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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Connecticut (July 1)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Connecticut. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Preemptive Variable Rate Travel Fees ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,969,325) developed by six co-inventors for a "preemptive variable rate travel fees." The co-inventors are Rick A. Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., Naveen Lamba, Haymarket, Va., Colin Fung Wan Lim, Twickenham, United Kingdom, Benjamin G. Morris, Falls Church, Va., James W. Seaman, Falls Church, Va., and Vinodh K. Swaminathan, Riverside, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Variable thoroughfare toll rates are applied in anticipation of an event impacting traffic flow. An event occurrence is identified and determined to cause a change in a normal traffic flow amount on an impacted section of a thoroughfare. A traveler is notified of the impacted section of the thoroughfare in association with an impacted section-choice toll rate, a bypass choice in association with a bypass-choice toll rate, and a future time period duration for an application of the bypass-choice and impacted section-choice rates. A notified traveler is charged a toll for using the thoroughfare as a function of the bypass-choice rate in response to choosing to travel upon the presented bypass choice, or as a function of an impacted section-choice toll rate in response choosing to travel upon the presented impacted section choice." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2008 (12/341,054). 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=79,69,325.PN.&OS=PN/79,69,325&RS=PN/79,69,325 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Coherent Assigned Patent for Arrangement for RF Power Delivery to a Gas Discharge Laser with Cascaded Transmission Line Sections ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Coherent, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,037) developed by Frederick W. Hauer, Windsor, Conn., Patrick T. Tracy, Bolton, Conn., and R. Russel Austin, Cool, Calif., for an "arrangement for RF power delivery to a gas discharge laser with cascaded transmission line sections." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "RF power is transmitted to a CO.sub.2 gas discharge laser form a source of RF power via a series combination of transmission line sections. The lengths and characteristic impedances of the transmission line sections are selected to transform the impedance of the RF power source to the operating impedance of the laser." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2009 (12/482,341). 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=7,970,037&OS=7,970,037&RS=7,970,037 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Coherent Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Coherent, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,038) developed by Christian J. Shackleton, Granby, Conn., Raul Martin Wong Gutierrez, Windsor, Conn., for a "slab laser with stand-off for ceramic spacers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An RF excited gas discharge laser is disclosed including a housing holding the lasing gas. An electrode assembly is mounted within the housing. The electrode assembly includes a pair of elongated planar electrodes mounted in face to face relationship with a narrow gap therebetween. A pair of planar dielectric plates are positioned along the side edges of the gap to seal the discharge region. The plates extend part of the way into the gap from both sides edges of the electrodes. The inner surfaces of the electrodes are provided with an opposed trench in the region surrounding the inner edges of the plates. In this way, the exposure of the inner edges of the plates to the discharge is minimized improving performance." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2008 (12/166,640). 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=7,970,038&OS=7,970,038&RS=7,970,038 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1052908 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |