Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1968 [PAGE 999]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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2. Gamma ray probe for measuring submarine sediment density in situ — K. Preiss, former Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and of Nuclear Engineering, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. The probe consists of two tubes spaced approximately 12 inches apart and approximately 12 inches long. One tube contains a source of gamma radiation, which is cesium 137. The other tube contains a sodium-iodide scintillation counter which is arranged so as to count only the photons over the cesium 137 absorption peak. In such a system the density of the material between the tubes is proportional to the logarithm of the detected count rate. This detected count rate is sent by cable to a ship for recording. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University be assigned to the inventor, subject to the rights of the Navy, and that if the inventor does not apply for a patent the rights be assigned to the United States Navy. 3. Monitored and adaptive socratic tutor for educational research, the M A S T E R I / O station for the S O C R A T E S computer based teaching system — Kenneth C. Smith, former Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Computer Science, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. This is a film transport mechanism with transistorized function and timing logic for use under computer control as a teaching station. T h e film transport and projection system of the United States Industries' AutoTutor Mark II is used as well as printed circuit cards designed at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University be assigned to the inventor, subject to the rights of the Navy, and that if the inventor does not apply for a patent the rights be assigned to the United States Navy. 4. N-Carbalkoxy-O-Alkylamidoximes as insecticides — Dominick A. Coviello, Associate Professor of Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, Sheila R. Liberman, former Assistant in Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, and Bernard Greenberg, Professor of Biological Sciences at Chicago Circle, inventors. Derivatives of the general structure designated N-Carbalkoxy-O-Alkylamidoximes have been prepared and have demonstrated an ability to kill houseflies. The Commitee recommends that the rights of the University be assigned to the inventors. 5. Solid state junction devices for light detection and modulation—ChihTang Sah, Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Physics, inventor; developed under the sponsorship of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Light modulation and detection can be obtained at the impurity centers in the depletion region of a semiconductor junction. This invention proposes the use of this newly discovered phenomena by this inventor for light detection, modulation and cross modulation. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation for further study and patent application, such assignment subject to the rights of the sponsoring agencies. 6. Electrochemical a n d / o r chemical reduction projects of hexavalent chromium prepared by molten salt t e c h n i q u e s — H . A. Laitinen, Professor of Chemistry, and J. H. Propp, former Research Assistant in Chemistry, inventors; developed under the sponsorship of the United States Army Research Office at Durham. A protective coating has been prepared by electroreduction of chromate in molten lithium chloride-potassium chloride in the presence of magnesium chloride at temperatures of approximately 350-600° C. The Committee recommends that the rights of the University in this invention be assigned to the Univerity of Illinois Foundation for further study and patent application, such assignment subject to the rights of the sponsoring agency. 7. Tube latex grutination test ("Malaria Vaccine and Malaria Diagnostic Test"), Miodrag Ristic, Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene, in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and of Veterinary Research, in the College of Agriculture, Radmilo A. Todorovic, Research Associate in Veterinary Path-