Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40Technology Transfer 6 The following pages provide a brief description of the patents issued to INL during FY16. Hot Wire Needle Probe for Thermal Conductivity Detection Current techniques for measuring thermo-physical properties, particularly thermal conductivity, in high-temperature, in-pile applications are slow, expensive and inaccurate. Thermal conductivity is one of the most important properties for predicting nuclear fuel and material performance, and is highly dependent on physical structure, chemical composition, and state of matter – and the fact that these properties change during exposure inside a reactor further complicates the problem. The Hot Wire Needle Probe provides a better method for gathering real-time thermal conductivity measurements of fuels inside a reactor, without the added cost, time and data quality reductions associated with repeated movement of samples into a hot cell environment for measurements. Patent No. 9,182,364 Docket No.: BA-459 - Grant Date: 2015-11-10 Inventors: Keith G Condie, Joy L Rempe, Darrell L Knudson, Joshua Daw, Steven Wilkins, Brandon Fox, Heng Ban Transcriptional Control in Alicyclobacillus Acidocaldarius and Associated Genes, Proteins, and Methods One function of bacterial DNA is to code for information that regulates metabolic activities such as cellular growth and carbon processing. The bacteria will adjust metabolic activity in response to its environment as a way to conserve energy. This can be problematic for biofuel process development, because it may lead to suboptimal bacterial growth or interfere with the production of a desired enzyme or compound. This patent describes one of the controlling metabolic mechanisms (transcription) used by this bacteria and methods to genetically engineer the transcription process for favorable enzyme activity at high temperatures. Patent No. 9,187,753 Docket No.: BA-294D1 - Grant Date: 2015-11-17 Inventors: Brady D Lee, David N Thompson, William A Apel, Vicki S Thompson, David W Reed, Jeffrey A Lacey Patents