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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (Aug. 25)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** SanDisk Technologies Assigned Patent for Flash Memory Data Correction and Scrub Techniques ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- SanDisk Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,895) developed by Carlos J. Gonzalez, Los Gatos, Calif., and Kevin M. Conley, San Jose, Calif., for a "flash memory data correction and scrub techniques." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In order to maintain the integrity of data stored in a flash memory that are susceptible to being disturbed by operations in adjacent regions of the memory, disturb events cause the data to be read, corrected and re-written before becoming so corrupted that valid data cannot be recovered. The sometimes conflicting needs to maintain data integrity and system performance are balanced by deferring execution of some of the corrective action when the memory system has other high priority operations to perform. In a memory system utilizing very large units of erase, the corrective process is executed in a manner that is consistent with efficiently rewriting an amount of data much less than the capacity of a unit of erase." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,158). 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=80,04,895.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,895&RS=PN/80,04,895 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Configurable Digital and Analog Input/Output Interface in a Memory Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,004,887) developed by Frankie F. Roohparvar, Monte Sereno, Calif., Vishal Sarin, Cupertino, Calif., and Jung-Sheng Hoei, Newark, Calif., for a "configurable digital and analog input/output interface in a memory device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and memory devices are disclosed, for example a memory device that has both an analog path and a digital path that both share the same input/output pad. One of the two paths on each pad is selected in response to command signals that indicate the nature of the signal being either transmitted to the device or read from the device. Each digital path includes a latch for latching digital input data. Each analog path includes a sample/hold circuit for storing either analog data being read from or analog data being written to the memory device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 7, 2008 (12/108,105). 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=80,04,887.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,887&RS=PN/80,04,887 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** SanDisk Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- SanDisk Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,004,900) developed by Deepanshu Dutta, Santa Clara, Calif., and Jeffrey W. Lutze, San Jose, Calif., for "controlling select gate voltage during erase to improve endurance in non-volatile memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique for erasing a non-volatile memory applies a p-well voltage to a substrate and drives or floats select gate voltages to accurately control the select gate voltage to improve write-erase endurance. Source and drain side select gates of a NAND string are driven at levels to optimize endurance. In one approach, the select gates float after being driven at a specific initial level, to reach a specific, optimal final level. In another approach, the select gates are driven at specific levels throughout an erase operation, in concert with the p-well voltage. In another approach, onset of select gate floating is delayed while the p-well voltage ramps up. In another approach, p-well voltage is ramped up in two steps, and the select gates are not floated until the second ramp begins. Floating can be achieved by raising the drive voltage to cut off pass gates of the select gates." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2009 (12/406,014). 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=80,04,900.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,900&RS=PN/80,04,900 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Solder and Lead-free Electronic Circuit and Method of Manufacturing Same ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Carmen Rapisarda, Apple Valley, Calif., has developed a patent (8,004,856) for a "solder and lead-free electronic circuit and method of manufacturing same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic circuit contains a circuit board with conducting tracks to which one or more electronic components with conducting contacts are positioned overlying portions of the conducting tracks and each such electronic component is held in place by a clamp that covers and is contact with the top surface of the electronic components so as to hold their conducting contacts in electrical contact with the conducting tracks of the circuit board. The clamp can include a resilient layer held between the top surface of electronic components and a rigid clamping sheet." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2010 (12/711,200). 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=80,04,856.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,856&RS=PN/80,04,856 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,004,881) developed by four co-inventors for a "magnetic tunnel junction device with separate read and write paths." The co-inventors are Xiaochun Zhu, San Diego, Shiqun Gu, San Diego, Xia Li, San Diego, and Seung H. Kang, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an embodiment, a device is disclosed that includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure. The device also includes a read path coupled to the MTJ structure and a write path coupled to the MTJ structure. The write path is separate from the read path." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2007 (11/959,797). 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=80,04,881.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,881&RS=PN/80,04,881 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** System General Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- System General, Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,004,862) developed by Ta-Yung Yang, Milpitas, Calif., Chou Sheng Wang, Keelung, Taiwan, and Wei Li Hsu, Keelung, Taiwan, for an "offline synchronous rectifying circuit with current transformer for soft switching power converters." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A synchronous rectifying circuit of soft switching power converter is provided to improve the efficiency. The integrated synchronous rectifier includes a power transistor connected from a transformer to the output of the power converter for rectifying. A controller having a latch circuit generates a drive signal to control the power transistor in response to a switching-current signal. A current transformer generates the switching-current signal in response to the switching current of the transformer. The controller turns off the power transistor when the switching-current signal is lower than a second threshold. The power transistor is turned on once the switching-current signal is higher than a first threshold. Furthermore, a pulse-width detection circuit generates a pulse signal coupled to disable the drive signal and turn off the power transistor." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2008 (12/036,997). 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=80,04,862.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,862&RS=PN/80,04,862 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ADC DSL Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- ADC DSL Systems, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,004,854) developed by Janusz M. Kucharski, Torrance, Calif., for an electrical noise protection. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic device. The electronic device includes a circuit board. A first circuit is disposed on a first side of the circuit board. The first circuit is connected to a first ground plane of the circuit board. A second circuit is disposed on a second side of the circuit board. The second side is opposite the first side, and the second circuit is connected to a second ground plane of the circuit board. Moreover, the first and second ground planes respectively lie in different planes of the circuit board and are electrically interconnected by a conductive trace disposed within the circuit board." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2002 (10/056,270). 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=80,04,854.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,854&RS=PN/80,04,854 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Spintronic Devices With Integrated Transistors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,004,882) developed by Romney R. Katti, Hennepin, Minn., and Theodore Zhu, Mission Viejo, Calif., for a "spintronic devices with integrated transistors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The semiconductor industry seeks to replace traditional volatile memory devices with improved non-volatile memory devices. The increased demand for a significantly advanced, efficient, and non-volatile data retention technique has driven the development of integrated Giant-Magneto-resistive (GMR) structures. The present teachings relates to integrated latch memory and logic devices and, in particular, concerns a spin dependent logic device that may be integrated with conventional semiconductor-based logic devices to construct high-speed non-volatile static random access memory (SRAM) cells." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2008 (12/017,308). 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=80,04,882.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,882&RS=PN/80,04,882 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,004,876) developed by Gregory S. Snider, Mountain View, Calif., Philip J. Kuekes, Menlo Park, Calif., and R. Stanley Williams, Redwood City, Calif., for a "configurable molecular switch array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing system for implementing at least one electronic circuit with gain comprises at least one two-dimensional molecular switch array. The molecular switch array is formed by assembling two or more crossed planes of wires into a configuration of devices. Each device comprises a junction formed by a pair of crossed wires and at least one connector species that connects the pair of crossed wires in the junction. The junction has a functional dimension in nanometers, and includes a switching capability provided by both (1) one or more connector species and the pair of crossed wires and (2) a configurable nano-scale wire transistor having a first state that functions as a transistor and a second state that functions as a conducting semiconductor wire. Specific connections are made to interconnect the devices and connect the devices to two structures that provide high and low voltages." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2002 (10/233,232). 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=80,04,876.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,876&RS=PN/80,04,876 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Read Disturb Reduction Circuit for Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,004,880) developed by Sei Seung Yoon, San Diego, Seung H. Kang, San Diego, and Medi Hamidi Sani, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., for a "read disturb reduction circuit for spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, circuits and methods for reducing read disturbances in Spin Transfer Torque Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM) are disclosed. A resistive element can be used during the read operation to control the read current and control read disturbances. An isolation element can be used to isolate the resistive element from the circuit during write operations." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2007 (11/771,065). 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=80,04,880.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,880&RS=PN/80,04,880 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Power Integrations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 24 -- Power Integrations, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,004,864) developed by Zhao-Jun Wang, San Jose, Calif., Stefan Baurle, San Jose, Calif., and David Michael Hugh Matthews, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for a control circuit responsive to an impedance coupled to a control circuit terminal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An example power supply includes a controller and a detection circuit. The controller includes a sense terminal coupled to provide a sense terminal current representative of an input voltage of the power supply during normal operation. The detection circuit is external to the controller and is coupled to the sense terminal. The detection circuit includes a Zener diode coupled to conduct a current to adjust the sense terminal current during a fault condition, where during the fault condition the controller is responsive to a measured impedance of the detection circuit which is determined in response to the sense terminal current." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2009 (12/497,366). 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=80,04,864.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,864&RS=PN/80,04,864 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Exaflop Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Exaflop, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,004,831) developed by five co-inventors for an "orthogonally system arrangements for data center facility." The co-inventors are Andrew B. Carlson, Atherton, Calif., William Hamburgen, Palo Alto, Calif., Jimmy Clidaras, Los Altos, Calif., Wolf-Dietrich Weber, San Jose, Calif., and Xiaobo Fan, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A facility is described that includes one or more enclosures defining an interior space, a plurality of power taps, a plurality of coolant supply taps, and a plurality of coolant return taps. A flow capacity of the supply taps and a flow capacity of the return taps can be approximately equal over a local area of the interior space. The plurality of power taps, the plurality of supply taps, and the plurality of return taps can be divided into a plurality of zones, with taps of each zone are configured to be controllably coupled to a power source or a coolant source independently of the taps of other zones. The taps can be positioned along paths, and paths of the power taps can be spaced from associated proximate paths of supply and return taps by a substantially uniform distance along a substantial length of the first path." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2010 (12/786,330). 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=80,04,831.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,831&RS=PN/80,04,831 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Portable Electronic Device Enclosure ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,004,829) developed by Lawrence Lam, San Jose, Calif., and Huy Nguyen, San Jose, Calif., for a "portable electronic device enclosure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism for protecting a portable electronic device, e.g., a handheld computer system. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of an encasing structure having an opening and configured to receive and have disposed therewithin the handheld computer system. The present invention is further comprised of a lifting device coupled to the encasing structure. The lifting device is adapted to raise the handheld computer system above the confines of the encasing structure and further adapted to lower the handheld computer system to a disposition therewithin the encasing structure. The encasing structure can be used to protect input/output ports or slots, I/Os externally disposed on side surfaces of the handheld computer system when the handheld computer system is disposed within the encasing structure, and the lifting device enables raising the handheld computer system above the confines of the encasing structure to provide access to the I/Os. In one embodiment, a push-push hinge can be utilized as the lifting device." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2010 (12/652,700). 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=80,04,829.PN.&OS=PN/80,04,829&RS=PN/80,04,829 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,005,252) developed by Michael Patrick Connors, Scotts Valley, Calif., and Thanh Quoc Nguyen, Irving, Texas, for a personal communications earpiece. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A personal communications earpiece (10, 10a, 10b) for use with a personal communications device such as a telephone (50). The personal communications earpiece (10, 10a, 10b) has an ear hook (12) for placing over an ear (60) of the user. An ear bud (14, 14a) containing a speaker (27) is both physically and electrically connected to the ear hook (12) by a flexible connector (16). A front portion (22) of the ear hook (12) extends generally downward in front of the ear (60). In one embodiment, the ear bud (14) has an in ear portion (28) with a plurality of grooves (30) therein for assisting in preventing the ear bud (14) from completely blocking or occluding the ear canal of the user." The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/455,372). 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=8,005,252.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,252&RS=PN/8,005,252 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Microsoft, Redwood, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,005,238) developed by Ivan Tashev, Kirkland, Wash., Alejandro Acero, Bellevue, Wash., and Byung-Jun Yoon, Pasadena, Calif., for a "robust adaptive beamforming with enhanced noise suppression." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A novel adaptive beamforming technique with enhanced noise suppression capability. The technique incorporates the sound-source presence probability into an adaptive blocking matrix. In one embodiment the sound-source presence probability is estimated based on the instantaneous direction of arrival of the input signals and voice activity detection. The technique guarantees robustness to steering vector errors without imposing ad hoc constraints on the adaptive filter coefficients. It can provide good suppression performance for both directional interference signals as well as isotropic ambient noise." The patent application was filed on March 22, 2007 (11/689,628). 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=8,005,238.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,238&RS=PN/8,005,238 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Harman International Industries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Harman International Industries, Northridge, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,231) developed by four co-inventors for an "ambient noise sound level compensation." The co-inventors are Timothy J. Shuttleworth, Woodland Hills, Calif., Richard A. Kreifeldt, Sandy, Utah, C. Rex Reed, Salt Lake City, and Brian R. Ellison, Salt Lake City. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a variable amplifier, a source sound processor, an area sound processor, and an adjustment circuit. The variable amplifier adjusts an audio input signal to generate an audio output signal with an appropriate level so that the audio output signal is audible over noise in a listening area. The source sound processor and the area sound processor may split the audio output signal and a monitoring signal into frequency bands, and may compare these signals band-by-band to find differences that represent time-varying noise in the monitoring signal. These differences may be modified to account for the acoustic response of the listening area and for constant-level background noise in the listening area. The adjustment circuit controls the variable amplifier in response to these differences." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2007 (11/944,016). 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=8,005,231.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,231&RS=PN/8,005,231 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Josephson Engineering Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Josephson Engineering, Santa Cruz, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,250) developed by David Lane Josephson, Santa Cruz, Calif., David M. Gordon, Soquel, Calif., and Kelly Q. Kay, Santa Cruz, Calif., for a microphone housing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of a microphone housing having at its base a cylindrical solid section (4) containing circuit boards (3) and on which is mounted transducer (2) and acoustically permeable basket (1). The basket is made of rigid, conductive foam providing electrical shielding, mechanical protection and wind and pop screening, without appreciably altering the acoustical characteristics of the transducer. Another embodiment is also described and shown." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2008 (12/340,711). 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=8,005,250.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,250&RS=PN/8,005,250 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,005,239) developed by Ramin Samadani, Menlo Park, Calif., for an audio noise reduction. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing audio noise in an audio signal acquisition is described herein. The method includes: receiving an input audio signal; separating the input audio signal into a high-frequency portion and a low-frequency portion based on a threshold frequency; synthesizing the low-frequency portion to at least reduce any audio noise therein to generate a new low-frequency portion; combining the high-frequency portion and the new low-frequency portion to form a new audio signal representing the input audio signal; and outputting the new audio signal for the audio signal acquisition." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2006 (11/589,446). 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=8,005,239.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,239&RS=PN/8,005,239 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Audyssey Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Audyssey Laboratories, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,005,228) developed by Sunil Bharitkar, Los Angeles, and Chris Kyriakakis, Altadena, Calif., for a "system and method for automatic multiple listener room acoustic correction with low filter orders." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and a methods for correcting, simultaneously at multiple-listener positions, distortions introduced by the acoustical characteristics includes warping room responses, intelligently weighing the warped room acoustical responses to form a weighted response, a low order spectral fitting to the weighted response, forming a warped filter from the low order spectral fit, and unwarping the warped filter to form the room acoustical correction filter." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2009 (12/422,117). 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=8,005,228.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,228&RS=PN/8,005,228 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,216) developed by Sunil Agrawal, Milpitas, Calif., for a "method and apparatus providing confidentiality, integrity and authenticity for a video file." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing confidentiality, integrity and authenticity for a video file is presented. An encryption header is produced for the video file, the video file including a plurality of packets that carry content, the encryption header containing information necessary to successfully decrypt the video file. The encryption header is added to the video file. An encryption key is generated from a master key identified in the encryption header and, using the encryption key, individual packets of the video file that carry content are encrypted. The video file comprises one of the group consisting of pre-recorded streaming video, live streaming video and randomly accessed video." The patent application was filed on Aug. 21, 2007 (11/842,709). 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=8,005,216.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,216&RS=PN/8,005,216 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Novatel Wireless Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Novatel Wireless, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,005,217) developed by Cuong Pham, Seattle, John Wu, San Diego, and Ulf Soderberg, Taby, Sweden, for a "method and apparatus for configuring nodes in a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems, devices and computer programs for configuring nodes on a wireless network can include generating a security key for the network, setting the security settings on the access point based on the security key, and saving the security key in a profile data file on a removable memory device along with a portable configuration utility for using the profile data file for configuring other nodes on the network. The removable memory device can then be inserted into other nodes and the portable configuration utility can be run to match the same key on the other network nodes based on the information stored in the profile data file on the removable memory device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 14, 2007 (11/674,999). 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=8,005,217.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,217&RS=PN/8,005,217 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,005,169) developed by Jungwon Lee, Cupertino, Calif., and Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "joint estimation of channel and preamble sequence for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes an estimation module, a processing module, and a control module. The estimation module receives a signal having N sub-carriers and generates N first estimates for channel gains of the N sub-carriers, where N is an integer greater than 1. The processing module generates N second estimates based on the N first estimates. The control module generates N differences between each of the N first estimates and corresponding ones of the N second estimates and estimates (i) a channel gain of the signal and (ii) a preamble sequence in the signal based on the N differences." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/725,039). 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=8,005,169&OS=8,005,169&RS=8,005,169 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microelectronics Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Microelectronics Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,005,162) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamic digital pre-distortion system." The co-inventors are Khiem V. Cai, Brea, Calif., David B. Rutan, Manhattan Beach, Calif., Ahmad Khanifar, Laguna Hills, Calif., and Armando C. Cova, Ladera Ranch, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Dynamic Digital Pre-Distortion (DDPD) system is disclosed to rapidly correct power amplifier (PA) non-linearity and memory effects. To perform pre-distortion, a DDPD engine predistorts an input signal in order to cancel PA nonlinearities as the signal is amplified by the PA. The DDPD engine is implemented as a composite of one linear filter and N-1 high order term linear filters. The bank of linear filters have programmable complex coefficients. To compute the coefficients, samples from the transmit path and a feedback path are captured, and covariance matrices A and B are computed using optimized hardware. After the covariance matrices are computed, Gaussian elimination processing may be employed to compute the coefficients. Mathematical and hardware optimizations may be employed to simplify and reduce the number of multiplication operands and other operations, which can enable the DDPD system to fit within a single chip." The patent application was filed on April 20, 2007 (11/788,451). 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=8,005,162&OS=8,005,162&RS=8,005,162 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,181) developed by Glenn C. Steiner, Los Altos, Calif., for a "clock and clock adjustment circuit for minimum jitter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for adjusting a clock for a jitter sensitive circuit begins by determining a low noise phase region of a primary clock. The method then continues by adjusting phase of an auxiliary clock such that a transition of the auxiliary clock falls within the low noise phase region of the primary clock to produce an adjusted auxiliary clock." The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2004 (10/970,968). 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=8,005,181&OS=8,005,181&RS=8,005,181 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Meeting lobby for web conferencing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,005,203) developed by five co-inventors for a "meeting lobby for web conferencing." The co-inventors are Anne M. Archambault, Seattle, Pavel Curtis, Los Altos, Calif., Brian Meek, Redmond, Wash., Jeremy B. Smith, Redmond, Wash., and Douglas Wyatt, Woodinville, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A conferencing system provides the scheduling of virtual meetings with meeting lobbies so that a meeting presenter can conduct a virtual meeting without the need to send out invitations to attendees. A person that wants to conduct a virtual meeting can schedule with the conferencing system a meeting with a meeting lobby. The meeting lobby has an address, but there is no associated privileged information, such as a meeting password. Would-be meeting attendees use the meeting lobby address to enter the meeting lobby as visitors in the lobby, and request to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby. A meeting presenter can then either grant authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting, or deny authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting. If a visitor in the meeting lobby is denied authorization to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby, the conferencing system removes the visitor from the meeting lobby." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2010 (12/862,713). 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=8,005,203.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,203&RS=PN/8,005,203 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Technique for Handling Incoming Reply Messages ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,005,194) developed by Raja Venkataraman, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Srikiran Prasad, Cupertino, Calif., for a "technique for handling incoming reply messages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Messages are handled by a determination that an incoming message is in response to a previous outgoing message, where the previous outgoing message is sent from the computing device. The previous outgoing message is identified, as stored on the computing device. Data that indicates information relating to receiving the incoming message is provided with at least (i) a listing of the previous outgoing message, or (ii) a body of the previous outgoing message." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2006 (11/339,311). 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=8,005,194.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,194&RS=PN/8,005,194 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,005,158) developed by five co-inventors for an "overhead signaling in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Alexander Leonidov, Somerset, N.J., Hui Jin, Clinton, N.J., Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., and Murari Srinivasan, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Improved ways of communicating assignment signals using flash signaling are described, e.g., for wireless terminals with low SNR, that are more robust against large variation of channel gains due to e.g., frequency selective fading and fast fading in time. Coding and modulation methods and apparatus that have excellent properties against symbol erasures are described. The use of flash signaling provides an improved assignment channel having strong performance on the fading channel without compromising the performance on the AWGN channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the coding and modulation method can tolerate up to 5 erased symbols out of 8 transmitted symbols. One embodiment reduces or minimizes the sector interference on the flash assignment by improving or maximizing orthogonality between different sectors. In addition, one embodiment describes improved ways of swapping flash assignment tone-symbols in the presence other high priority signals, like sector pilots and sector null pilots." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2006 (11/487,260). 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=8,005,158&OS=8,005,158&RS=8,005,158 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Samplify Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Samplify Systems, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,152) developed by Albert W. Wegener, Portola Valley, Calif., for a "compression of baseband signals in base transceiver systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A signal compression method and apparatus for a base transceiver system (BTS) in a wireless communication network provides efficient transfer of compressed signal samples over serial data links in the system. For the uplink, an RF unit of the BTS compresses baseband signal samples resulting from analog to digital conversion of a received analog signal followed by digital downconversion. The compressed signal samples are transferred over the serial data link to the baseband processor then decompressed prior to normal signal processing. For the downlink, the baseband processor compresses baseband signal samples and transfers the compressed signal samples to the RF unit. The RF unit decompresses the compressed samples prior to digital upconversion and digital to analog conversion to form an analog signal for transmission over an antenna. Compression and decompression can be incorporated into operations of conventional base stations and distributed antenna systems, including OBSAI or CPRI compliant systems." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,382). 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=80,05,152.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,152&RS=PN/80,05,152 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Link Adaptation and Antenna Selection in Cooperative Multiple Access Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,164) developed by Ozgur Oyman, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "link adaptation and antenna selection in cooperative multiple access systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a system comprising a bit stream merger to merge a bit stream of a wireless apparatus with at least one bit stream associated with a wireless device in a common transmit cluster to form a merged bit stream; a time-frequency encoder and interleaver to time-frequency encode and interleave the merged bit stream to generate a coded bit stream; and at least a first and second encoding path, each coupled to the time frequency coder and interleaver, and an antenna array, wherein the first encoding path modulates the coded bit stream according to a first modulation scheme and the second encoding path modulates the coded bit stream according to a second modulation scheme." The patent application was filed on March 2, 2007 (11/681,696). 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=8,005,164&OS=8,005,164&RS=8,005,164 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Newport Media Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Newport Media, Lake Forest, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,173) developed by Elsayed Ahmed Elsayed, Cairo, Egypt, and Nabil Yousef, Foothill Ranch, Calif., for a "coarse frequency offset estimation for digital multimedia broadcasting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of estimating a coarse frequency offset of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) transmission frames includes receiving the DMB transmission frames including a synchronization channel having a phase reference symbol, circularly shifting the phase reference symbol by applying a circular shift to the phase reference symbol, numerically correlating the circularly shifted phase reference symbol with a known correct phase reference symbol to obtain a highest peak and a side peaks of the numeric correlation, and computing a phase reference symbol angle based on a multiplication of the peak and a carrier spacing of the DMB transmission frames. The peak is determined when the circularly shifted phase reference symbol is equal to the known correct phase reference symbol. The peak and side peaks corresponding to the peak are operated in a range of a maximum value of the circular shift." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/124,389). 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=8,005,173&OS=8,005,173&RS=8,005,173 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell World Trade Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Marvell World Trade, St. Michael, Barbados, has been assigned a patent (8,005,178) developed by Ozdal Barkan, Mountain View, Calif., for a synchronous network device. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A physical layer device comprises a first port that embeds a first clock into data transmitted over a first physical medium; a second port that embeds a second clock into data transmitted over a second physical medium; a first selection module that outputs the first clock to the first port based on one of a locally generated clock and a recovered clock; and a second selection module that outputs the second clock to the second port based on one of the locally generated clock and the recovered clock. A method comprises embedding a first clock into data transmitted over a first physical medium; embedding a second clock into data transmitted over a second physical medium; generating the first clock based on one of a locally generated clock and a recovered clock; and generating the second clock based on one of the locally generated clock and the recovered clock." The patent application was filed on March 20, 2008 (12/052,371). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&p=1&S1=8,005,178&OS=8,005,178&RS=8,005,178 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** FutureWei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- FutureWei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,005,175) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for interference mitigation in an OFDMA-based communication system." The co-inventors are Yunsong Yang, San Diego, Anthony C.K. Soong, Plano, Texas, Jianmin Lu, San Diego, and Jung Woon Lee, Allen, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for mitigating inter-cell interference in an OFDMA-based wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of, providing at least a frame in a base station to a plurality of mobile stations; dividing the frame into a plurality of subcarriers; assigning a demarcation line within the frame to divide the plurality of subcarriers into a first zone and a second zone; defining a time reuse parameter for the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone; defining a frequency reuse parameter for the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone; and loading the plurality of subcarriers within the first zone according the time reuse parameter and the frequency parameter." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2007 (11/684,931). 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=8,005,175&OS=8,005,175&RS=8,005,175 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,005,155) developed by Jungwon Lee, Cupertino, Calif., and Qing Zhao, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "frame synchronization in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes an input, a differential demodulation module, a magnitude measuring module, a summing module, and a metric generator module. The input receives input signals that include s sets of modulated sub-carriers carrying symbols, where s is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The differential demodulation module generates differentially demodulated signals based on the input signals. The magnitude measuring module measures magnitudes of real portions of the differentially demodulated signals. The summing module generates s sums, wherein each of the s sums is a sum of the magnitudes generated based on a respective one of the s sets. The metric generator module generates metrics for the symbols based on the s sums." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2007 (12/002,610). 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=80,05,155&OS=80,05,155&RS=80,05,155 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Systems and Method for Generating a Common Preamble for Use in a Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,005,171) developed by Ismail Lakkis, San Diego, for "systems and method for generating a common preamble for use in a wireless communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A UWB system comprising a plurality of piconets, wherein each piconet uses a different code to generate a preamble for use in communicating with a plurality of remote communication devices. The preamble can be generated from the combination of repeated versions of the code, negative versions of the code, and no code or zero, the codes used have a perfect autocorrelation function and optimal cross-correlation." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2006 (11/425,964). 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=8,005,171&OS=8,005,171&RS=8,005,171 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,174) developed by Charles Abraham, Los Gatos, Calif., and Emre Tapucu, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for performing signal correlation using historical correlation data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for estimating a satellite signal parameter in a satellite positioning system receiver is described. In an example, a plurality of correlation results between a satellite signal and a reference signal is generated in response to a command from a processor. At least one satellite signal parameter is estimated from the plurality of correlation results using a co-processor integrated within the satellite positioning system receiver. The at least one satellite signal parameter is then provided to the processor." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2009 (12/491,814). 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=8,005,174&OS=8,005,174&RS=8,005,174 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,139) developed by Hsi Jung Wu, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Thomas Pun, San Jose, Calif., for an "encoding with visual masking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some embodiments of the invention encode a sequence of video images based on "visual masking" attributes of the video images and/or portions of the video images. Visual masking of an image or a portion of the image is an indication of how much coding artifacts can be tolerated in the image or image portion. To express the visual masking attribute of an image or an image portion, some embodiments compute a visual masking strength that quantifies the brightness energy of the image or the image portion. In some embodiments, the brightness energy is measured as a function of the average luma or pixel energy of the image or image portion." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2005 (11/118,604). 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=80,05,139.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,139&RS=PN/80,05,139 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** JDS Uniphase Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- JDS Uniphase, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,133) developed by Dale Trenton Smith, San Jose, Calif., for a "displaying eye-diagram and digital diagnostic data using network analyzers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatuses for displaying information for analyzing a signal transmitted in a communication system. The method can include displaying digital diagnostic data received from a monitoring interface of a transceiver. An eye-diagram for the signal is also displayed. The digital diagnostic data, network protocol analysis results, and/or the eye-diagram can be selectively displayed using a combined unit or stand alone units. Additionally, results of network protocol analysis can also be displayed with the digital diagnostic data and eye diagram." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2007 (11/741,587). 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=80,05,133.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,133&RS=PN/80,05,133 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,147) developed by five co-inventors for a "method of operating a video decoding system." The co-inventors are Jose' R. Alvarez, Sunnyvale, Calif., Alexander G. MacInnis, Los Altos, Calif., Sheng Zhong, Fremont, Calif., Xiaodong Xie, Fremont, Calif., and Vivian Hsiun, Yorba Linda, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for decoding a digital video data stream. In one aspect, a plurality of hardware acceleration modules are used together with a core processor. The accelerators operate in a decoding pipeline wherein, in any given stage, each accelerator operates on a particular macroblock of video data. In the subsequent pipeline stage, each accelerator works on the next macroblock in the data stream, which was worked on by another one of the accelerators in the previous stage. The core processor polls all of the accelerators during each stage. When all accelerators finish their tasks for a given stage, the core processor initiates the next stage. In another aspect, two variable-length decoders are employed to simultaneously decode two macroblock rows of a video frame. Each variable-length decoder works to decode an assigned row and the rows are variable-length decoded in parallel. The variable-length decoders operate as part of a pipeline wherein the variable-length decoders alternate, stage-by-stage, decoding macroblocks." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2006 (11/400,949). 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=80,05,147.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,147&RS=PN/80,05,147 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,128) developed by four co-inventors for "methods for estimation and interference cancellation for signal processing." The co-inventors are Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Woodinville, Wash., Tommy Guess, Lafayette, Colo., Michael McCloud, San Diego, and Anand P. Narayan, Boulder, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the subchannel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal." The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2007 (11/893,707). 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=80,05,128.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,128&RS=PN/80,05,128 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** National Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,135) developed by five co-inventors for a "receiver system with interdependent adaptive analog and digital signal equalization." The co-inventors are Tulsi Manickam, Rancho Pensaquitos, Calif., Peter J. Sallaway, San Diego, Sreen A. Raghavan, La Jolla, Calif., Abhijit M. Phanse, Cupertino, Calif., and James B. Wieser, Pleasanton, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An analog equalizer (613 and 614) adaptively equalizes an input analog signal affected with intersymbol interference ("ISI"), or an intermediate analog signal generated therefrom, to produce a filtered partially equalized analog signal with reduced ISI. An analog-to-digital converter (210) converts the filtered analog signal, or an intermediate analog signal generated therefrom, into an initial digital signal. A digital equalizer (212) adaptively equalizes the initial digital signal, or an intermediate digital signal generated therefrom, to produce an equalized digital signal as a stream of equalized digital values with further reduced ISI. An output decoder (605) decodes the equalized digital values, or intermediate digital values generated therefrom, into a stream of symbols. Equalization control circuitry (213, 214, and 217) adjusts equalization filter characteristics of the equalizers such that adjustments of the filter characteristics of one of the equalizers depend adaptively on adaptive adjustments of the filter characteristics of the other equalizer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/643,965). 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=80,05,135.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,135&RS=PN/80,05,135 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,005,131) developed by Qinghua Li, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Jun Shi, San Diego, for a "delay compensation for transmit/receive chain calibration and multiuser MIMO." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Compensation is provided for errors in channel information that can result when there is a delay between the measurement of the channel information and the subsequent use of the channel information. In one embodiment, downlink channel prediction is performed within a user device, in a system employing closed loop MIMO with implicit feedback, to reduce the occurrence of errors during the calculation of a calibration parameter within an associated base station. In another embodiment, channel prediction is used to predict a downlink channel state for a user device at a future time when a multi-user MIMO data transfer is to occur between a base station and a number of selected user devices." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2007 (11/903,488). 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=80,05,131.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,131&RS=PN/80,05,131 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,004,964) developed by four co-inventors for a "restoring multi-segment pseudowires following failure of a switching PE device." The co-inventors are Sami Boutros, San Ramon, Calif., Muthurajah Sivabalan, Kanata, Canada, Luca Martini, Lakewood, Colo., and George Swallow, Boston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a protected switching provider edge (S-PE) and a backup S-PE may be operated, where the protected S-PE has at least one multi-segment pseudowire (MS-PW) and is between a first and second provider edge (PE) on the MS-PW. To protect the protected S-PE, the first and second PE may be informed of the backup S-PE and a backup label to reach the second and first PE, respectively, via the backup S-PE to remain on the MS-PW. Upon detecting loss of connectivity with the protected S-PE, the first and/or second PE may forward packets of the MS-PW to the backup S-PE with the corresponding backup label to reach the second or first PE, respectively, on the MS-PW." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2009 (12/383,359). 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=8,004,964.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,964&RS=PN/8,004,964 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Audividi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Audividi, George Town, Ky., has been assigned a patent (8,004,963) developed by Rong-Wen Chang, Fremont, Calif., John K. Lee, Fremont, Calif., and Ron Lin, Fremont, Calif., for an "apparatus and method for packet redundancy and recovery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Apparatus and method for packet redundancy and recovery are disclosed. In a transmitter, parity packets are generated by executing exclusive OR between the corresponding data packets, and are transmitted along with the data packets to a receiver. In the receiver, lost data packets are found out and are recovered by executing exclusive OR between the corresponding data packets and the corresponding parity packets. This invention enhances the reliability of streaming data transmission using loss-recovery packets. Data packets are grouped and transmitted with redundant packets to allow the receiver to recover a lost packet within the group. This will minimize the need and therefore the time and delay to request a retransmission of the damaged or lost packets." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2009 (12/390,574). 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=8,004,963.PN.&OS=PN/8,004,963&RS=PN/8,004,963 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Memsic Transducer Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Memsic Transducer Systems, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, has been assigned a patent (8,005,108) developed by Alan S. Broad, Palo Alto, Calif., and Ning Xu, San Jose, Calif., for a "fast deployment of modules in adaptive network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plurality of modules interact to form an adaptive network in which each module transmits and receives data signals indicative of physical properties sensed at the modules. A new module is joined in the adaptive network in an expedient manner. The new module transmits a burst of beacon messages after the interactive module is activated to discover neighboring interactive modules deployed and operating in the adaptive network. The neighboring interactive module stays in a sleep-mode of low-power expenditure. The beacon messages persist for a first interval longer than a second interval during which the neighboring interactive modules remain in the sleep mode. After receiving the beacon messages, one or more neighboring interactive modules transmit response messages to the new interactive module. The new interactive module receives the response messages and selects a neighboring interactive module for communication based on the received response messages. The new module can also include an indicator for indicating discovery of a neighboring interactive module with which a reliable wireless link can be established." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/930,832). 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=80,05,108.PN.&OS=PN/80,05,108&RS=PN/80,05,108 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, Wis., has been assigned a patent (8,005,114) developed by Arunesh Mishra, Mountain View, Calif., and Suman Banerjee, Madison, Wis., for a "method and apparatus to vary the transmission bit rate within individual wireless packets through multi-rate packetization." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent an 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. -1058816 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |