SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- Notice of Patents, Patent Applications, and Inventions Available for License
- Notice Date
- 7/13/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 334419
— Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, USGS - All Offices, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia, 20192, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20192
- Solicitation Number
- G15PS
- Archive Date
- 10/30/2015
- Point of Contact
- Benjamin Henry, Phone: (703) 648-4344
- E-Mail Address
-
bhenry@usgs.gov
(bhenry@usgs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- US Geological Survey in Reston, VA, is soliciting inquiries from companies interested in licensing rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued as exclusive or nonexclusive, and may include specific fields of use. USGS is not providing any funding in conjunction with the potential license. Technology title, “Hydrophone-based Underwater Sound Recorder,” US patent application 62/147,948. Abstract. The traditional method of collecting physical bedload measurements is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor that seldom captures the spatial and temporal variability of sediment transport. Technological advances can improve monitoring of sediment transport by filling in temporal gaps between physical sampling periods. The sound level magnitude and acoustic frequency of underwater sounds produced by riverbed particle collisions are proportional to the magnitude (volumetric quantity) of bedload sediment transport. Therefore, the audio data can be analyzed and used as a surrogate to traditional physical measurements of sediment transport. The sounds travel through the water and are detectable by hydrophones. Hydrophones use a piezoelectric element to convert the pressure waves to an electrical signal. The electrical signal is proportional to the pressure acting on the hydrophone. The present invention is a hydrophone-based recording system designed to record the sediment generated noise (SGN) resulting from collisions of coarse particles in gravel-bedded rivers. The device periodically collects short recordings of underwater sounds at pre-set time intervals and stores the audio data on removable electronic media for later retrieval. Opportunity. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey have developed and field-tested an invention that is an improvement of current methodologies allowing for more accurate data collection in a timely and cost efficient manner. This invention provides many benefits to current known applications. The recorder is a safe, low-cost, lightweight, long-term way to collect bedload sediment data in coarse (gravel-bedded) rivers. The recorder is compact, portable, and waterproof. A liquid detection sensor and programmable power timing circuit reduce power consumption, allow the recorder to take frequent samples (e.g., hourly recordings), and can be operated unattended for extended periods. Scientific research institutes, engineering groups, and government entities will benefit from the application of this technology. To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to bhenry@usgs.gov with the title of this technology in the subject line. Include your preferred contact information and the nature of your interest in the technology along with a brief background of your company. For more information about other USGS technologies available for licensing, please visit http://www.usgs.gov/tech-transfer/available_patents.html These responses are provided to members of USGS’s Office of Policy & Analysis for the purpose of promoting public awareness of USGS owned technologies and conducting market research to determine commercial interest. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, USGS will follow the required formal licensing process. No follow-on procurement is expected to result from the responses to this notice.
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