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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Minnesota (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 Minnesota. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,027,873) developed by Martin J. Drefs, Edina, Minn., and David P. Evans, Salt Lake City, for a travel reward accrual. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an indication that a passenger is boarding a carrier for a first segment of a travel itinerary, determining an amount of travel reward points to associate with the first segment, and outputting, at a time substantially concurrent with the boarding of the carrier for the first segment, the amount of the travel reward points to a travel reward system so that the travel reward points are available for redemption by the passenger on a second segment of the travel itinerary." The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2008 (12/197,777). 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=80,27,873.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,873&RS=PN/80,27,873 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Executing an Overall Quantity of Data Processing Within an Overall Processing Period ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,805) developed by Troy D. Armstrong, Rochester, Minn., Naresh Nayar, Rochester, Minn., and Gary R. Ricard, Chatfield, Minn., for "executing an overall quantity of data processing within an overall processing period." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Exemplary methods, systems, and products are described for executing an overall quantity of data processing within an overall processing period that include executing repeatedly through a series of iterations a portion of the overall quantity of data processing that can be completed in a set processing period, wherein each iteration includes the set processing period and a variable delay period and calculating the variable delay period for an iteration in dependence upon the set processing period, a portion of the overall quantity of data processing performed during the set processing period of the iteration, the overall quantity of data processing, and the overall processing period." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2009 (12/349,877). 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=80,27,805.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,805&RS=PN/80,27,805 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,027,804) developed by Kadir Kavaklioglu, Eden Prairie, Minn., for a "statistical processing methods used in abnormal situation detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Detection of one or more abnormal situations is performed using various statistical measures, such as a mean, a median, a standard deviation, etc. of one or more process parameters or variable measurements made by statistical process monitoring blocks within a plant. This detection is enhanced in various cases by using specialized data filters and data processing techniques, which are designed to be computationally simple and therefore are able to be applied to data collected at a high sampling rate in a field device having limited processing power. The enhanced data or measurements may be used to provided better or more accurate statistical measures of the data, may be used to trim the data to remove outliers from this data, may be used to fit this data to non-linear functions, or may be use to quickly detect the occurrence of various abnormal situations within specific plant equipment, such as distillation columns and fluid catalytic crackers." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2010 (12/793,425). 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=80,27,804.PN.&OS=PN/80,27,804&RS=PN/80,27,804 Written by Ruby Maibam; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Controlled Delivery of Intermittent Stress Augmentation Pacing for Cardioprotective Effect ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,723) developed by Joseph M. Pastore, Woodbury, Minn., and Julio C. Spinelli, Shoreview, Minn., for a "controlled delivery of intermittent stress augmentation pacing for cardioprotective effect." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device and method for delivering electrical stimulation to the heart in a manner which provides a protective effect against subsequent ischemia is disclosed. The protective effect is produced by configuring a cardiac pacing device to intermittently switch from a normal operating mode to a stress augmentation mode in which the spatial pattern of depolarization is varied to thereby subject a particular region or regions of the ventricular myocardium to increased mechanical stress." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2008 (12/109,169). 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=8027723.PN.&OS=PN/8027723&RS=PN/8027723 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medtronic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (8,027,736) developed by five co-inventors for a "lead electrode for use in an MRI-safe implantable medical device." The co-inventors are Carl D. Wahlstrand, Lino Lakes, Minn., Thomas Barry Hoegh, Edina, Minn., James M. Olsen, Plymouth, Minn., Stephen L. Bolea, Watertown, Minn., and Gregory A. Hrdlicka, Plymouth, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A medical lead is configured to be implanted into a patient's body and comprises a lead body, and an electrode coupled to the lead body. The electrode comprises a first section configured to contact the patient's body, and a second section electrically coupled to the first section and configured to be capacitively coupled to the patient's body." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2005 (11/117,894). 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=8027736.PN.