99--TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY VARIABLE VISIBILITY GLASSES FOR FLIGHTTRAINING

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companiesinterested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market thefollowing technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basisand may include specific fields of use. THE TECHNOLOGY: NASA Langley researchers have developed active glasses to be worn by a pilot duringinstrument flight training and certification. Using a novel series of sensors todetermine head position, the glasses restrict the view out of the aircraft windscreen butallow the pilot to clearly see the entire instrument panel. Previous methods forrestricting a pilots view during instrument flight training and certification have useda hood draped across the aircraft windscreen or a face mask or blackened glasses worn bythe pilot. All current methods create potentially hazardous disorientation and anunnatural environment for the trainee. In particular, the face mask and blackened glassesrestrict the pilots peripheral vision and require uncomfortable and unnatural headpositions in order to see the entire instrument panel. The NASA innovation eliminates thehazards of the current methods and provides a safer and more comfortable means forrestricting viewing to improve the flight training experience.To express interest in this opportunity, please respond to Sean Sullivan, ResearchTriangle International (RTI), at: NASA Langley Research Center, Strategic RelationshipsOffice (SRSO), 17 West Taylor St., Mail Stop 218, Building 1212, Room 110 Hampton,Virginia, E-mail: [email protected], or phone: 757-864-5055. Please indicate thedate and title of the FBO notice and include your company and contact information.RTI is responsible for aggregating and acknowledging all responses. These responses areprovided to members of NASA Langleys Innovative Partnerships Office within the SRO forthe purpose of promoting public awareness of our technology products, and conductingpreliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for futurelicensing opportunities. If direct licensing interest results from this posting, SRO willfollow the formal licensing process of posting in the Federal Register as required. Nofollow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.