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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Connecticut (June 16)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,234) developed by Yunsheng Song, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Xu Ouyang, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., and James P. Rice, Danbury, Conn., for a "multidimensional process window optimization in semiconductor manufacturing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for optimizing multiple process windows in a semiconductor manufacturing process is disclosed. The method comprises performing dependent variable composition on a plurality of dependent variables. Metrology data is joined with the dependent variables, and then a partial least squares regression is performed on the joined data set to obtain a prediction equation, and a variable importance prediction for each process window in a process window set. A set of product limited yield are derived, and the process window, set is adjusted, and the yields recalculated, until an optimal process window set is derived." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2008 (12/135,522). 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=7,962,234.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,234&RS=PN/7,962,234 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UBS Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- UBS, Zurich, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (7,962,393) developed by Frederic Greenbaum, Stamford, Conn., Michael Cortese, London, and Waikit Ng, Stamford, Conn., for a global compliance system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for implementing a compliance program in a financial institution is provided and includes a list database for storing material information regarding a plurality of entities that is known to said financial institution. Also included is a list manager that receives a compliance query from an affiliate of the financial institution having a status. The list manager provides a compliance response to the affiliate based on the plurality of entities and according to the status of the affiliate." The patent application was filed on Oct. 20, 2009 (12/582,195). 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=7,962,393.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,393&RS=PN/7,962,393 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NASDAQ OMX Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- NASDAQ OMX, Rockville, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,962,399) developed by Peter Martyn, Ridgewood, N.J., and Daniel F. Moore, New Haven, Conn., for a "refreshing displayed quotes for automated market system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for managing display of quotes for securities in an electronic market includes entering a quote into a system for trading securities, a portion of the entered quote being displayable and another portion of the entered quote being held as reserved quote interest, executing a portion of the displayable quote portion against interest in the market, aggregating an unexecuted displayable quote portion, with a portion of the reserved quote, if the unexecuted displayable quote portion is less than a round lot, and displaying the aggregate." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2002 (10/302,769). 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=7,962,399.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,399&RS=PN/7,962,399 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,351) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for determining cost of insurance rates." The co-inventors are Dawn M. LeBlanc, Farmington, Conn., David P. Wiland, South Windsor, Conn., Shawn M. Denman, Torrington, Conn., and Michael J. Roscoe, South Windsor, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to some embodiments, a current net amount at risk associated with a life insurance policy is determined. The life insurance policy may, for example, have been previously issued to a consumer for a given face death benefit amount. At least one applicable cost of insurance rate may then be automatically selected based at least in part on the determined net amount at risk. The applicable cost of insurance rate can then be applied to the current net amount at risk for the policy. For example, a first cost of insurance rate may be applied to a first portion of the current net amount at risk, and the applicable cost of insurance rate may be applied to a second portion of the current net amount at risk." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/142,295). 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=7,962,351.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,351&RS=PN/7,962,351 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Using Detailed Process Information at a Point of Sale ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,365) developed by seven co-inventors for a "using detailed process information at a point of sale." The co-inventors are Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, N.Y., Quanfu Fan, Somerville, Mass., Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, Conn., Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, Conn., Akira Yanagawa, New York, and Yun Zhai, White Plains, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/262,458). 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=7,962,365.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,365&RS=PN/7,962,365 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Prudential Insurance Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Prudential Insurance, Newark, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,962,384) developed by nine co-inventors for a "system, method, and computer program product for allocating assets among a plurality of investments to guarantee a predetermined value at the end of a predetermined time period." The co-inventors are Robert Arena, Farmington, Conn., Robert O'Donnell, Harwinton, Conn., Robert Schwartz, West Granby, Conn., N. David Kuperstock, Woodbridge, Conn., Tim Paris, Guilford, Conn., Robert Leach, Weston, Conn., Jacob Herschler, Southport, Conn., Mike Morell, Shelton, Conn., and Fiona Jackman-Ward, Stratford, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product for allocating assets among a plurality of investments to guarantee a predetermined value at the end of a predetermined time period. A computer program controls the allocation of assets in the investment vehicle, which allows the investor to initially invest one hundred percent of the initial deposit in non-secure, high risk investments. At the end of the each trading day, the computer program determines if assets should be reallocated from the non-secure investments to the secure investments, from the secure investments to the non-secure investments, or if no reallocation is necessary." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2002 (10/122,942). 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=7,962,384.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,384&RS=PN/7,962,384 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nike Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Nike, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,962,312) developed by Jesse Darley, Madison, Wis., and Thomas P. Blackadar, Norwalk, Conn., for a "monitoring activity of a user in locomotion on foot." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete respective distance intervals. During the outing, data representing the automatically measured amounts of time may be automatically stored in memory of the least one device. Another method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically identify occasions on which a user completes respective distance intervals." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/571,392). 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=7,962,312.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,312&RS=PN/7,962,312 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Arbitron Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Arbitron, Columbia, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,962,315) developed by seven co-inventors for a "gathering data concerning publication usage." The co-inventors are James M. Jensen, Columbia, Md., Jack C. Crystal, Owings Mill, Md., Alan R. Neuhauser, Silver Spring, Md., Jack K. Zhang, Ijamsville, Md., Daniel W. Pugh, Catonsville, Md., Douglas J. Visnius, Orlando, Fla., and Eugene L. Flanagan III, Wilton, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits." The patent application was filed on March 18, 2005 (11/084,481). 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=7,962,315.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,315&RS=PN/7,962,315 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System for Creating and Modifying Lists for Electronic Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,506) developed by five co-inventors for a "system for creating and modifying lists for electronic distribution." The co-inventors are Rick Allen Hamilton, Charlottesville, Va., Jenny S. Li, Danbury, Conn., Brian Marshall O'Connell, Cary, N.C., Keith Raymond Walker, Austin, Texas, and Susan Marie Williams, Hopewell Junction, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system in which an initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the entries in the created distribution list are examined. From this list, features of the entries are identified. From these features, criteria are generated that can be used to generate additional entries that may be included in the list. In one approach, the generated criteria are presented to the user for review and approval. If the originator approves the criteria, the generated list is modified to add additional entries to the distribution based on the generated criteria. If the originator rejects the criteria, the initially generated list is submitted and the message is sent to the entries on the initial list." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2010 (12/944,216). 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=7962506.PN.&OS=PN/7962506&RS=PN/7962506 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Accessing a Hierarchical Database Using Service Data Objects via a Data Access Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,447) developed by five co-inventors for "accessing a hierarchical database using service data objects (SDO) via a data access service (DAS)." The co-inventors are Shawfu Chen, New Milford, Conn., Adris E. Hoyos, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Kevin T. Jones, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Bernard Klos, Victor, N.Y., and Aleksandr Krymer, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for replicating modified data to a hierarchical database. A first list comprises records included in a set of records before at least one modification thereto. A second list comprises records included in the set of records after the at least one modification thereto. For each pre-modification record included in the first list and each post-modification record included in the second list having equal identifying values, a target record at the database and having a matching identifying value is modified. Specifically, if both records include corresponding indexes, information about a structure pointed to by the pre-modification record is removed from an index included in the target record, and information about a structure pointed to by the post-modification record is added to the index. If neither record includes an index, the target record is modified to contain at least one changed value included in the post-modification record." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2008 (12/346,687). 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=7962447.PN.&OS=PN/7962447&RS=PN/7962447 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Pitney Bowes Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Pitney Bowes, Stamford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,423) developed by Frederick W. Ryan Jr., Oxford, Conn., for a "method and system for dispensing virtual stamps." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for a virtual stamp dispensing metering system is provided wherein indicia of varying values are calculated at a data center and downloaded to a mailing machine on a periodic basis. The mailing machine securely stores the indicia and dispenses the indicia as needed. At the end of the period, any unused indicia are returned to the data center, the user's account is credited, and a new set of indicia are downloaded to the mailing machine. Accordingly, the processing requirements of the meter are reduced, as there is no longer any need to generate digital signatures, an attacker is prevented from generating indicia indefinitely if the security of the meter is compromised, as the cryptographic key is not resident at the meter, and tracking requirements of the meter are reduced, as the meter alone can not be used to generate postage funds." The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2006 (11/591,780). 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=7962423.PN.&OS=PN/7962423&RS=PN/7962423 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method and System for Integrating SRAM and DRAM Architecture in Set Associative Cache ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,695) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for integrating SRAM and DRAM architecture in set associative cache." The co-inventors are Marc R. Faucher, South Burlington, Vt., Hillery C. Hunter, Somers, N.Y., William R. Reohr, Ridgefield, Conn., Peter A. Sandon, Essex Junction, Vt., Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan, New York, and Arnold S. Tran, South Burlington, Vt. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of integrating a hybrid architecture in a set associative cache having a first type of memory structure for one or more ways in each congruence class, and a second type of memory structure for the remaining ways of the congruence class, includes determining whether a memory access request results in a cache hit or a cache miss; in the event of a cache miss, determining whether LRU way of the first type memory structure is also the LRU way of the entire congruence class, and if not, then copying the contents of the LRU way of the first type memory structure into the LRU way of the entire congruence class, and filling the LRU way of the first type memory structure with a new cache line in the event of a cache miss; and updating LRU bits, depending upon the results of the memory access request." The patent application was filed on Dec. 4, 2007 (11/949,935). 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=7,962,695&OS=7,962,695&RS=7,962,695 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Continuous Feedback-controlled Deployment of Message Transforms in a Distributed Messaging System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,646) developed by Roman Ginis, Elmsford, N.Y., and Robert Evan Strom, Ridgefield, Conn., for a "continuous feedback-controlled deployment of message transforms in a distributed messaging system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention solves the disadvantages of the prior art and provides a distributed messaging system supporting stateful subscriptions. A stateful publish-subscribe system extends the functionality of the content-based approach to include more general state-valued expressions. A plurality of broker machines is provided to deliver messages sent by publishing clients toward subscribing clients based upon the contents of the messages and stateful transformations requested by the subscribing clients. Subscription specifications are analyzed by a compiler and converted into a collection of message transforms and views. A deployment service component deploys tasks to optimize system performance. A monitoring services component detects a possible need to reconfigure. A performance optimization service component computes new assignment of transforms. A continuous deployment service implements a redeployment protocol that installs changes to transform placement while the existing publish-subscribe system continues to operate." The patent application was filed on May 6, 2008 (12/115,798). 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=7,962,646&OS=7,962,646&RS=7,962,646 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamic Component Placement in an Event-driven Component-oriented Network Data Processing System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,962,650) developed by Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan, Cambridge, Mass., Chitra Dorai, Chappaqua, N.Y., and Robert Evan Strom, Ridgefield, Conn., for a "dynamic component placement in an event-driven component-oriented network data processing system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, system and computer usable program code for dynamic component placement in an event processing system having producers, consumers, a plurality of nodes between the producers and the consumers, and a flow graph representing computational components to be executed between the producers and the consumers. A description of a change to the system is received. At each node, next-hop neighbor nodes for each consumer are identified. A routing value is assigned to each next-hop neighbor node for each consumer. Using the routing values in a context of the change, a performance cost of the system is estimated based on hypothetical changed placements of the computational components at nodes along paths from a producer to a consumer through the next-hop neighbor nodes for each consumer, and a changed placement of the computational components that minimizes performance cost of the system relative to the hypothetical changed placements is selected." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2008 (12/100,915). 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=7,962,650&OS=7,962,650&RS=7,962,650 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Expro Meters Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Expro Meters, Wallingford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,962,293) developed by Daniel L. Gysling, Glastonbury, Conn., for an "apparatus and method for providing a stratification metric of a multiphase fluid flowing within a pipe." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for determining a level of stratification of a multiphase fluid flow passing through a pipe is provided. The method includes, and the apparatus is operable to perform, the steps of: 1) determining a flow velocity of the multiphase fluid flow passing through a first radial region of the pipe; 2) determining a flow velocity of a portion of the multiphase fluid flow passing within a second radial region of the pipe, wherein the second radial region is above the first radial region; and 3) comparing the flow velocity from the first radial region and flow velocity from the second radial region to determine information indicative of the stratification of the multiphase fluid flow." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2008 (12/139,613). 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=7,962,293.PN.&OS=PN/7,962,293&RS=PN/7,962,293 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1051303 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |