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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 20

8. Plasma Display Panel Apparatus Having Multi-level Stable States for Variable Intensity — Donald L. Bitzer, Director of Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana-Champaign, H. G. Slottow, Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, and W, D. Petty, formerly Research Associate and Instructor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and in Department of Electrical Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, inventors ; developed under the sponsorship of the Department of Defense Joint Services Electronics Program and Advanced Research Projects Agency. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the sponsors, 9. Plasma Display Panel Apparatus Having Variable Intensity Display — Donald L. Bit2er, Director of Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana-Champaign, and H. G. Slottow, Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, inventors. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation. 10. Apparatus for Driving Plasma Panels — R. L. Trogdon, formerly Research Engineer in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana-Champaign, inventor ; developed under the sponsorship of the Department of Defense Joint Services Electronics Program. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the sponsor. 11. Methods and Apparatus for Obtaining Variable Intensity and Multistable States in a Plasma Panel—H. G. Slottow, Research Associate Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana-Champaign, and W. D. Petty, formerly Research Associate and Instructor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the Naval Air Development Center, Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense Joint Services Electronics Program and Owens-Illinois. The University Patent Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation, subject to the rights of the sponsors. On motion of M r . H o w a r d , these recommendations were approved.

ADJUSTMENT O F I N V E N T O R ' S SHARE I N INCOME FROM T H E PLATO PATENT

(10) On April 20, 1966, the Board of Trustees released the University's rights in the discovery known as the automated teaching machine (PLATO) to the University of Illinois Foundation for patenting and licensing. On July 22, 1970, the Board of Trustees authorized 15 per cent of the net income received by the University of Illinois Foundation from the PLATO System patent to be distributed to the inventor. (The Foundation's net income from an invention is 60 per cent of the royalties and other payments generated on a patent through the activities of its licensing agent.) On February 18, 1970, and June 17, 1970, the Board authorized the execution of an equipment usage grant and lease arrangement with Control Data Corporation in connection with a program of research and development in the PLATO program in the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory on the Urbana-Champaign campus. Under this arrangement, the University received a Control Data 6400 computing system at a reduced rate and, concurrently, the Foundation through its licensing agent granted to Control Data a license which allowed Control Data to sell up to 40,000 remote teaching terminals on a royaltyfree basis. The inventor has maintained that the arrangement allowing royalty-free sales of 40,000 terminals by Control Data Corporation deprived him of income