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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,459) developed by Daniel S. Nussbaum, Cambridge, Mass., and Mark S. Moir, Windham, N.H., for a "system and method for supporting phased transactional memory modes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A phased transactional memory (PhTM) may support a plurality of transactional memory implementations, including software, hardware, and hybrid implementations, and may provide mechanisms for dynamically transitioning between transactional memory modes in response to changing workload characteristics; upon discovering that the current mode does not perform well, is not suitable, or does not support functionality required for particular transactions; or according to scheduled phases. A system providing PhTM may be configured to transition from a first transactional memory mode to a second transactional memory mode while ensuring that transactions executing in the first transactional memory mode do not interfere with correct execution of transactions in the second transactional memory mode. The system may be configured to abort transactions in progress or to wait for transactions to complete, be aborted, or reach a safe transition point before transitioning to a new mode, and may use a global mode indicator in coordinating transitions." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (11/967,371). 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=7,966,459&OS=7,966,459&RS=7,966,459 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Gognex Technology and Investment Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Gognex Technology and Investment, Mt. View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,899) developed by Sateesha Nadabar, Framingham, Mass., and Xiangyun Ye, Framingham, Mass., for "methods for locating and decoding distorted two-dimensional matrix symbols." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is presented for processing an image of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix symbol having a plurality of data modules and a discontinuous finder pattern, each distorted by "donut effects". A resulting processed image contains an image of the 2D matrix symbol having a continuous finder pattern suitable for conventional 2D matrix symbol locating techniques, and having a plurality of data modules, each data module having a center more truly representative of intended data, and suitable for conventional 2D matrix symbol sampling and decoding. The method includes sharpening the distorted image of the 2D matrix symbol to increase a difference between low frequency and high frequency image feature magnitudes, thereby providing a sharpened image, and smoothing the sharpened image using a moving window over the sharpened image so as to provide a smoothed image, the moving window and a module of the 2D matrix code being of substantially similar size." The patent application was filed on July 3, 2008 (12/167,644). 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=79,65,899.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,899&RS=PN/79,65,899 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Textron Systems Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Textron Systems, Wilmington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,965,910) developed by Daniel E. Klimek, Lexington, Mass., and Alexander E. Mandl, Brookline, Mass., for a "beam combination using interleaved optical plates." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a system and method, the emitted beams of multiple diode bar array assemblies are combined to achieve an increase in the resulting power density in the combined output beam, while addressing the need for heat distribution in each of the individual assemblies. The present invention enables the combination of output planes of illumination, to form a single, merged beam of area A.sub.g having intensity I.sub.M.about.M*I.sub.stack and brightness B.sub.M.about.M*B.sub.stack, where I.sub.stack and B.sub.stack refer respectively to the intensity and brightness of the output plane of illumination of a single stacked array, and where I.sub.M and B.sub.M refer respectively to the intensity and brightness of the combined output plane of illumination of M stacked arrays. In this manner, the present invention is useful in applications where there is a need for high-intensity, high-brightness light energy." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2008 (12/244,510). 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=79,65,910.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,910&RS=PN/79,65,910 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medtronic Navigation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Medtronic Navigation, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (7,965,811) developed by Eugene A. Gregerson, Bolton, Mass., Richard K. Grant, Sudbury, Mass., and Norbert J. Johnson, North Andover, Mass., for an "apparatus and method for reconstruction of volumetric images in a divergent scanning computed tomography system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for reconstructing image data for a region are described. A radiation source and multiple one-dimensional linear or two-dimensional planar area detector arrays located on opposed sides of a region angled generally along a circle centered at the radiation source are used to generate scan data for the region from a plurality of diverging radiation beams, i.e., a fan beam or cone beam. Individual pixels on the discreet detector arrays from the scan data for the region are reprojected onto a new single virtual detector array along a continuous equiangular arc or cylinder or equilinear line or plane prior to filtering and backprojecting to reconstruct the image data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2011 (13/027,857). 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=7965811.PN.&OS=PN/7965811&RS=PN/7965811 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cognex Technology and Investment Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cognex Technology and Investment, Mt. View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,965,887) developed by Aaron S. Wallack, Natick, Mass., and David Michael, Wayland, Mass., for a "method of pattern location using color image data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Machine vision tools are applied to color images using methods that utilize an optimized spectrum of the color information. Such methods include full color normalized correlation techniques and methods to convert color images to greyscale using weighting factors that maximize color contrast in a corresponding greyscale image." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2005 (11/292,170). 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=79,65,887.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,887&RS=PN/79,65,887 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Hospital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- General Hospital, Boston, has been assigned a patent (7,965,881) developed by Timothy G. Reese, Medford, Mass., and Van J. Wedeen, Sommerville, Mass., for "methods for obtaining MRI frequency maps." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method includes generating first and second spin populations within each of a plurality of pixels of a slice of an object. These spin populations have different phase histories. For each pixel, MRI signals from those spin populations are acquired at different times These MRI signals can then be used to determine a field strength difference between different pixels of the slice." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2005 (11/569,024). 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=79,65,881.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,881&RS=PN/79,65,881 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Axeda Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Axeda, Foxboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,418) developed by Felix Shedrinsky, Weymouth, Mass., for an "establishing a virtual tunnel between two computer programs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system transfers data via a communication session between a client application and a server application, where the client application runs on a first network and the server application runs on a second network. The system includes a proxy having a socket to the client application. The proxy converts data between a local protocol run on the first network to a non-local protocol. An agent creates a socket to the server application. The agent converts data between a local protocol run on the second network and the non-local protocol. A server is in communication with the proxy and the agent. The server contains a message queue dedicated to the communication session. The message queue stores data transmitted during the communication session." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2004 (10/784,138). 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=7,966,418&OS=7,966,418&RS=7,966,418 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,409) developed by five co-inventors for a "routing protocol based redundancy design for shared-access networks." The co-inventors are Feisal Daruwalla, Santa Clara, Calif., James R. Forster, Los Altos, Calif., Guenter E. Roeck, San Jose, Calif., Richard M. Woundy, North Reading, Mass., and Michael A. Thomas, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A protection CMTS is available to immediately service a cable modem should that modem's service from a working CMTS fail for any reason. To speed the service transfer (cutover) from the working CMTS to the protection CMTS, the cable modem may preregister with the protection CMTS well before the cutover becomes necessary. The cable modem's registration with both the working CMTS and the protection CMTS preferably employs a single IP address, so that the cable modem need not obtain a new IP address during cutover. While the cable modem may register with both the working CMTS and the protection CMTS, the devices are designed or configured so that only the working CMTS injects a host route for the cable modem into the appropriate routing protocol. Only after cutover to the protection CMTS does the protection CMTS inject its host route." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2004 (10/899,668). 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=7,966,409&OS=7,966,409&RS=7,966,409 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Hospital Assigned Patent for Lumen Tracking in Computed Tomographic Images ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- General Hospital, Boston, has been assigned a patent (7,965,880) developed by four co-inventors for a "lumen tracking in computed tomographic images." The co-inventors are Hiroyuki Yoshida, Watertown, Mass., Janne Nappi, Boston, Michael E. Zalis, Newtonville, Mass., and Wenli Cai, Quincy, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A lumen tracking method and system automatically extracts a colon from CT image data by locating landmarks in the image data, based on known anatomic features or other predictable features. If the colon is segmented, the method and system may use the landmarks to evaluate candidate segments for inclusion in the extracted colon." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2010 (12/832,306). 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=79,65,880.PN.&OS=PN/79,65,880&RS=PN/79,65,880 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Northeastern University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Northeastern University, Boston, has been assigned a patent (7,966,364) developed by Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, Mass., and Nathan Faber, Allston, Mass., for a "system and method for virtual server migration across networks using DNS and route triangulation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A first virtual server is moved from a first network location to a second network location without interrupting service to users of the first virtual server. The state and data of the first virtual server are copied and transmitted to the second network location to create a copy of the first virtual server. The first virtual server copy is then updated to duplicate the first virtual server and all connections or packets directed to the first virtual server are intercepted and directed to the first virtual server copy at the second network location. A DNS entry for the symbolic name of the first virtual server is updated to reflect a shortened TTL value and then the address field of the DNS entry is set to the address of the first virtual server copy after the changeover and subsequent connections are directed to the first virtual server copy." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2008 (12/180,813). 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=7,966,364&OS=7,966,364&RS=7,966,364 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sentillion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Sentillion, Andover, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,381) developed by David Fusari, Groton, Mass., for "methods and apparatus for performing context management in a networked environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus related to context management in a networked environment are provided. According to one aspect, a technique is provided for facilitating communication between a client and a context management (CM) server, comprising establishing a network connection between the client and the CM server to enable communication, and maintaining the connection for the period of time during which the context is maintained. According to another aspect, a requested change in at least one aspect of a context is facilitated by publishing a change decision from the context management server to the participant applications. In another aspect, a technique is employed to verify that a remote application is emulated on the same client as at least one other application in a context by receiving from the client and the remote application server information that uniquely identifies the client. In a further aspect, a technique is employed for verifying that two remote applications are emulated on a same client by receiving information from the remote applications that uniquely identifies the client on which they are emulated." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2009 (12/540,731). 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=7,966,381&OS=7,966,381&RS=7,966,381 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lattix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Lattix, Andover, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,356) developed by four co-inventors for "apparatus and methods for displaying and determining dependency relationships among subsystems in a computer software system." The co-inventors are Neeraj Sangal, Andover, Mass., Francis A. Waldman, Stoneham, Mass., Carl D. Paris, Chelmsford, Mass., and Stephen Brennan, Stoneham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for managing, in a computer system, design of a database system having a set of schemata. The method includes, in a first computer process, extracting dependencies from the database system and identifying the set of schemata. The method further includes, for each specific schema in the set of schemata, creating in a second computer process a partition that, in turn, contains a further partition for each element of the specific schema, so as to establish a hierarchy of partitions in accordance with the structure of the set of schemata. The method also includes storing a representation of the database system including subsystems, dependency relationships among the subsystems, and the hierarchy of partitions. Finally, the method includes providing a graphical output from the computer system, based on the stored representation, in which appears a display of the subsystems in a hierarchy of partitions within a dependency structure matrix, such matrix graphically indicating the dependency relationships among subsystems. Related apparatus and computer products are also provided." The patent application was filed on Oct. 4, 2010 (12/897,558). 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=7,966,356&OS=7,966,356&RS=7,966,356 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** i2 Technologies US Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- i2 Technologies US, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (7,966,211) developed by four co-inventors for a "determining an inventory target for a node of a supply chain." The co-inventors are Koray Dogan, Boston, Adeel Najmi, Plano, Texas, Mehdi Sheikhzadeh, Irving, Texas, and Ramesh Raman, San Carlos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Determining an inventory target for a node of a supply chain includes calculating a demand stock for satisfying a demand over supply lead time at the node of the supply chain, and calculating a demand variability stock for satisfying a demand variability of the demand over supply lead time at the node. A demand bias of the demand at the node is established. An inventory target for the node is determined based on the demand stock and the demand variability stock in accordance with the demand bias." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2004 (10/836,448). 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=7,966,211.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,211&RS=PN/7,966,211 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ITA Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- ITA Software, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,205) developed by Rodney Daughtrey, Cambridge, Mass., for a "fare rules summarizer for travel planning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user interface for a fare summary tool is described. The user interface is for display on a monitor and includes a fare evaluation result table that displays fare rule summaries for fares in slices of an itinerary. A method for producing a rule summary is also described. The method retrieves fares and fare rules for a city pair over a specified time period and evaluates the retrieved fares against the retrieve rules to return a status corresponding to pass, fail defer. The method produces a summary of the results of evaluating the rules that indicates the status of the rules for each category of rules and displays the summary on a user output device." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2001 (09/812,224). 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=7,966,205.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,205&RS=PN/7,966,205 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bedol Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Mark A. Bedol, Claremont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (D640,142) developed by Mark A. Bedol, and Robert Thompson, Milford, Mass., for an ornamental design for a clock. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "I claim the ornamental design for a clock, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on March 14, 2011 (D/373,192). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=D640,142.PN.&OS=PN/D640,142&RS=PN/D640,142 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Infrastructure Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Infrastructure Innovations, Boston, has been assigned a patent (7,966,193) developed by Joseph M. Kryskow Jr., Hudson, N.H., Richard E. Hudnall, Nashua, N.H., and Lowell Kopp, Winchester, Mass., for an "automated on-line business bandwidth planning methodology." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Closed-loop control is applied to the field of automated on-line business bandwidth planning tools by comparing measured business bandwidth with a baseline for providing a difference indication, changing the baseline according to the difference, and reporting the change as an event relating to a service level agreement." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2002 (10/222,190). 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=7,966,193.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,193&RS=PN/7,966,193 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ingenix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Ingenix, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (7,966,196) developed by Alexander M. Walker, Concord, Mass., for a "system and method for early identification of safety concerns of new drugs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented system and method for administering a drug registry database generates a display of a plurality of new drug/comparator drug pairings, wherein each new drug is added to the database when a threshold number of healthcare claims for the new drug have been received. Upon receiving a selection of a new drug/comparator drug pairing, and filter parameters input by a user, an analysis engine searches the healthcare claims stored in the database to identify a first and second group of patients satisfying the filter parameters input by the user; wherein the first group includes patients with claim data indicating use of the new drug and the second group includes patients with claim data indicating use of the comparator drug. The analysis engine further identifies a comparative occurrence of one or more existing medical conditions or new medical conditions in the first and second groups of patients and calculates a probability value indicating a relative likelihood that a patient taking the new drug will have each of the one or more new or existing medical conditions in comparison to a likelihood that a patient taking the comparator drug will have each of the one or more new or existing medical conditions. A user interface displays each new or existing medical condition and the probability value for the new drug and the comparator drug in accordance with one or more report parameters entered by the user." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2009 (12/398,575). 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=7,966,196.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,196&RS=PN/7,966,196 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Polycom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Polycom, Pleasanton, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,175) developed by Minjie Xie, Newton, Mass., for a "fast lattice vector quantization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, devices, and systems for coding and decoding audio are disclosed. Digital samples of an audio signal are transformed from the time domain to the frequency domain. The resulting transform coefficients are coded with a fast lattice vector quantizer. The quantizer has a high rate quantizer and a low rate quantizer. The high rate quantizer includes a scheme to truncate the lattice. The low rate quantizer includes a table based searching method. The low rate quantizer may also include a table based indexing scheme. The high rate quantizer may further include Huffman coding for the quantization indices of transform coefficients to improve the quantizing/coding efficiency." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2006 (11/550,682). 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=7,966,175.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,175&RS=PN/7,966,175 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent for Event Processing of Combination Entities in Modeling Environments ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,161) developed by Michael I. Clune, Natick, Mass., and Anuja Dilip Apte, Natick, Mass., for an "event processing of combination entities in modeling environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism for processing events in a modeling environment is discussed. Embodiments of the invention identify multiple entities in a model, at least one of which includes an associated event. A combination entity is created from the identified entities with the combination entity including at least one event derived from the associated events. The combination entity is processed based upon the occurrence of at least one derived event." The patent application was filed on Dec. 27, 2006 (11/646,049). 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=7,966,161.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,161&RS=PN/7,966,161 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,162) developed by Vijay Raghavan, Framingham, Mass., and Ebrahim Mehran Mestchian, Newton, Mass., for a "hierarchically scoped resettable variables in graphical modeling environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The illustrative embodiments of this invention are directed to a method, a medium and a system for realizing resettable hierarchically scoped variables in a graphical modeling environment on a computing device. The method includes creating at least one resettable variable in a model within the graphical modeling environment, wherein the resettable variable is hierarchically scoped. The resettable variable is reset to a preset value before or during a subsequent invocation of a part of the model that contains the resettable variable. The graphical modeling environment may be a state diagramming environment or the graphical modeling environment may be a time-based graphical modeling environment." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2006 (11/648,425). 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=7,966,162.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,162&RS=PN/7,966,162 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nike Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Nike, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,966,154) developed by Curtis A. Vock, Niwot, Colo., Dennis Darcy, Tyngsboro, Mass., and Peter Flentov, Carlisle, Mass., for a "pressure sensing systems for sports, and associated methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system determines athletic performance. A pressure sensor senses change in elevation. A microprocessor processes signals from the pressure sensor to determine speed corresponding to the change in elevation. A display reports the speed to a user." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2008 (12/210,844). 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=7,966,154.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,154&RS=PN/7,966,154 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ford Motor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Ford Motor, Dearborn, Mich., has been assigned a patent (7,966,151) developed by Dimitar Filev, Novi, Mich., Paul E. Coffman Jr., Plymouth, Mass., and Fling Tseng, Ann Arbor, Mich., for a "method for analyzing operation of a machine." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A constraint analysis and reliability agent executes a method for analyzing operation of a manufacturing asset, and includes the steps of collecting operation data for a machine over a plurality of predetermined time periods. The operation data includes a plurality of mutually exclusive events that describe operation of the machine. For each of the predetermined time periods, it is determined whether the machine is in an "ON" or an "OFF" state. Data for the "OFF" states is removed from the collected data to generate a filtered data set. Reliability information is then generated based, at least in part, on the filtered data set. This facilitates predictions of future machine operation." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2006 (11/552,178). 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=7,966,151.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,151&RS=PN/7,966,151 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Distributed Graph Layout for Sensor Node Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,966,143) developed by Yehuda Koren, Elizabeth, N.J., and Craig Gotsman, Brookline, Mass., for a "distributed graph layout for sensor node networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, comprising: in a sensor node network comprising a plurality of sensor nodes, each sensor node from the plurality of sensor nodes having location coordinates that are initially unknown, each sensor node from the plurality of sensor nodes having neighbors, each sensor node from the plurality of sensor nodes capable of determining distances only to that sensor node's neighbors: for each sensor node from the plurality of sensor nodes, communicating with that sensor node's neighbors; and based only on communications between neighbors, in a fully distributed manner, generating a sensor node network layout that indicates the location coordinates of each sensor node." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2008 (12/272,832). 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=7,966,143.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,143&RS=PN/7,966,143 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** New York, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Patent for Network Media Appliance System and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Steven Hoffberg, West Harrison, N.Y., and Linda Hoffberg-Borghesani, Acton, Mass., have developed a patent (7,966,078) for a "network media appliance system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network media appliance, comprising at least one packet data network interface, adapted for communicating data packets with a data network according to an Internet Protocol; a media data interface, and a processor, having an associated memory for storing executable code, said code defining at least a remote virtual interface function, and a data transfer function for controlling transfer of data through said media data interface." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2006 (11/363,412). 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=7,966,078.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,078&RS=PN/7,966,078 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invensys Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Invensys Systems, Foxboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,096) developed by Russell Barr, Millis, Mass., for "systems and methods for isobutyl alcohol (IBA) recovery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for creating dynamic performance measures (DPMs) for an IBA manufacturing process. Included is a method for monitoring an Isobutyl Alcohol (IBA) recovery system that includes computing at least one of an amount of IBA recovered from the IBA recovery system and an amount of waste material produced from the IBA recovery system, and displaying at least one of the recovered IBA and the waste material produced based on time. The method also includes computing a cost saved based on a cost of virgin IBA and the amount of IBA recovered. Computing an amount of waste material includes measuring waste material flow, and computing a cost of waste material management based on the measured waste material flow and a cost per unit volume to dispose of waste material. The IBA recovery system can include an evaporation IBA recovery system and/or a distillation IBA recovery system." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2002 (10/199,832). 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=7,966,096.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,096&RS=PN/7,966,096 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** C.R. Bard Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- C.R. Bard, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,966,062) developed by David P. MacAdam, Millbury, Mass., for a "multi-color overlay system for processing and displaying electrocardiac signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, a method for displaying closely proximate cardiac signals is provided and can include the steps of: (a) identifying one or more overlapping portions of a template signal and a data signal; (b) processing the overlapping portion so as to have a first color when displayed on a display; (c) processing the non-overlapping portion of the template signal to have a second color; (d) processing the non-overlapping portion of the data signal to have a third color; and (e) displaying the processed signals." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2006 (11/383,058). 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=7,966,062.PN.&OS=PN/7,966,062&RS=PN/7,966,062 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,966,294) developed by Vinay Gupta, Sunnyvale, Calif., John Meneghini, Waltham, Mass., and Steven R. Klinkner, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "user interface system for a clustered storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A user interface system simplifies management of a clustered storage system by a user or system administrator. The user interface system comprises a Command Line Interface (CLI) and/or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that supports virtual ports associated with a single physical port and multi-mode operation of ports in the clustered storage system. Management of the clustered storage system is further simplified through the use of a novel command set used to, inter-alia, set a cluster mode and set a USE_PARTNER attribute of an initiator group (igroup)." The patent application was filed on March 10, 2004 (10/797,669). 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=7966294.PN.&OS=PN/7966294&RS=PN/7966294 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hunch Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Hunch, New York, has been assigned a patent (7,966,282) developed by Thomas Pinckney, Brighton, Mass., Chris Dixon, New York, and Matthew Ryan Gattis, New York, for an "interactive machine learning advice facility with contextual suggestions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for helping a user make a decision through the use of a computing facility, where the computing facility may be a machine learning facility. The process may begin with an initial question being received by the computing facility from the user. The user may then be provided with a dialog consisting of questions from the computing facility and answers provided by the user. The computing facility may then provide a decision to the user based on the dialog and pertaining to the initial question, such as a recommendation, a diagnosis, a conclusion, advice, and the like. In embodiments, future questions and decisions provided by the computing facility may be improved through feedback provided by the user. In embodiments, the present invention may be utilized in conjunction with a third-party application." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2009 (12/503,334). 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=7966282.PN.&OS=PN/7966282&RS=PN/7966282 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Systems and Methods for Processing Queries ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Kenneth Haase, Dorchester, Mass., has developed a patent (7,966,311) for "systems and methods for processing queries." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to systems and methods for processing queries. One embodiment of the invention provides a system for executing complex procedural queries across a plurality of databases. The system includes: a query processor capable of partial execution of procedural queries; a set of database adaptors capable of optimizing or and referring collections of queries to external databases; and a query cache component in communication with the query processor and the set of database adaptors. The query cache component stores the results of external database queries in a query cache and notes when a query has not been stored and records the same query." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2003 (10/463,555). 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=7966311.PN.&OS=PN/7966311&RS=PN/7966311 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Managing Long-lived Resource Locks in a Multi-system Mail Infrastructure ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,966,302) developed by Peter K. Lyons, Groton, Mass., for "managing long-lived resource locks in a multi-system mail infrastructure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managing resource locks and provide method, system and computer program product for managing long-lived resource locks. In a first embodiment, a data processing system for managing long-lived resource locks can include one or more work items disposed in a database of work items, each of the work items including a lock time and a lock flag. The system also can include one or more worker tasks in a work system enabled to access the work items and to assert locks on the work items. Notably, the system can include a stale lock detection task in an administration system enabled to detect and release stale locks in the work items. Finally, the system can include a lock assertion task in the work system enabled to maintain locks on the work items on behalf of corresponding ones of the worker tasks utilizing the work items." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2010 (12/842,254). 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=7966302.PN.&OS=PN/7966302&RS=PN/7966302 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Applied Micro Circuits, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,965,946) developed by Keith Conroy, Perkasie, Pa., Omer Acikel, San Diego, and Francesco Caggioni, Winchester, Mass., for a "multichannel optical transport network skew calibration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for calibrating skew in a multichannel optical transport network (OTN) transmission device. The method accepts a pair of 2.sup.n-phase shift keying (2.sup.nPSK) modulated signals via Ix and Qx electrical signal paths, where n>1. Likewise, a pair of 2.sup.p-PSK modulated signals are accepted via Iy and Qy electrical signal paths where p>1. The Ix, Qx, Iy, and Qy signals are correlated to a preamble/header portion of an OTN frame. A voltage on the Ix signal path is compared with Qx, and VO12 voltage is generated. A voltage on the Iy signal path is compared with Qy, and VO34 is generated. One of the Ix or Qx voltages is compared with one of Iy or Qy voltages to generate VOxy. Then, the VO voltages are minimized in response to adjusting time delay modules in the Ix, Qx, Iy, and Qy signals paths." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2008 (12/169,414). 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=7,965,946.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,946&RS=PN/7,965,946 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Icosystem Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Icosystem, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,966,272) developed by Eric Bonabeau, Winchester, Mass., and Pablo Funes, Somerville, Mass., for "methods and systems for multi-participant interactive evolutionary computing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and processor program products that include executing an optimization scheme to obtain a first solution set, presenting the first solution set to at least two users, receiving rankings of the first solution set from the at least two users, aggregating the rankings, and, generating a second solution set based on the aggregated rankings. The optimization scheme can include a genetic algorithm. In embodiments, at least a part of the first solution set can be presented to the users based on the parts of the solution set associated with the user (e.g., user's knowledge)." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2009 (12/621,071). 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=7966272.PN.&OS=PN/7966272&RS=PN/7966272 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Applied Micro Circuits, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,965,941) developed by Keith Conroy, Perkasie, Pa., Omer Acikel, San Diego, and Francesco Caggioni, Winchester, Mass., for a "multichannel optical transport network time domain reflectometry calibration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for controlling time delay in a multichannel optical transport network (OTN) transmission device using time domain reflectometry (TDR) measurements. The method accepts a pair of 2.sup.n-phase shift keying (2.sup.n-PSK) modulated signals via Ix and Qx electrical signal paths, where n>1. Likewise, a pair of 2.sup.p-PSK modulated signals are accepted via Iy and Qy electrical signal paths where p>1. Using TDR modules, signal reflections are measured from an output port for each signal path. The method minimizes time delay differences in the signal reflections for the Ix, Qx, Iy, and Qy signals paths by using the signal reflection measurements to adjust time delay modules in each signal path." The patent application was filed on Sept. 5, 2008 (12/205,776). 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=7,965,941.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,941&RS=PN/7,965,941 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 23 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,965,936) developed by Ramesh Raskar, Cambridge, Mass., and Amit K. Agrawal, Somerville, Mass., for a "4D light field cameras." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A camera acquires a 4D light field of a scene. The camera includes a lens and sensor. A mask is arranged in a straight optical path between the lens and the sensor. The mask including an attenuation pattern to spatially modulate the 4D light field acquired of the scene by the sensor. The pattern has a low spatial frequency when the mask is arranged near the lens, and a high spatial frequency when the mask is arranged near the sensor." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/826,868). 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=7,965,936.PN.&OS=PN/7,965,936&RS=PN/7,965,936 Written by Ankita Das; 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. -1052032 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |