[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 203 (Friday, October 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64315-64316]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-25827]


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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, 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. Provisional Patent Application No. 61,623/
957 titled ``Highly Selective Gallium Nitride Nanowire/Titanium 
Dioxide-Nanocluster Hybrid Sensors for Detection of Benzene and Related 
Environmental Pollutants,'' NIST Docket No. 11-019 to the University of 
Maryland, having a place of business at 0133 Cole Student Activities 
Building, College Park MD 20742-1001. The grant of the license would be 
for all fields of use.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Lynch, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Technology Partnerships Office, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975-2691, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be

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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. Provisional Patent Application No. 61,623/957 is co-owned by 
the U.S. government, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, 
George Mason University, and the University of Maryland. This invention 
is a chemical sensor architecture that combines the sensitive 
transduction capability of semiconducting nanostructures together with 
the enhanced catalytic efficiency of metal and metal-oxide 
nanoclusters. Nanowire-nanocluster hybrid chemical sensors are realized 
by functionalizing gallium nitride (GaN) nanowires (NWs) with titanium 
dioxide (TiO2) nanolusters for selectively sensing benzene and other 
related aromatic compounds. The Hybrid sensor devices are made by 
fabricating two-terminal devices using individual GaN NWs followed by 
the deposition of TiO2 nanoclusters using RF magnetron sputtering. The 
sensor fabrication process employed standard microfabrication 
techniques.

    Dated: October 12, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-25827 Filed 10-18-12; 8:45 am]
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