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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (May 16)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** Abbott Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Abbott, Wiesbaden, Germany, has been assigned a patent (8,431,604) developed by eight co-inventors for a "guanidine compounds, and use thereof as binding partners for 5-HT5 receptors." The co-inventors are Astrid Netz, Mannheim, Germany, Wilhelm Amberg, Mannheim, Germany, Udo Lange, Mannheim, Germany, Michael Ochse, Bad Duerkheim, Germany, Charles W. Hutchins, Green Oaks, Ill., Francisco-Xavier Garcia-Ladona, Kandel, Germany, Wolfgang Wernet, Neustadt, Germany, and Andreas Kling, Mannheim, Germany. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to guanidine compounds of the general formula I ##STR00001## corresponding enantiomeric, diastereomeric and/or tautomeric forms thereof as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present compound further relates to the use of guanidine compounds as binding partners for 5-HT5 receptors for the treatment of diseases which are modulated by a 5-HT5 receptor activity, in particular for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders as well as the associated signs, symptoms and dysfunctions." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2005 (10/590,265). 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=8,431,604.PN.&OS=PN/8,431,604&RS=PN/8,431,604 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Siemens Medical Solutions Assigned Patent for System for Cardiac Medical Condition Detection ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,442,624) developed by Hongxuan Zhang, Palatine, Ill., for a "system for cardiac medical condition detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for heart performance characterization and abnormality detection processes a heart electrical activity signal in determining multiple first signal characteristic values over multiple heart cycles. A first signal characteristic value substantially comprises a time interval between a peak of a P wave to a peak of a succeeding R wave representing a repolarization time interval in an individual heart cycle and the signal processor uses a peak detector and time detector for identifying the peaks and detecting a time difference between the identified peaks. A comparator compares at least one of the multiple first signal characteristic values or a value derived from the multiple first signal characteristic values with a threshold value to provide a comparison indicator. A patient monitor in response to the comparison indicator indicating a calculated signal characteristic value exceeds the threshold value, generates an alert message associated with the threshold." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2011 (12/986,205). 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=8,442,624&OS=8,442,624&RS=8,442,624 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** GoGo Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- GoGo, Itasca, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,519) developed by eight co-inventors for a "spectrum sharing between an aircraft-based air-to-ground communication system and existing geostationary satellite services." The co-inventors are Joseph M. Cruz, Naperville, Ill., Patrick J. Walsh, Naperville, Ill., Joseph Alan Tobin, Chicago, Tim Joyce, Naperville, Ill., Yong Liu, Schaumberg, Ill., Anand K. Chari, Bartlett, Ill., Ivica Kostanic, Palm Bay, Fla., and Harold Grant Saroka, Ashburn, Va. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present Spectrum Sharing System implements spectrum reuse between aircraft-based Air-To-Ground (ATG) communication systems and Geostationary Satellite Service systems. This is accomplished by managing the radio frequency transmissions in the volume of space in which the aircraft operates, with interference between the Spectrum Sharing System and the Geostationary Satellite Service system being reduced by implementing reversed uplink and downlink radio frequency paths in the common spectrum. The Spectrum Sharing System also avoids interfering with Geostationary Satellite Services' earth stations which are pointed towards the satellites' orbital arc by relying upon a combination of the earth stations' highly directive antenna patterns and the Spectrum Sharing System ground station antenna pattern, and to avoid interfering with satellites in their orbital arc by assuring that power levels radiated in that direction by the Spectrum Sharing System ground stations are below the level that would create interference." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2011 (13/172,539). 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=8,442,519.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,519&RS=PN/8,442,519 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,513) developed by Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Arlington Heights, Ill., Ravi Kuchibhotla, Gurnee, