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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Utah (June 30)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Utah. *** University of Utah Research Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, has been assigned a patent (7,970,214) developed by Dan J. Kadrmas, North Salt Lake, Utah, for a "rotate and slant projector for fast fully-3D iterative tomographic reconstruction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a rotate-and-slant projector that takes advantage of symmetries in the geometry to compute truly volumetric projections to multiple oblique sinograms in a computationally efficient manner. It is based upon the 2D rotation-based projector using the fast three-pass method of shears, and it conserves the 2D rotator computations for multiple projections to each oblique sinogram set. The projector is equally applicable to both conventional evenly-spaced projections and unevenly-spaced line-of-response (LOR) data (where the arc correction is modeled within the projector). The LOR-based version models the exact location of the direct and oblique LORs, and provides an ordinary Poisson reconstruction framework. Speed optimizations of various embodiments of the projector include advantageously utilizing data symmetries such as the vertical symmetry of the oblique projection process, a coarse-depth compression, and array indexing schemes which maximize serial memory access." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2007 (11/627,004). 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=7,970,214.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,214&RS=PN/7,970,214 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Managing and Distributing Assets over a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,856) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for managing and distributing assets over a network."The co-inventors are Brian D. Goodman, Norwalk, Conn., Gregory J. Boss, American Fork, Utah, Christopher J. Dawson, Arlington, Va., and Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of managing assets on a distributed grid enabled network. The system and method includes sending, to a content provider, a conditional request to obtain a requested asset. The system and method further includes receiving, in response to the conditional request, information to identify a most recent copy of the requested asset, and transferring the requested asset to at least one grid enabled peer for subsequent downloading to a requesting client." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2006 (11/421,980). 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=7,970,856&OS=7,970,856&RS=7,970,856 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for Sublayered Application Layered System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,789) developed by Jared Blaser, Orem, Utah, and Randall Cook, Springville, Utah, for a "sublayered application layered system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The inventions relate generally to layered computing systems that provide public access to the content of the layers. Also disclosed herein are prioritization schemes usable in a layered computing system, including prioritization by layer type, by assigned priority weights, by access type, by sub-layers and by read-write indicators. Processes may further be associated to layers from which they originate, and priority given to associated layers thereby. Association may also be provided for installer services, thereby depositing an applications updates into its layer. Layers may also contain file reference information including exclusion or inclusion entries indicating what files may be written thereto. Paths recorded in layers may also embed variables to true paths on a layered system. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims." The patent application was filed on Jan. 3, 2006 (11/324,496). 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=7,970,789&OS=7,970,789&RS=7,970,789 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oltine Acquistitions NY Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Oltine Acquistitions NY, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (7,970,626) developed by seven co-inventors for "facilitating payments to health care providers." The co-inventors are Christopher P. Cracchiolo, Manalapan, N.J., Jason S. Jagatic, Hoboken, N.J., Ahana M. Kalappa, New York, Mark C. Keck, New York, Shari Pincock, West Jordan, Utah, Todd H. Reynders, Westfield, N.J., and Sunil Sachdev, Forest Hills, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method to facilitate a purchase comprising: receiving, at a first host computer, a request from a provider for payment authorization for a charge to a purchaser; examining a database coupled to the first host computer for information concerning the purchaser; providing the information concerning the purchaser to a second host computer associated with the provider; receiving at the first host computer information from a third host computer concerning a negotiated amount of the charge to the purchaser; tendering payment of the negotiated charge to the provider; and withdrawing an amount no greater than the negotiated amount of the charge from an account of the purchaser." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/275,403). 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=7970626.PN.&OS=PN/7970626&RS=PN/7970626 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Synopsys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,596) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method and system for virtual prototyping." The co-inventors are Stephen L. Bade, Lindon, Utah, Shay Ben-Chorin, Cupertino, Calif., Paul Caamano, San Mateo, Calif., Marcelo E. Montoreano, Santa Cruz, Calif., Ani Taggu, Campbell, Calif., Filip C. Thoen, San Jose, Calif., and Dean C. Wills, Corvallis, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integrated design environment (IDE) is disclosed for forming virtual embedded systems. The IDE includes a design language for forming finite state machine models of hardware components that are coupled to simulators of processor cores, preferably instruction set accurate simulators. A software debugger interface permits a software application to be loaded and executed on the virtual embedded system. A virtual test bench may be coupled to the simulation to serve as a human-machine interface. In one embodiment, the IDE is provided as a web-based service for the evaluation, development and procurement phases of an embedded system project. IP components, such as processor cores, may be evaluated using a virtual embedded system. In one embodiment, a virtual embedded system is used as an executable specification for the procurement of a good or service related to an embedded system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2009 (12/566,616). 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=7970596.PN.&OS=PN/7970596&RS=PN/7970596 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1052777 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |