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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Virginia (July 20)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Virginia. *** Hamilton Beach Brands Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hamilton Beach Brands, Glen Allen, Va., has been assigned a patent (D641,601) developed by Brian C. Bock, Midlothian, Va., for an ornamental design for a can opener. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a can opener, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 9, 2010 (D/380,676). 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=D641,601.PN.&OS=PN/D641,601&RS=PN/D641,601 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Autonomic Storage Provisioning to Enhance Storage Virtualization Infrastructure Availability ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,984,251) developed by four co-inventors for an "autonomic storage provisioning to enhance storage virtualization infrastructure availability." The co-inventors are Carl Phillip Gusler, Austin, Texas, Rick Allen Hamilton II, Charlottesville, Va., James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, Va., and Timothy Moffett Waters, Hiram, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention is an improvement to a storage virtualization system that enables the system to determine a class of service for potential storage devices and allows a user, administrator, or application to select a minimum class of service for any given type of data. The class of service is based upon factors that reflect a potential storage device's reliability, such as the device type and historical uptime data. In a P2P environment, the class of service also includes additional factors, such as the type of attached processing unit and the type of operating system running the attached processing unit." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2009 (12/419,096). 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=79,84,251.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,251&RS=PN/79,84,251 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NeXT Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- NeXT Software, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,451) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for associating data bearing objects with user interface objects." The co-inventors are Richard Williamson, San Francisco, Linus Upson, Half Moon Bay, Calif., Jack Greenfield, Reston, Va., and Dan Willhite, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention comprises a method for allowing a data controlling object to interface with any number of user interface objects without requiring separate interface code for each user interface object and without restricting the user interface to certain predetermined designs. The present method provides objects called association objects that are interposed between a data controlling object and each user interface object. Each kind of user interface object has a corresponding association object. The association object for a particular kind of user interface object contains code that allows the association object to interact with the specific kind of user interface object with which it is associated. Each association object also presents a standard interface to a data controlling object, regardless of the kind of user interface object with which the association object is associated. The association object takes care of any conversion or translation that must be performed to convert a data value sent by the data controlling object into an appropriate value that can be displayed by the user interface object. Accordingly, instead of requiring different interface code for each kind of user interface object used, a data controlling object requires only a single block of interface code for communicating with all association objects, which in turn provide the user interface specific code needed for each kind of user interface object." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2004 (10/952,399). 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=79,84,451&OS=79,84,451&RS=79,84,451 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** CPTN Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- CPTN Holdings, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,984,452) developed by seven co-inventors for an "event source management using a metadata-driven framework." The co-inventors are Dipto Chakravarty, Potomac, Md., Usman Choudhary, Springfield, Va., John Paul Gassner, Alexandria, Va., Frank Anthony Pellegrino, Greenbelt, Md., William Matthew Weiner, Rockledge, Fla., Yuriy Fuksenko, Rockville, Md., and Robert Price, Provo, Utah. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The system and method described herein relates to managing multiple network device connections, collecting event source data from one or more network devices with one or more collectors, filtering the event source data, continuously monitoring the network device connections, controlling raw data collection from the one or more network devices, parsing the event source data into normalized data structures, and managing configurations for the collectors, among other things. Event sources may be physical or logical network devices distributed across a network, including but not limited to, firewalls, routers, biometric devices, mainframes, databases, and applications. The network devices may be sources from which the collectors may receive or request the event source data." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2007 (11/730,493). 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=79,84,452&OS=79,84,452&RS=79,84,452 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Parker Compound Bows Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Parker Compound Bows, Mint Spring, Va., has been assigned a patent (No. D641,827) developed by Robert O. Errett, Staunton, Va., for an ornamental design for a "capture nock for crossbow arrow." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a capture nock for crossbow arrow, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2010 (D/370,895). 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=D641,827&OS=D641,827&RS=D641,827 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Virginia Inventor Develops Patent for Cover for a Light on Top of a Taxicab ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Javid Iqbal, Alexandria, Va., has been issued a patent (D641,900) for an ornamental design for a "Cover for a light on top of a taxicab." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2010 (D/356,588). 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=D641,900&OS=D641,900&RS=D641,900 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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