[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 67 (Wednesday, April 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 18870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08075]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (15-025)]


Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License.

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant an Exclusive License.

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SUMMARY: This notice is issued in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 
37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i). NASA hereby gives notice of its intent to grant 
an exclusive patent license in the United States to ICAP Patent 
Brokerage, having its principal place of business in New York, NY, to 
promote the utilization by the public of the inventions described and 
claimed in the following U.S. Patents by, inter alia, engaging in 
marketing activities:

``USPN 7,412,175, Millimeter Wave Polarization Transformer, NASA 
Case No. GSC-15027-1; USPN 7,465,926, Miniaturized Radiation 
Spectrometer Development, GSC-15115-1; USPN 7,504,921, Stepping 
Flextures, GSC-14562-1; USPN 7,513,546, Conformal Gripper, GSC-
14952-1; USPN 7,544,146, Anti-Backlash Gear-Bearings, GSC-14603-1; 
USPN 7,601,091, Modular Gear Bearing, GSC-14979-1; USPN 7,609,978, 
INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIZATION CONTROL, GSC-15027-2; USPN 7,616,903, 
INTERFEROMETRIC POLARIZATION CONTROL, GSC-15027-3; USPN 7,622,907, 
Driven Ground, GSC-15042-1; USPN 7,635,832, Iterative-Transform 
Phase-Retrieval Utilizing Adaptive Diversity, GSC-14879-1; USPN 
7,735,385, Actuated Ball and Socket Joint, GSC-15417-1; USPN 
7,746,190, Broadband High Spurious-suppression Microwave Waveguide 
Filter For Polarization-preserving And Transformer, GSC-15055-1; 
USPN 7,762,155, Gear Bearings, GSC-14480-2; USPN 7,811,406, Advanced 
Adhesive Bond Shape Tailoring for Large Composite Primary Structures 
Subjected to Cryogenic and Ambient Loading Environments, GSC-15377-
1; USPN 7,817,087, Relative Spacecraft Navigation using Reflected 
GPS Signals, GSC-15483-1; USPN 7,830,527, Method And Apparatus For 
Second Harmonic Generation And Other Frequency Convertion With 
Multiple Frequency Channels, GSC-15349-1; USPN 7,970,025, Tunable 
Frequency-stabilized Laser via Offset Sideband Locking, GSC-15583-1; 
USPN 7,982,861, Pseudo-Noise Code Modulation using Return to Zero 
pulses for Ranging, Altimetry and Communications, GSC-15445-1; USPN 
8,155,939, Hughes Particle – Surface Interaction Model; 
Surface Interaction Model, GSC-15364-1; USPN 8,160,728, Sensor 
Complete Requirements Algorithm For Autonomous Mobility, GSC-15527-
1; USPN 8,275,724, A biologically-inspired method of improving 
system performance and survivability through self-sacrifice, GSC-
15550-1; USPN 8,275,015, Passively Q-switched side pumped Monolithic 
Ring Laser, GSC-15724-1; USPN 8,274,726, Sampling and Reconstruction 
of the Sinc(x) Function, GSC-15947-1; USPN 8,285,401, Discrete 
Fourier Transform (DFT) Analysis in a Complex Vector Space, GSC-
15684-1; USPN 8,331,733, Sampling Theorem in Terms of the Bandwidth 
and Sampling Interval, GSC-15685-1; USPN 8,330,644, Expandable 
Reconfigurable Instrument Node--Web Sensor Strand Demonstration, 
GSC-15692-1; USPN 8,354,952, Phase Retrieval for Radio Telescope and 
Antenna Control, GSC-15977-1; USPN 8,406,469, Progressive Band 
Selection for Hyperspectral Images, GSC-15792-1; USPN 8,484,274, 
Optimal Padding for the Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform, GSC-
15678-1; USPN 8,499,779, Non-Pyrotechnic Zero-Leak Normally-Closed 
Valve, GSC-15328-1; USPN 8,687,742, Ensemble Detector, GSC-15774-1; 
USPN 8,816,884, Vectorized Rebinning Algorithm for Fast Data Down-
Sampling, GSC-15949-1; USPN 8,816,273, A High Event Rate, Zero Dead 
Time, Multi-Stop Time-to-digital Converter Application Specific 
Integrated Circuit, GSC-16182-1; USPN 8,898,479, INTEGRATED GENOMIC 
AND PROTEOMIC INFORMATION SECURITY PROTOCOL, GSC-16545-1.''

    The patent rights in these inventions as applicable have been 
assigned to the United States of America as represented by the 
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The 
prospective exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions 
of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. NASA has not yet made a 
determination to grant exclusive licenses and may deny the requested 
licenses even if no objections are submitted within the comment period.

DATES: The prospective exclusive license may be granted unless, within 
fifteen (15) days from the date of this published notice, NASA receives 
written objections including evidence and argument that 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. Competing applications completed and 
received by NASA within fifteen (15) days of the date of this published 
notice will also be treated as objections to the grant of the 
contemplated 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, 5 
U.S.C. 552.

ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the prospective license may be 
submitted to Mr. Bryan A. Geurts, Chief Patent Counsel, Goddard Space 
Flight Center, Code 140.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (301) 286-7351.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alfred T. Mecum, Innovative 
Partnerships Program Office, Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 504, 
Greenbelt, MD 20771 (301) 286-5810. Information about other NASA 
inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/.

Sumara M. Thompson-King,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2015-08075 Filed 4-7-15; 8:45 am]
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