[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 98 (Tuesday, May 22, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 28678]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9826]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating 
the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its 
territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST's interest in the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 5,620,857 (Application No. 08/
473,979), titled ``Optical Trap for Detection and Quantitation of 
Subzeptomolar Quantities of Analytes,'' NIST Docket No. 94-042US to 
Haemonetics Corporation, having a place of business at 400 Wood Road, 
Braintree, Massachusetts 02184-9114. The grant of the license would be 
for the field of use: Chemical and biological material sensing and 
measurement for medical diagnostics.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Terry Lynch, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Office of Technology Partnerships, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Phone 301-975-2691.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be 
royalty bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be 
granted unless, within thirty days from the date of this published 
Notice, NIST receives written evidence and argument which establish 
that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the 
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The availability of the 
invention for licensing was published in the Federal Register on June 
24, 2003.
    U.S. Patent No. 5,620,857 is owned by the U.S. government, as 
represented by the Secretary of Commerce. Tightly focused beams of 
laser light are used as ``optical tweezers'' to trap and manipulate 
polarizable objects such as microspheres of glass or latex with 
diameters on the order of 4.5 .mu.m. When analytes are allowed to 
adhere to the microspheres, small quantities of these analytes can be 
manipulated, thus allowing their detection and quantitation even when 
amounts and concentrations of the analytes are extremely small. 
Illustrative examples include measuring the strength needed to break 
antibody-antigen bonds and the detection of DNA sequences.

    Dated: May 16, 2007.
James M. Turner,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. E7-9826 Filed 5-21-07; 8:45 am]
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