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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Florida (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 Florida. *** Jabil Circuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Jabil Circuit, St. Petersburg, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,969,531) developed by four co-inventors for an "integrated multi-function light guide for LCD backlighting." The co-inventors are Lin Li, St. Petersburg, Fla., Israel J. Morejon, Tampa, Fla., Jinhui Zhai, Oldsmar, Fla., and Evan O'Sullivan, Safety Harbor, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A backlighting apparatus for a flat panel LCD display includes an elongate light guide having a front wall through which travels polarized light in a direction toward the LCD display. An RGB LED set is positioned adjacent a first end wall of the light guide so that light enters the light guide from the first end wall. A retardation and reflection film covers respective external surfaces of the bottom wall and a second end wall. Microlenses are formed in the front wall along its extent and each microlens is filled with a birefringent material. Light emitted by the LED set travels through a collimated light coupling module and exits the light guide through the birefringent microlenses in polarized form toward the LCD display. The viewing angles and angular light distributions of the LCD display in vertical and horizontal directions are optimized for enhancing the brightness without involving DBEF and BEF." The patent application was filed on March 10, 2008 (12/045,467). 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=79,69,531&OS=79,69,531&RS=79,69,531 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Central Florida, Toppoly Optoelectronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- The University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla., and Toppoly Optoelectronics, Miao-Li County, Taiwan, have been assigned a patent (7,969,540) developed by Xinyu Zhu, Orlando, Fla., Zhibing Ge, Orlando, Fla., and Shin-Tson Wu, Oviedo, Fla., for a "transflective liquid crystal display having mutually complementary patterned electrode and reflector." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transflective liquid crystal display with uniform cell gap configuration throughout the transmissive and the reflective display region is invented. Mutually complementary common electrode pattern and reflector pattern or mutually complementary ITO pixel electrode pattern and reflector pattern produce an electric field in the transmissive display region that has a uniform longitudinal field and an electric field in the reflective display region that is a fringing field. An initially vertically aligned negative dielectric anisotropic nematic liquid crystal material between the electrodes forms a smaller tilt angle with respect to the substrate normal in the reflective display region while a larger tilt angle with respect to the substrate normal in the transmissive display region. Consequently, the ambient incident light experiences smaller phase retardation in the reflective display region while the light from the backlight source experiences larger phase retardation. Since the ambient light passes through the reflective display region twice while the light from the backlight source passes through the transmissive display region only once, by properly designing the electrodes and the reflector width, the light from both ambient light source and backlight source will experience almost the same phase retardation in both reflective and transmissive display regions. As a result, the electro-optical performance curves of both-transmissive display mode and reflective display mode overlap." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2007 (11/975,230). 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=79,69,540&OS=79,69,540&RS=79,69,540 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Harris Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Harris, Melbourne, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,969,358) developed by six co-inventors for a "compensation of beamforming errors in a communications system having widely spaced antenna elements." The co-inventors are G. Patrick Martin, Merritt Island, Fla., Kathleen Minear, Palm Bay, Fla., John Roach, Indialantic, Fla., Allan V. Dianic, Melbourne, Fla., William C. Adams Jr., West Melbourne, Fla., and Lynda Margaret Ralston, West Melbourne, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for operating a communications system. The methods involve computing one or more complex weights to be applied to transmit signals and receive signals by beamformers. The complex weights are based at least on configuration data for the communications system. The methods also involve applying a first plurality of weight corrections to the complex weights based on phasing errors occurring in a communication path inclusive of a control system and antenna elements. The methods further involve applying a second plurality of weight corrections to the complex weights based on phase differences at the antenna elements relative to a reference location for the receive signals." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2008 (12/273,760). 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=79,69,358.PN.&OS=PN/79,69,358&RS=PN/79,69,358 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Florida, Texas Inventors Develop Patent for Flow Detector With Alarm Features ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Matt White, Tampa, Fla., and Cary Frieden, Austin, Texas, have developed a patent (7,969,318) for a "flow detector with alarm features." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The disclosed invention relates to detecting a flow condition in a fluid supply system. The invention is particularly useful for detecting flow in a toilet system. The flow detection device comprises a processor associated with a flow sensor. Predefined flow criteria are stored in a memory associated with said processor. When the processor detects flow through the fluid supply system, the processor uses the flow criteria to characterize the detected flow. If such flow complies with predefined flow conditions, a flow event is noted and an alert is issue. Such alert is configured according to predefined alert-criteria stored in a memory." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2008 (12/139,503). 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=79,69,318.PN.&OS=PN/79,69,318&RS=PN/79,69,318 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InvisiTrack Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- InvisiTrack, Edgewater, Md., has been assigned a patent (7,969,311) developed by Felix Markhovsky, San Jose, Calif., and Truman Prevatt, Brooksville, Fla., for a "multi-path mitigation in rangefinding and tracking objects using reduced attenuation RF technology." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for identification, tracking and locating in wireless communications and wireless networks. The method and system use reference and/or pilot signals that are present in wireless communications and wireless networks. The method and system might also use RTT, TOA and time-stamping measurements/techniques to determine one or more reference signals traveling time between the Base Station (eNB) or its functional equivalent and mobile device (UE) and or network device. Other wireless networks that do not use reference and/or pilot signals may employ one or more of the following types of alternate embodiments of present invention: 1) where a portion of frame is dedicated to the ranging signal/ranging signal elements; 2) where the ranging signal elements are embedded into (spread across) transmit/receive signals frame(s); and 3) where the ranging signal elements are embedded with the data. The method and system includes multi-path mitigations processor and multi-path mitigations techniques and algorithms which improve the track-locate accuracy. The method and system allow achieving increased accuracy by using multi-path mitigations processor and multi-path mitigations techniques and algorithms. The techniques of Digital Signal Processing and Software-Defined Radio are used." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2011 (13/008,519). 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=7969311.PN.&OS=PN/7969311&RS=PN/7969311 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Energy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Siemens Energy, Orlando, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,969,323) developed by four co-inventors for an "instrumented component for combustion turbine engine." The co-inventors are David J. Mitchell, Oviedo, Fla., Anand A. Kulkarni, Oviedo, Fla., Ramesh Subramanian, Oviedo, Fla., and Edward R. Roesch, Orlando, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An instrumented component (18, 19) for use in various operating environments such as within a combustion turbine engine (10). The component (18, 19) may have a substrate, a sensor (50, 94, 134) connected with the substrate for sensing a condition of the component (18, 19) during operation of the combustion turbine (10) and a connector (52, 92, 140) attached to the substrate and in communication with the sensor (50, 94, 134) for routing a data signal from the sensor (50, 94, 134) to a termination location (53). The component (18, 19) may include a wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) in communication with the connector (52, 92, 140) for wirelessly transmitting the data signal. Recesses (114, 116) may be formed with a root portion (112, 132) of components (18, 19) within which wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) may be affixed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2006 (11/521,193). 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=79,69,323.PN.&OS=PN/79,69,323&RS=PN/79,69,323 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent for Method for Establishing and Operating a Mobile Ad-hoc Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,969,914) developed by Matthew Gerber, Winter Springs, Fla., and Robert Hall, Berkeley Heights, N.J., for a "method for establishing and operating a mobile Ad-Hoc network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for creating an ad-hoc network that assembles a MANET inductively with no need for any node to request any information, needing only to hear information from an ad-hoc group of at least one node, to select its uplink relay node from the group. The resulting tree-structure network efficiently communicates information upstream to a root node and to all intermediate relay nodes. Downstream communication is enabled by having nodes remember node addresses of information packets arriving from respective downstream nodes." The patent application was filed on July 25, 2008 (12/220,598). 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=7,969,914&OS=7,969,914&RS=7,969,914 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** FLIR Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- FLIR Systems, Wilsonville, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,970,031) developed by William E. Williams, Melbourne, Fla., Charles Carter, Orlando, Fla., and Robert Pollard, Orlando, Fla., for a "Q-switched laser with passive discharge assembly." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention concern a passive discharge assembly comprising one or more substantially sharp electrode pins that are positioned proximate to a charged, insulating surface, such as the optical entrance and exit surface of a Q-switch crystal, e.g., lithium niobate (LiNbO.sub.3). The electrode pins are connected either to the ground or, alternatively, to a static source of neutralizing charge. The purpose of the electrodes is to ionize the air near the tips due to the high electric field generated by the surface charge. The air ions, in turn, neutralize the surface charge as they are attracted to the surface due to the electrical attraction. In the absence of a surface charge, no air ionization occurs. In one embodiment, the electrode pins are located near the Q-switch crystal surface, but outside the path of the laser beam propagating into and out of the Q-switch crystal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2009 (12/616,527). 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=7,970,031&OS=7,970,031&RS=7,970,031 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Paradyne Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Paradyne, Largo, Fla., has been assigned a patent (7,969,900) developed by Miguel Abdo, Gulfport, Fla., Greg Munroe, Largo, Fla., and William H. Venz, Seminole, Fla., for a "determination of network performance characteristics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for testing network performance and communicating network device information are disclosed. The preferred embodiments of the present invention enhance the standard ICMP echo or ping protocol, while still maintaining backward compatibility. Furthermore, the network performance testing can be based on different qualities of service or types of service. This allows the network testing to be useful in real-time applications such as voice and/or video." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2003 (10/515,222). 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=7,969,900&OS=7,969,900&RS=7,969,900 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Florida International University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- Florida International University, Miami, has been assigned a patent (7,969,775) developed by Sakhrat Khizroev, Coral Gables, Fla., for a "three dimensional magnetic memory and/or recording device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic memory and/or recording device includes a three dimensional magnetic medium. Three dimensional magnetic medium includes a plurality of magnetic sublayers, each of the magnetic sublayers being separated from one other by non-magnetic interlayers." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2010 (12/726,070). 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=7969775.PN.&OS=PN/7969775&RS=PN/7969775 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** ST-Ericsson Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- ST-Ericsson, Plan-les Ouates, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (7,969,962) developed by Pierluigi D'Alessandro, Davenport, Fla., for a "fine time tracking with improved resolution." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to compensation method and circuit for compensating time drifts in a receiver suited for multi-path environment. The time drifts are separated into a first component common to groups of paths belonging to the same radio link, for example a radio link of a connection between a user equipment and a base station, and second components valid for each individual path belonging to a group. The first component is processed by employing first feedback means with a first bandwidth, and the second components are processed by employing a second feedback means with a second bandwidth, wherein the first bandwidth is set to a value higher than the second bandwidth. Thereby, the bandwidth of the loop devoted to the individual tracking of each path can be slower and adjusted to environmental conditions, so as to allow application of a principle of interference mitigation for improving time resolution." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2005 (11/813,019). 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=7,969,962&OS=7,969,962&RS=7,969,962 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** McAfee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 1 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,969,991) developed by Michael Donovan Keene, Coral Springs, Fla., Stevan Markovic, Boynton Beach, Fla., and Donnie B. Law, Plantation, Fla., for a "session announcement system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cluster system and method. The cluster includes a first and a second interface and two or more nodes, wherein each node is connected to the first and second interfaces, wherein exactly one node includes a first redirector and wherein exactly one node includes a second redirector. The first and second redirectors include means for establishing and tracking sessions and means for forwarding packets to the chosen node. The chosen node receives a packet from the first redirector and uses the packet to send a Session Announcement to the second redirector." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2007 (11/738,709). 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=7,969,991&OS=7,969,991&RS=7,969,991 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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