The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has made several newly-developed technologies available for commercial use development and licensing.

Among the inventions recently assigned to NASA, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is:

Flexure Based Linear and Rotary Bearings
NASA case GSC-15333-1
by George Voellmer (code 543)

Federal Register notice 72 FR 69231

Licensing is administered through NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program Office at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov
The licensing agreement steps and forms are here.

For further information, contact:

Bryan A. Geurts, Patent Counsel

Goddard Space Flight Center

Mail Code 140.1

Greenbelt MD 20771-0001

tel: 301.286.7351

fax: 301.286.9502