Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 1163]

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BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

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W h e n t h e B o a r d c o n v e n e d , a n e x e c u t i v e s e s s i o n w a s o r d e r e d t o cons i d e r t h e f o l l o w i n g m a t t e r s of b u s i n e s s p r e s e n t e d b y t h e A c t i n g P r e s i d e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y a n d c o m m i t t e e r e p o r t s . PATENTABLE D I S C O V E R I E S (1) The University Patent Committee submits the following reports and recommendations: 1. Robert W. McCloy, Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, has developed a controlled free-expansion supersonic nozzle in the course of research under a contract with the United States Navy. This device would have little, if any, commercial value. Accordingly, the University Research Board and the University Patent Committee recommend that all rights be released to the Office of Naval Research. The inventor has no personal interest in having the invention released to him. 2. The University holds a British patent on a betatron injector structure developed by Professor Donald W. Kerst. This patent will lapse unless an annual tax is paid for 1953 and subsequent years. The original purpose in securing the patent having been served, there is no longer any practical reason for keeping the patent in force. Accordingly, the University Research Board and the University Patent Committee recommend that this patent be allowed to lapse. 3. On June 22, 1953, upon the recommendation of the University Patent Committee, the Board of Trustees assigned to the University of Illinois Foundation any rights which the University might have in an equalizing reducer invented by E. I. Radzimovsky, Research Associate in Mechanical Engineering. The University Patent Committee has further studied the situation and is of the opinion that the University has no rights in this invention and recommends that Professor Radzimovsky be permitted to deal with the Foundation. 4. On October 23, 1951, the Board of Trustees released a discovery of a physiochemical method of bonding a metal to a ceramic to the inventors Floyd Dunn, Research Assistant, and Roger P. Wellinger, Research Assistant Professor, with the assistance of William J. F r y and Erwin K. Weise, Research Assistant Professors. Subsequently, the patent counsel of the Bureau of Ships, United States Navy, advised that the Bureau had certain patent rights in this invention. Accordingly, the Department of Electrical Engineering has recommended that the release to the inventors be withdrawn and that the invention be released to the Navy. T h e University Research Board and the University Patent Committee concur. 5. Thomas R. O'Meara, Research Associate in Electrical Engineering, has developed gain control of phase and gain matched multi-channel radio receivers in the course of research under a contract with the Office of Naval Research. This invention is of primary interest to the Armed Forces and would have very limited, if any, commercial value. The University Research Board and the University Patent Committee recommend that all rights be released to the government. T h e inventor has agreed to this recommendation. 6. Sherlock Swann, Jr., Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, has developed a new method of preparing certain fluoro-organic compounds. It is the opinion of the Head of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering that this discovery has no industrial value. Accordingly, the University Patent Committee and the University Research Board recommend that the discovery be released to the inventor. 7. Theodore Shapin, Jr., Research Associate, Digital Computer, has discovered a method of selecting microfilm abstracts. In the opinion of the Chairman of the Digital Computer Laboratory, Mr. Shapin made this discovery as a result of reading on documentary reproductions outside of his regular University work and it is not related in any way to his work in the Laboratory. T h e University Patent Committee and the University Research Board recommend that this invention be released to the inventor. I concur in the above recommendations and request approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . Nickell, t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e approved.