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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Georgia (April 5)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Georgia. *** Nexidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Nexidia, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,411,841) developed by four co-inventors for a real-time agent assistance. The co-inventors are Gordon Edwards, Stockbridge, Ga., John Willcutts, Marietta, Ga., Jon W. Ezrine, Milton, Ga., and Marsal Gavalda, Sandy Springs, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Some general aspects of the invention relate to systems and methods for improving contact center agent performance, for instance, by integrating real-time call monitoring with speech analytics to present agents with information useful to the handling of the current calls. In some implementations, phonetically based speech analysis techniques are applied to process live audio streams to identify key words and/or phrases of relevance, based on which knowledge articles can be selectively presented to agents to drive more efficient business processes." The patent application was filed on July 16, 2010 (12/837,694). 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=8,411,841&OS=8,411,841&RS=8,411,841 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cox Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Cox Communications, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,411,834) developed by Radhakrishnan Gopinath, Alpharetta, Ga., Douglas David Gravino, Roswell, Ga., and Michael L. Poffenberger, Atlanta, for a device-to-device call disposition. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Device-to-device call disposition is provided. When a call is received at a first telecommunications device, a determination may be made as to whether a second device has been designated to receive a notification of the inbound call and to allow for call disposition at the second device. At the second device, the user may be notified of the incoming call at the first device, and the user may be provided with a number of options for disposing of the incoming call. While the user is positioned at a location having a wireline or wireless communications device associated with the location, and the user receives a call on his/her personal wireless device, a call to the personal wireless device may be automatically routed to the wireline or wireless device associated with the user's location (e.g., home or office)." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2010 (12/767,982). 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=8,411,834&OS=8,411,834&RS=8,411,834 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,410,914) developed by Robert Epley, Norcross, Ga., for "methods, devices, and computer program products for providing ambient noise sensitive alerting." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, devices, and computer program products for providing ambient noise sensitive alerting. The methods comprise receiving ambient noise, converting the ambient noise to an electrical signal, detecting a parameter of the electrical signal which is indicative of ambient noise, sensing an incoming call or message, and controlling the volume of an audible alert in response to the detected parameter of the electrical signal." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2012 (13/596,292). 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=8,410,914.PN.&OS=PN/8,410,914&RS=PN/8,410,914 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,410,907) developed by Robert W. Twitchell Jr., Cumming, Ga., for an "event-driven mobile HAZMAT monitoring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A HAZMAT monitoring system detects a plurality of different hazardous materials and includes first and second pluralities of RSIs. Each RSI of the first plurality forms a node in a first wireless sensor network and is associated with a mobile container and with at least one sensor that is configured to acquire data for detecting a first hazardous material. Each RSI further is configured to receive the sensor data and wirelessly transmit, over the first wireless sensor network, data relating to the received sensor data pertaining to the detection of the first hazardous material. Each RSI of the second plurality is similarly associated and configured. Communications within a respective wireless sensor network do not result in communications within the another wireless sensor network. A gateway is configured to independently communicate with each respective wireless sensor network." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2012 (13/470,272). 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=8,410,907.PN.&OS=PN/8,410,907&RS=PN/8,410,907 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** National Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,410,831) developed by Tonmoy Shankar Mukherjee, Atlanta, for a "low-voltage high-speed frequency divider with reduced power consumption." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A low-voltage high-speed frequency divider substantially reduces the power required to generate a half-rate in-phase clock signal and a half-rate quadrature-phase clock signal by reducing the number of pairs of transistors that respond to a full-rate clock signal and a full-rate inverse clock signal." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2011 (13/186,614). 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=8,410,831.PN.&OS=PN/8,410,831&RS=PN/8,410,831 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Omega Patents Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Omega Patents, Douglasville, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,410,929) developed by Kenneth E. Flick, Douglasville, Ga., and Michael Stephen Thompson, Douglasville, Ga., for a "remote vehicle starting system providing an audible indication relating to remote starting and associated methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A remote starting system for an engine of a vehicle includes a remote start handheld unit. A remote start controller may be positioned at the vehicle for starting the engine based upon the remote start handheld unit and causing the engine to run for a run time period before shutting off the vehicle engine. The remote start controller is resettable based upon the remote start handheld unit to cause the engine to run for an additional run time period while the engine is still running and before shutting off the engine. The remote start handheld unit includes an audible indicator for providing an audible indication to a user prior to expiration of the run time period to permit a user to use the remote start handheld unit to reset the run time period while the engine is still running and before shutting off the engine." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/570,994). 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=8,410,929.PN.&OS=PN/8,410,929&RS=PN/8,410,929 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Integrated Device Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Integrated Device Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,410,813) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for a low power AC On-Die-Termination (ODT) circuit." The co-inventors are Liang Leon Zhang, Duluth, Ga., Suresh Atluri, Duluth, Ga., Yue Yu, Duluth, Ga., and Al Xuefeng Fang, Duluth, Ga. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for A Low Power AC On-Die-Termination (ODT) Circuit using active components reduces receiver power consumption." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2011 (13/114,970). 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=8,410,813.PN.&OS=PN/8,410,813&RS=PN/8,410,813 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Georgia Tech Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Georgia Tech Research, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,411,403) developed by Deepakraj Malhar Divan, Marietta, Ga., for a "voltage surge and overvoltage protection with current surge protection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various embodiments of voltage protectors that include a first voltage clamping device configured to clamp a voltage of an input power applied to an electrical load, and a second voltage clamping device configured to clamp the voltage applied to the electrical load. A series inductance separates the first and second voltage clamping devices. Also, a switching element is employed to selectively establish a direct coupling of the input power to the electrical load, where a circuit is employed to control the operation of the switching element." The patent application was filed on April 29, 2011 (13/098,214). 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=8,411,403&OS=8,411,403&RS=8,411,403 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for Thermal Measurement System and Method for Leak Detection ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,410,946) developed by Adil Ansari, Kennesaw, Ga., and Rahul Jaikaran Chillar, Marietta, Ga., for a "thermal measurement system and method for leak detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a controller configured to receive a signal from a thermal radiation sensor indicative of a temperature of a region including at least one fluid passage. The controller is also configured to detect a leak within the at least one fluid passage based on the signal." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2010 (12/718,932). 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=8,410,946&OS=8,410,946&RS=8,410,946 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** SIPCO Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- SIPCO, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,410,931) developed by Thomas David Petite, Atlanta, and Richard M. Huff, Conyers, Ga., for "mobile inventory unit monitoring systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to mobile inventory unit monitoring systems and methods. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile inventory unit monitoring system comprising a computer configured to execute at least one computer program, at least one wireless transmitter located proximate to a mobile inventory unit, a plurality of radio-frequency transceivers dispersed geographically at defined locations, and a gateway connected to a wide area network. Select information can be transmitted from the transmitter proximate to the mobile inventory unit, through a transceiver in the plurality of transceivers, through the gateway, and to the wide area network. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2011 (13/222,216). 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=8,410,931&OS=8,410,931&RS=8,410,931 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ViaSat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- ViaSat, Carlsbad, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,410,980) developed by seven co-inventors for an "active phased array architecture." The co-inventors are David W. Corman, Gilbert, Ariz., Kenneth V. Buer, Gilbert, Ariz., Donald Lawson Runyon, Duluth, Ga., Stefano Vacarro, Gland, Switzerland, Ferdinando Tiezzi, Renens, Switzerland, Daniel Llorens del Rio, Lausanne, Switzerland, and Donald E. Crockett, Mesa, Ark. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary embodiment, a phased array solid-state architecture has dual-polarized feeds and is manufactured, for example, on highly flexible silicon germanium (SiGe). The implementation of dual-polarized feeds facilitates the operation of phased arrays where the polarization can be statically or dynamically controlled on a subarray or element basis. In an exemplary embodiment, the sub-component control is configured to optimize a performance characteristic associated with polarization, such as phase or amplitude adjustment. An active phased array architecture may replace traditional distributed and GaAs implementations for the necessary functions required to operate electronically steerable phased array antennas. The architecture combines active versions of vector generators, power splitters, power combiners, and RF hybrids in a novel fashion to realize a fully or substantially monolithic solution for a wide range of antenna applications that can be realized with radiating elements having single-polarized or dual-polarized feeds." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2012 (13/540,394). 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=8,410,980&OS=8,410,980&RS=8,410,980 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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. -1120360 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |