National Institute of Standards in addition to Technology

The National Institute of specification and technology science NIST is a physical sciences laboratory in addition to non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote American innovation in addition to industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, fabric measurement, and physical measurement. From 1901 to 1988, the organization was named the National Bureau of Standards.

Patents

The NIST holds patents on behalf of the Federal government of the United States, with at least one of them being custodial to protect public domain use, such(a) as one for a Chip-scale atomic clock, developed by a NIST team as element of a DARPA competition.