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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (April 3)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** U.S. Patents Assigned to Companies Based in Florida ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the following patents to companies based in Florida. Accu-Break Technologies, Plantation, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,352) developed by Lawrence Solomon, Boca Raton, Fla., and Allan S. Kaplan, Boca Raton, Fla., for a "scored pharmaceutical tablets comprising a plurality of segments." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2005 (10/598,344). Advanced Magnet Lab, Palm Bay, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,880,578) developed by Rainer Meinke, Melbourne, Fla., for a "conductor assembly including a flared aperture region." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2008 (12/133,645). Anodyne Therapy, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (No. D631,971) developed by Craig Turtzo, Tarpon Springs, Fla., and Thomas Leuci, Palm Harbor, Fla., for an ornamental design for a "plantar fasciitus IR-LED apparatus." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2009 (D/346,131). Armor Holdings, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,104) developed by Ronan Floch, Planguenoual, France, for an "armored shell kit and associated method of armoring a vehicle." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/536,968). Arthrex, Naples, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,105) developed by Reinhold Schmieding, Naples, Fla., and Robert Sluss, Naples, Fla., for a "method and apparatus for arthroscopic joint resurfacing." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2005 (11/283,716). B.E. Aerospace, Wellington, Fla., has been assigned a patent (D631,727) developed by Jeffrey Walter Hontz, Rural Hall, N.C., and Eric Neil Mickelson, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., for an ornamental design for a door latch. The patent application was filed on May 14, 2010 (D/361,772). BrainGate , Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,780) developed by J. Christopher Flaherty, Topsfield, Mass., for a "biological interface system with thresholded configuration." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2005 (11/321,860). Cellutions, Plantation, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,374) developed by Victor H. Diaz, Aventura, Fla., for a "composition including superoxide dismutase and prickly-pear cactus for minimizing and preventing hangovers." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2006 (11/493,480). Century International Arms, Delray Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,877,917) developed by Vasile Cinciu, Bucharest, Romania, for a "hunting rifle recoilless buttstock." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2006 (11/909,151). ComfiHips, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (D632,020) developed by Martin Paul Onrot, Montreal, Canada, and Iris Grant Onrot, Tampa, Fla., for an ornamental design for a "compliant impact protection pad." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2010 (D/363,842). Duda & Sons, Oviedo, Fla., has been assigned a patent (RE42,108) developed by Lawrence K. Pierce, Aromas, Calif., for a "celery named ADS-4." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2008 (12/123,325). Engineering Performance Solutions, Gainsville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,136) developed by David W. Mazyck, Gainesville, Fla., for a "magnetic activated carbon and the removal of contaminants from fluid streams." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2008 (12/049,814). Extruders Unlimited, Fort Meade, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,487) developed by Jim Pearson, Fort Meade, Fla., for a "universal retaining lock for chain link fence slats." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2008 (12/337,161). Faro Technologies, Lake Mary, Fla., has been assigned a patent (RE42,082) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for improving measurement accuracy of a portable coordinate measurement machine." The co-inventors are Simon Raab, Santa Barbara, Calif., Allen Sajedi, Orlando, Fla., Kenneth J. Hasloecher, Deltona, Fla., and Marc Barber, Deltona, Fla. The patent application was filed on June 19, 2007 (11/820,469). Faro Technologies, Lake Mary, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,896) developed by Paul Christopher Atwell, Lake Mary, Fla., Jacint R. Barba, Sanford, Fla., and Frederick York, Longwood, Fla., for a "portable coordinate measurement machine with integrated line laser scanner." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2008 (12/178,994). Florida Turbine Technologies, Jupiter, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,761) developed by George Liang, Palm City, Fla., for a "turbine blade with a showerhead film cooling hole arrangement." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2007 (11/900,035). Frank L. Christy, Vero Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,197) developed by five co-inventors for a "nasal comfort devices and methods." The co-inventors are Frank L. Christy, Stephen C. Keiser, Vienna, W.Va., Richard L. Miller, Needham, Mass., Benjamin Powers, Boston, Mass., Peter H. Swai, Weymouth, Mass. The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2007 (11/704,684). H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Fla., and University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., have been assigned a patent (7,879,545) developed by Javier F. Torres-Roca, St. Petersburg, Fla., Timothy Yeatman, Tampa, Fla., and Steven Eschrich, Lakeland, Fla., for an " identification of novel targets for radio sensitization using a genomic-based radiation sensitivity classifier." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2004 (10/904,326). Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,913) developed by six co-inventors for an "exemplar/PDE-based technique to fill null regions and corresponding accuracy assessment." The co-inventors are Anthony O'Neil Smith, Melbourne, Fla., Patrick Kelley, Palm Bay, Fla., Harlan Yates, Melbourne, Fla., Mark Rahmes, Melbourne, Fla., Josef Allen, Melbourne, Fla., Kathleen Berisford, Malabar, Fla. The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2008 (12/022,283). HaulPass, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,392) developed by Scott A. Mayers, Lutz, Fla., and Darius J. Stankunas, Tampa, Fla., for a "tracking removal or processing of debris material." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2007 (11/893,774). Inteltech, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,692) developed by Daryl Soderman, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Dale B. Stepps, Yucca Valley, Calif., for a "light fixture assembly having improved heat dissipation capabilities." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2007 (11/985,055). J&J Vision Care, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,267) developed by 11 co-inventors for a "method for coating articles by mold transfer." The co-inventors are David C. Turner, Jacksonville, Fla., Lenora C. Copper, Jacksonville, Fla., Dominic Gourd, Jacksonville, Fla., Shivkumar Mahadevan, Starke, Fla., Frank F. Molock, Orange Park, Fla., Kevin P. McCabe, Jacksonville, Fla., Dharmesh K. Dubey, Jacksonville, Fla., Jeffery S. Longo, Jacksonville, Fla., Jonathan P. Adams, Jacksonville, Fla., Andrew J Wagner, Jacksonville, Fla., and Xiaoping Lin, Jacksonville, Fla. The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2001 (09/921,192). Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,288) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus of sterilization using monochromatic UV radiation source." The co-inventors are Susan K. Brown-Skrobot, Jacksonville, Fla., James A. Ebel, Jacksonville, Fla., John B. Enns, Jacksonville, Fla., Gregory A. Hill, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and Allan W. Kimble, Jacksonville, Fla. The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2004 (10/939,818). Medtronic Xomed, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,037) developed by William C. Brunnett, Jacksonville, Fla., and Charles Stanislaus, Jacksonville, Fla., for a "high speed surgical cutting instrument." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2006 (11/444,121). Noven Pharmaceuticals, Miami, has been assigned a patent (7,879,831) developed by David Houze, Coconut Grove, Fla., for an "enhanced drug delivery in transdermal systems." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2002 (10/330,360). Palau Pharma S.A., Palau-solita i Plegamans, Spain, and Stiefel Laboratories, Coral Gables, Fla., have been assigned a patent (7,879,867) developed by six co-inventors for a "crystalline antifungal compounds." The co-inventors are Antonio Canovas Paredes, Tona, Spain, Javier Bartroli Orpi, Barcelona, Spain, Elies Molins Grau, Bellaterra, Spain, Anna Roig Serra, Bellaterra, Spain, Kevin Meyer, Lebanon, Ind., and Keith Lorimer, West Lafayette, Ind. The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2007,(11/882,892). PolyuMAC, Miami, has been assigned a patent (7,879,922) developed by Juan Miguel Vazquez, Miami, for a "rigid, closed-cell, graft-polymer foam; rigid flexible cellular foam; rigid flexible cellular foam mixtures; and method for manufacturing a rigid, closed-cell, graft-polymer foam." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2007 (11/942,979). Rezzorb, North Captiva, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,877,929) developed by Nicholas Jarmoszuk, Rocky River, Ohio, and Paul Sakiewicz, Englewood, Colo., for a "method and apparatus for reducing fertilizer use in agricultural operations." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2008 (12/184,947). Saudi American Minerals, Coral Springs, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,117) developed by Larry Hunt, Coral Springs, Fla., for the treatment of coal. The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2006 (11/344,179). Syniverse ICX, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,715) developed by seven co-inventors for a "media spooler system and methodology providing efficient transmission of media content from wireless devices." The co-inventors are Shekhar Kirani, Capitola, Calif., Matthew H. Gerlach, Santa Cruz, Calif., Timothy W. Genske, Aptos, Calif., David Vogel, Santa Cruz, Calif., William G. Swinton, Santa Cruz, Calif., Venkat V. Easwar, Cupertino, Calif., and Eric O. Bodnar, Santa Cruz, Calif. The patent application was filed on Sept. 5, 2006 (11/516,809). U.S. Agriculture Department, Washington, and Renewable Spirits have been assigned a patent (7,879,379) developed by four co-inventors for an "identification of novel targets for radio sensitization using a genomic-based radiation sensitivity classifier." The co-inventors are Wilbur Widmer, Winter Haven, Fla., David Stewart, Boca Raton, Fla., Karel Grohmann, Davenport, Fla., and Mark Wilkins, Stillwater, Okla. The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2006 (11/603,277). University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Orlando, has been assigned a patent (7,881,347) developed by Timothy McComb, Orlando, Martin Richardson, Geneva, Fla., and Vikas Sudesh, Oviedo, Fla., for a "hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/032,081). University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Orlando, has been assigned a patent (7,879,308) developed by Leo Chow, Orlando, and Guangyu Chai, Orlando, Fla., for a "multiwall carbon nanotube field emitter fabricated by focused ion beam technique." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2005 (11/098,247). University of Florida Research Foundation, Gainesville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,886) developed by Raymond J. Bergeron Jr., Gainesville, Fla., for an iron binding agents. The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2006 (11/582,846). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., and Sandia, Albuquerque, N.M., have been assigned a patent (7,878,063) developed by Stefan Cular, Albuquerque, N.M., Venkat R. Bhethanabotla, Tampa, Fla., and Darren W. Branch, Albuquerque, N.M., for a "simultaneous sample manipulation and sensing using surface acoustic waves." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2008 (12/179,184). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,775) developed by Charles E. Cox, Tampa, Fla., and Emilia L. Dauway, Newcastle, Wash., for a "radio guided seed localization of imaged lesions." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2009 (12/388,234). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,880,891) developed by Myung K. Kim, Tampa, Fla., for a "total internal reflection holographic microscope." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2010 (12/791,093). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,880,496) developed by Nagarajan Ranganathan, Tampa, Fla., and Himanshu Thapliyal, Tampa, Fla., for a "conservative logic gate for design of quantum dot cellular automata circuits." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/702,587). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,622) developed by David Fries, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Brian Gregson, St. Petersburg, Fla., for a "barrier-permeable proxy reporter analysis." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2007 (11/837,919). University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,879,610) developed by Richard Heller, Temple Terrace, Fla., Mark J. Jaroszeski, Tampa, Fla., and Richard Gilbert, Tampa, Fla., for an "electroporation system and method for facilitating entry of molecules into cells in vivo." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2005 (10/907,631). UTC Fire & Security Americas, Bradenton, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,880,584) developed by five co-inventors for a "lockbox key with callback feature." The co-inventors are Wayne Floyd Larson, Salem, Ore., Michael Harkins, Portland, Ore., Casey Fale, Portland, Ore., Teri Lynne Briskey, Monmouth, Ore., and Jerry Switzer, West Linn, Ore. The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2006 (11/469,183). Virtualone, Plant City, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,878,396) developed by Gary Wishnatzki, Tampa, Fla., and Minor Bolanos, Tampa, Fla., for a "system and method for tracking origins of produce." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2008 (12/060,734). X.G. Technology, Sarasota, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,881,274) developed by Shashidhar R. Gandham, Sunrise, Fla., and Amit Shukla, Sunrise, Fla., for a "tri-core architecture for reducing MAC layer processing latency in base stations." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2009 (12/456,725). ZDirect, Hallandale Beach, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,882,190) developed by Rowland Hayes Thomas, Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., Isaac Wieder, Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., and Shayne Paddock, Ottawa, Canada, for a "systems and methods for optimizing smart mail." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2009 (12/405,081). *** U.S. Patents Assigned to IBM and Other Companies Based in New York ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the following patents to companies based in New York. International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,219) developed by four co-inventors for deploying analytic functions. The co-inventors are Alexander Pikovsky, Lexington, Mass., David Joel Pennell Sr., Dripping Springs, Texas, Robert Joseph McKeown, North Reading, Mass., and Colin Putney, Vancouver, Canada. The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/056,877). