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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Maryland (May 15)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Maryland. *** Mcmcap Partners Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Mcmcap Partners, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,442,908) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for asset valuation." The co-inventors are Michael Niccolini, Baltimore, Kevin Kirkbride, Washington, James Jedediah Williams, Boyds, Md., Walter Hancock, Leesburg, Va., and William L. Newcomb, Washington. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for asset valuation, whole loan processing and inventory management is described. The systems and methods may include modules. An asset valuation tool may use multiple data sources for producing current and predicted future values and historical and intermediate data points on a requested timeline. A loan information pricing tool may perform unlimited volumes of loan program eligibility and multi-variable pricings on a user desktop. A workout activity tracking tool may capture, monitor, measure and report on a loan workout process including direct hosting and integration of the asset valuation tool and the loan information pricing tool. The present invention may offer diverse and competitive modular components as well as an integrated and innovative platform that does not exist in the market." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/813,657). 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=84,42,908.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,908&RS=PN/84,42,908 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NSA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The U.S. National Security Agency has been assigned a patent (8,442,825) developed by Michael Sinutko, Glen Burnie, Md., for a biomimetic voice identifier. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device for voice identification including a receiver, a segmenter, a resolver, two advancers, a buffer, and a plurality of IIR resonator digital filters where each IIR filter comprises a set of memory locations or functional equivalent to hold filter specifications, a memory location or functional equivalent to hold the arithmetic reciprocal of the filter's gain, a five cell controller array, several multipliers, an adder, a subtractor, and a logical non-shift register. Each cell of the five cell controller array has five logical states, each acting as a five-position single-pole rotating switch that operates in unison with the four others. Additionally, the device also includes an artificial neural network and a display means." The patent application was filed on Aug. 16, 2011 (13/200,034). 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=84,42,825.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,825&RS=PN/84,42,825 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Thermodynamic Design, Meso Scale Diagnostics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Thermodynamic Design, Potomac, Md., and Meso Scale Diagnostics, Gaithersburg, Md., have been assigned a patent (8,442,921) developed by five co-inventors for a "real property information management, retention and transferal system and methods for using same." The co-inventors are Jacob Wohlstadter, Potomac, Md., Bradley Christiansen, Centreville, Va., Craig Philip Lovell, Fairfax, Va., Michael Osganian, Fairfax, Va., and Michael Vock, Vienna, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is in the field of computer systems and processes for managing real and personal property. One aspect of the invention is directed to capturing history of a (real) property, which may include a description of the property, the personal property located on the real property, the projects and maintenance performed or to be performed on the property and their impact on the owner's tax basis in the property. Another aspect of invention allows for sharing of this history with an online community and for transferring the history (or portions thereof) on sale to a buyer." The patent application was filed on June 6, 2008 (12/451,946). 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=84,42,921.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,921&RS=PN/84,42,921 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Immersion Medical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Immersion Medical, Baltimore, has been assigned a patent (8,442,806) developed by Milan Ikits, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Donald Douglas Nelson, Montgomery Village, Md., for "systems and methods for simulations utilizing a virtual coupling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments include storing values of a first plurality of nodes in memory based on tracking the position of a plurality of points of a physical object and maintaining a second plurality of nodes in memory, each node of the second plurality of nodes corresponding to a node of the first plurality. The values of the second plurality of nodes can be used to model interactions with other objects and to render a view of a simulated object. The simulation can access data identifying a simulation boundary and selectively update values of the second plurality of nodes using the first plurality of nodes while ensuring that the simulation boundary is not violated. A value of the second plurality of nodes can be set to be different from the value of the corresponding one of the first plurality of nodes if using the first node's value would violate the boundary." The patent application was filed on March 3, 2010 (12/716,903). 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=84,42,806.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,806&RS=PN/84,42,806 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Xilinx Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems with Transaction-level Lockstep ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Xilinx, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,230) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and systems with transaction-level lockstep." The co-inventors are Philip B. James-Roxby, Longmont, Colo., Ralph D. Wittig, Menlo Park, Calif., Brendan K. Bridgford, Vienna, Va., Robert M. McGee, Placitas, N.M., and Richard DeFelice, Pikesville, Md. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for redundant operation of a first and second processor are provided. A set of instructions is executed in parallel on the first and second processors. In response to a first access transaction for a peripheral device being issued from execution of an instruction by the first processor, the first processor suspends operation. In response to the first access transaction being a write transaction, the write transaction is not issued to the peripheral device until the second processor executes the instruction and issues a second access transaction that is equal to the write transaction. In response to the first access transaction being a read transaction, the read transaction is not issued to the peripheral device until the second processor executes the instruction." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2010 (12/969,355). 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=8,443,230.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,230&RS=PN/8,443,230 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Intertrust Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Intertrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,443,198) developed by five co-inventors for a "trusted and secure techniques for item delivery and execution." The co-inventors are Karl L. Ginter, Beltsville, Md., Victor H. Shear, Bethesda, Md., Francis J. Spahn, El Cerrito, Calif., David M. Van Wie, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Robert P. Weber, Menlo Park, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Documents and other items can be delivered electronically from sender to recipient with a level of trustedness approaching or exceeding that provided by a personal document courier. A trusted electronic go-between can validate, witness and/or archive transactions while, in some cases, actively participating in or directing the transaction. Printed or imaged documents can be marked using handwritten signature images, seal images, electronic fingerprinting, watermarking, and/or steganography. Electronic commercial transactions and transmissions take place in a reliable, "trusted" virtual distribution environment that provides significant efficiency and cost savings benefits to users in addition to providing an extremely high degree of confidence and trustedness. The systems and techniques have many uses including but not limited to secure document delivery, execution of legal documents, and electronic data interchange (EDI)." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2007 (11/926,863). 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=8,443,198.PN.&OS=PN/8,443,198&RS=PN/8,443,198 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NSA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- The U.S. National Security Agency has been assigned a patent (8,443,105) developed by Todd B. Finkler, Crofton, Md., and Mark A. Shayman, Potomac, Md., for a "device for and method of network routing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device and method of routing traffic in a network by receiving the network, assigning a maximum temperature value to gateway nodes, calculating temperature values for router nodes, determining self-utilization values for nodes, determining neighborhood-utilization values for router nodes, determining pressure values for gateway nodes, determining pressure values for router nodes, identifying router node sent traffic, identifying neighboring nodes having higher temperatures than router node, identifying neighboring node with lowest pressure value, sending traffic to neighboring node with lowest pressure value, and stopping if the neighboring node is a gateway node, otherwise identifying the node as a router node and returning to the step of finding neighboring nodes." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2011 (13/374,638). 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=8,443,105&OS=8,443,105&RS=8,443,105 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Verisign Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- Verisign, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,443,375) developed by Roberto Rodrigues, Herndon, Va., and Suresh Bhogavilli, Gaithersburg, Md., for lockless queues. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for passing data from a first processing thread to a second processing thread, wherein the first processing thread produces data to be processed by the second processing thread. The data from the first processing thread may be inserted into objects that in turn are inserted into a queue of objects to be processed by the second thread. The queue may be a circular array, wherein the array includes a pointer to a head and a pointer to a tail, wherein only the first processing thread modifies the tail pointer and only the second processing thread modifies the head pointer." The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2009 (12/637,166). 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=8,443,375&OS=8,443,375&RS=8,443,375 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1124938 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |