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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (May 4)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (7,937,649) developed by Jonathan James Ashley, Los Gatos, Calif., Kelly Knudson Fitzpatrick, Sudbury, Mass., and Erich Franz Haratsch, Bethlehem, Pa., for a "reliability unit for determining a reliability value for at least one bit decision." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A reliability unit is provided for determining a reliability value for at least one bit decision. The disclosed reliability unit comprises one or more functional elements, wherein each of the functional elements comprises at least four functional units and at least two registers, wherein each functional unit comprises a comparator and a multiplexer, and wherein an output of the comparator and an equivalence bit control the multiplexer. Generally, the reliability unit determines a reliability value for a bit decision associated with a maximum-likelihood path through a multiple-step trellis." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2009 (12/547,888). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,937,649&OS=7,937,649&RS=7,937,649 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 745 LLC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- 745 LLC, Boston, has been assigned a patent (D637,190) developed by four co-inventors for an ornamental design for a guitar controller. The co-inventoes are John A. McGuire II, Newtonville, Mass., Mark Izen, Chestnut Hill, Mass., Craig Small, Framingham, Mass., and Gabriel Viani, Salem, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a guitar controller, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2010 (D/357,134). 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=D637,190.PN.&OS=PN/D637,190&RS=PN/D637,190 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Neck Warmer ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Dolores Maykis, Belmont, Mass., has been issued a patent (D636,972) for an ornamental design for a neck warmer. The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2009 (D/344,623). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D636,972.PN.&OS=PN/D636,972&RS=PN/D636,972 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing Collections of Appliances ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,937,716) developed by six co-inventors for a "managing collections of appliances." The co-inventors are Ryan Betts, Framingham, Mass., Robert David Callaway, Holly Springs, N.C., John Smith Graham, Raleigh, N.C., Charles Marcel Kinard, Cary, N.C., Holger Reinhardt, Esslingen, Germany, and Adolfo Francisco Rodriguez, Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A protocol to enable management of opaque entities in a computing environment comprises an events component and a commands component. The events component enables a manager to utilize a received event communicated by a corresponding managed entity to indicate when administration or other management actions have occurred to domain information on the corresponding managed entity. The commands component interacts with the managed entities in response to the events component receiving corresponding events there from. The commands component further comprises commands for backing up the domain information stored by the managed entities as opaque configuration objects, for restoring the domain information to the managed entities as opaque configuration objects and for querying an identified one of the plurality of managed entities to determine whether two domain configurations are semantically different in a way that allows the configuration to remain opaque to the manager." The patent application was filed on Sept. 5, 2007 (11/850,052). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,937,716.PN.&OS=PN/7,937,716&RS=PN/7,937,716 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medtronic Vascular Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Medtronic Vascular, Santa Rosa, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,937,660) developed by Christoph A. Binkert, Newton, Mass., for a "computer-based methods and structures for stent-graft selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A stent-graft planning system is a web-based system that assists a physician in selecting and ordering the right stent-graft online in real-time. The stent-graft planning system provides a physician with a two-dimensional (2D) graphic model reflecting the individual vessel anatomy, e.g., aneurismal anatomy, and the selected stent graft in that anatomy. By comparing the graphic model with the image of the patient's vessels, the physician can note any dimensions that are inconsistent with the graphic image and problems with the stent-graft placement. Each collected measurement is validated and the physician is warned if the measurement suggests a problem. The stent-graft system automatically generates the most suitable stent graft for an individual patient. After reviewing the selected stent graft in the 2D model, the stent graft can be ordered online." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2003 (10/418,391). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,937,660.PN.&OS=PN/7,937,660&RS=PN/7,937,660 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,937,681) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and mechanism for implementing automated PCB routing." The co-inventors are Ken Wadland, Grafton, Mass., Richard Allen Woodward Jr., San Diego, Randall Lawson, Westford, Mass., Walter Katz, Boulder, Colo, and Wiley Gillmor, Boulder, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system that converges on a global solution to a PCB routing problem using iterations of topology-based routing is described. In some embodiments, the geometric design space is abstracted into a topological graph representing the routing problem. Then, each net is allowed to find its optimal solution path independent of the solution paths for all other nets. The electrical and physical constraints of the system are initially ignored or greatly relaxed. Over each design iteration, the constraints are tightened until a complete, global, topological solution is found. Once a topological solution is found, it is converted into a geometric solution. In the event that no geometric solution exists for that topological solution, then the iteration process is resumed taking into consideration this additional information. The result is the ability to quickly autoroute highly-constrained PCB designs with minimal operator input." The patent application was filed on April 25, 2005 (11/115,042). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,937,681.PN.&OS=PN/7,937,681&RS=PN/7,937,681 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PartyLite Worldwide Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- PartyLite Worldwide, Plymouth, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D637,275) developed by David John Baraky, Duxbury, Mass., for an ornamental design for a scented oil warmer. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a scented oil warmer, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2010 (D/362,006). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,275.PN.&OS=PN/D637,275&RS=PN/D637,275 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** MERSEN France Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- MERSEN France, Saint Bonnet de Mure, France, has been assigned a patent (RE42,319) developed by Kenneth R. Martenson, Newbury, Mass., and Jerry L. Mosesian, Newburyport, Mass., for a circuit protection device. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A voltage suppression device for suppressing voltage surges in an electrical circuit, comprised of a voltage sensitive element having a predetermined voltage rating, the voltage sensitive element increasing in temperature as voltage applied across the voltage sensitive element exceeds the voltage rating. Terminals are provided for electrically connecting the voltage sensitive element between a power line of an electrical circuit and a ground or neutral line of the electrical circuit. A normally closed, thermal switch is electrically connected in series with the voltage sensitive element between the power line and the voltage sensitive element, the thermal switch being thermally coupled to the voltage sensitive element wherein the thermal switch moves from a normally closed position to an open position to form a gap between the thermal switch and the voltage sensitive element when the temperature of the voltage sensitive element reaches a level indicating an over-voltage condition. A non-conductive barrier that is operable to move into the gap when the thermal switch moves to an open position, the barrier preventing line voltage surges from arcing between the thermal switch and the voltage sensitive element." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2006 (11/601,617). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RE42,319.PN.&OS=PN/RE42,319&RS=PN/RE42,319 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Guardair Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Guardair, Chicopee, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D637,268) developed by Mark W. Yorns, Longmeadow, Mass., for an ornamental design for a "handpiece for a compressed air gun." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a handpiece for a compressed air gun, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2010 (D/366,634). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,268.PN.&OS=PN/D637,268&RS=PN/D637,268 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Gardner Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Stewart C. Gardner, Mansfield, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D637,359) developed by Stewart C. Gardner, for an ornamental design for a "bottle cap assembly for a bird feeder." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a bottle cap assembly for a bird feeder, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2009 (D/348,010). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,359.PN.&OS=PN/D637,359&RS=PN/D637,359 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Invention Science Fund Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Invention Science Fund, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,937,745) developed by five co-inventors for a "voice-capable system and method for user-directed network interaction monitoring for authentication and confidentiality designation." The co-inventors are Edward K.Y. Jung, Bellevue, Wash., Royce A. Levien, Lexington, Mass., Robert W. Lord, Seattle, Mark A. Malamud, Seattle, and John D. Rinaldo Jr., Bellevue, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for use with a voice-capable system, includes but is not limited to a method including receiving a request from a user computationally networked to the voice-capable system, the request to designate a network interaction as a monitored network interaction using the security interface, and receiving one or more user-defined designations during the monitored network interaction, the one or more user-defined designations to designate one or more data as requiring the voice-capable system to perform one or more operations with respect to the one or more data." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2005 (11/263,575). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7937745.PN.&OS=PN/7937745&RS=PN/7937745 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Acushnet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Acushnet, Fairhaven, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D637,354) developed by Jonathan G. Bacon, Westford, Mass., for an ornamental design for a golf glove. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "golf glove." The patent application was filed on April 19, 2010 (D/359,966). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,354.PN.&OS=PN/D637,354&RS=PN/D637,354 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Low Profile Sight Base for a Flip up Sight ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Richard E. Swan, E. Bridgewater, Mass., has been issued a patent (D637,261) for an ornamental design for a "low profile sight base for a flip up sight." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2010 (D/362,363). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,261&OS=D637,261&RS=D637,261 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Low Profile Flip up Sight ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Richard E. Swan, E. Bridgewater, Mass., has been issued a patent (D637,259) for an ornamental design for a "low profile flip up sight." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2010 (D/353,273). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,259&OS=D637,259&RS=D637,259 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Accessory Mount ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Richard E. Swan, E. Bridgewater, Mass., has been issued a patent (D637,260) for an ornamental design for an accessory mount. The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2010 (D/353,895). 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=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D637,260&OS=D637,260&RS=D637,260 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1046557 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |