[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 126 (Friday, June 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 38772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16020]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of exclusive patent license.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) 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. 7,709,807 (Application No. 12/
116,522), titled ``Magneto-Optical Trap Ion Source,'' NIST Docket No. 
07-015 and U.S. Patent Application No. 13/369,008 titled ``Charged 
Particle Source from a Photoionized Cold Atom Beam,'' NIST Docket No. 
11-018 to LoTIS Technologies LLC, having a place of business at 18026 
Royal Bonnet Circle, Montgomery Village, Maryland 20886. The grant of 
the license would be for the field: Devices that produce or include a 
focused beam of electrons and/or ions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cathy Cohn, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Technology Partnerships Office, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975-6691, 
[email protected].

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 fifteen 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.
    U.S. Patent No. 7,709,807 and U.S. Patent Application No. 13/
369,008 are owned by the U.S. government, as represented by the 
Secretary of Commerce. U.S. Patent No. 7,709,807 describes a system and 
method for producing a source of ions, and particularly, a focused ion 
beam. The system and method use a magneto-optical trap (MOT) to produce 
a population of neutral atoms. A laser is then utilized to ionize atoms 
and produce a population of ions. An extraction element is then used to 
transfer the ions so that they can be used in a wide array of 
applications. U.S. Patent Application No. 13/369,008 describes a system 
for producing a charged particle beam from a photoionized cold atom 
beam. A vapor of neutral atoms is generated. From these atoms, an atom 
beam having axial and transverse velocity distributions controlled by 
the application of laser light is produced. The produced atom beam is 
spatially compressed along each transverse axis, thus reducing the 
cross-sectional area of the produced beam and reducing a velocity 
spread of the produced beam along directions transverse to the beam's 
direction of propagation. Laser light is directed onto at least a 
portion of the neutral atoms in the atom beam, thereby producing ions 
and electrons. An electric field is generated at the location of the 
produced ions and electrons, thereby producing a beam of ions traveling 
in a first direction and electrons traveling in substantially the 
opposite direction. A vacuum chamber contains the atom beam, the ion 
beam and the electron beam.

    Dated: June 25, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-16020 Filed 6-28-12; 8:45 am]
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