Stories related to NOAA technology transfer broadly.
When federal researchers and staff create or invent something, they also create intellectual property (IP). As with all federal employees and agencies, NOAA staff are required to report all IP created during the course of their employment through a process called invention disclosure.
On The Triple Point podcast, TPO Technology Transfer Program Manager, Wayne MacKenzie, discusses his career trajectory and his history in the Weather Service, and shared information about NOAA’s public-private partnerships and research to commercialization efforts.
Technology Transfer Program Manager is featured on The Triple Point podcast Read More »
Parikha Mehta has spent the last four months focused on the intersection of intellectual property and climate and environmental technologies while on an employee exchange (known as a detail) at NOAA from the U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Her goal: Help researchers understand the importance of protecting their inventions so that NOAA’s research and technology can better serve the public and inspire future innovation.
Patenting innovation in climate science Read More »
Using a converted Cold War-era bomber, NOAA’s chemical sciences laboratory is working to decode the makeup of our stratosphere.
NOAA scientists are working to decode Earth’s atmosphere Read More »
The new instrument is smaller, lighter and much more sensitive to low concentrations of nitrogen oxides. NOAA scientist Andrew Rollins was awarded a U.S. Patent for his innovative design in August 2022.
NOAA scientist’s patented design expands the limits of atmospheric research Read More »