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,216) developed by John Richard Houlihan, Round Rock, Texas, and Dilton Monroe McGowan II, Round Rock, Texas, for a "process and methodology for generic analysis of metrics related to resource utilization and performance." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2007 (11/766,544). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,202) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system to delegate virtual storage access method related file operations to a storage server using an in-band RPC mechanism." The co-inventors are Guillermo Alejandro Alvarez, San Jose, Calif., David Darden Chambliss, Morgan Hill, Calif., Prashant Pandey, San Jose, Calif., Vijayshankar Raman, Sunnyvale, Calif., James Alan Ruddy, San Jose, Calif., Garret Frederick Swart, Palo Alto, Calif., and Harry Morris Yudenfriend, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The patent application was filed on April 1, 2008 (12/060,501). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,195) developed by Dustin C. Kirkland, Austin, Texas, Richard J. McCarty, Austin, Texas, and Herman Rodriguez, Austin, Texas, for an "instant messaging priority filtering based on content and hierarchical schemes." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2008 (12/342,040). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,192) developed by six co-inventors for "detecting spam email using multiple spam classifiers." The co-inventors are Vadakkedathu T. Rajan, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Mark N. Wegman, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Richard B. Segal, Yorktown Height, N.Y., Jason L. Crawford, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Jeffrey O. Kephart, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Shlomo Hershkop, Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2009 (12/541,843). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,188) developed by Oliver K. Ban, Austin, Texas, Chun C. Wang, Shenzhen, China, and Michael Bi, Shenzhen, China, for a "symbol-based message transmission method and system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2007 (11/843,674). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,185) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for managing e-mail attachments." The co-inventors are Sai Sivakumar Nagarajan, Karnataka, India, Sriram M. Ramanathan, Morrisville, N.C., George Francis Ramsay III, Elgin, Texas, Anandha S. Srinivasan, Karnataka, India. The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2006 (11/535,116). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,183) developed by four co-inventors for "managing a response to an email by a hidden email recipient." The co-inventors are David J. Craft, Austin, Texas, Vinit Jain, Austin, Texas, Rajeev Mishra, Austin, Texas, and Lance W. Russell, Rosanky, Texas. The patent application was filed on June 30, 2006 (11/427,837). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,182) developed by five co-inventors for a "correcting information in a received electronic mail." The co-inventors are Dharmesh N. Bhakta, Austin, Texas, Trung Q. Ly, Austin, Texas, Juan Francisco Obas, Austin, Texas, Lakshmi N. Potluri, Austin, Texas, and Guillermo Jesus Silva, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2005 (11/269,193). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,178) developed by Charles Steven Lingafelt, Durham, N.C., David Paul Merrill, New Paltz, N.Y., and John Elbert Moore Jr., Brownsburg, Ind., for a "method and system for using business rules to control invitations to join instant message collaborations." The patent application was filed on Sept. 5, 2007 (11/850,090). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,173) developed by four co-inventors for an "interactive remote command execution over a stateless client/server network protocol." The co-inventors are Peter D. Hirsch, Danville, Calif., Praveen Jani, Cupertino, Calif., Anup Katariya, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Andrey Prigogin, Mountain View, Calif. The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/164,927). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,160) developed by Henry W. Adams III, Chapel Hill, N.C., Curtis E. Hrischuk, Holly Springs, N.C., and Ryan A. Sciampacone, Nepean, Canada, for a "low latency optimization for generational garbage collection." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,666). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned two patents (7,882,155, 7,882,154) developed by Chad L. Meadows, Raleigh, N.C., for a "hierarchical inherited XML DOM." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2008. International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,151) developed by four co-inventors for a "quasi-inverses of schema mappings." The co-inventors are Ronald Fagin, Los Gatos, Calif., Phokion Gerasimos Kolaitis, Los Altos, Calif., Lucian Popa, San Jose, Calif., and Wang-Chiew Tan, San Jose, Calif. The patent application was filed on April 3, 2008 (12/061,732). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,142) developed by Benjamin M. Parees, Durham, N.C., James Thorpe, Cary, N.C., and Prasad R. Vishnubhotla, Round Rock, Texas, for a "dynamic optimized datastore generation and modification for process models." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2006 (11/422,105). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,128) developed by Toni Bollinger, Weil der Stadt, Germany, Ansgar Dorneich, Holzgerlingen, Germany, and Christoph Lingenfelder, Herrenberg, Germany, for a "data mining by determining patterns in input data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2007 (11/671,600). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,126) developed by Michail Vlachos, Tarrytown, N.Y., and Philip Shi-Lung Yu, Chappaqua, N.Y., for "systems and methods for computation of optimal distance bounds on compressed time-series data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2008 (12/027,294). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,123) developed by nine co-inventors for a "method and system for intelligent storage management." The co-inventors are Nicholas Tabellion, San Jose, Calif., Robert Gagnon, Lachanaie, Canada, Martin Pare, Mirabel, Canada, Guy Letourneau, Boucherville, Canada, Heidi Schoolcraft, San Jose, Calif., James Thomson, Moor Park, Calif., John Dunning, Belmont, Calif., Steven Calde, San Jose, Calif., and Michael Kay, Hollister, Calif. The patent application was filed on April 10, 2007 (11/786,149). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,116) developed by Steve John Gutz, Gloucester, Canada, and Kenneth Earle Hussey, Kanata, Canada, for a "method for localization of programming modeling resources." The patent application was filed on May 18, 2005 (11/131,991). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,113) developed by Frank L. Yaeger, Morgan Hill, Calif., for a "method, apparatus, and system for formatting time data to improve processing in a sort utility." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2003 (10/402,705). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,108) developed by Michael David Rychener, Chapel Hill, N.C., for a "dynamically updating a websheet configuration." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2009 (12/356,150). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,107) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for processing a text search query in a collection of documents." The co-inventors are Andrea Baader, Boeblingen, Germany, Jochen Doerre, Boeblingen, Germany, Monika Matschke, Calw, Germany, Andreas Neumann, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, and Roland Seiffert, Herrenberg, Germany. The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2007 (11/952,627). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,104) developed by Eric Lawrence Barsness, Pine Island, Minn., and John Matthew Santosuosso, Rochester, Minn., for "monitoring performance of a data processing system." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/059,879). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,099) developed by Neeraj Agrawal, New Delhi, India, Sreeram Viswanath Balakrishnan, New Delhi, India, and Sachindra Joshi, New Delhi, India, for a "system and method for focused re-crawling of web sites." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2008 (12/054,482). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,092) developed by Gargi B. Dasgupta, New Delhi, India, Tapan Kumar Nayak, New Delhi, India, and Balaji Viswanathan, New Delhi, India, for a "method and system for hoarding content on mobile clients." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2008 (12/061,716). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,078) developed by William B. Brown, Austin, Texas, for a "method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2010 (12/683,622). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,075) developed by Yasuhiro Suzuki, Machida, Japan, Katsuyoshi Yamamoto, Machida, Japan, and Naoya Yamamoto, Yamato, Japan, for a "system, method and program product for forecasting the demand on computer resources." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/122,069). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,065) developed by Christopher John Stakutis, Concord, Mass., and William Robert Haselton, Peabody, Mass., for "processing a request to update a file in a file system with update data." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2007 (11/682,845). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,063) developed by James A. Martin Jr., Endicott, N.Y., and Douglas G. Murray, Johnson City, N.Y., for a "system for synchronization of configuration values between a data base and its input utility." The patent application was filed on Sept. 3, 2008 (12/203,346). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,060) developed by five co-inventors for a "remote space efficient repository." The co-inventors are Mario F. Acedo, Tucson, Ariz., Ezequiel Cervantes, Tucson, Ariz., Paul A. Jennas II, Tucson, Ariz., Jason L. Peipelman, Vail, Ariz., and Matthew J. Ward, Vail, Ariz. The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,814). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,882,043) developed by David Frederick Bantz, Portland, Maine, and Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for a "method and apparatuses for facilitating spontaneous shopping collaboration." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2005 (11/031,590). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,961) developed by John A. Ricketts, Clarendon Hills, Ill., for a "method and system of managing a business process." The patent application was filed on Feb. 10, 2005 (11/055,403). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,959) developed by Mark S. Ramsey, Colleyville, Texas, and David A. Selby, Near Fareham, Great Britain, for "on demand selection of marketing offers in response to inbound communications." The patent application was filed on May 3, 2005 (11/121,215). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,956) developed by Christopher Mark Kenyon, Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, and Thomas Bachofner, Bern, Switzerland, for a "method, computer system and computer program for determining a risk/reward model." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2006 (11/589,563). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,943) developed by Sunil Baddaliyanage Santha, Austin, Texas, for a "method for speed correction of audio recordings." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2007 (11/674,346). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,937) developed by Mohammad Hasan, San Jose, Calif., and William Scott Spangler, San Martin, Calif., for a "method for analyzing patent claims." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2007 (11/756,549). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,928) developed by Yuqing Gao, Mount Kisco, N.Y., Liang Gu, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Wei Zhang, Ossining, N.Y., for an enhanced linguistic transformation. The patent application was filed on March 1, 2007 (11/680,863). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,922) developed by Ben J Fletcher, Huddersfield, Great Britain, and Daniel E Would, Eastleigh, Great Britain, for a "communication device and method to derive context information." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2006 (11/530,309). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,918) developed by Benjamin David Silverman, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., for a "system and method for spatially profiling a distribution of hydrophobicity of a transmembrane protein." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2007 (11/933,654). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,906) developed by four co-inventors for a "method, system and computer program product for event-based sampling to monitor computer system performance. The co-inventors are Jane H. Bartik, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Willm Hinrichs, Holgerlingen, Germany, Martin Recktenwald, Steinenbronn, Germany, and Patrick M. West Jr., Hyde Park, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/031,735). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,891) developed by Javier A. Ayala, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Marc J. Postiglione, New Milford, Conn., and Eric P. Solecky, Hyde Park, N.Y., for an "automated dynamic metrology sampling system and method for process control." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/351,010). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,874) developed by Gad M. Landau, Haifa, Israel, Laxmi Priya Parida, Mohegan Lake, N.Y., and Oren Weimann, Haifa, Israel, for a "method and system for comparative genomics." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2006 (11/453,995). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,826) developed by five co-inventors for a "preemptive thermal control by processor throttling in a modular computing system." The co-inventors are Sertac Cakici, Austin, Texas, John Farrugia, Austin, Texas, Ryan M. McBeth, Round Rock, Texas, Meghna Paruthi, Austin, Texas, and Madeline Vega, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on April 17, 2008 (12/104,694). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,720) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of indoor radio planning." The co-inventors are Jian Huang, Beijing, Song Song, China, Zhe Xiang, Haidian, China, and Hang Jin Zhang, Goleta, Calif. The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2006 (11/511,961). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,710) developed by four co-inventors for "managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device." The co-inventors are Susann M. Keohane, Austin, Texas, Gerald F. McBrearty, Austin, Texas, Shawn P. Mullen, Buda, Texas, Johnny M. Shieh, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2008 (12/033,008). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,701) developed by Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Texas, Fabian F. Morgan, Austin, Texas, and Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas, for a "method and system for verifying telephone numbers." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2006 (11/538,879). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,582) developed by Brian J. Cragun, Rochester, Minn., and Paul R. Day, Rochester, Minn., for a "slowing display of digital video." The patent application was filed on June 12, 2006 (11/423,646). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,476) developed by Jeffrey B. Lotspiech, Henderson, Nev., and Florian Pesoni, Mountain View, Calif., for "delivering enhanced multimedia content on physical media." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2009 (12/417,783). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,448) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for notifying a telephone user of an audio problem." The co-inventors are Gregory Jensen Boss, American Fork, Utah, Peter George Finn, Brampton, Calif., Rick Allen Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., and James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, Va. The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2006 (11/554,257). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,332) developed by seven co-inventors for a "configurable ports for a host Ethernet adapter." The co-inventors are Claude Basso, Raleigh, N.C., Jean Louis Calvignac, Raleigh, N.C., Chih-Jen Chang, Apex, N.C., Philippe Damon, Raleigh, N.C., Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Carrboro, N.C., Fabrice Jean Verplanken, La Gaude, France, and Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on April 1, 2005 (11/097,652). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,324) developed by four co-inventors for a "steering data communications packets for transparent bump-in-the-wire processing among multiple data processing applications." The co-inventors are Matthew T. Belanger, Holly Springs, N.C., Brahmanand K. Gorti, Cary, N.C., John Lloyd, Durham, N.C., and Gary R. Shippy, Cary, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/410,803). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,300) developed by Hidekazu Fukuda, Yamato, Japan, for "broadcasting between subnetworks connected via a router." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2008 (12/174,750). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,234) developed by Michael Negley Abernethy Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas, and Justin K. Hong, Cedar Park, Texas, for "detecting interruptions in audio conversations and conferences, and using a conversation marker indicative of the interrupted conversation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2006 (11/550,832). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,135) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for Q.sub.CRIT measurement in bulk CMOS using a switched capacitor circuit." The co-inventors are Ethan H. Cannon, Essex Junction, Vt., Alan J. Drake, Round Rock, Texas, Fadi H. Gebara, Austin, Texas, John P Keane, Minneapolis, Minn., and AJ Kleinosowski, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2007 (11/679,406). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,093) developed by four co-inventors for a "programmable precision resistor and method of programming the same." The co-inventors are Anthony G. Domenicucci, New Paltz, N.Y., Terence L. Kane, Port Chester, N.Y., Michael Tenney, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Yun-Yu Wang, Poughquag, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2008 (12/185,375). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,089) developed by four co-inventors for a "coding techniques for improving the sense margin in content addressable memories." The co-inventors are Michele M. Franceschini, White Plains, N.Y., Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., Luis A. Lastras, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Bipin Rajendran, White Plains, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2009 (12/392,049). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,064) developed by five co-inventors for a "flexible paddle card for installation on a motherboard of a computing system." The co-inventors are Dennis F. Cole, Cary, N.C., Thomas D. Pahel, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Challis L. Purrington, Raleigh, N.C., Sean P. Ryan, Wake Forest, N.C., and Jack P. Wong, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 24, 2008 (12/053,724). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,054) developed by four co-inventors for a computer lock system. The co-inventors are Gregory J. Boss, American Fork, Utah, Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., George R. Langlais, Nashua, N.H., and Timothy M. Waters, Hiram, Ga. The patent application was filed on July 16, 2009 (12/503,987). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,052) developed by four co-inventors for a "compact HDD carrier mechanism featuring self actuating EMC springs to prevent HDD component shorting." The co-inventors are Martin Joseph Crippen, Apex, N.C., David George Lund, Byron, Minn., Charles William Piper, Burlington, N.C., and Brian Alan Trumbo, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2008 (12/333,442). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,028) developed by six co-inventors for an "e-fuse used to disable a triggering network." The co-inventors are Michel J. Abou-Khalil, Essex Junction, Vt., Robert J. Gauthier, Jr., Hinesburg, Vt., Tom C. Lee, Essex Junction, Vt., Junjun Li, Williston, Vt., Souvick Mitra, Burlington, Vt., and Christopher S. Putnam, Hinesburg, Vt. The patent application was filed on March 4, 2008 (12/041,962). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,009) developed by Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, for "positioning of plants in servo systems." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2008 (12/141,174). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,008) developed by five co-inventors for a "joint specification of servo format and servo reader parameters for tape drive systems." The co-inventors are Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, Laurent A. Dellmann, Adliswil, Switzerland, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and Mark A. Lantz, Adliswil, Switzerland. The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/117,899). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,993) developed by four co-inventors for a "storage device, defect detection method and program for detecting defect in recording medium." The co-inventors are Setsuko Masuda, Yokohama, Kanagawa-pref, Japan, Kenji Nakamura, Kanagawa, Japan, Hirokazu Nakayama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, and Yutaka Oishi, Kangawa, Japan. The patent application was filed on June 10, 2008 (12/136,084). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,739) developed by David C. Long, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Jason S. Miller, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "virtual window with simulated parallax and field of view change." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2006 (11/548,300). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,719) developed by four co-inventors for a "recognition and capture of whiteboard markups in relation to a projected image." The co-inventors are Barry Alan Kritt, Raleigh, N.C., Douglas Alan Law, Chapel Hill, N.C., Thomas S. Mazzeo, Durham, N.C., and Rodney Edward Shepard II, Durham, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 23, 2006 (11/387,509). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,718) developed by Ryan Kirk Cradick, Rochester, Minn., and Zachary Adam Garbow, Rochester, Minn., for an "apparatus, system, and method for electronic paper flex input." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2006 (11/379,190). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,611) developed by Robert L. Angell, Salt Lake City, Utah, and James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, N.M., for an "qualitative/quantitative analysis of a material using RFIDs." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008 (12/043,296). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,598) developed by Terry Michele Ciccaglione, Cold Spring, N.Y., Mark Edmund Maresh, Wake Forest, N.C., and Robert Tucker Sanders, Raleigh, N.C., for a "six face, multi-event, orientation sensor." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2006 (11/608,636). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,518) developed by Keith Aelwyn Jenkins, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for measuring and compensating for static phase error in phase locked loops." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2009 (12/543,284). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,507) developed by five co-inventors for a circular edge detector. The co-inventors are Jerry C. Kao, Ann Arbor, Mich., Jente B. Kuang, Austin, Texas, Alan J. Drake, Round Rock, Texas, Gary D. Carpenter, Austin, Texas, and Fadi H. Gebara, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2009 (12/621,763). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,305) developed by six co-inventors for a "technology for fabrication of packaging interface substrate wafers with fully metallized vias through the substrate wafer." The co-inventors are Yu-Ting Cheng, Elmsford, N.Y., Sherif A. Goma, Hawthorne, N.Y., John Harold Magerlein, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Sampath Purushothaman, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Carlos Juan Sambucetti, Croton on Hudson, N.Y., and George Frederick Walker, New York, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2002 (10/290,049). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,266) developed by Byeongju Park, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Subramanian S. Iyer, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Chandrasekharan Kothandaraman, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., for a "four-terminal antifuse structure having integrated heating elements for a programmable circuit." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2007 (11/949,569). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,250) developed by Daniel C. Worledge, Poughquag, N.Y., for a "magnetic tunnel junction transistor." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2010 (12/824,144). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,243) developed by five co-inventors for a "simple low power circuit structure with metal gate and high-k dielectric." The co-inventors are Bruce B. Doris, Brewster, N.Y., Eduard Albert Cartier, New York, Barry Paul Linder, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., Vijay Narayanan, New York, and Vamsi Paruchuri, New York, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Aug. 7, 2007 (11/835,310). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,241) developed by four co-inventors for a "low-temperature electrically activated gate electrode and method of fabricating same." The co-inventors are John C. Arnold, Ridgefield, Conn., Stephen W. Bedell, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Keith E. Fogel, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and Devendra K. Sadana, Pleasantville, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2007 (11/678,338). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,238) developed by Qingqing Liang, Fishkill, N.Y., Werner A. Rausch, Stormville, N.Y., and Huilong Zhu, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "2-T SRAM cell structure and method." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2008 (12/100,441). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,208) developed by five co-inventors for a "magnetic materials having superparamagnetic particles." The co-inventors are Snorri Thorgeir Ingvarsson, White Plains, N.Y., Philip Louis Trouilloud, Norwood, N.J., Shouheng Sun, Millwood, N.Y., Roger Hilsen Koch, Amawalk, N.Y., and David William Abraham, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. The patent application was filed on June 10, 2003 (10/458,112). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,207) developed by five co-inventors for a photo detector device. The co-inventors are Matthias Fertig, Altdorf, Germany, Thomas E. Morf, Gross, Switzerland, Jonas R. Weiss, Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Pflueger, Leinfelden, Germany, and Nikolaj Moll, Zurich, Switzerland. The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/350,991). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,201) developed by Yurii A. Vlasov, Katonah, N.Y., and Fengnian Xia, Plainsboro, N.J., for an "optical modulator using a serpentine dielectric layer between silicon layers." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2006 (11/558,289). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,194) developed by Matthew J. Breitwisch, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., and Prabhakar Kudva, New York, for a "cross point switch using phase change material." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2008 (12/106,539). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,158) developed by John M. Aitken, South Burlington, Vt., Fen Chen, Williston, Vt., and Kai D. Feng, Essex Junction, Vt., for a "phase-change TaN resistor based triple-state/multi-state read only memory." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2006 (12/109,085). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,157) developed by Kuan-Neng Chen, White Plains, N.Y., and Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., for a "four-terminal reconfigurable devices." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2009 (12/544,089). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,728) developed by Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., and Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe, Irvine, Calif., for a "sub-lithographic printing method." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2008 (12/018,316). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,717) developed by six co-inventors for a "polycarbosilane buried etch stops in interconnect structures." The co-inventors are Elbert E. Huang, Tarrytown, N.Y., Kaushik A. Kumar, Beacon, N.Y., Kelly Malone, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dirk Pfeiffer, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Muthumanickam Sankarapandian, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Christy S. Tyberg, Mahopac, N.Y. The patent application was filed on June 17, 2008 (12/140,854). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,716) developed by six co-inventors for a "metal seed layer deposition." The co-inventors are Steven P. Barkyoumb, Essex Junction, Vt., Jonathan D. Chapple-Sokol, Essex Junction, Vt., Edward C. Cooney III, Jericho, Vt., Keith E. Downes, Stowe, Vt., Thomas L. McDevitt, Underhill, Vt., and William J. Murphy, North Ferrisburgh, Vt. The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/687,017). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,672) developed by Kangguo Cheng, Guilderland, N.Y., Byeong Yeol Kim, Lagrangeville, N.Y., and James Patrick Norum, Holmes, N.Y., for an "eDRAM memory cell structure and method of fabricating." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2009 (12/390,739). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,660) developed by Roger Allen Booth Jr., Rochester, Minn., Jack Allan Mandelman, Flat Rock, N.C., and William Robert Tonti, Essex Junction, Vt., for a "semiconductor structures integrating damascene-body FinFET's and planar devices on a common substrate and methods for forming such semiconductor structures." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/927,780). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,650) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of providing protection against charging damage in hybrid orientation transistors." The co-inventors are Terence B. Hook, Jericho, Vt., Anda C. Mocuta, LaGrangeville, N.Y., Jeffrey W. Sleight, Ridgefield, Conn., and Anthony K. Stamper, Williston, Vt. The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (12/002,807). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,515) developed by Christopher P. Ausschnitt, Boston, Mass., and William A. Muth, LaGrangeville, N.Y., for a "method to control semiconductor device overlay using post etch image metrology." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2008 (12/017,134). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,307) developed by Ali Afzali-Ardakani, Ossining, N.Y., Cherie R. Kagan Ossining, N.Y., and Rudolf Tromp, North Salem, N.Y., for "complexes of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes with molecular-clips and use thereof." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/789,505). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,878,865) developed by four co-inventors for a "locking connector for engaging a USB receptacle." The co-inventors are Norman B. Desrosiers, Oxford, New Caledonia, Dean F. Herring, Youngsville, New Caledonia, Paul D. Kangas, Cary, New Caledonia, and Jeff D. Thomas, Raleigh, N.C. The patent application was filed on June 8, 2009 (12/479,946). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,878,838) developed by four co-inventors for a "dual force single point actuation integrated load mechanism for securing a computer processor to a socket." The co-inventors are Michael D. French, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Michael S. Miller, Raleigh, N.C., Peter A. Smith, Cary, N.C., and Paul A. Wormsbecher, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on July 7, 2010 (12/831,318). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,878,412) developed by Dimitri Kanevsky, Ossining, N.Y., and Dmitri V. Talapin, Richmond, Calif., for a "verification of a biometric identification." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2009 (12/536,229). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,878,332) developed by Weric Allen Stegner, Durham, N.C., Robert William Stegner, Raleigh, N.C., and Christopher John Sattora, Cary, N.C., for a "packaging material, and packaging for protecting products against damage." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/117,963). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,878,007) developed by five co-inventors for a "monitoring method and system for determining airflow rate through and heat removal rate of an air-conditioning unit." The co-inventors are Levi A. Campbell, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Richard C. Chu, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., Michael J. Ellsworth Jr., Lagrangeville, N.Y., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Woodstock, N.Y., and Robert E. Simons, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2008 (12/031,982). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,448) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for notifying a telephone user of an audio problem." The co-inventors are Gregory Jensen Boss, American Fork, Utah, Peter George Finn, Brampton, Calif., Rick Allen Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., and James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, Va. The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2006 (11/554,257). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,332) developed by seven co-inventors for a "configurable ports for a host Ethernet adapter." The co-inventors are Claude Basso, Raleigh, N.C., Jean Louis Calvignac, Raleigh, N.C., Chih-Jen Chang, Apex, N.C., Philippe Damon, Raleigh, N.C., Natarajan Vaidhyanathan, Carrboro, N.C., Fabrice Jean Verplanken, La Gaude, France, and Colin Beaton Verrilli, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on April 1, 2005 (11/097,652). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,324) developed by four co-inventors for a "steering data communications packets for transparent bump-in-the-wire processing among multiple data processing applications." The co-inventors are Matthew T. Belanger, Holly Springs, N.C., Brahmanand K. Gorti, Cary, N.C., John Lloyd, Durham, N.C., and Gary R. Shippy, Cary, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/410,803). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,300) developed by Hidekazu Fukuda, Yamato, Japan, for "broadcasting between subnetworks connected via a router." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2008 (12/174,750). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,234) developed by Michael Negley Abernethy Jr., Pflugerville, Texas, Travis M. Grigsby, Austin, Texas, and Justin K. Hong, Cedar Park, Texas, for "detecting interruptions in audio conversations and conferences, and using a conversation marker indicative of the interrupted conversation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2006 (11/550,832). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,135) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for Q.sub.CRIT measurement in bulk CMOS using a switched capacitor circuit." The co-inventors are Ethan H. Cannon, Essex Junction, Vt., Alan J. Drake, Round Rock, Texas, Fadi H. Gebara, Austin, Texas, John P Keane, Minneapolis, Minn., and AJ Kleinosowski, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2007 (11/679,406). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,093) developed by four co-inventors for a "programmable precision resistor and method of programming the same." The co-inventors are Anthony G. Domenicucci, New Paltz, N.Y., Terence L. Kane, Port Chester, N.Y., Michael Tenney, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Yun-Yu Wang, Poughquag, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2008 (12/185,375). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,089) developed by four co-inventors for a "coding techniques for improving the sense margin in content addressable memories." The co-inventors are Michele M. Franceschini, White Plains, N.Y., Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., Luis A. Lastras, Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Bipin Rajendran, White Plains, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2009 (12/392,049). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,064) developed by five co-inventors for a "flexible paddle card for installation on a motherboard of a computing system." The co-inventors are Dennis F. Cole, Cary, N.C., Thomas D. Pahel, Jr., Raleigh, N.C., Challis L. Purrington, Raleigh, N.C., Sean P. Ryan, Wake Forest, N.C., and Jack P. Wong, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 24, 2008 (12/053,724). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,054) developed by four co-inventors for a computer lock system. The co-inventors are Gregory J. Boss, American Fork, Utah, Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., George R. Langlais, Nashua, N.H., and Timothy M. Waters, Hiram, Ga. The patent application was filed on July 16, 2009 (12/503,987). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,052) developed by four co-inventors for a "compact HDD carrier mechanism featuring self actuating EMC springs to prevent HDD component shorting." The co-inventors are Martin Joseph Crippen, Apex, N.C., David George Lund, Byron, Minn., Charles William Piper, Burlington, N.C., and Brian Alan Trumbo, Apex, N.C. The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2008 (12/333,442). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,028) developed by six co-inventors for an "e-fuse used to disable a triggering network." The co-inventors are Michel J. Abou-Khalil, Essex Junction, Vt., Robert J. Gauthier, Jr., Hinesburg, Vt., Tom C. Lee, Essex Junction, Vt., Junjun Li, Williston, Vt., Souvick Mitra, Burlington, Vt., and Christopher S. Putnam, Hinesburg, Vt. The patent application was filed on March 4, 2008 (12/041,962). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,009) developed by Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, for "positioning of plants in servo systems." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2008 (12/141,174). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,881,008) developed by five co-inventors for a "joint specification of servo format and servo reader parameters for tape drive systems." The co-inventors are Giovanni Cherubini, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, Roy D. Cideciyan, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, Laurent A. Dellmann, Adliswil, Switzerland, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and Mark A. Lantz, Adliswil, Switzerland. The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/117,899). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,993) developed by four co-inventors for a "storage device, defect detection method and program for detecting defect in recording medium." The co-inventors are Setsuko Masuda, Yokohama, Kanagawa-pref, Japan, Kenji Nakamura, Kanagawa, Japan, Hirokazu Nakayama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, and Yutaka Oishi, Kangawa, Japan. The patent application was filed on June 10, 2008 (12/136,084). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,739) developed by David C. Long, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Jason S. Miller, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "virtual window with simulated parallax and field of view change." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2006 (11/548,300). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,719) developed by four co-inventors for a "recognition and capture of whiteboard markups in relation to a projected image." The co-inventors are Barry Alan Kritt, Raleigh, N.C., Douglas Alan Law, Chapel Hill, N.C., Thomas S. Mazzeo, Durham, N.C., and Rodney Edward Shepard II, Durham, N.C. The patent application was filed on March 23, 2006 (11/387,509). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,718) developed by Ryan Kirk Cradick, Rochester, Minn., and Zachary Adam Garbow, Rochester, Minn., for an "apparatus, system, and method for electronic paper flex input." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2006 (11/379,190). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,611) developed by Robert L. Angell, Salt Lake City, Utah, and James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, N.M., for an "qualitative/quantitative analysis of a material using RFIDs." The patent application was filed on March 6, 2008 (12/043,296). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,598) developed by Terry Michele Ciccaglione, Cold Spring, N.Y., Mark Edmund Maresh, Wake Forest, N.C., and Robert Tucker Sanders, Raleigh, N.C., for a "six face, multi-event, orientation sensor." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2006 (11/608,636). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,518) developed by Keith Aelwyn Jenkins, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., for a "method and apparatus for measuring and compensating for static phase error in phase locked loops." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2009 (12/543,284). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,507) developed by five co-inventors for a circular edge detector. The co-inventors are Jerry C. Kao, Ann Arbor, Mich., Jente B. Kuang, Austin, Texas, Alan J. Drake, Round Rock, Texas, Gary D. Carpenter, Austin, Texas, and Fadi H. Gebara, Austin, Texas. The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2009 (12/621,763). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,305) developed by six co-inventors for a "technology for fabrication of packaging interface substrate wafers with fully metallized vias through the substrate wafer." The co-inventors are Yu-Ting Cheng, Elmsford, N.Y., Sherif A. Goma, Hawthorne, N.Y., John Harold Magerlein, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Sampath Purushothaman, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Carlos Juan Sambucetti, Croton on Hudson, N.Y., and George Frederick Walker, New York, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2002 (10/290,049). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,266) developed by Byeongju Park, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Subramanian S. Iyer, Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Chandrasekharan Kothandaraman, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., for a "four-terminal antifuse structure having integrated heating elements for a programmable circuit." The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2007 (11/949,569). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,250) developed by Daniel C. Worledge, Poughquag, N.Y., for a "magnetic tunnel junction transistor." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2010 (12/824,144). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,243) developed by five co-inventors for a "simple low power circuit structure with metal gate and high-k dielectric." The co-inventors are Bruce B. Doris, Brewster, N.Y., Eduard Albert Cartier, New York, Barry Paul Linder, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., Vijay Narayanan, New York, and Vamsi Paruchuri, New York, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Aug. 7, 2007 (11/835,310). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,241) developed by four co-inventors for a "low-temperature electrically activated gate electrode and method of fabricating same." The co-inventors are John C. Arnold, Ridgefield, Conn., Stephen W. Bedell, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Keith E. Fogel, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and Devendra K. Sadana, Pleasantville, N.Y. The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2007 (11/678,338). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,238) developed by Qingqing Liang, Fishkill, N.Y., Werner A. Rausch, Stormville, N.Y., and Huilong Zhu, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for a "2-T SRAM cell structure and method." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2008 (12/100,441). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,208) developed by five co-inventors for a "magnetic materials having superparamagnetic particles." The co-inventors are Snorri Thorgeir Ingvarsson, White Plains, N.Y., Philip Louis Trouilloud, Norwood, N.J., Shouheng Sun, Millwood, N.Y., Roger Hilsen Koch, Amawalk, N.Y., and David William Abraham, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. The patent application was filed on June 10, 2003 (10/458,112). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,207) developed by five co-inventors for a photo detector device. The co-inventors are Matthias Fertig, Altdorf, Germany, Thomas E. Morf, Gross, Switzerland, Jonas R. Weiss, Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Pflueger, Leinfelden, Germany, and Nikolaj Moll, Zurich, Switzerland. The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/350,991). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,201) developed by Yurii A. Vlasov, Katonah, N.Y., and Fengnian Xia, Plainsboro, N.J., for an "optical modulator using a serpentine dielectric layer between silicon layers." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2006 (11/558,289). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,194) developed by Matthew J. Breitwisch, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., and Prabhakar Kudva, New York, for a "cross point switch using phase change material." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2008 (12/106,539). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,158) developed by John M. Aitken, South Burlington, Vt., Fen Chen, Williston, Vt., and Kai D. Feng, Essex Junction, Vt., for a "phase-change TaN resistor based triple-state/multi-state read only memory." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2006 (12/109,085). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,880,157) developed by Kuan-Neng Chen, White Plains, N.Y., and Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., for a "four-terminal reconfigurable devices." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2009 (12/544,089). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,728) developed by Chung H. Lam, Peekskill, N.Y., and Hemantha K. Wickramasinghe, Irvine, Calif., for a "sub-lithographic printing method." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2008 (12/018,316). International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,879,717) developed by six co-inventors for a "polycarbosilane buried etch stops in interconnect structures." 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