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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (Aug. 5)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Tessera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Tessera, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,245) developed by Igor Krichtafovitch, Kirkland, Wash., for a "multi-sectional bobbin for high voltage inductor or transformer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Improved multi-sectional bobbin designs described herein define a channel suitable to accommodate a portion of the wire that transits from prior winding section to the next, wherein opposing walls of the channel so defined separate the transiting portion of the wire from both prior and next winding sections through a substantial entirety of the wires descent from an upper winding layer in the prior section to a lower winding layer in the next." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2010 (12/765,548). 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=79,90,245.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,245&RS=PN/79,90,245 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Impinj Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Impinj, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (7,990,249) developed by John D. Hyde, Corvallis, Ore., and Ronald A. Oliver, Seattle, for an "RFID tag circuits tags and methods for backscattering with controllable admittance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "RFID tag circuits, tags, and methods are provided for backscattering a received RF wave using a controllable admittance difference between the ON state and the OFF state. The admittance difference is controlled responsive to a control signal. In some embodiments, the control signal is generated responsive to a command. In others, the control signal is generated responsive to detecting the power level of the received RF wave. In those, the inherent behavior of the admittance difference can be shaped as desired. For example, it can be such that the backscatters with advantageously more power when it is away from the reader, and with less power when it is close to the reader, so as to meet regulatory requirements." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2007 (11/765,552). 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=79,90,249.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,249&RS=PN/79,90,249 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sharp Laboratories of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 4 -- Sharp Laboratories of America, Camas, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,986,673) developed by Ahmad Khoshnevis, Portland, Ore., and Shugong Xu, Vancouver, Wash., for "systems and methods for reducing feedback overhead in wireless networks using channel characteristics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing feedback overhead in a wireless communications system is described. Channel quality indicator (CQI) values corresponding to a measured channel quality are received from one or more mobile communications devices. The mobile communications devices to be scheduled at a future time are estimated. CQI values are requested from the mobile communications devices that are estimated to be scheduled at a future time." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,532). 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=79,86,673.PN.&OS=PN/79,86,673&RS=PN/79,86,673 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,854) developed by Yan Huang, Kenmore, Wash., and Bahman Rabii, San Francisco, for a "isolation of traffic composition change in performance metrics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus, systems and methods for isolation of traffic composition in performance metrics are disclosed. A change in a performance metric of a content provisioning system is determined. The change in the performance metric is compared to a weighted change expected from the content provisioning system if traffic was not a factor. A traffic independent change is determined from the weighted change. A traffic related change is determined." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2008 (12/130,385). 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=7,990,854&OS=7,990,854&RS=7,990,854 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Compound Photonics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Compound Photonics, Phoenix, has been assigned a patent (7,990,600) developed by ten co-inventors for a "transmissive, optically addressed, photosensitive spatial light modulators and color display systems incorporating same." The co-inventors are Jonathan A. Sachs, Vancouver, Wash., Howard V. Goetz, Tigard, Ore., David Keith, Vancouver, Wash., Lin Li, St. Petersburg, Fla., Steven H. Linn, Hillsboro, Ore., Alexander Parfenov, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Stephen E. Brice, Portland, Ore., Terry J. Scheffer, Hilo, Hawaii, James A. Van Vechten, Corvallis, Ore., and Jiuzhi Xue, Broomfield, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optically addressed, photoconductive spatial light modulator (SLM) operates in a transmissive mode and is capable of modulating a wide spectrum of visible light. There is no pixel structure or native pixel resolution in the SLM. The SLM has no photodiodes and does not rectify. A light projection system (100) in which one or more SLMs (128, 130, 132) are placed includes a write (image definition) UV light path (102) and a read (illumination) visible light path (104) to form a color image projection display. The write UV light propagates from an image display pattern source (120) and either sequentially or continuously writes image patterns on the photoconductive SLMs. The read visible light propagates through the SLM and is modulated by an electro-optical material, the optical properties of which change in response to the image structure carried by the write light. The result is a high efficiency display system that delivers high resolution color images through a projection lens (190) onto a display screen." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2005 (11/569,498). 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=7,990,600.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,600&RS=PN/7,990,600 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitutoyo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Mitutoyo, Kawasaki-shi, Japan, has been assigned a patent (7,990,522) developed by David William Sesko, Woodinville, Wash., for a "dynamic compensation of chromatic point sensor intensity profile data selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a chromatic point sensor, distance measurements are based on a distance-indicating subset of intensity profile data, which is selected in a manner that varies with a determined peak position index coordinate (PPIC) of the profile data. The PPIC indexes the position a profile data peak. For profile data having a particular PPIC, the distance-indicating subset of the profile data is selected based on particular index-specific data-limiting parameters that are indexed with that same particular PPIC. In various embodiments, each set of index-specific data-limiting parameters indexed with a particular PPIC characterizes a distance-indicating subset of data that was used during distance calibration operations corresponding to profile data having that PPIC. Distance-indicating subsets of data may be compensated to be similar to a corresponding distance-indicating subset of data that was used during calibration operations, regardless of overall intensity variations and detector bias signal level variations." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2007 (11/940,214). 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=79,90,522&OS=79,90,522&RS=79,90,522 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Digimarc Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Digimarc, Beaverton, Ore., has been assigned a patent (7,986,845) developed by Marc D. Miller, Corte Madera, Calif., Kenneth L. Levy, Stevenson, Wash., and Geoffrey B. Rhoads, West Linn, Ore., for a "steganographic systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to steganographic systems and methods. One claim recites an apparatus including: electronic memory to buffer a compressed digital watermark object, the digital watermark object is a separate object relative to a compressed video object; and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is programmed for: decompressing the compressed video object to yield a decompressed video object, the decompressed video object comprising data representing video picture elements and data representing audio elements; decompressing the digital watermark object to obtain digital watermark data; steganographically hiding the digital watermark data in the data representing video picture elements or in the data representing audio elements to yield digital watermarked video or audio; and rendering the digital watermarked video or audio. Other claims and combinations are provided too." The patent application was filed on Nov. 17, 2009 (12/620,295). 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=7,986,845.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,845&RS=PN/7,986,845 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VS Acquisition Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- VS Acquisition, Poway, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,710) developed by six co-inventors for a data center. The co-inventors are Stephen V.R. Hellriegel, Bainbridge Island, Wash., Mario L. Jaena, Kent, Wash., Brian D. Koblenz, Seattle, David Louis Anderson, Los Altos Hills, Calif., David Driggers, San Diego, and Hampton Walker Haddock Jr., Birmingham, Ala. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data center inside a shipping container having a lower plenum and an upper plenum in its interior. Heated air in the upper plenum exits therefrom into a plurality of heat exchangers adjacent thereto. Air cooled by the heat exchangers travels toward and enters the lower plenum. The data center includes a plurality of carriages each having an equipment receiving portion located between an open bottom portion in open communication with the lower plenum, and an open top portion in open communication with the upper plenum. Fans inside each of the carriages draw cooled air up from the lower plenum into the open bottom portion of the carriage, blow the cooled air up through the equipment receiving portion thereby cooling any computing equipment received therein, and vent the cooled air through the open top portion into the upper plenum." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/347,415). 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=79,90,710.PN.&OS=PN/79,90,710&RS=PN/79,90,710 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Powerwave Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Powerwave Technologies, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,329) developed by four co-inventors for a "dual staggered vertically polarized variable azimuth beamwidth antenna for wireless network." The co-inventors are Gang Yi Deng, Irvine, Calif., Bill Vassilakis, Orange, Calif., Matthew J. Hunton, Liberty Lake, Wash., and Alexander Rabinovich, Cypress, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An antenna system for wireless networks having a dual stagger antenna array architecture is disclosed. The antenna array contains a number of driven radiator elements that are spatially arranged in two vertically aligned groups each having pivoting actuators so as to provide a controlled variation of the antenna array's azimuth radiation pattern." The patent application was filed on March 7, 2008 (12/074,980). 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=7,990,329.