[Federal Register: May 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 93)]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
Availability of Partially Exclusive, Exclusive or Non Exclusive
License
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
announces the general availability of partially exclusive, exclusive or
non exclusive licenses under the following pending patents listed under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. Any license granted shall comply with 35
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR part 404.
DATES: Applications for an exclusive or partially exclusive license may
be submitted at any time from the date of this notice. However, no
exclusive or partially exclusive license shall be granted until August
14, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity, Office of
Counsel, 7701 Telegraph Road, Alexandria, VA 22315-3860.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia L. Howland (703) 428-6672.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Title: Embedded Barrier to Fluid Flow. An Electro-Osmotic Pulse
(EOP) system is used to dewater structure, both natural and manmade.
Preferably, the system employs durable, dimensionally stable anodes
affixed to structure in a configuration designed to maximize electrical
contact with the structure and minimize electrode gas generation. The
anodes and cathodes are attached to a DC power supply that provides a
voltage potential between them. DC power is cycled until the structure
has been sufficiently treated. Select embodiments employ perforated
metal pipes as cathodes for the purpose of transport and drainage of
fluids. In select embodiments of the present invention, the cathodes
are connected to variable resistors designed to reduce opportunity for
corrosion of buried metal objects in the vicinity of the EOP system.
Select embodiments employ a pre-specified pulse train of DC voltage
pulses to migrate water from under a crawl space while moving available
cations in the soil. Select embodiments also protect large structures
such as concrete dams.
Serial No: 10/421,922.
Date: April 24, 2004.
2. Title: Detecting, Classifying and Localizing Minor Amounts of an
Element Within a Sample of Material. Minute amounts of material, such
as a contaminant, are detected, classified and located using a single
procedure that eliminates the need for using complex and sometimes
redundant instrumentation setups, multiple (and sometimes overlapping)
analytic processes, or both. In one embodiment, a series of processing
steps enables one to detect, classify, and localize minute amounts of
particular elements, e.g., contaminants, in material being tested. Data
sets, suitable for characterizing components of samples at least
spectrally and spatially, are collected from at least one
uncontaminated sample of material (the ``baseline'' or ``control'') and
a sample of material under test (MUT) that may contain contaminants.
Comparison of these data sets, using the procedures of the present
invention, enables ready classification of minute amounts of material
in any sample. The present invention may be used for liquids, solids,
and gases, with specific application to gels, pastes, hard powders,
soft powders, films, inorganics, and pharmaceuticals.
Serial No: 10/890,844.
Date: July 9, 2004.
3. Title: Modular Bullet Trap Cover. A modular bullet trap cover
element generally includes a shell filled with a projectile trapping
medium, preferably a mixture of a resilient granular ballistic medium
and a hydrated super absorbent polymer (SAP) gel. The shell may be made
of any of a number of fabric or polymeric materials. In embodiments,
the shell includes at least two bags, an inner bag and at least one
outer bag, each of which has an open end and a sealed end, connected to
one another such that the outer bags may be inverted over the inner bag
to cover at least a portion thereof. The modular cover element is
formed by filling the inner bag with the projectile trapping medium and
then inverting the outer bags to produce a multi-layer shell. In
embodiments, the outer bags and inner bag are rotatably connected,
permitting the outer bags to be rotated with respect to the inner bag
such that bullet holes in the inner and outer bags no longer line up
with each other. Several modular cover elements may be fixedly or
releasably interconnected, preferably in a mattress-like arrangement,
to form a bullet trap cover.
Serial No: 10/890,846.
Date: July 9, 2004.
4. Title: A Method and System for Treating Contaminants and Odors
in Airborne Emissions. A second-generation rotating biofilter employing
microorganisms in a microbiological film (biofilm) ``mineralizes''
contaminants, such as VOCs and odoriferous contaminants. Contaminated
fluid, such as air from manufacturing processes, is directed radially
outward from a perforated pipe through porous foam attached to the
pipe. The pipe serves as the axis upon which layers of foam suitable
for supporting formation of biofilms are placed. In one embodiment, an
octagonal-shaped drum incorporates eight baskets. In each basket, foam
is layered outwardly from the pipe in trapezoidal-shaped layers each of
approximately 3.8 cm thickness, each layer separated by air gaps of
approximately 1.3 cm to prevent clogging. Seven layers in each of eight
baskets comprise the octagonal drum. When the drum is sprayed on one
side, water soaks the media and it is heavier on that side, thus
facilitating rotation of the drum. Further, the biofilms are supplied
with moisture and supplemental nutrients as needed.
Serial No: 10/911,763.
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Date: August 4, 2004.
5. Title: Self-Dispensing Bullet Trap Buffer Block. An additive for
buffering a projectile trapping medium and spent projectile strapped
therein is a buffering compound formed as a low density foamed concrete
block that will self-dispense via fragmentation or pulverization when
subjected to incoming fire. The block combines at least one dry
component selected from the group consisting of low solubility
phosphate compounds, low solubility aluminum compounds, iron compounds;
sulfate compounds, and calcium carbonate with a cementing material,
water, and an aqueous based foam in substantially stoichiometric
amounts. The aqueous based foam is added in a quantity sufficient to
adjust the density of the resulting block to be non-buoyant without
sinking in the projectile trapping medium. The additive may be employed
in a projectile trapping medium to chemically stabilize the medium and
environmentally stabilize projectiles trapped therein.
Serial No: 10/911,771.
Date: August 4, 2004.
6. Title: Portable System For Measuring Dynamic Pressure in Situ
and Method of Employment Therefor. A dynamic pressure testing or
calibration system packaged as a portable unit for characterizing
pressure sensors, such as transducers. Embodiments are packaged for
carry on the body, are battery-operated, compatible with existing
transducer mounts, and quickly learned and easily used by a single
operator. The system supplies a pre-specified impulse (pressure pulse)
of fluid, preferably a benign gas, such as air, or an inert gas such as
helium or nitrogen. In select embodiments, the gas pulse has a fast
rise time and its amplitude may be varied over a pre-specified dynamic
range. For example, the rise time may emulate that of an impulse
created during an explosion by a resultant pressure wave, i.e., less
than 100 microseconds. Embodiments also incorporate a data acquisition
capability that accurately captures and records both the supplied
impulse and the response of the sensor under test.
Serial No: 10/991,219.
Date: November 18, 2004.
7. Title: An Implant and Forget Mechanism to Interact with Biota.
An ``implant and forget'' device for interacting with biota after a
pre-established time period. Preferably, the biota are fauna and more
particularly fish. In select embodiments, the device comprises
packaging enclosing means for timing interaction via opening the
packaging. In select embodiments of the present invention, the device
is a sealed capsule inserted in fish. Embodiments of the present
invention are implanted in triploid grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon
idella) to facilitate control of aquatic weeds in bodies of water. When
the carp have been in the water for a pre-established approximate
period of time, toxins in the device are dispensed via long term
bioerosion of the sealed opening in the packaging. Otherwise, the carp
may destroy all vegetation and harm the aquatic environment for other
aquatic life. Several alternative bioerodible seal configurations are
provided as embodiments.
Serial No: 11/179,541.
Date: July 13, 2005.
8. Title: Functionality Index (F) For Use With an Engineering
Management System (EMS). A top-down tiered process establishes an
objective measure of the functional capacity of an asset to address a
specified use. The process comprises: Developing Issue Categories and
lists of functional impact Sub-issue Types and specific issues under
each type that may impact functionality of the asset for a specified
use; providing the list to evaluators; employing evaluators to evaluate
functionality, evaluators assigning a numerical Severity measure to
each Sub-issue Type present during the evaluation; recording
occurrences of issues under each Sub-issue Type discovered, summing
occurrences to determine a Density of each Sub-issue Type; recording
the evaluation in one or more engineering management systems (EMS); and
using the recorded evaluation, calculating a value to be inserted on a
numerical scale as a functionality index, F1. In select embodiments of
the present invention, a numerical scale is used with values from 0-
100.
Serial No: 11/194,655.
Date: August 2, 2005.
9. Title: A Process For Treating Waste From The Production of
Energetics. A waste stream is treated in a pre-filter having media,
preferably sand, connected below a zero-valent metal column reactor
incorporating a metal with reducing potential, preferably elemental
iron (FeO); the combination preferably configured as a single unit. The
waste stream is pumped through the pre-filter to trap solids and
deoxygenate it, then enters the reactor and is subjected to a reducing
process. Most of the FeO is transformed to the ferrous ion (Fe +2),
mixed with the reduced product, and fed to a continuous stirred tank
reactor (CSTR) in which Fenton oxidation occurs. The output is then
sent to a sedimentation tank and pH-neutralized using a strong base
such as sodium hydroxide (NaOH). The aqueous portion is drawn off and
the sludge pumped from the sedimentation tank. The system is monitored
and controlled to optimize required additives, while monitoring of
pressure drop across the pre-filter and column reactor establishes
replacement requirements.
Serial No: 11/229,441.
Date: September 8, 2005.
10. Title: Condition Lifecycle Mathematical Model and Process.
Initial assumptions related to the service life of a particular item,
such as a component section of a building, are mathematically modeled
to construct an initial lifecycle condition relationship as condition
index (CI) v. time. To update the model, empirical data may be input at
any time. As modeled in an engineering management system, for example,
inspections are performed on the item to verify actual condition with
that predicted. Quantitative inspection data are then used to update
the initial curve. As inspections are performed and data recorded, the
curve is updated to accurately capture observed condition and provide
realistic estimates of predicted condition, and expected service life.
In select embodiments of the present invention, empirical data, such as
that from inspections, are weighted, e.g., inspection data may be
weighted based on type, level of detail, time in service, time since
last inspection and the like.
Serial No: 11/223,251.
Date: August 2, 2005.
11. Title: System and Method for Increasing the Bond Strength
Between A Structural Material and its Reinforcement Agency. This
invention involves the coating of a reinforcing material, such as a
metal, increasing the adhesion between the material and the matrix,
such as a cement-based mortar or concrete, in which the material is
imbedded. In one embodiment, a glass frit mixed with a refractory
material, such as dry Portland cement, is bonded by heat to the surface
of the reinforcing material. The reaction of the refractory component
when the metal is embedded in fresh mortar or concrete prevents the
formation of soft precipitates at the interface. One embodiment
involves mixing Portland cement with the glass frit as a coating,
coating a steel rod and firing the coating to bond to the metal. The
frit-refractory coating produces a strong bond between the metal and
the concrete or mortar matrix and may significantly reduce the
potential for the corrosion of the steel.
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Serial No: 11/234,184.
Date: September 8, 2005.
Richard L. Frenette,
Counsel.
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