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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (May 10)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** EchoStar Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- EchoStar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,437,622) developed by Steven Michael Casagrande, Castle Rock, Colo., for "altering presentation of received content based on use of closed captioning elements as reference locations." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content receiver receives an captioning element and positional information regarding segments of a content instance. The captioning element corresponds to a component of captioning data included in content that can be utilized with the positional information to locate where the segments stop and/or start. The content receiver analyzes the content based on the captioning element and the positional information and alters how the content will be presented. Such alteration may involve skipping and/or deleting segments, starting/stopping presentation of content other than at the beginning and/or end of the content, altering recording timers, and/or replacing segments with alternative segments. In some implementations, the content may be recorded as part of recording multiple content instances received via at least one broadcast from a content provider wherein the multiple content instances are all included in a same frequency band of the broadcast and are all encoded utilizing a same control word." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2011 (13/215,916). 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=8,437,622&OS=8,437,622&RS=8,437,622 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** EchoStar Technologies Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Modifying the Presentation of Content ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- EchoStar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,437,617) developed by Steven Michael Casagrande, Castle Rock, Colo., for a "method and apparatus for modifying the presentation of content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein are methods and apparatus for the identification of locations in a presentation stream based on metadata associated with the presentation stream. Locations within a presentation stream are identified using location information and/or signature data associated with the presentation stream. The identified locations within a presentation stream may be utilized to identify boundaries of segments within the presentation stream, such as segments of a show. The boundaries of the segments may then be utilized to change the volume of segments or playback a segment at a non-real time presentation rate." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2009 (12/486,641). 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=8,437,617&OS=8,437,617&RS=8,437,617 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SRI International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,508) developed by four co-inventors for a mechanical meta-materials. The co-inventors are Roy D. Kornbluh, Palo Alto, Calif., Ronald E. Pelrine, Louisville, Colo., Harsha Prahlad, Cupertino, Calif., and Scott E. Stanford, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides meta-materials with an actively controllable mechanical property. The meta-material includes a deformable structure and a set of activation elements. The activation elements are controllable between multiple states. The meta-material includes a first value for a mechanical property when one or more of the activation elements is in the first activation state and includes a second value for the mechanical property when the activation elements have been activated to the second activation state. In one aspect, the meta-material resembles a composite material where the connectivity between the component materials or shape and arrangement of the component materials is dynamically controllable so as to affect a mechanical property of the meta-material." The patent application was filed on Feb. 29, 2012 (13/408,996). 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=8,436,508&OS=8,436,508&RS=8,436,508 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Focus Target Discrimination Using Multiple Focus Zones ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,436,932) developed by Gregory Hofer, Loveland, Colo., for a "focus target discrimination using multiple focus zones." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital camera and method or algorithm that quickly determines if there are objects in a focus region of the camera that are nearer to or farther from the current focus position. Multiple focusing zones are used along with a technique that compares data from each of the focusing zones to determine distance relationships between objects in different zones." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2005 (11/112,200). 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=8,436,932&OS=8,436,932&RS=8,436,932 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Qualcomm Mems Technologies Assigned Patent for Interferometric Modulator Array with Integrated MEMS Electrical Switches ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Qualcomm Mems Technologies, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,437,071) developed by Clarence Chui, San Jose, Calif., for an "interferometric modulator array with integrated MEMS electrical switches." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An array of display elements, such as interferometric modulators, is integrated with collapsible cavity microelectromechanical system (MEMS) electrical switches. The electrical switches and the display elements may be at least partially formed with the same manufacturing operations. The switches may form row or column select functions for the display elements." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2012 (13/528,609). 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=8,437,071&OS=8,437,071&RS=8,437,071 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,101) developed by Curtis S. German, Longmont, Colo., Andrew A. Lucas, Lyons, Colo., and Brian L. Rappel, Lyons, Colo., for a "disk drive with a spherical balance plug." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described herein is a balance plug for a disk drive. The balance plug includes a body defining a substantially spherical outer surface and a plurality of ribs along the spherical outer surface and defining at least three meridians along the outer surface of the sphere. The at least three meridians can reside in at least two transverse planes." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/826,671). 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=8,437,101&OS=8,437,101&RS=8,437,101 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,868) developed by four co-inventors for a "block linear memory ordering of texture data." The co-inventors are Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, Calif., Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, Calif., Karim M. Abdalla, Menlo Park, Calif., and Joel J. McCormack, Boulder, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of organizing memory for storage of texture data, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, includes accessing a size of a mipmap level of a texture map. A block dimension may be determined based on the size the mipmap level. A memory space (e.g., computer-readable medium) may be logically divided into a plurality of whole number of blocks of variable dimension. The dimension of the blocks is measured in units of gobs and each gob is of a fixed dimension of bytes. A mipmap level of a texture map may be stored in the memory space. A texel coordinate of said mipmap level may be converted into a byte address of the memory space by determining a gob address of a gob in which the texel coordinate resides and determining a byte address within the particular gob." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2011 (13/073,020). 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=8,436,868.PN.&OS=PN/8,436,868&RS=PN/8,436,868 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Stylus Input System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,436,837) developed by Bob Myers, Windsor, Colo., for a stylus input system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention enable stylus input on a display device coupled to a processor. According to one embodiment, a stylus control unit detects the presence of a stylus within a display area of a display device and then displays a pair of frames including luminescent images on the display device. Furthermore, luminescent measurement data is transmitted from the stylus to the stylus control unit, and stylus position information is sent to a computer processor based on the received luminescent measurement data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,428). 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=8,436,837.PN.&OS=PN/8,436,837&RS=PN/8,436,837 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Microsemi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Microsemi, Aliso Viejo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,662) developed by Charles Coleman, Fort Collins, Colo., for a "junction gate driver with tapped inductor current source." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A junction device driver is provided that includes a current regulator, an inductor coupled with the current regulator, and a switching module coupled with the inductor. The current regulator is configured to generate a current, and the inductor is configured to store energy generated by the current produced by the current regulator. The switching module is configured to control a conduction current for a gate of a junction device. The conduction current is generated, initially, from the stored energy of the inductor to thereby provide a relatively high initial current. As the energy stored in the inductor is discharged, the current level drops to a lower level that is sufficient to maintain the junction device in an "on" state." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2011 (13/104,809). 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=8,436,662.PN.&OS=PN/8,436,662&RS=PN/8,436,662 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Energy Industries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Advanced Energy Industries, Fort Collins, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,436,643) developed by Christopher C. Mason, Fort Collins, Colo., for a "high frequency solid state switching for impedance matching." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with this invention the above and other problems are solved by a switching apparatus and method that uses a switching circuit having a pair of parallel solid-state diodes (e.g., PN diodes), one of which is connected to a transistor (e.g., power MOSFET or IGBT), to switch a capacitor in or out of a variable capacitance element of an impedance matching network. Charging a body capacitance of the transistor reverse biases one of the two diodes so as to isolate the transistor from the RF signal enabling a low-cost high capacitance transistor to be used. Multiple such switching circuits and capacitors are connected in parallel to provide variable impedance for the purpose of impedance matching." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2011 (13/288,712). 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=8,436,643.PN.&OS=PN/8,436,643&RS=PN/8,436,643 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 10 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,436,851) developed by Donley Byron Hoffman, Fort Collins, Colo., Jeffrey Joel Walls, Fort Collins, Colo., and Byron Alan Alcorn, Fort Collins, Colo., for "systems and methods for rendering three-dimensional graphics in a multi-node rendering system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is provided for rendering three-dimensional graphics. An embodiment of the system comprises a host capable of executing an application program that calls for the rendering of at least three-dimensional graphics in an application window, and logic associated with the host for apportioning content defining a three-dimensional graphics window to be rendered. The embodiment of the system further comprising a plurality of render nodes configured to collectively render the three-dimensional graphics window in response to the content supplied by the host, and logic associated with a first render node configuring the render node to be capable of rendering only a portion of the three-dimensional graphics window based on apportioned content that the first render node receives from the host and without content comprising a portion of the three-dimensional graphics window apportioned to at least one other of the plurality of render nodes." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2005 (11/051,688). 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=8,436,851.PN.&OS=PN/8,436,851&RS=PN/8,436,851 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. -1124443 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |