SPECIAL NOTICE
67 -- Partnership Opportunity – Zoom technology using active lenses and mirrors – Licensing opportunity
- Notice Date
- 5/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 333314
— Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Sandia Corp. (DOE Contractor), Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, MS: 0115, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185
- ZIP Code
- 87185
- Solicitation Number
- 13_388
- Archive Date
- 7/15/2013
- Point of Contact
- IP@sandia.gov, Fax: 505-844-8616
- E-Mail Address
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IP@Sandia.gov
(IP@Sandia.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) seeks interested parties for commercializing patented technology for active zoom. The technology utilizes two or more variable focal length elements, such as liquid lenses, liquid crystal lenses, deformable mirrors, or similar devices, to provide optical zoom without the mechanical motion associated with conventional zoom systems. Using this technique, optical zoom can be achieved substantially more compact, lower power imaging system than can be done using conventional methods. The technology is further described in US patent: US 6,977,777. In particular, Claim 14 encompasses zoom lenses using any active focal length lenses or mirrors. Potential applications may include cameras, microscopes, reflective telescopes, as well as other imaging applications. Sandia seeks to license technologies for the benefit of the US industry. It is anticipated that commercial licenses may grant rights on a competitive basis to qualified interested parties for appropriate consideration. Licensing options may include grants for defined fields of use, non-exclusive rights, exclusive, or sublicensing rights. Partnerships to commercialize this technology may also take the form of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs). Sandia will evaluate responses and select prospective parties with which to engage in further discussions based on the following criteria, pursuant to Sandia's technology transfer mission. 1) What are the respondent's specific research and development, prototyping and deployment capabilities and resources relative to this technology? 2) How will the respondent deploy the technology for the benefit of national security and the US public good? 3) How will the respondent's deployment of the technology benefit US economic competitiveness? Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. SAND# 2011-8915P For further information, contact Sandia National Laboratories by email, ip@sandia.gov or fax 505-844-8616. Keywords: active zoom, adaptive zoom, liquid lenses, deformable mirrors
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