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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (March 26)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 25 -- Dow Global Technologies, Midland, Mich., has been assigned a patent (7,910,680) developed by five co-inventors for a "reactive (meth)acrylate monomer compositions and preparation and use thereof." The co -inventors are Jerry E. White, Lake Jackson, Texas, Jim D. Earls, Lake Jackson, Texas, Peter S. Martin, Houston, Texas, Mike B. McIntosh, Midland, Mich., and Richard M. Wehmeyer, Lake Jackson, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to new (meth)acrylate compositions, their preparation and their use in ultraviolet light curable applications such as coatings, inks and adhesives." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2007 (11/789,755). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=32&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MI.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MI&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MI Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Anand Kumar, in collaboration with Contify. *** Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent for Compositions of Ethylene/.Alpha.-Olefin Multi-Block Interpolymer ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 25 -- Dow Global Technologies, Lake Jackson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,910,658) developed by six co-inventors for "compositions of ethylene/.alpha.-olefin multi-block interpolymer for elastic films and laminates." The co-inventors are Andy C. Chang, Houston, Texas, Stephen M. Hoenig, Lake Jackson, Texas, Yunwa W. Cheung, Monroe, N.Y., Daniel G. Moldovan, Danbury, Texas, Wenbin Liang, Sugar Land, Texas, and Charles F. Diehl, Lake Jackson, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention relates to polyolefin compositions. In particular, the invention pertains to elastic polymer compositions that can be more easily processed on cast film lines, extrusion lamination or coating lines. The compositions of the present invention preferably comprise an elastomeric polyolefin resin and a high pressure low density type resin." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2007 (11/703,927). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=33&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MI.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MI&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MI Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Anand Kumar, in collaboration with Contify. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Cooling Electronics with a Coolant at a Subambient Pressure ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,908,874) developed by Richard M. Weber, Prosper, Texas, William G. Wyatt, Plano, Texas, and Kerrin A. Rummel, Richardson, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for cooling electronics with a coolant at a subambient pressure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for cooling heat-generating structure disposed in an environment having an ambient pressure. The heat-generating structure includes electronics. The method includes providing a coolant, reducing a pressure of the coolant to a subambient pressure at which the coolant has a boiling temperature less than a temperature of the heat-generating structure, and bringing the heat-generating structure and the coolant at the subambient pressure into contact with one another, so that the coolant boils and vaporizes to thereby absorb heat from the heat-generating structure. In a more particular embodiment the coolant is either pure water or pure methanol with an electrical resistivity level of greater than one million Ohms-cm. Further, in another particular embodiment the method includes filtering the coolant to maintain its purity above a particular level." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2006 (11/381,297). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,908,874.PN.&OS=PN/7,908,874&RS=PN/7,908,874 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Anand Kumar, in collaboration with Contify. *** ADC Telecommunications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- ADC Telecommunications, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (RE42,236) developed by four co-inventors for "multiuse subcarriers in multipoint-to-point communication using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing." The co-inventors are Michael J. Geile, Loveland, Ohio, James J. Herrmann, Eagan, Minn., Mark S. Wadman, Plano, Texas, and Brian D. Anderson, Plymouth, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for bidirectional communication are provided. In one embodiment, a multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system comprises: a plurality of remote units, a host unit; wherein the host sends an adjustment signal to a remote instructing the remote to adjust the timing of transmissions from the remote to improve orthogonality of the OFDM waveform received at the host, wherein the host sends an adjustment signal to a remote instructing the remote to adjust the frequency of transmissions from the remote to improve orthogonality of the OFDM waveform received at the host, wherein payload data is transmitted between a remote and the host over a first orthogonal tone within the OFDM communication system during a first time interval, and wherein control data is transmitted between a remote and the host over the first orthogonal tone within the OFDM communication system during a second time interval." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2009 (12/576,602). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=RE42,236.PN.&OS=PN/RE42,236&RS=PN/RE42,236 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Anand Kumar, in collaboration with Contify. *** Schlumberger Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Schlumberger Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,908,930) developed by Cheng-Gang Xie, Sawston, United Kingdom, Yan Kuhn de Chizelle, Houston, and Jacques Jundt, Newton, Mass., for "systems and methods for measuring multiphase flow in a hydrocarbon transporting pipeline." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure relates in general to methods and systems for measuring multiphase flows in a pipeline using a combination of venturi, microwave and radiation techniques, where the pipeline is configured to transport hydrocarbons. More specifically, but not by way of limitation, certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems in which low activity radiation sources may be used in combination with one or more microwave transmitter-receiver pairs and pressure differential sensors to measure the flow rates and fractions of phases in multiphase flows in a pipeline, such as may be encountered in producing hydrocarbon wells. Additionally, other embodiments of the present invention provide for the arrangement of one or more microwave transmitter-receiver pairs, one or more radiation source-detector pairs and/or one or more pressure sensor ports in the same cross-section of the throat of a venturi to measure multiphase flow in a hydrocarbon transporting pipeline." The patent application was filed on Aug. 15, 2006 (12/067,757). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,908,930.PN.&OS=PN/7,908,930&RS=PN/7,908,930 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Anand Kumar, in collaboration with Contify. *** Pioneer Hi-Bred International, E.I. DuPont de Nemours Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Johnston, Iowa, and E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Wilmington, Del., have been assigned a patent (7,910,807) developed by nine co-inventors for a " Plant activation of insect toxin." The co-inventors are Andre R. Abad, W. Des Moines, Iowa, Ronald D. Flannagan, Grimes, Iowa, Rafael Herrmann, Wilmington, Del., Albert L. Lu, Newark, Del., Billy F. McCutchen, College Station, Texas, James K. Presnail, Avondale, Pa., Janet A. Rice, Wilmington, Del., James F. Wong, Johnston, Iowa, and Cao-Guo Yu, Urbandale, Iowa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from an insect pest are provided. In particular, nucleic acid sequences encoding insect protoxins modified to comprise at least one proteolytic activation site that is sensitive to a plant protease or an insect gut protease are provided. Cleavage of the modified protoxin at the proteolytic activation site by a protease produces an active insect toxin. Methods of using the modified insect protoxin nucleic acid sequences and the polypeptides they encode to protect a plant from an insect pest are provided. Particular embodiments of the invention further provide modified insect protoxin compositions and formulations, expression cassettes, and transformed plants, plant cells, and seeds." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2007 (11/940,002). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=33&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28de.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/de&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/de Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Improving Voicemail Notifications ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,912,456) developed by Feng Wang, Austin, Texas, Huitao Liu, Round Rock, Texas, and Muhamed Rias, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for improving voicemail notifications to multimode devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A voicemail system (100) has a wireless unit (102) for conveying wireless messages to multimode mobile devices (108) by way of a wireless communication network (106) operating independently of a telephony system (105) also capable of communicating with said devices, and a voicemail server (104) coupled to the telephony system and the wireless unit. The voicemail server is programmed to store (208) a message from a calling party when the multimode mobile device of the called party is inaccessible by way of the telephony system, construct (210) a voicemail notification corresponding to the recorded message, and transmit (218) a wireless message including the voicemail notification directed to a select multimode mobile device." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2005 (11/177,951). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=18&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28ga.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Directory Assistance Dialog with Configuration Switches to Switch ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,912,201) developed by John M. Martin, Austin, Texas, Robert R. Bushey, Cedar Park, Texas, and Hisao M. Chang, Austin, Texas, for a "directory assistance dialog with configuration switches to switch from automated speech recognition to operator-assisted dialog." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing a caller with a directory assistance dialog. The dialog is configurable, at any level of the dialog, from an automated speech recognition (ASR) dialog to an operator-assisted (OP) dialog. The dialog is handed off to an operator if any level of the speech recognition dialog fails. Also, a configuration switch may be set to cause the dialog to be handed off to an operator even if a response at some level of the ASR dialog is successfully recognized." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2006 (11/559,350). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=21&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28ga.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** Pioneer Hi-Bred International, E.I. du Pont de Nemours Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Des Moines, Iowa, and E.I. du Pont de Nemours, Wilmington, Del., have been assigned a patent (7,910,806) developed by eight co-inventors for " Defensin polynucleotides and methods of use." The co-inventors are Carl R. Simmons, Des Moines, Iowa, Pedro A. Navarro Acevedo, Ames, Iowa, Leslie Harvell, Newark, Del., Rebecca Cahoon, Webster Groves, Mo., Billy Fred McCutchen, College Station, Texas, Albert L. Lu, Newark, Del., Rafael Herrmann, Wilmington, Del., and James F. H. Wong, Johnston, Iowa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression cassettes for modulating development, developmental pathways, and defense responses. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2008 (12/132,513). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=34&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28de.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/de&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/de Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** Yotta Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Yotta Networks, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,912,097) developed by Hosagrahar Somashekhar, Plano, Texas, and Gopalakrishnan Hari, Plano, Texas, for a "system and method for transporting multiple client data signals via a single server signal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for conveying multiple low-bit-rate data streams over a data transport medium which is configured to transport data in a single, high-bit-rate data stream. In one embodiment, a plurality of low-bit-rate signals are received and a corresponding data rate is determined. Each of the signals is formatted in frames comprising a payload and overhead data. The high-bit-rate signal is also formatted in frames comprising a payload and overhead data, but the frames (including payload and overhead) contain more bits than those of the low-bit-rate frames. The payloads of the low-bit-rate frames are mapped into the payloads of the high-bit-rate frames. The overhead and timing data of the low-bit-rate frames are mapped into the unused portion of the overhead of the high-bit-rate frames. After the high-bit-rate signal is transported, the payload, overhead and timing data of each of the low-bit-rate signals is extracted, and the corresponding signals are reproduced." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2008 (12/137,838). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=23&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28DE.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus to Control a Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML) Session ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,912,963) developed by James Jackson, Austin, Texas, for "methods and apparatus to control a voice extensible markup language (VXML) session." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus to control a voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) session are disclosed. An example application server comprises an interface to send a first protocol message to a media server to initiate a communication session to provide first VXML content to the media server, and a session controller to detect an event at the application server and to direct the interface to send a second protocol message to the media server to interrupt the first VXML content at the media server and to direct the media server to obtain second VXML content via the communication session." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2007 (11/770,297). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=5&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28ga.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/ga Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** RPX-LV Acquisition Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Utilizing a Unique Transaction Code to Update a Magazine ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- RPX-LV Acquisition, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,912,760) developed by Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, for a "method and apparatus for utilizing a unique transaction code to update a magazine subscription over the internet." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for completing an electronic commerce transaction over a global communication network initiated between a vendor and a potential consumer. The method includes the steps of associating a unique transaction code with the initiated transaction between the vendor and the potential consumer for use by the consumer in completing a specific electronic commerce transaction; associating user information with the unique transaction code to provide a transaction packet; communicating the transaction packet to a remote vendor location from a user location; and completing the specific electronic commerce transaction upon receipt at the remote vendor location the transaction packet containing the user information in association with the unique transaction code." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2009 (12/405,904). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=15&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28DE.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** RPX-LV Acquisition Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- RPX-LV Acquisition, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,912,961) developed by Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, and David Kent Mathews, Carrollton, Texas, for an "input device for allowing input of unique digital code to a user's computer to control access thereof to a web site." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for controlling a computer is disclosed wherein one or more remote locations disposed on a network are accessed in response to scanning an optical code. A first computer disposed on the network connects to a scanner for scanning the optical code of a product by a user. The scanner is uniquely identified with a scanner distributor by a scanner identification number. A second computer disposed on the network is accessed in response to the user scanning the optical code with the scanner, wherein a lookup operation is performed at the second computer to match the scanner identification number with the scanner distributor to obtain remote routing information of the one or remote locations. The remote routing information is returned from the second computer to the first computer in order to access the one or more remote locations disposed on the network. The one or more remote locations are accessed to return remote information to the first computer for presentation." The patent application was filed on Jan. 10, 2006 (11/329,425). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=11&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28DE.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/DE Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,912,956) developed by Michael L. Williams, Rockwall, Texas, Michael L. Forsman, Sachse, Texas, and Michael W. Smith, Murphy, Texas, for a "service level agreement based control of a distributed computing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, a distributed computing system includes a resource control system coupled to an enterprise service bus that orchestrates a plurality of services into a business application. The resource control system is operable to receive a performance parameter from the enterprise service bus in which the performance parameter includes a metric of the business application. Using the performance parameter, the resource control system determines a loading of each of a plurality grid nodes on which the plurality of services are executed, and provisions or un-provisions one of the plurality of grid nodes according to the determined loading." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2008 (12/018,005). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=19&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** nCipher Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- nCipher, Stoneham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,913,261) developed by 10 co-inventors for an "application-specific information-processing method, system, and apparatus." The co-inventors are Oscar R. Mitchell, Pflugerville, Texas, Robert Bradford Cohen, Austin, Texas, Eleanor Coy, Austin, Texas, Rajat Datta, Round Rock, Texas, Randall Findley, Austin, Texas, James Garrett, Austin, Texas, Richard Goble, Cedar Creek, Texas, Greg North, Austin, Texas, Daniel Reents, Dripping Springs, Texas, and Leslie Zsohar, Round Rock, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An information-processing method for application-specific processing of messages. A message is received. Whether the message is in a selected application format is ascertained. If not, the message is routed to a next location. If so, the message is routed to a selected application processor, processed by the processor, and routed to the next location." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2002 (10/068,295). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=7&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,912,115) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for processing reference signals in OFDM systems using transmission time interval groupings." The co-inventors are Shengjie Zhao, Mundelein, Ill., Hanqing Lou, Garland, Texas, Neelesh B. Mehta, Secunderabad, India, and Jinyun Zhang, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system processes reference signals (115) for an uplink channel (103) between a transmitter, such as user equipment, and a receiver such as a base station, in a wireless communication network. A sequence of symbols to be transmitted is converted to a sequence of sub frames. The sequence of sub frames is grouped into groups of sub frames. Each sub frames includes at least two time-adjacent sub frames, and reference signals are inserted in a subset of the sub frames." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2006 (12/297,064). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=39&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass. has been assigned a patent (7,912,746) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for analyzing schedule trends." The co-inventors are Warren J. Kline, Sachse, Texas, Diane M. McCrea, Moshannon, Pa., Lora J. Clark, Frisco, Texas, Michael D. Hinman, Thornton, Colo., Paula D. Pope, Fishertown, Pa., and Darcie H. Rakickas, Aurora, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining a variance trend in schedule data includes retrieving schedule data comprising a task description of a task and a plurality of milestones associated with the task including a baseline milestone associated with a baseline deadline, a first updated milestone associated with a first updated deadline, and a second updated milestone associated with a second updated deadline. The method further includes calculating a first variance by comparing the first updated deadline to the baseline deadline, calculating a second variance by comparing the second updated deadline to the baseline deadline, automatically determining the variance trend in schedule data by comparing the first variance to the second variance, and automatically generating a display representing the variance trend." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2006 (11/559,801). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=25&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20110322.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/03/22/2011+AND+AS/MA Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi, in collaboration with Contify. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1042536 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |