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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Michigan (Sept. 23)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Michigan. *** GM Global Technology Operations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 22 -- GM Global Technology Operations, Detroit, has been assigned a patent (8,022,710) developed by William T. Ivan, Shelby Township, Mich., and Chandra S. Namuduri, Troy, Mich., for "methods for common mode voltage-based AC fault detection, verification and/or identification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods for AC fault (ACF) detection are provided. In addition, methods for AC fault (ACF) detection and verification are provided. In addition, methods for identification of a module which is the cause of an AC fault (ACF) are provided. In one implementation, one or more of these methods can be combined to provide a fast, simple, low cost and reliable ACF detection, verification and/or identification." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2008 (12/016,527). 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=80,22,710.PN.&OS=PN/80,22,710&RS=PN/80,22,710 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Robert Bosch, Daimler Chrysler, BMW Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 22 -- Robert Bosch, Stuttgart, Germany, Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart, Germany, and BMW, Munich, Germany, have been assigned a patent (8,022,677) developed by twelve co-inventors for an "electrical device and operating method." The co-inventors are Xaver Laufenberg, Freiberg, Germany, Dominique Eynius, Steinheim, Germany, Helmut Suelzle, Freiberg, Germany, Stephan Usbeck, Erdmannhausen, Germany, Matthias Spaeth, Milford, Mich., Miriam Neuser-Hoffmann, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, Christian Myrzik, Emmering, Germany, Manfred Schmid, Pipinsried, Germany, Franz Nietfeld, Rochester Hills, Mich., Alexander Thiel, Bondorf, Germany, Harald Braun, Dettenhausen, Germany, and Norbert Ebner, Ludwigsburg, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electrical device having a generator, e.g., for use in the vehicle electrical system of a motor vehicle, includes a controller for controlling the generator voltage. In the device, an area is provided in which a voltage control is carried out, and other areas are provided in which a torque control is carried out." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2004 (10/582,926). 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=80,22,677.PN.&OS=PN/80,22,677&RS=PN/80,22,677 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** IMRA America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- IMRA America, Ann Arbor, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,023,538) developed by Andrius Marcinkevicius, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Martin E. Fermann, Dexter, Mich., for an "ultra-high power parametric amplifier system at high repetition rates." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of parametric chirped pulse amplifiers seeded with a single pulse source which is subsequently split into a signal arm and a pump arm with appropriate signal and pump conditioning stages are disclosed, which advantageously improve the utility of high average power and/or high energy ultrafast amplification systems. In various embodiments, at least one of the signal or the pump conditioning stages is non-linear, allowing for a great range of seed sources to be utilized. Chirped pulse amplification in the pump conditioning stage may be used to simplify the parametric amplification of pulses with pulse widths of the order of 10 fs. The parametric pump can include coherently combined fiber arrays, hybrid fiber solid-state amplifiers, and/or cryogenically cooled solid-state amplifiers to increase or optimize the energy extraction of high average powers." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2009 (12/411,334). 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=8,023,538.PN.&OS=PN/8,023,538&RS=PN/8,023,538 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Erlanger, Ky., has been assigned a patent (8,022,861) developed by Alexandros Margomenos, Ann Arbor, Mich., for a "dual-band antenna array and RF front-end for mm-wave imager and radar." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The radar includes a PCB having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a processor mounted on the bottom surface of the PCB. The radar includes a second liquid crystal polymer layer formed on the top surface of the printed circuit board, a second microstrip array printed on the second liquid crystal polymer layer, the second microstrip array having a patch, a first liquid crystal polymer layer formed on the second liquid crystal polymer layer, a first microstrip array printed on the first liquid crystal polymer layer, the first microstrip array having a perforated patch, an antenna positioned underneath the patch and connected to the second microstrip array, and a transmit/receive module connected to a bottom surface of the second liquid crystal polymer layer and configured to transmit a first frequency signal to the first microstrip array and a second frequency signal to the second microstrip array." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2009 (12/429,470). 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=8,022,861.PN.&OS=PN/8,022,861&RS=PN/8,022,861 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Renesas Electronics America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- Renesas Electronics America, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,022,853) developed by Samuel J. Guido, Dearborn, Mich., Jeremy Brodt, Plano, Texas, and Jeff Sieber, Livonia, Mich., for "transparent multiplexing of analog-to-digital converters." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for sampling and converting analog input values. In response to an event, a value is transmitted from an input of a multiplexer to the output of the multiplexer. The output of the multiplexer is coupled to an input of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In response to a second event, a value is transmitted from the input of the multiplexer to a second ADC." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2009 (12/612,298). 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=8,022,853.PN.&OS=PN/8,022,853&RS=PN/8,022,853 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Renesas Electronics America Assigned Patent for Dedicated Sample and Hold Modules ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- Renesas Electronics America, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,022,848) developed by Samuel J. Guido, Dearborn, Mich., Jeremy Brodt, Plano, Texas, and Jeff Sieber, Livonia, Mich., for "dedicated sample and hold modules." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for sampling values. Multiple values are sampled concurrently. One of the values is stored while another one of the values is converted to a corresponding digital value by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Subsequently, the stored value is made available to the ADC." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2009 (12/612,330). 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=8,022,848.PN.&OS=PN/8,022,848&RS=PN/8,022,848 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,022,966) developed by nine co-inventors for a "video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system." The co-inventors are Alexander G. MacInnis, Ann Arbor, Mich., Chengfuh Jeffrey Tang, Saratoga, Calif., Xiaodong Xie, San Jose, Calif., Greg A. Kranawetter, Laguna Hills, Calif., Vivian Hsiun, Yorba Linda, Calif., Francis Cheung, Del Mar, Calif., Sandeep Bhatia, Bangalore, India, Ramanujan Valmiki, Bangalore, India, and Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan, Irvine, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES decryption and to de-multiplex them. The system processes the PES into digital audio, MPEG video and message data. The system is capable of decoding multiple MPEG SLICEs concurrently. Graphics windows are blended in parallel, and blended with video using alpha blending. During graphics processing, a single-port SRAM is used equivalently as a dual-port SRAM. The video may include both analog video, e.g., NTSC/PAL/SECAM/S-video, and digital video, e.g., MPEG-2 video in SDTV or HDTV format. The system has a reduced memory mode in which video images are reduced in half in horizontal direction only during decoding. The system is capable of receiving and processing digital audio signals such as MPEG Layer 1 and Layer 2 audio and Dolby AC-3 audio, as well as PCM audio signals. The system includes a memory controller. The system includes a system bridge controller to interface a CPU with devices internal to the system as well as peripheral devices including PCI devices and I/O devices such as RAM, ROM and flash memory devices. The system is capable of displaying video and graphics in both the high definition (HD) mode and the standard definition (SD) mode. The system may output an HDTV video while converting the HDTV video and providing as another output having an SDTV format or another HDTV format." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2009 (12/650,361). 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=8,022,966&OS=8,022,966&RS=8,022,966 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for Avionics Chassis ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,023,267) developed by four co-inventors for an avionics chassis. The co-inventors are John Jay Streyle, Walker, Mich., Benjamin Jon Vander Ploeg, Kentwood, Mich., Meredith Marie Steenwyk, Kentwood, Mich., and Danny Weldon Coxon, Conklin, Mich. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An avionics chassis comprises a housing having opposing walls, a pair of spaced card rails with one rail mounted to each of the opposing walls where each rail has a channel to define an effective slot between the rails, a circuit card assembly comprising a PCB and a thermal plane in overlying relationship with the PCB, with the PCB defining a first primary plane, and the thermal plane defining a second primary plane and the spatial relationship between them is such that the planes are located within the slot when the circuit card assembly is mounted to the card rails and the thermal plane is conductively coupled to a rail to form a first conductive path from the thermal plane to one of the walls and the PCB is conductively coupled to a rail to form a second conductive path from the PCB to one of the walls." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2009 (12/487,834). 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=8,023,267&OS=8,023,267&RS=8,023,267 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Drew Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- Drew Technologies, Ann Arbor, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,022,820) developed by Michael Drew, Dexter, Mich., and Brian Herron, Dexter, Mich., for a "user configured display system for motor vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is directed toward a data acquisition and display system for vehicles that connects to the vehicle's on-board computer(s) via a data link connector (DLC). The system includes a display module suitable for permanent or temporary attachment within the interior of a vehicle. The display module preferably includes a full color monitor that also functions as a touch screen for inputting commands to the computer within the display module. The computer includes a suitable processor, operating system, software and tangible data storage media to allow multiple user configurable graphics. The display module collects information from the vehicle via multiple busses and senders through the data link connector and displays the information on the screen of the display module in a user configured graphics format. The software is constructed and arranged to allow user configuration of the displayed graphics by clicking or touching the graphics image." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2008 (12/341,850). 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=8,022,820.PN.&OS=PN/8,022,820&RS=PN/8,022,820 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** DENSO International America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- DENSO International America, Southfield, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,022,808) developed by five co-inventors for a "vehicle power door control with passive entry." The co-inventors are Christopher Kurpinski, Berkley, Mich., Thomas Keeling, Plymouth, Mich., Justin McBride, W. Bloomfield, Mich., Toshihiro Wakamatsu, W. Bloomfield, Mich., and Michael Wiegand, Birmingham, Mich. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A vehicle equipped with a passive key entry system may employ a method of controlling a vehicle power sliding door(s) or other door(s), to accomplish locking, unlocking, opening and closing of such doors. A switch on a door handle may be activated by a physical touch or touches of a user, after which, the method may proceed with inquiring and confirming if all vehicle doors are closed; inquiring and confirming if all vehicle doors are locked; inquiring and confirming if a valid passive entry key is exterior to and within range of the vehicle; unlocking a power sliding door with a lock motor; and opening the power sliding door with a door motor. Before actually performing a door opening, closing or locking, a passive entry key system on the vehicle may verify the presence of a passive entry key fob." The patent application was filed on Oct. 1, 2007 (11/906,235). 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=8,022,808.PN.&OS=PN/8,022,808&RS=PN/8,022,808 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. -1062252 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |