[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 13566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5545]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Availability for Exclusive, Non-Exclusive, or 
Partially-Exclusive Licensing of an Invention Concerning a Radiation 
Detector System for Locating and Identifying Special Nuclear Material 
in Moving Vehicles

AGENCY: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Announcement is made of the availability for licensing of the 
invention set forth in ``Radiation Detector System for Locating and 
Identifying Special Nuclear Material in Moving Vehicles,'' U.S. Patent 
8,110,807, issued February 7, 2012. This invention is owned by the U.S. 
Government and is available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance 
with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of the 
results of federally-funded research and development.

ADDRESSES: Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Attn: General 
Counsel, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Mail Stop 6201, Fort Belvoir VA 
22060-6201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Licensing or patent issues, Ellen 
Klann, Patent Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Defense Threat 
Reduction Agency, telephone: (703) 767-4561, fax: (703) 767-4550.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The invention uses a series of combined 
passive neutron and gamma ray sensors and sensor aggregators, 
systematically placed along a path of commercial traffic, for example 
an airport runway, combined with a pulsed source of monoenergetic gamma 
rays and low energy neutrons. The pulsed source produces a short 
interrogation pulse of monoenergetic gamma rays and low energy 
neutrons. These gamma rays induce a fission reaction in any fissile 
material in their path, such as in a moving vehicle, creating gamma 
rays and neutrons. The passive sensors located in the path of the 
moving vehicle detect the resultant gamma and neutron products of the 
reaction.

    Dated: March 2, 2012.
Aaron Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 2012-5545 Filed 3-6-12; 8:45 am]
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