[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 67 (Friday, April 9, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18561-18562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07026]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (21-021)]


Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant partially exclusive patent license.

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SUMMARY: NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a partially 
exclusive patent license in the United States to practice the 
inventions described and claimed in the U.S. Patents and U.S. Patent 
Applications listed in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.

DATES: The prospective partially exclusive license may be granted 
unless NASA receives written objections including evidence and 
argument, no later than April 26, 2021 that establish that the grant of 
the license would not be consistent with the requirements regarding the 
licensing of federally owned inventions as set forth in the Bayh-Dole 
Act and implementing regulations. Competing applications completed and 
received by NASA no later than April 26, 2021 will also be treated as 
objections to the grant of the contemplated partially exclusive 
license. Objections submitted in response to this notice will not be 
made available to the public for inspection and, to the extent 
permitted by law, will not be released under the Freedom of Information 
Act.

ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the prospective license may be 
submitted to Patent Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, NASA 
Langley Research Center. Phone (757) 864-3221. Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NASA intends to grant a partially exclusive 
patent license in the United States to practice the inventions 
described and claimed in the following U.S. Patents and U.S. Patent 
Applications:
     U.S. Patent No. 10,269,463 B2 for an invention titled 
``Nuclear Thermionic Avalanche Cells with Thermoelectric (NTAC-TE) 
Generator in Tandem Mode,'' NASA Case Number LAR-17981-1;
     U.S. Patent No. 10,886,452 B2 for an invention titled 
``Selective and Direct Deposition Technique for Streamlined CMOS 
Processing,'' NASA Case Number LAR-18925-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 15/995,467 for an invention 
titled ``Thermionic Power Cell,'' NASA Case Number LAR-18860-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 15/479,679 for an invention 
titled ``Metallic Junction Thermoelectric Generator,'' NASA Case Number 
LAR-18866-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 17/140,548 for an invention 
titled ``Selective and Direct Deposition Technique for Streamlined CMOS 
Processing,'' NASA Case Number LAR-18925-2;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 16/354,606 for an invention 
titled ``Portable Miniaturized Thermionic Power Cell with Multiple 
Regenerative Layers,'' NASA Case Number LAR-18926-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 16/354,701 for an invention 
titled ``High Performance Electric Generators Boosted by Nuclear 
Electron Avalanche (NEA),'' NASA Case Number LAR-19112-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 16/352,409 for an invention 
titled ``Co-60 Breeding Reactor Tandem with Thermionic Avalanche 
Cell,'' NASA Case Number LAR-18762-1;
     U.S. Patent Application No. 16/426,345 for an invention 
titled ``Multi-Layered Radio-Isotope for Enhanced Photoelectron 
Avalanche Process,'' NASA Case Number LAR-19420-1; and
     U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/153,632 for an 
invention titled ``NTAC Augmented Nuclear Electric Propulsion and/or 
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion,'' NASA Case Number LAR-19976-1 to Tamer 
Space, LLC, having its principal place of business in Poquoson, VA. The 
fields of use may be limited to civilian use power generating 
applications below 400,000 feet above Earth's mean sea level, and the 
field of stationary (where stationary means permanently fixed and not 
capable of being moved) power/energy sources for the United States 
Department of Defense (specifically the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine 
Corps, and Coast Guard, as well as any Space Corps) applications below 
400,000 feet above Earth's mean sea level. NASA has not yet made a 
final determination to grant the requested license and may deny the 
requested license even if no objections are submitted within the 
comment period.
    This notice of intent to grant a partially exclusive patent license 
is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 CFR 
404.7(a)(1)(i). The patent rights in these inventions have been 
assigned to the United States of America as represented by the 
Administrator of the National

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Aeronautics and Space Administration. The prospective partially 
exclusive license will comply with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 
and 37 CFR 404.7.
    Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can 
be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov.

Helen M. Galus,
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property.
[FR Doc. 2021-07026 Filed 4-8-21; 8:45 am]
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