[June 17, 2011] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (June 17) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Verizon Data Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Verizon Data Services, Temple Terrace, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,961,212) developed by Brian R. Woodworth, Irving, Texas, Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Flower Mound, Texas, and Shadman Zafar, Coppell, Texas, for a video messaging system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods provide a video messaging service for transmitting video messages between network terminals over a network. After a caller's video-messaging terminal receives a notification that a receiver failed to respond to a communication request, the caller's video-messaging terminal may enable the caller to record a video message and store it for viewing on-demand by a receiver's video-messaging terminal. After recording, the caller's video-messaging terminal transmits a stored message notification terminal to a network server which, in turn, transmits a stored message notification, including an identifier of the caller's video-messaging terminal, to the receiver. Based on the identifier, the receiver's video-messaging terminal may request access to the video message from the caller's video-messaging terminal. In response to the request, the caller's video-messaging terminal retrieves the video message from storage and provides it to the receiver's video-messaging terminal over the network." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2006 (11/503,292). 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=79,61,212.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,212&RS=PN/79,61,212 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Tracking Groups of Users in Motion Capture System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,961,174) developed by eight co-inventors for "tracking groups of users in motion capture system." The co-inventors are Relja Markovic, Seattle, Stephen G. Latta, Seattle, Kevin A. Geisner, Mercer Island, Wash., David Hill, Bellevue, Wash., Darren A. Bennett, Seattle, David C Haley, Dallas, Brian S. Murphy, Seattle, and Shawn C. Wright, Sammamish, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a motion capture system, a unitary input is provided to an application based on detected movement and/or location of a group of people. Audio information from the group can also be used as an input. The application can provide real-time feedback to the person or group via a display and audio output. The group can control the movement of an avatar in a virtual space based on the movement of each person in the group, such as in a steering or balancing game. To avoid a discontinuous or confusing output by the application, missing data can be generated for a person who is occluded or partially out of the field of view. A wait time can be set for activating a new person and deactivating a currently-active person. The wait time can be adaptive based on a first detected position or a last detected position of the person." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2010 (12/847,133). 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=79,61,174.PN.&OS=PN/79,61,174&RS=PN/79,61,174 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,461) developed by Teodros Mesfin, Houston, and David Gary Methven, Austin, Texas, for a "secure media bay and media module." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A media apparatus includes a media bay having a media module slot. A security port is provided in the media bay adjacent the media module slot. A security fastener is provided in the media bay and is accessible via the security port. A security bar is movable between a first position wherein a first portion of the security bar opens the security port and exposes the security fastener, and a second position wherein the first portion closes the security port and conceals the security fastener. A lock plunger port is provided in the media bay adjacent a second portion of the security bar." The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2009 (12/554,424). 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=7,961,461&OS=7,961,461&RS=7,961,461 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ARM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- ARM, Cambridge, United Kingdom, has been assigned a patent (7,961,490) developed by Yannick Marc Nevers, Grenoble, France, and Vincent Philippe Schuppe, Austin, Texas, for a "generating ROM bit cell arrays." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of generating a ROM bit cell array layout is provided, the method comprising the steps of: inputting a predetermined memory architecture having a predetermined positioning of bit lines and virtual ground lines, said memory architecture comprising a plurality of columns of memory cells, each column of memory cells being located between its own associated bit line and its own associated virtual ground line, and adjacent memory cells in each column of memory cells sharing a common connection to either said associated bit line or said associated virtual ground line; evaluating a possible range of width of active area of each of said columns of memory cells, in dependence on said predetermined positioning of bit lines and virtual ground lines; selecting a final width of active area in dependence on at least one performance characteristic associated with said final width of active area; and generating said ROM bit cell array layout according to said final width of active area. Thus the system designer can reuse an existing memory architecture, yet still retain an advantageous degree of flexibility with regard to performance characteristic selection of the final ROM bit cell array." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/318,863). 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=7,961,490.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,490&RS=PN/7,961,490 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dell Products Assigned Patent for System and Method for Attaching Portion of Equipment to Remainder of Equipment ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Dell Products, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,460) developed by Charles D. Hood III, Cedar Park, Texas, and Matthew McGowan, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method for attaching portion of equipment to remainder of equipment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for reducing problems and disadvantages associated with attaching portions of equipment chassis to the remainder of the equipment are provided. An information handling system may include a housing, a cover configured to at least partially enclose the housing, and an engagement assembly fixedly coupled to the housing. The cover may include an open slot having an opening and a projection. The may have a bearing movable relative to the housing, the bearing configured, when moved, to pass through the opening to engage with the projection to couple the cover to the housing." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2009 (12/425,897). 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=7,961,460&OS=7,961,460&RS=7,961,460 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Minter Develops Patent for Adaptive Bayes Feature Extraction ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Thomas Cecil Minter, Coldspring, Texas, has developed a patent (7,961,955) for an "adaptive bayes feature extraction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for extracting "discriminately informative features" from input patterns which provide accurate discrimination between two classes, a class-of-interest and a class-other, while reducing the number of features under the condition where training samples or otherwise, are provided a priori only for the class-of-interest thus eliminating the requirement for any a priori knowledge of the other classes in the input-data-set while exploiting the potentially robust and powerful feature extraction capability provided by fully supervised feature extraction approaches. The system and method extracts discriminate features by exploiting the ability of the adaptive Bayes classifier to define an optimal Bayes decision boundary between the class-of-interest and class-other using only labeled samples from the class-of-interest and unlabeled samples from the data to be classified. Optimal features are derived from vectors normal to the decision boundary defined by the adaptive Bayes classifier." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2008 (12/011,518). 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=7961955.PN.&OS=PN/7961955&RS=PN/7961955 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Packet Flow Control in Switched Full Duplex Ethernet Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,961,606) developed by James Brian Cunningham, Austin, Texas, for a "packet flow control in switched full duplex ethernet networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product for controlling data packet traffic flow into a link partner device such as an ethernet adapter. In one embodiment, an occupancy level of an adapter receive queue is monitored to detect a receive queue overrun or underrun condition or event. The detected overrun or underrun condition or event is utilized as the criteria for adjusting a pause time value within a pause time flow control frame. The pause time flow control frame is transmitted from the link partner device to a corresponding remote link partner device to pause data packet transmission in accordance with the adjusted pause time value." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2008 (12/194,239). 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=7,961,606.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,606&RS=PN/7,961,606 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,575) developed by Steven R. Jahnke, Allen, Texas, Takeshi Kasuya, Nerima-ku, Japan, and Ryuichi Shiraishi, Saitama, Japan, for an "automatic DTS CD Versus CD-DA detection within a file system-based device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of detection is described to be used in file system-based player devices to determine the type of compact disk that has been inserted into a player. The method automatically distinguishes between the DTS-CD format and standard audio CDs. The method allows the operating system or CPU software to take appropriate action to decode and playback the audio stream once the a decision between standard audio CD or DTS-CD is made." The patent application was filed on Jan. 29, 2009 (12/361,651). 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=7,961,575.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,575&RS=PN/7,961,575 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Duty Cycle Measurement Circuit for Measuring and Maintaining Balanced Clock Duty Cycle ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,961,559) developed by Robert C. Dixon, Austin, Texas, Robert L. Franch, Wappingers Falls, N.Y., and Phillip J. Restle, Katonah, N.Y., for a "duty cycle measurement circuit for measuring and maintaining balanced clock duty cycle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A circuit and method for measuring duty cycle uncertainty in an on-chip global clock. A global clock is provided to a delay line at a local clock buffer. Delay line taps (inverter outputs) are inputs to a register that is clocked by the local clock buffer. The register captures clock edges, which are filtered to identify a single location for each edge. Imbalance in space between the edges indicated imbalance in duty cycle. Up/down signals are generated from any imbalance and passed to a phase locked loop to adjust the balance." The patent application was filed on Aug. 12, 2009 (12/539,635). 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=7,961,559.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,559&RS=PN/7,961,559 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Science Applications International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Science Applications International, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,961,906) developed by Joshua C. Ruedin, Austin, Texas, for a "human detection with imaging sensors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for determining human beings from terrain or man-made obstacles is provided. A long-wave infrared camera along with additional devices such as a color camera, two cameras in stereo configuration, and/or a LADAR scanner are used such that the physical scene captured in one image is the same from all of the devices. The images may be processed such that areas of interest representing characteristics of human beings are labeled likely human. The processing may include determining the physical size, range, and relative locations of the objects found in the images. The system, method and apparatus may be used in unmanned vehicles or autonomous machines, as a driving aid to a manned vehicle or system, or as part of a security system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 3, 2007 (11/619,434). 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=7,961,906&OS=7,961,906&RS=7,961,906 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Memory Power Management Systems and Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,546) developed by seven co-inventors for a "memory power management systems and methods." The co-inventors are Hugh T. Mair, Fairview, Texas, Robert L. Pitts, Dallas, Alice Wang, Allen, Texas, Sumanth K. Gururjarao, Dallas, Ramaprasath Vilangudipitchai, Plano, Texas, Gordon Gammie, Plano, Texas, and Uming Ko, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Memory power management systems and methods are provided. One embodiment of the present invention includes a memory power management system. The system comprises a first low dropout (LDO) regulator that provides an active operating voltage that is derived from a first supply voltage to power a memory array during an active mode. The system further comprises a second LDO regulator that provides a minimum memory retention voltage that is derived from a second supply voltage to power the memory array in a standby mode, wherein the second supply voltage also powers at least one peripheral circuit for reading from and/or writing to the memory array." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2008 (12/258,747). 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=7,961,546.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,546&RS=PN/7,961,546 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** WesternGeco Assigned Patent for Enhancing the Acquisition aProcessing of Low Frequencies for Sub-salt Imaging ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- WesternGeco, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,961,549) developed by Nicolae Moldoveanu, Houston, Philip A.F. Christie, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, and Mark Egan, Sugarland, Texas, for an "enhancing the acquisition and processing of low frequencies for sub-salt imaging." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for acquiring seismic signals from beneath a salt region in the earth. In one embodiment, the method includes tuning an air gun array to a first bubble oscillation; towing the air gun array in the water at a depth of at least 10 meters, in which the air gun array has a total volume in a range of about 6780 cubic inches to about 10,170 cubic inches; directing acoustic signals with the air gun array down through the water into the earth beneath the salt region; towing one or more seismic streamers in the water at one or more depths, in which at least one of the depths is at least 10 meters, in which each streamer comprises a plurality of hydrophones disposed therealong; and recording with the hydrophones seismic signals reflected from strata in the earth beneath the salt region." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2004 (11/568,531). 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=7,961,549.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,549&RS=PN/7,961,549 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Genband US Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Genband US, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,849) developed by Donald L. Sparks, Austin, Texas, and Andrew S. Bender, McKinney, Texas, for "implementing an emergency services solution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and apparatus for redirecting an emergency communication include initiating emergency communication from an endpoint. Unavailability of a softswitch is determined, and an emergency server is identified that handles call control for emergency communication from the endpoint if the softswitch is unavailable. Emergency communication is initiated with the emergency server." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2007 (11/678,686). 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=7,961,849&OS=7,961,849&RS=7,961,849 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Securus Technologies Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Account Establishment and Transaction Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Securus Technologies, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,858) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for account establishment and transaction management." The co-inventors are Michelle L. Polozola, Richardson, Texas, Anthony Hershberger, McKinney, Texas, Robert L. Rae, Plano, Texas, Marc Hite, Plano, Texas, and Luke Keiser, Frisco, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are systems and methods which provide techniques providing account setup, management and transaction authorization determinations in real-time using transaction interrupt messaging. Embodiments preferably take into consideration the quality of one or more parties to the transaction and the means by which charges may be rendered to them when making account setup, management, and/or transaction authorization determinations. Accordingly, transactions, such as collect calls, meeting at least some minimal risk threshold may be completed on a first call attempt, even where a pre-arranged billing agreement or other business relationship is not previously in place." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2006 (11/480,264). 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=7,961,858&OS=7,961,858&RS=7,961,858 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Securus Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Securus Technologies, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,860) developed by Christopher R. McFarlen, Coppell, Texas, for "systems and methods for graphically displaying and analyzing call treatment operations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for graphically demonstrating a call-processing operation include receiving data representing signals in a telephone call and data from an event-detecting algorithm, the data from the event-detecting algorithm describing an operation of the algorithm on the telephone call, and generating a graphical display including a waveform based on the data representing signals in the telephone call and a graph of the operation of the event-detection algorithm." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2006 (11/562,842). 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=7,961,860&OS=7,961,860&RS=7,961,860 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Parameterized Sphere Detector and Methods of Using the Same ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,826) developed by five co-inventors for a "parameterized sphere detector and methods of using the same." The co-inventors are Deric W. Waters, Dallas, Oren Peles, Rehovot, Israel, Anuj Batra, Dallas, Srinath Hosur, Plano, Texas, and Doron Burshtein, Ramat-Efal, Israel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Multiple-input Multiple-Output (MIMO) receiver is provided. The MIMO receiver comprises a parameterized sphere detector having two search modes. During a first search mode, the parameterized sphere detector enumerates a number of best candidate vectors up to a fixed parameter value. During a second search mode, the parameterized sphere detector enumerates additional candidate vectors using a greedy search until a predetermined number of candidate vectors have been enumerated." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2007 (11/928,863). 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=7,961,826&OS=7,961,826&RS=7,961,826 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** S.F. IP Properties 30 Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- S.F. IP Properties 30, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,961,853) developed by Michael Voticky, Austin, Texas, and Joe Connor, Boca Raton, Fla., for a "system and method for prioritizing communications messages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of sorting a received information message in which a source of delivery of the message is indicated by a unique identifier accompanying the message, for example, in an e-mail or voice message system. The method includes steps of receiving the message, looking-up the identifier in a database, assigning a code for the message per the result of the step of looking-up, and prioritizing or forwarding the message according to the code." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2006 (11/417,817). 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=7,961,853&OS=7,961,853&RS=7,961,853 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,892) developed by Stephen John Fedigan, Plano, Texas, for an "apparatus and method for monitoring speaker cone displacement in an audio speaker." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for monitoring speaker cone displacement in an audio speaker includes: (a) an electromagnetic coil structure; (b) a ferrous core structure; the ferrous core structure and the electromagnetic coil structure being mounted with the speaker to effect variable electromagnetic coupling between the ferrous core structure and the electromagnetic coil structure as the speaker cone moves; (c) a signal injecting circuit coupled with the electromagnetic coil structure for injecting a predetermined input signal into the electromagnetic coil structure; and (d) a signal monitoring circuit coupled with the electromagnetic coil structure; the signal monitoring circuit receiving an output signal from the electromagnetic coil structure and generating an indicating signal based upon the output signal; at least one signal characteristic of the indicating signal being related with the cone displacement." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2003 (10/628,159). 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=7,961,892&OS=7,961,892&RS=7,961,892 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of Texas System, Southern Methodist University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have been assigned a patent (7,961,922) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for processing medical image data to facilitate comparisons among groups of subjects." The co-inventors are Jeffrey S. Spence, Forney, Texas, Patrick S. Carmack, Dallas, Qihua Lin, Irving, Texas, Richard F. Gunst, Dallas, William R. Schucany, Dallas, and Robert W. Haley, Dallas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for processing medical image data with increased sensitivity to facilitate comparisons among groups of subjects are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a first three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of voxels, reducing a regional trend within the three-dimensional image, computing a semivariogram for a region of interest, defining at least one block of spatially correlated voxels, calculating voxel weights for each voxel within the at least one block, and determining a block average count and variance for the at least one block." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2007 (11/756,454). 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=7,961,922&OS=7,961,922&RS=7,961,922 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Omniprobe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Omniprobe, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,397) developed by Herschel M. Marchman, Dallas, Thomas M. Moore, Dallas, and Rocky Kruger, Dallas, for a "single-channel optical processing system for energetic-beam microscopes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A single-channel optical processing system for an energetic-beam instrument has separate sources for processing radiation and illumination radiation. The processing radiation and the illumination radiation are combined in a single optical path and directed to a sample surface inside the energetic-beam instrument through a self-focusing rod lens. The self-focusing rod lens thus has a working distance from the sample surface that will not interfere with typical arrangements of ion beams and electron beams in such instruments. A combination of polarizers and beam splitters allows separation of the combined incident radiation and the combined radiation reflected from the sample surface and returned through the same optical channel, so that the reflected radiation may be directed to an optical detector, such as a camera or spectrometer. In other embodiments, additional illumination of the sample surface is provided at an angle to the central axis of the self-focusing rod lens." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2008 (12/201,447). 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=7,961,397.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,397&RS=PN/7,961,397 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Antenna Grouping and Group-based Enhancements for MIMO Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,810) developed by Badri Varadarajan, Dallas, and Eko N. Onggosanusi, Allen, Texas, for "antenna grouping and group-based enhancements for MIMO systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter has at least three transmit antennas and includes a feedback decoding portion configured to recover at least one group-based channel quality indicator provided by a feedback signal from a receiver, wherein each group-based channel quality indicator corresponds to one of a set of transmission layer groupings. The transmitter also includes a modulator portion configured to generate at least one symbol stream and a mapping portion configured to multiplex each symbol stream to at least one transmission layer grouping. The transmitter further includes a pre-coder portion configured to couple the transmission layers to the transmit antennas for a transmission. The receiver includes a decoder portion which is configured to use decoded signals from at least one group to decode the other groups." The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2007 (11/851,849). 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=7,961,810&OS=7,961,810&RS=7,961,810 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ViXS Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- ViXS Systems, Toronto, has been assigned a patent (7,961,759) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for synchronized channel transmission." The co-inventors are Michael R. May, Austin, Texas, James Ward Girardeau Jr., Austin, Texas, Paul M. Astrachan, Austin, Texas, and Mathew A. Rybicki, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for synchronized channel transmission are disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises: generating a first data stream and a second data stream; packetizing the first data stream to produce a first plurality of data packets; packetizing the second data stream to produce a second plurality of data packets; baseband processing the first plurality of data packets to produce a first plurality of symbols for each of the first plurality of data packets; baseband processing the second plurality of data packets to produce a second plurality of symbols for each of the second plurality of data packets; converting the first plurality of symbols into a first radio frequency signal; converting the second plurality of symbols into a second radio frequency signal; and synchronizing at least one of: generating the first and the second data streams, packetizing the first and second data streams, baseband processing the first and second plurality of data packets, and converting the first and second plurality of symbols." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2003 (10/376,806). 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=7,961,759&OS=7,961,759&RS=7,961,759 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for Portable Storage Apparatus with Integral Biometric-based Access Control System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Robert J.D. Smith, Houston, has developed a patent (7,961,914) for a "Portable storage apparatus with integral biometric-based access control system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method by which a portable, personal storage container can be secured and protected using the owner's fingerprint is herein disclosed. While the features of the invention can be incorporated into almost any type of physical container, it is most likely to be envisioned to be incorporated into a wallet, purse, sack or eyeglass case. The invention relies on a biometric sensor that recognizes the owner's fingerprint, and unlocks the container when a match is presented. In addition to physical storage and security, the invention also provides electronic storage for computer files such as electronic files, documents, photos and the like via an integral computer connector. Finally, the invention is provided with a proximity sensor that detects when it has been moved more than a preset distance away from the rightful owner. This feature thus provides security against theft. The use of the present invention provides storage and protection for all-important items, whether physical or electronic, in a manner, which is not only quick, easy and effective, but safe and secure as well." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2006 (11/485,004). 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=7,961,914&OS=7,961,914&RS=7,961,914 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent for Ethernet/TMPLS Hybrid Network Operation Administration and Maintenance Frame Creation Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Alcatel Lucent, Paris, has been assigned a patent (7,961,737) developed by six co-inventors for an "ethernet/TMPLS hybrid network operation administration and maintenance frame creation method." The co-inventors are An Ge, Plano, Texas, Kamakshi Sridhar, Plano, Texas, Vincenzo Sestito, Milan, Italy, Italo Busi, Cerro Maggiore, Italy, Maarten Petrus Joseph Vissers, Huizen, The Netherlands, and Alberto Bellato, Bernareggio, Italy. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for creating an Operation Administration and Maintenance frame in an Ethernet/Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch hybrid network. The method includes mapping values in an Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance data field in a protocol data unit (PDU) in a first Ethernet Operation Administration and Maintenance frame (Ethernet OAM frame) into a Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch Operation Administration and Maintenance data field in PDU in a first Transport Multi-Protocol Label Switch Operation Administration and Maintenance frame (TMPLS OAM frame) and mapping values in first control parameter fields in the first Ethernet OAM frame into second control parameter fields in the first TMPLS OAM frame. The PDU in the first TMPLS OAM frame includes added extra fields as necessary, and the second control parameter fields further comprise preselected default information and routing information mapped from values stored in a memory." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2006 (11/614,339). 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=7,961,737&OS=7,961,737&RS=7,961,737 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Multipath Interference-resistant Receivers for Closed-loop Transmit Diversity (CLTD) in Code-division Multiple Access (CDMA) Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,774) developed by Eko N. Onggosanusi, Allen, Texas, and Anand G. Dabak, Plano, Texas for "multipath interference-resistant receivers for closed-loop transmit diversity (CLTD) in code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for providing interference resistance in communications systems using closed-loop transmit diversity (CLTD). A preferred embodiment comprises: at a receiver, computing a CLTD weighting vector from a received signal, providing the CLTD weighting vector to a transmitter, and using the CLTD vector to suppress interference in the received signal, and at a transmitter, transmitting a signal, receiving the CLTD weighting vector from the receiver, and applying the CLTD weighting vector to all subsequent transmissions." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2003 (10/687,303). 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=7,961,774&OS=7,961,774&RS=7,961,774 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Packet Circuitry Addressing Independent and Dependent Information to Different Proxies ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,758) developed by five co-inventors for a "packet circuitry addressing independent and dependent information to different proxies." The co-inventors are Stephen J. Perkins, Dallas, Alan Gatherer, Richardson, Texas, Krishnasamy Anandakumar, San Diego, Alan V. McCree, Acton, Mass., and Vishu Viswanathan, Plano, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one form of the invention, a process of sending real-time information from a sender computer (103) to a receiver computer (105) coupled to the sender computer (103) by a packet network (100) wherein packets (111,113) sometimes become lost, includes steps of directing (441) packets (111) containing the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path (119) in the packet network (100) to the receiver computer (105), and directing packets (113) containing information dependent on the real-time information from the sender computer (103) by at least one path diversity path (117) in the packet network (100) to the same receiver computer (105). Other forms of the invention encompass other processes, improved packets and packet ensembles (111,113), integrated circuits (610), chipsets (DSP 1721, MCU), computer cards (1651), information storage articles (1511,1611), systems, computers (103,105), gateways (191,193), routers (131,133), cellular telephone handsets (181,189), wireless base stations (183,187), appliances (1721,1731,1741), and packet networks (100), and other forms as disclosed and claimed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2009 (12/638,578). 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=7,961,758&OS=7,961,758&RS=7,961,758 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** L-3 Integrated Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- L-3 Integrated Systems, Greenville, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,779) developed by Jerry W. Yancey, Rockwall, Texas, for a "noise-driven recovery of a digital pulse stream." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided is a method and system for noise-driven recovery of a digital pulse stream. The method includes receiving initial parameters including the base characteristics of a pulse signal, the characteristics including the minimum pulse interval. An incoming analog signal is converted to a digital signal and sampled a predetermined number of times at intervals less than the minimum pulse interval to record a set of minimum signal values. The incoming signal is also sampled a predetermined number of times at intervals less than the minimum pulse interval to record a set of maximum signal values. At least the first greatest value from the set of maximum signal values is discarded. Each set is averaged to provide an average minimum value and an average maximum value. Based on these values at least one threshold value is then determined, and the digital pulse stream is identified based on the threshold values. The method is repetitive, continually re-determining the threshold values so as to adapt to changes in the incoming signal. A system for performing the method is also provided." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2005 (11/311,205). 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=7,961,779&OS=7,961,779&RS=7,961,779 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent for Reference Signaling Scheme Using Compressed Feedforward Codebooks for Multi-user, Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,807) developed by Jayesh H. Kotecha, Austin, Texas, and Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath, Austin, Texas, for a "reference signaling scheme using compressed feedforward codebooks for multi-user, multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) downlink beamforming system with limited feed forward (200) is provided to enable precoding matrix information to be efficiently provided to a subset of user equipment devices (201.i), where zero-forcing transmit beamformers (w.sub.i) are computed at the base station (210) and assembled into a precoding matrix (W). The precoding matrix is encoded using a compact reference signal codebook (225, 207.i) for forward link signaling, either by sending bits indicating the index of the transmission matrix used, or by transmitting one or more precoded pilots or reference signals wherein the pilot signals are precoded using vectors uniquely representative of the transmission matrix used which includes candidate reference signal matrices which meet a predetermined condition number requirement, such as a condition number threshold." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/687,441). 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=7,961,807&OS=7,961,807&RS=7,961,807 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,399) developed by Steven M. Penn, Plano, Texas, for a "SLM projection display with series DMD illuminator." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The addition of DMD illumination modulator(s) 702 in series with projection SLM(s) 706/709 to produce high-performance projection displays with improved optical efficiency, reliability, and lower maintenance requirements. This approach eliminates the vibration, audible noise, and safety problems associated with high speed rotating color filter wheels 203 commonly used in SLM projectors and controls the light applied to individual areas of the projection SLM(s)." The patent application was filed on July 1, 2008 (12/165,898). 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=7,961,399.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,399&RS=PN/7,961,399 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Electronic Dispersion Compensation Utilizing Interleaved Architecture and Channel Identification for Assisting Timing Recovery ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,781) developed by nine co-inventors for an "electronic dispersion compensation utilizing interleaved architecture and channel identification for assisting timing recovery." The co-inventors are Vivek Telang, Austin, Texas, Vasudevan Parthasarathy, Irvine, Calif., Sudeep Bhoja, San Jose, Calif., Hong Chen, Irvine, Calif., Afshin Momtaz, Laguna Hills, Calif., Chung-Jue Chen, Irvine, Calif., Ali Ghiasi, Cupertino, Calif., Michael Furlong, Santa Margarita, Calif., and Lorenzo Longo, Laguna Beach, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments include a system for performing dispersion compensation on an electromagnetic signal received over a communication channel, the electromagnetic signal bearing information at a symbol rate. An interleaved analog to digital converter ("ADC") block may be used, wherein the interleaved ADC block may be configured to generate a plurality of digitally sampled signals from the electromagnetic signal. An interleaved equalizer block may be configured to digitally process each of the digitally sampled signals generated by the ADC block to generate a plurality of digitally equalized signals. A multiplexer may be configured to aggregate the digitally equalized signals into a composite output signal." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2007 (11/837,278). 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=7,961,781&OS=7,961,781&RS=7,961,781 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Genband US Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Genband US, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,739) developed by Sam Perry, Garland, Texas, Richard Bianconi, Rowlett, Texas, and Yen Shei, Plano, Texas, for "systems and methods for voice over multiprotocol label switching." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer-readable medium for transmitting voice over multiprotocol label switching is provided. A packet that includes layer 3 and layer 4 headers is received. A label that identifies a label switched path in the packet is inserted, and a stream identifier is generated. The stream identifier is associated with at least a portion of content of the layer 3 and layer 4 headers. The layer 3 and layer 4 headers are removed from the packet, and the stream identifier is inserted into the packet. Additionally, methods, systems, and a computer-readable medium for processing a voice over multiprotocol label switching frame that excludes layer 3 and layer 4 headers are provided." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2005 (11/317,278). 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=7,961,739&OS=7,961,739&RS=7,961,739 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,751) developed by Serge Francois Fourcand, Fairview, Texas, for a "multiplexed data stream timeslot map." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting the communication of a frame within a synchronization window, wherein the frame comprises a plurality of data types assigned to a plurality of timeslots, and a timeslot map indicating the data type assigned to each timeslot. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a data stream comprising a data structure comprising a plurality of timeslots, each timeslot carrying one of a plurality of data types, receiving a timeslot map indicating the data types assigned to each of the timeslots, and processing each timeslot in accordance with the timeslot map." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2007 (11/735,602). 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=7,961,751&OS=7,961,751&RS=7,961,751 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Inventor Develops Patent for Methods, Circuits, and Systems to Select Memory Regions ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Scott Smith, Plano, Texas, has developed a patent (7,961,542) for "methods, circuits, and systems to select memory regions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments for selecting regions of memory are described. For example, in one embodiment a memory device having an array of memory cells includes an array selection block. The array selection block receives an input signal indicative of a region in the array of memory cells. The array selection block generates a selection signal to map the region to at least one physical location in the array of memory cells, based on the detection of the number of defects in that location." The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2009 (12/581,747). 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=7,961,542.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,542&RS=PN/7,961,542 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Implementing Write Levelization in Memory Subsystems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,533) developed by Shawn Searles, Austin, Texas, for a "method and apparatus for implementing write levelization in memory subsystems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for aligning a clock signal and a set of strobe signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, a memory controller includes a clock generator configured to generate the clock signal, and a respective strobe signal generator configured to generate each strobe signal. The memory controller further includes a phase recovery engine configured to receive an error signal from a corresponding memory device, wherein the error signal conveys an error indication indicative of an alignment of the strobe signal relative to the clock signal for each of a plurality of cycles of the strobe signal. The phase recovery engine includes an accumulator configured to maintain an accumulation value that depends upon the error indications for the plurality of cycles of the strobe signal. The strobe signal generator is configured to control a delay associated with generation of the strobe signal depending upon the accumulation value." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2008 (12/127,059). 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=7,961,533.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,533&RS=PN/7,961,533 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,536) developed by Keith Kasprak, Austin, Texas, and Russell Schreiber, Austin, Texas, for a "memory device and methods thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device includes a memory configured so that, in the event that one pass-gate transistor associated with a bit cell is determined to be excessively weak such that reading the bit cell could be undesirably difficult, a second pass-gate transistor can be configured to support a read operation. For example, during a manufacturing test procedure, the access speed of each bit cell at a memory device is determined. If a bit cell fails to achieve a desired access speed, the column of the memory that includes the defective bit cell can be configured to access information stored at the bit cell using the second bit line associated with the second pass-gate transistor." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2009 (12/422,448). 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=7,961,536.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,536&RS=PN/7,961,536 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Reducing Adherence in a MEMS Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,376) developed by Walter M. Duncan, Dallas, for a "reducing adherence in a MEMS device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an apparatus for reducing adherence in a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises a substrate. A MEMS is disposed outwardly from the substrate. The MEMS comprises structures and corresponding landing pads. Dibs are disposed outwardly from the substrate. Each dib has a surface with depressions. An adherence-reducing material is disposed within each depression. The adherence-reducing material reduces adherence between at least a portion of a structure and a corresponding landing pad." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (11/967,698). 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=7,961,376.PN.&OS=PN/7,961,376&RS=PN/7,961,376 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Technique for Reserving Resources for Authorized Entities in a Communication Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,961,715) developed by Subhasri Dhesikan, San Jose, Calif., and James M. Polk, Colleyville, Texas, for a "technique for reserving resources for authorized entities in a communication network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for reserving resources in a communication network for an entity. Communication units in the network register with policy data points (PDPs) to attain authorization to establish and receive calls in a communication network. The PDPs supply the communication units with security tokens that the communication units use to assert that they are authorized to establish sessions and reserve resources in the communication network. Communication units associated with a call include their tokens in signaling messages that are used to establish the call. Nodes along the path between a communication unit associated with a calling party in the call and a communication unit associated with a called party in the call use the tokens to authenticate the source of the signaling messages and determine whether they have permission to reserve resources in the communication network." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/323,296). 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=7961715.PN.&OS=PN/7961715&RS=PN/7961715 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,144) developed by James Allen Hymel, Dallas, for a "system and method for correlating broadcast station with geographic proximity on earth." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication device for use in a system including a first global positioning system satellite, a second global positioning satellite, a broadcast transmitter and a database. The communication device includes a first receiver, a processing portion, a transmission portion, a second receiver portion and a communication portion. The first receiver portion is operable to receive the broadcast signal. The processing portion is operable to extract the broadcast transmitter identification information from the broadcast signal. The transmission portion is operable to transmit the broadcast transmitter identification information to the database. The second receiver portion is operable to receive the correlation signal. The communication portion is operable to transmit a communication signal to the one of the first global positioning system satellite and the second global positioning satellite, based on the correlation signal." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2009 (12/354,238). 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=7961144.PN.&OS=PN/7961144&RS=PN/7961144 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,672) developed by four co-inventors for a "CQI feedback for OFDMA systems." The co-inventors are Badri Varadarajan, Dallas, Eko No. Onggosanusi, Allen, Texas, Runhua Chen, Dallas, and Il H. Kim, West Lafayette, Ind. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of a feedback generator and decoder and methods of operating the feedback generator and decoder are presented. In one embodiment, the feedback generator includes a CQI compression module configured to provide a compressed CQI for the user equipment corresponding to at least one sub-band, where a sub-band is composed of at least one resource block. The feedback generator also includes a transmit module coupled to the CQI compression module and configured to transmit the compressed CQI to a serving base station. In one embodiment, the feedback decoder includes a receive module configured to receive a compressed CQI in the base station from user equipment corresponding to at least one sub-band. The feedback decoder also includes a CQI restoration module coupled to the receive module and configured to provide a restored CQI from the compressed CQI for the at least one sub-band." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2008 (12/036,066). 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=7961672.PN.&OS=PN/7961672&RS=PN/7961672 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Rockwell Collins Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been assigned a patent (7,961,147) developed by Steven VanLaningham, Richardson, Texas, and James A. Stevens, Lucas, Texas, for a "long baseline phase interferometer ambiguity resolution using frequency differences." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining an angle-of-arrival for a detected signal. The method includes the steps of receiving the signal at a first antenna, receiving the signal at a second antenna, generating a plurality of spectral lines based on a complex multiplication of a complex conjugation of the signal received at the first antenna and the signal received at the second antenna, generating a delta phase difference for pairs of the spectral lines using frequency differences, and generating an angle-of-arrival for the detected signal based on an average of the delta phase difference." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/220,600). 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=7961147.PN.&OS=PN/7961147&RS=PN/7961147 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AMX Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- AMX, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,961,661) developed by James Roger Hargrave, Wylie, Texas, and Darin William Smith, Plano, Texas, for a "system, method and computer readable medium for re-connecting to a Zigbee network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An end device on a Zigbee network exits a power saving mode and transmits a wake notification message to the network. The network retrieves a cached status flag indicating whether the end device is defined on the Zigbee network and transmits the status flag to the end device. If the end device is undefined on the Zigbee network, the end device attempts to re-join the network. During the power saving mode, the network can cache messages intended for the end device and transmit the messages to the end device when the device exits the power saving mode." The patent application was filed on March 13, 2008 (12/075,743). 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=7961661.PN.&OS=PN/7961661&RS=PN/7961661 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. -1051434 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]