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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (Sept. 28)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** Experian Interactive Innovation Center Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Experian Interactive Innovation Center, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,888) developed by Rohan K.K. Chandran, Sunnyvale, Calif., Richard Rodenbusch, Allen, Texas, and Shawn Mendelovich, San Francisco, for an "online credit card prescreen systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, prescreened credit card offers, which are associated with credit cards that a particular borrower would be accepted upon application with the respective issuer, are provided to a borrower via a prescreen provider website and/or a referrer website. In one embodiment, a referrer provides borrower information to a prescreen provider. The prescreen provider initiates and/or performs a prescreening process, which includes accessing credit related information regarding the borrower. The prescreen provider matches the borrower with one or more credit cards that the borrower would like be accepted for, and provides a prescreened offer document to the referrer, or an Internet address of the prescreened offer document. The referrer may then provide the borrower with the prescreened credit card offers by presenting the prescreened offer document to the borrower. The prescreened credit card offers may additionally be filtered according to issuer criteria, referrer criteria, and/or borrower preferences." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2006 (11/537,330). 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=80,27,888.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,888&RS=PN/80,27,888 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Experian Marketing Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Experian Marketing Solutions, Schaumberg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,027,871) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for scoring sales leads." The co-inventors are Richard Williams, Dana Point, Calif., Jacob Kong, Irvine, Calif., Lawrence J. Hughes, Dana Point, Calif., Damodar Panigrahi, Irvine, Calif., Maria Luisa Kirgan, Irvine, Calif., and Rasoul Hajikhani, Aliso Viejo, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A client transmits one or more lead records to a lead enhancement module that is configured to enhance the received lead records and return enhanced lead records to the client. The lead enhancement module may return a contactability score for each lead record, indicating a likelihood that the individual identified in the lead may be contacted using the contact information provided in the lead record and/or additional contract information located by the lead enhancement module. The lead enhancement module may also receive additional data items associated with leads from one or more data sources. Additionally, statistical models that may be customized for each client may be applied to information associated with lead records in order to determine one or more propensity scores for each of the lead records, where a propensity score indicates a likelihood that an individual will take a particular action, such as purchasing particular goods or services." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2007 (11/671,424). 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=80,27,871.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,871&RS=PN/80,27,871 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Custom Messaging Gift Card System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- William J. Granich, Van Nuys, Calif., has developed a patent (8,027,881) for a "custom messaging gift card system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention includes a gift card custom messaging system for creating gift card accounts on a database that includes custom messages created by the purchaser for display on receipts of purchase transactions made by the gift card recipient to convey custom messaging information that can include a greeting, celebratory phrase or a commercial message that can include company logos and electronically sounds and animations and also includes the monetary balance remaining on the gift card to allow the recipient to more easily track the balance. The present invention further includes a variety of gift card formats and receipt display methods that allow various methods of delivery to and use by the recipient." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2009 (12/646,928). 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=80,27,881.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,881&RS=PN/80,27,881 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** UTBK Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- UTBK, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,027,878) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus to compensate demand partners in a pay-per-call performance based advertising system." The co-inventors are Daric Wong, Daly City, Calif., Scott Faber, San Francisco, Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, Calif., Mark Halstead, Auckland, New Zealand, and Ron Hirson, San Francisco. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and apparatus to track demand partners in a pay-per call performance based advertising system. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus include assigning at least one telephonic reference to an advertiser, the reference is to be included in an advertisement on a media channel of a demand partner. The advertiser is assessed a charge based at least in part on telephonic connections to the advertiser via the telephonic reference. The demand partner tracked with a predefined tracking model based at least in part on activity related to the telephonic reference." The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2004 (11/021,939). 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=80,27,878.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,878&RS=PN/80,27,878 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siebel Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Siebel Systems, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,869) developed by twelve co-inventors for a "method and system for monitoring achievement and attainment and calculating compensation via time-based organization hierarchies." The co-inventors are Daniel T. Chang, Belmont, Calif., Pasan Rukmal Sirisena, San Mateo, Calif., Xin Wang, Sunnyvale, Calif., Tao Gui, Foster City, Calif., Charles Shagong, Menlo Park, Calif., Alexander Goldstein, Foster City, Calif., Steve Apfelberg, Menlo Park, Calif., Marc Verbeek, Foster City, Calif., Tarri Furlong, San Leandro, Calif., Ashley Stirrup, Burlingame, Calif., Ajay Sabhlok, Fremont, Calif., and Martin Renaud, San Carlos, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and article of manufacture for defining and managing instances of time-based organization hierarchies, and for monitoring achievement and attainment, and calculating compensation for individuals and/or groups within instances of the time-based organization hierarchies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may define and/or manage one or more instances of the time-based organization hierarchy via a user interface generated on a client. Moreover, and in response to a sales data input corresponding to a transaction, an achievement and attainment monitoring process may then be executed to accumulate transaction data in one or more achievement containers, and to compile achievement containers from a specified attainment period to calculate a user's attainment. In addition, an embodiment also provides for implementation of a compensation calculation process that may utilize the transaction data accumulated in the achievement containers to calculate an individual's compensation for a specified compensation period." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2002 (10/273,632). 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=80,27,869.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,869&RS=PN/80,27,869 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bidcactus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Bidcactus, Westport, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,880) developed by Nicolas Darveau-Garneau, San Francisco, for an "acquisition option in auction configuration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A configuration is configured to allow purchase of an item available in an auction. The configuration transmits to a bidder a plurality of bids for use in an auction. Each bid is given a predetermined bid value. The configuration provides for display a selectable interface to place a bid on the item and a selectable interface to purchase the item at the retail price. The configuration receives from the bidder at least one bid on the item. In response to each bid received from the bidder for the item, the configuration reduces the retail price for the item by a value corresponding to the bid value. The configuration then provides for display the reduced retail price in response to each bid received from the bidder for on the item. The bidder can continue with the auction in an attempt to receive the auctioned item at a low cost or may purchase the auction item at a retail price minus the total of the value of bids placed by that bidder." The patent application was filed on June 16, 2010 (12/817,047). 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=80,27,880.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,880&RS=PN/80,27,880 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hemisphere Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Hemisphere Solutions, Wilminton, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,027,874) developed by Paul D. Angles, Los Angeles, and Douglas O. Blatner, Redondo Beach, Calif., for a "system and method for delivering customized advertisements within interactive communication systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a system and method for delivering customized electronic advertisements in an interactive communication system. The customized advertisements are selected based on consumer profiles. and are then integrated with offerings maintained by different content providers. The preferred interactive communication system interconnects multiple consumer computers, multiple content provider computers and multiple Internet provider computers with an advertisement provider computer. Whenever a consumer directs one of the consumer computers to access an offering existing in one of the content provider computers, an advertising request is sent to the advertisement provider computer. Upon receiving the advertising request, the advertising provider computer generates a custom advertisement based on the consumer's profile. The custom advertisement is then combined with the offering from the content provider computer and displayed to the consumer. The advertisement provider computer also credits a consumer account, a content provider account and an internet provider account each time a consumer views a custom advertisement. Furthermore, the advertisement provider computer tracks consumer responses to the customized advertisements." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2009 (12/612,604). 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=80,27,874.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,874&RS=PN/80,27,874 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ITA Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- ITA Software, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,854) developed by David M. Baggett, Hermosa Beach, Calif., and Gregory R. Galperin, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method, system, and computer program product for interfacing with information sources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and computer program product for interfacing between information requesters and information sources. In an embodiment, information is obtained from one or more information sources in response to client requests. In an embodiment, information received from information sources is cached for future use, such as for future client requests. In a caching embodiment, information can also be received by monitoring traffic between an information source and a third party, and/or by proactively querying the information sources. Proactive queries can be generated to populate a cache and/or to update presently cached information. In a caching embodiment, the invention includes methods for determining whether to respond to a request for information out-of-cache and/or with real-time information from an information source. In an embodiment, the invention interfaces with airline availability information sources. The invention also includes, without limitation, methods for interfacing with information sources through proxies, methods for ordering and prioritizing queries, methods for processing queries in a distributed architecture, and time-out features." The patent application was filed on Nov. 13, 2006 (11/598,009). 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=80,27,854.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,854&RS=PN/80,27,854 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Agilent Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,823) developed by Michael T. Barrett, Mountain View, Calif., and Michael P. Caren, Palo Alto, Calif., for "methods and system for viewing genomic data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for viewing experimental data is provided. In certain embodiments the method comprises: a) inputting genomic array data and cytogenetic data into a computer memory; and b) producing a graphical user interface comprising: i) a chromosomal map of the genomic array data comprising a first positional indicator that indicates a position on the chromosomal map; and ii) a cytogenetic map of the cytogenetic data comprising a second positional indicator that indicates a position on the cytogenetic map." The patent application was filed on June 23, 2006 (11/473,869). 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=80,27,823.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,823&RS=PN/80,27,823 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Cincinnati Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, has been assigned a patent (8,027,814) developed by seven co-inventors for "methods for assessing a condition by analyzing blood in cerebrospinal fluid." The co-inventors are Fred R. Beyette Jr., Cincinnati, Joseph F. Clark, Cincinnati, Chad J. Morgan, Springfield, Mo., James J. Caffery Jr., Cincinnati, Prashant Bhadri, Pica Rivera, Calif., Gail Pyne-Geithman, Cincinnati, and Anindya Majumder, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides methods for assessing a condition in an individual by analyzing a cerebrospinal fluid sample from the individual, for example, by spectroscopy. Further, the invention provides methods for determining an amount of blood in the cerebrospinal fluid sample; methods for determining concentrations of analytes in the cerebrospinal fluid sample; methods for determining a length of time the blood has been in the cerebrospinal fluid sample; and methods for rapidly obtaining a differential diagnosis between conditions indicated by blood in the cerebral spinal fluid. Moreover, the present invention provides instruments capable of rapidly assessing a condition in and individual by point-of-care analysis of a cerebral fluid sample from an individual." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2005 (11/194,878). 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=80,27,814.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,814&RS=PN/80,27,814 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nikon Precision Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Nikon Precision, Belmont, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,813) developed by Steven Douglas Slonaker, San Mateo, Calif., for a "method and system for reconstructing aberrated image profiles through simulation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of calculating estimated image profiles. The system and method includes providing lens characteristic data and performing simulation calculations for various levels of aberration components using the lens characteristic data. A response surface functional relation is built between selected variables of the lens characteristics, in particular the lens aberration components, and the Image Profile using the simulation calculations. Evaluation is then performed on the arbitrary specified aberration values of a lens in relation to the response surface functional relations to provide a calculated estimate of the Image Profile for the specified aberration values. A machine readable medium and exposure apparatus are also provided." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2004 (10/538,763). 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=80,27,813.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,813&RS=PN/80,27,813 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Health Hero Network Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Health Hero Network, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,809) developed by Stephen J. Brown, Woodside, Calif., for a "home power management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote server. The systems allows the user of a power consuming device to receive instructions or other information from the server. The method includes using stored program instructions to generate power device related information on a display, collecting power device data representative of the electrical current or power consumed, connecting to a remote computing facility having a server, and providing the data to a computer remotely located from the central server." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2006 (11/487,301). 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=80,27,809.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,809&RS=PN/80,27,809 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,828) developed by Mikhail Bershteyn, Cupertino, Calif., Charles Berghorn, Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and Mitchell G. Poplack, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for synchronizing processors in a hardware emulation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, apparatus and method for compiling a hardware design for performing hardware emulation using synchronized processors is described. The apparatus comprises a plurality of processors defining a processor group for evaluating data regarding a hardware design and a synchronizer for synchronizing the operation of the processor group while emulating at least a portion of the hardware design. The method comprises providing a synchronization signal to a plurality of processors defining a processor group for evaluating data regarding a hardware design, receiving a ready signal from the processor group, and providing an execution signal to the processor group, where the execution signal causes the processor group to evaluate a submodel. The method for compiling the hardware design comprises converting at least one high-level construct into a sequence of operations and identifying a sequence of operations that comprise at least one conditional submodel." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2006 (11/444,032). 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=80,27,828.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,828&RS=PN/80,27,828 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,027,800) developed by Ramez Nachman, Santa Clara, Calif., Lei Chen, Cupertino, Calif., and Tao Yu, Campbell, Calif., for an "apparatus and method for testing a panel of interferometric modulators." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, each interferometric modulator has a stiction threshold voltage. If a voltage above the stiction threshold voltage is applied to the interferometric modulator, the interferometric modulator enters a stiction state permanently, i.e., becomes "stuck," and the interferometric modulator becomes inoperable. Disclosed are apparatuses, methods and computer-readable media for testing a panel of interferometric modulators. A ramped voltage waveform is applied to a plurality of interferometric modulators of the panel. In response to applying the ramped voltage, the stiction threshold voltage is identified. At or above this voltage, the number of stuck interferometric modulators in the panel reaches or exceeds a first threshold number, for example, 50% of the total number of the interferometric modulators constituting the panel. The embodiments can be used to establish stiction benchmark for panel manufacturing processes, to collect data for generating statistical distribution, etc." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2008 (12/145,407). 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=80,27,800.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,800&RS=PN/80,27,800 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Nuance Communications Assigned Patent for Enabling Speech Within a Multimodal Program Using Markup ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Nuance Communications, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,027,840) developed by Charles W. Cross Jr., Wellington, Fla., Leslie R. Wilson, Boca Raton, Fla., and Steven G. Woodward, Valley Village, Calif., for "enabling speech within a multimodal program using markup." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for speech enabling an application can include the step of specifying a speech input within a speech-enabled markup. The speech-enabled markup can also specify an application operation that is to be executed responsive to the detection of the speech input. After the speech input has been defined within the speech-enabled markup, the application can be instantiated. The specified speech input can then be detected and the application operation can be responsively executed in accordance with the specified speech-enabled markup." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2009 (12/587,304). 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=80,27,840.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,840&RS=PN/80,27,840 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,837) developed by Kim E.A. Silverman, Mountain View, Calif., and Matthias Neeracher, Mountain View, Calif., for "using non-speech sounds during text-to-speech synthesis." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are described for producing text-to-speech synthesis with non-speech sounds. In general, some of the pauses or silences that would otherwise be generated in synthesized speech are instead synthesized as non-speech sounds such as breaths. Non-speech sounds can be identified from pre-recorded speech that can include meta-data such as the grammatical and phrasal structure of words and sounds that precede and succeed non-speech sounds. A non-speech sound can be selected for use in synthesized speech based on the words, punctuation, grammatical and phrasal structure of text from which the speech is being synthesized, or other characteristics." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2006 (11/532,470). 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=80,27,837.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,837&RS=PN/80,27,837 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Vextec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Vextec, Brentwood, Tenn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,820) developed by Robert G. Tryon III, Brentwood, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides a method and apparatus for predicting the failure of a component using a probabilistic model of a material's microstructural-based response to fatigue. The method predicts the component failure by a computer simulation of multiple incarnations of real material behavior, or virtual prototyping. The virtual prototyping simulates the effects of characteristics that include grain size, grain orientation, micro-applied stress and micro-yield strength that are difficult to simulate with real specimens. The invention provides an apparatus for predicting the response of a component to fatigue using the method." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2009 (12/355,704). 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=80,27,820.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,820&RS=PN/80,27,820 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BioCardia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- BioCardia, San Carlos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,740) developed by Peter A. Altman, South San Francisco, Calif., John D. Altman, South San Francisco, Calif., and Simon Stertzer, South San Francisco, Calif., for a "drug delivery catheters that attach to tissue and methods for their use." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A drug delivery catheter suited for cardiac procedures. The catheter includes a distal helical coil or other fixation and penetrating element which can be operated from the proximal end of the catheter to engage and penetrate the myocardium. Once delivered to the inside of the heart, the catheter can be used to inject small doses of therapeutic agents to the myocardium. The drug delivery system of the catheter allows for precise control of the dose injected into the heart wall." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2002 (10/190,429). 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=8027740.PN.&OS=PN/8027740&RS=PN/8027740 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Bionics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Bionics, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,735) developed by George Tziviskos, Encino, Calif., Michael D. Brownen, Keller, Texas, and William G. Orinski, Stevenson Ranch, Calif., for an "atraumatic high-retention headpiece." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A headpiece for a cochlear implant system includes a transcutaneous transmission coil that transfers power and/or data to an implantable device implanted under a user's skin. The headpiece includes a magnet for holding the transmission coil in close proximity to the receiver coil in the implanted device, which also contains a magnet, and provides the desired alignment between the coils so that inductive coupling may efficiently occur. The headpiece has a bottom surface for skin contact that includes a plurality of flexible bumps configured to distribute pressure over a large surface area while allowing blood flow throughout the area. This also provides friction contact with the skin to help secure the headpiece, reducing movement due to lateral loading, while reducing skin irritation and erosion." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2009 (12/415,977). 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=8027735.PN.&OS=PN/8027735&RS=PN/8027735 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Pacesetter Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Pacesetter, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,722) developed by Yelena Nabutovsky, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "multifocal PVC detection for prevention of arrhythmias." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multifocal PVCs are detected and prevented. If the PVCs being detected have variable coupling intervals and significantly different morphologies, they are deemed multifocal and a prevention therapy is activated for a short period of time. In another embodiment, multifocality and the need for prevention therapy are determined based on morphology alone. Feedback mechanisms are used to adjust thresholds for coupling interval and morphology if the PVCs are considered not multifocal, but ventricular arrhythmia still occurs. In an embodiment, only morphologies are compared." The patent application was filed on Oct. 17, 2003 (10/687,846). 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=8027722.PN.&OS=PN/8027722&RS=PN/8027722 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Bionics Assigned Patent for Optimizing Pitch Allocation in a Cochlear Stimulation System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Bionics, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,733) developed by Gene Y. Fridman, Santa Clarita, Calif., and Leonid M. Litvak, Los Angeles, for an "optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Optimizing pitch allocation in a cochlear stimulation system may include implanting an electrode array having a plurality of electrodes into the cochlea of a patient, where the electrode array has an associated implant fitting characteristic that defines a relationship between the implanted electrode array and audio frequencies, presenting sounds through the electrode array to the patient, receiving from the patient a selection of one of the sounds that most closely conforms to a single note, and determining a slope of the implant fitting characteristic of the electrode array based on the sound selected by the patient. Each sound may include a fundamental frequency and one or more harmonics. The optimization may also include changing a center frequency of a band pass filter associated with each electrode based on the determined slope." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2005 (11/262,055). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=8027733&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California, Georgia Inventors Develop Patent for Computer Integrated Communication System for Restaurants ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Tadeusz Olewicz, Stanton, Calif., and Michael Pate, Senoia, Ga., have developed a patent (RE42,759) for a "computer integrated communication system for restaurants." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer integrated communication system for restaurants that includes a central server and a series of table units and staff units. The table and staff units each include a display and wireless communication device that enables customer request information and other communications to be sent from the table unit to the staff units either directly or by first being passed through the central server unit. The central server further can monitor the communications and direct the request to another staff member or management for action in the event of delays or other problems with the customer's request." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2007 (11/999,479). 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=RE42,759&OS=RE42,759&RS=RE42,759 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Advanced Bionics Assigned Patent for Integrated Phase-shift Power Control Transmitter for Use with Implantable Device and Method for Use of Same ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Bionics, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,732) developed by Glen A. Griffith, Newbury Park, Calif., for an "integrated phase-shift power control transmitter for use with implantable device and method for use of the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for efficiently transmitting power using a high frequency (e.g., RF) telemetry transmitter are provided. The telemetry transmitter may include a fixed clock source (which may provide a fixed clock signal), telemetry phase shift circuitry (which may include switching circuitry and phase shifting circuitry), and a push-pull network. The telemetry phase shift circuitry generates a phase shifted clock signal that is phase shifted with respect to the fixed clock signal. The fixed and phase shifted clock signals may drive the switching circuitry to produce a high frequency signal that is passed through the push-pull network. The power or magnitude of the high frequency signal is based on the phase delay between the fixed clock signal and the phase shifted clock signal." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2005 (11/058,848). 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=8027732.PN.&OS=PN/8027732&RS=PN/8027732 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Bionics Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems of Optimizing Stimulation Current Applied to a Cochlear Implant Patient ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Advanced Bionics, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,027,734) developed by Aniket Saoji, Northridge, Calif., and Leonid M. Litvak, Los Angeles, for "methods and systems of optimizing stimulation current applied to a cochlear implant patient." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of optimizing stimulation current applied to a cochlear implant patient include determining a plurality of narrowband spectral modulation detection thresholds for the patient and adjusting a stimulation current applied to the patient in accordance with the narrowband spectral modulation detection thresholds. Systems for optimizing stimulation current applied to a cochlear implant patient include an electrode array having a plurality of electrodes disposed thereon, an implantable cochlear stimulator coupled to the electrode array and configured to apply a stimulation current to one or more locations along a cochlea of a patient via one or more of the electrodes, and a fitting station communicatively coupled to the implantable cochlear stimulator. The fitting station is configured determine a plurality of narrowband spectral modulation detection thresholds and adjust the stimulation current in accordance with the narrowband spectral modulation detection thresholds." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/059,358). 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=8027734.PN.&OS=PN/8027734&RS=PN/8027734 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Power Measurement Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Power Measurement, Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,027,795) developed by four co-inventors for a "load model generation for estimating a load value from a base load value in a system." The co-inventors are John C. Van Gorp, Sidney, Canada, Shaun M. Hope, Alameda, Calif., Peter Cowan, Victoria, Canada, and Matthew Stanlake, Victoria, Canada. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for establishing a load model (120) that utilizes a measurement from a second monitor (140) to estimate a value taken by a first monitor (150). A base load value associated with a load (160) is collected. The load model (120) is applied to the base load value, yielding an estimated load value. The estimated load value is representative of at least one measured load value for the load (160)." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2008 (12/125,459). 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=80,27,795.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,795&RS=PN/80,27,795 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,326) developed by four co-inventors for a "federating trust in a heterogeneous network." The co-inventors are Matthew A. Palmer, Menlo Park, Calif., Andrew Richard Harding, Scotts Valley, Calif., Jason P. Poirier, Bedford, N.H., and Theron Tock, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A check of a processing device is performed. A device may receive a network access request to access a network from a first processing device. A security check may be caused to be performed on the first processing device. Whether to grant the network access request to the first processing device is based on a result of the security check." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2009 (12/507,462). 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=8,028,326&OS=8,028,326&RS=8,028,326 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intel Assigned Patent for System for Atomically Updating a Plurality of Files ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,282) developed by Kirk D. Brannock, Olympia, Wash., and William A. Stevens, Folsom, Calif., for a "system for atomically updating a plurality of files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for updating platform firmware is disclosed. This capability is facilitated by a standard software abstraction for a firmware storage device, known as Firmware Volume (FV) that is managed through a Firmware File System (FFS). The FFS enables firmware files to be created, deleted, and updated individually. The FFS also enables a plurality of firmware files to be updated atomically by managing file state information via state bits stored in a file header of each firmware file, whereby an atomic change to a single state bit simultaneously causes the FFS to use an updated set of firmware files in place of an original set of firmware files." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2007 (11/893,342). 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=8,028,282&OS=8,028,282&RS=8,028,282 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Canon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Canon, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,028,300) developed by Devon James Kemp, Laguna Hills, Calif., and Christopher John Carcerano, Aliso Viejo, Calif., for an extensible device driver. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device driver module for supporting the use of an external device by a computing device which executes an operating system, the device driver module including an initialization portion which is called by the operating system, whereupon the initialization portion detects the presence of a driver plug-in module, obtains information from the detected driver plug-in module, and passes the information from the detected driver plug-in module to the operating system, and also including an operation portion which accesses and executes a functional portion of the detected plug-in module, receives from the operating system an event notification corresponding to the external device and, in the case that the detected driver plug-in module accepts the event notification, passes the event notification to the detected driver plug-in module." The patent application was filed on Sept. 14, 2007 (11/898,669). 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=8,028,300&OS=8,028,300&RS=8,028,300 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,030) developed by Stefan B. Edlund, San Jose, Calif., Joshua W. Hui, San Jose, Calif., and Christopher M. Johnson, Oakland, Calif., for a "method and system for supervising electronic text communications of an enterprise." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for supervising electronic text messages in an enterprise allows for storing organizational information related to the enterprise, identifying a source and a target of the electronic text message, invoking communication screens between the identified source and target, each of the invoked communication screens being determined by the organizational information for the identified source and target, analyzing the electronic text message by a set of rules corresponding to said invoked communication screens to provide a supervisory score, and applying supervisory action to the electronic text message based on the supervisory score, including any of blocking transmission, redirecting the electronic text message to a supervisor or a supervisory file, and copying the electronic text message to the supervisory file." The patent application was filed on May 22, 2008 (12/125,374). 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=8,028,030.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,030&RS=PN/8,028,030 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Online Security Portfolio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Online Security Portfolio, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,760) developed by James Shaw-Han Kuo, Piedmont, Calif., for a "process and method for secure online transactions with calculated risk and against fraud." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic commerce process that facilitates online transactions among multiple participants, that prevents consumer fraud due to pirated payment card numbers, with calculated risk, involving at least one trusted payment card host (3), where buyer's payment card number is registered and corresponding secret keys are set up. The buyer (1b) initiates an online transaction by selecting a host from a list of hosts that served by the seller's web server (2a). Then, the buyer participant (1a) sends an order online (4), SSL encrypted. The seller participant (2a) receives and decrypts the order, confirms the availability of ordered items, assigns an orderID to the order, and sends a response (5a), SSL encrypted, to the buyer participant (1a) with the assigned orderID. The buyer participant (1a) encrypts and notifies the selected host (3) of this order and orderID, and authorizes the payment (6a) using secret keys. At the same time, the seller participant also encrypts and sends payment approval request (7) for this orderID through the host. The host (3) decrypts and matches up the orderID, retrieves the secret keys, and hashes to obtain the corresponding payment card number. The host then encrypts and send for payment authorization (8a) from the payment card issuer with the payment card number, through payment clearing network. Upon receiving and decrypting the response (9) back from the payment card issuer, the host (3) encrypts and notifies (10a) the seller participant (2a) of the card issuer's response (9) for the orderID. After fulfilling the order (11,12), the seller participant encrypts and sends for payment capturing (13a) for this order with orderID, through the host and payment network (14a,15,16)." The patent application was filed on July 14, 2009 (12/503,008). 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=RE42,760&OS=RE42,760&RS=RE42,760 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QST Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- QST Holdings, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,743) developed by Paul L. Master, Sunnyvale, Calif., and John Watson, Edgewood, Wash., for a "system for authorizing functionality in adaptable hardware devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for authorizing new or ongoing functional use of an adaptable device. The device generates usage information including the times that the device is used, types of functionality provided, indication of amount and type of resources used, and other information. The usage information is transmitted back to a controlling entity, such as an original manufacturer of the adaptable device. The controlling entity can act to enable or prevent use of the provided functionality, as desired. Part of the requirement for using functionality can be monetary, by predetermined agreement, or by other criteria." The patent application was filed on May 15, 2008 (12/152,620). 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=RE42,743&OS=RE42,743&RS=RE42,743 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sprint Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Sprint Communications, Overland Park, Kan., has been assigned a patent (8,028,337) developed by Kuai Xu, St. Paul, Minn., Zhi-Li Zhang, Minneapolis, and Supratik Bhattacharyya, San Francisco, for a "profile-aware filtering of network traffic." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and a method for profiling traffic on a computer network. Flows are observed traversing a communication link. Relative uncertainty values are computed for the dimensions of these flows. These relative uncertainty values are used to identify dominant feature values in the various flow dimensions. Flows having these dominant feature values are filtered." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2006 (11/463,723). 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=8,028,337&OS=8,028,337&RS=8,028,337 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,756) developed by Guido Guglielmi, Rome, and Ivan Sepetka, Los Altos, Calif., for an "endovascular electrolytically detachable wire and tip for the formation of thrombus in arteries, veins, aneurysms, vascular malformations and arteriovenous fistulas." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An artery, vein, aneurysm, vascular malformation or arterial fistula is occluded through endovascular occlusion by the endovascular insertion of a platinum wire and/or tip into the vascular cavity. The vascular cavity is packed with the tip to obstruct blood flow or access of blood in the cavity such that the blood clots in the cavity and an occlusion if formed. The tip may be elongate and flexible so that it packs the cavity by being folded upon itself a multiple number of times, or may pack the cavity by virtue of a filamentary or fuzzy structure of the tip. The tip is then separated from the wire mechanically or by electrolytic separation of the tip from the wire. The wire and the microcatheter are thereafter removed leaving the tip embedded in the thrombus formed within the vascular cavity. Movement of wire in the microcatheter is more easily tracked by providing a radioopaque proximal marker on the microcatheter and a corresponding indicator marker on the wire. Electrothrombosis is facilitate by placing the ground electrode on the distal end of the microcatheter and flowing current between the microcatheter electrode and the tip." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2006 (11/377,894). 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=RE42,756&OS=RE42,756&RS=RE42,756 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,748) developed by Gita Natarajan Shankar, Saratoga, Calif., and Helen Jaber Parish, Sunnyvale, Calif., for an "Oral DTPA for radionuclide chelation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A composition for oral radionuclide chelation therapy comprises a DTPA chelate selected from Zn-DTPA and Ca-DTPA and a permeation enhancer that preferentially increases jejunal uptake of the DTPA chelate. The composition has a DTPA chelate bioavailability of at least 10% of the chelate when orally administered to a mammal." The patent application was filed on April 17, 2011 (13/088,378). 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=RE42,748&OS=RE42,748&RS=RE42,748 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, has been assigned a patent (8,028,263) developed by Philip Chong, Berkeley, Calif., and Christian Szegedy, Albany, Calif., for a "method, system, and computer program product for implementing incremental placement in electronics design." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for implementing incremental placement for an electronic design while predicting and minimizing a perturbation impact arising from incremental placement of electronic components. In some embodiments, an initial placement of an electronic design is identified, an abstract flow is computed, target locations of various electronic components to be placed are identified, a relative ordering of electronic components is determined, and the placement is then legalized. Furthermore, in various embodiments, the method, system, or computer program product starts with an initial placement of an electronic design and derives a legal placement by using an incremental placement technique while minimizing the perturbation impact or an total quadratic movement of instances. In some embodiments, an augmented or incremental clumping technique based data structure is utilized for rapid and substantially exact perturbation prediction of effects of local incremental placement operations." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2008 (12/188,599). 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=8,028,263&OS=8,028,263&RS=8,028,263 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,020) developed by Paul Huck, Palo Alto, Calif., Aleksey Skurikhin, Foster City, Calif., and Ilya Teplov, Foster City, Calif., for "control unit operations in a real-time collaboration server." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a real-time collaboration server, a control unit manages a collaboration mode. The control unit operates a virtual client that maintains a virtual screen reflecting the status of the collaboration (e.g., the contents of a shared desktop or whiteboard). The virtual client renders collaboration data within the virtual screen. New clients are synchronized with an ongoing collaboration by packing and sending them a copy of the virtual screen. The control unit maintains a queue of collaboration data to be sent to participating clients. Each client may have a pointer identifying the queued data it is processing. The queue may be collapsed (e.g., when it reaches a maximum size) by sending a copy of the virtual screen to one or more clients that have not yet consumed old data in the queue; those clients are then updated to skip the queue entries embodied in the virtual screen." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2007 (11/784,156). 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=8,028,020.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,020&RS=PN/8,028,020 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sony Assigned Patent for System and Method for Authenticating Components in Wireless Home Entertainment System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Sony, Tokyo, and Sony Electronics, Park Ridge, N.J., have been assigned a patent (8,028,328) developed by Behram Mario Dacosta, San Diego, for a "system and method for authenticating components in wireless home entertainment system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Configuration information is exchanged between a home entertainment system server and various wireless components by pushing a button on the server and a random button on a remote control device as it is pointed at the devices sought to be authenticated." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2009 (12/567,411). 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=8,028,328&OS=8,028,328&RS=8,028,328 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Syngenta Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (PP22,164) developed by Mitchell Hanes, Morgan Hill, Calif., for a "petunia plant named 'Whip Amth'." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A new Petunia plant named 'Whip Amth' particularly distinguished by the medium sized purple-violet flowers, early blooming, good floriferousness, initially semi-compact and then an outwardly spreading plant habit." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2009 (12/653,686). 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=PP22,164&OS=PP22,164&RS=PP22,164 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Samsung Electronics Assigned Patent for Method and System for Automated Invocation of Device Functionalities in a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Samsung Electronics, Suwon, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (8,028,283) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for automated invocation of device functionalities in a network." The co-inventors are Mithun Sheshagiri, Berkeley, Calif., Alan Messer, Los Gatos, Calif., Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Priyang Rathod, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system that enable an automatic invocation of device functionalities on devices in a network. Invocation mechanisms are provided to support heterogeneous invocation mechanisms including new invocation mechanisms. Invocation mechanisms using scripts can be added without the need for recompilation of support systems such as home-networking middleware systems. This further enables the use of scripts that can coordinate the use of multiple devices in accomplishing a task." The patent application was filed on March 19, 2007 (11/725,376). 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=8,028,283&OS=8,028,283&RS=8,028,283 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,028,024) developed by Ranganathan Krishnan, San Diego, for a "system and method of instant messaging between wireless devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method of instant messaging is disclosed and includes transmitting an indication from a wireless device to an instant messaging server that instant messaging is enabled at the wireless device. Further, a plurality of communication signals between the wireless device and a plurality of base stations are monitored. After determining that the wireless device has one remaining communication signal with one base station, the one remaining communication signal is monitored. Moreover, a time history of signal strength data for the one remaining communication signal is recorded and a slope of the signal strength data is determined. Based on the slope of the signal strength data, it can be determined whether an imminent loss of signal is about to occur at the wireless device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2006 (11/361,260). 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=8,028,024.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,024&RS=PN/8,028,024 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Component Integrator ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,304) developed by Mike A. Marin, Laguna Hills, Calif., Daniel S. Whelan, Dana Point, Calif., and Michael G. Winter, Camarillo, Calif., for a component integrator. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques allow for communication with and management of multiple external components. A component manager communicates with one or more component adapters. Each component adapter communicates with an external component and is able to call the methods, functions, procedures, and other operations of the external component. The component manager associates these external operations with local operations, such that an application may use local operation names to invoke the external operations. Furthermore, the component manager has component definitions and operation definitions that describe the component adapters and operations, including input and output parameters and the like. The component manager is able to receive a group of data including a local operation and a list of input and output parameters and determine from the foregoing information which external operation to call and which component adapter has access to the external operation." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2008 (12/175,424). 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=8,028,304&OS=8,028,304&RS=8,028,304 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,028,336) developed by Christoph L. Schuba, Menlo Park, Calif., Dwight Hare, Encinitas, Calif., and Hal Stern, Livingston, N.J., for an "intrusion detection using dynamic tracing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques have been developed whereby dynamic kernel/user-level tracing may be employed to efficiently characterize runtime behavior of production code. Using dynamic tracing techniques, user space or kernel instruction sequences between system calls may be instrumented without access to source code. In some realizations, instrumentation may be interactively specified on a host system. In some realizations, instrumentation specifications may be supplied as functional definitions (e.g., as scripts and/or probe definitions) for installation on a host system. Using the developed techniques, data states, parameters passed and/or timing information may be sampled to provide more detailed insight into actual program behavior. In signature-oriented exploitations, more powerful intrusion signatures are possible. In anomaly-oriented exploitations, a more detailed "sense of self" may be developed to discriminate between normal and anomalous program behavior." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2005 (11/269,775). 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=8,028,336&OS=8,028,336&RS=8,028,336 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Micrus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Micrus, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (RE42,758) developed by Christopher G.M. Ken, San Mateo, Calif., and David A. Ferrera, San Francisco, for a 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. -1062875 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |