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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Pennsylvania (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 Pennsylvania. *** Last Twist Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Last Twist, Conshohocken, Pa., has been assigned a patent (D641,538) developed by Ernest O. Evans, Conshohocken, Pa., for an ornamental design for a pretzel stick. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a pretzel stick, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2010 (D/358,990). 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=D641,538.PN.&OS=PN/D641,538&RS=PN/D641,538 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Last Twist Assigned Patent for Frozen Confection ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Last Twist, Conshohocken, Pa., has been assigned a patent (D641,536) developed by Ernest O. Evans, Conshohocken, Pa., for an ornamental design for a frozen confection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a frozen confection, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2010 (D/358,988). 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=D641,536.PN.&OS=PN/D641,536&RS=PN/D641,536 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pennsylvania, New York Inventors Develop Patent for Egg Beater ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Eric Colburn, Wexford, Pa., Mark Douglas Donaldson, Pittsburgh, and Evan Abel, Rockaway Park, N.Y., have been issued a patent (D641,587) for an ornamental design for an egg beater. The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2011 (D/385,683). 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=D641,587.PN.&OS=PN/D641,587&RS=PN/D641,587 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Patent for Bag Structure for Holding Reusable bags ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Sheil Caldwell, Malvern, Pa., has been issued a patent (D641,549) for an ornamental design for a "bag structure for holding reusable bags." The patent application was filed on July 7, 2010 (D/365,307). 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=D641,549.PN.&OS=PN/D641,549&RS=PN/D641,549 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Last Twist Assigned Patent for Sausage ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Last Twist, Conshohocken, Pa., has been assigned a patent (D641,537) developed by Ernest O. Evans, Conshohocken, Pa., for an ornamental design for a sausage. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a sausage, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2010 (D/358,989). 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=D641,537.PN.&OS=PN/D641,537&RS=PN/D641,537 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sikorsky Aircraft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Sikorsky Aircraft, Stratford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (7,984,146) developed by James N. Rozak, Cheshire, Conn., and James P. Cycon, Media, Pa., for an "aircraft health and usage monitoring system with comparative fleet statistics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) utilizes a common architecture which permits OEM and rotorcraft operators to view and trend HUMS data for an entire aircraft fleet independent of aircraft model, HUMS vendor, or raw data format. The system operates through a web portal that provides users with comparative information on HUMS parameters relative to fleet statistics. The user may view HUMS data for the entire fleet or drill down to a particular HUMS acquisition on a specific flight. The web based format also facilities display and communication of warnings in a timely manner." The patent application was filed on May 4, 2006 (11/417,465). 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=7984146.PN.&OS=PN/7984146&RS=PN/7984146 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Prime Research Alliance E Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Prime Research Alliance E, Virgin Islands, has been assigned a patent (7,984,466) developed by Charles Eldering, Doylestown, Pa., Gregory C. Flickinger, Furlong, Pa., and Jeffrey Hamilton, Laporte, Pa., for an "advertising management system for digital video streams." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for the managing advertisements in a digital environment, including methods for selecting suitable advertising based on subscriber profiles, and substituting advertisements in a program stream with targeted advertisements. The Ad Management System (AMS) 100 of the present invention manages the sales and insertion of digital video advertisements in cable television, switched digital video, and streaming video (Internet) based environments. The AMS 100 provides advertisers an ability to describe their advertisements (ads) in terms of target market demographics, required ad bandwidth, ad duration, and other ad specific parameters. The AMS 100 receives the ad descriptions that include some or all of the aforementioned parameters, and matches the ads to the advertising opportunities ("avails") available in the programming stream. The AMS 100 tracks different avails including duration and bandwidth of the avail, and uses a number of schemes to determine if the ad can be placed in the avail. The advertisements may be transported over an in-band advertising channel or over an out-of-band advertisement channel. At the multiplexing end, the ads may be multiplexed in one or more program streams synchronously, plesiochronously, or asynchronously. In either case, a dynamic linking process is used to insert the selected advertisements in the program streams." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2007 (11/673,838). 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=79,84,466&OS=79,84,466&RS=79,84,466 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** STMicroelectronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- STMicroelectronics, Coppell, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,984,467) developed by Brian Hansen-Turton, Montgomery, Pa., for a "method and system for providing an electronic program guide." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method for providing a program guide in a program receiver, program schedule data is received, wherein the program schedule data associates programs with time slots on a particular channel of a plurality of channels. For a first time slot of a virtual channel, and using the program schedule data, a first program is selected from a first channel available for reception in a first selected time slot. For a second time slot of the virtual channel, a second program is selected from a second channel available for reception in a second selected time slot. In response to a request to display a schedule of programs, a schedule of the virtual channel is displayed, including the first and second programs scheduled respectively in the first and second time slots of the virtual channel." The patent application was filed on Nov. 23, 2004 (10/996,097). 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=79,84,467&OS=79,84,467&RS=79,84,467 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Patent for Transparent Container ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Augustine Cipolloni, Swarthmore, Pa., has been issued a patent (D641,940) for an ornamental design for a transparent container. The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2011 (D/384,648). 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=D641,940&OS=D641,940&RS=D641,940 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Patent for Reversible Religious Cross Pendant ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Althea M. Baxa, New Brighton, Pa., has been issued a patent (D641,652) for an ornamental design for a "reversible religious cross pendant." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2010 (D/378,441). 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=D641,652.PN.&OS=PN/D641,652&RS=PN/D641,652 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** H.J. Heinz Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- H.J. Heinz, Pittsburgh, has been assigned a patent (D641,642) developed by Craig Caldwell, Slippery Rock, Pa., John Marshall, Pittsburgh, and William Rasile, Allison Park, Pa., for an ornamental design for a condiment container. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a condiment container, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2010 (D/360,224). 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=D641,642.PN.&OS=PN/D641,642&RS=PN/D641,642 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** FCI Americas Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- FCI Americas Technology, Carson City, Nev., has been assigned a patent (D641,709) developed by Hung Viet Ngo, Harrisburg, Pa., for an ornamental design for a vertical electrical connector. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The ornamental design for a vertical electrical connector, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (D/380,052). 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=D641,709.PN.&OS=PN/D641,709&RS=PN/D641,709 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Lutron Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, Pa., has been assigned a patent (D641,713) developed by David William Petrillo, Bethlehem, Pa., for an ornamental design for a "pedestal and base for a remote control device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "I claim the ornamental design for a pedestal and base for a remote control device, as shown and described." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2010 (D/357,474). 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=D641,713.PN.&OS=PN/D641,713&RS=PN/D641,713 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. -1054878 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |