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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Ocean Spray Cranberries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Ocean Spray Cranberries, Lakeville-Middleboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D641,632) developed by four co-inventors for an ornamental design for a bottle. The co-inventors are Richard Boiros, Lakeville, Mass., Masaaki Sasaki, Matsudo, Japan, Tadayoshi Oshino, Matsudo, Japan, and Shigeru Tomiyama, Matsudo, Japan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a bottle, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on June 10, 2010 (D/347,806). 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=D641,632.PN.&OS=PN/D641,632&RS=PN/D641,632 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Frame ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Lisa Jedrey, South Dartmouth, Mass., has been issued a patent (D641,558) for an ornamental design for a frame. The patent application was filed on May 11, 2010 (D/361,380). 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=D641,558.PN.&OS=PN/D641,558&RS=PN/D641,558 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Liquid Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Liquid Machines, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,513) developed by Fajen Kyne, Littleton, Mass, and Omri Traub, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method and system for using a rules engine for enforcing access and usage policies in rights-aware applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Computer system and method enforces control policies including access and usage policies. A rules-based engine member or assembly is coupled between a rights-management (or similar) system and one or more target applications. The rules-based engine member centralizes data security determinations for the target applications. One or more agents are responsive to the rules-based engine member and target applications, and handle low-level details in interactions between the rules-based engine member and target applications. A generic engine framework serves as a normalizing factor and enables scalability." The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2006 (11/352,402). 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=7,984,513.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,513&RS=PN/7,984,513 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,515) developed by Svetlana Patsenker, Wayland, Mass., and Boris Farizon, Westborough, Mass., for a "software license enforcement by runtime feature enablement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage area network (SAN) license validator manages data collection policies (DCPs) in deployed SAN agents by identifying data collection policies corresponding to unlicensed features, and disabling the DCPs for the unlicensed features. Thus, the agents need not expend computational and memory resources to gather data for unlicensed features that will not be queried. Agents receive a set of data collection policies (DCPs) for licensed features for which the corresponding data will be gathered and reported to the MODB. DCPs for unlicensed features are disabled in the agents that would have executed them, either by removing or canceling from an active DCP list or by omitting the unlicensed DCPs from the startup sequence of the agent. In this manner, agents operate with only the DCPs for licensed products and corresponding features, and need not gather extraneous data. Users do not observe a designated unavailable screen icon or selection, as unavailable data selections are simply omitted from the GUI display." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/731,468). 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=7,984,515.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,515&RS=PN/7,984,515 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Inventors Develop Patent for Fire House-shaped Holder for Juice Container ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hugh Devlin, Cambridge, Mass., and Lawrence Brogan, Cambridge, Mass., have been issued a patent (D641,618) for an ornamental design for a "fire house-shaped holder for juice container." The patent application was filed on Nov. 27, 2009 (D/348,096). 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=D641,618.PN.&OS=PN/D641,618&RS=PN/D641,618 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent for Architecture for Virtualization of Networked Storage Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,253) developed by five co-inventors for an "architecture for virtualization of networked storage resources." The co-inventors are Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, Mass., David W. Harvey, Newton, Mass., John Kemeny, Westford, Mass., Lee W. Vantine, Oxford, Mass., and Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An architecture for managing a plurality of storage area networks including a plurality of data storage volumes and one or more hosts, wherein the volumes are in a switched storage network in the storage area networks the architecture comprising one or more processors in communication with switching capability for the switched storage network, wherein the one or more processors include program logic for embodying logical constructions of a storage presentation layer including target virtualization and logical unit (LU) virtualization; and a volume presentation layer including volume virtualization for replication of data." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,667). 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=79,84,253.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,253&RS=PN/79,84,253 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VMware Assigned Patent for Method and System for Generating Consistent Snapshots for a Group of Data Objects ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,254) developed by Christos Karamanolis, Los Gatos, Calif., Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Cambridge, Mass., and Patrick William Penzias Dirks, Monte Sereno, Calif., for a "method and system for generating consistent snapshots for a group of data objects." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Snapshots that are consistent across a group of data objects are generated. The snapshots are initiated by a coordinator, which transmits a sequence of commands to each storage node hosting a data object within a group of data objects. The first command prepares a data object for a snapshot. After a data object has been successfully prepared, an acknowledgment is sent to the coordinator. Once all appropriate acknowledgments are received, the coordinator sends a command to confirm that a snapshot has been created for each data object in the respective group. After receiving this confirmation, the coordinator takes action to confirm or record the successful completion of the group-consistent snapshot." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2008 (12/098,116). 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=79,84,254.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,254&RS=PN/79,84,254 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** United Video Properties Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- United Video Properties, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (7,984,468) developed by Thomas E. Westberg, Stow, Mass., for "systems and methods for providing program suggestions in an interactive television program guide." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An interactive television program guide application is provided that queries a user regarding the user's interest in television programs and suggests television programs to the user based on the user's responses. The interactive television program guide application identifies a television program that is potentially of interest to the user. The interactive television program guide application then queries the user regarding the user's interest using questions that are formulated based on attributes associated with the identified television program. Using the user's responses to the questions, the interactive television program guide application identifies and suggests one or more television programs to the user." The patent application was filed on Nov. 6, 2003 (10/703,989). 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=79,84,468&OS=79,84,468&RS=79,84,468 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invensys Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Invensys Systems, Foxboro, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,420) developed by eight co-inventors for "control systems and methods with composite blocks." The co-inventors are Keith Eldridge, North Easton, Mass., Brian Mackay, Coppell, Texas, Mark Johnson, North Attleboro, Mass., Scott Volk, North Easton, Mass., Kenneth A. Burke, South Easton, Mass., Paul Meskonis, Norwood, Mass., Robert Hall, South Easton, Mass., and Steven Dardinski, Westford, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for configuring process, environmental, industrial and other control systems generate and/or utilize models representing configurations of control systems and/or the systems controlled by them. Records of changes to the models or the configurations represented by them are maintained, thereby, for example, providing bases for determining current states, prior states and histories of changes. Objects in the model have characteristics, such as an object type characteristic and an area characteristic. Users can have corresponding permissions. A security mechanism apparatus controls access by users to the objects. Composite objects are defined by definition objects and are displayed in encapsulated or expanded formats. Objects can include an edit control type identifier that determines how they are presented for editing. Functionality responds to user commands by transferring characteristics of a first object depicted by the graphical user interface to a second object. Configuration-time formulas contained objects are evaluated to constants prior to downloading to the control system." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2008 (12/265,506). 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=79,84,420.PN.&OS=PN/79,84,420&RS=PN/79,84,420 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent for Composite Abortable Locks ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,444) developed by Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, Mass., Mark S. Moir, Hampton, N.H., and Virendra J. Marathe, Rochester, N.Y., for composite abortable locks. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A lock implementation has properties of both backoff locks and queue locks. Such a "composite" lock is abortable and is provided with a constant number of preallocated nodes. A thread requesting the lock selects one of the nodes, attempts to acquire the selected node, and, if successful, inserts the selected node in a wait-queue for the lock. Because there is only a constant number of nodes for the wait-queue, all requesting threads may not be queued. Requesting threads unable to successfully acquire a selected node may backoff and retry selecting and acquiring a node. A node at the front of the wait-queue holds the lock." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2005 (11/226,949). 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=79,84,444&OS=79,84,444&RS=79,84,444 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,447) developed by Lev Markov, Wayland, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for balancing project shares within job assignment and scheduling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes associating each computing job with a group of a plurality of groups, and associating each group with a minimum promised utilization. Further, the method includes determining a present utilization for each group having at least one job ready for scheduling, each job being associated with at least one required resource, the present utilization for a given group comprising a total amount of a promised resource consumed by presently executing jobs associated with the given group divided by the minimum promised utilization associated with the given group. A first computing job selected for scheduling is one that is ready for scheduling and is the computing job having a highest static priority within a group having a lowest present utilization. A subset of computing nodes able to satisfy the at least one required resource associated with the first computing job is identified." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2005 (11/211,790). 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=79,84,447&OS=79,84,447&RS=79,84,447 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent for Method for Checking a Status of a Signal Port to Identify an Over-constrained Event ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,401) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for checking a status of a signal port to identify an over-constrained event." The co-inventors are Amir Lehavot, San Francisco, Vinaya Kumar Singh, Noida, India, Joezac John Zachariah, Noida, India, Jose Barandiaran, Austin, Texas, and Axel Siegfried Scherer, Salem, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated debugging method and system for over-constrained circuit verification environment are described. Useful information related to circuit evaluation and/or over-constrained event is collected and provided. The information may include: clock cycles at which an over-constrained event occurs; identification of a minimum subset of constraints that will cause an over-constrained event to occur; signal ports having an associated signal that can not switch between different signal states; whether a triggering signal event has occurred during the evaluation; indicating whether constraints in the evaluation are realizable, etc. Novel approaches for detecting and obtaining the useful information also are described." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2008 (12/263,351). 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=79,84,401&OS=79,84,401&RS=79,84,401 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,351) developed by Jonathan M. Owen, Northboro, Mass., and Michael J. Osborn, Hollis, N.H., for a "data transfer device and method thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data transfer device transfers data between two clock domains of a data processing device when the data processing device is in a test mode. The data transfer device receives clock signals associated with each clock domain. To transfer data from a first clock domain to a second clock domain the data transfer device identifies transitions of clock signals associated with each clock domain that are sufficiently remote from each other so that data can deterministically be provided by one clock domain and sampled by the other. This ensures that data can be transferred between the clock domains deterministically even when the phase relationship between the clock signals is indeterminate." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2008 (12/100,453). 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=7,984,351.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,351&RS=PN/7,984,351 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,359) developed by Julian Gorfajn, Brookline, Mass., Bruce Buch, Westborough, Mass., and E. William Bruce II, Westminister, Mass., for a "correction of data errors in a memory buffer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, circuits, and disk drive that correct errors in data that is temporarily stored in a memory buffer are disclosed. An error detection code and an error correction code are generated for data. The data, the error detection code, and the error correction code are stored in the memory buffer. The data is retrieved from the memory buffer and error detected using the error detection code. In response to detecting an error, the error correction code is applied to the retrieved data to generate corrected data." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2007 (11/787,357). 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=7,984,359.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,359&RS=PN/7,984,359 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent Program Counter (PC) Trace ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,338) developed by Kevin R. Walker, Los Gatos, Calif., and John H. Mylius, Framingham, Mass., for a "program counter (PC) trace." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a first processor configured to output program counter (PC) trace records, wherein PC trace records provide data indicating the PCs of instructions retired by the first processor. The integrated circuit further comprises a second source of trace records, and a trace unit coupled to receive the PC trace records from the first processor and the trace records from the second source. The trace unit comprises a trace memory into which the trace unit is configured to store the PC trace records and trace records from the second source. The trace unit is configured to interleave the PC trace records and the trace records from the second source in the trace memory according to the order of receipt of the records." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2010 (12/774,346). 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=7,984,338.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,338&RS=PN/7,984,338 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Call-stack Pattern Matching for Problem Resolution within Software ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,984,334) developed by Jonathan D. Champlin, Cold Spring, N.Y., and Arthur H. Thomas, Chelmsford, Mass., for a "call-stack pattern matching for problem resolution within software." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of diagnosing a fault condition within software can include, responsive to a fault condition within a computing system belonging to an organization, automatically sending call-stack information for the fault condition to a first server within the organization. Within the first server, the call-stack information for the fault condition can be compared with call-stack information from prior fault conditions that occurred within the organization to determine whether the call-stack information for the fault condition matches call-stack information from one of the prior fault conditions. The method further can include sending the call-stack information to a second server for comparison with call-stack information from prior fault conditions that occurred within at least one different organization if the call-stack information for the fault condition does not match." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2009 (12/618,304). 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=7,984,334.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,334&RS=PN/7,984,334 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nortel Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Nortel Networks, Quebec, has been assigned a patent (7,984,154) developed by Indermohan Monga, Acton, Mass., Bruce Schofield, Tyngsboro, Mass., and Franco Travostino, Arlington, Mass., for a "system and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application program." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and/or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and/or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and/or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/643,936). 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=7984154.PN.&OS=PN/7984154&RS=PN/7984154 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Retro Reflective Optics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Retro Reflective Optics, Portsmouth, N.H., has been assigned a patent (RE42,554) developed by Norman R. Wild, Nashua, N.H., and Paul M. Leavy Jr., Lynnfield, Mass., for an optical detection system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention pertains to radiant energy systems and more particularly to systems exhibiting the retroreflection principle wherein the system comprises a focusing means and a surface exhibiting some degree of reflectivity positioned near the focal plane of the device, and wherein incident radiation falling within the field-of-view of said system is reflected back in a direction which is parallel to the incident radiation. The present invention has great applicability in military optical system applications for detecting the presence of an enemy employing surveillance equipment and for neutralizing this surveillance capability." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2009 (12/471,058). 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=RE42,554&OS=RE42,554&RS=RE42,554 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of Southern California, Princeton University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., have been assigned a patent (RE42,561) developed by Chihaya Adachi, Fukuoka, Japan, Marc A. Baldo, Cambridge, Mass., and Stephen R. Forrest, Ann Arbor, Mich., for "phosphorescent organic light emitting devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An organic light emitting device structure having an organic light emitting device (OLED) over a substrate, where the OLED has, for example, an anode, a hole transporting layer (HTL), a first electron transporting layer (ETL) that is doped with a phosphorescent material, a second electron transporting layer (ETL), and a cathode. The OLEDs of the present invention are directed, in particular, to devices that include an emissive layer comprised of an electron transporting host material having a triplet excited state energy level that is higher than the emissive triplet excited state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2007 (11/787,753). 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=RE42,561&OS=RE42,561&RS=RE42,561 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sanford Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Sanford, Oak Brook, Ill., has been assigned a patent (No. D641,789) developed by Fabrice Gallay, Paris, Jason J. Cooper, Watertown, Mass., and Jan Schminke, Marshfield, Mass., for an ornamental design for a correction tape dispenser. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a correction tape dispenser, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2010 (D/361,795). 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=D641,789&OS=D641,789&RS=D641,789 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Winstanley Partners, Sigma Electric Manufacturing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Winstanley Partners, Lenox, Mass., and Sigma Electric Manufacturing, Garner, N.C., have been assigned a patent (No. D641,904) developed by four co-inventors for an ornamental design for an outdoor light unit. The co-inventors are Nathan B. Winstanley, Lenox, Mass., Philip A. Cohen, Richmond, Mass., Brendan M. Walsh, Pittsfield, Mass., and Ashok Alilughatta Sathyanarayana, Pune, India. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for an outdoor light unit, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2009 (D/352,660). 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=D641,904&OS=D641,904&RS=D641,904 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Dog Washing Mat ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- William Taylor, Dunstable, Mass., has been issued a patent (D641,938) for an ornamental design for a dog washing mat. The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2010 (D/377,126). 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=D641,938&OS=D641,938&RS=D641,938 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,984,208) developed by five co-inventors for a "method using port task scheduler." The co-inventors are Tracey Gustafson, Hudson, Mass., Pak-Lung Seto, Shrewsbury, Mass., Gary Y. Tsao, Austin, Texas, Nai-Chih Chang, Shrewbury, Mass., and Victor Lau, Marlboro, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "According to one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a port having a plurality of lanes, a plurality of protocol engines. Each protocol engine is associated with one of the plurality of lanes, and processes tasks to be forwarded to a plurality of remote nodes. The apparatus also includes a first port task scheduler (PTS) to manage the tasks to be forwarded to the one or more of the plurality of protocol engines. The first PTS includes a register to indicate which of the plurality of protocol engines the first PTS is to support." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2008 (12/268,026). 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=7,984,208.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,208&RS=PN/7,984,208 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** DNSstuff Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- DNSstuff, Newburyport, Mass., has been assigned a patent (7,984,186) developed by R. Scott Perry, Westborough, Mass., and Paul D. Parisi, Boxford, Mass., for a "method, system, and apparatus for discovering user agent DNS settings." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and apparatus including receiving a request from a network device, the request including an IP address of said network device, generating and sending to the network device a domain name for locating a device configured to process a DNS query, the domain name corresponding to the IP address, the network device generating and sending a DNS query including the domain name and at least one local DNS setting of the network device to the device configured to the process the DNS query, and the device processing an association between the IP address and the at least one local DNS setting of the network device." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2008 (12/198,495). 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=7,984,186.PN.&OS=PN/7,984,186&RS=PN/7,984,186 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pioneer Pet Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Pioneer Pet Products, Cedarburg, Wis., has been assigned a patent (D641,764) developed by John M. Lipscomb, Cedarburg, Wis., and Qing He, North Andover, Mass., for an ornamental design for a pump module housing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a pump module housing, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2010 (D/375,593). 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=D641,764.PN.&OS=PN/D641,764&RS=PN/D641,764 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Bose Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Bose, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D641,737) developed by nine co-inventors for an ornamental design for a set of headphones. The co-inventors are Kevin M. Krauss, Maynard, Mass., David H. Pitcher, Worcester, Mass., Julie E. Tierney, Shrewsbury, Mass., Michael E. Laude, Upton, Mass., Ian M. Collier, Cambridge, Mass., Kevin P. Annunziato, Medway, Mass., Ryan C. Silvestri, Franklin, Mass., Eric M. Wallace, Chelmsford, Mass., and Michael Monahan, Franklin, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a set of headphones, substantially as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2010 (D/367,617). 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=D641,737.PN.&OS=PN/D641,737&RS=PN/D641,737 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Massachusetts Inventor Develops Patent for Rear Step-side Truck Fender Design ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Malcolm P. Reid, Boxborough, Mass., has been issued a patent (D641,671) for an ornamental design for a "rear step-side truck fender design." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2011 (D/387,554). 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=D641,671.PN.&OS=PN/D641,671&RS=PN/D641,671 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Gregson Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Abbie B. Gregson, Brownsville, Vt., has been assigned a patent (D641,653) developed by Abbie B. Gregson, Brownsville, Vt., and Ali R. Lotfi, Weston, Mass., for an ornamental design for a planter. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a planter, as is shown and described." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2010 (D/354,760). 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=D641,653.PN.&OS=PN/D641,653&RS=PN/D641,653 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Bose Assigned Patent for Headset ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Bose, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (D641,727) developed by five co-inventors for an ornamental design for a headset. The co-inventors are Kevin M. Krauss, Maynard, Mass., Adam A. Carr, Marlborough, Mass., Michael E. Laude, Upton, Mass., David H. Pitcher, Worcester, Mass., and Nathan David Schaal, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a headset, substantially as shown and described." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2010 (D/365,879). 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=D641,727.PN.&OS=PN/D641,727&RS=PN/D641,727 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. -1054865 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |