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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Pennsylvania (April 25)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Pennsylvania. *** Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,428,232) developed by Maurice Garcia, Levittown, Pa., for a "centralized communication hub for displaying calls and messages on a display." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are described that relate to a centralized communication hub at a user location for coordination of receiving/sending phone calls, SMS/MMS messages, and requests for video conferences to/from a display. A user may indicate that she wishes to receive a call/message by selecting an option on a remote control associated with the display. A microphone and/or camera connected to a gateway may provide audiovisual capabilities during a call. In a separate embodiment, the functionality of the communication hub may be split between two devices; one device detects incoming calls and a separate device routes the calls/messages to/from the appropriate gateway." The patent application was filed on June 18, 2010 (12/818,711). 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=84,28,232.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,232&RS=PN/84,28,232 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** PMC-Sierra Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- PMC-Sierra, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,428,203) developed by five co-inventors for an "integrated tunable RF notch filter." The co-inventors are Anthony Eugene Zortea, Pipersville, Pa., Mathew McAdam, Vancouver, Canada, Mathieu Gagnon, Verdun, Canada, Graeme Boyd, North Vancouver, Canada, and Winston Ki-Cheong Mok, Vancouver, Canada. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Large interfering signals (interferers) with spectra near a desired signal can cause distortion in a wireless receiver due to a non-linear signal path. It is typically a performance advantage to attenuate these interferers earlier in the signal path, rather than later in the signal path, because these interferers can cause saturation of amplifying stages. In certain situations, the frequency offset of an interfering signal, with respect to the desired signal, can be on the order of 10 megahertz (MHz), whereas the center frequencies can be on the order of several gigahertz (GHz). Thus, a filter with "baseband" precision would be needed at radio frequency to notch out the interferer, which is relatively difficult to do. Disclosed is a technique to estimate the relative strength and center frequency of the interferer and to place the center frequency of a notch filter adaptively and precisely at the interferer location." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2009 (12/349,328). 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=84,28,203.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,203&RS=PN/84,28,203 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Agere Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Agere Systems, Allentown, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,428,195) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for detecting and decoding adaptive equalization training frames." The co-inventors are Yasser Ahmed, Macungie, Pa., Xingdong Dai, Bethlehem, Pa., Mohammad S. Mobin, Orefield, Pa., and Lane A. Smith, Easton, Pa. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting and decoding adaptive equalization training frames (having a frame marker comprised of a string of binary ones and binary zeroes). Training frames are detected by shifting the received data; inserting at least one binary value at one end of the shifted received data to generate a modified version of the received data; applying a logic function to the received data and the modified version of the received data that identifies when corresponding bit positions have different values; and detecting the frame marker when an output of the logic function has a first binary value in an approximate middle of a string of a second binary value. The training frames are decoded using a distance between the approximate center of the frame maker and a predefined binary value in an output of the logic function." The patent application was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 (11/967,463). 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=84,28,195.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,195&RS=PN/84,28,195 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Westinghouse Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Westinghouse Electric, Cranberry Township, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,428,215) developed by Barry F. Cooney, Bethel Park, Pa., and Thomas M. Camden Jr., Apollo, Pa., for a "method of improving the spent nuclear fuel burnup credit." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A dimensional reactivity management system that takes into account the axial burnup shape data of a nuclear fuel assembly to determine the acceptability of placement of the assembly relative to other assemblies in a storage container." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2007 (11/961,196). 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=84,28,215.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,215&RS=PN/84,28,215 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Comcast Cable Communications, Philadelphia, has been assigned a patent (8,428,063) developed by Jorge Daniel Salinger, Littleton, Colo., David Urban, Downingtown, Pa., and Vik Saxena, Philadelphia, for an "access network architecture having dissimilar access sub-networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A subscriber network architecture includes a packet processing node that communicates with a network backbone and with a plurality of access nodes. The access nodes communicate with a plurality of user devices. The packet processing node controls Quality of Service (QoS) levels for the subscriber devices, routes user data to devices via the access nodes and receives data from devices via the access nodes for forwarding across the network backbone." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2010 (12/732,344). 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=84,28,063.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,063&RS=PN/84,28,063 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Textronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Textronics, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,428,686) developed by Chia Kuo, Greenville, N.C., and George W. Coulston, Pittsburgh, for an "extended optical range system for monitoring motion of a member." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for monitoring a physiological parameter includes a garment that includes a fabric that exhibits both a light transmission property and a light reflection property. The amount of light transmitted through the fabric relative to the amount of light reflected by the fabric changes when the fabric stretches in response to motion, such as the motion induced by physiological activity (e.g., heart rate). The system includes at least one source of radiation having wavelength(s) in the range of 400 to 2200 nanometers and at least one detector responsive to such incident radiation. The source and detector are associated with the fabric such that the reception of incident radiation by the detector is directly affected by a change in the amount of light transmitted through the fabric relative to the amount of light reflected by the fabric when the fabric stretches. A signal processor converts a signal from the detector into a signal representative of at least one predetermined physiological parameter of a wearer of the garment." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2010 (12/757,338). 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=8,428,686.PN.&OS=PN/8,428,686&RS=PN/8,428,686 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Frame Buffer Compression and Memory Resource Reduction for 3D Video ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,428,122) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for frame buffer compression and memory resource reduction for 3D video." The co-inventors are Xuemin Chen, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Marcus Kellerman, San Diego, Samir Hulyalkar, Newtown, Pa., and Ilya Klebanov, Thornhill, Canada. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A video receiver receives a compressed 3D video comprising a base view video and a residual view video from a video transmitter. The video receiver decodes the received base view video and an enhancement view video of the received compressed 3D video into a left view video and a right view video. Base view pictures are generated selectively based on available memory resource. The residual view video is generated by subtracting base view pictures from corresponding enhancement view pictures. The received base view and residual view videos are buffered for video decoding. Pictures in the buffered residual view video are added to corresponding pictures in the buffered base view video for enhancement view decoding. The left view video and/or the right view video are generated from the resulting decoded base view and enhancement view pictures. A motion vector used for a disparity predicted macroblock is applied to adjacent macroblock pre-fetching." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2009 (12/560,554). 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=84,28,122.PN.&OS=PN/84,28,122&RS=PN/84,28,122 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Aetna Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Aetna, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,428,963) developed by Howard R. Underwood, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Walter Kastenschmidt, North Wales, Pa., for a "system and method for administering health care cost reduction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for the efficient administration of health care plans, particularly as to the reduction and/or elimination of avoidable medical costs for select individuals who participate in the plan, is disclosed. Existing health care data is processed to determine an indication as to the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. The data is also processed to determine the status of one or more flags, each of which potentially indicates the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. A predictive model is used to determine the status of a flag relating to the likelihood of an insurance plan participant making a disability claim within a certain period of time. The information relating to desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen, as well as a plan participant's medical information and claim history, is presented to case managers and/or health care providers in a user-friendly format." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2010 (12/724,185). 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=8,428,963&OS=8,428,963&RS=8,428,963 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** St. Jude Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- St. Jude Medical, Saint Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,428,691) developed by Charles Bryan Byrd, Medford, N.J., Praveen Dala-Krishna, Bensalem, Pa., and David A. Jenkins, Flanders, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for localizing an ultrasound catheter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An imaging system is provided with an ultrasound catheter and a controller coupled to the ultrasound catheter. The catheter includes a localizer sensor configured to generate positional information for the ultrasound catheter, and an imaging ultrasound sensor having a restricted field of view. The controller co-registers images from the imaging ultrasound sensor with positional information from the localizer sensor." The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2009 (12/650,521). 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=8,428,691.PN.&OS=PN/8,428,691&RS=PN/8,428,691 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Industry Assigned Patent for Use of Statistics to Determine Calibration of Instruments ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Siemens Industry, Alpharetta, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,428,909) developed by Daniel J. Collins, Maple Glen, Pa., for "use of statistics to determine calibration of instruments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to statistics and calibration of instruments. More particularly, the invention encompasses the use of statistics to determine calibration of instruments. The present invention is also directed to a remote system for determination of re-calibration of instruments. The present invention also teaches the use of multiple statistical tests to determine need for calibration. The invention also includes a novel use of tests, such as, the F-Test, the Z-Test, to determine need for calibration. Furthermore, this invention relates to an alternate instrument scheme consisting of the use of redundant sensors and statistical analysis to avoid unnecessary calibrations and to detect sensors that are starting to drift before they go out of calibration. With this invention reduced calibration cost, increased data integrity, and reduced off-spec uncertainty is achieved." The patent application was filed on Sept. 19, 2008 (12/233,985). 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=8,428,909&OS=8,428,909&RS=8,428,909 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Medrad Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Medrad, Indianola, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,428,694) developed by John F. Kalafut, Pittsburgh, and Corey Kemper, Pittsburgh, for "methods for determination of parameters for a procedure, for estimation of cardiopulmonary function and for fluid delivery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods of determining at least one parameter for an injection procedure to be performed in combination with an imaging procedure may include injecting a test bolus of a contrast enhancement fluid having a contrast enhancing agent, scanning regions of interest with an imaging system as the test bolus flows therethrough to obtain therefrom a contrast time enhancement curve for each region of interest, extracting at least one discrete data point from each of the contrast time enhancement curves such that each of the discrete data points constitutes a pair of measurements on the contrast time enhancement curve corresponding thereto, substituting into a model the discrete data points extracted from the contrast time enhancement curves to obtain an estimate of values of physiological variables, and using the estimate to determine via the model the at least one parameter for the injection procedure to be performed in combination with the imaging procedure." The patent application was filed on June 24, 2008 (12/669,292). 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=8,428,694.PN.&OS=PN/8,428,694&RS=PN/8,428,694 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Persyst Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Persyst Development, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,428,681) developed by four co-inventors for a "quick press on EEG electrode with bendable legs." The co-inventors are Scott B. Wilson, Del Mar, Calif., Mark Scheuer, Wexford, Pa., Dale Johnson, San Diego, and Scott Clear, Escondido, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments relate to methods and systems for monitoring bioelectric potentials. In some instances, an electrode is applied to a patient's skin. The electrode may be at least partly inserted into the patient's skin, such as by inserting at least part of one or more teeth underneath the skin." The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2012 (13/607,693). 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=8,428,681.PN.&OS=PN/8,428,681&RS=PN/8,428,681 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- AT&T Intellectual Property II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,429,007) developed by Stephen Sobolevitch, Yardley, Pa., and Daniel Stark, Lebanon, N.J., for "telecommunications service provisioning and banking of customer credits." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing telecommunication services based on customer groups. A customer group is offered a service plan that provides an incentive to early subscribers in the form of a more attractive pricing plan (i.e., discounts). For example, a particular subscriber may be provided a discount for each customer in the group who becomes a subscriber after the particular subscriber. The discounts and pricing plan may also be based, at least in part, on the total number of customers in the group that become subscribers. Further, in order to reduce customer churn, customer discounts or other incentives may be applied toward the end of a subscription plan period. Further, subscriber discounts and/or credits may be banked in a subscriber account." The patent application was filed on Sept. 20, 2004 (10/945,300). 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=8,429,007&OS=8,429,007&RS=8,429,007 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Phoenix Broadband Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Phoenix Broadband Technologies, Montgomeryville, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,428,894) developed by Joseph D. Rocci, Lansdale, Pa., and Michael L. Quelly, Quakertown, Pa., for "measuring and monitoring a power source." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Battery testing sensors, and systems and methods for testing batteries, are disclosed. Each battery sensor has a microcontroller programmed to analyze the frequencies of noise or other undesirable signals ("background noise") present at a battery to be tested, and to determine the duty cycle of a desired pulse width modulation (PWM) signal to be applied to the battery in view of the background noise. Duty cycles of desired PWM signals are selected such that, when applied to the battery, they will at least approximate an AC signal having a frequency that has been determined to provide optimal test results in view of the background noise. The microcontroller analyzes the battery's response from application of the PWM signal thereto. Consequently, measurement errors from background noise present at the battery are minimized. Based on the response, attributes of the battery, such as internal admittance, voltage, current, and temperature, are determined." The patent application was filed on Nov. 15, 2012 (13/677,417). 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=8,428,894&OS=8,428,894&RS=8,428,894 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Store Eyes Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Store Eyes, Sherman Oaks, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,429,004) developed by Craig Hamilton, Nashville, Tenn., Wayne Spencer, Charlestown, Mass., and Alexander Ring, Allentown, Pa., for a "method and system for automatically measuring retail store display compliance." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for measuring retail store display compliance are provided. One or more images of one or more retail store conditions are captured and associated with related information. The one or more captured images and the related information are transmitted to a processing location for storage and processing. The one or more captured images and the related information are received at the processing location, stored in a repository and processed. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images are compared with a library to identify them and obtain identification information. The one or more identified captured images and identification information for the one or more retail store conditions are stored in the repository. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images and identification information are analyzed and one or more summary reports or one or more alerts are generated based upon the analysis." The patent application was filed on April 12, 2006 (11/887,599). 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=8,429,004&OS=8,429,004&RS=8,429,004 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** MapQuest Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- MapQuest, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,428,871) developed by Marshall B. Matthews, Mountville, Pa., G. Duane Gearhart, Hummelstown, Pa., and Michael David Schmitz, Denver, for "using routing symbols to describe a driving maneuver." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Driving directions are presented where a maneuver in the driving directions includes a road symbol and an action symbol. A road symbol identifies the road involved in the particular maneuver, and an action symbol identifies an action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver. In one example, a road symbol, an action symbol and narrative text may be presented in displayed or printed driving directions. In another example, a road symbol and an action symbol may be used to describe a maneuver presented by an on-board or mobile navigation system when the vehicle in which the navigation system is present approaches the point at which the maneuver is to be taken. The road symbol and the action symbol may be presented with, or without, narrative driving directions." The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2009 (12/575,661). 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=8,428,871&OS=8,428,871&RS=8,428,871 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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