OTT OVERVIEW
The mission of the Office of Technology Transfer is to promote and facilitate the transfer of useful technologies to the commercial sector so that the public can directly benefit from the ingenuity and creativity of our outstanding researchers. The Office of Technology Transfer at JPL (OTT at JPL) specifically aims to focus on JPL intellectual property management and licensing, and commercialization support to apply JPL space technologies to NASA and commercial market needs. The end goal is to infuse JPL-invented innovations into the private sector as quickly as possible so that taxpayers may benefit from NASA and JPL research, and so that the United States retains its technological leadership in world markets. The Office of Technology Transfer at JPL is responsible for new technology reporting, software release, patents, licensing, and commercialization as these activities relate to JPL-developed technologies.
What We Do
Technology, Software, Licensing, and Commercialization
Report a New Technology
Technology transfer is an important part of NASA's mission. NASA is obligated to take an active role in transferring technology to the private sector and American governments.
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Licensing and commercialization
The primary mission of the (OTT) is to promote and facilitate the transfer of useful technologies to the commercial sector so the public can benefit from our outstanding researchers.
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Model Based Methodology for Translating High-Level Cyber Threat Descriptions into System-Specific Actionable Defense Tactics
With public awareness increasing due to significant cybersecurity, there is a strong market need for improved cybersecurity tools and technologies.
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Monolithic Assembly of Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer
A new Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer (RSHS) instrument enables high etendue (a measurement of sensor throughput), together with high spectral resolving power, termed R, in an ultra-compact and cost-effective design.
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CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS)
CIRAS is a compact instrument to provide atmospheric sounding in a CubeSat and offers comparable or better performance than current atmospheric sounders at a fraction of the cost.
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Simultaneous Representation of Moving and Static Obstacles for Automatically Controlled Vehicles
This patent discloses a method for automatically controlling robotic aircraft such as drones, watercraft, or ground vehicles to avoid collisions.
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Model Based Methodology for Translating High-Level Cyber Threat Descriptions into System-Specific Actionable Defense Tactics
With public awareness increasing due to significant cybersecurity, there is a strong market need for improved cybersecurity tools and technologies.
More about Model Based Methodology for Translating High-Level Cyber Threat Descriptions into System-Specific Actionable Defense Tactics -
Monolithic Assembly of Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer
A new Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer (RSHS) instrument enables high etendue (a measurement of sensor throughput), together with high spectral resolving power, termed R, in an ultra-compact and cost-effective design.
More about Monolithic Assembly of Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer -
CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS)
CIRAS is a compact instrument to provide atmospheric sounding in a CubeSat and offers comparable or better performance than current atmospheric sounders at a fraction of the cost.
More about CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder -
Simultaneous Representation of Moving and Static Obstacles for Automatically Controlled Vehicles
This patent discloses a method for automatically controlling robotic aircraft such as drones, watercraft, or ground vehicles to avoid collisions.
More about Simultaneous Representation of Moving and Static Obstacles for Automatically Controlled Vehicles
Available Resources
Award Program
Excellence in aerospace software is vital to NASA’s role in developing aeronautics and space technologies and transferring them to government and industry.
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JPL Entrepreneurs
The JPL Office of Technology Transfer works closely with JPL innovators at every step of the technology transfer process, to engage the commercial sector and establish partnerships.
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Patents
A patent for an invention is an intellectual property right granted to an inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States”.
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Copyrights
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works (including software).
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Process & Waivers
The patenting process at JPL starts with the filing of an NTR. All NTRs submitted by JPL innovators are first evaluated by the OTT technical staff (NTR Evaluators) before forwarding both the NTR and evaluation to Caltech and NASA.
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Software
Caltech owns copyrights to all JPL developed software. Although all of the software developed at JPL is protected by copyright, any software has the potential of becoming patentable.
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