[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 130 (Wednesday, July 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 39162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16641]


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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (15-051)]


Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive License

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant exclusive license.

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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 
a partially exclusive license in the United States to practice the 
inventions described and claimed in USPN 8,255,079, Human Grasp Assist 
Device and Method of Use, NASA Case No. MSC-24741-1; USSN 13/408,675, 
Control of a Glove-Based Grasp Assist Device, NASA Case No. 25320-1; 
USSN 13/408,668, Human Grasp Assist Device Soft Good, NASA Case No. 
MSC-25318-1; Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-064953, Human Grasp 
Assist Soft, NASA Case No. MSC-25318-2; USPN 8,849,453, Human Grasp 
Assist Device with Exoskeleton, NASA Case No. 25319-1 and USSN 14/
175,094, Grasp Assist Device with Shared Tendon Actuator Assembly, NASA 
Case No. MSC-25783-1 to CSSDP Investments, Inc., having its principal 
place of business in Newport Coast, California. The fields of use may 
be limited to assistive wearable devices for humans. 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 prospective partially exclusive license will 
comply with the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.

DATES: The prospective partially 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 Patent Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, NASA Johnson 
Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Mail Code AL, Houston, Texas 77058, 
Phone (281) 483-3021; Fax (281) 483-6936.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Michelle P. Lewis, Johnson Space 
Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Technology Transfer and Commercialization 
Office, Mail Code AO52, Houston, TX 77058, (281) 483-8051. Information 
about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online 
at http://technology.nasa.gov.

Mark P. Dvorscak,
Agency Counsel for Intellectual Property.
[FR Doc. 2015-16641 Filed 7-7-15; 8:45 am]
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