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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Pennsylvania (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 Pennsylvania. *** Scientific Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Scientific Innovations, Radnor, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,010,314) developed by John Louis Spiesberger, Radnor, Pa., for "methods for estimating location using signal with varying signal speed." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of signal propagation. Realistic prior probability distributions of pertinent variables are permitted for the locations of stations, the speed of signal propagation, and errors in measurements. Bounds and probability distributions can be obtained without making any assumption of linearity. The sequential methods used for location are applicable in other applications in which a function of the probability distribution is desired for variables that are related to measurements." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2010 (12/769,450). 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=8010314.PN.&OS=PN/8010314&RS=PN/8010314 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cerno Bioscience Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Cerno Bioscience, Danbury, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,010,306) developed by Yongdong Wang, Wilton, Conn., and Ming Gu, Yardley, Pa., for "methods for calibrating mass spectrometry (MS) and other instrument systems and for processing MS and other data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for obtaining at least one calibration filter for a Mass Spectrometry (MS) instrument system. Measured isotope peak cluster data in a mass spectral range is obtained for a given calibration standard. Relative isotope abundances and actual mass locations of isotopes corresponding thereto are calculated for the given calibration standard. Mass spectral target peak shape functions centered within respective mass spectral ranges are specified. Convolution operations are performed between the calculated relative isotope abundances and the mass spectral target peak shape functions to form calculated isotope peak cluster data. A deconvolution operation is performed between the measured isotope peak cluster data and the calculated isotope peak cluster data after the convolution operations to obtain the at least one calibration filter. Provisions are made for normalizing peak widths, combining internal and external calibration, and using selected measured peaks as standards. Aspects of the methods are applied to other analytical instruments." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2009 (12/371,759). 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=8010306.PN.&OS=PN/8010306&RS=PN/8010306 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Drexel University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Drexel University, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,010,296) developed by Lit-Hsin Loo, Dallas, Leonid Hrebien, Valley Forge, Pa., and Moshe Kam, Philadelphia, for an "apparatus and method for removing non-discriminatory indices of an indexed dataset." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides a device and method for removing non-discriminatory indices of an indexed dataset using ensemble statistics analysis. The device may include a data removal module (320) for removing non-discriminatory indices. For example, the data removal module (320) may comprise a common characteristic removal module and/or a noise removal module. In addition, the data analyzer (300) may comprise a normalization means (310) for normalizing the indexed data. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of identifying and removing portions of the set of data having insufficient discriminatory power based on ensemble statistics of the set of indexed data. For example, the method may include the steps of identifying and removing common characteristics and/or noise portions of the set of indexed data. In addition, the method may comprise the step of normalizing the indexed data either prior to or after the step of removing portions of the set of data." The patent application was filed on Dec. 18, 2003 (10/538,390). 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=8010296.PN.&OS=PN/8010296&RS=PN/8010296 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VideoMining Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- VideoMining, State College, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,010,402) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for augmenting transaction data with visually extracted demographics of people using computer vision." The co-inventors are Rajeev Sharma, State College, Pa., Hankyu Moon, State College, Pa., Varij Saurabh, State College, Pa., and Namsoon Jung, State College, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a system and framework for augmenting any retail transaction system with information about the involved customers. This invention provides a method to combine the transaction data records and a customer or a group of customers with the automatically extracted demographic features (e.g., gender, age, and ethnicity), shopping group information, and behavioral information using computer vision algorithms. First, the system detects faces from face view, tracks them individually, and estimates poses of each of the tracked faces to normalize. These facial images are processed by the demographics classification module to determine and record the demographics feature vector. The system detects and tracks customers to analyze the dynamic behavior of the tracked customers so that their shopping group membership and checkout behavior can be recognized. Then the instances of faces and the instances of bodies can be matched and combined. Finally, the transaction data from the transaction data and the demographics, group, and checkout behavior data that belong to the same person or the same group of people are combined." The patent application was filed on April 21, 2009 (12/386,654). 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=80,10,402.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,402&RS=PN/80,10,402 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Predicting Database System Performance ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,337) developed by Dushyanth Narayanan, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Eno Thereska, Pittsburgh, for a "predicting database system performance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A prediction system may perform capacity planning for one or more resources of a database systems, such as by understanding how different workloads are using the system resources and/or predicting how the performance of the workloads will change when the hardware configuration of the resource is changed and/or when the workload changes. The prediction system may use a detailed, low-level tracing of a live database system running an application workload to monitor the performance of the current database system. In this manner, the current monitoring traces and analysis may be combined with a simulation to predict the workload's performance on a different hardware configuration. More specifically, performance may be indicated as throughput and/or latency, which may be for all transactions, for a particular transaction type, and/or for an individual transaction. Database system performance prediction may include instrumentation and tracing, demand trace extraction, cache simulation, disk scaling, CPU scaling, background activity prediction, throughput analysis, latency analysis, visualization, optimization, and the like." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/116,690). 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=80,10,337.PN.&OS=PN/80,10,337&RS=PN/80,10,337 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Providing a Software Installation or Removal Status Display ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,010,960) developed by G. Brent Gerhart, Plymouth Meeting, Pa., Christopher A. Lunemann, Jim Thorpe, Pa., and Leggie M. Willis, Philadelphia, for a "system and method for providing a software installation or removal status display." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes initiating an installation of software on a device or a removal of software from the device. The installation or removal of the software involves a plurality of installers capable of installing software components on or removing the software components from the device. The method also includes presenting a status panel associated with the installation or removal of the software to a user. The status panel identifies a plurality of operations associated with the installation or removal of the software and a status of each of the operations. The plurality of operations is associated with at least two different installers. The status panel includes at least one indicator that repeatedly changes to indicate that the installation or removal of the software is progressing." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2005 (11/289,966). 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=8,010,960&OS=8,010,960&RS=8,010,960 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ericsson Television Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Ericsson Television, Duluth, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,010,986) developed by five co-inventors for a "synchronization and automation in an ITV environment." The co-inventors are Jon Dakss, Marina del Rey, Calif., Paul Milazzo, Avondale, Pa., Karen Sarachik, Los Angeles, Allan Kotmel, Los Angeles, and V. Michael Bove Jr., Wrentham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A synchronization mechanism embeds synchronization triggers into a television signal or stream at regular intervals. The triggers include an accurate representation of the time in which the triggers were embedded. A receiving device decodes the triggers and synchronizes its internal timer based on the triggers. In this regard, the receiving device obtains a reference time from the internal timer and computes an offset between the reference time and the trigger time. The computed offset is then applied to the reference time. With the receipt of each new trigger, the application compares the trigger time to a new reference time with the most recently computed offset value applied. If there is any variance between these two values, the application creates a new smoothed offset." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2005 (11/051,405). 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=8,010,986&OS=8,010,986&RS=8,010,986 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Thomson Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (8,010,863) developed by Dekai Li, Yardley, Pa., Saurabh Mathur, Monmouth Junction, N.J., and Ashwin Kashyap, Plainsboro, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple multimedia streams." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There are provided a method and apparatus for synchronizing a plurality of media streams that use Forward Error Correction. The apparatus includes a memory device (110), a FEC encoder (120), and a control device (140). The memory device (110) is for buffering the plurality of media streams. The FEC encoder (120) is for generating FEC packets for streams. The control device (140) is for determining, for each stream, a respective threshold amount of buffer to be filled in order to initiate generation of the corresponding FEC packets, and upon a fastest one of the streams filling the respective threshold amount of buffer, causing an initiation of the generation of the FEC packets for the fastest stream, as well as for the other streams, irrespective of a current fill amount of the other streams, wherein said control device causes the initiation of the generation of the FEC packets by the FEC encoder via signaling." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2007 (11/880,729). 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=591&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110830.PD.&p=12&OS=ISD/08/30/2011&RS=ISD/08/30/2011 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Unisys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Unisys, Blue Bell, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,010,569) developed by Jane C. Mazzagatti, Blue Bell, Pa., for an "adding and subtracting KStores." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The KStore is a datastore made up of a forest of interconnected, highly unconventional trees of one or more levels. One KStore can be added to an existing KStore to create an updated KStore by traversing the trees of the KStores and incrementing the count fields to reflect the added counts of analogous nodes. New KStore structure is added as needed. A KStore can be subtracted from an existing KStore to create an updated KStore by traversing trees KStores and decrementing the count fields in the updated KStore to reflect the subtracted counts of analogous nodes. KStore structure is removed as needed. Portions of a KStore can be added or subtracted from another KStore by isolating the paths to be used for updating. Instead of incrementing or decrementing counts, a dataset of individual records can be recreated from the KStore." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2008 (12/319,030). 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=80,10,569&OS=80,10,569&RS=80,10,569 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automated Method for Buffering in a VLSI Design ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,010,922) developed by four co-inventors for an "automated method for buffering in a VLSI design." The co-inventors are Frank Malgioglio, Hopewell Junction, N.Y., Adam R. Jatkowski, Wyoming, Pa., Brian A. Lasseter, Austin, Texas, and Joseph J. Palumbo, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Buffers are placed on selected nets coupled to input and output pins of entities in an IC device. This includes loading selected input and output pins of entities prior to respectively buffering nets of the entities and buffering in successive iterations, which includes setting artificial loads on selected input pins. The buffering in a current iteration is limited to i) buffering nets on the current iteration entity for receivers on the current iteration entity and ii) buffering nets on the current iteration entity directly coupled to respective nets of an immediately adjacent entity that has been buffered already in a preceding one of iterations, but only if the already buffered net is coupled to a receiver on its own net or a receiver on some other already buffered net via nets that have all been buffered via one or more of the preceding iterations." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2008 (12/032,762). 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=8,010,922&OS=8,010,922&RS=8,010,922 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Imetribus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Imetribus, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,717) developed by Junius Evans, Carlsbad, Calif., Daniel Pettus, Carlsbad, Calif., and Rose Higgins, Washington Crossing, Pa., for a "method and system for communication and collaboration between a patient and healthcare professional." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and platforms for enhancing collaboration and communication between a patient and his healthcare team are described. A personal health record is created for a patient and maintained by a service provider. The health record is updated with self-monitored or remote device readings. These readings are sent, in a secure format that insures patient privacy, to the service provider and inserted into a health record via a computer connected to the Internet or via a telephone line without the use of a computer, i.e., by directly connecting an intermediate device to a phone outlet. Other health and wellness data may be written to the health record via a computer or via conventional means. By enhancing collaboration between patients and their healthcare teams, patients are more likely to improve their health conditions, particularly chronic conditions, and reduce healthcare costs." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2003 (10/417,794). 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=8,010,717.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,717&RS=PN/8,010,717 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,010,480) developed by Kushal B. Dave, New York, and Jeremy A. Hylton, Easton, Pa., for a "selecting high quality text within identified reviews for display in review snippets." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system of selecting content from reviews for display are described. A review is identified and partitioned. A subset of the partitions is selected based on predefined criteria. A snippet is generated from the selected partitions. A response that includes the snippet is generated." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2005 (11/241,702). 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=8,010,480.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,480&RS=PN/8,010,480 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** 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. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Locally Computable Spam Detection Features and Robust Pagerank ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 31 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,010,482) developed by eight co-inventors for a "locally computable spam detection features and robust pagerank." The co-inventors are Reid Marlow Andersen, Seattle, Christian Herwarth Borgs, Seattle, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Seattle, John E. Hopcroft, Ithaca, N.Y., Kamal Jain, Bellevue, Wash., Seyed Vahab Mirrokni, Seattle, Amit Prakash, Munhall, Pa., and Shang-Hua Teng, Somerville, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates reducing spam in search results. An interface can obtain web graph information that represents a web of pages. A spam detection component can determines one or more features based at least in part on the web graph information. The one or more features can provide indications that a particular page of the web graph is spam. In addition, a robust rank component is provided that limits amount of contribution a single page can provide to the target page." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2008 (12/041,474). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,010,482.PN.&OS=PN/8,010,482&RS=PN/8,010,482 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. 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