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The Technology Partnerships Division at Ames was formed to develop and expand partnerships between NASA and U.S. industrial firms for innovative technology development. To learn more about our capabilities and how NASA can help your organization achieve its goals, see the technologies and software NASA Ames has available for commercial licensing and development below:
Technologies and software available for licensing:
Aeronautics/Atmospheric Vehicles
FACET - FACET is a flexible software tool used for air traffic management
Trajectory Specification for High Air Traffic Control - A method and system for analyzing and processing information on one or more aircraft flight paths that uses a four-dimensional coordinate system to help manage air traffic control
Intelligent Weather Agent - An innovative method for in-flight weather briefing
Cart3D - A High-fidelity inviscid analysis package for conceptual and preliminary aerodynamic design
Hovercraft Landing System - An alternate landing concept using a hovercraft for reusable spacecraft and launch vehicles
Real-time Correction of Aircraft Flight Configuration - A display system shows values that describe an aircraft flight route
Biological Health/Life Support
Bucky Paper Scaffold - A technology based on carbon nanotube Bucky paper as a scaffold for transplanting cells into the retina
Sub-audible Speech Recognition - A system for generating electromyographic or sub-audible signals
Contaminated Water Treatment Systems - Various methods for recycling contaminant liquids to provide re-drinkable water
Pill Transmitter - A mehanical image transmitting device that reports the exact location and angular orientation within a body
Solid and Liquid Waste Drying Bag - An invention that can be used as a portable toilet, for medical waste, hazardous waste, or sludge from water treatment operations
Control and Monitoring
Finite-Difference Simulation - A tool that can aid in detecting and diagnosing damage in a given structural system
Inductive Monitoring System - Software that utilizes techniques from the fields of model-based reasoning, machine learning, and data mining to build system monitoring knowledge bases from archived or simulated sensor data
Oil Reservoir Evaluation System - A real-time system that uses nanotechnology to improve the quality and production of oil by monitoring the chemical composition in wells and then relaying the information to decision makers
Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System - A modeling software system designed to produce ecological forecasts
Interactive Inventory Monitoring - An inventory monitoring program using an RFID-based system
Spectroscopic Chemical Analysis Methods and Apparatus - A non-contact spectroscopic method and apparatus for performing chemical analysis
Gas Sensor
Nanostructure Sensing and Transmission of Gas Data - A system for wireless transmission of data by nanostructure-based chemical and physical sensors
Oil Reservoir Evaluation System - A real-time system that uses nanotechnology to improve the quality and production of oil by monitoring the chemical composition in wells and then relaying the information to decision makers
Gas Composition Sensing using Carbon Nanotube Arrays - A lightweight sensor that provides measurements as accurate as conventional methods
Detection of Chemical Precursors of Explosives - An early detection system for chemical precursors of explosives
Application of carbon nanotube hold-off voltage for determining gas composition - Methods and systems for determining chemical composition of a single component or multiple-component gas, using a discharge holdoff mechanism
Data Mining
Perilog - A contextual search method that gives users a simple-to-use means of finding and ranking text documents according to their relevance to particular words or phrases
Imaging
Enhanced Elliptic Grid Generation - An enhanced method for eliptical grid generation based on automatic determination of grid parameters rather than user input
Cart3D - A high-fidelity, inviscid analysis package for conceptual and preliminary aerodynamic design
Information Systems
Netmark - Software that is designed to seamlessly integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and documents across enterprise organizations
Program Management Tool - A user interface that utilizes standard business documents to create a friendly, familiar environment to keep track of project goals, risks, milestones, and deliverables, and helping appropriately allocate resources
Materials and Composition
Carbon Nanotube Purification - A non-invasive method to clean and purify carbon nanotubes
Method and System for Functionalizing a Collection of Carbon Nanotubes - A method and system for functionalizing a collection of carbon nanotubes
Robotics
ShuttleSCAN 3D - A method for real-time analysis of surfaces ranging from the small (such as circuit boards) to the large (such as panels or roads)
Spectral Measurement, Imaging and Analysis (including Telescopes
Photometer - A device that can determine the solar energy attenuated by aerosol particles in the atmosphere without using moving parts
Spatial Standard Observer - A method to predict the detectability of spatial contrast targets such as those used in the ModelFest project
Multiple Wavelength Light Collimator and Monitor - A system that handles the optical input and electronic output of two spectrometers
Simplified Night Sky Display System - A Portable, Simply Constructed Planetarium Imaging System
Synthetic Biology
Rapid Polymer Sequencer - An analysis technique that can determine the information content in single molecules of genetic material at the speed of 1 subunit per microsecond
Testing and Evaluation
ShuttleSCAN 3D - A method for real-time analysis of surfaces ranging from the small (such as circuit boards) to the large (such as panels or roads)
Thermal Protection & Materials
Radiation Shielding Systems Using Nanotechnology - A system that protects sensitive electronic equipment from radiation damage
High Efficiency Tantalum-based Ceramic Structures - A high-impact-resistant ceramic material for thermal protection
Versatile Honeycomb Matrix Heat Shield - A heat shield that employs cured thermal protection material blocks bonded in a large-cell
Nanoengineered Thermal Materials - Thermal conductors for integrated circuits and devices that can be made from carbon nanotube arrays