Terry Taylor
Presentation to FLC Southeast RegionalMeeting
08/15/2014
Technology Transfer Office
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Technology Transfer Program
Bringing NASA Technology Down to Earth
Agency Patent Portfolio Categorization
•Aeronautics
•Health, Medicine & Biotechnology
•Communications
•Electrical/Electronics
•Environment
•Information Technology/Software
•Materials and Coatings
•Mechanical and Fluid Systems
•Instrumentation
•Optics
•Power Generation and Storage
•Propulsion
•Robotics, Automation and Control
•Sensors
•Currently organized by field center. Activity is underway to:
•sort the agency’s patent portfolio by technology areas and assess TRL of eachpatent
•build matching marketing collateral: summary documents, marketingbrochures, website, etc.
•Next initiative will be to organize by industry
Power Generation
and Storage
Pantone* 1635
Health, Medicine,and BiotechnologyPantone* 240
Electrical/Electronics
Pantone* 7435
Robotics, Automation
and Control
Pantone* 5763
Optics
Pantone* 390
Environment
Pantone* 361
Materials and
Coatings
Pantone* 7473
Sensors
Pantone* 3105
Mechanical and
Fluid Systems
Pantone* 7715
Aeronautics
Pantone* 284
Instrumentation
Pantone* 2655
Propulsion
Pantone* 2727
Information Technology and
Software
Pantone* 268
Communications
Pantone* 151
Manufacturing
Pantone* 123
Technology Transfer Technology Bin Icons
06/14
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NASA’s Patent Portfolio by Category ~1300+ Issued and Pending Patents – 7/31/2014
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New NASA Software Catalog
•Released online Wed, 4/9/2014
•1000+ codes organized in 15categories
•Codes available to US Citizens -at no cost
•Electronic PDF catalog updateddaily as new codes are available
•Digital and Print Copies ofCatalog available
•Wired Magazine article, 50+Original Articles by variousmedia outlets
