[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 77 (Friday, April 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20866-20867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8111]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of jointly owned inventions available for licensing.

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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are jointly owned by the U.S. 
Government, as represented by the Department of Commerce. The 
Department of Commerce's interest in these inventions is 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, Attn: 
Teresa Bradshaw, Building 820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. 
Information is also available via telephone: 301-975-2624, fax 301-869-
2751, or e-mail: [email protected]. Any request for information 
should include the NIST Docket number and title for the invention as 
indicated below.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research 
and Development Agreement (``CRADA'') with the licensee to perform 
further research on the invention for purposes of commercialization. 
The inventions available for licensing are:

[NIST Docket Number: 03-005]

    Title: Dielectric Slit Die for In-line Monitoring of Liquids 
Processing.
    Abstract: This invention is jointly owned by the U.S. Government, 
as represented by the Department of Commerce, and Chemical 
ElectroPhysics. The dielectric slit die is an instrument that is 
designed to measure electrical, rheological, ultrasonics, optical and 
other properties of a flowing liquid. In one application, it is 
connected to the exit of an extruder, pump or mixing machine that 
passes liquefied material such as molten plastic, solvents, slurries, 
colloidal suspensions and foodstuffs into the sensing region of the 
slit shaped die. Dielectric sensing is the primary element of the slit 
die, but in addition to the dielectric sensor, the die contains other 
sensing devices such as pressure, optical fiber and ultrasonic sensors 
that simultaneously yield an array of materials property data. The slit 
die has a flexible design that permits interchangeability among sensors 
and sensor positions. The design also allows for the placement of 
additional sensors and instrumentation ports that expand the potential 
data package obtained.

[NIST Docket Number: 03-014/02-012]

    Title: Micromachined Alkali-atom Vapor Cells and Method of 
Fabrication.
    Abstract: This invention is jointly owned by the U.S. Government, 
as represented by the Department of Commerce, and the University of 
Colorado. A method of fabricating compact alkali vapor filled cells 
that have volumes of 1 cm.sup.3 or less that are useful in atomic 
frequency reference devices such as atomic clocks. According to one 
embodiment the alkali vapor filled cells are formed by sealing the ends 
of small hollow glass fibers. According to another embodiment the 
alkali vapor filled cells are formed by anodic bonding of glass plates 
to silicon wafers to seal the openings of holes formed in the silicon 
wafers. The anodic bonding method of fabricating the alkali vapor 
filled cells enables the production of semi-monolithic integrated 
physics packages of various designs.

[NIST Docket Number: 04-001]

    Title: A Microfluidic Flow-through Immunoassay for Simultaneous 
Detection of Multiple proteins in a Sub-microliter Biological Sample.
    Abstract: This invention is jointly owned by the U.S. Government, 
as represented by the Department of Commerce, and the National 
Institutes of Health. A chip-based microfluidic device for high-
throughput, multi-analyte immunoaffinity capture and detection of 
proteins can be used for the simultaneous isolation and quantitation of 
multiple proteins from microliter samples of biological fluids. The 
device architecture has advantages over existing array technology in 
that the proteins are detected by single-point capture and much smaller 
sample volumes can be used. The device also has the potential to 
greatly reduce the cost of analyzing a sample through reuse of the 
channels with the bound antibodies for multiple samples. The device can 
be integrated into the other analytic equipment or on-chip detectors.

    Dated: April 13, 2005.
Hratch G. Semerjian,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 05-8111 Filed 4-21-05; 8:45 am]
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