Royalty Report: Semiconductors, Material Composite, Fabrication – Collection: 161592

License Grant

Licensor grants under their patents personal, nonexclusive and nontransferable licenses to make, to have made, use, lease, offer for sale, sell and import products.

License Property

The products are a Superconductive Wire Product, Superconductive Wire within a System, and Systems Products including Superconductive Wire Product.

Yttrium-barium-copper oxide (YBCO) patents and patent applications are fundamental to the high temperature superconductor (HTS) industry.

The patents on HTS compounds include YBCO 123, barium-strontium-calcium-copper-oxide (BSCCO) 2212 and BSCCO 2223. The portfolio also contains patents on wire manufacturing methods, including the oxide-powder-in-tube (OPIT) technology and end-use applications ranging from communications and power generation to medical imaging and magnetic levitation.

Field of Use

Licensee is an industry leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing products utilizing superconducting materials for electric power applications.

License Grant

The Japanese Licensor grants a license under the Existing Patents of Licensor to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products and Products contained in products in Licensee’s Territory, with the right of Licensee to grant sub-licenses under that license only to its Subsidiaries. Licensee shall write notes in the terms and conditions of sale of the Products “This product is not licensed for sale, or lease in Japan,” and notify its customers that the Products may not be exported to Japan except in the form of Licensed Equipment. A Have Made Right for Products under the Existing Patents of Licensor is also granted to Licensee.
  

Licensor grants to Licensee a worldwide, non-exclusive license under the Future Patents of Licensor to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products and Products contained in products, with the right of Licensee to grant sub-licenses under that license only to its Subsidiaries. A Have Made Right for Products under the Future Patents of Licensor is also granted to Licensee. For the avoidance of doubt, the license to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products contained in products is limited to the Products themselves and does not include a license to a combination of the Products with the products in which they are contained.

License Property

Patents are for Wire and Process, Magnet Application and Current Lead.

Products shall mean Bi-based superconducting wires, and magnets, coils and current leads including Bi-based superconducting wires. For clarity, Products do not include other products which incorporate Bi-based wires, magnets, coils or current leads as a component of a larger system.

Wire Products shall mean Bi-based superconducting wires. For clarity, Wire Products exclude magnets, coils, current leads and other products, but include the Wire Products contained in any magnet, coil, current lead or other product.

Rotating Machinery Products shall mean superconducting rotating machines, including but not limited to motors, generators and dynamic synchronous condensers. Rotating Machinery Products shall also mean superconducting coils per se, intended for use in rotating machinery applications.

Bismuth-based superconducting material is made of bismuth – strontium – calcium – copper – oxygen (Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O). The 2223 phase with composition ratio of Bi(partially Pb), Sr, Ca and Cu is 2223 has high critical temperature (110 K) and therefore is attracting much attention as a commercially viable material since its discovery.

Field of Use

This agreement field is for rotating machinery and Super Machines, in the market of  manufacturing electric power transmission and/or distribution cables.

License Grant

The Licensor grants under Licensors patents personal, nonexclusive and non-transferable licenses in the U.S., Canada, and the designate countries for Type 1 and Type 2 licensed products.

License Property

SUPERCONDUCTIVE FILTER(S) means a filtering device of a design which primarily uses a SUPERCONDUCTIVE MATERIAL to perform the filtering of digital signals or RF signals by employing superconductive properties. Such SUPERCONDUCTOR FILTERS include circuits contained therein and, if provided therewith, supporting means, terminal members, packaging, housing means, and any environmental controlling means included within such housing means or unitary therewith.

SUPERCONDUCTIVE RESONATOR(S) means a resonating device of a design primarily to use a SUPERCONDUCTIVE MATERIAL to preferentially pass, reject or couple a band of digital or RF signals from one part of an electrical circuit to another by employing superconductive properties. Such SUPERCONDUCTOR RESONATORS include circuits contained therein and, if provided therewith, supporting means, terminal members, packaging, housing means, and any environmental controlling means included within such housing means or unitary therewith.

Type 1 licensed product means any device that uses a superconductive filter or superconductive resonator except a device that would constitute a Type 2 licensed product. For avoidance of doubt, such Type 1 licensed product may also include any assemblages or devices integrated with, included in the same housing means, or unitary with such superconductive filter or superconductive resonator.

Type 2 licensed product means a device that 1) uses a superconductive filter or superconductive resonator; and 2) is primarily designed to processes both received and transmitted signals in a wireless transmission system, where the processing of the transmitted signals is a substantial portion of the transit chain in a wireless transmission system; and 3) includes at least one transmit amplifier; and 4) the fair market value of such a device is at least forty thousand United States dollars ($40,000.00 U.S.).

Patent USA 6,630,425
Patent USA 5,389,603
Application USA 08/049751
Patent USA 6,635,603

Field of Use

Licensee develops, manufactures and markets high performance products to service providers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers in the commercial wireless telecommunications industry.

License Grant

For the Exclusive license, Licensor grants an exclusive, nonsublicensable, perpetual license under its Proprietary Rights in the Licensor Technology, to use, make, have made, including by Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA), market and sell Licensed Products only to the Permitted Market.

For the non-exclusive license, Licensor grants a nonexclusive, nonsublicensable, perpetual license under its Proprietary Rights in Licensors Technology for magnetic quadrapole and magnetic sensing applications for underwater and underground object detection applications, including patent(s), to use, make, have made, market and sell Licensed Products only to the Permitted Market.

License Property

The Licensed products include the technology related to high temperature superconductive (HTS) electronics and cryoelectronics and associated packaging and cryogenics owned by Licensor.

The Permitted Market will mean the U.S. government or any state, local or foreign government or any agency, department, bureau or other subdivision or instrumentality thereof, except that the foreign market will be limited to military, intelligence and law enforcement entities.

Cryoelectronics or cryolectronics is the study of superconductivity under cryogenic conditions and its applications.

    Patent No.       Title                                             Rights of Others

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            5,090,819    Superconducting Bolometer

            5,157,466    Grain Boundary Junctions in HTS Films

            5,207,884    Superconductor Deposition System

            5,219,826    Superconducting Junctions and Method of Making Same

            5,241,828    Cryogenic Thermoelectric Cooler

            5,280,013    Method of Preparing HTS Films on Opposite Sides of a Substrate

            5,449,659    Method of Bonding Multilayer Structures of Crystalline Materials                                
            5,130,294    High Temperature Superconductor – Calcium Titanate Sapphire Structures
            5,131,282    High Temperature Superconductor –  Strontium Titanate Sapphire Structures
            5,233,500    Package for Cascaded Microwave Devices
            5,651,016    Ultrahigh Speed Laser
            5,696,392    Improved Barrier Layers for Oxide Superconductor Devices and Circuits                  
            5,831,278    Three-Terminal Devices with Wide Josephson Junctions and asymmetric Control Lines

Field of Use

This agreement is for processes and apparatus relating to the cryoelectronics industry, limited to the military, intelligence and law enforcement entities.

License Grant

The License was granted by the University an exclusive, worldwide license, in all fields of use, to formulations covered by patents held by the Licensor covering thallium barium calcium copper oxide 'TBCCO', the material upon which the Licensee primarily relies for its high temperature superconductor 'HTS' products and product development; electronic components and systems incorporate HTS materials and related cryogenics.

License Property

Superconductors are materials that have the ability to conduct electrical energy with little or no resistance when cooled to critical temperatures.  Royalty payment commencing April 1995.

License Grant

Licensor grants to the Japanese Licensee a license under the Existing Patents of Licensor to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products and Products contained in products in Licensee’s Territory, with the right of Licensee to grant sub-licenses under that license only to its Subsidiaries. A Have Made Right for Products under the Existing Patents of Licensor is also granted to Licensee.

Licensor grants a worldwide, non-exclusive, license under the Future Patents of Licensor to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products and Products contained in products, with the right of SO to grant sub-licenses under that license only to its Subsidiaries. A Have Made Right for Products under the Future Patents of Licensor is also granted to Licensee. For the avoidance of doubt, the license to make, use, sell and offer to sell Products contained in products is limited to the Products themselves and does not include a license to a combination of the Products with the products in which they are contained.

License Property

Patents are for Wire and Process, Magnet Application and Current Lead.

Products shall mean Bi-based superconducting wires, and magnets, coils and current leads including Bi-based superconducting wires. For clarity, Products do not include other products which incorporate Bi-based wires, magnets, coils or current leads as a component of a larger system.

Wire Products shall mean Bi-based superconducting wires. For clarity, Wire Products exclude magnets, coils, current leads and other products, but include the Wire Products contained in any magnet, coil, current lead or other product.

Rotating Machinery Products shall mean superconducting rotating machines, including but not limited to motors, generators and dynamic synchronous condensers. Rotating Machinery Products shall also mean superconducting coils per se, intended for use in rotating machinery applications.

Wire and Process
Country
  
Patent No.
  
Issue Date

US
  
5,006,289
  
4/9/1991

US
  
5,114,641
  
5/19/1992

US
  
5,252,288
  
10/12/1993

US
  
5,480,601
  
1/2/1996

Magnet Application

Country
  
Patent No.
  
Issue Date

US
  
5,340,943
  
8/23/1994

BSCCO/PIT Wire and Process

Country
  
Patent No.
  
Issue Date

US

4,826,808

5/12/1989

US

5,204,318

4/20/1993

US

5,189,009

2/23/1993

US

5,439,880

8/8/1995

US

5,545,613

8/14/1996

US

5,643,856

7/1/1997

US

5,883,052

3/16/1999

US

5,116,810

3/2/1992

Field of Use

This agreement field is for rotating machinery and Super Machines, in the market of manufacturing electric power transmission and/or distribution cables.

License Grant

The Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a nonexclusive license, without right to sublicense, to the Licensed Patent from the University.

License Property

The Licensed Patent means U.S. Patent 5,086,034 Calcination and solid state reaction of ceramic-forming components to provide single-phase superconducting materials having fine particle size.  

An improved method for the preparation of single phase, fine grained ceramic materials from precursor powder mixtures where at least one of the components of the mixture is an alkali earth carbonate.

Field of Use

Field of Use means the processing of HTS powder(s).