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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (Feb. 21)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Reusing Packet Data Control Assignment Bits for Resource Allocation Indications ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8379622) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for reusing packet data control assignment bits for resource allocation indications." The co-inventors are Sean M. McBeath, Keller, Texas, Hao Bi, Lake Zurich, Ill., John D. Reed, Arlington, Texas, and Jack A. Smith, Valley View, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The PDCAB packet (300) and the RRA packet (308) are transmitted together on the F-SCCH. For example, 9 RRA bits (305) are appended to the PDCAB field (303), in place of the pad bits (205), thereby allowing both the PDCAB (303) and RRA (311) messages to be protected against errors by a 16-bit CRC (307). In accordance with the embodiments, a receiver is able to distinguish between the varying PDCAB (303) and RRA (305) message formats and transmitting the packets (300) and (308) together is a normal mode of operation in the embodiments. Therefore, in accordance with the embodiments, when the PDCAB packet (300) and RRA packet (308) are transmitted together, the network replaces the N PDCAB pad bits, such as pad bits (205), with the first N bits from the RRA bitmap (311), in order to use the nominal CRC length for both packets (300) and (308)." The patent application was filed on June 15, 2007 (11/763624). 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=83,79,622.PN.&OS=PN/83,79,622&RS=PN/83,79,622 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,379,568) developed by Huaiyu Zeng, Red Bank, N.J., Nelson Sollenberger, Farmingdale, N.J., and Arie Heiman, Rannana, Ill., for a "method and system for decoding control channels using partial combining with weighted SNR." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for decoding SACCH control channels in GSM-based systems with partial combining using weighted SNR may comprise combining least one weighted bit of a GSM slow associated control channel (SACCH) frame with at least one weighted bit of a subsequent GSM SACCH block based on burst signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of the GSM SACCH block and the subsequent GSM SACCH block. The burst SNR may be determined from a mid-amble of the GSM SACCH block and its subsequent GSM SACCH block. The burst SNRs of the GSM SACCH block may be translated to a corresponding plurality of scaling factors. At least a first weighting factor may be determined from the corresponding plurality of scaling factors. At least one weighted bit of the GSM SACCH block is determined utilizing the determined first weighting factor." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2009 (12/564,438). 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=83,79,568.PN.&OS=PN/83,79,568&RS=PN/83,79,568 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,379,623) developed by four co-inventors for "combining mobile VPN and internet protocol." The co-inventors are Adam C. Lewis, Buffalo Grove, Ill., Christophe Janneteau, Bois d'Arcy, France, Alexandru Petrescu, Orsay, France, and George Popovich, Palatine, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method (200, 300, 400) of communicating an IPv6 packet (120) over an IPv4 based network (102). The method can include receiving the IPv6 packet to be communicated to a remote unit (104), encapsulating the IPv6 packet in an IPv4 transition packet (122), and communicating the IPv4 transition packet to an IPv4 MVPN (114) server configured to communicate the packet to the remote unit via infrastructure of an IPv4 radio access network. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of processing an IPv6 packet received over an IPv4 based network. The method can include receiving from an MVPN server an IPv4 formatted packet that is being communicated to a remote unit, and removing from the packet at least one IPv4 header to result in the packet being formatted in accordance with IPv6." The patent application was filed on July 10, 2007 (11/775,307). 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=83,79,623.PN.&OS=PN/83,79,623&RS=PN/83,79,623 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,379,995) developed by four co-inventors for an "in-picture prediction for video coding." The co-inventors are Anthony R. May, Winchester, United Kingdom, Shih-Ta Hsiang, Schaumburg, Ill., Faisal Ishtiaq, Chicago, and Zhu Li, Palatine, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of coding video content. The method can include, identifying a first plurality of image blocks within a picture based on at least a first image characteristic that is common to each of the first plurality of image blocks. A first image block group can be dynamically defined. At least one of the image blocks can be selected as a predictor block to predict other image blocks within the first image block group. In another arrangement, at least a first image block and a second image block can be identified within a picture. The second image block can be predicted from the first image block. A displacement vector can be defined to associate the second image block with the first image block. A value representing the displacement vector can be included within a header of the second image block." The patent application was filed on May 15, 2008 (12/121,316). 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=8,379,995&OS=8,379,995&RS=8,379,995 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NVIDIA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,380,778) developed by William N. Bell, Champaign, Ill., and Michael J. Garland, Lake Elmo, Minn., for a "system, method, and computer program product for assigning elements of a matrix to processing threads with increased contiguousness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided for assigning elements of a matrix to processing threads. In use, a matrix is received to be processed by a parallel processing architecture. Such parallel processing architecture includes a plurality of processors each capable of processing a plurality of threads. Elements of the matrix are assigned to each of the threads for processing, utilizing an algorithm that increases a contiguousness of the elements being processed by each thread." The patent application was filed on Oct. 25, 2007 (11/924,379). 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=8,380,778&OS=8,380,778&RS=8,380,778 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** CellTrak Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- CellTrak Technologies, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,380,542) developed by Michael K. Wons, Naperville, Ill., Andrew M. Kaboff, Vernon Hills, Ill., and Steven A. Wegner, Bartlett, Ill., for a "system and method for facilitating outcome-based health care." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary embodiment, a server receives from a communication device (i) an identifier of a patient and (ii) a login credential associated with an individual. The server makes a determination based on the login credential that the individual is authorized to access a patient record of the patient. Subsequent to making the determination, the server prepares an assessment based on the patient record, and provides the assessment to the communication device. The assessment includes a measurement. The server subsequently receives a measurement result from the communication device and updates the patient record based on the measurement result. The server prepares a care plan based on the patient record and provides the care plan to the communication device. The care plan includes a task. The server subsequently receives a task status from the communication device and updates the patient record based on the task status." The patent application was filed on Oct. 24, 2011 (13/280,054). 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=8,380,542&OS=8,380,542&RS=8,380,542 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Georgia Tech Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Georgia Tech Research, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,380,506) developed by Woojay Jeon, Schaumburg, Ill., and Biing-Hwang Juang, Mableton, Ga., for an "automatic pattern recognition using category dependent feature selection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are apparatus and methods that employ a modified version of a computational model of the human peripheral and central auditory system, and that provide for automatic pattern recognition using category dependent feature selection. The validity of the output of the model is examined by deriving feature vectors from the dimension expanded cortical response of the central auditory system for use in a conventional phoneme recognition task. In addition, the cortical response may be a place-coded data set where sounds are categorized according to the regions containing their most distinguishing features. This provides for a novel category-dependent feature selection apparatus and methods in which this mechanism may be utilized to better simulate robust human pattern (speech) recognition." The patent application was filed on Nov. 29, 2007 (11/998,262). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,380,506&OS=8,380,506&RS=8,380,506 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent for Method and System for Selective Use of Control Channel Element Based Implicit Pointing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,379,601) developed by Robert T. Love, Barrington, Ill., and Vijay Nangia, Algonquin, Ill., for a "method and system for selective use of control channel element based implicit pointing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for selective use of control channel element (CCE)-based implicit pointing. The method includes the step of determining whether a number of multiple user elements (UE) within a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) group is greater than the number of resource blocks allocated to the MU-MIMO group. If the number of UEs in the MU-MIMO group is greater than the number of resource blocks allocated to the MU-MIMO group, the method further includes transmitting to each of the UEs of the MU-MIMO group acknowledgements on acknowledgement channels within a first acknowledgement bank and acknowledgements on acknowledgement channels within a second acknowledgement bank. A first portion of the UEs of the MU-MIMO group receives the acknowledgements on the acknowledgement channels within the first acknowledgement bank and a second portion of the UEs of MU-MIMO group receives the acknowledgements on the acknowledgement channels within the second acknowledgement bank." The patent application was filed on July 24, 2008 (12/178,754). 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=83,79,601.PN.&OS=PN/83,79,601&RS=PN/83,79,601 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Siemens Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Siemens, Munich, Germany, and Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., have been assigned a patent (8,379,946) developed by Andreas Greiser, Erlangen, Germany, and Saurabh Shah, Chicago, for a "method and control device to operate a magnetic resonance system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method of a magnetic resonance system and a method and computer-readable storage medium for the operation thereof to acquire magnetic resonance image data of an examination subject, wherein magnetic resonance system has a number of subsystems and a control device, a number of adjustment measurements to adjust at least one subsystem for making a medical diagnostic data acquisition are implemented through the control device. In these adjustment measurements, an adjustment volume associated with the appertaining adjustment measurement is taken into account that encompasses at least one region of a body containing the examination subject. For this purpose, markings established by the control device within image data of the examination subject and characterizing the spatial occupation (position and orientation) and/or a dimension of the examination subject are determined. Based on these markings the spatial occupation and extent of an adjustment volume for an adjustment measurement are determined automatically by the control device." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2010 (12/774,278). 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=8,379,946&OS=8,379,946&RS=8,379,946 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hospira Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Hospira, Lake Forest, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,380,536) developed by 10 co-inventors for a "system for maintaining drug information and communicating with medication delivery devices." The co-inventors are Gary A. Howard, San Diego, Fred Assadi, San Jose, Calif., Yu Xin, San Diego, Nick Okasinski, Hillsborough, Calif., Thomas Canup, San Jose, Calif., Steve Engebretsen, Corralitos, Calif., Raymond P. Silkaitis, Lake Forest, Ill., Geoffrey N. Holland, Wadsworth, Ill., Patrick B. Keely, Grayslake, Ill., and Mozammil H. Awan, Morgan Hill, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for maintaining drug information and communicating with medication delivery devices includes software designed for use in a hospital, pharmacy or biomedical technical service environments. The software may be provided on a computer readable medium. The software allows a facility to customize a drug library with both hard and soft drug limits and other parameters for use with an infuser having a plug and play module removably inserted into a slot within a housing, or for use with an infuser having a connectivity engine enclosed within the housing. The system supports data transfer to one or more infusers connected to one or more computers. The connection between the computer and the pump can be hard wired or wireless." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2011 (13/301,493). 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=8,380,536&OS=8,380,536&RS=8,380,536 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Siemens Medical Solutions USA Assigned Patent for Controlling the Number of Iterations in Image Reconstruction ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,380,469) developed by Alexander Hans Vija, Evanston, Ill., and Amos Yahil, Stony Brook, N.Y., for "controlling the number of iterations in image reconstruction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An iterative reconstruction method to reconstruct an object includes determining, in a series of iteration steps, updated objects, wherein each iteration step includes determining a data model from an input object, and determining a stop-criterion of the data model on the basis of a chi-square-gamma statistic. The method further includes determining that the stop-criterion of the data model has transitioned from being outside the limitation of a preset threshold value to being inside the limitation, ending the iterations, and selecting one of the updated objects to be the reconstructed object." The patent application was filed on Dec. 7, 2011 (13/313,065). 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=8,380,469&OS=8,380,469&RS=8,380,469 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Chundy Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Chundy Group, Powers Lake, Wis., has been assigned a patent (8,380,346) developed by Duane S. Chudy, Lincolnshire, Ill., Larry Montgomery, Butternut, Wis., and James T. Spernow, Gurnee, Ill., for a "system and apparatus for item management." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Item-management systems, apparatus, and methods are described, preferably for management of items such as medicaments. In embodiments, an item-management system comprises a holder defining plural cells, a docking station configured to receive the holder, at least one indicator selectively-operable to indicate the holder cell into which an item is to be loaded, and at least one controller operable to selectively operate each at least one indicator to indicate the cell into which the item is to be received. In embodiments, indicators are provided on the holder. In other embodiments, the indicators may by on a guide associated with the docking station to assist the user in loading the holder. The contents of the loaded holder may be easily loaded, for example, into an automated dispensing machine for packaging and subsequent administration to a patient or for another use." The patent application was filed on Feb. 20, 2008 (12/033,957). 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=8,380,346&OS=8,380,346&RS=8,380,346 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Returns R Us Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Returns R Us, Mundelein, Israel, has been assigned a patent (8,380,532) developed by Michael J. Zaccaro, Libertyville, Ill., and David Malecki, Genoa City, Wis., for a "method and apparatus for accurate price estimation in reverse distribution of pharmaceutical items." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a reverse distribution environment, a technique for generating an accurate refund estimate for a pharmaceutical item returnable for credit by a customer to a manufacturer includes receiving item information that includes an identity of the pharmaceutical item, retrieving a pricing rule record for the pharmaceutical item that specifies an amount of credit expected to be received for the item, generating a refund estimate for the customer using the expected amount, receiving a credit memorandum that specifies an actual amount of credit payable by the manufacturer for the pharmaceutical item, comparing the actual amount of credit to the refund estimate, and adjusting the pricing rule record if the actual amount of credit is not equal to the refund estimate, subject to certain conditions." The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2009 (12/556,397). 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=8,380,532&OS=8,380,532&RS=8,380,532 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Varian Medical Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,379,799) developed by Todd S. Parker, Kaysville, Utah, and James E. Burke, Glenview, Ill., for an "electrically insulating X-ray shielding devices in an X-ray tube ." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Electrically insulating x-ray shielding devices in an x-ray tube. In one example embodiment, an x-ray tube includes an evacuated enclosure, a cathode and an anode at least partially positioned within the evacuated enclosure, and an electrically insulating x-ray shielding device proximate to the evacuated enclosure. The electrically insulating x-ray shielding device includes an oxide or nitride material having an atomic number from 57 to 74." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2010 (12/913,432). 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=8,379,799&OS=8,379,799&RS=8,379,799 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Medical Solutions USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,379,793) developed by Soroosh Kargar, Lake in the Hills, Ill., and Weng Lei, Mount Prospect, Ill., for a "system for positioning and X-ray imaging a heart." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system positions a patient for X-ray imaging of a Left Atrium of a heart, using an imaging system for, acquiring data representing a frontal first X-ray image and representing a lateral second X-ray image of a patient. A display processor initiates generation of data representing a first composite display image including the first X-ray image and a first graphical overlay for aligning with vertebra in the first X-ray image. The display processor initiates generation of data representing a second composite display image including the second X-ray image and a second graphical overlay for aligning with vertebra in the second X-ray image. The imaging system is positioned for imaging a heart left atrium in response to movement of a table supporting the patient to align the first graphical overlay with the vertebra in the first X-ray image and to align the second graphical overlay with the vertebra in the second X-ray image." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2011 (13/043,713). 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=8,379,793&OS=8,379,793&RS=8,379,793 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,380,160) developed by Deborah J. Monks, Palatine, Ill., and Alejandro G. Blanco, Davie, Fla., for a "method and apparatus for enhanced safety in a public safety communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A communication system (100) provides collaboration amongst a plurality of communication devices (110, 112, 114, 116, 120) during emergency conditions. Emergency trigger(s) are used to detect an emergency condition. Emergency information is collected and can be shared and appended amongst the communication devices prior to the emergency information being transferred in a redundant manner across a plurality communication systems (140, 142) to a plurality of external devices (130, 144, 146)." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2010 (12/749,248). 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=83,80,160.PN.&OS=PN/83,80,160&RS=PN/83,80,160 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,380,966) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for instruction stuffing operations during non-intrusive digital signal processor debugging." The co-inventors are Lucian Codrescu, Austin, Texas, William C. Anderson, Austin, Texas, Suresh Venkumahanti, Austin, Texas, Louis Achille Giannini, Berwyn, Ill., Manojkumar Pyla, San Diego, and Xufeng Chen, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including (but not limited to) for processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. Stuffing instructions in a processing pipeline of a multi-threaded digital signal processor provides for operating a core processor process and a debugging process within a debugging mechanism. Writing a stuff instruction into a debugging process registry and a stuff command in a debugging process command register provides for identifying a predetermined thread of the multi-threaded digital signal processor in which to execute the stuff instruction. The instruction stuffing process issues a debugging process control resume command during a predetermined stage of executing on the predetermined thread and directs the core processor to perform the stuff instruction during the debugging process. The core processor may then execute the stuffed instruction in association with the core processor process and the debugging process." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2006 (11/560,344). 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=8,380,966.PN.&OS=PN/8,380,966&RS=PN/8,380,966 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Tellabs Operations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 -- Tellabs Operations, Naperville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,380,078) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for optical networks." The co-inventors are Mark E. Boduch, Geneva, Ill., Kimon Papakos, Chicago, Gary M. Eslary, Lemont, Ill., and John M. Golding, Naperville, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A chromatic dispersion compensation system for an optical transmission system incorporates circuitry which determines the length of an optical fiber extending between an output amplifier and an input amplifier. Based on fiber type, the total chromatic dispersion on the fiber is determined. Compensation can then be automatically implemented." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2010 (12/846,022). 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=83,80,078.PN.&OS=PN/83,80,078&RS=PN/83,80,078 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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