45636 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 167 / Thursday, August 28, 1997 / Notices

Issued Patents

Number and Title

5,613,244—Process for Preparing Liquid

Wastes

5,593,593—Process for Removing

Sulfate Anions From Waste Water

5,560,420—Process for Casting HardFaced, Lightweight Camshafts and

Other Cylindrical Products

5,474,364—Shotgun Cartridge Rock

Breaker

5,404,764—Polyport Atmospheric Gas

Sampler

5,369,214—Method for Selective

Dehalogenation of Halogenated

Polyaromatic Compounds

5,333,044—Fluorescent Image Tracking

Velocimeter

5,312,462—Moist Caustic Leaching of

Coal

5,260,640—Method of and System for

Producing Electrical Power

5,254,697—Method of and System for

Producing Electrical Power

5,214,015—Synthesis on Iron Based

Hydrocracking Catalysts

5,168,088—Method for Dispersing

Catalyst onto Particulate Material

5,139,991—Improved Catalysts and

Method

5,139,958—A Device for Determination

of Low Concentrations of Oxygen in

Carbonaceous Materials

5,104,520—Apparatus and Method for

Separating Constituents

5,096,570—Method for Dispersing

Catalyst onto Particulate Material

5,061,363—Method for Co-Processing

Waste Rubber and Carbonaceous

Material

5,022,892—Fine Coal Cleaning Via

Micro-Mag Process

5,020,457—Destruction of Acid Gas

Emissions

5,019,652—Catalysts and Method

5,015,366—Process and Apparatus for

Coal Hydrogenation

5,008,083—Apparatus for Centrifugal

Separation of Coal Particles

4,878,442—NOx Control for High Nitric

Oxide Concentration Flows

Through Combustion-Driven

Reduction

4,867,868—Selective Flotation of

Inorganic Sulfides from Coal

4,829,246—Apparatus for Measuring

Slay or Ash in a Furnace

4,820,391—Exhaust Gas Cleanup

Process

4,775,387—Clean Coal by Explosive

Comminution with Alkali and

Supercritical Water

4,769,504—Process for Converting Light

Alkanes to Higher Hydrocarbons

4,695,372—Conditioning of

Carbonaceous Material Prior to

Physical Beneficiation

4,675,101—Step Wise Supercritical

Extraction of Carbonaceous Residua

4,615,780—Method of Removing Oxides

of Sulfur and Oxides of Nitrogen

from Exhaust Gases

4,615,712—Fuel Agglomerates and

Methods of Agglomeration

4,587,113—Removal of Sulfur and

Nitrogen Containing Pollutants

from Discharge Gases

4,526,272—Laterally Bendable Belt

Conveyor

Patent Applications Filed

Separation of Catalyst from FischerTropsch Slurry

Method for Producing Iron-Based Acid

Catalysts

Method for the Photocatalytic

Conversion of Methane

A Portable Tester for Determining Gas

Content Within a Core Sample

Mobile Machine Hazardous Working

Zone Warning System

Gas Fluidized-Bed Stirred Media Mill

Method of Making Multi-Layered

Titanium Ceramic Composites

Expandable Mixing Section Gravel and

Cobble Eductor

Cable Load Sensing Device

Rita A. Bajura,

Director, FETC.

[FR Doc. 97–22956 Filed 8–27–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Technology Center;

Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive

Patent License

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE),

Federal Energy Technology Center

(FETC).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of an

intent to grant to Harrison Material

Consulting Services, Inc. of Minnetonka,

Minnesota, an exclusive license to

practice the invention described in U.S.

Patent No. 5,474,364, titled ‘‘Shotgun

Cartridge Rock Breaker.’’ The invention

is owned by the United States of

America, as represented by the

Department of Energy (DOE). The

proposed license will be exclusive,

subject to a license and other rights

retained by the U.S. Government, and

other terms and conditions to be

negotiated.

DOE intends to grant the license,

upon a final determination in

accordance with 35 U.S.C. § 209(c),

unless within 60 days of publication of

this Notice the Assistant Counsel for

Intellectual Property, Department of

Energy, Federal Energy Technology

Center, Morgantown, WV 26505,

receives in writing any of the following,

together with the supporting

documents:

(i) A statement from any person

setting forth reasons why it would not

be in the best interest of the United

States to grant the proposed license; or

(ii) An application for a nonexclusive

license to the invention, in which

applicant states that it already has

brought the invention to practical

application or is likely to bring the

invention to practical application

expeditiously.

DATES: Written comments or

nonexclusive license applications are to

be received at the address listed below

no later than sixty (60) days after the

date of this published Notice.

ADDRESSES: Assistant Counsel for

Intellectual Property, U.S. Department

of Energy, Federal Energy Technology

Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV

26505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa

A. Jarr, Assistant Counsel for

Intellectual Property, U.S. Department

of Energy, Federal Energy Technology

Center, P.O. Box 880, Morgantown, WV

26505; Telephone (304) 285–4555.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 35 U.S.C.

§ 209(c) provides the Department with

authority to grant exclusive or partially

exclusive licenses in Department-owned

inventions, where a determination can

be made, among other things, that the

desired practical application of the

invention has not been achieved, or is

not likely expeditiously to be achieved,

under a nonexclusive license. The

statute and implementing regulations

(37 CFR § 404) require that the

necessary determinations be made after

public notice and opportunity for filing

written objections.

Harrison Material Consulting

Services, Inc. of Minnetonka,

Minnesota, has applied for an exclusive

license to practice the invention

embodied in U.S. Patent No. 5,474,364,

and has a plan for commercialization of

the invention.

The proposed license will be

exclusive, subject to a license and other

rights retained by the U.S. Government,

and subject to a negotiated royalty. The

Department will review all timely

written responses to this notice, and

will grant the license if, after expiration

of the 60-day notice period, and after

consideration of written responses to

this notice, a determination is made, in

accordance with 35 U.S.C. § 209(c), that

the license grant is in the public

interest.

Rita A. Bajura,

Director, FETC.

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