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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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opment involves the use of synthetic material as an alternative for sugar coatings on medicinal tablets. A s approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting on May 23, 1953, this invention w a s referred to the University of Illinois Foundation for further study with authority to apply for a patent if this action appeared desirable. T h e Foundation has now applied for and received such a patent and has requested the Patent Committee to make a recommendation as to the distribution of any income received from licenses or royalties that may be received. T h e Patent Committee recommends that 12 per cent of the income received and available after the payment by the Foundation of any development or other costs incurred in connection with this patent be paid to and divided among the inventors in such a manner as they may agree upon. 5. A column packing material for high temperature inorganic gas chromat o g r a p h y — Richard S. Juvet, Jr., Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, and Francis M. Wachi, Assistant in Chemistry, inventors. This development is a new method in gas chromatography separation which heretofore has been restricted to the analysis and separation of volatile organic substances. It uses certain non-volatile inorganic eutectic mixtures. T h e Head and other authorities in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering are of the opinion that there is little likelihood that this development will have commercial value and have recommended that the invention be released to the inventors. T h e Patent Committee concurs in this opinion and so recommends. 6. Bubble oxygenator for extra corporeal circulation during cardiac surgery — Mariano Lopez-Belio, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Ormand C. Julian, Associate Professor of Surgery, inventors. This instrument oxygenates blood outside the body for the purpose of extra corporeal circulation during cardiac surgery. One model of this machine has been developed through frequent experimental and clinical use at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the Research and Educational Hospitals and at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital. Although this development is novel and gives promise of a definite contribution to surgical practices, apparently it is very improbable that it will be commercially profitable because of the small number that would be used. Accordingly, Dr. W . H . Cole, H e a d of the Department of Surgery, and VicePresident H . E. Longenecker have recommended that it be released to the inventors for the specific purpose of obtaining further models through the facilities of a Chicago instrument company that wishes to construct this equipment and distribute it at no profit to the inventors or the company. T h e University Patent Committee concurs in this opinion and recommends its release to the inventors. 7. Vacuum regulator — Dillon E. Mapother, Associate Professor of Physics, inventor. T h i s device is a self-acting valve which, when introduced into a pumping line, opens and closes in response to fluctuations in inlet pressure so as to maintain the inlet pressure constant. T h e Patent Committee in October, 1057, requested the University of Illinois Foundation to study and report back on this device. T h e Foundation was able to secure an exhaustive opinion from a manufacturer as to the possibilities of obtaining a patent and building this device. This company has now reported back that a very high selling price would be necessary if such a device were manufactured; and at the same time quality control would be difficult. Accordingly, the Foundation has returned the matter to the University with a notice that it does not wish to seek a patent. T h e inventor has advised that it is his plan to publish this development within a few months. Accordingly, it is the recommendation of the Patent Committee that all rights of the University in this invention be released to the United States Navy, the sponsoring agency under which it was developed. 8. Binary digital shifting register — Arnold T . Nordsieck, Professor of Physics, inventor. This device is for use in connection with a synchronous binary digital computer and is a delay line which requires a very small amount of energy with realizable audio frequencies over a broad range. T h e P a t e n t Committee requested the University of Illinois Foundation to investigate this invention as to commercial possibilities, and the Foundation has