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NIST Technologies Available for Licensing

Check out NIST Innovative Technology Showcase 1 and Showcase 2.

Below are a selection of the technologies NIST has available for licensing and collaboration. To view NIST's entire list of patents, visit the Patent and Published Patent Application Database.

Contact licensing [at] nist.gov (licensing[at]nist[dot]gov) to learn more about these technologies.


INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY NAME
Ultra-Sensitive Camera for Clearer Images in Medicine, Space, and Security
Next-Gen Laser Radar (LIDAR) for High-Accuracy Applications
A Light-based Testing System for Detecting Chemicals and Materials
Optoelectromechanical Switch and Programming an Optical Network
Ultra-Fast, Energy-Efficient Processor for Smarter Computing
Smart Fire Hose Flow Monitoring System
Smart Energy Converter for Efficient Power Use
Multiplexed Amplitude Modulation Photometer And Performing Multiplexed Amplitude Modulation Photometry
A Smarter Way to Separate and Analyze Substances
Smart System for Organizing and Verifying Engineering Certificates
Precision Temperature Control for Nanopore Systems
Analyte Probe And Determining Water Vapor Transmission Rate
CTRSD Gate And Performing Co-Transcriptional Encoding
Non-contact Measuring Tool for Precision Measurement
Interferometric Microphone Calibrator and Comparison Calibrating a Microphone
A Better Way to Connect Fiber Optics to Computer Chips
Thermally Coupled Imager for Performing Time and Position Sensitive Imaging of Single Photons
Superconducting Opto-Electronic Transmitter Circuit
Chip Tweezers
Diagonal Node Data Block Matrix for Adding Hash-linked Records and Deleting Arbitrary Records While Preserving Hash-based Integrity Assurance
An Optical Readout for a Thermal Detector Array
Chronography System and Method for Performing Redundant Measurement of Projectile Velocity
Fiber Optic Safety Lock
Achieving Out-of-the-box Fine-Grained Access Control in Databases by enforcing and embedding Next Generation Access Control (m-NGAC) right in databases
Calibration Apparatus and Calibrating a Laser Doppler Vibrometer
Next Generation Access Control System and Process for Controlling Database Access (Referred to as Next Generation Access Control - NDAC)
Ultra-Conformal Microprint and Ultra-Conformal Microprint Transferring
Atomic Vapor Cell And Making An Atomic Vapor Cell
Inertial Point-Source Matter-Wave Atom Interferometer Gyroscope and Extracting Inertial Parameters
Radio Frequency Antenna Gain Measuring Apparatus and Measuring Gain of an Antenna
Aptamer Regulated Transcription for In-Vitro Sensing and Transduction
Serrodyne Frequency Shift Spectrometer and Serrodyne Frequency Shifting
Single-Detector Double-Path Intensity-Modulation Spectrometer
Quantum Sensor Network and Measuring Multiple Functions with a Quantum Sensor Network
Performing Bang-Anneal-Bang Quantum Optimization
Quantum Sensor Network and Measuring a Single Linear Function of Unknown Parameters with a Quantum Sensor Network while Using the Minimum Amount of Entanglement
Superconducting Multi-layer Transition-edge Sensor and Hybrid Subtractive-additive Production of a Superconducting Multi-layer Transition-edge Sensor
Temporal Jitter Analyzer and Analyzing Temporal Jitter
PH Photothermal Spectrometer And Performing PH Photothermal Spectroscopy
Inverse Design Machine And Making A Designer Impact-mitigating Architectured Isotropic Structure
Calibration Apparatus and Calibrating Cross-Frequency Phases of Large-Signal Network Analyzer Measurements
Low-loss Metasurface Optics for Deep UV
Mueller Matrix Ellipsometer
Multidimensional Printer
Quasi-systolic Processor and Quasi-systolic Array
Methods and Apparatus for Transplantation of Nucleic Acid Molecules
A Smart Sensor for Precise Alignment
Independently Managing Wireless Transmission by Individual Spectrum Access Systems in a Shared Radio Frequency Spectrum
Direct Digital Chirp Synthesizer and Generating a Chirped Optical Frequency Comb
System and Method for Parameter Multiplexed Gradient Descent
Spatio-Temporal Profilometer and Performing Time-Resolved Spatial Profilometry for Producing a Uniform Light Profile
Prelithiated Lithium Ion Battery And Making A Prelithiated Lithium Ion Battery
Spherical Ion Trap and Trapping Ions
A Safer and More Efficient Way to Store Hydrogen for Clean Energy
Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer and Method for Using Same
Non-Resonant Electron Spin Resonant Probe and Associated Hardware
Superconducting Waveform Synthesizer
AC and DC bipolar voltage source using quantized pulses
Josephson Junction Digital to Analog Converter for Accurate AC Waveform Synthesis
Josephson Voltage Standard
Heisenberg Scaler
Charge Detector and Process for Sensing a Charged Analyte
Bottom-up gold electrodeposition for high aspect ratio features in imaging applications
Void-Free Metallic Diffraction Gratings for Enhanced X-Ray Interferometry Imaging
Gateless P-N Junction Metrolog
A method and system for centralized ABAC policy administration and local policy decision and enforcement using access control lists
A Methodology for Detecting Face Morphing Using One-To-Many Face Recognition Algorithms
A Wireless Wearable System to Monitor Levels of Fluids in the Lungs
Smart Mirror
Serial Cytometry
Optical Flow Meter for Determining a Flow Rate of a Liquid
Photonic Dosimeter
Photonic Calorimeter
Compact Atomic Magnetometer and Gyroscope Based on a Diverging Laser Beam
Integrated Microchip Incorporating Atomic Magnetometer and Microfluidic Channel for NMR and MRI
Optical Meter and Use of Same
Detection of J-Coupling using Atomic Magnetometer
NIST Radiometer
Atomic Magnetometer and Method of Sensing Magnetic Fields
Optofluidic Flow Meter

Created August 15, 2022, Updated July 22, 2025

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