[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4014-4015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1064]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice 08-005]


Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant an Exclusive License.

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SUMMARY: This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 
37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant 
an exclusive license in the United States to promote the utilization by 
the public of the inventions described and claimed in the following 
U.S. Patent Applications by, inter alia, engaging in marketing 
activities:
    ``System And Method For Deriving A Process-Based Specification'' 
Application Serial No. 10/789,028 NASA Case No. GSC 14,389-1; 
``Systems, Methods & Apparatus For Implementation Of Formal 
Specifications Derived From Informal Requirements'' Application Serial 
No. 11/203,590 NASA Case No. GSC 14,941-1; ``Systems, Methods And 
Apparatus For Verification Of Knowledge-Based Systems'' Application 
Serial No. 11/203,586 NASA Case No. GSC 14,942-1; ``System And Method 
For Managing Autonomous Entities Through Apoptosis'' Application Serial 
No. 11/251,538 NASA Case No. GSC 14,968-1; ``System And Method Of Self-
Properties For An Autonomous And Autonomic Computer Environment'' 
Application Serial No. 11/426,853 NASA Case No. GSC 15,038-1; 
``Systems, Methods And Apparatus For Procedure Development And 
Verification'' Application Serial No. 11/461,669 NASA Case No. GSC 
15,043-1; ``Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Generation and 
Verification of Policies in Autonomic Computing Systems'' Application 
Serial No. 11/532,800 NASA Case No. GSC 15,079-1; ``Systems, Methods, 
and Apparatus for Pattern Matching in Procedure Development and 
Verification'' Application Serial No. 11/533,837 NASA Case No. GSC 
15,080-1; ``Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Automat Learning in 
Generation of Scenario-Based Requirements in System Development'' 
Application Serial No. 11/536,132 NASA Case No. GSC 15, 148-1; 
``Systems, Methods, and Apparatus for Quiesence of Autonomic System'' 
Application Serial No. 11/533,855 NASA Case No. GSC-15176-1; ``Systems, 
Methods, and Apparatus for Developing and Maintaining Evolving Systems 
With Software Product Lines'' Application Serial No. 11/536,378 NASA 
Case No. GSC 15,177-1; ``Systems, Methods, and Apparatus For Modeling, 
Specifying and Deploying Policies In Autonomous and Autonomic Systems 
Using Agent-Oriented Software Engineering'' Application Serial No. 11/
536,969 NASA Case No. GSC-15178-1;``Systems, Methods And Apparatus For 
Autonomic Safety Devices'' Application Serial No. 11/533,895 NASA Case 
No. GSC-15179-1;``Systems, Methods, and Apparatus For Flash Drive'' 
Application Serial No. 11/536,895 NASA Case No. GSC-15186-1; 
``Otoacoustic Protection In Biologically-Inspired Systems'' Application 
Serial No. 11/836,352 NASA Case No. GSC-15206-1; ``Flash Drive Memory 
Apparatus And Method'' Application Serial No. 11/935,572 NASA Case No. 
GSC-15301-1; ``A Double-Heated USB Drive'' Application Serial No. 11/
935,572 NASA Case No. GSC 15,302-1; ``Information Capturing Method'' 
Application Serial No. 11/937,777 NASA Case No. GSC-15303-1; ``Digital 
Memory Storage Hub'' Application Serial No. 11/935,821 NASA Case No. 
GSC-15304-1; ``Driven Shielding Capacitive Proximity Sensor'' 
Application Serial No. 07/710,845 NASA Case No. GSC 13,377-1; ``Driven 
Shielding Capacitive Proximity Sensor'' Application Serial No. 08/
999,976 NASA Case No. GSC 13,377-2; ``Phase Discriminating Capacitive 
Array Sensor System'' Application Serial No. 07/889,577 NASA Case No. 
GSC 13,460-1; ``Double-Driven Shield Capacitive Type Proximity Sensor'' 
Application Serial

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No. 08/008,426 NASA Case No. GSC 13,541-1; ``Capaciflector Camera'' 
Application Serial No. 08/090,230 NASA Case No. GSC 13,564-1; 
``Capaciflector-Guided Mechanisms'' Application Serial No. 08/346,593 
GSC-13614-1; ``3-D Capaciflector'' Application Serial No. 08/613,802 
GSC-13701-1; ``3-D Interactive Display'' Application Serial No. 09/
804,645 GSC-14339-1; ``Virtual Feel Capaciflectors'' Application Serial 
No. 11/250,701 GSC-14955-1; ``Systems And Method For Delivery Of 
Information'' Application Serial No. 11/561,337 GSC 14,927-1; 
``Empirical Mode Decomposition Method And Hilbert Spectral Analysis 
Algorithms'' Application Serial No. 08/872,586 GSC 13,817-1; ``Computer 
Implemented Empirical Mode Decomposition Method Apparatus and Article 
of Manufacture Utilizing Curvature Extrema'' Application Serial No. 09/
082,523 GSC 13,817-2; ``Empirical Mode Decomposition Apparatus, Method, 
And Article Of Manufacture For Analyzing Biological Signals And 
Performing Curve Fitting'' Application Serial No. 09/282,424 GSC 
13,817-3; `` Empirical Mode Decomposition For Analyzing Acoustical 
Signals'' Application Serial No. 10/073,957 GSC 13,817-4; ``Empirical 
Mode Decomposition Apparatus, Method And Article Of Manufacture For 
Analyzing Biological Signals And Performing Curve Fitting'' Application 
Serial No. 10/011,206 GSC 13,817-5; ``Computer Implemented Empirical 
Mode Decomposition Method, Apparatus, And Article Of Manufacture For 
Two-Dimensional Signals'' Application Serial No. 09/150,671 GSC 13,909-
1; ``Three Dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition Analysis Apparatus 
And Method'' Application Serial No. 09/729,138 GSC 14,302-1; 
``Computing Frequency By Using Generalized Zero-Crossing Applied To 
Intrinsic Mode Functions'' Application Serial No. 10/729,579 GSC 
14,608-1; ``Computing Instantaneous Frequency By Normalizing Hilbert 
Transform'' Application Serial No. 10/615,365 GSC 14,673-1; ``Analyzing 
Nonstationary Financial Time Series Via Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT)'' 
Application Serial No. 10/963,470 GSC 14,807-1; ``Systems And Method Of 
Analyzing Vibrations And Identifying Failure Signatures In The 
Vibrations'' Application Serial No. 11/251,004 GSC 14,833-1; ``GPS 
Compound Eye Attitude And Navigation Sensor And Method'' Application 
Serial No. 09/574,986 GSC 13,966-1; ``Spaceborne Global Positioning 
System For Spacecraft'' Application Serial No. 09/348,876 GSC 13,991-1; 
Global Positioning System Satellite Selection Method'' Application 
Serial No. 09/348,875 GSC 13,991-2; ``Using The Global Positioning 
Satellite System To Determine Attitude Rates Using Doppler Effects'' 
Application Serial No. 09/928,700 GSC 14,087-1; ``Minimum Cycle Slip 
Airborne Differential Carrier Phase GPS Antenna'' Application Serial 
No. 10/615,364 GSC 14,436-1; ``Autonomous Navigation System Based On 
GPS And Magnetometer Data'' Application Serial No. 10/178,546 GSC 
14,463-1; ``Radiation Hardened Fast Acquisition/Weak Signal Tracking 
System And Method'' Application Serial No. 11/239,458 GSC 14,793-1 To 
Ocean Tomo Federal Services having its principal place of business in 
Bethesda, MD.
    The patent rights in this invention have been assigned to the 
United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The exclusive license 
will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 
404.7.

DATES: The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless, within 
fifteen (15) days from the date of this published notice, NASA receives 
written objections including evidence and argument that 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. Competing applications completed and 
received by NASA within fifteen (15) days of the date of this published 
notice will also be treated as objections to the grant of the 
contemplated exclusive license.
    Objections submitted in response to this notice will not be made 
available to the public for inspection and, to the extent permitted by 
law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 
U.S.C. 552.

ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the prospective license may be 
submitted to Mr. Bryan A. Geurts, Chief Patent Counsel/140.1, Goddard 
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (301) 286-7351.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darryl Mitchell, Technology Transfer 
Program Office/504, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 
(301) 286-5810. Information about other NASA inventions available for 
licensing can be found online at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/.

    Dated: January 11, 2008.
Keith T. Sefton,
Deputy General Counsel, Administration and Management.
 [FR Doc. E8-1064 Filed 1-22-08; 8:45 am]
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