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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Florida (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 Florida. *** Harris Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Harris, Melbourne, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,005,221) developed by David B. Chester, Palm Bay, Fla., and Alan J. Michaels, West Melbourne, Fla., for a "chaotic spread spectrum communications system receiver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for coherently demodulating a chaotic sequence spread spectrum signal at a receiver (104). The method includes receiving a chaotic sequence spread spectrum signal including a plurality of information symbols. The method also includes generating a first string of discrete time chaotic samples. The first string of discrete time chaotic samples is identical to a second string of discrete time chaotic samples generated at a transmitter. The method further includes processing the chaotic sequence spread spectrum signal at the receiver to identify a time offset and a frequency offset relative to the first string of discrete time chaotic samples. Each of the discrete time chaotic samples of the first string of discrete time chaotic samples has a shorter sample time interval than the duration of the information symbols." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2007 (11/832,160). 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=8,005,221.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,221&RS=PN/8,005,221 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for System for Digital Television Broadcasting Using Modified 2/3 Trellis Coding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Samsung Electronics, Suwon-si, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,005,166) developed by Allen LeRoy Limberg, Port Charlotte, Fla., for a "system for digital television broadcasting using modified 2/3 trellis coding." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "8VSB-compatible DTV broadcasting that employs outer coding of a sort in which interleaved data and outer coding parity are inner coded by the 2/3 trellis code encoder is improved. This is done by recoding each successive pair of bits in the interleaved data and outer coding parity in accordance with an "anti-Gray" code before being inner coded by the 2/3 trellis code encoder. Accordingly, in the DTV receiver an adjacent-bin error during data slicing may generate a double-bit error in a pair of bits as 2/3 trellis decoded, but this is reduced to a single-bit error after the pair of bits is recoded in accordance with a Gray coding procedure. In one example of such recoding, 10 and 11 bit-pairs of the interleaved data and outer coding parity are recoded to 11 and 10 bit-pairs respectively, but the 00 and 01 bit-pairs are not recoded." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2007 (11/978,462). 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=8,005,166&OS=8,005,166&RS=8,005,166 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,005,202) developed by Ciprian Agapi, Lake Worth, Fla., James R. Lewis, Delray Beach, Fla., and Michael H. Mirt, Deerfield Beach, Fla., for an "automatic generation of a callflow statistics application for speech systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program for automatically generating call flow statistics in a voice application. Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to call flow statistics generation systems and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for automatically generating a call flow statistics-generating application and presenting updated statistics on a call flow representation. Various statistics collection points are identified on the visual representation. Upon running of the voice application, call flow statistics are gathered and presented for each statistics collection point. Call identifiers corresponding to each call path can be selected and call paths corresponding to the selected call identifier may be highlighted and their call statistics displayed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2005 (11/297,537). 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=8,005,202.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,202&RS=PN/8,005,202 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xocyst Transfer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Xocyst Transfer, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,005,062) developed by Trent R. Carter, Indiatlantic, Fla., Hooman Kashef, Melbourne, Fla., and Menzo Wentink, Utrecht, The Netherlands, for a "transmission using a plurality of protocols." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Included are embodiments for communicating data using a plurality of formats. At least one embodiment of a method includes transmitting a plurality of first format data frames with a predetermined time period between transmitted first format data frames and determining a duration of the time period between the transmitted first format data frames. Similarly, some embodiments include fragmenting a second format data frame into a plurality of second format subframes such that the second format subframes may be transmitted during the time period between the transmitted first format data frames." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2009 (12/398,829). 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=80,05,062&OS=80,05,062&RS=80,05,062 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cold Plasma Medical Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- Cold Plasma Medical Technologies, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,005,548) developed by Gregory A. Watson, Sanford, Fla., for "harmonic cold plasma device and associated methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for generating atmospheric pressure cold plasma inside a hand-held unit discharges cold plasma with simultaneously different rf wavelengths and their harmonics. The unit includes an rf tuning network that is powered by a low-voltage power supply connected to a series of high-voltage coils and capacitors. The rf energy signal is transferred to a primary containment chamber and dispersed through an electrode plate network of various sizes and thicknesses to create multiple frequencies. Helium gas is introduced into the first primary containment chamber, where electron separation is initiated. The energized gas flows into a secondary magnetic compression chamber, where a balanced frequency network grid with capacitance creates the final electron separation, which is inverted magnetically and exits through an orifice with a nozzle. The cold plasma thus generated has been shown to be capable of accelerating a healing process in flesh wounds on animal laboratory specimens." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2009 (12/638,161). 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=8,005,548.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,548&RS=PN/8,005,548 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** T-Mobile USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- T-Mobile USA, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,005,510) developed by Steve Fischer, Tampa, Fla., for a "cell site power conservation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for conserving power in a communications system such as a communications service cell site. The methods include adjusting the RF coverage of the cell site antenna, selective control of the RF output transmit power, selective control of the communications bit rate, transfer of communications to other cell sites, adjustment of indicators such that mobile devices transfer communications to other cell sites, and reallocation of logical slots between radios in the cell site." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2008 (12/170,696). 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=8,005,510&OS=8,005,510&RS=8,005,510 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** XM Satellite Radio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- XM Satellite Radi, Washington, has been assigned a patent (8,005,419) developed by Stelios Patsiokas, Coral Springs, Fla., Paul D. Marko, Pembroke Pines, Fla., and Gary Morse, Boca Raton, Fla., for a "system and method for securely storing and organizing SDARS content with DRM and non-DRM protected media content, and for facilitating obtaining purchased or subscription-based media based on received SDARS content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a device and method for securely storing and organizing SDARS content on a portable player. SDARS audio content is stored on a private partition of the device not available to a client PC. Shadow files are stored on a public partition of the device. The shadow files contain metadata related to the corresponding SDARS audio and a reference to the SDARS audio on the private partition. Playlists can be organized on the device intermixing stored SDARS content with DRM and non-DRM protected media content. Downloading of purchased or subscription-based media files based on observed or received SDARS content is facilitated. Digital Rights Management features are included to control authorized actions with respect to SDARS content. Firmware updates are performed using encrypted firmware unique to the particular device to thwart firmware hacking." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2006 (11/647,572). 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=8,005,419.PN.&OS=PN/8,005,419&RS=PN/8,005,419 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1058820 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |