TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: Anonymous Feature Processing for Enhanced Navigation (MSC-TOPS-129)

NASA’s Technology Transfer Program at the Marshall Space Flight Center is soliciting inquiries from companies interested in licensing its Anonymous Feature Processing technology for commercialization, manufacturing, and marketing. Developed by innovators at the NASA Johnson Space Center, this technology offers an algorithmic and computational approach to vision-based feature recognition that eliminates the need for explicit correspondence between visual observations and cataloged map data. The method requires only a simple camera or LIDAR sensor and a flight computer, making it adaptable to autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, and research-based imaging operating under low visibility or cluttered conditions. NASA is offering exclusive or nonexclusive license rights for specific fields of use, though no funding will be provided in conjunction with these potential licenses. Interested parties must submit a license application through the Automated Technology Licensing Application System, and inquiries can be directed to Agency-Patent-Licensing@mail.nasa.gov.