[May 14, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (May 14) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Full Duplex Network Radio Bridge with Low Latency and High Throughput ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- William George Pabst, Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a patent (8,437,283) for a "full duplex network radio bridge with low latency and high throughput." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said second packet network by a transceiver of the other radio bridge. Each radio bridge is coupled to its packet network through one network port whose transmit data path is coupled to one of the transceivers, and whose receive data path is coupled to receive data from the other transceiver. An inner loop and outer loop is used. Management packets are routed to the various transceivers using the inner loop and outer loop by routing and filtering functions. Payload packets are transmitted from one packet network to the other using only the outer loop." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2010 (12/800,076). 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=8,437,283&OS=8,437,283&RS=8,437,283 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** ActivCard Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- ActivCard, Suresnes Cedex, France, has been assigned a patent (8,438,623) developed by Jamie Angus Band, Palo Alto, Calif., for "automated security token administrative services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention provides a system, method and computer program product to allow a user to access administrative security features associated with the use of a security token. The administrative security features provide the user the ability to unlock a locked security token, diagnose a security token, activate and deactivate a security token, request a replacement security token or temporary password or report the loss of a security token. The invention comprises a client application which integrates into the standard user login dialog associated with an operating system. A portion of the user dialog is linked to a remote server to access the administrative services." The patent application was filed on Oct. 18, 2011 (13/275,665). 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=8,438,623&OS=8,438,623&RS=8,438,623 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Method and System for One-click Navigation and Browsing of Electronic Media and Their Category Structure as Well as Tracking the Navigation and Browsing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Catherine Lin-Hendel, Los Gatos, Calif., has developed a patent (8,438,487) for a "method and system for one-click navigation and browsing of electronic media and their category structure as well as tracking the navigation and browsing thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and apparatus facilitate browsing of web pages or other electronic content stored over a network of remote and/or local storage devices. Browsing is performed without repeated intermediary clicking and page downloads. Pre-browsing of the category structure is provided via rolling the cursor from category to category, and level to level, to view each category's sub-categories, without clicking on a category or downloading web-page(s) linked to the category. When the user selects the content linked to a particular category, the user invokes the link-token corresponding to the content to retrieve the content. A dynamic tracking-string with an embedded one-click nested/cascading category browsing apparatus facilitates returning and/or changing path during browsing and examination of electronic media, and allows the user to review more than one path along the category structure while the browser is at a page linked to any category at any level." The patent application was filed on May 23, 2000 (09/577,190). 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=8,438,487&OS=8,438,487&RS=8,438,487 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Connecticut, California Inventors Develop Patent for System for Speeding Up Web Site Use Using Task Workflow Templates for Filtration and Extraction ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- John R. Thorpe, West Hartford, Conn., and Alistair D'Lougar Black, Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a patent (8,438,471) for a "system for speeding up web site use using task workflow templates for filtration and extraction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for speeding up rendering of and interacting with one or more web pages to accomplish some task using the internet. In a system comprising one or more client computers which can be cell phones, laptops or desktop computers coupled in any way to the internet and a template server and other web servers coupled to the internet, a microbrowser under control of a task workflow template is executed either by a client computer or the template server. The task workflow templates are custom defined workflows which define one or more web pages which need to be accessed and the data from each web page that needs to be extracted. The data defined in the task workflow template (and only that data) is extracted by the microbrowser and displayed on the client computer. Faster rendering results. Interaction by filling in of forms and extraction of data from the web pages that result when the form data is sent to the web server allows accomplishing of tasks using the internet much faster, especially using cell phones." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2009 (12/460,064). 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=8,438,471&OS=8,438,471&RS=8,438,471 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Emergency Call Analysis System ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Don Reich, Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Kurt Warner, Ventura, Calif., have developed a patent (8,437,731) for an "emergency call analysis system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for predicting a survival rate among individuals, where the survival rate depends in part on a responsiveness of emergency personnel, and the responsiveness of the emergency personnel depends in part on an amount of time taken to route an emergency call to a primary emergency response center, includes determining, by a computer system, a number of emergency calls initially routed to a primary emergency response center. The computer system determines a number of emergency calls initially routed to a secondary emergency response center that, in turn, routes the emergency calls to the primary emergency response center. The computer system calculates a survival rate amount individuals according to a function of the determined number of the number of emergency calls initially routed to a primary emergency response center and the number of emergency calls initially routed to a secondary emergency response center. The calculated survival rate is displayed on a terminal." The patent application was filed on Jan. 28, 2011 (13/016,729). 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=8,437,731&OS=8,437,731&RS=8,437,731 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Consistency Checking of Source Instruction to Execute Previously Translated Instructions Between Copy Made Upon Occurrence of Write Operation to Memory and Current Version ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- John Banning, Sunnyvale, Calif., H. Peter Anvin, San Jose, Calif., Robert Bedicheck, Palo Alto, Calif., Guillermo J. Rozas, Los Gatos, Calif., Andrew Shaw, Sunnyvale, Calif., Linus Torvalds, Santa Clara, Calif., and Jason Wilson, San Francisco, have developed a patent (8,438,548) for a "consistency checking of source instruction to execute previously translated instructions between copy made upon occurrence of write operation to memory and current version." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, after translating a plurality of target instructions from a target memory location into a plurality of host instructions, a write operation to a target memory portion which includes said target memory location is detected. In response to the detecting, a copy of the target instructions is stored in a host memory. In response to an attempt to execute the host instructions, the copy is compared with a plurality of current target instructions presently stored in the target memory location. Further, in response to a mismatch based on the comparison, the host instructions are disabled." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2011 (13/021,609). 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=8,438,548&OS=8,438,548&RS=8,438,548 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Sony, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,438,606) developed by Ling Jun Wong, Escondido, Calif., and True Xiong, San Diego, for "serving from a third party server to a control device a web page useful for controlling an IPTV client with non-public address." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An IPTV may be controlled in part by a second user consumer electronic (CE) device using a web page served from a third party server even though the third party server cannot function as a proxy to the IPTV." The patent application was filed on July 20, 2010 (12/839,605). 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=8,438,606&OS=8,438,606&RS=8,438,606 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for Multi-stream Maximum-likelihood Demodulation Based on Bitwise Constellation Partitioning ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,437,434) developed by Jungwon Lee, Cupertino, Calif., Jiwoong Choi, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "multi-stream maximum-likelihood demodulation based on bitwise constellation partitioning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A plurality of received data symbols is received, and a first received data symbol is selected from the plurality of received data symbols. A plurality of global optimum candidate values of a first estimated transmitted data symbol corresponding to the first received data symbol is determined for different given candidate values of second estimated transmitted data symbols corresponding to second received data symbols. Likelihood values for bits corresponding to the second estimated transmitted data symbols are calculated using the plurality of global optimum candidate values. All possible values of the first estimated transmitted data symbol are grouped into two or more bit groups, and a plurality of local optimum candidate values are determined for different bit groups. Likelihood values for bits corresponding to the first estimated transmitted data symbol are calculated using the plurality of global optimum candidate values and the plurality of local optimum candidate values." The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2012 (13/567,960). 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=8,437,434&OS=8,437,434&RS=8,437,434 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Skype Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Skype, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,437,386) developed by Koen Vos, San Francisco, for a communication system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing ringing in a signal output from a filter comprising inputting a signal into a filter; filtering a first portion of the input signal to generate a filtered portion of the output signal; analyzing the filtered portion of the output signal; detecting if ringing is present in the filtered portion of the output signal based on said analysis; and adjusting the filter characteristics to reduce ringing in a subsequent filtered portion of the output signal if it is determined that ringing is present." The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2012 (13/366,990). 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=8,437,386&OS=8,437,386&RS=8,437,386 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nitto Denko Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Nitto Denko, Osaka, Japan, has been assigned a patent (8,437,100) developed by Martin John McCaslin, Pleasanton, Calif., Visit Thaveeprungsriporn, Bangkok, Thailand, and Szu-Han Hu, Pathumthani, Thailand, for a "flexure based shock and vibration sensor for head suspensions in hard disk drives." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for flexure based shock and vibration sensor for head suspensions in hard disk drives. Specifically, this invention deals with operational shock and vibration management within a hard disk drive. In one implementation, the assembly includes a circuit embedded optical waveguide sensor that includes a flexible electrical circuit board with a configuration of either a single or multi layers of conductor traces, a thin flexure gimbal for carrying and flying a HDD slider, a consecutive sensing layer constructed by an optical core and by clad construction with a configuration of either a single core array or a plural core array, an optical loop formed by light input and an output core, optical grating disposed on the consecutive sensing layer forming an optical grating waveguide sensor, a light emitter for injecting light into the optical core, and a receiver receiving the output light from the optical core." The patent application was filed on April 18, 2012 (13/449,679). 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=8,437,100&OS=8,437,100&RS=8,437,100 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NTT DoCoMo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,437,564) developed by Oztan Harmanci, Mountain View, Calif., Onur G. Guleryuz, San Francisco, and Osman G. Sezer, Atlanta, for "image and video compression using sparse orthonormal transforms." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing compression with sparse orthonormal transforms. One method includes receiving a block of data; classifying the block of data based on directional structure; selecting one of a plurality of available directional, orthonormal transforms to apply to the block based on results of classifying the block; and applying the selected transform to the block to generate a plurality of coefficients, thereby producing a compressed version of the block." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2008 (12/186,439). 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=8,437,564&OS=8,437,564&RS=8,437,564 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for System and Method to Execute a Clipping Instruction ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,437,410) developed by Moinul H. Khan, San Diego, and Bradley C. Aldrich, Austin, Texas, for a "system and method to execute a clipping instruction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Devices, systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with clipping instructions are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a clipping instruction for clipping filtered values in a video image de-blocking operation. The clipping instruction references a video data value and a clipping value. The method includes decoding the clipping instruction. The method also includes retrieving the video data value and the clipping value. A video data magnitude of the video data value is determined. The method determines a clipping magnitude of the clipping value. A determination is made as to whether the video data magnitude exceeds the clipping magnitude. If the video data magnitude exceeds the clipping magnitude, the video data value is selectively clipped." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2008 (12/273,160). 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=8,437,410&OS=8,437,410&RS=8,437,410 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Business Objects Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Business Objects Software, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,438,140) developed by four co-inventors for an "apparatus and method for generating reports from versioned data." The co-inventors are Ricardo Polo-Malouvier, Levallois-Perret, France, Jean-Yves Cras, Paris, Michael Emmett Thompson, Nogent-sur-Marne, France, and Charles Arthur Piercey, Palo Alto, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-readable medium includes a report generator configured to process a current version of a data set to generate a report including a data item. The computer-readable medium also includes a report data change tracker configured to identify a change in the data item with respect to a previous version of the data set. The computer-readable medium further includes a report data change presenter configured to superimpose an indication of the change onto the report." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2005 (11/264,633). 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=8,438,140&OS=8,438,140&RS=8,438,140 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for PHY Frame Formats in a System with More than Four Space-time Streams ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,437,440) developed by Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, Calif., Rohit U. Nabar, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Sudhir Srinivasa, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "PHY frame formats in a system with more than four space-time streams." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for generating a data unit for transmission via a communication channel includes generating a preamble of the data unit, including generating a set of more than four training fields and applying a different spatial mapping to each training field in the set of training fields; and generating a data portion of the data unit, wherein the data portion is transmitted using more than four space-time streams, so that a receiver device can receive the data portion via the more than four space-time streams using channel information derived from the set of training fields." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/790,158). 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=8,437,440&OS=8,437,440&RS=8,437,440 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Performing Baseband Equalization in Symbol Modulated Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,437,417) developed by Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Kok-Wui Cheong, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for performing baseband equalization in symbol modulated communications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes a channel estimator configured to receive a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols via a plurality of respective antennas, and generate estimates of a channel based on the plurality of OFDM symbols. A demodulator is configured to generate a plurality of demodulated symbols based on the plurality of OFDM symbols and the estimates of the channel. A decoder is configured to receive the estimates of the channel from the channel estimator, receive the plurality of demodulated symbols from the demodulator, and calculate decision metrics for the plurality of OFDM symbols using both the estimates of the channel and the plurality of demodulated symbols." The patent application was filed on Feb. 24, 2012 (13/404,656). 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=8,437,417&OS=8,437,417&RS=8,437,417 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hitachi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Hitachi, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,437,228) developed by five co-inventors for a "thermally-assisted magnetic recording head." The co-inventors are Naoki Matsushima, Chiba, Japan, Satoshi Arai, Yokohama, Japan, Takuya Matsumoto, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jun-ichiro Shimizu, Hadano, Japan, and Irizo Naniwa, Fujisawa, Japan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A thermally assisted magnetic recording head with highly efficient optical coupling, while guiding a laser beam from a semiconductor laser element, i.e., a light source, to a leading end thereof, eliminating an influence due to heat generated by the element, and having excellent floating characteristics. The thermally assisted magnetic recording head includes a substrate 2 having a first optical waveguide 1, a semiconductor laser element 100, and a slider 4 having a second optical waveguide 3 formed on an end surface. The semiconductor laser element 100 is fixed on the substrate 2 so that light emitted from the element 100 propagates through the first optical waveguide 1 and a slider 4 is fixed on the substrate 2 so that light emitted from the first optical waveguide 1 propagates through the second optical waveguide 3. High optical coupling efficiency is then achieved, while ensuring both heat-dissipating and floating characteristics." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2009 (13/057,585). 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=8,437,228&OS=8,437,228&RS=8,437,228 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amdocs Software Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Amdocs Software Systems, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,438,412) developed by Tal Givoly, Irvine, Calif., for a "system, method, and computer program for enabling an amount of multitasking for use by an operating system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling an amount of multitasking for use by an operating system. In use, an amount of power being delivered to a device is identified. Additionally, it is determined whether the amount of power is sufficient to charge a power store of the device. Further, an amount of multitasking for use by an operating system of the device may be enabled based on the determination. Still yet, the amount of multitasking enabled for use by the operating system of the device is based on the determination such that a first amount of multitasking is enabled for use by the operating system of the device if it is determined that the amount of power is sufficient to charge the power store of the device, and a second amount of multitasking less than the first amount is enabled for use by the operating system of the device if it is determined that the amount of power is insufficient to charge the power store of the device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2010 (12/887,462). 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=8,438,412&OS=8,438,412&RS=8,438,412 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ricoh Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Ricoh, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,438,273) developed by Tetsuro Motoyama, Cupertino, Calif., for a "network device management with self learning capability to extract information from a device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for extracting information from a network device. The method includes retrieving first device information from the network device using a first communication protocol, and attempting to determine a parameter value of interest based on the first device information. When the step of attempting to determine the parameter value of interest based on the first device information is unsuccessful, second device information is retrieved from the network device using a second communication protocol, and an attempt is made to determine the parameter value of interest based on the first device information and the second device information." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2010 (12/888,134). 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=8,438,273&OS=8,438,273&RS=8,438,273 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Huawei Technologies Assigned Patent for Signal Classifying Method and Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Huawei Technologies, Shenzhen, China, has been assigned a patent (8,438,021) developed by Yuanyuan Liu, Shenzhen, China, Zho Wang, Shenzhen, China, and Eyal Shlomot, Long Beach, Calif., for a "signal classifying method and apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A signal classifying method and apparatus are disclosed. The signal classifying method includes: obtaining a spectrum fluctuation parameter of a current signal frame determined as a foreground frame, and buffering the spectrum fluctuation parameter; obtaining a spectrum fluctuation variance of the current signal frame according to spectrum fluctuation parameters of all buffered signal frames, and buffering the spectrum fluctuation variance; and calculating a ratio of signal frames whose spectrum fluctuation variance is above or equal to a first threshold to all the buffered signal frames, and determining the current signal frame as a speech frame if the ratio is above or equal to a second threshold or determining the current signal frame as a music frame if the ratio is below the second threshold. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the spectrum fluctuation variance of the signal is used as a parameter for classifying the signals, and a local statistical method is applied to decide the type of the signal. Therefore, the signals are classified with few parameters, simple logical relations and low complexity." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2010 (12/979,994). 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=8,438,021&OS=8,438,021&RS=8,438,021 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Integrated System Solution Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Integrated System Solution, Hsin-chu, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,437,427) developed by Jeng-Hong Chen, Temple City, Calif., for "arbitrary frequency shifter in communication systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention describes a programmable, digital implementation to shift an arbitrary frequency, or various frequencies in various communication systems of the original signal in the frequency domain. The correspondent phase accumulation to perform the desired frequency shift per sampling instant is perfectly tracked by counting up or down a simple integer. Several arbitrary frequency shifters with different mathematical models are provided. The correspondent implementations with Look-Up-Tables (LUT) are derived for high-speed implementations without further calculations of the values of the sine and cosine functions every sampling instant. Furthermore, a simple shift-and-add phase rotation is described to replace the four required real multiplications. If the original complex signal contains only one-bit each from real part and imaginary part, a surprisingly simple implementation is derived and disclosed for the overall arbitrary frequency shift operation. Further simplifications are also disclosed to make this invention feasible for high sampling frequencies and small frequency drifts." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2009 (12/569,290). 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=8,437,427&OS=8,437,427&RS=8,437,427 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Acenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Acenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,438,125) developed by Teresa S. Tung, San Jose, Calif., Nikki Ann G. Guevarra, Chicago, and Fausto A. Inestroza, San Jose, Calif., for a "system for assembling behavior models of technology components." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system is described for assembling a behavior model of a technology component. The system may include a memory, and a processor. The memory may store a behavior model of a technology component. The processor may to monitor the technology component over a period of time to determine a plurality of parameter values associated with each state of a plurality of states of the technology component. The processor may process the plurality of parameter values associated with each state to determine a baseline parameter value for each state. The processor may assemble the behavior model for the technology component. The behavior model may include each state, the baseline parameter value for each state, and an association between each state and the baseline parameter value for each state. The processor may store the behavior model of the technology component in the memory." The patent application was filed on April 1, 2009 (12/416,752). 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=8,438,125&OS=8,438,125&RS=8,438,125 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** LG Electronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea, has been assigned a patent (RE44,198) developed by 10 co-inventors for a "method of providing point-to-multipoint service in mobile communication system." The co-inventors are Jong Hoe An, Anyang-si, South Korea, Seok Woo Lee, Anyang-si, South Korea, Young Woo Yun, Anyang-si, South Korea, Ki Jun Kim, Anyang-si, South Korea, Young Jun Kim, Anyang-si, South Korea, Chan Ho Kyung, Anyang-si, South Korea, Young Cheul Yoon, San Diego, Sang Gook Kim, San Diego, Li-Hsiang Sun, San Diego, and Shu Wang, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of providing a point-to-multipoint service in a mobile communication system and transmission controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a better quality of a point-to-multipoint service can be provided in a manner of coping with time-variable channel situation variable adaptively. In a mobile communication system providing a point-to-multipoint service, the present invention includes the steps of receiving data for the point-to-multipoint service from a base station, measuring a reception quality for the received point-to-multipoint service data, and transmitting reception quality information for the point-to-multipoint service data to the base station." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2006 (13/560,777). 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=RE44,198&OS=RE44,198&RS=RE44,198 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell World Trade Assigned Patent for Power Consumption in LDPC Decoder for Low-power Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell World Trade, St. Michael, Barbados, has been assigned a patent (8,438,461) developed by Nedeljko Varnica, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Gregory Burd, San Jose, Calif., for a "power consumption in LDPC decoder for low-power applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure relates generally to low power data decoding, and more particularly to low power iterative decoders for data encoded with a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoder. Systems and methods are disclosed in which a low-power syndrome check may be performed in the first iteration or part of the first iteration during the process of decoding a LDPC code in an LDPC decoder. Systems and methods are also disclosed in which a control over the precision of messages sent or received and/or a change in the scaling of these messages may be implemented in the LDPC decoder. The low-power techniques described herein may reduce power consumption without a substantial decrease in performance of the applications that make use of LDPC codes or the devices that make use of low-power LDPC decoders." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2010 (12/892,183). 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=8,438,461&OS=8,438,461&RS=8,438,461 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Avago Technologies General Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Avago Technologies General, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (8,438,480) developed by Rene P. Helbing, Palo Alto, Calif., for a "system and method for tracking an input device using a display screen in captured frames of image data." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for tracking an input device uses positional information of a display screen in frames of image data to determine the relative position of the input device with respect to the display screen." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2007 (11/691,464). 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=8,438,480&OS=8,438,480&RS=8,438,480 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent for Unified Onscreen Advertisement System for CE Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Sony, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,438,057) developed by six co-inventors for an "unified onscreen advertisement system for CE devices." The co-inventors are William Arthur Schupp, San Diego, Nicole Rebong, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., Ludovic Etienne Douillet, Escondido, Calif., Klaus Hofrichter, San Diego, Aran London Sadja, San Diego, and Philip Carl Miller, Encinitas, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A client-server architecture allows consumer electronics (CE) devices to obtain advertisements, including TV and network content recommendations, via a unified application programming interface (API). A gateway server between online advertisement providers and CE devices prioritizes and personalizes the advertisements and recommendations for a requesting CE device. This architecture scales over time and evolves more functionality without requiring CE device software updates." The patent application was filed on March 28, 2011 (13/073,146). 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=8,438,057&OS=8,438,057&RS=8,438,057 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** University of Pertroleum and Minerals Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- The University of Pertroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, has been assigned a patent (8,438,116) developed by Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Herz, Los Angeles, and Mohammad K. Ibrahim, Leicester, United Kingdom, for "token based new digital cash protocols." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Digital cash token protocols employ two pairs of private and public keys. Each public key is certified separately and the protocols do not use any blind signature schemes. As a result, the digital cash token protocols provide strong protection of user privacy by using two certified public keys instead of a blind signature. One pair of certified keys consists of one master user private key and one master user public key. A second pair of certified keys consists of one pseudonym user private key and one pseudonym user public key. The use of a master key pair and a pseudonym key pair circumvents the need for blind signatures. As a result, the proposed protocols do not require blind signatures and do not add additional overhead and security requirements necessitated by conventional blind signature schemes. The protocols use public key protocols and digital signatures and symmetric key protocols, which may be readily implemented in standard information security based systems based on cryptographic constructs. In addition, the protocols may be deployed in mobile, off-line, and on-line settings." The patent application was filed on April 10, 2011 (13/207,008). 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=8,438,116&OS=8,438,116&RS=8,438,116 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for Flash Memory Data Recovery ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,437,193) developed by Xueshi Yang, Cupertino, Calif., for a "flash memory data recovery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for selectively controlling application of a data recovery bias voltage are described. One example apparatus includes replenish logic configured to selectively control application of a data recovery bias voltage to a control gate associated with a cell in a flash memory apparatus. The replenish logic may be configured to select the data recovery bias voltage to replenish charge lost from a floating gate in the flash memory apparatus. The replenish logic may also be configured to control application of the data recovery bias voltage for a period of time sufficient to charge a threshold voltage (Vt) in the cell. In one embodiment, the data recovery bias voltage is based on a program voltage employed to program a value into the cell." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2010 (12/820,266). 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=8,437,193&OS=8,437,193&RS=8,437,193 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Syngenta Participations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Syngenta Participations, Basel, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (8,437,874) developed by eight co-inventors for a "transfer station for plant material sampling and tracking system." The co-inventors are William Michael Lafferty, Encinitas, Calif., Scott Wayne Beaver, San Marcos, Calif., Charles Wilson Tweedy, San Diego, Elizabeth Ann George, La Mesa, Calif., Walter James Frandsen Jr., Ramona, Calif., Anthony David Barghini, Encinitas, Calif., Daniel Steven Kline, Encinitas, Calif., and Shane Scott Swamer, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for processing plant material samples and a transfer station designed for use in such systems and methods. In one embodiment, the system includes a controller, a plant-material sampling device, and a transfer station. The plant-material sampling device is configured to communicate with the controller and to read an identifier of a plant. The sampling device also has a removable magazine, and is designed to take at least one plant sample from multiple plants, place such samples in the magazine, and track the identity of the plant from which each sample is taken. The transfer station is configured to hold, at multiple positions, multiple magazines and multiple trays such that the positions of the magazines are mirrored by the positions of the trays, read an identifier of each magazine, read an identifier of each tray, map storage locations for each one of the magazines to storage locations of one of the trays, and sequentially unload plant samples from the magazines to the trays." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/714,089). 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=8,437,874&OS=8,437,874&RS=8,437,874 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ricoh Assigned Patent for Techniques for Targeting Information to Users ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Ricoh, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,438,164) developed by four co-inventors for "techniques for targeting information to users." The co-inventors are Jonathan J. Hull, San Carlos, Calif., Jamey Graham, San Jose, Calif., Peter Hart, Menlo Park, Calif., and Kurt Piersol, Santa Cruz, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for providing relevant information to a user based on information or documents accessed or viewed by the user. The relevant information is provided automatically to the user without requiring user input. The information provided to the user is selected from information provided by various content provider systems. The present invention uses several techniques to determine relevancy between the contents of the document accessed by the user and between the information provided by the content provider systems. The relevancy information is used to select information to be provided to the user." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2007 (11/773,894). 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=8,438,164&OS=8,438,164&RS=8,438,164 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Deutsche Telekom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Deutsche Telekom, Bonn, Germany, has been assigned a patent (8,437,066) developed by four co-inventors for an "optical purification of crystals." The co-inventors are Karsten Buse, Bonn, Germany, Matthias Falk, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Daniel Haertle, Bonn, Germany, and Michael Koesters, Bonn, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method for preparing a purified crystal for use in an optical component, from an impure crystal having impurities or crystal defects capable of causing a specific absorption of incident light, includes heating the impure crystal to a temperature at which ions in the crystal are mobile and provide conductivity. A part of the crystal is illuminated with an electromagnetic purifying beam having a frequency in or near a visible frequency range so as to optically excite and migrate charges in the crystal, the charges being compensated by a counter-migration of the ions so as to be fixed in place thereafter so as to provide a purified crystal zone. The crystal is cooled to a future operating temperature." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2008 (12/524,475). 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=8,437,066&OS=8,437,066&RS=8,437,066 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nokia Assigned Patent for Housing for an Electronic Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Nokia, Espoo, Finland, has been assigned a patent (8,437,125) developed by Claus Jorgensen, Frederiksberg, Denmark, Herman Scherling, Kokkedal, Denmark, and Duncan Burns, Tarzana, Calif., for a "housing for an electronic apparatus." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A portable electronic apparatus including: a plurality of electronic components; a unitary body having an exterior continuous surface, a first aperture in the exterior continuous surface and a second aperture in the exterior continuous surface, wherein a first portion of the exterior continuous surface and the first aperture define a first major face of the apparatus and a second portion of the exterior continuous surface and the second aperture define a second major face of the apparatus, and wherein the first aperture is sized and positioned for the insertion of at least some of the electronic components into an interior housing volume of the unitary body and is closed by an electronic component providing at least part of a user interface and wherein the second aperture is sized and positioned for closure by the insertion of an energy storage electronic component." The patent application was filed on Aug. 24, 2009 (12/583,606). 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=8,437,125&OS=8,437,125&RS=8,437,125 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (8,438,060) developed by Matthew Symons, Oakland, Calif., Miles Fender, Sonoma, Calif., and Piu Bose, Oakland, Calif., for a "dynamic online experience modification and inventory optimization based on statistically significant geo-location parameter." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An online experience of a user is dynamically configured at the micro-regional level based to achieve an objective associated with sales of a product. A catchment zone is determined, which identifies the geographic region associated with the objective and the product. The online user experience for users in the catchment zone is modified to achieve the objective." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2009 (12/366,133). 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=8,438,060&OS=8,438,060&RS=8,438,060 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Airmagnet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Airmagnet, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,437,263) developed by Jagane D. Sundar, Saratoga, Calif., Chia-Chee Kuan, Los Altos, Calif., and Miles Wu, Fremont, Calif., for "tracing an access point in a wireless network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An access point in a wireless network is traced by sending an internet protocol (IP) packet from a detector to the access point through the wireless network. The detector and the access point are connected through a private wired network. The IP packet is sent with the source IP address field and the destination IP address of the IP packet set to the wireless IP address and wired IP address, respectively, of the detector. The IP packet is routed back to the detector through a switch in the private wired network. When the IP packet is received at the detector, a source IP address, which corresponds to the port on the switch used to send the IP packet, is determined from the received IP packet." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2006 (11/373,397). 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=8,437,263&OS=8,437,263&RS=8,437,263 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell World Trade Assigned Patent for Flash Memory Controller ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Marvell World Trade, St. Michael, Barbados, has been assigned a patent (8,438,356) developed by four co-inventors for a flash memory controller. The co-inventors are Tony Yoon, Cupertino, Calif., Akio Goto, Saitama, Japan, Chi Kong Lee, Fremont, Calif., and Masayuki Urabe, Isehara, Japan. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods, systems and computer program products for implementing a polling process among one or more flash memory devices are described. In some implementations, the polling process may include sending a read status command to a flash memory device to detect the ready or busy state of the flash memory device. A status register may be included in the flash memory device for storing a status signal indicating an execution state of a write (or erase) operation. A solid state drive system may perform the polling process by reading the status register of the flash memory device." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2008 (12/241,000). 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=8,438,356&OS=8,438,356&RS=8,438,356 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Manually Settable Tamper Resistant Indicator Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Janet L. Fagan, Mountain View, Calif., has developed a patent (8,434,421) for a "manually settable tamper resistant indicator device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A manually settable, tamper resistant indicator device suitable for use in medical and other professions, and a method for operating the device, are disclosed. An indicia member is manually moved relative to a pointer member, in setting the indicator device to display selected indicia at a pointing area. The displayed information is locked by fixing the indicia member relative to the pointer member, using a tamper resistant locking member. A fastening device, which may be tamper resistant, is used for attaching the indicator device to an article, which may be a medical device attached to a medical patient. The indicator device may be sterilized. In a medical setting, the displayed information may include a day, a date, a usage count or a personnel identifier. In one example, the indicia member has a plurality of sliding strips, each sliding strip being mounted to the pointer member and independently movable." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2010 (12/884,350). 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=84,34,421.PN.&OS=PN/84,34,421&RS=PN/84,34,421 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Weight Balancing Face Shield ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Roy Paulson, Temecula, Calif., has developed a patent (8,434,168) for a "weight balancing face shield." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A rotational engagement component to engage a lens for facial protection, to headwear such as a helmet worn on the head of a user. The device features one or a plurality of mounts engageable to the helmet. A pivot engaged with the mount and with the lens, allow rotation of the lens from an as-used position in front of the user, to a horizontal stowed position. The pivot is translatable in its engagement to the mount allowing for translation of the lens in the stowed position to adjust its center of gravity on the user's head." The patent application was filed on Oct. 7, 2011 (13/269,276). 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=84,34,168.PN.&OS=PN/84,34,168&RS=PN/84,34,168 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Chevron USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Chevron USA, San Ramon, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,221) developed by Sven Ivar Hommeltoft, Pleasant Hill, Calif., and Bi-Zeng Zhan, Albany, Calif., for "processes for upgrading fischer-tropsch condensate olefins by alkylation of hydrocrackate." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Processes for upgrading Fischer-Tropsch condensate olefins by alkylation of hydrocrackate may involve providing an olefin enriched condensate stream and further providing a Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon stream comprising wax, hydrocracking the latter Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon stream to provide a distillate enriched hydrocracked product comprising isoparaffins, and alkylating the olefins with the isoparaffins in an alkylation zone to provide an alkylate product. The alkylate product may be fed to a distillation unit together with the hydrocracked product, while a naphtha containing fraction from the distillation unit may be fed to the alkylation zone together with the olefin enriched hydrocarbon stream." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2010 (12/975,752). 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=84,36,221.PN.&OS=PN/84,36,221&RS=PN/84,36,221 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Rotary Piston Device having Interwined Dual Linked and Undulating Rotating Pistons ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Johannes Peter Schneeberger, Brisbane, Calif., has developed a patent (8,434,449) for a "rotary piston device having interwined dual linked and undulating rotating pistons." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Axially protruding, centrally cooled pistons rotate around a stationary primary rotation axis within a cylindrical piston chamber. The pistons are held on both of their axial ends by concentrically rotating crank disks as intertwined rotary assemblies. On the outside of each crank disk is hinged a driving piston that slides in a radial guide of two flywheels oppositely axially adjacent the piston chamber and crank disks. The flywheels rotate around an offset secondary rotation axis. As a result. The pistons are individually and oppositely alternately accelerated and decelerated. Volumes between them angularly expand and contract. Inlets and outlets are positioned along the piston chamber circumference in correspondence with expansion and contraction phases of the rotating volumes. A low number of moving parts, area sealed volumes, no valves, no dead volume, balanced mass forces, vibration free rotation and short force transmission paths provide for lightweight construction and high rotational speeds." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2009 (12/534,815). 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=84,34,449.PN.&OS=PN/84,34,449&RS=PN/84,34,449 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Pet Leash Assemblies, Pet Collar Assemblies, and Methods of Using the Same ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Thomas Andrew Moeller, Truckee, Calif., has developed a patent (8,434,429) for "pet leash assemblies, pet collar assemblies, and methods of using the same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Pet leash assemblies, pet collar assemblies, and methods of using the same. Pet leash assemblies include a tether and a gated clasp coupled to the tether. The gated clasp includes a body, a gate hinged to the body, and a biasing member that pivotally biases the gated clasp to a closed configuration. The gate may include a projection that extends away from the body. When the projection is urged toward a terminal region of the body, the gate is pivoted against a bias of the biasing member and the gated clasp is configured to an open configuration, in which a coupling ring of a collar may be inserted into and removed from a passage defined between the gate and the body. The clasp may include a sliding actuator with a gate-engagement surface positioned to engage and pivot the gate against its bias when the actuator is translated toward the gate." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2009 (12/536,173). 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=84,34,429.PN.&OS=PN/84,34,429&RS=PN/84,34,429 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BioMarker Pharmaceuticals Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- BioMarker Pharmaceuticals, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,224) developed by Xi Zhao-Wilson, Los Gatos, Calif., for "methods for testing for caloric restriction (CR) mimetics." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods for treating neurological diseases and for testing Caloric Restriction (CR) mimetics or CR mimetic candidates. In one exemplary method, a CR mimetic candidate is administered to a transgenic animal and the effects of the administering are determined; the transgenic animal includes an added gene from another type of animal or a modified gene which is designed to produce a disease or ailment of another type of animal, and the method seeks to determine whether the CR mimetic candidate improves the disease or ailment. Methods relating to neurological disease and other methods relating to CR mimetic testing are also described." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2011 (13/154,035). 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=84,36,224.PN.&OS=PN/84,36,224&RS=PN/84,36,224 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Process Innovators Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Process Innovators, Salt Lake City, has been assigned a patent (8,435,401) developed by four co-inventors for a "fluidized catalytic cracker with active stripper and methods using same." The co-inventors are A. Lamont Tyler, Salt Lake City, Vincent J. Memmott, Centerville, Utah, John A. Paraskos, San Rafael, Calif., and James R. Vemich, Bountiful, Utah. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A staged fluidized catalytic cracker and method for cracking a hydrocarbonaceous material includes a plurality of staged reactors that have catalyst particles flowing in series from one reactor to the next and hydrocarbon feed that is delivered in parallel to the reactors. Between each reactor the partially spent catalyst is actively stripped to partially reactivate the catalyst. Once the catalyst is fully spent in the final reactor the catalyst can be oxidatively regenerated." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2009 (12/349,408). 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=8,435,401&OS=8,435,401&RS=8,435,401 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Bathing Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Lamia Shorees, Lakeside, Calif., has developed a patent (8,434,191) for a bathing apparatus. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A bathing apparatus is described that comprises a loosely knitted or woven fabric bag made from a hydrophobic yarn material and includes an opening at one end to allow cleansing material, such as a bar of soap, to be inserted into and encased within the apparatus and loops woven into the ends of the apparatus that allow the user to grasp it readily." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/542,400). 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=84,34,191.PN.&OS=PN/84,34,191&RS=PN/84,34,191 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Genentech Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- Genentech, South San Francisco, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,147) developed by four co-inventors for "antibodies and immunoconjugates and uses therefore." The co-inventors are Mark S. Dennis, San Carlos, Calif., Bonnee Rubinfeld, Danville, Calif., Paul Polakis, Mill Valley, Calif., and Aya Jakobovits, Beverly Hills, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Anti-STEAP-1 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided. Methods of using anti-STEAP-1 antibodies and immunoconjugates thereof are provided." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2007 (11/978,122). 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=84,36,147.PN.&OS=PN/84,36,147&RS=PN/84,36,147 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AbbVie Biotherapeutics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 14 -- AbbVie Biotherapeutics, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,436,146) developed by five co-inventors for a "therapeutic use of anti-CS1 antibodies." The co-inventors are Marna Williams, Palo Alto, Calif., J. Yun Tso, Menlo Park, Calif., Nicholas F. Landolfi, Menlo Park, Calif., David B. Powers, Fairfax, Calif., and Gao Liu, Mountain View, Calif. 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