Royalty Report: Scientific & Technical Instruments, Medical, Diagnostic – Collection: 28377

License Grant

This agreement is an exclusive License to manufacture and market a miniature solid-state optical spectrometer developed by Licensors.

License Property

The Company also manufactures and designs sample preparation and monitoring instruments, which are primarily used with various types of optical and mass spectrometers to analyze the chemical makeup of samples

License Grant

The Company has an agreement with the former owner of the Licensor regarding net revenue earned from certain microwave-based products.

The contingent liability arose as a result of an acquisition of the Licensor.

License Property

Microwave products are used to prepare chemical compounds for analyses. Markets for the microwave digestion equipment include environmental, biological, metallurgical, geological, and industrial. Applications include acid digestion of aqueous inorganic samples in accordance with proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other defined methods. Organic sample matrices such as oil, sludge, solvents, and hazardous wastes are also handled by these microwave products.

Field of Use

The field of use relates to chemical compounds.  Licensee designs, manufactures, markets, and services analytical, monitoring, and sample preparation products, components, and systems used to detect, measure, and analyze chemical compounds.

The Licensee designs, manufactures, markets, and services products primarily for specialized applications in the analytical instruments markets, including sample preparation, detection, measurement, and monitoring instruments used to analyze chemical compounds.  Licensee provides innovative products for chemical analysis. The Company's products perform detection, analysis, measurement, and monitoring applications in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, power generation, chemical, petrochemical, and chemical treatment and security industries.

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

The Licensor has granted the Licensee a non-exclusive worldwide license to use certain medical imaging technologies, known as Optical Coherence Tomography, or ‘OCT,’ in the field of general dentistry, excluding oral surgery and imaging through a microscope.

License Property

(a) Licensee’s Release of a Licensed Product;
(b) Licensee’s First Commercial Sale of a Licensed Product; or
(c) the second anniversary of the effective date.

Optical Coherence Tomography is a technique for obtaining sub-surface images of translucent or opaque materials at a resolution equivalent to a low-power microscope. It is effectively ‘optical ultrasound’, imaging reflections from within tissue to provide cross-sectional images.

There are many industrial, medical, and other applications where high resolution (generally less than 10 micrometer) images of, and measurements of distances, thicknesses, and optical properties of, a biological or other sample are required.

“Method And Apparatus For Optical Imaging With Means For Controlling The Longitudinal Range Of The Sample”  Issued US Patent 5,321,501, June 14, 1994. Filed 4/29/92. – A method and apparatus for performing optical imaging on a sample wherein longitudinal scanning or positioning in the sample is provided by either varying relative optical path lengths for an optical path leading to the sample and to a reference reflector, or by varying an optical characteristic of the output from an optical source applied to the apparatus. Transverse scanning in one or two dimensions is provided on the sample by providing controlled relative movement between the sample and a probe module in such direction and/or by steering optical radiation in the probe module to a selected transverse position. The probe module may be an external module or may be an endoscope or angioscope utilized for scanning internal channels. Multiple optical paths may be provided for parallel scanning and focus may be enhanced by varying the focal point in the sample in synchronism with longitudinal scanning of the sample.

“Method and Apparatus for Performing Optical Measurements” Issued US Patent 5,459,570, Oct. 14, 1995. Filed 3/16/93.

“Method and Apparatus for Performing Optical Imaging and Measurements” Issued in Europe and Japan.

“Method and Apparatus for Acquiring Images using a CCD Detector Array and No Transverse Scanner” Issued US Patent 5,465,147, Nov. 7, 1995. Filed 6/2/94. CIP of 4/29/91 filing.

“Method and Apparatus for Performing Optical Measurements using a Fiber Optic Imaging Guidewire, Catheter or Endoscope” Issued US Patent 6,134,003, Oct. 17, 2000. Filed 2/27/96.

“Methods and Apparatus for Forward-Directed Optical Scanning Instruments for the Acquisition of Optical Imaging and Delivery of Optical Radiation,” Pending Patent.

“Grating Based Phase Control Optical Delay Line” Issued US Patent 6,111,645 August, 2000.

“Method and Apparatus for Performing Optical Measurements using a Rapidly Frequency Tuned Laser” Issued US Patent 5,956,355 September 21, 1999.

“Short Coherence Length, Doppler Velocimetry System” Issued US Patent 5,501,226, 3/26/96. Filed 10/16/94. Issued EPO and Japan.

“Short Coherence Length, Doppler Velocimetry System” Issued US Patent 5,549,114, 8/27/96. Filed 10/23/95. Issued EPO and Japan.

“Optical Coherence Tomography Assisted Surgical Apparatus” Issued US Patent 6,004,314 December 21, 1999.

“OCT-Assisted Surgical Microscope with Multi- Coordinate Manipulator” Issued US Patent 5,795,295.

“Optical Coherence Tomography with New Interferometer” Issued US Patent 6,053,613.

“Method and Apparatus for Simultaneous Measuring the Length and Refractive Error of and Eye” Issued US Patent 5,975,699.

Measurement of Lens Characteristics” Issued US Patent 5,469,261 11/21/95.

“Fundus Illumination Apparatus Formed from Three Separated Radiation Path Systems” Issued US Patent 5,506,634, 4/9/96.

“Optical Coherence Tomography Corneal Mapping Apparatus” Issued US Patent 5,491,524, 2/13/96. Filed 10/5/94.

“Method and Apparatus for Optical Coherence Tomographic Fundus Imaging” Pending Patent.

“Gaze Tracking using Optical Coherence Tomography” Issued US Patent 5,644,642, 7/1/97. Filed 4/3/95.

“Optical Coherence Tomography Assisted Ophthalmologic Surgical Microscope” Issued US Patent 5,493,109, 2/20/96. Filed 8/18/94.

“Method and Apparatus for Optical Coherence Tomographic Fundus Imaging without Vignetting” Issued US Patent 5,537,162, 6/16/96. Filed 12/17/93.

“Method and Apparatus for High Speed Longitudinal Scanning in Imaging Systems” Issued US Patent 6,191,862 2/20/01.

“Fiber Optic Needle Probes for Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging” Patent Pending.

“Micro-Lens for Miniature Optical Probes” Patent Pending.

“Method and Apparatus for Performing Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometry” Issued US Patent 6,160,826. 12/12/00. Filed 1999.

“Broadband Light Source System and Method Thereof” Patent Pending.

“Apparatus and Method for Selective Data Collection and Signal to Noise Ratio Enhancement Using Optical Coherence Tomography” Patent Pending Filed 4/6/01.

“Fiber Optic Endoscopic Gastrointestinal Probe” Patent Pending.