Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1972
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
130 BOARD OF TRUSTEES SECRETARY'S REPORT [November 13 The Secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty made by the President; cancellations; declinations and resignations; leaves of absence; and retirements. A copy of the report is filed with the Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E BOARD FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS December This meeting will be held at Allerton Park, near Monticello, Illinois on December 10, 1970, as previously agreed upon by the Board. January and February These meetings will be held on the regularly scheduled dates January 20, 1971, and February 17, 1971; it was agreed by the Trustees that they be held at the Chicago Circle campus and at the Medical Center campus respectively. March — Annual Meeting On motion of Mr. Grimes, the Board voted to change the date of the annual meeting from the second Tuesday, March 9 to Wednesday, March 17, 1971, to be held in Urbana. LUNCHEON RECESS President Hughes announced that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered for consideration of recommendations relating to patentable discoveries and that this session would be held after the luncheon recess. L U N C H E O N GUESTS Members of the Commission for the Reform of Undergraduate Education and Living, Urbana-Champaign campus, were guests of the Board at lunch. EXECUTIVE SESSION When the Board reconvened following the luncheon recess, the same members and officers of the Board and officers of the University were present as recorded in the beginning of the meeting. The Board considered the following recommendation from the President of the University. RECOMMENDATIONS OF T H E UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (19) The University Patent Committee, with the concurrence of the Chairman of the University Research Board, submits the following reports and recommendations relating to patentable inventions by members of the staff. 1. Monopole-slot antenna — Paul E. Mayes, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the United States Air Force Avionics Lab. The novel aspects of the current invention are the simultaneous excitation of a slot and a monopole by a simple network (microstrip line) and the relationship between the scattering parameters of the slot and the monopole. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be transferred to the University of Illinois Foundation for development and possible patent application, subject to the rights of the sponsoring agency. 2. HF passive radio range finder — Albert D. Bailey, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Urbana, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. This invention permits a passive type high frequency radio direction finder to be used to determine the approximate range to a radio frequency
| 
