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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968
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1012 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 17 minutes East a distance of 304 feet to a point in the North line of said tract and being West a distance of 1500 feet from the Northeast corner of same. On motion of Mr. Clement, the foregoing resolution was adopted. SECRETARY'S REPORT T h e Secretary presented for record appointments to the faculty made by the President, resignations, and leaves of absence. A copy of the report is filed with the Secretary. ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF T H E BOARD FUTURE BOARD MEETINGS President Swain announced the following schedule for the next three meetings of the Board: May 15, 1968, at the Medical C e n t e r ; June 19, 1968, in Chicago (previously scheduled to meet in U r b a n a ) ; and July 24, 1968, in Urbana. RECESS T h e regular meeting was recessed and the President of the Board stated that meetings of the Committee on General Policy and the Committee on Buildings and Grounds had been called and that an executive session had been requested and was being ordered following the Committee meetings to consider recommendations relating to patentable discoveries, property acquisition, and litigation. EXECUTIVE SESSION W h e n the Board reconvened, the same members of the Board, officers of the Board, and officers of the University as recorded at the beginning of these minutes were present. T h e Board considered the following recommendations from the President of the University. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY PATENT COMMITTEE (38) 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. Superconducting DC parametric amplifier — Roger P. Ries, Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering, Urbana, and Cameron B. Satterthwaite, Professor of Physics, Urbana, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the United States Army Materiel Command. This invention was assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation for study and possible patent application by the Board of Trustees on July 21, 1965. A patent application was officially filed on January 20, 1966. The Committee recommends that after the payment of the direct costs of obtaining a patent, 20 per cent of the royalties should be paid to the inventors. 2. Photofabricated readout device —John A. Saldeen, Assistant in Electronics Engineering in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Urbana, inventor. This device is novel because it is constructed entirely by photofabrication, using standard printed circuit techniques. The cost of producing this unit is much less than commercially available readout devices. It may also be constructed by any organization having printed circuit facilities available at no additional cost for equipment. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation for study, further development, and possible patent application. 3. Radioprotective effect of magnesium pemoline and its possible application in radio therapy — Hoa LeVan, Assistant Professor of Medical Radiology, Medical Center, inventor. Magnesium pemoline (cylert), a medical product of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company used in Europe as a central nervous system stimulant, was discovered to possess a highly significant protection against lethal doses of
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