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 Balanced Flow Meter Keeps Business Moving for NASA Partner A+ FlowTek
In 2003, A+ FlowTek licensed the Balanced Flow Meter Technology from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where principals of the start-up company had collaboratively developed the advanced flow measurement device along with NASA innovators via a Space Act Agreement (SAA). The novel meter measures fluid or flow with a high degree of accuracy, reliability, and safety using no moving parts and offering simple manufacture and installation. As the flagship product for A+ FlowTek, the technology is integral to the small company’s business growth, with thousands of units sold and sub-license agreements in place for distributors in the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia. |
 NASA Technology Improves Identification and Analysis of Materials
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and KeyMaster Technologies Inc. developed a vacuum attachment for a handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer that provides expanded capacity for determining the identity and amount of light-element alloys that are present in any material. The technology was patented and licensed to KeyMaster—which has since been acquired by Bruker Corporation—and it has been used commercially throughout the world for conservation and authentication of artwork and artifacts, research, and in a variety of other applications. |
 Photorefractor Vision Screening System
Optics technology originally developed in the 1970s at Marshall Space Flight Center for space telescopes has found new life as a highly successful screening device for the detection of vision problems in children. Vision Research Corporation’s VisiScreen™ Ocular Screening System (OSS-C) has helped detect eye abnormalities and eye diseases in millions of infants and children since its commercialization in 1991. › Read about the photorefractor visions screening system success |
 GFSSP Benefits Flow Analyses for NASA Missions and Commercial Applications
Marshall Space Flight Center’s Generalized Fluid System Simulation Program (GFSSP) technology—a general purpose, user-friendly computer program for analyzing steady state and transient flow distribution in complex flow networks—was licensed by Concepts NREC and is now an integral technology in the company’s Cooled Turbine Airfoil Agile Design System software, marketed to major turbomachinery designers and manufacturers and the aerospace industry. |
 NASA Alloy Helps BRP Revive the Two-Stroke Engine
An alloy originally developed to produce cleaner burning automotive pistons has helped revive the two-stroke engine. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center licensed its high strength, heat-tolerant MSFC 398 aluminum alloy to BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products) in 2003 for marine applications, and the company uses it in its twostroke Evinrude™ E-TEC™ outboard engine. |
 Auto-Adjustable Pin Tool for FSW
With the development of the Auto-Adjustable Pin Tool, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has produced a commercially viable technology that improves the state of the art in Friction Stir Welding (FSW). License agreements with MTS Systems Corporation and Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc., are enabling FSW products that are versatile, efficient, and cost competitive. |
 Video Image Stabilization and Registration (VISAR)
Two NASA researchers — using their expertise and equipment for analyzing atmospheric satellite video — created technology that can dramatically improve video images, including crime scene videos. The scientists' invention — called Video Image Stabilization and Registration, or VISAR — was licensed to Intergraph Government Solutions and incorporated into a video tracking and enhancement system. |
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