[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 24 (Friday, February 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 6272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-2537]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army


Notice of Availability of Government-Owned Inventions; Available 
for Licensing

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States 
Government as represented by the Secretary of the Army. The inventions 
collectively enable a Tactical Biological Detector (TAC-BIO), and are 
made available for licensing by the Department of the Army. United 
States Patent Number 6,967,338 entitled ``Micro UV Particle Detector'', 
United States Patent Number 7,375,348 entitled ``Micro UV Detector'', 
Army Case Numbers; DAM 656-06 entitled ``Improved, Front-End Optics to 
the Micro UV Detector'', DAM 668-07 entitled ``Man Portable, Biological 
Aerosol Detector with High Level of Discrimination'', and DAM 689-08 
entitled ``Photon Counting Based Particle Detection Algorithm.''

ADDRESSES: Requests for data and inventor interviews should be directed 
to Eric McGill, telephone: 410-436-8467, [email protected], 
U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), AMSRD-ECB-PI-BP-
TT, Bldg E3330/Rm 241 5183 Blackhawk Road, APG, MD 21010-5424. Requests 
should be made prior to February 20, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dhirajlal Parekh, Office of Research 
and Technology Applications, U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological 
Center, AMSRD-ECB-PI-BP-TT, Bldg E3330/Rm 241 5183 Blackhawk Road, APG, 
MD 21010-5424, telephone: 410-436-8400, e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Army intends to move expeditiously 
to commercialize these patents by licensing to a cooperative research 
and development partner. Licensing application packages are available 
from ECBC and all applications and commercialization plans should be 
returned to ECBC by March 20, 2009. The Army intends to ensure that its 
licensed inventions are broadly commercialized throughout the United 
States.

    Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404.

Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-2537 Filed 2-5-09; 8:45 am]
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