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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (Sept. 9)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,013,629) developed by five co-inventors for a reconfigurable logic automata. The co-inventors are David Allen Dalrymple, Columbia, Md., Erik Demaine, Cambridge, Mass., Neil Gershenfeld, Somerville, Mass., Forrest Green, Cambridge, Mass., and Ara Knaian, Newton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A family of reconfigurable asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits reconfigurable implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level, rather than at the level of functional blocks. These elements pass information by means of tokens. Each cell is self-timed, and cells that are configured as interconnect perform at propagation delay speeds, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. A reconfigurable asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for communication with at least one neighboring cell, each edge having an input for receiving tokens from neighboring cells and an output for transferring tokens to at least one neighboring cell, circuitry configured to perform a logic operation utilizing received tokens as inputs and to produce an output token reflecting the result of the logic operation, and circuitry. A reconfigurable lattice of asynchronous logic automata comprises a plurality of reconfigurable logic automata that compute by locally passing state tokens and are reconfigured by the directed shifting of programming instructions through neighboring logic elements." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2009 (12/561,262). 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=80,13,629.PN.&OS=PN/80,13,629&RS=PN/80,13,629 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Airbus Deutschland, Hamilton Sundstrand Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- Airbus Deutschland, Germany, and Hamilton Sundstrand, Windsor Locks, Conn., have been assigned a patent (8,013,549) developed by seven co-inventors for a "counter electro-motoric force based functional status detection of an electro-motor." The co-inventors are Jurgen Kelnhofer, Jork, Germany, Thomas Scherer, Hamburg, Germany, Steffen Kalsow, Hamburg, Germany, Alvy Biccum, East Longmeadow, Mass., John Maljanian, Farmington, Conn., David Leenhouts, Burlington, Conn., and Walter S. Hojnowski, Somers, Conn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to a circuit for detecting a functional status of an electro-motor. Typical electro-motors need additional components to identify the functional status of the motor. This means additional weight for such motors determining the functional status. According to the present invention a circuit is provided using a part of a motor as a sensor for detecting the functional status of the electro-motor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2004 (11/663,049). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=80,13,549.PN.&OS=PN/80,13,549&RS=PN/80,13,549 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Power Conversion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- American Power Conversion, West Kingston, R.I., has been assigned a patent (8,013,566) developed by Lance P. Haines, Wilmington, Mass., for a solar powered apparatus. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A solar powered apparatus that includes a battery, at least one photovoltaic cell (which may be part of a solar module comprising multiple photovoltaic cells), and a DC-capable AC appliance, such as a compact fluorescent light. The solar powered apparatus may also include a first DC to DC converter that receives a first electrical signal from the at least one photovoltaic cell and provides a charging signal to the battery, and a second DC to DC converter that receives a second electrical signal from the battery and provides a DC power signal to the DC-capable AC appliance." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2010 (12/947,403). 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=80,13,566.PN.&OS=PN/80,13,566&RS=PN/80,13,566 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** KD Secure Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- KD Secure, Tallahassee, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,013,738) developed by John J. Donovan, Hamilton, Mass., and Daniar Hussain, Cambridge, Mass., for a "hierarchical storage manager (HSM) for intelligent storage of large volumes of data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a video surveillance, storage, and alerting system having the following components. One or more surveillance cameras capture video data having attribute data, the attribute data representing importance of the surveillance cameras. One or more video analytics devices process the video data from one or more of the surveillance cameras and detect primitive video events in the video data. A network management module monitors network status of the surveillance cameras, and the video analytics devices, and generates network events reflective of the network status of all subsystems. A correlation engine correlates two or more primitive video events from the video analytics devices weighted by the attribute data of the surveillance cameras used to capture the video data, and network events from the network management module weighted by attribute data of device corresponding to the network event. An alerting engine generates one or more alerts and performs one or more actions based on the correlation performed by the correlation engine." The patent application was filed on Oct. 04, 2007 (12/279,720). 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=8,013,738.PN.&OS=PN/8,013,738&RS=PN/8,013,738 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LoJack Operating Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- LoJack Operating, Westwood, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,013,735) developed by five co-inventors for an asset recovery system. The co-inventors are Claude Arpin, Longueuil, Canada, William R. Duvall, Sudbury, Mass., Joseph T. Lipowski, Scituate, Mass., Arvind K. Ramadorai, Arlington, Mass., and Thomas A. Wooters, Boston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An asset location, tracking, and recovery system and method includes a network of VHF towers and a control center receiving signals from and transmitting signals to the VHF towers. Primary locating units each include a transmitter, a receiver, and a transponder activated when a signal is transmitted by the control center via the VHF towers to the receiver. Auxiliary locating units include at least a transmitter emitting a signal received by at least one primary locating unit receiver which relays that signal to the control center via the VHF towers from the primary locating unit transmitter." The patent application was filed on Feb. 12, 2009 (12/378,242). 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=8,013,735.PN.&OS=PN/8,013,735&RS=PN/8,013,735 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sensormatic Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- Sensormatic Electronics, Boca Raton, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,013,729) developed by Christopher J. Buehler, Cambridge, Mass., for "systems and methods for distributed monitoring of remote sites." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Rules are applied to video surveillance data to detect events. Localization of the events is achieved by decomposing events into distinct components, each of which can, in some embodiments, be defined at different locations and by different users." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2010 (12/690,220). 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=8,013,729.PN.&OS=PN/8,013,729&RS=PN/8,013,729 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cyber Materials Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- Cyber Materials, Auburndale, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,013,994) developed by Brian Louis Vattiat, Austin, Texas, Donald Edward Wroblewsky, Wellesley, Mass., and Michael Alan Gevelber, Auburndale, Mass., for a "particle state and flux sensor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of measuring parameters of a particle includes providing a particle, wherein the particle has a first portion and a second portion. The process includes providing a column of photo-detectors including a first photo-detector and a second photo-detector, wherein the first photo-detector and the second photo-detector are sensitive to the same range of light frequencies. Light is projected from the particle onto the column of photo-detectors wherein the column of photo-detectors is oriented so the light from the first portion is projected onto the first photo-detector and light from the second portion is projected onto the second photo-detector. Light measured by the first photo-detector differs from light measured by the second photo-detector. The process further includes using the different first and the second photo-detector measurements to determine at least one from the group consisting of particle temperature and particle diameter." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2008 (12/008,787). 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=8,013,994&OS=8,013,994&RS=8,013,994 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for Apparatus for Providing Multiple Screens and Method of Dynamically Configuring Multiple Screens ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 9 -- Samsung Electronics, Suwon-si, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,013,937) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus for providing multiple screens and method of dynamically configuring multiple screens." The co-inventors are Jong-ho Lee, Hwaseong-si, South Korea, Kwang-kee Lee, Seoul, South Korea, Un-gyo Jung, Seoul, South Korea, and Glenn A. Adams, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for providing multiple screens and a method of dynamically configuring multiple screens are provided. The apparatus for providing multiple screens includes a digital signal processing module which receives video information, audio information, or data information and restores a service based on the video information, the audio information or the data information, a service processing module which generates a plurality of logical screens and an overlay screen for displaying the restored service, and an output module which maps the plurality of logical screens generated by the service processing module to different locations on a display screen and allows the overlay screen to overlay the display screen." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2006 (11/496,482). 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=8,013,937.PN.&OS=PN/8,013,937&RS=PN/8,013,937 Written by Arpi Sharma; 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. -1060458 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |