Royalty Report: Scientific & Technical Instruments, Diagnostic, Medical – Collection: 2125

License Grant

Under the Agreements, the Licensee was granted certain rights to technologies related to the manufacture of particle analysis systems, including a particle analyzing mass spectrometer.  

Mass spectrometry is an important technique for the analysis of chemicals in a wide variety of industries such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, polymer and consumer products.  Mass spectrometry is used to identify unknown chemicals, quantify known materials, and to determine the structural and chemical properties of molecules.  It determines the mass-to-charge ratio of ions by measuring the time it takes for the ion to reach the detector.

License Property

Licensor's Patents means U.S. Patent No. 5,382,794 entitled 'Laser Induced Mass Spectrometry' and U.S. Patent No. 5,631,462 entitled 'Laser-Assisted Particle Analysis', to be issued in mide-1997, as well as any continuation, division, and any foreign equivalents of the foregoing.

License Grant

The University Licensor grants an exclusive license to make, have made, use, lease, and sell the Licensed Products, and practice, sublicense or otherwise enforce the Patent Rights, subject only, however, to a reservation of rights by Licensor for itself and University to make, have made and use the Licensed Products or otherwise exploit the Patent Rights for research and educational purposes.

License Property

Licensed Products means any apparatus, device, system, product, article, appliance, method or process covered in whole or in part by a pending claim in a pending application within the Patient Rights or an unexpired claim in a patent within the Patent Rights.

The 'Invention' means all inventions, proprietary developments, data and/or information owned as of the Effective Date by IU-ARTI relating to Method and Apparatus Providing Improved Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer Resolution, Invention Number 9404.

Time-of-flight mass spectrometry is a method of mass spectrometry in which an ion's mass-to-charge ratio is determined via a time measurement. Ions are accelerated by an electric field of known strength.

5,504,326 Spatial-Velocity Correlation Focusing in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
5,510,613 Spatial-Velocity Correlation Focusing in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
5,712,479 Spatial-Velocity Correlation Focusing in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

Field of Use

This agreement is for Spatial-Velocity Correlation Focusing in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.

License Grant

The Licensor grants to the Licensee, to the extent of Licensed Field 1 and 2 and the Licensed Territory, a nonexclusive commercial license to make, have made, use, import and sell Licensed Products and Licensed Services and practice Licensed Processes in the field of fiber optic detection. License Includes US Patent 9,123,520 and 10,119,937.
In Licensed Field 3 and the Licensed Territory the Licenses is an exclusive commercial license to make, have made, use, import and sell Licensed Products and Services and practice Licensed Processes.

License Property

US Patent #9,123,520;10,119,937 for fiber-optic sensing technology.

Field of Use

FIELD 1 means and is limited to explosives detection when combined with a quadrupole or ion trap mass spectrometer, or with an ion mobility spectrometer.

FIELD 2 means and is limited to illicit drug detection when combined with a quadrupole or ion trap mass spectrometer, or with an ion mobility spectrometer.

FIELD 3 means and is limited to chemical warfare agent detection when combined with a quadrupole or ion trap mass spectrometer, or with an ion mobility spectrometer.

License Grant

University grants to Company an exclusive, world-wide license to make, have made, use, import, offer for sale and sell Licensed Products in the Field of Use during the Term. The License includes the right to sublicense as permitted by this Agreement. No other rights or licenses are granted by University.

License Property

List of patents

Laser Desorption Ionization and peptide Sequencing on Laser Induced Microcolumn  Arrays   8,084,734

Nanophotonic Production, Modulation  and Switching of Ions by Silicon Microcolumn Arrays  8,110,796

Laser desorption ionization (LDI) based on laser-induced silicon microcolumn arrays was developed for mass spectrometry (MS) of biomolecules and other natural and synthetic products. The technique enables one to obtain intact molecular mass at low laser power and structural information (such as, e.g., peptide sequence) from in-source decay (ISD) and/or post-source decay (PSD) at high laser power. It can be used for small molecule analysis and peptide sequencing without using matrix molecules required for matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) or surface enhanced laser desorption ionization (SELDI).

Field of Use

The term Field of Use means only products and services for investigative and exploratory research and human and veterinary diagnostic use.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a perpetual exclusive worldwide license with the right to sublicense others, to make, have made, use, sell and lease the Products described in the Licensed Patent Rights.

License Property

The Licensor has developed and patented a Microbial Identification System that revolutionizes the pathogenic bacteria identification process and can annually save thousands of lives and tens of millions in health care costs.

Product(s) Shall mean any materials including operating system software and any and all  bacterial identification software, bacterium databases, compositions, techniques, devices, methods or inventions relating to or based on the Licensed Patent Rights, developed on the date of this agreement or in the future.

Licensed Patent Rights Patent No. 6,639,672 B2 filed on 28-October-2003  The unique system of the present invention provides accurate and valid measurements for identifying a wide variety of microscopic particles, such as protozoa and other microbes suspended in a fluid or gas.