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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Wisconsin (Aug. 31)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Wisconsin. *** Eaton Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Eaton, Cleveland, has been assigned a patent (8,010,318) developed by Bin Lu, Kenosha, Wis., Thomas G. Habetler, Snellville, Ga., and Ronald G. Harley, Lawrenceville, Ga., for a "system and method to determine electric motor efficiency nonintrusively." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for nonintrusively determining electric motor efficiency includes a processor programed to, while the motor is in operation, determine a plurality of stator input currents, electrical input data, a rotor speed, a value of stator resistance, and an efficiency of the motor based on the determined rotor speed, the value of stator resistance, the plurality of stator input currents, and the electrical input data. The determination of the rotor speed is based on one of the input power and the plurality of stator input currents. The determination of the value of the stator resistance is based on at least one of a horsepower rating and a combination of the plurality of stator input currents and the electrical input data. The electrical input data includes at least one of an input power and a plurality of stator input voltages." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2008 (12/132,151). 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=8010318.PN.&OS=PN/8010318&RS=PN/8010318 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for System and Method for Disease Diagnosis From Patient Structural Deviation Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,381) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for disease diagnosis from patient structural deviation data." The co-inventors are Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, Wis., Gopal B. Avinash, Menomonee Falls, Wis., Fausto J. Espinal, Waukesha, Wis., Zhongmin Lin, New Berlin, Wis., Ananth Mohan, Waukesha, Wis., and Tamanna Bembenek, Naperville, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data processing technique is provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes accessing patient deviation data of a structural difference between a patient anatomical feature and a standardized anatomical feature. The method may also include comparing the patient deviation data to reference deviation data sets representative of multiple disease types. Each reference deviation data set may be representative of an expected deviation from the standardized anatomical feature for a particular disease type. The method may further include automatically identifying one or more potential patient disease types based at least in part on the comparison. Additional methods, systems, and manufactures are also disclosed." The patent application was filed on May 20, 2008 (12/123,947). 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=80,10,381.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,381&RS=PN/80,10,381 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Caterpillar, Convergent Thinking Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., and Convergent Thinking, Madison, Wis., have been assigned a patent (8,010,326) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for automated grid formation in multi-cell system dynamics models." The co-inventors are Peter Kelly Senecal, Middleton, Wis., Eric Douglas Pomraning, Madison, Wis., Keith Jared Richards, Mount Horeb, Wis., and Tianliang Yang, Madison, Wis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method for forming a fixed geometric grid for a fluid dynamics system multi-cell computer model, the system having one or more surfaces, includes representing the system surfaces by an array of contiguous polygons. The method also includes creating a single model cell that encompasses the entire system and assigning all the surface polygons to the single model cell. The method further includes subdividing at least the portion of the single model cell encompassing the surface polygon array, including subdividing all intersected assigned polygons, using one or more subdividing planes. The method still further includes reassigning the surface polygons to respective subdivided cells resulting from the subdividing step, identifying those subdivided cells having two or more surface polygons from a common system surface, and calculating effective common boundary areas and normal vectors for those cells. The method also includes treating "split" cells and "sliver" cells. Apparatus for automatically forming a fixed geometric grid includes a digital computer programmed with a CFD program having software to implement the disclosed method." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2005 (11/318,631). 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=80,10,326.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,326&RS=PN/80,10,326 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Southern California Assigned Patent for Tool for a Configurable Integrated Circuit that Uses Determination of Dynamic Power Consumption ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has been assigned a patent (8,010,931) developed by four co-inventors for a "tool for a configurable integrated circuit that uses determination of dynamic power consumption." The co-inventors are Matthew C. French, Falls Church, Va., Li Wang, Boise, Idaho, Deepak Agarwal, Austin, Texas, and Azadeh Davoodi, Madison, Wis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A configurable logic tool that allows minimization of dynamic power within an FPGA design without changing user-entered specifications. The minimization of power may use minimized clock nets as a first order operation, and a second order operation that minimizes other factors, such as area of placement, area of clocks and/or slack." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2007 (11/678,994). 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=8,010,931&OS=8,010,931&RS=8,010,931 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intuit Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Intuit, Mountian View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,623) developed by Todd Matthew Fitch, Santa Clara, Calif., Thomas A. Frasher, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Elliot M. Lynde, Verona, Wis., for a "method and system for localized short-term broadcasts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to a method for using a multimedia service associated with a venue. The method includes steps of obtaining a pre-approved activation code associated with the venue, activating the multimedia service associated with the venue using the pre-approved activation code and an identification of a multimedia device, requesting the multimedia service using the multimedia device, and receiving the multimedia service using the multimedia device within a pre-determined range from a pre-determined locality of the venue, wherein the request is authenticated based on a locality of the multimedia device being within the pre-determined range from the pre-determined locality of the venue." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,645). 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=80,10,623.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,623&RS=PN/80,10,623 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Direct Memory Access in a Hybrid Computing Environment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,718) developed by four co-inventors for a "direct memory access in a hybrid computing environment." The co-inventors are Charles J. Archer, Rochester, Minn., James E. Carey, Rochester, Minn., Jeffrey M. Ceason, Holmen, Wis., and Philip J. Sanders, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Direct memory access (`DMA`) in a hybrid computing environment that includes a host computer, an accelerator, the host computer and the accelerator adapted to one another for data communications by a system level message passing module, where DMA includes identifying, by the system level message passing module, a buffer of data to be transferred from the host computer to the accelerator according to a DMA protocol; segmenting, by the system level message passing module, the buffer of data into a predefined number of memory segments; pinning, by the system level message passing module, the memory segments against paging; and asynchronously with respect to pinning the memory segments, effecting, by the system level message passing module, DMA transfers of the pinned memory segments from the host computer to the accelerator." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2009 (12/364,590). 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=8,010,718.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,718&RS=PN/8,010,718 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Watlow Electric Manufacturing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Watlow Electric Manufacturing, St. Louis, has been assigned a patent (8,010,811) developed by Shawn Leininger, Trenton, Mo., William C. Bohlinger, Buffalo City, Wis., and Eric E. Ellis, Columbia, Mo., for a "power controller coupling assemblies and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A variety of power controller coupling assemblies are provided that include at least one power controller, at least one cable assembly coupled to the power controller, and a plurality of power loads coupled to the power controller and the cable assembly. Power is provided from the power controller to the power loads through the cable assembly in a configuration such that power is provided to each of the power loads if one or more of the power loads should become disconnected from the power controller coupling assembly. Additionally, various cable assemblies are provided that include a plurality of power cables connecting a plurality of connectors, each of the connectors defining a number of conductor positions for providing power from a power source to at least one power controller and to a plurality of power loads." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2007 (11/701,895). 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=8,010,811.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,811&RS=PN/8,010,811 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Medical Solutions USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,010,476) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for medical predictive models using likelihood gamble pricing." The co-inventors are Glenn Fung, Madison, Wis., Phan Hong Giang, Downingtown, Pa., Harald Steck, Phoenixville, Pa., and R. Bharat Rao, Berwyn, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for predicting survival rates of medical patients includes providing a set D of survival data for a plurality of medical patients, providing a regression model having an associated parameter vector .beta., providing an example x.sub.0 of a medical patient whose survival probability is to be classified, calculating a parameter vector {circumflex over (.beta.)} that maximizes a log-likelihood function of .beta. over the set of survival data, l(.beta.|D), wherein the log likelihood l(.beta.|D) is a strictly concave function of .beta. and is a function of the scalar x.beta., calculating a weight w.sub.0 for example x.sub.0, calculating an updated parameter vector .beta.* that maximizes a function l(.beta.|D.orgate.{(y.sub.0,x.sub.0,w.sub.0)}), wherein data points (y.sub.0,x.sub.0,w.sub.0) augment set D, calculating a fair log likelihood ratio .lamda..sup.f from {circumflex over (.beta.)} and .beta.* using .lamda..sup.f=.lamda.(.beta.*|x.sub.0)+sign(.lamda.({circumflex over (.beta.)}|x.sub.0)){l({circumflex over (.beta.)}|D)-l(.beta.*|D)}, and mapping the fair log likelihood ratio .lamda..sup.f to a fair price y.sub.0.sup.f, wherein said fair price is a probability that class label y.sub.0 for example x.sub.0 has a value of 1." The patent application was filed on May 29, 2008 (12/128,947). 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=8,010,476.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,476&RS=PN/8,010,476 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. -1059441 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |