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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Wisconsin (July 14)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Wisconsin. *** Cummins-Allison Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Cummins-Allison, Mt. Prospect, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,978,899) developed by nine co-inventors for a "currency processing system with fitness detection." The co-inventors are Charles P. Jenrick, Chicago, Douglas U. Mennie, Barrington, Ill., John R. Blake, St. Charles, Ill., Matthew L. Anderson, Salem, Wis., Gary P. Watts, Buffalo Grove, Ill., Curtis W. Hallowell, Palatine, Ill., Robert J. Klein, Chicago, Jeffrey G. Knoll, Carol Stream, Ill., and Tomasz M. Jagielinski, Carlsbad, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, a method of processing currency in a currency processing machine includes the act of retrieving, from a plurality of input currency bills, characteristic information from each of the bills, the characteristic information itself including at least a first characteristic information relating to fitness. The method also includes the act of assigning to each currency bill one of a plurality of fitness types and fitness levels relating to the first characteristic information of the bill, at least one of the fitness types and the fitness levels being defined by a user. The method also includes the act of outputting each currency bill along one of a plurality of output paths designated by the user to receive currency bills, the output path having a fitness type and/or fitness level assigned to the currency bill." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2006 (11/544,228). 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=7,978,899.PN.&OS=PN/7,978,899&RS=PN/7,978,899 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method of Managing and Providing Parameterized Queries ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,979,456) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of managing and providing parameterized queries." The co-inventors are Richard D. Dettinger, Rochester, Minn., Dan P. Kolz, Rochester, Minn., Richard J. Stevens, Rochester, Minn., and Shannon E. Wenzel, Colby, Wis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for managing parameterized queries and making them available to users based on associations between parameterized queries and fields belonging to result sets are provided. By associating fields with parameterized queries, a query manager can be configured to provide users with a contextually appropriate selection of parameterized queries that can be used to obtain data related to objects in a result set. The selection of parameterized queries may be provided to users via a variety of interfaces including graphic interfaces and plug-in components utilized by external applications." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2004 (10/821,149). 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=7,979,456&OS=7,979,456&RS=7,979,456 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 4Imprint Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- 4Imprint, Oshkosh, Wis., has been assigned a patent (7,979,318) developed by Richard J. Morton, Oshkosh, Wis., and Kevin Lyons-Tarr, Neenah, Wis., for a "method, system and software product for creating variable pricing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and software product allows the seller of products or services to offer variable pricing while still basing that pricing on the quantity selected by a buyer. It also provides the seller with the ability to adjust the per unit price of any given product or service along a calculated adjustment curve that would exist between price breaks. Two values need to be stored for each plot point on the adjustment curve, the "quantity percentile" and the "price percentile." To calculate the quantity percentile, the seller determines the difference in quantities between the start price break and the end price break for the specific adjustment curve that is being plotted. The "price percentile" represents the amount of the difference between the start and end price break that will be used to discount the start price breaks price at the quantity level that was calculated in the quantity percentile." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2009 (12/422,748). 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=7979318.PN.&OS=PN/7979318&RS=PN/7979318 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Epic Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Epic Systems, Verona, Wis., has been assigned a patent (7,979,294) developed by Steven J. Larsen, Cross Plains, Wis., Sameer Grover, Sun Prairie, Wis., and Marie C. Derose, Madison, Wis., for a "system and method for providing decision support to appointment schedulers in a healthcare setting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing a healthcare provider the ability to schedule an appointment including receiving a patient's requested appointment from an appointment scheduler; receiving an initial visit type from the appointment scheduler corresponding to the requested appointment; scheduling the requested appointment when it is determined that the requested appointment corresponds to a basic appointment; and providing the appointment scheduler with a set of decision support tools and responding to the requested appointment, when it is determined that the requested appointment corresponds to a complex appointment." The patent application was filed on July 31, 2003 (10/631,598). 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=7979294.PN.&OS=PN/7979294&RS=PN/7979294 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,979,262) developed by Srinivasan Iyengar, Round Rock, Texas, Abhijeet Kolpekwar, New Berlin, Wis., and Chandrashekar L. Chetput, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "method for verifying connectivity of electrical circuit components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Connections between digital blocks and other circuit components, such as power supplies and clocks, are verified using a discrete property or object, such as a discrete discipline. A discrete discipline is defined for each value of an operating parameter, such as voltage or clock speed, that is used in a circuit design. Each discrete discipline is propagated throughout respective nets using bottom-up and/or top-down propagation. As a result, each digital net is associated with a power supply value through its corresponding discrete discipline. A determination is made whether two digital nets are connected to each other within the same digital island. If so, a determination is made whether the digital nets are compatible. If they have conflicting discrete disciplines, then they are not compatible and an error report or signal can be generated to identify the incompatibility and its location. Compatibility checks can disregard grounded digital nets. Verifications can be performed for both digital and mixed signal digital/analog designs without running simulations." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2006 (11/372,292). 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=7979262.PN.&OS=PN/7979262&RS=PN/7979262 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. -1054229 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |