2012-28557. Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License

AGENCY:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION:

Notice of intent to grant an exclusive license.

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 license in the United States to practice the inventions described and claimed in the following U.S. Patent Applications: “Reducing Sensor and Readout Circuitry Noise in Digital Domain Using Referencing Pixels” Application Serial No. 13/489073, NASA Case No. GSC-16181 and “Hilbert-Huang Transform Data Processing Real-Time System with 2-D Capabilities” Application Serial No. 13/474367, NASA Case No. GSC-16328-1 to Syneren Technologies Corporation having its principal place of business in Lanham, Maryland. The patent rights in these inventions have been assigned to the United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The exclusive license will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.

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/140.1, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, [phone].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Enidia Santiago-Arce, Innovative Partnerships Program Office/504, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 [phone]. Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/​.

Sumara M. Thompson-King,

Deputy General Counsel.