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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (June 10)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Voice Enhancing for Advance Intelligent Network Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,957,509) developed by six co-inventors for a "voice enhancing for advance intelligent network services." The co-inventors are Susanne Marie Crockett, Buffalo Grove, Ill., Dianna Inara Tiliks, Elk Grove, Ill., Gordon Lynn Blumenschein, Woodridge, Ill., James Daniel Kovarik, Batavia, Ill., Scott Ryan Watry, Greenfield, Wis., and Kenneth Robert Stroud, Lago Vista, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for updating communications service parameters includes receiving, at a platform configured for speech recognition functionality and corresponding to a communications address associated with verbally updating communications service parameters, a voice instruction from a requester to update a communications service parameter. The voice instruction is translated into digital command data and the digital command data and the update to the communications service parameter are stored in a database. A change in a communications service corresponding to the update to the communications service parameter is implemented in near real-time." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2007 (11/875,295). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,957,509&OS=7,957,509&RS=7,957,509 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Northrop Grumman Space & Missions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Northrop Grumman Space & Missions, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (7,957,439) developed by Edward F. Stephens, Golden Eagle, Ill., and Steven M. Coleman, Bedford, N.H., for a "microchannel cooler for high efficiency laser diode heat extraction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A laser diode package includes a laser diode, a cooler, and a metallization layer. The laser diode is used for converting electrical energy to optical energy. The cooler receives and routes a coolant from a cooling source via internal channels. The cooler includes a plurality of ceramic sheets and a highly thermally-conductive sheet. The ceramic sheets are fused together and the thermally-conductive sheet is attached to a top ceramic sheet of the plurality of ceramic sheets. The metallization layer has at least a portion on the thermally-conductive sheet. The portion is electrically coupled to the laser diode for conducting the electrical energy to the laser diode." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2009 (12/628,842). 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=7,957,439&OS=7,957,439&RS=7,957,439 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Tropos Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Tropos Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,957,337) developed by five co-inventors for "air-time control of wireless networks." The co-inventors are Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, Calif., Frederick Dean, Wilmette, Ill., Ramanagopal Vogety, Milpitas, Calif., Huizhao Wang, San Jose, Calif., and Mukesh Gupta, Milpitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for controlling transmission air-time available to a wireless node within a wireless network is disclosed. The method includes occupied by transmission packets. The method includes the wireless node monitoring air-time available to the wireless node for wireless transmission. The wireless node controls wireless transmission of neighboring wireless devices if the air-time available is detected to be lower than a threshold." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/731,408). 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=7,957,337&OS=7,957,337&RS=7,957,337 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,956,762) developed by Bradley Bailey, Peoria, Ill., Matthew Hendrickson, Peoria, Ill., and Frederick Beach, East Peoria, Ill., for a "method and apparatus for power generation failure diagnostics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A controller (500) in an electric drive system is used to develop power generation failure diagnostics. During operation, the controller (500) receives a set of generator inputs, a set of machine parameters, and a set of diagnostic values. Next, the controller (500) determines a set of expected operating values corresponding to the set of diagnostic values. The controller (500) then compares the obtained diagnostic values to one or more corresponding expected operating values. If the difference is greater than a threshold, the controller (500) provides an appropriate fault indication." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2008 (12/210,898). 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=7956762.PN.&OS=PN/7956762&RS=PN/7956762 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motedata Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- Motedata, Santa Barbara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,956,742) developed by Peter Lupoli, Summerland, Calif., Jay P. Kesan, Champaign, Ill., and Peter Cappello, Goleta, Calif., for a "method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated in some manner to any type of object. More particularly, the present invention writes data to these tags, reads data from these tags, and manages data that is written to and/or read from these tags. In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2007 (11/657,895). 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=7956742.PN.&OS=PN/7956742&RS=PN/7956742 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. 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