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NASA Releases Patents for Moon Dust Fuel, Bio-Gaming, And Laser Engines

NASA Releases Patents for Moon Dust Fuel, Bio-Gaming, And Laser Engines

by The Daily Eye Team May 14 2016, 3:43 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 39 secs

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your newfangled spaceship concept—and aren’t we all? —NASA has good news for you. The agency recently released 56 of its patents into the public domain as a part of its Technology Transfer Program, which aims to democratize technologies developed at NASA to spur innovation in other sectors.

In addition to freeing this latest batch of patents into the open market wilds, the program has also revamped its website to include a searchable database of all of its available public patents. The idea is not only to generate fresh ideas for space-related inventions, but also to integrate the vast corpus of research conducted at NASA centers into a wide variety of other fields.

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Janaky Sreedharan studied and researched at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi from 1986 to 1993. She teaches at the Department of English, University of Calicut. She lives in Thenhippalam Kerala, India. 


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