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NASA Patents To Be Auctioned

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-pair-of-scissors-for-the-red-tape dept.

Presto Vivace writes to tell us that as a continuing push to commercialize NASA-funded technology a group of 25 NASA patents will be auctioned off this coming October. "The sale, which will include rights to signal processing, GPS for spacecraft and sensor technologies, is the first auction under a partnership announced earlier this month between Goddard's Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services LLC. Ocean Tomo provides a marketplace for intellectual property, which NASA wants to leverage in commercializing its technology."

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  1. Great! by BitterOldGUy · · Score: 4, Funny

    The HHT technology is a highly efficient, adaptive and user-friendly set of algorithms for analyzing time-varying processes, designed specifically for nonlinear and nonstationary signals.

    Finally a version that can be used in the home! I'll see if my grandma needs this.

  2. Re:Great, we get to pay for them again! by morikahnx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe NASA is planning on paying us back?

  3. Re:Great, we get to pay for them again! by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Maybe NASA is planning on paying us back?"

    Free Tang for everyone!

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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  4. An eBay auction perhaps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Item is of fantastic quality! The packaging was notably fine. Swift to send. A+++

  5. Only you can prevent orbital bombardment. by mrmeval · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only way they could possibly pay me back is to go back to the moon and deliver several thousand payloads of rock to DC. That should cover any debt they owe me nicely.

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    I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
  6. Re:Great, we get to pay for them again! by jd · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, you don't sound bitter. Bitter, preferably draught and in the form of three pints (with plenty of peanuts) might be a good thing right now. I would argue that you sound perceptive.

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    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  7. Re:Auctioned off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hey, I'm American too (from Chile), and as long as I know NASA is from the USA.

  8. Fearing Election Loss, Republicans Dump Govt Stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fearing Election Loss, Republicans Dump Govt Property while there's time.