[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 226 (Friday, November 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72458-72459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25732]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Air Force


Notice of Intent To Grant Partially Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act and implementing regulations, 
the Department of the Air Force hereby gives notice of its intent to 
grant a partially exclusive patent license to Tensor Networks, a S-
Corporation incorporated in the state of California, having a place of 
business at 1289 Reamwood Ave., Ste. G, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

DATES: Written objections must be filed no later than fifteen (15) 
calendar days after the date of publication of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit written objections to James F. McBride, Air Force 
Materiel Command Law Office, AFMCLO/JAZ, 2240 B Street, Area B, 
Building 11, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7109; Facsimile: (937) 255-
9318; or Email: [email protected]. Include

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Docket ARX-210727A-PL in the subject line of the message.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James F. McBride, Air Force Materiel 
Command Law Office, AFMCLO/JAZ, 2240 B Street, Area B, Building 11, 
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7109; Telephone: (937) 713-0229; 
Facsimile: (937) 255-9318; or Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Air Force may grant 
the prospective license unless a timely objection is received that 
sufficiently shows the grant of the license would be inconsistent with 
the Bayh-Dole Act or implementing regulations. A competing application 
for a patent license agreement, completed in compliance with 37 CFR 
404.8 and received by the Air Force within the period for timely 
objections, will be treated as an objection and may be considered as an 
alternative to the proposed license.

Abstract of Patents and Patent Application(s)

    A new apparatus and method for tracking a moving object with a 
moving camera provides a real-time, narrow fieldof-view, high 
resolution and on target image by combining commanded motion with an 
optical flow algorithm for deriving motion and classifying background. 
Commanded motion means that movement of the pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) 
unit is ``commanded'' by a computer, instead of being observed by the 
camera, so that the pan, tilt and zoom parameters are known, as opposed 
to having to be determined, significantly reducing the computational 
requirements for tracking a moving object. The present invention 
provides a single camera pan and tilt system where the known pan and 
tilt rotations are used to calculate predicted optical flow points in 
sequential images, so that resulting apparent movement can be 
subtracted from the movement determined by an optical flow algorithm to 
determine actual movement, following by use of a Kalman filter 
algorithm to predict subsequent locations of a determined moving object 
and command the pan and tilt unit to point the camera in that 
direction.

Intellectual Property

    U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent No. 9,696,404 B1, that issued on July 
4, 2017, and entitled ``Real-time camera tracking system using optical 
flow feature points.''.
    The Department of the Air Force may grant the prospective license 
unless a timely objection is received that sufficiently shows the grant 
of the license would be inconsistent with the Bayh-Dole Act or 
implementing regulations. A competing application for a patent license 
agreement, completed in compliance with 37 CFR 404.8 and received by 
the Air Force within the period for timely objections, will be treated 
as an objection and may be considered as an alternative to the proposed 
license.

Adriane Paris,
Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-25732 Filed 11-23-22; 8:45 am]
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