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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (May 10)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Arizona. *** Health Payment Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Health Payment Systems, Milwaukee, has been Assigned a patent (8,175,901) developed by Bruce Lefco, Scottsdale, Ariz., and James Brindley, Glendale, Wis., for a "system and method for managing payments for health care services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The health care payment techniques include a system, and/or a machine-readable storage media. In some embodiments of these techniques, the system includes a processor that executes instructions. The system further includes machine-readable storage media having the instructions stored therein, the instructions when executed by the computer system causing the computer system to implement a health care claim payment method. The method includes receiving a plurality of claims for a plurality of health care services provided by a plurality of health care service providers to a patient. The method further includes remitting payment for each claim in the plurality of claims in a single payment. The remitting step is performed before the participant has acknowledged the participant's obligation to pay for the health care service. The method further includes combining the claim from the health care provider and a plurality of additional health care providers into a master bill. The method further includes sending the master bill to the participant. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims." The patent application was filed on June 14, 2010 (12/815,040). 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=8,175,901&OS=8,175,901&RS=8,175,901 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been Assigned a patent (8,175,846) developed by six co-inventors for a fault splitting algorithm. The co-inventors are Asif Khalak, Phoenix, C. Arthur Dins, Minneapolis, Bradley John Barton, Albuquerque, N.M., Randy Magnuson, Scottsdale, Ariz., Qingqiu Ginger Shao, Oro Valley, Ariz., and David Michael Kolbet, Scottsdale, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present application relates to a method of splitting a fault condition including receiving evidence observations of a monitored system from monitors connected in a many-to-many relationship to the failure modes, generating a fault condition, computing a relative probability of failure for each failure mode in the fault condition. When there is more than one failure mode in the fault condition, the method includes computing a relative probability of each pair of failure modes in the fault condition, ranking the computed relative probabilities of the individual failure modes and the computed relative probabilities of the pairs of failure modes. If the highest ranked failure mode is a pair of failure modes, the fault condition is split based on the failure modes in the highest ranked pair of failure modes are split. If the highest ranked failure mode is an individual failure mode, a failure is isolated based on the ranking." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2009 (12/366,472). 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=8,175,846&OS=8,175,846&RS=8,175,846 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Rendering a Synthetic Perspective Display of a Designated Object or Location ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been Assigned a patent (8,175,761) developed by Troy Nichols, Peoria, Ariz., and John G. Suddreth, Cave Creek, Ariz., for a "system and method for rendering a synthetic perspective display of a designated object or location." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for displaying information on a flight deck display element of an aircraft begins by obtaining a user interface command that represents a user-entered selection of a designated target. Relevant data is accessed and processed in response to this command, including aircraft status data for the aircraft, terrain data corresponding to terrain proximate the designated target, and graphics data corresponding to the designated target. Then, a target-focused display is rendered on the flight deck display element. The target-focused display includes a real-time synthetic perspective view of the designated target and the terrain proximate the designated target, wherein content of the target-focused display is influenced by the aircraft status data, the terrain data, and the graphics data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2009 (12/372,567). 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=8,175,761&OS=8,175,761&RS=8,175,761 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Validating Predetermined Events in Reconfigurable Control Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been Assigned a patent (8,175,759) developed by Mitch Fletcher, Glendale, Ariz., for "systems and methods for validating predetermined events in reconfigurable control systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for validating predetermined events in reconfigurable control systems are provided. One method includes receiving, by a plurality of redundant processors operating in a first mode, a notice from two of three redundant sensors that the predetermined event occurred and reconfiguring the plurality of redundant processors to operate in a second mode in response to the notice. Another method includes receiving a first notice that one or more sensors detected that a first vehicle is coupled to a second vehicle at a primary control system and a secondary control system and reconfiguring the primary control system and the secondary control system to operate in another mode at substantially the same time in response to the notice." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2009 (12/489,061). 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=8,175,759&OS=8,175,759&RS=8,175,759 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Area Health Managers for Aircraft Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been Assigned a patent (8,175,768) developed by Douglas L. Bishop, Phoenix, Timothy J. Felke, Glendale, Ariz., and Pavel P.H. Hynek, Olomouc, Czech Republic, for "area health managers for aircraft systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An aircraft system includes an aircraft subsystem generating monitor trips related to the health of the aircraft subsystem; and an area health manager coupled to the aircraft subsystem. The area health manager includes a data receiver for receiving the monitor trips from the aircraft subsystem; a fault detector for processing inputs based on the monitor trips to identify faults; and an execution sequence queue coupled to the fault detector for storing a plurality of execution entities. Each of the plurality of execution entities is associated with a specific logic operation in the fault detector that is executed when the associated execution entity is in a first predetermined state." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2007 (11/766,489). 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=8,175,768&OS=8,175,768&RS=8,175,768 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Method to Audit Portable Cassettes Removeably Disposed in a Data Storage Library Comprising a Pass-through Accessor ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been Assigned a patent (8,175,745) developed by four co-inventors for a "method to audit portable cassettes removeably disposed in a data storage library comprising a pass-through accessor." The co-inventors are Matthew Charles Compton, Tucson, Ariz., Louis Daniel Echevarria, Tucson, Ariz., Stefan Lehmann, Tucson, Ariz., and Richard Albert Welp, Tucson, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method to audit portable cassettes removeably disposed in a data storage library comprising a plurality of storage slots, a plurality of portable cassettes removeably disposed in one or more of said plurality of storage slots, and a pass-through accessor comprising a moveable fixturing apparatus, wherein the pass-through accessor is moveably disposed in said data storage library. The method disposes the pass-through accessor adjacent a first one of said plurality of storage slots, removes a first portable cassette from the first storage slot, and attaches the first portable cassette to a first fixturing assembly disposed on the fixturing apparatus. The method then removes a second portable cassette from the first storage slot, and attaches the second portable cassette to a second fixturing assembly disposed on the fixturing apparatus." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2009 (12/464,758). 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=8,175,745&OS=8,175,745&RS=8,175,745 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Dynamically Matching Data Service Capabilities to Data Service Level Objectives ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,176,180) developed by four co-inventors for a "dynamically matching data service capabilities to data service level objectives." The co-inventors are Zhengwen He, Rochester, Minn., Bernhard Julius Klingenberg, Morgan Hill, Calif., David Gregory Van Hise, Tucson, Ariz., and William Roy Yonker, Rochester, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, system, and computer program product are provided for matching a storage dependent device to a storage subsystem. Storage requirements are identified for a storage dependent device that is coupled to a network. Additionally, a set of storage subsystems that are coupled to the network are identified. A determination is made as to whether at least one storage subsystem in the set of storage subsystems meets the storage requirements of the storage dependent device. An identified storage subsystem is formed by identifying the at least one storage subsystem that meets the storage requirements of the storage dependent device. Responsive to forming the identified storage subsystem, at least one storage subsystem is coupled to the storage dependent device, wherein the storage dependent device utilizes storage capabilities of the identified storage subsystem." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2007 (11/757,671). 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=8,176,180&OS=8,176,180&RS=8,176,180 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ticketmaster Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Ticketmaster, West Hollywood, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,176,177) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system." The co-inventors are Adam Sussman, Los Angeles, Brendan Ross, Toronto, Bob Bennett, Los Angeles, Dennis Denker, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Andrew Karonis, Europort, Gibraltar. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for reducing burst usage of a networked computer system are described herein. In an embodiment, resource requesters can request, within a time window, resources over a computer network before the resources are available. The resources can then be allocated in batch mode when the resources are available. Thus, resource requests do not have to be processed in real-time, and resource requests can be received before the resources are available." The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2007 (11/703,525). 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=8,176,177&OS=8,176,177&RS=8,176,177 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Space Recovery with Storage Management Coupled with a Deduplicating Storage System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,176,104) developed by David M. Cannon, Tucson, Ariz., and Mark A. Smith, Los Gatos, Calif., for a "space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Provided are techniques for space recovery with storage management coupled with a deduplicating storage system. A notification is received that one or more data objects have been logically deleted by deleting metadata about the one or more data objects, wherein the notification provides storage locations within one or more logical storage volumes corresponding to the deleted one or more data objects, wherein each of the one or more data objects are divided into one or more extents. In response to determining that a sparse file represents the one or more logical storage volumes, physical space is deallocated by nulling out space in the sparse file corresponding to each of the one or more extents." The patent application was filed on May 26, 2011 (13/116,995). 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=8,176,104&OS=8,176,104&RS=8,176,104 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,175,108) developed by Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Newport Coast, Calif., and Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, Ariz., for a "wirelessly configurable memory device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A configurable memory includes an interface section, a plurality of memory modules, and an internal configuration section. The interface section includes a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver and interfaces with one or more external components. Each the plurality of memory modules includes a memory MMW transceiver and a plurality of memory cells. The internal configuration section includes a memory management unit and a memory management MMW transceiver. The memory management unit is operable to determine configuration of at least some of the plurality of memory modules to form a memory block, identify an interface MMW transceiver to provide a wireless link to the memory block, and generate a configuration signal based on the determined configuration and the identified interface MMW transceiver. The memory management MMW transmits the MMW configuration signal to the identified interface MMW transceiver and the MMW transceivers of the memory modules." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2008 (12/202,260). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft1.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=8,175,108.PN.&OS=PN/8,175,108&RS=PN/8,175,108 Written by Shabnam Sheikh; edited by Jaya Anand. *** American Express Travel Related Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- American Express Travel Related Services, New York, has been assigned a patent (8,176,062) developed by five co-inventors for a service provider framework. The co-inventors are John Fife, Scottsdale, Ariz., David Krause, Scottsdale, Ariz., John Montiel, Scottsdale, Ariz., Paula Parker, Jensen Beach, Fla., and Terry Shay, Phoenix. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Providing a dynamic data translation service in a framework that encapsulates other valuable service functions is disclosed. An information technology infrastructure operates in different environments, uses different formats and accesses complex and frequently changing data schemas. The service provider framework provides core computing process automation and dynamic data translation functionality in an encapsulated service that shields requesting systems from data schemas that are often both complex and prone to frequent changes." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2008 (12/111,076). 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=8,176,062&OS=8,176,062&RS=8,176,062 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,175,466) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for polarization multiplexed multilevel modulation for optical communication." The co-inventors are Ivan B. Djordjevic, Tucson, Ariz., Lybomir L. Minkov, Akron, Ohio, Lei Xu, Princeton Junction, N.J., and Ting Wang, West Windsor, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Multilevel soft-equalizer detectors, such as a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) detector, suitable for use in polarization multiplexed optical communications using multilevel modulations and coherent detection are disclosed. Detection systems and methods may consider two symbols transmitted over two orthogonal polarization states as a two-component symbol, which is effective in eliminating the bit error ratio (BER) floor phenomenon introduced by conventional soft equalizers." The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2009 (12/535,329). 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=8,175,466&OS=8,175,466&RS=8,175,466 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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