82 FR 51411 - Notice of Availability of Government-Owned Inventions; Available for Licensing

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 213 (November 6, 2017)

The Department of the Navy (DoN) announces the availability of the inventions listed below, assigned to the United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, for domestic and foreign licensing by the Department of the Navy.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 213 (Monday, November 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51411-51413]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24064]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Availability of Government-Owned Inventions; Available 
for Licensing

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability for licensing.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DoN) announces the availability of 
the inventions listed below, assigned to the United States Government, 
as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, for domestic and foreign 
licensing by the Department of the Navy.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the inventions should be directed to 
Naval Postgraduate School, Research and Sponsored Programs Office, NPS 
Code 41, 699 Dyer Road, Bldg. HA, Room 226, Monterey, CA 93943.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Deborah Buettner, Director, 
Research and Sponsored Programs Office, NPS Code 41, 699 Dyer Road, 
Bldg. HA, Room 226, Monterey, CA 93943, telephone 831-656-7893. Due to 
U.S. Postal delays, please fax 831-656-2038, email: [email protected] or 
use courier delivery to expedite response.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The inventions listed below are available 
for licensing: U.S. Patent Number 6,664,915 entitled ``Identification 
Friend or Foe System Including Short Range UV Shield'' issued on 
December 16, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 7,661,271 entitled ``Integrated 
Electric Gas Turbine'' issued on February 16, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 
6,600,694 entitled ``Digital Signal Processor Based Torpedo Counter-
measure'' issued on July 29, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 6,820,025 
entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Motion Tracking of an Articulated 
Rigid Body'' issued on November 16, 2004; U.S. Patent Number 6,717,525 
entitled ``Tactical Vectoring Equipment (TVE)'' issued on April 6, 
2004; U.S. Patent Number 6,624,780 entitled ``False Target Radar Image 
Generator for Countering wideband and Imaging Radars'' issued on 
September 23, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 7,725,595 entitled ``Embedded 
Communications System and Method'' issued on May 25, 2010; U.S. Patent 
Number 8,443,101 entitled ``Method for Identifying and Blocking 
Embedded Communications'' issued on May 14, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 
7,675,198 entitled ``Inductive Pulse Forming Network for High-current, 
High-power Applications'' issued on March 9, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 
8,018,096 entitled ``Inductive Pulse Forming Network for High-current, 
High-power Applications'' issued September 13, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 
7,074,697 entitled ``Doping-assisted Defect Control in Compound 
Semiconductors'' issued on July 11, 2006; U.S. Patent Number 7,089,148 
entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Motion Tracking of an Articulated 
Rigid Body'' issued August 8, 2006; U.S. Patent Number 7,627,003 
entitled ``Automatic Clock Synchronization and Distribution Circuit for 
Counter Clock Flow Pipelined Systems'' issued on December 1, 2009; U.S. 
Patent Number 8,085,817 entitled ``Automatic Clock Synchronization and 
Distribution Circuit for Counter Clock Flow Pipelined Systems'' issued 
December 27, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,019,090 entitled ``Active 
Feedforward Noise Vibration Control System'' issued September 13, 2011; 
U.S. Patent Number 8,064,541 entitled ``Hyperphase Shift Keying'' 
issued November 22, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,050,849 entitled 
``Method to Reduce Fuel Consumption by Naval Vessels that Operate in 
Mixed Propulsion Modes'' issued November 1, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 
8,006,937 entitled ``Spacecraft Docking Interface Mechanism'' issued 
October 12, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 7,811,918 entitled ``Electric 
Current Induced Liquid Metal Flow and Metallic Conformal Coating of 
Conductive Templates'' issued on August 30, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 
8,467,548 entitled ``Miniature Directional Sound Sensor Using Micro-
Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS)'' issued on June 18, 2013; U.S. Patent 
Number 8,579,535 entitled ``Micro-coupling Active Release Mechanism'' 
issued on November 12, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 9,003,627 entitled 
``Micro-coupling Active Release Mechanism'' issued on April 14, 2015; 
U.S. Patent Number 8,654,672 entitled ``Method for Optimal Transmitter 
Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks'' issued on February 18, 2014; U.S. 
Patent Number 8,473,826 entitled ``Hybrid Soft Decision Hard Decision 
Reed-Solomon Decoding'' issued June 25, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 
8,433,959 entitled ``Method for Determining Hard Drive Contents Through 
Statistical Drive Sampling'' issued on April 30, 2013; U.S. Patent 
Number 8,446,096 entitled ``Terahertz (THz) Reverse Micromagnetron'' 
issued on May 21, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,624,497 entitled 
``Terahertz (THz) Reverse Micromagnetron'' issued on January 7, 2014; 
U.S. Patent Number 8,724,598 entitled ``Method for Energy-efficient, 
Traffic-adaptive, Flow-specific Medium Access For Wireless Networks'' 
issued on May 13, 2014; U.S. Patent Number

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8,269,658 entitled ``Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using the 
Robust Symmetrical Number System'' issued on September 18, 2012; U.S. 
Patent Number 9,194,379 entitled ``Field Ionization Based Electrical 
Space Ion Thruster Using A Permeable Substrate'' issued on November 24, 
2015; U.S. Patent Number 8,800,930 entitled ``Aerial Delivery System 
with High Accuracy Touchdown'' issued on August 12, 2014; U.S. Patent 
Number 8,730,098 entitled ``Method for Radar Detection of Persons 
Wearing Wires'' issued on May 20, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,525,393 
entitled ``Bimaterial Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) Solar Power 
Generator'' issued on September 3, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,526,746 
entitled ``Near Lossless Data Compression Method Using Nonuniform 
Sampling'' issued on September 3, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,489,256 
entitled ``Automatic Parafoil Turn Calculation Method and Apparatus'' 
issued on July 16, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,437,891 entitled ``Method 
And Apparatus for Parafoil Guidance That Accounts For Ground Winds'' 
issued on May 7, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,818,581 entitled ``Parafoil 
Electronic Control Unit Having Wireless Connectivity'' issued on August 
26, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 9,331,773 entitled ``Instantaneous 
Wireless Network Established By Simultaneously Descending Parafoils'' 
issued on May 3, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 8,483,891 entitled 
``Automatically Guided Parafoil Directed to Land on a Moving Target'' 
issued on July 9, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,693,365 entitled ``Method 
and Apparatus for State-Based Channel Selection Method in Multi-Channel 
Wireless Communications Networks'' issued on April 8, 2014; U.S. Patent 
Number 8,810,121 entitled ``Method and Device to Produce Hot, Dense, 
Long-lived Plasmas'' issued on August 19, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 
8,746,120 entitled ``Boosted Electromagnetic Device and Method to 
Accelerate Solid Metal Slugs to High Speeds'' issued on June 10, 2014; 
U.S. Patent Number 8,878,742 entitled ``Dipole with an Unbalanced 
Microstrip Feed'' issued on November 4, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 
9,038,958 entitled ``Method And Apparatus For Contingency Guidance Of A 
CMG-Actuated Spacecraft'' issued on May 26, 2015; U.S. Patent Number 
8,880,246 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Determining Spacecraft 
Maneuvers'' issued on November 4, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 9,248,501 
entitled ``Method for Additive Manufacturing Using pH and Potential 
Controlled Powder Solidification'' issued on February 2, 2016; U.S. 
Patent Number 9,234,732 entitled ``Explosives Storage System'' issued 
on January 12, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,417,044 entitled ``Explosives 
Storage System'' issued on August 16, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 
9,419,920 entitled ``Gateway Router and Method for Application-Aware 
Automatic Network Selection'' issued on August 16, 2016; U.S. Patent 
Number 9,321,529 entitled ``Hybrid Mobile Buoy for Persistent Surface 
and Underwater Exploration'' issued on April 26, 2016; U.S. Patent 
Number 9,418,080 entitled ``Method and System for Mobile Structured 
Collection of Data and Images'' issued on August 16, 2016; U.S. Patent 
Number 9,489,851 entitled ``Landing Signal Officer (LSO) Information 
Management and Trend Analysis (IMTA) Tool'' issued on November 8, 2016; 
U.S. Patent Number 9,534,863 entitled ``Electromagnetic Device and 
Method to Accelerate Solid Metal Slugs to High Speeds'' issued on 
January 3, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,552,391 entitled ``Apparatus and 
Method for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Network Analysis'' issued 
on January 24, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,541,401 entitled ``Method and 
System for Determining Shortest Oceanic Routes'' issued on January 10, 
2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,457,900 entitled ``Multirotor Mobile Buoy 
for Persistent Surface and Underwater Exploration'' issued on October 
4, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,567,112 entitled ``Method and Apparatus 
for Singularity Avoidance for Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) Systems 
Without Using Null Motion'' issued on February 14, 2017; U.S. Patent 
Number 9,594,172 entitled ``Solid-state Spark Chamber for Detection of 
Radiation'' issued on March 14, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,563,964 
entitled ``Method for Computer Vision Analysis of Cannon-launched 
Artillery Video'' issued on February 7, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 
9,721,352 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Computer Vision Analysis 
of Cannon-launched Artillery Video'' issued on August 1, 2017; U.S. 
Patent Number 9,727,034 entitled ``Unscented Control for Uncertain 
Dynamical Systems'' issued on August 8, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 
9,693,325 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Hybrid Time 
Synchronization Based on Broadcast Sequencing for Wireless Ad Hoc 
Networks'' issued on June 27, 2017; U.S. Patent 9,590,740 entitled 
``Method and System for Robust Symmetrical Number System (RSNS) 
Photonic Direction Finding (DF) System'' issued on March 7, 2017; U.S. 
Patent Number 9,530,574 entitled ``Super Dielectric Materials'' issued 
on December 27, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,788,213 entitled ``Method 
for Interference-Robust Transmitter Placement in Wireless Mesh 
Networks'' issued on October 10, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,711,293 
entitled ``Capacitor with Ionic-solution-infused, Porous, Electrically 
Non-conductive Material'' issued on July 18, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 
9,655,077 entitled ``Device and Method for Cellular Synchronization 
Assisted Location Estimation'' issued on May 16, 2017; U.S. Patent 
Number 9,656,733 entitled ``Life Preserver Location System'' issued on 
May 23, 2017; U.S. Patent Number 9,705,383 entitled ``Light Activated 
Generator'' issued on July 11, 2017.
    U.S. Patent Application Number 15/188,505 filed on June 21, 2016, 
entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Guidance and Control of Uncertain 
Dynamical Systems''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/833,728 filed on 
August 24, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic 
Analysis''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/810,026 filed on July 27, 
2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Detection of Hazardous 
Environmental Conditions and Initiation of Alarm Devices''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 14/883,384 filed on October 14, 2015, entitled 
``Wireless Signal Localization and Collection from an Airborne 
Symmetric Line Array Network''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/
852,734 filed on September 14, 2015, entitled ``Network Monitoring 
Method Using Phantom Nodes''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/939,032 
filed on November 12, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for 
Computer Vision Analysis of Spin Rate of Marked Projectiles''; U.S. 
Patent Application Number 15/208,784 filed on July 13, 2016, entitled 
``Unscented Optimization and Control Allocation''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 15/082,225 filed on March 28, 2016, entitled 
``Automated Multi-plane Propulsion System''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 15/131,733 filed on April 18, 2016, entitled ``Multiple Unmanned 
Aerial Vehicle Launcher System''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/
137,090 filed on April 25, 2016, entitled ``Device and Method for 
Applying Internal Pressure to a Hollow Cylinder''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 15/093,047 filed on April 7, 2016, entitled ``Light 
Activated Rotor''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/207,128 filed on 
July 11, 2016, entitled ``AIGaAs/GaAs Solar Cell with Back-surface 
Alternating Contacts (GaAs BAC Solar

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Cell)''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/453,198 filed on March 8, 
2017, entitled ``Apparatus and Method for Determining an Orientation of 
an Inertial/Magnetic Sensor''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/
251,766 filed on August 30, 2016, entitled ``High-Altitude Payload 
Retrieval (HAPR) Apparatus and Methods of Use''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 15/239,039 filed on August 17, 2016, entitled 
``Super Dielectric Capacitor''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/
620,983 filed on June 13, 2017, entitled ``Super Dielectric Capacitor 
Using Scaffold Dielectric''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/375,279 
filed on December 12, 2016, entitled ``Method of Electrochemically-
Driven Coated Material Synthesis''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/
643,135 filed on July 6, 2017, entitled ``Closed-Loop Control System 
Using Unscented Optimization''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/
427,858 filed on February 8, 2017, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for 
Operation of a Remote Sensing Platform''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 15/463,135 filed on March 20, 2017, entitled ``Energy Recovery 
Pulse Forming Network''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/684,359 
filed on August 23, 2017, entitled ``Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Device 
With Vertical Superjunction Edge Termination for the Drift Region''; 
U.S. Patent Application Number 15/147,568 filed on May 5, 2016, 
entitled ``MEMS Thermal Creep Cantilever''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 15/282,460 filed on September 30, 2016, entitled ``Emitter-less, 
Back-surface Alternating Contact Solar Cell''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 15/251,035 filed on August 30, 2016, entitled ``Chemical Method 
to Create Metal Films on Metal and Ceramic Substrates''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 15/625,103 filed on June 16, 2017, entitled 
``Chemical Method to Create High Stability Heterogeneous Carbon-bonded 
Materials''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/634,079 filed on June 
27, 2017, entitled ``Direction finding system using two MEMS sound 
sensors''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/417,307 filed on January 
27, 2017, entitled ``Apparatus and Method for Detecting a Multi-homed 
Device using Clock Skew''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/479,053 
filed on April 4, 2017, entitled ''Front-Facing Fluoroploymer-Coated 
Armor Composite''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/593,931 filed on 
May 12, 2017, entitled ``Dynamically Tilting Flat Table to impart a 
Time-varying Gravity-induced Acceleration on a Floating Spacecraft 
Simulator''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/725,025 filed on October 
4, 2017, entitled ``Systems and Methods for Evaluation of Potentially 
Irradiated Objects Using Oxygen-17 Detection''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 12/460,923 filed on February 26, 2010, entitled ``Agile Attitude 
Control System for Small Spacecraft''; U.S. Patent Application Number 
13/374,601 filed on June 22, 2012, entitled ``A Method for Amplifying 
Detonation Power Output By Circumferential Slapper Initiation''; U.S. 
Patent Application Number 62/452,287 filed on January 31, 2017, 
entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Medium Voltage Pulsed Current 
Supplies Using Wide Bandgap Solid State Devices''; U.S. Patent 
Application Number 62/469,377 filed on March 9, 2017, entitled 
``Methane/Oxygen Rocket Engine with Specific Impulse Enhancement by Hot 
Helium Infusion''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/479,381 filed on 
March 31, 2017, entitled ``Phase Coded Time Delayed Transmit-Receive 
Leakage Cancellation''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/518,881 filed 
on June 13, 2017, entitled ``System and Method for Determining Position 
Between Two Locations''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/528,699 
filed on July 5, 2017, entitled ``Method for Autonomous Operations of 
Large-Scale Satellite Constellations and Ground Station Networks''; 
U.S. Patent Application Number 62/541,364 filed on August 4, 2017, 
entitled ``Low Temperature Metal Printing''; U.S. Patent Application 
Number 62/554,878 filed on September 6, 2017, entitled ``Method and 
Apparatus for Image-Matching Navigation for Aerial Vehicle''; U.S. 
Patent Application Number 62/554,871 filed on September 6, 2017, 
entitled ``Game Theoretic Methodology for Locating Camera Towers and 
Scheduling Surveillance''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/570,349 
filed on October 10, 2017, entitled ``Optimal Control and Computational 
Algorithm for Solving Energy and Fuel-Optimal Routing Problem for a 
Vehicle Operating in a Time-varying Energy Field''.

    Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404.7

    Dated: October 31, 2017.
E.K. Baldini,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy, 
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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