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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Maryland (June 9)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Maryland. *** GridPoint Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 8 -- GridPoint, Arlington, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,957,846) developed by David B. Hakim, Rockville, Md., Douglas Ricardo Danley, Germantown, Md., and Michael Caplan, London, for an "energy arbitrage by load shifting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for realizing energy cost savings through load shifting utilizing a battery bank that may serve as a battery back-up on a premises for providing power in the event of a grid power outage or curtailment. A budget of unreserved cycles of battery charging and discharging is determined, taking into account the rated battery life in terms of both time (e.g., years) and number of cycles. That cycle budget is allocated to days of the year identified as days on which the greatest savings can be realized through load shifting. These days are identified by taking into account the peak and off-peak usage rates applicable on those days, any rate tiers that may be entered as a result of the additional energy expended to load shift, and the round trip efficiency of the charge/discharge cycles. Load shifting is executed in accordance with an established schedule of the identified days, by discharging the batteries during peak usage hours and charging the batteries during off-peak periods. In the event the budget of unreserved cycles exceeds the number of profitable days for load shifting, the depth of discharge on each cycle may be increased to realize greater savings on the scheduled days, at the tolerable cost of losing cycles not expected to be used in any event." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2009 (12/534,236). 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=79,57,846&OS=79,57,846&RS=79,57,846 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** U.S. Navy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 - The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (7,957,902) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for determining cloud-to-ground lightning information." The co-inventors are Christopher R. Karabin, White Plains, Md., Robert M. Daily, Swann Point, Md., Shad M. Reese, Indian Head, Md., Lothar H. Ruhnke, Bluffton, S.C., and Vladislav Mazur, Norman, Okla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A real-time, multi-sensor local-area lightning detection network system. The system uses waveform indicative of electrostatic field changes with respect to time is generated at each of N locations due to a cloud-to-ground lightning strike occurring in the vicinity of the N locations. Each waveform is integrated to generate a corresponding electric field associated with a corresponding one of the locations. A mathematical relationship is used to determine a ground surface location of the lightning strike, height of the lightning strike, and charge per unit length of the lightning strike using each electric field generated during integration of the waveforms." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2008 (12/221,148). 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=7,957,902&OS=7,957,902&RS=7,957,902 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MITRE Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- MITRE, McLean, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,957,853) developed by five co-inventors for a "flight restriction zone detection and avoidance." The co-inventors are Todd Michael Stock, Germantown, Md., James Daniel Nickum, Bristow, Va., Doyle Travis Peed, Roxboro, N.C., Frank J. Ruscil Jr., West Long Branch, N.J., and Jonathan L. Schwartz, Oak Hill, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product to detect and indicating TFR zone violations, potential TFR zone violations or TFR zones in vicinity of an aircraft and indicating measures to avoid or exit a TFR zone are provided. TFR zone information and an aircraft's position information are received. The aircraft's position information is processed to determine the aircraft's current heading. A TFR zone violation is determined based on the aircraft's current position. A potential TFR violation is determined based on whether the aircraft's current heading intersects a TFR zone. The presence of a TFR zone in the vicinity of the aircraft is determined based on the aircraft's current position and heading. Indicators of a TFR violation, potential TFR violation, no TFR violation or TFR zones in the vicinity are provided. If a TFR violation, or possible TFR violation or TFR zone in the vicinity are found, measures are indicated to exit the TFR zone or change the aircraft's current heading to avoid the TFR zone." The patent application was filed on June 13, 2006 (11/451,415). 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=7,957,853.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,853&RS=PN/7,957,853 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Heavy Hammer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Heavy Hammer, Annapolis, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,958,007) developed by Michael William Urbanski, Annapolis, Md., and Charles David Dent, Annapolis, Md., for a "method, system, and software for geographically focused network advertising." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2010 (12/901,013). 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=7,958,007.PN.&OS=PN/7,958,007&RS=PN/7,958,007 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Catalina Marketing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Catalina Marketing, St. Petersburg, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,958,224) developed by Kamran Amjadi, Bethesda, Md., for an "incentive network for distributing incentives on a network-wide basis and for permitting user access to individual incentives from a plurality of network servers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An incentive network equipped with methods for distributing incentives on a network-wide basis and for permitting user access to individual incentives from any network server. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method performed by a server for accessing incentives in an network, comprises steps of receiving an access request from a device associated with a user and connected to the network, transmitting identifying information corresponding to the access request to a host, receiving incentive information from the host reflecting available incentives corresponding to the identifying information, and transmitting a network document, including the incentive information, to the device associated with the user in response to the access request. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for accessing incentives in an network, comprises transmitting an access request to access a server in the network, receiving a subscriber request for a subscriber ID associated with the access request, transmitting the subscriber ID to the server, and receiving in response to the access request incentive information reflecting available incentives corresponding to the subscriber ID, wherein the server provides the subscriber ID to a host that selects and transmits the incentive information to the server." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 1999 (09/251,480). 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=7,958,224&OS=7,958,224&RS=7,958,224 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dynamic Health Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Dynamic Health Innovations, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,957,985) developed by Mariam Kashani, Bethesda, Md., and Marina Vernalis, Silver Spring, Md., for a "personalized information discovery and presentation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A personalized health information discovery and presentation system is presented. The system has an input device, a subject-profile module, an information database, an alignment module, a solutions module, an integration engine, a plan module, a graphical user interface, and a processor. The input device allows a user to enter a personalized subject-profile, the subject-profile module receives the subject-profile and converts it into a recognized health profile. The health information database comprises a library of health information, and the alignment module aligns the recognized health profile with relevant health information. The solution's module parses the relevant information into information subsets, and the integration engine integrates the information; identifies conflicting health information, contraindications, or health warnings; creates notifications; and compiles data for presentation to the user. The plan module converts the integrated health information into a personalized health maintenance plan for display in a form selected by the user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 2, 2008 (12/203,086). 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=7,957,985.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,985&RS=PN/7,957,985 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honda Motor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Honda Motor, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (7,957,968) developed by Rakesh Gupta, Mountain View, Calif., and Ken Hennacy, Columbia, Md., for an "automatic grammar generation using distributedly collected knowledge." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention includes a computer based system or method for automatically generating a grammar associated with a first task comprising the steps of: receiving first data representing the first task based from responses received from a distributed network; automatically tagging the first data into parts of speech to form first tagged data; identifying filler words and core words from said first tagged data; modeling sentence structure based upon said first tagged data using a first set of rules; identifying synonyms of said core words; and creating the grammar for the first task using said modeled sentence structure, first tagged data and said synonyms." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2006 (11/609,683). 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=7,957,968.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,968&RS=PN/7,957,968 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Maryland Inventor Develops Patent for Method and Apparatus for Enhancing Electronic Reading by Identifying Relationships Between Sections of Electronic Text ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Philip R. Krause, Potomac, Md., has developed a patent (7,958,138) for a "method and apparatus for enhancing electronic reading by identifying relationships between sections of electronic text." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention detects the presence of references to the same concept in separate sections of text, and, with no input required from the reader, presents the reader with information concerning the detected references to the concept. The information provided may comprise information related to the location of the reference to the concept in other sections of text, and the reader also is provided the ability to move from one reference to a concept directly to another reference to the same concept." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2009 (12/422,981). 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=7,958,138&OS=7,958,138&RS=7,958,138 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors Develop Patent for Method for Providing Customized and Automated Security Assistance ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- James Luke Turner, Malvern, Pa., and Robert Edward Turner, Huntingtown, Md., have developed a patent (7,958,147) for a "method for providing customized and automated security assistance, a document marking regime, and central tracking and control for sensitive or classified documents in electronic format." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A software engine runs in a compatible mode with off-the-shelf word processors, e-mail programs and presentation development software and other document development software. The software engine is used for the security classification of sensitive or national security classified information in electronic and resultant hard copy document formats. The software engine ensures that the individual considers all informational portions of a document, that appropriate document marks are employed, that document marks in their electronic format are persistent and that all necessary information, such as classification guides, standards and security regulations, provided by the organization to classify information is at hand and immediately available. In addition to the document sensitivity or classification determination and marking support, the software engine tracks and controls documents and the electronic media storing documents. It also provides warnings and alarms, ad hoc document security analysis and reporting capability to system security administrators with respect to document or network events or captured information that may be indicative of risk to the information requiring protection. The software also provides the ability for an organization to centrally establish and control a security classification or sensitivity marking hierarchy for automated security classification support." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2006 (11/520,857). 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=7,958,147&OS=7,958,147&RS=7,958,147 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Tecore Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Tecore, Columbia, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,957,734) developed by Jay J. Salkini, Clarksville, Md., and Thomas V. Joseph III, Lothian, Md., for a "push/pull information system for airborne networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless communications system, and a corresponding method, for use with an aircraft, includes airborne base station equipment mounted on the aircraft, the base station equipment capable of communication with wireless devices used by subscribers on the aircraft and with one or more wireless communications networks, and switching/transaction processing equipment capable of communication with the base station equipment. The system further includes aircraft location equipment capable of communication with the base station equipment, where the aircraft's geographic location, including latitude, longitude, and altitude, is determined; and a push-pull wireless information system that receives the aircraft's geographic location information. The push-pull wireless information system includes an information service notification mechanism that provides notifications to one or more service providers, the service providers providing goods and services of possible interest to the subscribers, and an information delivery mechanism that provides information related to the goods and services to one or more of the subscribers." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2008 (12/292,934). 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=7,957,734.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,734&RS=PN/7,957,734 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Metrico Wireless Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Metrico Wireless, Frederick, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,957,731) developed by Dimitrios M. Topaltzas, Ellicott City, Md., for a "system and method for determining mobile telephone voice quality in a live network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for determining the quality of communications provided by a plurality of mobile telephones is provided. The method may comprise, for example, receiving one or more telephone voice signals from each mobile telephone; storing the one or more telephone voice signals in a memory; concurrently with aid receiving telephone voice signals from a mobile telephone, receiving one or more reference device voice signals from a reference device substantially co-located with the mobile telephone; storing the one or more reference device voice signals in a memory; determining voice quality data for the telephone voice signals; determining voice quality data for the reference device voice signals concurrently received with the telephone voice signals; and normalizing the voice quality data of the telephone voice signals from each mobile telephone based on the voice quality data of the reference device voice signals concurrently received with the telephone voice signals." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2008 (12/037,310). 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=7,957,731.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,731&RS=PN/7,957,731 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Optimizing a Storage System to Support Short Data Lifetimes ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,958,093) developed by nine co-inventors for an "optimizing a storage system to support short data lifetimes." The co-inventors are Kay Schwendimann Anderson, Washington, Frederick Douglis, Basking Ridge, N.J., Nagui Halim, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., John Davis Palmer, San Jose, Calif., Elizabeth Suzanne Richards, Columbia, Md., David Tao, Glen Burnie, Md., William Harold Tetzlaff, Emeryville, Calif., John Michael Tracey, Scarsdale, N.Y., and Joel Leonard Wolf, Katonah, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for optimizing a storage system to support short data object lifetimes and highly utilized storage space are provided. With the system and method, data objects are clustered based on when they are anticipated to be deleted. When an application stores data, the application provides an indicator of the expected lifetime of the data, which may be a retention value, a relative priority of the data object, or the like. Data objects having similar expected lifetimes are clustered together in common data structures so that clusters of objects may be deleted efficiently in a single operation. Expected lifetimes may be changed by applications automatically. The system automatically determines how to handle these changes in expected lifetime using one or more of copying the data object, reclassifying the container in which the data object is held, and ignoring the change in expected lifetime for a time to investigate further changes in expected lifetime of other data objects." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2004 (10/944,597). 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=7958093.PN.&OS=PN/7958093&RS=PN/7958093 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Maryland Inventor Develops Patent for Method and Apparatus for Procuring Goods in an Automated manner ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Wells Obrecht, Baltimore, has developed a patent (7,958,018) for a "method and apparatus for procuring goods in an automated manner." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automatic system and method optimizes the purchasing of goods and services by a buyer. A request for a quote for goods or services required is received from a buyer. This request is processed and dealers are selected based on the criteria of the buyer and other criteria. The selected dealers are then sent the request for goods and services and quotes are solicited. Quotes from the selected dealers, for the goods or services, are then receivable within a predetermined time period. Thereafter, the received quotes of the providers of the goods or services are ranked. The ranking and the report of the providers are then outpribed in steps S.sub.2 and S.sub.3 of FIG. 2." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2009 (12/619,414). 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=7958018.PN.&OS=PN/7958018&RS=PN/7958018 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Boston Scientific Neuromedulation, Surgivision Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- Boston Scientific Neuromedulation, Valencia, Calif., and Surgivision, Memphis, Tenn., have been assigned a patent (7,957,783) developed by Ergin Atalar, Columbia, Md., and Onur Ferhanoglu, Istanbul, Turkey, for an "electrical lead for an electronic device such as an implantable device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A lead for an electronic device which resists the induction of a current from an electromagnetic field external to said lead includes one or more pairs of adjacent segments of electrical wire, each of the pairs including a first segment of electrical wire and a second segment of electrical wire. The lead also includes one or more shielded RF chokes, wherein each of the shielded RF chokes is provided between the first segment of electrical wire and the second segment of electrical wire of a respective one of the one or more pairs of adjacent segments. Also, an implantable device that includes a generator for generating one or more electrical pulse and a lead as described for delivering the pulses to tissue within a patient's body. A method for making the described implantable device is also provided." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2009 (12/478,145). 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=7,957,783.PN.&OS=PN/7,957,783&RS=PN/7,957,783 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CoreLogic Information Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- CoreLogic Information Solutions, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,958,048) developed by Mark Beardsell, Wildwood, Mo., Harlow Burgess, San Francisco, and Paul Calem, Gaithersburg, Md., for a "method and apparatus for predicting outcomes of a home equity line of credit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are described where account information is used to predict possible outcomes of a HELOC. To predict the possible outcomes, HELOC account state transition probabilities are modeled. The transition probabilities, determined by historic data regression analysis, provide the framework for a Monte Carlo simulation. The simulation is seeded with HELOC account information. A calculation engine takes the account information and simulates an elapse of time using a random number generator and the state transition probabilities. The simulation results in updated account information predicting a possible outcome over the elapsed time interval. The updated account information in turn may be used by the calculation engine to simulate the next elapse of time. This method may be iteratively repeated with the account information propagated forward until the end of the prediction period is reached." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2007 (11/772,545). 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=7958048.PN.&OS=PN/7958048&RS=PN/7958048 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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. -1050494 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |