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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Virginia (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 Virginia. *** Clear Wireless Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Clear Wireless, Kirkland, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,970,920) developed by Esmail Dinan, Herndon, Va., for a "dynamic two-dimensional coding for applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for selecting a coding scheme for application-session content in an application session between a server and a client device. In an exemplary embodiment, the client device receives application-session content from the server via a communication path that comprises a wireless link. An exemplary method may involve (a) at the client device, determining current values of one or more quality-of-service indicators, wherein the quality-of-service indicators are indicative of quality of service over the wireless link; and (b) using the current values of the quality-of-service indicators as a basis for selecting a coding scheme that should be used to encode forthcoming applicant-session content. Further, if the selected coding scheme differs from the coding scheme being used by the server, the client device may request that the application server use the selected coding scheme." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/334,705). 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=7970920.PN.&OS=PN/7970920&RS=PN/7970920 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Business Global Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Verizon Business Global, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,971,237) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for providing fraud detection for remote access services." The co-inventors are Michael F. Caslin, Round Hill, Va., Matthew J. Gilbert, Columbus, Ohio, Thomas E. Stepp, Canal Winchester, Ohio, Arthur Lance Springer, Waterloo, Iowa, and John Hans Van Arkel, Colorado Springs, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An approach provides fraud detection in support of data communication services. A usage pattern associated with a particular account for remote access to a data network is monitored. The usage pattern is compared with a reference pattern specified for the account. A fraud alert is selectively generated based on the comparison." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2004 (10/843,856). 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=7,971,237.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,237&RS=PN/7,971,237 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. *** Communicated Enforcement Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Communicated Enforcement, Miami, has been assigned a patent (RE42,495) developed by Stephen Whitten, Harrisonburg, Va., and Richard Stockstill, San Antonio, for an "intruder detection and warning system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An intruder detection and warning system has a plurality of infrared sensors for receiving infrared radiation from respective contiguous areas of premises in need of security. A central illumination unit including a rotatable light is operated to project a beam illuminating a selected one of the contiguous areas of the premises in response to the received infrared radiation by the infrared sensor in the selected area indicating presence of a person in the selected area. Initially a polite message randomly selected from a group of different polite messages is broadcast to request the intruder to leave the premises. When continued presence of the intruder is detected, the light beam is moved away from and then back to the selected area and a further message randomly selected from a group of different more demanding messages is broadcast to demand the intruder to leave the premises. Thus computerized control of the central illumination unit to selectively illuminate areas monitored by respective infrared sensors to detect intruders mimics manual monitoring and security enforcement to more effectively deter intruders. Control of the illumination unit with an associated video camera is passed to a remote monitoring station upon continued failure of the intruder to vacate the premises." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2010 (12/700,241). 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=RE42,495&OS=RE42,495&RS=RE42,495 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Los Alamos National Security Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Los Alamos National Security, Los Alamos, N.M., has been assigned a patent (7,971,073) developed by Chung-Hsing Hsu, Los Alamos, N.M., and Wu-Chun Feng, Blacksburg, Va., for an "adaptive real-time methodology for optimizing energy-efficient computing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective way to reduce energy and power consumption in microprocessor units. Current implementations of DVFS suffer from inaccurate modeling of power requirements and usage, and from inaccurate characterization of the relationships between the applicable variables. A system and method is proposed that adjusts CPU frequency and voltage based on run-time calculations of the workload processing time, as well as a calculation of performance sensitivity with respect to CPU frequency. The system and method are processor independent, and can be applied to either an entire system as a unit, or individually to each process running on a system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2006 (11/556,651). 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=7,971,073.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,073&RS=PN/7,971,073 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,971,062) developed by James P. Hughes, Herndon, Va., Alexander Stewart, Louisville, Colo., and Dwayne A. Edling, Longmont, Colo., for a "token-based encryption key secure conveyance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hand-held token for secure conveyance of encryption keys includes memory for holding a media key and at least one device key. Control logic reads the media key from memory, encrypts the media key based on the device key, and transmits the encrypted media key to a data storage device. The data storage device decrypts the encrypted media key using its own device key, which may have previously been downloaded from a token." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2006 (11/403,109). 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=7,971,062.PN.&OS=PN/7,971,062&RS=PN/7,971,062 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** Virginia Inventor Develops Patent for Pulse Battery System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Jason Levitt, Falls Church, Va., has been issued a patent (D640,629) for an ornamental design for a pulse battery system. The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2010 (D/367,304). 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=D640,629.PN.&OS=PN/D640,629&RS=PN/D640,629 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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