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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (June 29)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Carolina. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method, System and Program Product for Closing a Communication Session ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,915) developed by four co-inventors for a "method, system and program product for closing a communication session with outstanding data commands on a transport communication system." The co-inventors are Erik J. Burckart, Raleigh, N.C., David B. Gilgen, Raleigh, N.C., Craig A. Lanzen, Lambertville, Mich., and William D. Wigger, Durham, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Under the present invention, when a TCS receives a data command (e.g., a read or write command) pursuant to a communication session between the TCS and an application, it will first request permission from a permission system to execute the data command. By applying a set of rules to a setting of a state variable associated with the TCS, the permission system will determine whether to grant the permission. If so, the TCS will execute the data command and change the setting of the state variable. If a close command is later received by the TCS to close the communication session, permission will once again be requested from the permission system, which will again apply a set of rules to the current setting of the state variable to determine if the session can be safely closed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2004 (10/952,106). 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=7970915.PN.&OS=PN/7970915&RS=PN/7970915 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Napo Enterprises Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Napo Enterprises, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,970,922) developed by Hugh Svendsen, Chapel Hill, N.C., for "P2P real time media recommendations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are described for providing peer-to-peer (P2P) media recommendations. In one embodiment, a central streaming media service operates to stream media presentations to user devices of users. For each user desiring to send and receive recommendations, each time a media presentation is streamed to and played by a user device of the user, the central media service provides a recommendation identifying the media presentation to one or more other users associated with the user. Similarly, the central media service provides media recommendations to the user from one or more other users. Once streaming and playback of the media presentation is complete or substantially complete, the central streaming media service automatically selects a next media presentation for the user from a group of media presentations including those identified by the recommendations provided to the user and begins streaming the next media presentation to the user device of the user." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2008 (12/195,628). 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=7970922.PN.&OS=PN/7970922&RS=PN/7970922 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Preemptive Thermal Management for a Computing System Based on Cache Performance ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,102) developed by four co-inventors for a "preemptive thermal management for a computing system based on cache performance." The co-inventors are Challis L. Purrington, Raleigh, N.C., Michael L. Scollard, Raleigh, N.C., Victor A. Stankevich, Cary, N.C., and Ivan R. Zapata, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for preemptive thermal management for a computing system based on cache performance, the computing system having a processor, cached computer memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a processor cache operatively coupled to the processor, the processor cache capable of storing a subset of memory contents of the cached computer memory, that include: attempting, by the processor, to retrieve portions of the memory contents of the cached computer memory from the processor cache, resulting in cache misses for the processor cache; tracking, by the processor, cache miss statistics for the processor cache in the computing system, the cache miss statistics describing the cache misses for the processor cache; and administering a thermal management device for the computing system in dependence upon the cache miss statistics, the thermal management device operatively coupled to the processor and capable of managing temperature for the computing system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (11/960,599). 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=79,71,102&OS=79,71,102&RS=79,71,102 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Contextual and Inline Error Resolution and User Community ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,103) developed by four co-inventors for a "contextual and inline error resolution and user community." The co-inventors are Thomas S. Brugler, Fuquay-Varina, N.C., Todd M. Eischeid, Cary, N.C., Mark E. Molander, Cary, N.C., and Kerry A. Ortega, Raleigh, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An event log system for capturing event information associated with error events occurring within a computer system. The event log system includes an event log displaying error messages associated with the error events captured within the computer system, and displaying inline error resolution information within each error message corresponding to each respective error event. User community information such as links to wiki topics and forum threads are contextually provided for and inline with individual error log entries. Also, action buttons to help the user resolve errors and problems are also contextually provided, as are surfaced links to domain experts within the user community, such as online chat buttons to them." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2009 (12/355,414). 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=79,71,103&OS=79,71,103&RS=79,71,103 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automated Interaction Diagram Generation using Source Code Breakpoints ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,189) developed by Daniel Reed Drake, Apex, N.C., for an "automated interaction diagram generation using source code breakpoints." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated interaction diagram generation using source code breakpoints is presented. A user sets diagram breakpoints at locations in source code using an integrated development environment (IDE) that includes a diagram generation manager. The user sets the breakpoints at locations where the user wishes to capture the interaction between objects on an interaction diagram. The IDE executes the code and the diagram generation manager collects breakpoint data corresponding to the breakpoints. Once the source code finishes executing, the diagram generation manager formats the breakpoint data and generates an interaction diagram based upon the formatted breakpoint data. The user may instruct the diagram generation manager to add or remove detail from the interaction diagram by adjusting breakpoint attributes and/or adding/deleting breakpoints." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2008 (12/340,651). 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=7,971,189.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,189&RS=PN/7,971,189 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent for Enhanced Statistical Measurement Analysis and Reporting ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,971,181) developed by five co-inventors for an "enhanced statistical measurement analysis and reporting." The co-inventors are Steven E. Pabalate, Raleigh, N.C., Jeffrey R. Amspaugh, Great Falls, Va., Christine M. Rebok, Ashburn, Va., Brian S. Birtell, Falls Church, Va., and Robert P. Sarlo, Fairfax, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Project information relating to a project is received, the project information identifying a project type, an authorized write entity, and an authorized approval entity, and a valid metric is selected based at least on the project type, the valid metric measuring an aspect of performance of the project. Base measures corresponding to the valid metric are received from the authorized write entity, the base measures further including periodic base measures corresponding to at least one metric period, and aperiodic base measures corresponding to an aperiodic incident, and the valid metric is calculated based on the base measures. The base measures are sorted into excluded base measures and non-excluded base measures, organizational baseline data is imported, and an organizational indicator is calculated based on the non-excluded base measures and the organizational baseline data." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2006 (11/457,653). 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=7,971,181.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,181&RS=PN/7,971,181 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Which Establishes Policy Artifacts ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,971,231) developed by five co-inventors for a "configuration management database (CMDB) which establishes policy artifacts and automatic tagging of the same." The co-inventors are Pratik Gupta, Cary, N.C., Neeraj Joshi, Morrisville, N.C., David L. Kaminsky, Chapel Hill, N.C., David B. Lindquist, Raleigh, N.C., and Balachandar Rajaraman, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention discloses a solution for managing policy artifacts using a configuration management database (CMDB). Policies can be associated with a number of information technology resources, such as servers, businesses applications and the like. The solution permits automatic tagging of the policies (auto-discovery) as they enter the CMDB. For example, when a policy is added, it can be compared against a set of tagging rules. Multiple rules can match a new policy, which results in multiple tags being added for the policy. The policy specific tags can be optionally indexed for faster searching. Once indexed, the CMDB can support policy and policy tag based queries. In one embodiment, policy artifacts can be manipulated within a CMDB tool in a manner consistent with how the CMDB tool handles configuration items (CIs)." The patent application was filed on Oct. 2, 2007 (11/866,243). 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=7,971,231.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,231&RS=PN/7,971,231 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Inspire Pharmaceuticals Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (D640,554) developed by Ramesh Krishnamoorthy, Durham, N.C., for an ornamental design for a medicine dispenser. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "I claim the ornamental design for the medicine dispenser, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (D/364,902). 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=D640,554.PN.&OS=PN/D640,554&RS=PN/D640,554 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hitwise Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Hitwise, Melbourne Victoria, Australia, has been assigned a patent (7,971,260) developed by four co-inventors for a "matching session records of network users with corresponding transaction data." The co-inventors are Jan-Dieter Spalink, Durham, N.C., Brian R.D. Gullette, Durham, N.C., Andrew Hatchell, Cary, N.C., and Randall C. Nortman, Cary, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for collecting data regarding network behaviors of users is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system combines session records of users with corresponding transaction records reflective of e-commerce transactions. The session records may, for example, be generated by one or more collection engines deployed by one or more Internet Service Providers. The transaction records may, for example, be obtained through interactions with one or more merchant web sites. By combining these two types of information, the system can, for example, identify a set of user actions that led to a particular purchase transaction." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2010 (12/760,989). 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=7,971,260.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,260&RS=PN/7,971,260 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BSH Home Appliances Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- BSH Home Appliances, Huntington Beach, Calif., has been assigned a patent (D640,498) developed by Graham Sadtler, New Bern, N.C., for an ornamental design for a cooktop. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a cooktop, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2009 (D/341,070). 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=D640,498.PN.&OS=PN/D640,498&RS=PN/D640,498 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Duke University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Duke University, Durham, N.C., has been assigned a patent (RE42,497) developed by Adam Wax, Chapel Hill, N.C., for a "fourier domain low-coherence interferometry for light scattering spectroscopy apparatus and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for obtaining depth-resolved spectra for the purpose of determining the size of scatterers by measuring their elastic scattering properties. Depth resolution is achieved by using a white light source in a Michelson interferometer and dispersing a mixed signal and reference fields. The measured spectrum is Fourier transformed to obtain an axial spatial cross-correlation between the signal and reference fields with near 1 .mu.m depth-resolution. The spectral dependence of scattering by the sample is determined by windowing the spectrum to measure the scattering amplitude as a function of wavenumber." The patent application was filed on Sept. 5, 2008 (12/205,248). 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=RE42,497&OS=RE42,497&RS=RE42,497 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** North Carolina Inventor Develops Patent for Multi-sump Grease Containment Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Joseph R. Dunn, Raleigh, N.C., has been issued a patent (D640,782) for an ornamental design for a "multi-sump grease containment apparatus." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2010 (D/354,523). 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=D640,782&OS=D640,782&RS=D640,782 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** North Carolina Inventor Develops Patent for Corner Sump for Grease Containment System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Joseph R. Dunn, Raleigh, N.C., has been issued a patent (D640,783) for an ornamental design for a "corner sump for grease containment system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2010 (D/354,526). 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=D640,783&OS=D640,783&RS=D640,783 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** BSH Home Appliances Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- BSH Home Appliances, Huntington Beach, Calif., has been assigned a patent (No. D640,842) developed by Lindsay Eng, New Bern, N.C., for an ornamental design for a cup shelf. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a cup shelf, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2009 (D/339,335). 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=D640,842&OS=D640,842&RS=D640,842 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Bank of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Bank of America, Charlotte, N.C., has been assigned a patent (7,971,059) developed by Matthew Alexander Calman, Charlotte, N.C., and William Scott Treadwell, Warrenton, Va., for a "secure channel for image transmission." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, devices, and methods for establishing a secure session for the transmission of data from an input device to a remote server device is disclosed. The input device may be an electronic check scanner attached to a banking customer's home personal computer. The customer may visit a bank's Internet website using the web browser or other application on their personal computer, and then submit scanned images of check to the bank. The bank, however, to ensure security and prevent fraud, may wish to establish a secure session between the devices and components in the system before the image data may be scanned and transmitted." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2007 (11/755,543). 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=7,971,059.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,059&RS=PN/7,971,059 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (7,971,044) developed by James Norris Dieffenderfer, Apex, N.C., Brian Michael Stempel, Raleigh, N.C., and Rodney Wayne Smith, Raleigh, N.C., for a "link stack repair of erroneous speculative update." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Whenever a link address is written to the link stack, the prior value of the link stack entry is saved, and is restored to the link stack after a link stack push operation is speculatively executed following a mispredicted branch. This condition is detected by maintaining a count of the total number of uncommitted link stack write instructions in the pipeline, and a count of the number of uncommitted link stack write instructions ahead of each branch instruction. When a branch is evaluated and determined to have been mispredicted, the count associated with it is compared to the total count. A discrepancy indicates a link stack write instruction was speculatively issued into the pipeline after the mispredicted branch instruction, and pushed a link address onto the link stack. The prior link address is restored to the link stack from the link stack restore buffer." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2007 (11/867,727). 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=7,971,044.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,044&RS=PN/7,971,044 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Altera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Altera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,971,036) developed by Gerald George Pechanek, Cary, N.C., and Mihailo M. Stojancic, Berkeley, Calif., for "methods and apparatus for attaching application specific functions within an array processor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-node video signal processor (VSP.sub.N) is describes that tightly couples multiple multi-cycle state machines (hardware assist units) to each processor and each memory in each node of an N node scalable array processor. VSP.sub.N memory hardware assist instructions are used to initiate multi-cycle state machine functions, to pass parameters to the multi-cycle state machines, to fetch operands from a node's memory, and to control the transfer of results from the multi-cycle state machines." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2007 (11/736,788). 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=7,971,036.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,036&RS=PN/7,971,036 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cree Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Cree, Durham, N.C., has been assigned a patent (D640,645) developed by Peter Andrews, Durham, N.C., and Nicholas W. Medendorp Jr., Raleigh, N.C., for an ornamental design for a lamp package. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a lamp package, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 4, 2008 (D/328,924). 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=D640,645.PN.&OS=PN/D640,645&RS=PN/D640,645 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** RGB Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- RGB Systems, Anaheim, Calif., has been assigned a patent (D640,577) developed by David Libman, Dove Canyon, Calif., Tuan Tran, Irvine, Calif., and Robert Chaloupecky, Apex, N.C., for an ornamental design for a "cover for surface mount control box." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a cover for a surface mount control box, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2009 (D/316,153). 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=D640,577.PN.&OS=PN/D640,577&RS=PN/D640,577 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Newell Window Furnishings Assigned Patent for Package and a Window Covering ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Newell Window Furnishings, High Point, N.C., has been assigned a patent (D640,567) developed by seven co-inventors for an ornamental design for a "package and a window covering." The co-inventors are Timothy D. Cluett, Chalfont, Pa., Kristi Jane Georgi, Dunwoody, Ga., Brian Bellamy Johnson, Atlanta, James McCauley, Roswell, Ga., William Norris Scott, Decatur, Ga., Martin Richard Van Buren, Atlanta, and Russell Dudley Wooten, Mebane, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "We claim the ornamental design for a package and a window covering, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2010 (D/366,071). 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=D640,567.PN.&OS=PN/D640,567&RS=PN/D640,567 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Newell Window Furnishings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Newell Window Furnishings, High Point, N.C., has been assigned a patent (D640,568) developed by seven co-inventors for an ornamental design for a "package and a window covering." The co-inventors are Timothy D. Cluett, Summerfield, N.C., Kristi Jane Georgi, Dunwoody, Ga., Brian Bellamy Johnson, Atlanta, James McCauley, Roswell, Ga., William Norris Scott, Decatur, Ga., Martin Richard Van Buren, Atlanta, and Russell Dudley Wooten, Mebane, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "We claim the ornamental design for a package and a window covering, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2010 (D/366,072). 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=D640,568.PN.&OS=PN/D640,568&RS=PN/D640,568 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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