30, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Cate, Patent Attorney, NASA 
Johnson Space Center, Mail Stop HA, Houston, TX 77058-8452; telephone 
(281) 483-1001.

    Dated: January 8, 2004.
Robert M. Stephens,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 04-840 Filed 1-14-04; 8:45 am]
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