SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Notice of Patents, Patent Applications, and Inventions Available for License
- Notice Date
- 11/21/2014
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334513
— Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, USGS - All Offices, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia, 20192, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20192
- Solicitation Number
- G15PS00033
- Point of Contact
- Benjamin Henry,
- E-Mail Address
-
bhenry@usgs.gov
(bhenry@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- US Geological Survey in Reston, VA, is soliciting inquiries from companies interested in licensing rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued as exclusive or nonexclusive, and may include specific fields of use. USGS is not providing any funding in conjunction with the potential license. Technology title, "Apparatus to assist in the collection of stormwater-quality samples in a vertical profile." U.S. issued patent 8,286,512. Background. This technology relates in general to fluid samplers and in particular to the automated collection of stormwater-quality samples in a vertical profile intended to be in closed structures used to convey stormwater runoff in an urban environment, such as storm sewers. Sediment is a pollutant in rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs that can destroy aquatic habitats and affect our drinking water and recreational activities such as swimming. Many of today's environmental policies are oriented towards controlling the quantity of sediment and sediment-associated constituents from not only large rural watersheds but also smaller urban drainage basins into receiving waters. These policies are based upon scientific research designed to characterize and quantify the presence of a suite of regulated contaminants. Proper characterization depends on the collection, processing, and analysis of accurate concentration data. Autosamplers are widely used to collect stormwater-quality samples where the remoteness or inaccessibility of a study site precludes manual collection. Additionally, autosamplers can be programmed to acquire samples in an environment that is rapidly changing, such as is the case when sampling urban runoff. The collection of a representative stormwater-quality sample in urban runoff can be difficult due to large sources of variability, both temporal and spatial. Use of automated stormwater-quality samplers has vastly improved the way water resources professionals collect samples in these environments. However, these automated pumping systems do not always collect a representative aliquot of the flow moving past the sample intake, resulting in biased concentration data. Abstract. A sampling method, fluid collection assembly, and auxiliary sampling device to assist an autosampler in collecting samples from a fluid source. The auxiliary sampling device includes a support frame with a pivot member. A linear actuator having a piston is attached to the support frame. A rotatable sample arm assembly has an upper end attached to the piston and to the pivot member of the support frame, and a lower end with an inlet to receive a fluid sample. A fluid conduit within the sample arm assembly has a fluid intake end connected to the inlet and a fluid discharge end connected to the autosampler. The linear actuator pushes or retracts the piston to vertically pivot the sample arm assembly until the inlet reaches desired positions within the fluid source so that the autosampler collects multiple samples at various depths. To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to bhenry@usgs.gov with the title of this technology in the subject line. Include your preferred contact information and the nature of your interest in the technology along with a brief background of your company. For more information about other USGS technologies available for licensing, please visit http://www.usgs.gov/tech-transfer/available_patents.html Responses are provided to members of USGS's Office of Policy & Analysis for the purpose of promoting public awareness of USGS owned technologies and conducting market research to determine commercial interest. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, USGS will follow the required formal licensing process. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from the responses to this notice.
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