&OS=PN/8027736&RS=PN/8027736 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Pacemaker RF Telemetry Repeater and Method ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,727) developed by Scott Freeberg, Birchwood Village, Minn., for a "pacemaker RF telemetry repeater and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for repeating radio frequency (RF) transmissions between a programmer and an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to an RF repeater. According to various embodiments, the repeater includes a first antenna and a first communication circuit electrically connected to the first antenna. The first communication circuit is adapted to communicate with an IMD, the IMD including a built-in active telemetry transceiver, over a first channel. The device also includes a second antenna and a second communication circuit electrically connected to the second antenna. The second communication circuit is adapted to communicate with a programmer over a second channel different from the first channel. The device also includes a control circuit coupled to the first and second communication circuits. The control circuit is adapted to enable or disable the first and second communication circuits. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2005 (11/215,453). 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=8027727.PN.&OS=PN/8027727&RS=PN/8027727 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medtronic Assigned Patent for High Power Implantable Battery with Improved Safety and Method of Manufacture ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (8,027,728) developed by Craig L. Schmidt, Eagan, Minn., Lonny V. Cabelka, Chandler, Ariz., and Joseph A. Ballis, Shoreview, Minn., for a "high power implantable battery with improved safety and method of manufacture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A power control circuit for an implantable medical device is presented. The power control circuit includes a first high rate cell, a second high rate cell, at least one resistive load, and at least one control circuit. The at least one resistive load is connected between the first and the second high rate cells. The at least one control circuit is coupled to the first and the second high rate cells." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2007 (11/687,457). 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=8027728.PN.&OS=PN/8027728&RS=PN/8027728 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,739) developed by Peter Hall, Andover, Minn., and Paul E. Zarembo, Vadnais Heights, Minn., for a "medical device having a glass coating and method therefor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A medical device having at least one glass coating between a first and second component. The glass coating forms a portion of a strong, hydrothermally stable joint between components or provides insulation, or tailors an impedance and/or capacitance of an electrode." The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2007 (11/855,088). 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=8027739.PN.&OS=PN/8027739&RS=PN/8027739 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Cardiac Rhythm Management System with Exercise Test Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,726) developed by David Ternes, Roseville, Minn., for a "cardiac rhythm management system with exercise test interface." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This document discusses, among other things, cardiac rhythm management systems, devices, and methods providing an exercise test interface. A patient exercise episode is identified using at least one predetermined criteria. Data associated with the episode is obtained. A summary of the episode is displayed for a user. The displayed summary includes at least one prognostic indicator obtained from the data associated with the episode. Examples of prognostic indicators include, among other things, ectopic beats, runs of ectopic beats, rate of decrease of heart rate during a post-exercise recovery portion of the episode, a maximum attained heart rate for comparison to a maximum age-predicted heart rate, as well as other prognostic indicators." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2009 (12/400,603). 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=8027726.PN.&OS=PN/8027726&RS=PN/8027726 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method of Generating and Utilizing Debug History ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,278) developed by Cary L. Bates, Rochester, Minn., and Paul R. Day, Rochester, Minn., for a "method of generating and utilizing debug history." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is generally directed towards providing a method, system and article of manufacture for generating and utilizing debug history to improve the debugging process. By providing facilities to store and retrieve debug history records for given events, the present invention allows developers to debug code more efficiently by allowing them to leverage information stored in a debug history repository. Further, the added functionality, related to the debug history, is available via modules that work in conjunction with existing debugger applications and is provided to users via a variety of interfaces including graphic interfaces and plug-in components" The patent application was filed on March 10, 2008 (12/045,460). 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=8,028,278&OS=8,028,278&RS=8,028,278 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Spineology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Spineology, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (RE42,757) developed by six co-inventors for an expandable reamer. The co-inventors are Stephen D. Kuslich, Stillwater, Minn., Patricia Kuslich legal representative, Stillwater, Minn., Francis Peterson, Spooner, Wis., Todd Bjork, River Falls, Wis., Joseph E. Gleason, Eagan, Minn., and Rodney Rogstad, Plymouth, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An expandable reamer for forming a space within a vertebral disc includes a pair of opposing blades which have a expanded state and a retracted state. The blades being pivotally positioned at the distal end of a shaft assembly. A shaft housing being substantially disposed about the shaft assembly. The proximal end of the shaft assembly being operatively engaged by a control device which when rotated allows the blades to be fully retracted for insertion into a pre-bored hole and then to be expanded incrementally until the cavity is bored as desired." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2007 (10/842,057). 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=RE42,757&OS=RE42,757&RS=RE42,757 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. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Sorting Data Records Contained in a Query Result ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,985) developed by Richard D. Dettinger, Rochester, Minn., Daniel P. Kolz, Rochester, Minn., and Frederick A. Kulack, Rochester, Minn., for a "sorting data records contained in a query result." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query against a database. In one embodiment, the data records in the query result are sorted on the basis of related information which is retrieved from a corresponding data source. In another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of a value variance which is determined for each of the data records in the query result. In still another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of a requested value range coverage. In yet another embodiment, the sorting is performed on the basis of suitability scores which are determined with respect to analysis routines which are configured for processing the query result." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2009 (12/472,281). 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=8,027,985.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,985&RS=PN/8,027,985 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,128) developed by four co-inventors for a "method for increasing cache directory associativity classes in a system with a register space memory." The co-inventors are Duane A. Averill, Rochester, Minn., Herman L. Blackmon, Moline, Ill., Joseph A. Kirscht, Rochester, Minn., and David A. Shedivy, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method of managing a cache directory in a memory system, an original system address is presented to the cache directory when corresponding associativity data is allocated to an associativity class in the cache directory. The original system address is normalized by removing address space corresponding to a memory hole, thereby generating a normalized address. The normalized address is stored in the cache directory. The normalized address is de-normalized, thereby generating a de-normalized address, when the associativity data is cast out of the cache directory to make room for new associativity data. The de-normalized address is sent to the memory system for coherency management." The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2007 (11/869,901). 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=8,028,128.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,128&RS=PN/8,028,128 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,972) developed by Eric Lawrence Barsness, Pine Island, Minn., Amanda Peters, Rochester, Minn., and John Matthew Santosuosso, Rochester, Minn., for a nodal data normalization. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention may be used to normalize data stored in an in-memory database on a parallel computer system. The data normalization may be used to achieve memory savings, thereby reducing the number of compute nodes required to store an in-memory database. Thus, as a result, faster response times may be achieved when querying the data. In one embodiment, normalization may be performed in a manner to avoid datasets that cross physical or logical boundaries of the compute nodes of a parallel system." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2007 (11/861,388). 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=8,027,972.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,972&RS=PN/8,027,972 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Relationship Management in a Data Abstraction Model ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,971) developed by four co-inventors for a "relationship management in a data abstraction model." The co-inventors are Richard D. Dettinger, Rochester, Minn., Daniel P. Kolz, Rochester, Minn., Richard J. Stevens, Rochester, Minn., and Shannon E. Wenzel, Colby, Wis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system and article of manufacture for managing relationships in a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a method of linking logical branches of data in a database based on the relationships. The method includes accessing a data abstraction model abstractly describing the data in the database. The data abstraction model defines a logical tree structure having a plurality of logical branches. Relationships between logical fields of different logical branches are identified and logical links abstractly describing the identified relationships are created." The patent application was filed on Oct. 6, 2009 (12/574,123). 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=8,027,971.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,971&RS=PN/8,027,971 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Virtual Adapter Resource Allocation Matrix ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,105) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for virtual adapter resource allocation matrix that defines the amount of resources of a physical I/O adapter." The co-inventors are Richard Louis Arndt, Austin, Texas, Giora Biran, Zichron-Yaakov, Israel, Harvey Gene Kiel, Rochester, Minn., Vadim Makhervaks, Austin, Texas, Renato John Recio, Austin, Texas, Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, Israel, and Jaya Srikrishnan, Wappingers Falls, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product, and distributed data processing system that enables host software or firmware to allocate virtual resources to one or more system images from a single physical I/O adapter, such as a PCI, PCI-X, or PCI-E adapter, is provided. Adapter resource groups are assigned to respective system images. An adapter resource group is exclusively available to the system image to which the adapter resource group assignment was made. Assignment of adapter resource groups may be made per a relative resource assignment or an absolute resource assignment. In another embodiment, adapter resource groups are assigned to system images on a first come, first served basis." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2008 (12/122,507). 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=8,028,105.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,105&RS=PN/8,028,105 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent Hypertension Diagnosis and Therapy Using Pressure Sensor ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,027,724) developed by four co-inventors for a "hypertension diagnosis and therapy using pressure sensor." The co-inventors are Xuan Wei, Plymouth, Minn., Cheng Zhang, Vadnais Heights, Minn., Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Roseville, Minn., and Dan Li, Shoreview, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An example relates to a method for sensing a pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and providing a sensed PAP signal, detecting an abnormal blood pressure (BP) condition using information from the sensed PAP signal, delivering a pacing energy to a heart, and automatically altering at least one pacing characteristic in response to the detected abnormal BP condition. The detecting an abnormal BP condition can include detecting various forms of hypertension or hypotension. The automatically altering the at least one pacing characteristic can include automatically altering at least one of a pacing rate, a pacing waveform, an atriventricular (AV) delay, an interventricular (VV) delay, a pacing mode, or a pacing site. The method can also include delivering vagal nerve stimulation and automatically altering the vagal nerve stimulation in response to the detected abnormal BP condition. The detecting the abnormal BP condition can also include using a sensed auxiliary physiological parameter." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2007 (11/833,435). 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=8027724.PN.&OS=PN/8027724&RS=PN/8027724 Written by Ankresh Ranjan; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Internation Business Machines Assigned Patent for Using an Index Value Located on a Page Table to Index Page Attributes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Internation Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,118) developed by Timothy Hume Heil, Rochester, Minn., James Allen Rose, Rochester, Minn., and Andrew Henry Wottreng, Rochester, Minn., for an "using an index value located on a page table to index page attributes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for increasing the number of page attributes specified by a page table while minimizing an increase in size of the page table. According to embodiments of the invention, attribute index bits may be included within a page table and may be used to determine page attributes stored within an attribute index. Additionally, embodiments of the invention provide a plurality of new page attributes." The patent application was filed on Dec. 5, 2007 (11/950,518). 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=8,028,118.PN.&OS=PN/8,028,118&RS=PN/8,028,118 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Partitioning of a Multiple Logic-unit-number SCSI Target ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,141) developed by four co-inventors for a "partitioning of a multiple logic-unit-number SCSI target." The co-inventors are Brian Eric Bakke, Rochester, Minn., Ellen Marie Bauman, Rochester, Minn., Timothy Jerry Schimke, Stewartville, Minn., and Lee Anton Sendelbach, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, computer program product and computer system for assigning logic storage entities of a storage device to multiple partitions of a computer system, which includes associating each logic storage entity to one of the partitions that are allowed to access the logic storage entity; configuring a partition supervisor to control accesses of the partitions to the logic storage entities, so that the partitions can share resources when accessing the logic storage entities; and providing an interceptor in the partition supervisor, so that a request or a response between a select logic storage entity and a select partition is intercepted if the select partition is not allowed to access the select storage entity." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2008 (12/132,048). 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=8028141.PN.&OS=PN/8028141&RS=PN/8028141 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,027,903) developed by eight co-inventors for a "technology portfolio health assessment system and method." The co-inventors are Fred Bishop, Glendale, Ariz., Sherry McCullough Easterwood, Mesa, Ariz., Pradeep Varghese George, Scottsdale, Ariz., Robert Del Gilmore, Peoria, Ariz., James Walker Mathews, Salt Lake City, Lawrence J. Mitsch, St. Paul, Minn., James Robert Rottman, Plymouth, Minn., and James Denis Thornton, St. Paul, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for producing infrastructure health assessments enabling enterprises to monitor the health of individual technology portfolios and plan accordingly is disclosed. The tool uses two primary assessments to determine: 1) an infrastructure score based the general health of asset components; and 2) adaptability score based on asset components ability to interact with other elements within the asset. To generate the assessment scores, the tool accepts inventory input specific to a portfolio's assets and components. A user interacting with the tool provides classification information relating to each asset and component. The tool then calculates health assessment scores for both individual portfolio assets and for the portfolio as a whole." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2005 (10/907,319). 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=8,027,903.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,903&RS=PN/8,027,903 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BNSF Railway Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- BNSF Railway, Fort Worth, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,027,950) developed by four co-inventors for "electronic file creation and management systems and methods." The co-inventors are Barry P. Wunker, Gillette, Wyo., Donald C. Wind, Dallas, Michelle L. Shea, Big Lake, Minn., and Gracie Lauffer, Watauga, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of file management in an electronic processing system includes defining in the electronic system an electronic file of a selected file type and at least one electronic sub-folder within the electronic file for storing information of a corresponding information type. Roles are defined in the electronic processing system for participants creating and utilizing the electronic file, including a role for an information collector. The information collector is electronically tasked to collect information of the information type, which is uploaded and selectively stored in the sub-folder in the electronic file. Selected participants are allowed to access the electronic file as defined by the corresponding role." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2010 (12/802,961). 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=8,027,950.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,950&RS=PN/8,027,950 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,028,153) developed by four co-inventors for a "data dependent instruction decode." The co-inventors are Mark J. Hickey, Rochester, Minn., Adam J. Muff, Rochester, Minn., Matthew R. Tubbs, Rochester, Minn., and Charles D. Wait, Byron, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A circuit arrangement and method support data dependent instruction decoding, whereby instructions are decoded, in part, using decode data that is stored in operand registers identified by such instructions. An instruction may include an opcode and at least one operand that identifies a register. During execution of the instruction, the instruction is first decoded using the opcode, and then decode data stored in the operand register is retrieved and used to further decode the instruction, e.g., to select from among a plurality of operations or instruction types associated with the same opcode." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2008 (12/191,337). 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=8028153.PN.&OS=PN/8028153&RS=PN/8028153 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Intelligent Deletion of Elements to Maintain Referential Integrity of Dynamically Assembled Components in a Content Management System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,027,960) developed by David Gerard Herbeck, Rochester, Minn., and John Edward Petri, St. Charles, Minn., for an "intelligent deletion of elements to maintain referential integrity of dynamically assembled components in a content management system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content management system (CMS) uses an element deletion mechanism to maintain referential integrity of dynamically assembled elements in a repository. Element properties such as probability, popularity and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged. A deletion policy is then defined in terms of the logged element properties. When a request to delete an element is received, the deletion mechanism checks the logged properties against the deletion policy. If the element's logged properties satisfy the deletion policy, the element is deleted from the repository. If the element's logged properties do not satisfy the deletion policy, the element is not deleted. In this manner referential integrity may be enforced for elements that are dynamically assembled." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2009 (12/401,921). 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=8,027,960.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,960&RS=PN/8,027,960 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Wells Fargo Bank Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,027,928) developed by five co-inventors for a "dynamic selection of deposit clearing methods based on business rules." The co-inventors are Alan W. Hecht Jr., Chanhassen, Minn., Laura Lee Orcutt, Chanhassen, Minn., Jeffrey Allen Harmon, River Falls, Wis., Michelle Marie Young, Pasadena, Calif., and Stephanie A. Sturgis-Griffin, Oakland, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In general, this disclosure describes techniques of dynamically selecting deposit clearing methods based on business rules. As described in this disclosure, a financial institution receives checks drawn on other financial institutions as customer deposits. When the financial institution receives a check, the financial institution automatically applies one or more customizable business rules to identify a method to clear the check. The financial institution then uses the identified method to clear the check." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2008 (12/118,341). 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=8,027,928.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,928&RS=PN/8,027,928 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ford Global Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Ford Global Technologies, Dearborn, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,027,778) developed by Vincent J. Winstead, Mankato, Minn., for a torque delivery. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for controlling a multiple cylinder internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders with electronically actuated valves (EVA) is presented. The system is designed to improve the torque delivery of an EVA engine that operates a portion of cylinders in an HCCI combustion mode." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2007 (11/755,402). 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=8,027,778.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,778&RS=PN/8,027,778 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Medtronic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 28 -- Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (8,027,791) developed by Orhan Soykan, Shoreview, Minn., for a self-improving classification system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A self-improving classification system classifies specimens based on class identifiers. The system stores specimen profiles in a database that is updated with additional specimen profiles and with follow-up data that corrects classification of specimens that were initially incorrectly classified. Algorithms use the updated database to discover new class identifiers, modify thresholds of known class identifiers, and drop unnecessary class identifiers to improve classification of specimens." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2005 (11/157,514). 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=8,027,791.PN.&OS=PN/8,027,791&RS=PN/8,027,791 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. 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