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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (June 15)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Anderson Power Products Assigned Patent for Male Component for Environmentally Sealed, Compact, High Current, Three-conductor Connector Housing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Anderson Power Products, Sterling, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D639,743) developed by Nathan T. Smith, Worcester, Mass., and Brian F. Davies, Acton, Mass., for an ornamental design for a "male component for environmentally sealed, compact, high current, three-conductor connector housing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a male component for environmentally sealed, compact, high current, three-conductor connector housing system, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2010 (D/369,980). 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=D639,743.PN.&OS=PN/D639,743&RS=PN/D639,743 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Anderson Power Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Anderson Power Products, Sterling, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D639,744) developed by Nathan T. Smith, Worcester, Mass., and Brian F. Davies, Acton, Mass., for an ornamental design for a "female component for environmentally sealed, compact, high current, three-conductor connector housing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a female component for environmentally sealed, compact, high current, three-conductor connector housing system, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2010 (D/369,981). 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=D639,744.PN.&OS=PN/D639,744&RS=PN/D639,744 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hyde Manufacturing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Hyde Manufacturing, Southbridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D639,580) developed by Richard M. Clemence, Southbridge, Mass., and Patrick Cruz, Ludlow, Mass., for an ornamental design for a tool merchandiser. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a tool merchandiser, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2009 (D/314,182). 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=D639,580&OS=D639,580&RS=D639,580 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors Develop Patent for Child's Sofa ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- John LaRoche, Gardner, Mass., and Peter Jerome, Tiverton, R.I., have been issued a patent (D639, 569) for an ornamental design for a child's sofa. The patent application was filed on June 9, 2010 (D/363,423). 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=D639,569&OS=D639,569&RS=D639,569 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Cooking Tray ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Zach Odeh, Cambridge, Mass., has been issued a patent (D639,600) for an ornamental design for a cooking tray. The patent application was filed on July 6, 2010 (D/365,185). 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=D639,600.PN.&OS=PN/D639,600&RS=PN/D639,600 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Preventing Write Corruption in a Raid Array ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,783) developed by Chris Franklin, Merrimack, N.H., and Jeffery T. Wong, Newton, Mass., for "preventing write corruption in a raid array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and related computer program product of preventing write corruption in a redundant array in a computer system, comprising detecting a write failure from a calling application to at least one disk of the redundant array, writing failure information to non-volatile storage; returning an I/O error to the calling application; reading the failure information from the non-volatile storage during the next system reboot; and reconfiguring the array to eliminate the failed disk." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2009 (12/607,312). 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=79,62,783.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,783&RS=PN/79,62,783 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (7,962,775) developed by Priya Vaidyu, Shrewsbury, Mass., and Moinul Khan, Austin, Texas, for "methods and apparatus for power mode control for PDA with separate communications and applications processors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mobile electronic communication device power management method and apparatus are disclosed for use in multiple processor hardware schemes having asymmetrical power demands between processors. Upon reaching an long duration idle state, a high-level processor with high power consumption requirements handling low-level system tasks updates a data set shared between processor subsystems containing information necessary to perform such low-level tasks. A proxy software module is initiated on a base-band processor with lower power consumption requirements. The proxy module accesses the shared data set and begins to control low-level system tasks, allowing the high-level processor to enter a dormant low power state. Upon the occurrence of a wake-up event, the high-level processor enters an active state. The shared data set is updated by the proxy software module and the proxy module is terminated. The high-level processor accesses the shared data set and resumes control of low-level system tasks." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2007 (11/956,088). 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=79,62,775.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,775&RS=PN/79,62,775 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,962,765) developed by David H. Malcolm, Somerville, Mass., for "methods and systems for tamper resistant files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a tamper proof file system. In particular, the present invention utilizes a virtual block device that is coupled with a real block device and a private/public key pair. The virtual block device receives the original data and then digitally signs it with the private key. The virtual block device then passes the digitally signed data to the real block device for storage. In order to retrieve or verify the data, the virtual block device may provide the public key and an acknowledgment. The acknowledgment may include a hash of the public key. The virtual block device is configured to discard the private key and to be removed from the system based on a finite lifespan." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2007 (11/763,413). 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=79,62,765.PN.&OS=PN/79,62,765&RS=PN/79,62,765 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UFP Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- UFP Technologies, Georgetown, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D639,546) developed by Ronald MacNeill, Kingston, N.H., and Tuna Sava, Newburyport, Mass., for an ornamental design for a container. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "I claim the ornamental design for a container, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2010 (D/363,717). 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=D639,546.PN.&OS=PN/D639,546&RS=PN/D639,546 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for System and Method for Controlling Inter-application Association Through Contextual Policy Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,918) developed by Stuart Schaefer, Marblehead, Mass., and John Sheehan, Somerville, Mass., for a "system and method for controlling inter-application association through contextual policy control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for controlling the interoperation of a plurality of software applications and resources includes intercepting communications from a first application to a second application or resource, directing the communication to a context management system, generating a candidate list of contexts for the communication, evaluating the candidate list according to at least one policy defined for these contexts to identify the resultant action and namespace for the communication, and performing the action as defined by the policies within the identified namespace. The method further includes tracking one or more versions of the second application, as well as tracking an evolution of application and/or resource names. The method further includes identifying one or more operations associated with a context on the candidate list, and executing the identified operations prior to a further communication." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2005 (11/191,595). 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=7,962,918.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,918&RS=PN/7,962,918 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xerox Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Xerox, Norwalk, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,804) developed by John C. Handley, Fairport, N.Y., and Sankar Virdhagriswaran, Boxborough, Mass., for a "method and system for analyzing time series data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine variable for a first printer. Second time series data, including a plurality of second time entries and an associated second data value for each second time entry, may be received for the machine variable for each of a plurality of second printers. For each second printer, a similarity measurement may be determined for the first time series data for the first printer and the second time series data for the second printer. One or more closest matching second printers may be determined based on the similarity measurements. An association may be displayed between the first printer and each closest matching second printer." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2010 (12/776,993). 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=7,962,804.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,804&RS=PN/7,962,804 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comcast IP Holdings I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Comcast IP Holdings I, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (7,962,929) developed by Anthony Scott Oddo, Hyde Park, Mass., and Devin F. Hosea, Princeton, N.J., for an "using relevance to parse clickstreams and make recommendations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are systems and methods for generating viewing recommendations in a television viewing personalization system, including parsing, in accordance with a set of stored processing rules, a stream of command signals generated by a remote control unit in response to control sequences entered into the control unit by a viewer, to generate information representative of the viewer's viewing behavior; and determining, from the generated information, at least one viewing recommendation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2003 (10/677,862). 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=7,962,929.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,929&RS=PN/7,962,929 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,962,901) developed by Stephen McCamant, Boston, and Trishul Chilimbi, Seattle, for an "using dynamic analysis to improve model checking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Model checking has been used to verify program behavior. However, exploration of the model is often impractical for many general purpose programs due to the complexity of an exploding state space. Instead, a program is instrumented with code that records pointer dereference information. The instrumented program is executed thereby recording pointer dereference frequency information. Then, a model of the program is explored using the pointer dereference frequency information to direct state space exploration of the model." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2006 (11/406,207). 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=7,962,901.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,901&RS=PN/7,962,901 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,962,905) developed by Rajendra Inamdar, N. Chelmsford, Mass., for a "flexible and extensible java bytecode instrumentation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Code can be injected into a compiled application through the use of probes comprised of instrumentation code. Probes can be implemented in a custom high level language that hides low level instruction details. A directive file contains instructions on injecting a probe into a compiled application. An instrumentation engine reads these instructions and injects the probe into the compiled application at the appropriate injection points. Multiple probes can be used, and can be stored in a probe library. Each probe can inject code into the application at, for example, a package, class, method, or line of the compiled application. Calls can also be made to external runtime libraries." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2007 (11/854,640). 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=7,962,905.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,905&RS=PN/7,962,905 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cognex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Cognex, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,962,898) developed by John Petry, Newton, Mass., Cyril C. Marrion Jr., Acton, Mass., and Andrew Eames, Ashland, Mass., for an "optimized distribution of machine vision processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method is provided for remotely analyzing machine vision data. An indication of a choice of vision software is sent from a first computer to a remote second computer. The second computer, using the selected vision software, processes image data to provide a result that is transmitted from the second computer to a designated location." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2001 (09/842,948). 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=7,962,898.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,898&RS=PN/7,962,898 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,962,914) developed by Frank S. Caccavale, Hopedale, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for load balancing of distributed processing units based on performance metrics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Performance parameters are obtained for distributed processing units. The performance parameters include a utilization value, of each distributed processing unit. Respective weights are obtained for the distributed processing units by applying a mapping function to the utilization values. The respective weights are used for weighted round-robin load balancing of work requests upon the distributed processing units. In one implementation, a set of utilization values of the processing units are collected in response to a periodic heartbeat signal, a set of weights are produced from the set of utilization values, a distribution list is produced from the set of weights, and the distribution list is randomized repetitively for re-use during the heartbeat interval." The patent application was filed on Nov. 25, 2003 (10/722,146). 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=7,962,914.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,914&RS=PN/7,962,914 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Philips Electronics Assigned Patent for Luminaire ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Philips Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (No. D639,993) developed by Alejandro Mier-Langner, Providence, R.I., and Michael Tinstman, Malden, Mass., for an ornamental design for a luminaire. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a luminaire, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2010 (D/375,530). 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=D639,992&OS=D639,992&RS=D639,992 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nfinity IP Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Nfinity IP, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (No. D640,014) developed by Steve Opie, Arlington, Mass., for an ornamental design for a padded arm guard. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a padded arm guard, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2010 (D/379,708). 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=D640,014&OS=D640,014&RS=D640,014 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Erblan Surgical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Erblan Surgical, Belmont, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D639,938) developed by Ernesto E. Blanco, Belmont, Mass., for an ornamental design for a "double-cone sphincter introducer assembly and integrated valve assembly." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a double-cone sphincter introducer assembly and integrated valve assembly, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2007 (D/279,150). 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=D639,938&OS=D639,938&RS=D639,938 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Bose Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Bose, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D639,760) developed by Julie E. Tierney, Shrewsbury, Mass., Richard J. Carbone, Sterling, Mass., and John Arthur Lee Jr., Framingham, Mass., for an ornamental design for a video display portion. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a video display portion, substantially as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2010 (D/364,727). 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=D639,760.PN.&OS=PN/D639,760&RS=PN/D639,760 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Beaver-Visitec International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Beaver-Visitec International, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (No. D639,942) developed by Frederick M. Terry, Plymouth, Mass., and Dana Cote, Boxford, Mass., for an ornamental design for a "speculum with transversely oriented position retaining arrangement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a speculum with transversely oriented position retaining arrangement, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2009 (D/345,956). 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=D639,942&OS=D639,942&RS=D639,942 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Firearm Sling Mount ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Stephen P. Troy Jr., Lee, Mass., has been issued a patent (D639,890) for an ornamental design for a firearm sling mount. The patent application was filed on March 3, 2010 (D/356,817). 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=D639,890&OS=D639,890&RS=D639,890 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Pistol Grip ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 15 -- Stephen P. Troy Jr., Lee, Mass., has been issued a patent (D639,889) for an ornamental design for a pistol grip. The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2010 (D/354,006). 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=D639,889&OS=D639,889&RS=D639,889 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. -1051181 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |