[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 20, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 47158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-17106]


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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; 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 Application No. 15/188,211, titled 
``Acousto-Microwave System for Determining Mass or Leak of Gas in a 
Vessel and Process for Same,'' (NIST Docket No. 15-010US1) to Western 
Energy Support & Technology, Inc. The grant of the license would be for 
leak rate testing and gas flow standards fields of uses.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey DiVietro, National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, Technology Partnerships Office, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, (301) 975-8779, 
[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 (15) 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. The Patent 
Application was filed on June 21, 2016 and describes systems and 
methods for determining a quantity of gas in a container.

    Dated: July 14, 2016.
Phillip Singerman,
Associate Director for Innovations and Industry Services.
[FR Doc. 2016-17106 Filed 7-19-16; 8:45 am]
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