NASA Auctions Patents for Cash, Packages That as Creating Jobs
November 9, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Trends
Well, NASA is definitely not destitute (operating spacecraft usually carries a large recurring bill), but are they a bit desperate?
Last week, the space agency auctioned off some 10 patents under its name. Looks like agency PR also work overtime to prep the talking heads. As manager of NASA’s innovative partnerships programs, Darryl Mitchell said: “It’s nice to get funds back that we can pump back into the program, but our primary task is to get these technologies out and create jobs and help the economy”.
Ah well, I may be wrong. In any case, here’s to hoping that the new patent owners will come up with useful things. At the very least, we may see some developments in the area of noise management, and at least one NASA researcher will enjoy the share of any royalties generated by a technology he came up with working for NASA. Full details available at discovery.com.
