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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (March 21)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,239) developed by Fatih M. Porikli, Watertown, Mass., and Pan Pan, Cambridge, Mass., for an "object tracking with regressing particles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a system for tracking an object from a training image to a target image. The training image and the target image are elements of a sequence of images. The object in the training image is represented by an object state. First, a set of particles is acquired, wherein each particle in the set of particles is associated with a weight, such that the particle represents the object state with a probability equal to the weight. Next, a regression function is applied to each particle in the set of particles based on a target image to determine a set of moved particles and the object state is updated according to the set of moved particles, such that the object state represents the object in the target image." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2009 (12/413,628). 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=8,401,239&OS=8,401,239&RS=8,401,239 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,401,030) developed by four co-inventors for an "allocation of channels in a dedicated frequency spectrum on a secondary basis." The co-inventors are Apoorv Chaudhri, Cambridge, Mass., David P. Gurney, Carpentersville, Ill., Roberto A. Perez, Miramar, Fla., and Yadunandana N. Rao, Sunrise, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Allocation of channels in a dedicated frequency spectrum on a secondary basis. A direct mode communication request (150) from a first wireless communication device (112) can be received and processed to determine whether there are one or more secondary communication channels over which direct mode communication may be implemented between the first wireless communication devices and other wireless communication devices (114, 116, 118) without violating at least one communication policy for the secondary communication channel. Use of a secondary communication channel can be assigned or denied. In addition, a direct mode communication request can be communicated from a wireless communication device to a base transceiver station (104) identifying one or more other communication devices for which direct mode communication is requested." The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2008 (12/330,037). 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=84,01,030.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,030&RS=PN/84,01,030 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Airvana Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Airvana, Chelmsford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,400,989) developed by Shi Baw Ch'ng, North Billerica, Mass., and Ambika Pajjuri, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "activating private access points for wireless networking." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A unique identifier is associated with a personal access point. The personal access point is distributed to an end user, who sends a text message including the identifier. Within an automated computer system, the text message is received, a billing account is associated with the personal access point on the basis of the text message, and the personal access point is activated to provide wireless access to a network." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2007 (11/735,107). 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=84,00,989.PN.&OS=PN/84,00,989&RS=PN/84,00,989 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,401,866) developed by Michael Joseph Armano, North Andover, Mass., and Sara J. Moulton Reger, Scottsdale, Ariz., for "business practices alignment methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method to align and effectively apply business practices or culture within the business units in one or more business entities is provided. In the first phase, a practices charter defining future state business practices is developed. A practices charter is developed from an initial set of differing alternatives statements regarding future business practices, in view of a right-versus-right spectrum. A practices charter is an output of the reconciliation of differing alternatives statements in right-versus-right spectrums. In a second phase, a practices charter is applied to hypothetical issues to develop realistic outcome narratives describing hypothetical situations and dilemmas. In a third phase, discrepancies between outcome narratives and a current state of business practice are identified, and a prioritized action program is developed to address identified discrepancies. Finally, progress is evaluated by utilizing outcome narratives to identify achievements and to target areas needing further improvement and additional actions." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2004 (10/708,962). 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=8,401,866&OS=8,401,866&RS=8,401,866 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Jinsalas Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Jinsalas Solutions, Dover, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,402,197) developed by five co-inventors for a "multi-port system and method for routing a data element within an interconnection fabric." The co-inventors are Lynne M. Brocco, Cambridge, Mass., Todd R. Comins, Chelmsford, Mass., Nathan J. Dohm, Natick, Mass., David E. Mayhew, Northborough, Mass., and Carey J. McMaster, Stow, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and structure(s) for providing a data path between and among nodes and processing elements within an interconnection fabric are described. More specifically, a device comprising a first circuit configured to couple between a first bus and a link is described. The circuit may be configured to operate as a bridge, support PCI configuration cycles, send outgoing information serially through the link in a format different from that of the first bus, and allow a host processor, communicating through the first bus, to selectively address one or more remote devices to which the device is configured to allow access. In some embodiments, the first circuit may support "spoof-proof" data protocols, and the device may operate in multiple modes including root bridge, leaf bridge, and gateway mode. Multiple addressing models may also be used." The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2011 (13/215,011). 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=8,402,197&OS=8,402,197&RS=8,402,197 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Image Stream Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Image Stream Medical, Littleton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,869) developed by Peter Renzi, Acton, Mass., and Eddie Mitchell, Harvard, Mass., for a "streaming video network system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A distributed, digital, network-based, streaming video solution allows users to view live streaming digital video from multiple video sources in multiple operating rooms at any location connected to a network. One or more video sources in an operating room are connected to a streaming video encoder capable of converting the video to a network packet stream. Once the digital video stream is available on the network, it may be accessed and routed through the use of a streaming video control server. The streaming video control server is responsible for user authentication and authorization and web page access for remote viewing and video source selection by users. The control server also provides audit logging services, operating room selection and overall system resource allocation. The video control server also provides a network-based remote control interface, which enables other systems to communicate on the streaming video network, and allows for remote control of visualization from an integrated operating room control system, and provides the ability for one operating room to look into other operating rooms." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2006 (11/510,337). 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=8,401,869&OS=8,401,869&RS=8,401,869 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Forward Link Handoff for Wireless Communication Systems with OFDM Forward Link and CDMA Reverse Link ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,400,979) developed by four co-inventors for a "forward link handoff for wireless communication systems with OFDM forward link and CDMA reverse link." The co-inventors are John E. Smee, San Diego, Jay Rodney Walton, Carlisle, Mass., Durga P. Malladi, San Diego, and Serge Willenegger, Onnens, Switzerland. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for performing handoff in a wireless communication system with multi-carrier modulation (MCM) for a forward link and CDMA for a reverse link. In one embodiment, a method of performing handoff on the forward link for a terminal is provided in which signal quality of pilots received by the terminal from a plurality of base stations in the system is determined. A particular base station for subsequent data transmission on the forward link to the terminal is selected based on the signal quality determined for the plurality of base stations. A request to be handed off to the particular base station is initiated if the particular base station is different than a currently selected base station." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2003 (10/744,373). 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=84,00,979.PN.&OS=PN/84,00,979&RS=PN/84,00,979 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,222) developed by four co-inventors for "caching for heterogeneous processors." The co-inventors are Frank T. Hady, Portland, Ore., Mason B. Cabot, San Francisco, John Beck, Northboro, Mass., and Mark B. Rosenbluth, Uxbridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-core processor providing heterogeneous processor cores and a shared cache is presented." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2012 (13/405,798). 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=8,402,222&OS=8,402,222&RS=8,402,222 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** VMware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,224) developed by four co-inventors for a "thread-shared software code caches." The co-inventors are Derek L. Bruening, Troy, N.Y., Vladimir L. Kiriansky, Cambridge, Mass., Tim Garnett, Boston, and Sanjeev Banerji, Cambridge, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A runtime system using thread-shared code caches is provided which avoids brute-force all-thread-suspension and monolithic global locks. In one embodiment, medium-grained runtime system synchronization reduces lock contention. The system includes trace building that combines efficient private construction with shared results, in-cache lock-free lookup table access in the presence of entry invalidations, and a delayed deletion algorithm based on timestamps and reference counts. These enable reductions in memory usage and performance overhead." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2006 (11/533,712). 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=8,402,224&OS=8,402,224&RS=8,402,224 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** U.S. Navy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (8,401,134) developed by Donald H. Steinbrecher, Brookline, Mass., for a "broadband high dynamic range digital receiving system for electromagnetic signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is provided for the design of a wide-band high dynamic-range electromagnetic signal receiving system. The method provides for receiving a plurality of analog signals, converting the plurality to a digital replica that can be processed to recover separate high-fidelity replicas of each individual signal in the received plurality. The method also provides increasing the signal dynamic range with a parallel architecture comprising "p" identical parallel analog-to-digital channels wherein the value of is determined by the ratio of the largest amplitude signal to the minimum detectable signal. Further, it is demonstrated that "p" is the fundamental limit on the number of parallel channels necessary to linearly process a specified plurality of signals containing a largest signal and a minimum detectable signal." The patent application was filed on July 8, 2010 (12/832,416). 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=84,01,134.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,134&RS=PN/84,01,134 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Seagate Technology, Scotts Valley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,402,205) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-tiered metadata scheme for a data storage array." The co-inventors are Ryan James Goss, Lakeville, Minn., Kevin Arthur Gomez, Eden Prairie, Minn., Mark Allen Gaertner, Vadnais Heights, Minn., and Bruce Douglas Buch, Westborough, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus for managing metadata associated with a data storage array. In accordance with various embodiments, a group of user data blocks are stored to memory cells at a selected physical address of the array. A multi-tiered metadata scheme is used to generate metadata which describes the selected physical address of the user data blocks. The multi-tiered metadata scheme provides an upper tier metadata format adapted for groups of N user data blocks, and a lower tier metadata format adapted for groups of M user data blocks where M is less than N. The generated metadata is formatted in accordance with a selected one of the upper or lower tier metadata formats in relation to a total number of the user data blocks in the group." The patent application was filed on March 18, 2010 (12/726,486). 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=8,402,205&OS=8,402,205&RS=8,402,205 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** LSI Assigned Patent for Windowing Technique for Adaptive Clock Recovery and other Signal-processing Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,401,025) developed by P. Stephan Bedrosian, Andover, Mass., for a "windowing technique for adaptive clock recovery and other signal-processing applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, an adaptive clock recovery (ACR) system generates a current delay-offset estimate value (D.sub.OE(i)) using a window technique that selects the larger of (i) the maximum delay-offset value (D.sub.OP) in the previous window and (ii) the maximum delay-offset value so far (D.sub.OM) in current window. This windowing technique can be implemented without having to store all of the individual values over a specified window size, as in a conventional sliding window technique. This windowing technique can be used to find extreme (i.e., either maximum or minimum) values for applications other than ACR systems." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2010 (12/768,852). 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=84,01,025.PN.&OS=PN/84,01,025&RS=PN/84,01,025 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** EMC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- EMC, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,402,226) developed by five co-inventors for a "rate proportional cache write-back in a storage server." The co-inventors are Sorin Faibish, Newton, Mass., John Forecast, Newton Center, Mass., Peter Bixby, Westborough, Mass., Philippe Armangau, Acton, Mass., and Sitaram Pawar, Shrewsbury, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Based on a count of the number of dirty pages in a cache memory, the dirty pages are written from the cache memory to a storage array at a rate having a component proportional to the rate of change in the number of dirty pages in the cache memory. For example, a desired flush rate is computed by adding a first term to a second term. The first term is proportional to the rate of change in the number of dirty pages in the cache memory, and the second term is proportional to the number of dirty pages in the cache memory. The rate component has a smoothing effect on incoming I/O bursts and permits cache flushing to occur at a higher rate closer to the maximum storage array throughput without a significant detrimental impact on client application performance." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2010 (12/818,577). 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=8,402,226&OS=8,402,226&RS=8,402,226 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Apple Assigned Patent for System and Method for Placeshifting Media Playback ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,401,681) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for placeshifting media playback." The co-inventors are Michael Rosenblatt, Campbell, Calif., Gloria Lin, San Ramon, Calif., Amir Mahmood Mikhak, Cambridge, Mass., Taido Lantz Nakajima, Cupertino, Calif., Sean Anthony Mayo, Dover, N.H., Andrew Hodge, Palo Alto, Calif., and Anthony Michael Fadell, Portola Valley, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include sending a first message from a media-receiving electronic device to a media-playing electronic device playing a media file and receiving a response identifying the media file and a point at which the media file was being played when the first message was received. The media-receiving electronic device may play a copy of the media file at the point where the media-playing electronic device left off." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/286,509). 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=8,401,681&OS=8,401,681&RS=8,401,681 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cadence Design Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,401,828) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for analog object fetch in mixed-signal simulation." The co-inventors are Prabal K. Bhattacharya, Cupertino, Calif., Timothy Martin O'Leary, Cupertino, Calif., William Scott Cranston, Haverhill, Mass., and Walter Hartong, Isen, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for simulating and verifying an analog mixed signal design provide an analog mixed signal testbench configured to verify analog parameters of the design. The testbench can include a mechanism to fetch a value of an analog object in an analog portion of a mixed signal design. The testbench mechanism can include an argument specifying the name of the object and the analog quantity to be fetched for that object. The testbench can retrieve estimated values and can further specify timing constraints specifying absolute times or events at which values are to be measured and returned." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2010 (12/837,406). 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=8,401,828&OS=8,401,828&RS=8,401,828 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Bose Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Bose, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,682) developed by Paul E. Beckmann, Southborough, Mass., Santiago Carvajal, West Newton, Mass., and Christopher H. Perry, Westborough, Mass., for an interactive sound reproducing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An audio system attachable to a computer includes a sound reproduction device for producing audible sound from audio signals. The sound reproduction device includes a radio tuner and a powered speaker. The audio system further includes a connector for connecting the sound reproduction device with a computer. The computer provides audio signals from a plurality of sources, the sources including a computer CD player, digitally encoded computer files stored on the computer, and a computer network connected to the computer. The sound reproduction device further includes control buttons for controlling at least one of the computer CD player, the digitally encoded computer files and the computer network." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2009 (12/541,742). 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=8,401,682&OS=8,401,682&RS=8,401,682 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lessac Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Lessac Technologies, West Newton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,849) developed by six co-inventors for "methods employing phase state analysis for use in speech synthesis and recognition." The co-inventors are Nishant Chandra, Shrewsbury, Mass., Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico, Belchertown, Mass., Rattima Nitisaroj, West Newton, Mass., Brian Mottershead, West Newton, Mass., Gary A. Marple, West Newton, Mass., and John B. Reichenbach, West Newton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for automatically analyzing, predicting, and/or modifying acoustic units of prosodic human speech utterances for use in speech synthesis or speech recognition. Possible steps include: initiating analysis of acoustic wave data representing the human speech utterances, via the phase state of the acoustic wave data; using one or more phase state defined acoustic wave metrics as common elements for analyzing, and optionally modifying, pitch, amplitude, duration, and other measurable acoustic parameters of the acoustic wave data, at predetermined time intervals; analyzing acoustic wave data representing a selected acoustic unit to determine the phase state of the acoustic unit; and analyzing the acoustic wave data representing the selected acoustic unit to determine at least one acoustic parameter of the acoustic unit with reference to the determined phase state of the selected acoustic unit. Also included are systems for implementing the described and related methods." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2009 (12/639,164). 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=8,401,849&OS=8,401,849&RS=8,401,849 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,400,876) developed by Petros T. Boufounos, Boston, for a "method and system for sensing objects in a scene using transducer arrays and coherent wideband ultrasound pulses." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Pulses are transmitted into a scene by an array of the transducers, wherein each pulse has wideband ultrasound frequency, wherein the pulses are transmitted simultaneously, and wherein a pattern of the wideband ultrasound frequencies in each pulse is unique with respect to the patterns of each other pulse. The pulses as received when the pulse are reflected by the scene and objects in the scene. Each received pulse is sampled and decomposed using a Fourier transform to produce frequency coefficients, which are stacked to produce a linear system modeling a reflectivity of the scene and the objects. Then, a recovery method is applied to the linear system to recover the reflectivity of the scene and the objects." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,408). 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=8,400,876&OS=8,400,876&RS=8,400,876 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Daphimo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Daphimo, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,400,940) developed by five co-inventors for splitterless multicarrier modem. The co-inventors are Marcos C. Tzannes, Orinda, Calif., Richard W. Gross, Acton, Mass., John A. Greszczuk, Stow, Mass., David M. Krinsky, Acton, Mass., and Michael A. Tzannes, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modem for use in Digital Subscriber Line communications transmits and receives data over the local subscriber loop in common with voice information over the loop, while avoiding the need for voice/data splitters. The modem responds to disruptions associated with "disturbance events" such as on-hook to off-hook transitions and the like by rapidly switching between pre-stored channel parameter control sets defining communications over the loop under varying conditions. In addition to changing parameter control sets responsive to a disturbance event, the modem may also change transmission power levels and other system parameters such as frequency domain equalizer characteristics. Further, provisions are made for reduced bandwidth communications under selected conditions." The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2011 (13/230,690). 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=8,400,940&OS=8,400,940&RS=8,400,940 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bel Fuse Macao Commercial Offshore Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Bel Fuse Macao Commercial Offshore, Macau, has been assigned a patent (8,395,329) developed by Mark Jutras, Upton, Mass., Mark Masera, North Grafton, Mass., and Scott Moore, Westford, Mass., for an "LED ballast power supply having digital controller." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A power supply for an LED lamp has a set of coupled coils, primary-side power circuitry including a converter power switch for conducting input power, and secondary-side power circuitry including a dimming power switch. Power control circuitry includes converter control circuitry which generates a converter control signal for the converter power switch to maintain a desired undimmed level of lamp current at a normal operating value of a lamp voltage. Dimming control circuitry generates a dimming control signal for the dimming power switch to pulse-width modulate the lamp current at a duty cycle corresponding to a desired dimming. Operation of the converter control circuitry is modified during dimming to prevent an automatic increase of the lamp voltage in response to a decrease in lamp current, avoiding undesirable overshooting of the lamp current and providing more accurate and effective control over dimming operation." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2010 (12/868,965). 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=8,395,329.PN.&OS=PN/8,395,329&RS=PN/8,395,329 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,401,626) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for assessing sleep quality." The co-inventors are Joseph E. Mietus, Cambridge, Mass., Chung-Kang Peng, Sharon, Mass., Robert Joseph Thomas, Newton, Mass., and Ary L. Goldberger, Newton Centre, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. An R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the R-R interval series are extracted to produce a normal-to-normal interval series. The amplitude variations in the QRS complex are used to extract a surrogate respiration signal (i.e., ECG-derived respiration) associated with the NN interval series. The two series are corrected to remove outliers, and resampled. The cross-spectral power and coherence of the two resampled signals are calculated over a plurality of coherence windows. For each coherence window, the product of the coherence and cross-spectral power is used to calculate coherent cross-power. Using the appropriate thresholds for the coherent cross-power, the proportion of sleep spent in CAP, non-CAP, and wake and/or REM are determined. Coherent cross-power can be applied to differentiate obstructive from non-obstructive disease, and admixtures of the same." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/570,163). 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=8,401,626.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,626&RS=PN/8,401,626 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Texas System Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- The University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,401,610) developed by Thomas E. Milner, Austin, Texas, and Nathaniel J. Kemp, Concord, Mass., for a "rotating catheter probe using a light-drive apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: " The invention is a rotating tip catheter-imaging probe where electromagnetic energy is delivered to the distal end of a catheter and converted to mechanical energy using a light drive apparatus. The mechanical energy is then used to rotate a mirror that redirects light in fixed pattern on a sample. The rotating element of the light drive apparatus contains vanes, which rotate about an axis and positioned with bearings to minimize friction. A chamber encompasses the rotating element and is set to a vacuum pressure. The rotational speed of the catheter tip can be controlled by varying the optical power delivered to the vanes, the vacuum pressure in the chamber, or by a braking mechanism applied to the rotating element. The vanes may be shaped in a particular geometry to increase forces on the vanes from thermally driven gas flow." The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2010 (12/902,092). 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=8,401,610.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,610&RS=PN/8,401,610 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Wireless Communication via at Least One of Directional and Omni-direction Antennas ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,401,483) developed by five co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for wireless communication via at least one of directional and omni-direction antennas." The co-inventors are Sanjiv Nanda, Ramona, Calif., Saishankar Nandagopalan, San Diego, Santosh P. Abraham, San Diego, Jay Rodney Walton, Carlisle, Mass., and Ernest Tadashi Ozaki, Poway, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for using at least one of omni-directional and directional antennas for communication are described. A station may be equipped antenna elements selectable for use as an omni-directional antenna or one or more directional antennas. The station may select the omni-directional antenna or a directional antenna for use for communication based on various factors such as, e.g., whether the location or direction of a target station for communication is known, whether control frames or data frames are being exchanged, etc." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,715). 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=8,401,483.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,483&RS=PN/8,401,483 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** VisEn Medical Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Tomographic Imaging in Diffuse Media Using a Hybrid Inversion Technique ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- VisEn Medical, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,618) developed by Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, Wael I. Yared, Lexington, Mass., and Joshua Kempner, Reading, Mass., for "systems and methods for tomographic imaging in diffuse media using a hybrid inversion technique." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to systems and methods for tomographic imaging in diffuse media employing a fast reconstruction technique. A hybrid Fourier approach is presented that enables the fast tomographic reconstruction of large datasets. In certain embodiments, the invention features methods of in vivo fluorescence molecular tomographic (FMT) reconstruction of signals, reporters and/or agents (i.e., contrast agents or probes) in a diffusive medium (e.g., a mammalian subject). The method preserves the three-dimensional fluorophore distribution and quantitative nature of the FMT approach while substantially accelerating its computation speed, allowing FMT imaging of larger anatomies." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2010 (12/870,454). 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=8,401,618.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,618&RS=PN/8,401,618 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Rhythmia Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- Rhythmia Medical, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,625) developed by Doron Harlev, Brookline, Mass., and Zsolt Badics, Andover, Mass., for a multi-electrode mapping system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some aspects, a method includes measuring unipolar signals at one or more electrodes in response to electrical activity in a heart cavity. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on Laplace's equation, bipolar physiological information at multiple locations of an surface based on the measured unipolar signals and positions of the one or more electrodes with respect to the surface." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2011 (13/185,699). 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=8,401,625.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,625&RS=PN/8,401,625 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** VisEn Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 21 -- VisEn Medical, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,401,619) developed by Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, Wael I. Yared, Lexington, Mass., and Joshua Kempner, Reading, Mass., for "systems and methods for virtual index-matching of diffusive media." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention relates to systems and methods for tomographic imaging of a subject comprising diffuse media by converting measurements of electromagnetic radiation, e.g., fluorescent light, obtained in free space exterior to the subject into data that would be measured if the subject were surrounded by an infinite and homogeneous diffusive medium, e.g., a medium with optical properties equal to the average optical properties of the subject. After applying a transformation to convert measurements to virtually-matched values, propagation of light is simulated from the index-matched surface to a set of virtual detectors exterior to the subject and arranged in a geometrically advantageous fashion, for example, in a planar array, thereby facilitating the use of fast reconstruction techniques." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2010 (12/888,075). 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=8,401,619.PN.&OS=PN/8,401,619&RS=PN/8,401,619 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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. -1118688 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |