Notice of Intent To Grant a Joint Ownership Agreement With an Exclusive Patent License

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Air Force

Notice of Intent To Grant a Joint Ownership Agreement With an Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY:

Department of the Air Force, Department of Defense.

ACTION:

Notice of intent.

SUMMARY:

Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act and implementing regulations, the Department of the Air Force hereby gives notice of its intent to grant a joint ownership agreement with an exclusive (the field to include all fields) patent license to the Research Foundation for the State University of New York having a place of business at 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY 13902-4600.

DATES:

Written objections must be filed no later than fifteen (15) calendar days after the date of publication of this Notice.

ADDRESSES:

Submit objections to Ryan Toner, AFRL/RIBA, 525 Brooks Road, Rome Lab AFB, NY 13441; Phone: (312) 587-3340; or Email:

Ryan.Toner@us.af.mil.

Include Docket No. 26-0006369-AFRL/RI in the subject line of the message.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ryan Toner, AFRL/RIBA, 525 Brooks Road, Rome Lab AFB, NY 13441; Phone: (312) 587-3340; or Email: Ryan,

Toner@us.af.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Abstract of Patent Application(s)

A metaverse system, comprising: an interface to at least one microchained Internet of Things network, each microchained Internet of Things network comprising sensing, computing, communication, and storage devices for monitoring and controlling a physical environment; a slicing layer comprising dedicated logic of a decentralized network configured to process data from the at least one Internet of Things network; a Microverse layer comprising at least one semantic model and at least one intelligent service, configured to implement a digitally twin model of the at least one Internet of Things network based on the slicing layer; and an application layer, configured to monitor and control the physical environment based on the Microverse layer.

Intellectual Property

U.S. Patent Application No. 63,757,781 filed on February 12, 2025, and entitled

The Microverse: A Task-Oriented Edge Scale Metaverse.

The Department of the Air Force may grant the prospective license unless a timely objection is received that sufficiently shows the grant of the license would be inconsistent with the Bayh-Dole Act or implementing regulations. A competing application for a patent license agreement, completed in compliance with 37 CFR 404.8 and received by the Air Force within the period for timely objections, will be treated as an objection and may be considered as an alternative to the proposed license.

(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 209; 37 CFR part 404.)

Crystle C. Poge,

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 2026-15350 Filed 7-29-26; 8:45 am]

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