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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (March 29)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Oracle International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Oracle International, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,096) developed by Dwayne Edling, Mead, Colo., Robert Wyman, Longmont, Colo., and Chad Alber, Boulder, Colo., for "methods for predicting tape drive and media failures." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for monitoring and predicting health of tape drives and media in a tape library. The method includes receiving exchange data associated with an exchange in the tape library. Then the method includes, with an analytics module, processing the exchange data to determine gain types for the exchange. Based on the gain type, a health gain value is assigned to a tape drive and media and current suspicion level values are independently assigned to the tape drive and the media. The method includes assigning a first health indicator to the media and a second health indicator to the tape drive based on these two suspicion level values. In some embodiments of the method, the current suspicion level value calculating step includes summing the health gain value with a number of health gain values assigned to the tape drive and the media for up to a predefined number of monitored exchanges." The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2012 (13/362,405). 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=8,406,096&OS=8,406,096&RS=8,406,096 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent for Iterative Demodulation and Decoding for Multi-page Memory Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,051) developed by Ara Patapoutian, Hopkinton, Mass., Deepak Sridhara, Boulder, Colo., and Bruce D. Buch, Westborough, Mass., for an "iterative demodulation and decoding for multi-page memory architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for accessing encoded data stored in a solid state non-volatile memory device include iteratively demodulating and decoding the data. The memory device includes memory cells arranged to store multiple bits of data per memory cell. The memory cells are capable of storing multiple pages of data. Each bit stored in a memory cell is associated with a page of data that is different from other pages associated with other bits stored in the memory cell. The multiple pages are demodulated responsive to sensed voltage levels of the memory cells, and a demodulated output is provided for each page of the multiple pages. A decoded output for each page of the multiple pages is generated. Decoding the page and demodulating the multiple pages proceeds iteratively, including an exchange of information between the decoder and the demodulator." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2010 (12/781,780). 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=8,406,051&OS=8,406,051&RS=8,406,051 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** RealD Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- RealD, Beverly Hills, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,405,708) developed by Michael G. Robinson, Boulder, Colo., and Douglas J. McKnight, Boulder, Colo., for a "blur enhancement of stereoscopic images." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for selectively blurring parts of an image set according to differences in disparity between successive images. As a result, the one-dimensional `ringing` edge artifacts, intrinsic to autostereoscopic displays, are hidden, thereby improving the perceived image quality of a multi-view autostereoscopic image. The method may involve detecting regions of disparity between adjacent views, and then blurring those regions by weighted local pixel averaging. The relationship between the blur radius and the disparity is preferentially non-linear to maintain sharpness of low disparity regions." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2009 (12/479,664). 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=8,405,708.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,708&RS=PN/8,405,708 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Alpha & Omega Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Alpha & Omega, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,405,606) developed by Donna Marie Auguste, Denver, and David Edward Hayes, Denver, for a "remote control systems and methods for activating buttons of digital electronic display devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for controlling an e-book reader, set forth by way of example and not limitation, includes transmitting a digital packet including an address of a button actuator and a button control signal in response to a detection of a button press on a remote control device. The method further includes receiving the packet at the button actuator, decoding the packet in a digital processor to derive the button control signal, and controlling a motor to move a physical actuator between a neutral position and a button press position." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2010 (12/830,274). 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=8,405,606.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,606&RS=PN/8,405,606 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Micron Technology Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods to Selectively Connect Antennas to Receive and Backscatter Radio Frequency Signals ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, has been assigned a patent (8,405,509) developed by John R. Tuttle, Boulder, Colo., for "systems and methods to selectively connect antennas to receive and backscatter radio frequency signals." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods to selectively attach and control antennas via diodes and current sources. In one embodiment, a system includes: an RFID reader having a plurality of reader antennas of different polarizations to transmit radio frequency signals; and at least one RFID tag. The RFID tag includes: a plurality of tag antennas of different polarizations; a plurality of diodes coupled to the plurality of tag antennas respectively; a receiver coupled to the plurality of diodes to receive the radio frequency signals from the tag antennas when the diodes are forward biased; and a set of one or more current controllers coupled to the plurality of diodes. In a receiving mode the controllers selectively forward bias the diodes to receive the signals from the RFID reader. In a transmitting mode the controllers selectively change the state of the tag antennas to transmit data via backscattering the radio frequency signals." The patent application was filed on Nov. 21, 2011 (13/301,565). 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=8,405,509.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,509&RS=PN/8,405,509 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Avaya Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Avaya, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,405,484) developed by George William Erhart, Loveland, Colo., Valentine C. Matula, Granville, Ohio, and David Joseph Skiba, Golden, Colo., for "monitoring responsive objects in vehicles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A vehicle for carrying responsive objects is outfitted with a proxy for the responsive objects. The vehicle is also outfitted with a sensor that detects which responsive objects it is carrying and sensor that detect environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, etc.) inside and outside of the vehicle. When an inquiry is directed to a responsive object in the vehicle, the proxy intercepts the inquiry and responds with the status of the vehicle. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, the responsive objects use different protocols, and the proxy is multi-lingual in the sense that it can communicate with the inquirer with the same protocol that is used to communicate with the responsive object. In this way, the illustrative embodiment provides a mechanism for monitoring the location and condition of responsive without some of the costs and disadvantages for doing so in the prior art." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2008 (12/240,256). 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=8,405,484.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,484&RS=PN/8,405,484 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent for Creating and Monitoring Alerts for a Geographical Area ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,405,501) developed by Bryc, Boulder, Colo., and Brian Brewington, Fort Collins, Colo., for "creating and monitoring alerts for a geographical area." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A geographical alert system creates an alert for a user-defined geographical area, detects a change to a feature stored in a map-related database, identifies whether the changed feature falls within the user-defined geographical area, and sends a notification to a user when the changed feature of the map-related database falls within the user-defined geographical area." The patent application was filed on Sept. 26, 2011 (13/244,703). 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=8,405,501.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,501&RS=PN/8,405,501 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Aeroflex Colorado Springs Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Aeroflex Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,405,457) developed by Alfio Zanchi, Colorado Springs, Colo., for an "amplitude-stabilized odd order pre-distortion circuit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An amplitude-stabilized third-order predistortion circuit includes a main cell having a differential input for receiving a differential input voltage, a differential output for providing a differential output voltage, and a load control input for receiving a load control voltage; a plurality of replica cells having a differential input for receiving a differential level of peak input voltage, a differential peak output voltage, and a load control input; and a plurality of control circuits coupled to the differential outputs of the replica cells, and driving the load control inputs of the replica cells and the weighted inputs of a signal combiner driving the load control input of the main cell. The main cell and the replica cells each include a cross-coupled differential cell having a variable load. The control circuit includes a first amplifier for generating a single-ended peak signal and a second amplifier for generating the load control voltage from the difference between the replica cell single-ended peak output signal and a single-ended peak reference signal." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2010 (12/939,818). 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=8,405,457.PN.&OS=PN/8,405,457&RS=PN/8,405,457 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 29 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,406,566) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for soft edge masking." The co-inventors are Gregg D. Wilensky, San Francisco, Scott D. Cohen, Sunnyvale, Calif., Alan L. Erickson, Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Jen-Chan Chien, Saratoga, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for soft edge masking. A soft edge masking technique may be provided via which, starting from an initial, potentially very rough and approximate border selection mask, the user may selectively apply brush strokes to areas of an image to selectively improve the border region of the mask, thus providing softness details in border regions which contain soft objects such as hair and fur. A stroke may be an additive stroke indicating a particular region in which detail from an original image is to be added to a composite image, or a subtractive stroke indicating a particular region in which detail is to be removed from the composite image. The stroke may also indicate a strength parameter value that may be used to indicate an amount of bias to be used in opacity calculations for the affected pixels." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2010 (12/789,201). 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=8,406,566&OS=8,406,566&RS=8,406,566 Written by Arpi Sharma; 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. -1119672 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |