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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Virginia (June 23)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Nextel Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Nextel Communications, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,966,014) developed by Arun Manroa, Herndon, Va., for a "method and computer-readable medium for managing roaming restrictions in a wireless environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and computer-readable medium for controlling roaming restrictions for dispatch calling of a mobile station in a network are provided. A home location register receives a dispatch application processor identifier and a mobile station identifier. The domain in which the dispatch application processor is located may be determined by the home location register, based upon the dispatch application processor identifier. A determination can be made whether the mobile station is authorized to operate in the domain, based upon the mobile station identifier. If the mobile station is not authorized to operate in the domain, the mobile station is prevented from operating in the domain. On the other hand, if the mobile station is authorized to operate in the domain, the operation of the mobile station may be allowed, but restricted to certain predetermined calling features." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2006 (11/401,247). 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=7,966,014.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,014&RS=PN/7,966,014 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** GE Fanuc Automation North America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- GE Fanuc Automation North America, Charlottesville, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,966,413) developed by Judy Dixon Ascoli, Ruckersville, Va., and Paul Joseph O'Dea, Muskego, Wis., for a "method for configuring a programmable logic controller using a schema to validate extensible markup language file." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for configuring a programmable logic controller (PLC) having a protocol is provided. The method includes providing an extensible markup language (XML) schema for the protocol of the PLC. In another aspect, a method for configuring a programmable logic controller (PLC) having a protocol includes utilizing the schema to validate at least one XML file parsed from a comma separated variable (CSV) file created by a configuration tool for a protocol different than the protocol of the PLC. In another aspect, a method for configuring a programmable logic controller (PLC) having a protocol includes utilizing the schema to validate at least one XML file parsed from a comma separated variable (CSV) file created by a configuration tool." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2007 (11/762,931). 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=7,966,413&OS=7,966,413&RS=7,966,413 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Flat Hill Ideas Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Flat Hill Ideas, Roanoke, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,966,384) developed by Paul Marr, Roanoke, Va., for a "real-time interactive system and method for making and updating changes to infrastructure data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A real-time interactive system and method for updating infrastructure information, and using the same to implement new changes to the infrastructure, can utilize a wireless enabled portable data collection device for capturing infrastructure information in the field at an access interface; an infrastructure information database containing previously recorded infrastructure information, if any; a remote server communicating with the portable data collection device and the infrastructure information database; wherein infrastructure information is wirelessly communicated to the remote server and the remote server controls a real-time interactive session with the portable data collection device to verify previously recorded infrastructure information, update the infrastructure information database with the current infrastructure information, and facilitate making the new changes using updated infrastructure information. The portable data collection device can be a cell phone having a camera, for capturing the images, and a GPS receiver, for obtaining GPS data associated with the access interface." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/221,497). 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=7,966,384&OS=7,966,384&RS=7,966,384 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Landmark NV-S Ventures Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Landmark NV-S Ventures Group, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (7,966,210) developed by Stephen A. Hall, Alexandria, Va., David G. Javdan, Potomac, Md., and Robert B. Moore, Springfield, Va., for a "data distribution method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for distributing data among automotive dealers, including selecting the data from the dealers, processing the data, and providing the processed data to the dealers while maintaining confidentiality of individual data of each dealer. The selecting of the data further includes collecting data indicating which vehicles are in demand. The data includes at least one of a number of a vehicle's make a dealer has in stock, a vehicle identification number, a vehicle's year, a vehicle's make, a vehicle's model, a vehicle's body style, a vehicle's exterior color, a vehicle's interior color, a vehicle's mileage, a vehicle's retail asking price, a vehicle's transactions cost, a vehicle's reconditioning cost, a vehicle's age, a vehicle's selling price, a vehicle's gross profit, an acquisition need of a vehicle, a selling need of a vehicle, a vehicle's image, a vehicle's turnover rate, or an aggregate of any of the above-listed data. The distributed data may provide optimization on return on investments to the dealers." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2008 (12/244,522). 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=7,966,210.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,210&RS=PN/7,966,210 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intercede Health Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Intercede Health, Houston, has been assigned a patent (7,966,195) developed by Philip A. Sanger, Austin, Texas, Charles Robertson, Richmond, Va., and Robert Weathersby, Rye, N.H., for a "system and method for providing optimized medical order sets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System and method for preparing patient order sets by an attending physician include optimization of orders particularly when multiple diagnoses are being treated." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2007 (11/776,499). 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=7,966,195.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,195&RS=PN/7,966,195 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Keynetik Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Keynetik, Herndon, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,966,146) developed by Mark Shkolnikov, Herndon, Va., for a "force sensing apparatus and method to determine the radius of rotation of a moving object." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus having an arrangement of two or more identical accelerometers with aligned sensitivity axes. Each of the accelerometers senses motion over at least one axis. The accelerometer readings include a component corresponding to gravitational force that is the same for each accelerometer in the arrangement. Logic circuitry in communication with the accelerometer arrangement couples accelerometer signals to a processor to compute motion variables." The patent application was filed on April 11, 2008 (12/101,578). 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=7,966,146.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,146&RS=PN/7,966,146 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nextel Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Nextel Communications, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (7,966,029) developed by Ojas T. Choksi, Herndon, Va., and Arun Manroa, Herndon, Va., for a "method for push-to-talk pre-emption." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Push-to-talk private call pre-emption may be applied in an application-to-person context or on a person-to-person context. A PTT subscriber may send a PTT server a pre-emption request indicating a desire to interrupt the application voice stream or another PTT subscriber, respectively. In an application-to-person context, the PTT server may revoke the floor from the application server and grant the floor to the requesting device. In a person-to-person context, the PTT server may send the other PTT subscriber a floor release request. Once the subscriber with the PTT floor releases it in response to the floor release request, the PTT server will be able to send an open floor signal back to the requesting subscriber." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2007 (11/704,538). 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=7,966,029.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,029&RS=PN/7,966,029 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,966,318) developed by James Daniel Harshfield, Roanoke, Va., for a "compressed data storage to provide recent and summary data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is related to data storage and transmission. Data is compressed and stored by a controller computer instead of having a client computer gather, compress and store the data. This allows for data to be retrieved from the data stores and displayed for user retrieval, even when communication failures have occurred." The patent application was filed on Nov. 20, 2007 (11/942,863). 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=7966318.PN.&OS=PN/7966318&RS=PN/7966318 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Virginia Inventor Develops Patent for Stock Method for Measuring and Assigning Precise Meaning to Market Sentiment ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Reginald Nosegbe, Ashburn, Va., has developed a patent (7,966,241) for a "stock method for measuring and assigning precise meaning to market sentiment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A stock method for objectively quantifying the feeling, or market sentiment, of a company's stock (or the market as a whole) in a data-driven and transparent manner that serves as a standardized tool useful to investors and stock market analysts in gauging such items as inflated or deflated price values resulting from varying levels of market sentiment." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2007 (11/680,877). 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=7966241.PN.&OS=PN/7966241&RS=PN/7966241 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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