Royalty Report: Medical, Drugs, Scientific & Technical Instruments – Collection: 27927

License Grant

The Company has licenses for the patented One Atmospheric Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP or Atmospheric Plasma) technology developed by scientists at the University. The Company current patent portfolio includes (a) six patents that are exclusively licensed (with sub-license rights) for commercial purposes from the University.

License Property

The OAUGDP platform technology generates plasma, the fourth state of matter, in air under standard pressures at ambient temperatures without the need for either a vacuum or non-atmospheric gas (e.g., compressed helium or argon).  

Atmospheric Plasma technology therefore minimizes the need for special equipment, reduces operating costs, and, in turn, increases the applicability of plasma.  Such plasma is the fourth state of matter and is a technology in its infancy.  As a fundamental science unto itself, Atmospheric Plasma is a potential source for a multitude of applications and products.  Fundamental technology forms such as transistors, lasers, and related innovations have provided a basis for revolutionary advancements in applications and products.  

The patent portfolio protects the plasma platform technology as well as specific applications that include air filtration and purification, DNA extraction, decontamination and sterilization, aerodynamics, materials surface cleaning and textile processing.  The breakthrough plasma technology electrically breaks down air creating highly reactive chemical species. This resulting unique plasma generated chemistry is then used to produce the desired effects such as alteration of material properties, destruction of microorganisms, and destruction of odor-causing chemicals.

Field of Use

OAUGDP technology lends itself to the development of products in a number of areas.  These areas include (1) air filtration;  (2) biotechnology;  (3) chemical and biological decontamination;  (4) sterilization technology;  (5) disinfection of food, beverage, and pharmaceutical fermentation processes; and  (6) reduction of hydrocarbon based pollutants and volatile organic compounds (such as diesel soot) to substances such as water and carbon dioxide.

License Grant

The Licensor entered into a sublicensing Agreement whereby the Licensee is allowed a five year renewable sub-License for exclusive use of certain Licensed and wholly-owned technology.

License Property

The Licensor is a development stage enterprise that conducts research and development activities to develop commercial applications for the One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP®), a process of non-thermal, atmospheric pressure processing for use in areas such as sterilization, decontamination, surface cleaning and etching.

Field of Use

Technology applications include building air filtration, purification and decontamination of hazardous pathogens as well as medical device sterilization.

License Grant

The Licensor hereby grants an exclusive right and License under the Licensed Subject Matter to make, have made, use, import, sell and offer to sell and have sold Licensed Products to Customers in the territory, Direct Current Energy Discharge System for use in the fields of decontamination, sterilization and industrial processing using plasma generated by methods or apparatuses claimed under U.S. patent # 6,232,723 including but not limited to, sterilization or decontamination of equipment, facilities or areas, and modification of chemical properties of such things as areas, surfaces or compounds.

License Property

Licensor has acquired, developed and patented certain gas plasma antenna ('GPA') technology that utilizes ionized gas in a vessel as an antenna to both receive and transmit radio frequency signals and as a reflector/shield/filter for radio frequency signals. As a result of Licensor 's inventions it was awarded, by assignment and/or has pending the patents and patent applications listed.

License Grant

The Licensor  hereby grants a sole and exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing right and license under the Licensed Patent Applications and the Licensed Patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, lease and otherwise dispose of Licensed Products in the Licensed Territory in the Licensed Field of Use.  Licensee accepts the terms and conditions required for sublicensees as outlined in the UC License.

License Property

Licensed Product, singular or plural, shall mean any Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Technology wherein the manufacture, use, offer for sale, sale or importation of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Technology by Licensee would, but for the rights and license granted herein, constitute an infringement of a valid and enforceable claim of a subsisting Licensed Patent and shall not include Licensee's standard power delivery equipment (i.e., stand alone Licensee's power supplies and match networks) but includes power generation and delivery equipment which is designed specifically as an integral and indivisible part of the Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet Technology.

'Deposition Process Technology' means processes for depositing compositions of matter, including Deposition Precursor Technology, onto substrates using Deposition Plasma Jet Technology.  Plasmas have been used extensively in a wide variety of industrial and high technology applications, from semiconductor fabrication to coatings of reflective films for window panels and compact disks.

Surface cleaning is a fundamental requirement for many industrial processes. It is also important for decontamination of objects. Traditionally, surface cleaning has been accomplished using solvent-based methods, technologies which have been available for more than 100 years. Increasing concerns about ground water and air pollution, greenhouse gases, and related health and safety issues have severely restricted the use of common volatile organic solvents, and even many of the recently-adapted, less hazardous chemical substitutes.  Plasmas have been used extensively in a wide variety of industrial and high technology applications, from semiconductor fabrication to coatings of reflective films for window panels and compact disks. Plasmas ranging in pressure from high vacuum (<0.1 mTorr) to several Torr are most common, and have been used for film deposition, reactive ion etching, sputtering and other forms of surface modification. The primary advantage of plasma cleaning is that it is an 'all-dry' process, generates minimal effluent, does not require hazardous pressures, and is applicable to a wide variety of vacuum-compatible materials, including silicon, metals, glass, and ceramics.

Field of Use

'Licensed Field of Use shall mean all fields in which Licensee can demonstrate that it is one of the top three leading vendors in market share in each of such fields, as demonstrated by dollar volume of sales in the preceding year, including but not limited to Semiconductor Processing, Data Storage (including but not limited to magnetic and optical), Flat Panel and Electronic Displays, and Architectural Glass, and in any other field mutually agreed upon.

License Grant

Licensor, an individual, hereby grants to Licensee a royalty-bearing, exclusive license under Patent Rights and Technology Rights to make, have made, use, import, sell and offer to sell, and have sold Licensed Products within the Licensed Territory for use within Licensed Field with the right to sublicense to others.

License Property

Patent Rights means
6,232,723 – Direct current energy discharge system

This type of plasma, a fog of positively and negatively charged ions known as cold plasma, has demonstrated the ability to rapidly kill deadly microbes.

Field of Use

Licensed Field(s) means the fields of decontamination, sterilization and industrial processing using plasma generated by methods or apparatuses claimed under U.S. patent# 6,232,723, including but not limited to, sterilization or decontamination of equipment, facilities or areas, and modification of chemical properties of such things as areas, surfaces or compounds.

Cold plasmas allow for rapid decontamination of clothing, equipment and personal gear in military settings and for sterilization of medical equipment, food and packaging in commercial settings. Present methods of decontamination and sterilization often require hours and some generate damaging heat and undesirable or toxic side effects; cold plasma offers the potential to sanitize often in mere minutes without lasting hazardous byproducts.