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COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF MAY 28,1997 PSA#1854DEVELOPMENTS AT NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) have developed a number of new devices and
methods involving a variety of technologies. In certain cases other
parties have participated in the development of these technologies
.NIST may enter into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) with interested parties to perform further research on the
invention for purposes of commercialization. NIST may grant CRADA
Partners an option to negotiate for exclusive licenses to any jointly
owned inventions which arise from the CRADA as well as an option to
negotiate for exclusive royalty-bearing licenses for NIST employee
inventions which arise from the CRADA. Anyone interested in the further
development of any of these technologies or in applying for a license
to commercialize these technologies should send a written request for
further information, referencing the NIST Docket Number and Title, to:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Industrial
Partnerships Program, Building 820, Room 213, Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899; Telecopy: 301-869-2751. This is not an announcement of a
contract action or a grant. NIST DOCKET NUMBER: 95-007PA, Title:
Development of High Temperature Ultrasonic Transducers for the In-Situ
Measurement of Deformation of Materials During Hot Isostatic
Processing, Description: This aluminum nitride film ultrasonic
transducer measures deformation of materials in a high-temperature,
high-pressure environment such as a hot isostatic pressing (HIP)
vessel. It can emit and receive ultrasound at temperatures above 940
degrees celsius and at pressures above 155 Mpa. NIST DOCKET NUMBER:
95-044PA, Title: Sensing and Gas Metal Arc Welding Process
Characteristics for Welding Process Control, This method for sensing
the characteristics of constant-voltage gas metal arc welding
Description: (CV-GMAW) allows control of the welding process so that
fluctuations adversely affecting weld quality can be corrected. The
algorithms of this invention extend the sensing and process control
mechanisms already developed for pulsed-current gas metal arc welding
(PC-GMAW), US Patent No. 5,221,825. NIST DOCKET NUMBER: 95-047, Title:
Non-Contact Method and Apparatus for Inspection of Inertia Welds,
Description: An electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) provides a
means of non-contact inspection to detect internal inertia weld defects
and web defects in spool-shaped aluminum airbag inflator igniter
canisters. The method is non-destructive, efficient, reliable, and
readily implemented. NIST DOCKET NUMBER: 95-050, Title: Fabrication of
Embossed Diffractive Optics with Reusable Release Agent Description:
By this technique of chemically modifying the surface of a commercial
master diffractive grating with a suitable release agent, replica
gratings are inexpensively embossed onto float glass, ion diffused,
polymer, semiconductor, and other types of optical waveguides. NIST
DOCKET NUMBER: 96-029, Title: Cryogenic Current Comparator Based on
Liquid Nitrogen Temperature Superconductors, Description: Electric
currents maintained in a precise integer ratio by a cryogenic current
comparator (CCC) can be used to measure WEB: NIST Contracts Homepage,
http://www.nist.gov/admin/od/contract/contract.htm. E-MAIL: NIST
Contracts Office, Contract@nist.gov. Loren Data Corp. http://www.ld.com (SYN# 0457 19970528\SP-0004.MSC)
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