[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10555-10556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5069]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Notice of Inventions Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of inventions available for licensing.

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SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned in whole or in part by 
the U.S. Government, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce. The 
U.S. Government'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: Mary 
Clague, Building 222, Room A240, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Information is 
also available via telephone: 301-975-4188, fax 301-975-3482, or e-
mail: [email protected]. Any request for information should include 
the NIST Docket number and title for the invention as indicated below.

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: 08-008.
    Title: Solution-Processed Flexible Titanium Dioxide Memory Devices.
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of processing a 
nonvolatile memory device includes forming a first electrode, 
depositing a layer of sol-gel solution on the first electrode, 
hydrolyzing the layer of sol-gel solution to form a layer of variable 
electric resistance material, and forming a second electrode on the 
layer of variable electric resistance material.

    NIST Docket Number: 08-012.
    Title: Low Cost Multi-Channel Data Acquisition Systems.
    Abstract: This invention is jointly owned by the Department of 
Commerce and the University of Maryland. Embodiments of the invention 
provide an inexpensive and fast pulse characterization platform capable 
of real time operation, suitable for acquisition of single-photon data. 
Embodiments include both a digital multi-channel data acquisition 
instrument and an analog pulse acquisition instrument suitable for a 
wide range of applications in physics laboratories. A Field 
Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) performs multi-channel acquisition in 
real time, time stamps single events, and determines if the events fit 
a predetermined signature, which causes the events to be categorized as 
a coincidence. The indications of coincidences are then communicated to 
a host computer for further processing as desired.

    NIST Docket Number: 08-015.
    Title: A Mechanism for the Specification and Enforcement of 
Arbitrary Attribute-Based Access Control Policies.
    Abstract: Protection of enterprise resources in today's access 
control paradigm requires the deployment of a multitude of access 
control mechanisms implemented at both the operating system and 
application levels. These mechanisms come in a wide variety of forms 
each with their individual

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methods for authenticating users, configuring security policies, 
computing access control decisions, and enforcing these policies. A 
characteristic of dispersed heterogeneous access control mechanisms is 
a lack of interoperability that consequently results in a host of 
identity and privilege management issues. However, solving the 
interoperability problem alone is not sufficient in curing the problems 
of the existing access control paradigm. While there exists a diverse 
set of known access control policies, only a small subset of these 
policies is enforceable through existing mechanisms. In addition, 
policies independently implemented within applications can easily 
undermine one another as well as those implemented at the operating 
system level. To streamline identity and privilege management 
operations and provide comprehensive and flexible security policy 
enforcement, a standards-driven framework, called the Policy Machine, 
for the specification and enforcement of access control that can be 
adopted by future versions of operating systems and serve as a basis 
for the development of truly secure applications has been developed.

    Dated: March 4, 2009.
Patrick Gallagher,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. E9-5069 Filed 3-10-09; 8:45 am]
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