Federal employees as inventors

As noted on IPBiz, there seemed to be a patent angle beneath the Ivins anthrax mess. [
Patent angle at bottom of anthrax scare?

IPBiz separately noted the varying rules on federal employees obtaining patent rights, including the
story of the Civil War era Sibley tent. http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/02/blast-from-past-sibley-tent-patent.html

See also Recent Trends in Support for Biomedical Research and Development by ENRIQUETA C. BOND AND SIMON GLYNN.

[page 33: fees and royalties to be shared with the federal employee/inventor, the remainder to be retained by the laboratory for technology transfer (Chen, 1993; IOM, 1989). ]