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,329&RS=PN/7,990,329 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Association of a Portable Scanner with Input/Output and Storage Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,556) developed by four co-inventors for an "association of a portable scanner with input/output and storage devices." The co-inventors are Martin T. King, Vashon Island, Wash., Dale L. Grover, Ann Arbor, Mich., Clifford A. Kushler, Lynnwood, Wash., and James Q. Stafford-Fraser, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device identifier is scanned with a portable scanner and communicated to a service provider. The service provider associates the device with the portable scanner. Information is scanned from a printed source and communicated to the service provider and subsequent information is received in response at a device identified by the device identifier. In some embodiments, a communication session identifier is scanned with a portable scanner and communicated to the service provider rather than (or in cooperation with) the device identifier." The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2006 (11/365,983). 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=7,990,556&OS=7,990,556&RS=7,990,556 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (7,990,317) developed by Richard Davis, Seattle, and Stalin Albanes, Atlanta, for a "signal path delay determination." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Propagation time for a target signal path is determined by detecting and processing a plurality of unknown signals received at two locations. A third location is established, such that the propagation time between the third location and one of the two locations is known, and the signal path between the third location and the other of the two locations is the target signal path. The two locations are monitored for any signals that may be detected. Signals received at the two locations are processed to determine which signals have a common source, and of the signals having a common source, the signal having the greatest delay between times of reception at the two locations is selected. The selected signal is used to determine the propagation time between the two locations." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2009 (12/641,513). 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=7,990,317.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,317&RS=PN/7,990,317 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Data Transfer during a Call without Simultaneous Data Capabilities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,986,716) developed by four co-inventors for a "data transfer during a call without simultaneous data capabilities." The co-inventors are Jidesh Veeramachaneni, Redmond, Wash., Ray Sun, Issaquah, Wash., Shawn M. Brown, Redmond, Wash., and Zeke Koch, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for transferring data over a voice channel during a voice communication connection (e.g., a telephone call) using DTMF signals over a single voice communication channel. The arbitrary data can include contact information, graphics, photographs, streaming media, interactive game information, location information, cached web pages, audio clips, etc. Some or all of the standard DTMF signals can be uniquely mapped to groups of bits. For example, the standard DTMF signals for numbers "0" through "7" can be mapped to the corresponding three-bit binary representations of those numbers. The arbitrary data can be placed in a container with meta-data indicating the start and end of the data, the type of the data, the amount of data, error correction/detection information, etc. The receiver can prevent the DTMF signals from being converted to audio signals to spare any human listeners from hearing the DTMF signals." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2005 (11/138,228). 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=7,986,716.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,716&RS=PN/7,986,716 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Location Determination with Geographic and Bias Tuning ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,986,953) developed by Christopher R. Rice, Monroe, Wash., Aravind Krishnamachari Seshadri, Redmond, Wash., and Timothy Sharpe, Redmond, Wash., for a "location determination with geographic and bias tuning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for determining location of an observer device is disclosed. The method includes receiving basestation distance data for the observer device and applying a location algorithm to the basestation distance data to determine a computed location of the observer device. The method further includes determining whether the basestation distance data correlates to any of a plurality of observer device conditions. Upon determining the basestation data correlates with one of the observer device conditions, a location bias associated with that observer device condition is employed to correct the computed location of the observer device and produce a corrected location." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/475,987). 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=7986953.PN.&OS=PN/7986953&RS=PN/7986953 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Silicon Laboratories Assigned Patent for Integrating an FM Transmitter into a Cellular Telephone ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (7,986,926) developed by Aslamali A. Rafi, Austin, Texas, and Dan B. Kasha, Seattle, for an "integrating an FM transmitter into a cellular telephone." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a cellular radio and an FM transmitter that are fabricated in the same semiconductor. The FM transmitter includes at least one mixer, a filter and an antenna tuning network. The mixer(s) translate an intermediate carrier frequency of an input signal to generate a second signal that has an FM carrier frequency. The filter removes spectral energy from the second signal to generate a third signal. The antenna tuning network is separate from the filter and produces a fourth signal to drive an antenna in response to the third signal." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2006 (11/528,051). 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=7986926.PN.&OS=PN/7986926&RS=PN/7986926 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,987,368) developed by Bin Zhu, Edina, Minn., Xiaoming Wang, Guangzhou, China, and Shipeng Li, Redmond, Wash., for a "peer-to-peer networks with protections." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a peer-to-peer environment, copyrights and users' privacies can be protected by a tracking mechanism. In described implementations, tracking mechanisms can use certificates that are produced using random numbers to protect the privacy of users and/or certificates that are produced responsive to at least one hardware identifier to enable uploader to be identified to protect copyrights." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2006 (11/381,951). 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=7987368.PN.&OS=PN/7987368&RS=PN/7987368 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,990,299) developed by John A. Bell, Seattle, for an "optical sampling method for analog to digital conversion." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for encoding data. A first pair of optical signals having a first phase difference is generated in response to receiving an input signal having a voltage. A second pair of optical signals having a second phase difference is generated in response to receiving an input signal having a voltage. The first pair of optical signals is combined to form a first optical signal having a first intensity. The second pair of optical signals is combined to form a second optical signal having a second intensity. The first intensity of the first optical signal reaches a peak at a different time from the second intensity of the second optical signal." The patent application was filed on Aug. 19, 2009 (12/543,669). 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=7,990,299.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,299&RS=PN/7,990,299 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sigma Designs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Sigma Designs, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,986,736) developed by five co-inventors for an "ultra wideband baseband chip with intelligent array radio and method of use thereof." The co-inventors are Hung C. Nguyen, San Jose, Calif., Catherine A. French, Olympis, Wash., Jayesh Desai, Milpitas, Calif., Ruoyang Lu, Milpitas, Calif., and Ali D. Pirooz, Fremont, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An ultra wideband receiver, based on multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM), combines digital data from multiple channels after signal processing and before decoding. The receiver provides a master controller that synthesizes packet synchronization, frame synchronization, and sampling frequency offset information from multiple channels into signals that simultaneously control all channels of the receiver." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2006 (11/467,914). 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=7,986,736.PN.&OS=PN/7,986,736&RS=PN/7,986,736 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Powerwave Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Powerwave Technologies, Santa Ana, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,990,325) developed by Matthew Hunton, Liberty Lake, Wash., Nikolai Maslennikov, Huntington Beach, Calif., and Alexander Rabinovich, Cypress, Calif., for a "system and method for remote antenna positioning data acquisition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a remote antenna system employing digital imaging means by which the operator can view both the antenna pointing data and the coverage landscape from the antenna radome perspective. The present invention also provides a method for antenna positioning data acquisition and positioning control employing remotely acquired image data." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/152,728). 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=7,990,325.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,325&RS=PN/7,990,325 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Verification of Animation in a Computing Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,990,388) developed by six co-inventors for a "verification of animation in a computing device." The co-inventors are Tychaun Eric Grimes Jones, Bothell, Wash., Pablo Candelas Gonzalez, Redmond, Wash., Chen-Wen Lin, Kirkland, Wash., Seana Seraji, Seattle, William Suckow, Redmond, Wash., and Jonathan Vincent, Seattle. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems of verifying an animation applied in a mobile device may include a timer module that is programmed to time-slice the animation into multiple scenes at predetermined time points along a timeline of the animation. A first capture module is programmed to capture actual data of each scene at each of the time points while the animation is running. A first comparison module is programmed to compare the actual data of each scene with expected data of the corresponding scene to determine whether the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene. A first output module is programmed to generate a verification failure if the actual data of any scene does not match the expected data of the corresponding scene, and generate a verification success if the actual data of each scene matches the expected data of the corresponding scene." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,049). 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=7,990,388.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,388&RS=PN/7,990,388 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (7,990,349) developed by four co-inventors for a superimposed displays. The co-inventors are W. Daniel Hillis, Encino, Calif., Nathan P. Myhrvold, Medina, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreene, Bellevue, Wash., and Lowell L. Wood Jr., Livermore, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of methods and systems for constructing and utilizing displays constructed from superimposed display subunits are disclosed." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2005 (11/113,453). 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=7,990,349.PN.&OS=PN/7,990,349&RS=PN/7,990,349 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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. -1056695 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |