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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Pennsylvania (April 18)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Pennsylvania. *** Boeing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,423,430) developed by Robert L. Avery, Woodville, Pa., Margaret Nomi, Issaquah, Wash., and Jay P. Maloney, Federal Way, Wash., for "integrated materials management for commercial aircraft fleets including access to real-time on-board systems information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Turnkey maintenance of a customer's aircraft fleet is managed by a single management service provider (MSP) controlling integrated maintenance and materials services from a central operations site. The MSP converts data received directly from on-board aircraft systems into information it uses to manage maintenance service providers and parts suppliers. The MSP contracts with and manages maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations (MROs) who perform the maintenance on the customers' aircraft at line and base stations. The MSP either remotely manages part inventories at the customer's site, or manages suppliers who deliver the parts to the MROs. Maintenance planning, scheduling and execution information is exchanged between the MSP, MROs, part suppliers and the customers through a shared data communication network controlled by the MSP. The MSP charges the customer for the maintenance services based on a flat rate per unit of aircraft flying time." The patent application was filed on Nov. 16, 2005 (11/281,213). 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=8,423,430&OS=8,423,430&RS=8,423,430 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,422,536) developed by Joseph Anidjar, Asbury, N.J., Parag Parikh, Allentown, Pa., and Vladimir Sindalovsky, Perkasie, Pa., for a "spread spectrum clock signal generator method and system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for generating a spread spectrum clock signal with a constant ppm offset as a function of a repetition number. A phase interpolator can be configured in association with of a phase-locked loop circuit in order to provide a phase movement from a bit clock generated by the PLL circuit. A repetition number divider computes the repetition number for each time slot in a piece-wise SSC modulation profile. A noise shaping modulator can be employed for modulating a fractional part associated with the repetition number. A repetition counter and a phase accumulator receives an integer part of the repetition number and counts unit interval clock periods equal to a sum of integer and the sigma-delta modulated fractional parts of the repetition number. The phase accumulator can be incremented and/or decremented based on the sign of the spread spectrum direction." The patent application was filed on May 5, 2010 (12/774,175). 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=84,22,536.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,536&RS=PN/84,22,536 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Instrument Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,422,563) developed by Dinkar N. Bhat, Princeton, N.J., and Albert F. Elcock, West Chester, Pa., for a "system for generating closed captioning compatible with legacy and newer set-top boxes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A caption formatting method and computing system that receives an input video stream that includes a sequence of input transport stream packets. The method locates user data in the sequence of input transport stream packets, where the user data includes input caption data compliant with an input caption data format. The method extracts EIA-608 captions and EIA-708 captions from the input caption data, and formats the EIA-608 captions as caption data compliant with SCTE-20 format. The method creates a sequence of output transport stream packets based on the sequence of input transport stream packets, where the sequence of output transport stream packets include the caption data compliant with SCTE-20 format and the input caption data. The method sends an output video stream from the computing device, where the output video stream includes the sequence of output transport stream packets." The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2009 (12/624,720). 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=84,22,563.PN.&OS=PN/84,22,563&RS=PN/84,22,563 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motors Drives & Controls Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Motors Drives & Controls, Hatfield, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,423,411) developed by Erik T. Hostvedt, Pipersville, Pa., and Paul Speese, Doylestown, Pa., for "systems and methods for displaying visual information." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for pushing advertisement information from a host computer system to one or more delivery vehicles. Intelligent barcode data (IBD) from mailers is provided to the computer system. Physical mail pieces associated with the mailers are provided to a central processing plant, and manifest data is determined for the one or more delivery vehicles including IBD data from the mailers. The advertising information is pushed in real time to the one or more delivery vehicles from the computer system based on the manifest data and displayed on a display of a given vehicle. The content of the advertising information may be correlated with the delivery of the mail pieces being delivered using the IBD data." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2010 (12/820,258). 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=8,423,411&OS=8,423,411&RS=8,423,411 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PNC Financial Services Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, has been assigned a patent (8,423,444) developed by four co-inventors for investor personality tool. The co-inventors are Bryan L. Mackrell, Cranberry Township, Pa., Isabel Ford, Carnegie, Pa., Erin Koch, Chicago, and Jonathan Randall, McKees Rocks, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments are directed to a computer system comprising at least one computer programmed to provide a user interface to a user via a first computer device. The user interface may comprise a first axis describing a desired level of involvement of the user in investment decisions and a second axis describing a risk tolerance of the user. The user interface may also comprise a first icon representing a first position on the first and second axes and a second icon representing a second position on the first and second axes. When the first or second icons are activated, the interface may display a description of respective example investors having investment characteristics corresponding to the respective first and second positions on the axes. The user interface may also comprise first and second slider bars corresponding to the respective axes. The slider bars may be movable in response to a signal from a first input device in communication with the computer system. The computer system may be further programmed to receive from the user, via the user interface, an indication of a user position on the first and second axes; and store first data describing the user position on the first and second axis in association with an identifier of the user." The patent application was filed on July 2, 2010 (12/803,706). 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=8,423,444&OS=8,423,444&RS=8,423,444 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PNC Financial Services Group Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Facilitating Transfers between Accounts ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, has been assigned a patent (8,423,440) developed by six co-inventors for "systems and methods for facilitating transfers between accounts." The co-inventors are Bryan L. Mackrell, Pittsburgh, Michael Ley, Moon Township, Pa., Peter Ehling, Chicago, Michael Aaron Chapman, Chicago, Mark Alexander Jones, Evanston, Ill., and Rodney Hal Monson, Waukegan, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer assisted method for facilitating transfers between financial accounts. The method includes accepting a funds transfer request via the selection of an icon, by a user, wherein the icon represents a designated transfer of a predetermined amount of funds between a funding account and at least one receiving account. The method further includes transferring the amount of funds from the funding account to the at least one receiving account." The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2009 (12/363,921). 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=8,423,440&OS=8,423,440&RS=8,423,440 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,423,139) developed by Qingsheng Zhu, Wexford, Pa., and Daniel Felipe Ortega, Buenos Aires, Ark., for "methods, devices and systems for cardiac rhythm management using an electrode arrangement." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, methods and devices for cardiac applications. One such device is directed to a catheter, and uses thereof, for capturing myocardium of a heart by delivering pacing signals to a location in the heart. The location is near a His Bundle of the heart. The catheter has a proximal end for interfacing with an electrical pacing signal source and a distal end. The distal end includes a fixation mechanism that attaches the catheter to heart tissue. First and second electrodes are also located at the distal end. Each electrode is individually addressable for providing pacing signals to the heart tissue and also arranged to physically contact the heart tissue when the fixation mechanism is attached to the heart tissue." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2008 (12/147,376). 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=8,423,139&OS=8,423,139&RS=8,423,139 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intellibot Robotics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Intellibot Robotics, Portland, Ore., has been assigned a patent (8,423,225) developed by seven co-inventors for "methods and systems for movement of robotic device using video signal." The co-inventors are Henry L. Hillman Jr., Vancouver, Wash., David M. Knuth Jr., East Dubuque, Ill., Daniel M. Daly, Brownsburgh, Ind., Vinton Coffman, Pittsburgh, Ralph McCann, Richmond, Va., Stephen D. Herr, Richmond, Va., and Kevin L. Thomas, Richmond, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of navigating an area using a mobile robotic device may include receiving, from a video camera, information associated with an edge located on a surface, determining, by a mobile robotic device, a position of the mobile robotic device on the surface relative to the edge and using the received information to move the mobile robotic device from the determined position along a path. The path may be substantially parallel to the edge, and may be located a distance from a reference point on the mobile robotic device during movement of the mobile robotic device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2009 (12/616,452). 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=8,423,225&OS=8,423,225&RS=8,423,225 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for Rail Communication System and Method for Communicating with a Rail Vehicle ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,423,208) developed by six co-inventors for a "rail communication system and method for communicating with a rail vehicle." The co-inventors are Wolfgang Daum, Erie, Pa., Joseph Noffsinger, Grain Valley, Mo., John Brand, Melbourne, Fla., Jared Klineman Cooper, NE Palm Bay, Fla., Todd Goodermuth, Melbourne, Fla., and Mark Kraeling, Melbourne, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A rail communication system includes: a communication management device capable of being communicatively coupled with a conductive pathway that extends along a track; and an on-board communication device capable of being coupled with a rail vehicle that travels along the track and with the conductive pathway, the communication management device and the on-board communication device configured to communicate a data signal between each other through the conductive pathway, where the data signal includes network data. A method for communicating with rail vehicles includes: coupling a vehicle management device with a conductive pathway that extends alongside a track; and coupling an on-board communication device disposed on a rail vehicle that travels along the track with the conductive pathway; where the communication management device and the on-board communication device communicate a data signal that includes network data through the conductive pathway." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2010 (12/891,925). 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=8,423,208&OS=8,423,208&RS=8,423,208 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AutoMed Technologies Assigned Patent for System for Tracking and Dispensing Medical Items from Environmentally Controlled Storage Area ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- AutoMed Technologies, Chesterbrook, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,423,180) developed by eight co-inventors for a "system for tracking and dispensing medical items from environmentally controlled storage area." The co-inventors are David T. Frederick, North Huntington, Pa., W. Michael Wright, Zelienople, Pa., Richard T. Vangenewitt, Butler, Pa., William D. Yost, West Mifflin, Pa., R. Michael McGrady, Baden, Pa., R. Barrie Slaymaker Jr., Pittsburgh, Eser Sukan, Pittsburgh, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Eugene, Ore. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The system for monitoring and dispensing medical items which are dispensed for administration to patients includes a data terminal (76, 338) which is connected through a network (82, 328) to at least one remote computer (84, 324) having a processor and a data store. The system also includes a reading device (348) which is connected to the network. A user of the data terminal or the reading device is enabled to select a patient for whom medical items will be used, and responsive to a request to dispense items the requested items are dispensed from dispensing devices (96, 100, 344, 346, 450, 527) connected to the data terminal. A report generating device (384) generates reports (388) which include machine readable indicia corresponding to patients and/or medical items. Users may select patients and dispense medications by reading the indicia from the reports using the reading device. Certain storage locations are also labeled with machine readable indicia which may be read to indicate the taking of items therefrom as well as to indicate inventory status information. One such dispensing device in the system is a refrigerator (450) which is retrofit with a refrigerator lock module (452) which selectively enable access to medical items stored in an interior area thereof." The patent application was filed on May 29, 1998 (09/086,857). 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=8,423,180&OS=8,423,180&RS=8,423,180 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Intelomed Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Intelomed, Allison Park, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,423,108) developed by Jan Berkow, Allison Park, Pa., for a "device and system that identifies cardiovascular insufficiency." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for identifying volume status of a patient are disclosed. A pulse density signal is recorded from the patient. The pulse density signal is filtered to capture a respiration sampling period and a plurality of cardiac cycles occurring during the respiration sampling period. Mean pulse pressure and peak blood flow velocity for the respiration sampling period are calculated and are used as indices of volume status of the patient." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2010 (12/723,913). 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=8,423,108.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,108&RS=PN/8,423,108 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 18 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,423,055) developed by Joseph M. Cannon, Harleysville, Pa., and James A. Johanson, Macungie, Pa., for a "cordless telephone active-call enabled intercom." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of using an intercom on a cordless telephone during an active call. The active call is put on hold while the intercom is in use. Once the call is re-activated, the intercom is shut off. This system may be designed for a cordless telephone with one handset or a plurality of handsets." The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2012 (13/367,957). 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=8,423,055.PN.&OS=PN/8,423,055&RS=PN/8,423,055 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. -1121904 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |