SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES' TECHNOLOGIES FOR LICENSING The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), its laboratories, and production facilities are committed to helping businesses in the United States to improve the cycle from new ideas and product innovation to product development and commercialization. In order to achieve this goal, the DOE has put in place a program to transfer technologies developed at its laboratories to the private sector for commercial applications. DOE's objective in doing this is to establish mutually beneficial partnerships that can leverage advanced technologies and enhance U.S. position in the ever changing global marketplace. Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) is one of the participating laboratories in this program. By this announcement, Sandia is soliciting expressions of interest from U.S. businesses for potential collaboration and licensing of some of its technologies for which patent applications are in the process. These are: 1. Ultra Rapid Production of Net-Shapes Using Spray Deposition: This is a revolutionary materials processing technique for simultaneous synthesizing and near-net-shaping of complex high performance, high technology materials directly into production quality hardware. The processing technique has the potential to create hardware that either serves as prototypes or as actual testable, functional parts in a small production run mode. This technology has great flexibility in part design, can preclude the prototyping processes that now use only surrogate materials to make non-functional models of three dimensional parts, and most importantly can be used in low volume production of structural and functional parts for both defense and commercial applications. 2. XRF for Detection of Botulinum Toxin and Other Related Metalloproteases: The detection and quantification of botulinum toxins are important to U.S. defense efforts because an aerosolized toxin could be used as a biological warfare agent. It is also important to clinical and veterinary medicine, and to the canning industry. Sandia has developed a sensor system for botulinum using XRF as a component part of a biosensor system and can be used for rapid detection of botulinum and related metal containing toxins. 3. XRF for Detection of Plastic and Ceramic Land Mines and Ordinances: The detection and removal of land mines and buried ordinances has been hindered by the development of plastic, ceramic and non-ferric containers which are invisible to standard ferromagnetic and electrical sensors. Further, some of the newer ordinances have been engineered to explode when electronically probed. Sandia has developed a biosensor system which incorporates XRF as a component part which could be used to detect trace elements that are contained in plastics and ceramics and identify the fingerprints of target materials in the mines which can be used in detection and identification of an ordinance. This system can be used to detect both non-ferric and ferric ordinance. 4. Kit for Discrimination Between Strains of Botulinum or Other Proteins of Interest: Sandia has developed a kit method for the quantification and discrimination of botulinum toxin or bacterial and viral agents. It is very useful for U.S. defense efforts and to clinical and veterinary medicine and to the canning industry. 5. Digitally Controlled System for Monitoring Physical Phenomenon: There is an ongoing need to improve the technology of electronic systems that measure physical phenomenon. Technologies are desired that result in improvement in performance ( accuracy, speed), reduction in size and weight, and reduction in electrical power consumption. This Sandia invention significantly improves this technology by utilizing a technique for control of these electronic systems that allows both high data throughput rate (10 megabit/second pcm encoding) and significant processing capability in a small, inexpensive package. This invention will be useful missile flight test instrumentation, aircraft and satellite systems, and commercial building monitoring and factory automation. 6. Backside Active Control for Video Enhancement Welding (BACVIEW): To produce a quality Gas Tungsten Arc Weld, one must be able to observe weld backside penetration and quantitatively measure and control the size of the molten nugget during the weld process. Sandia has developed a technique which enables one to observe the backside of a weld, collect data and compute the back side weld pool width, length and area. This information is then used to automatically adjust weld current, in real time to create a bead size including width, length and the area of the bead selected by the welder. This technique is very simple and inexpensive to implement in all types of high quality welding proceses including Gas Tingsten Arc Welding, E-Beam welding and laser welding. The technique can be used for both front and back side welds and eliminates the need for pre-determined weld schedules and compensates for active and passive disturbance during the weld. It has applications in the areas of nuclear weapon components, power plant components, oil and gas plant components, piping and aerospace components. This is not a solicitation. Parties interested in licensing one or more of these technologies are invited to submit a letter of interest providing information about the company, areas of potential application for the technology and the point of contact (including address, telephone and fax numbers). Letters should be sent to: Ms. Joanne Trujillo, MS 1380, Sandia National Laboratories, P. O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1380. FAX No. (505) 843-4175. E-MAIL: Sandia National Laboratories' Technologies for Licensing, jmtruji@sandia.gov.

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