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NSA’s PLAs fueled $346 million

in economic impact. 

TechLink and CU Business Research Division, 2000-2014

1,330 jobs created as a result of NSA’s 

Patent License Agreements (PLAs).

TechLink and CU Business Research Division, 2000-2014

NSA’s TTP has proven economic impact.

Improving our economy creates stability, 

which increases national security.

NSA’s Technology Transfer Program (TTP) 

is small business friendly. Small businesses 

account for 99.9% of all businesses 

in the US. sba.gov
US Patent # 9,383,080

The National Security Agency’s (NSA) Technology Transfer 

Program (TTP) is igniting innovation through Patent License 

Agreements with industry partners. Below is a sampling of 

the many NSA technologies available for license. To view 

a complete listing, visit us at www.nsa.gov/techtransfer. 

We may have exactly what your company needs to gain 

a competitive edge in the marketplace.

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US Patent # 9,635,003

This technology, when coupled with a Fresnel lens, concentrates light from a large 

focal point onto a small spot (0.55mm in diameter) on a detector. A dual lens system 

allows light focusing despite steering imperfections, poor system placement, or 

system jostling during use. With long distance free-space optics (FSO), light disperses 

over a distance due to various factors, resulting in high data error rates detrimental to 

data transmission accuracy. This design significantly mitigates off-angle collection or 

steering signal loss and improves the signal focus on the detector.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- Low power laser or LED-based communications

- Extends light-based communications systems range

- Increases field and distance for light fidelity 

 (Li-Fi) applications

- Solar photovoltaic (PV) or heat concentration 

 applications

AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING

Wide Field of View Concentrator

US Patent # 10,224,392

AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING

Validating a Private-Public Key Pair

This technology is a cryptographic method providing a new level of security for keypair validation, securing both traditional and quantum-resistant protocols for key 

establishment. Public key validation is a well-known security practice for modern key 

establishment protocols. While necessary in many proposed post-quantum systems, 

post-quantum cryptographic algorithms generally do not support direct public key 

validation. Migrations of modern Internet peer-to-peer communication protocols, such 

as Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) to quantum-resistant 

technology will require a new key validation technique to be secure.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- Secure communications (messaging,

web browsing, Voice over IP (VoIP)

- Online commerce/shopping website

US Patent # 10,042,928

This search and discovery technology is an innovative approach to machine-driven 

processing and automation of document structural and referential indexing. 

By mapping documents into a reconfigurable Data and Knowledge Model (DKM), 

this technology identifies relevant features (titles, sections, section titles, authors, 

references, etc.) enabling improved user searching and enhanced automated 

document reconstruction based on the Rules Knowledge Base (RKB)’s logical content 

reasoning. A user interface is provided to discover concepts, documents, keywords, 

entities, and relationships, while also allowing users to view full documents textually, 

graphically, or by selecting specific document sections or tags.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- Legal research and analysis

- E-Discovery

- Privacy audits

- Compliance programs

This technology enables a user to find relevant documents within a large set of data 

without requiring the keyword to appear in the document and then ranks the results. 

By auto-associating words and documents with a keyword, this method spares the 

user from needing to know precise terms when searching in a large database or 

network. Requiring only a large corpus of reference text, this technology is language 

agnostic and ranks the relevancy of documents to a keyword based on word pair 

relevancy estimated from the corpus of reference text. 

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- Knowledge discovery applications

- Reference material search tool 

 (medical, legal, academic journals/books)

- Document prioritizers

- File management

This technology introduces a more efficient model for performing breadth-first search 

(BFS) on undirected graphs in a distribute system using minimum state information.

BFS is a commonly used algorithm for traversing, or searching, graphs. Using simplified 

methods and minimal information, this technology can search graphs while minimizing 

stateful information, reducing the amount of computer memory and data typically 

needed to search enormous graphs. Any graph algorithm using BFS, including popular 

matrix-based BFS, can use this technology to improve performance.

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- GPS mapping

- Network routing

- Database searching

This technology is a method of fabricating a semiconductor capacitor by depositing 

the dielectric, or insulator, independently and before the conductor layers. This 

alleviates issues with poor material quality and reliability. By building the MetalInsulator-Metal structure differently and forming the insulator first, users are no longer 

limited to temperature-constrained materials for the insulator. Instead, users can form 

improved trench capacitors using higher dielectric-constant insulators and integrate 

a wider range of conductor materials to improve overall capacitor performance. 

POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS:

- Increased capacitor power and performance

- Capacitor specific applications including:

- Integrated circuit power supply decoupling

- Radio frequency (RF) signal conditioning 

 and filtering applications

AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING

Automated Reasoning within 

and Searching of Documents

AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING

Word Pair Relevancy

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Breadth-first Search Traversal Algorithm

AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING

Vertical Trench Semiconductor 

Capacitor Design

US Patent # 10,242,090; 9,754,020 US Patent # 10,191,998

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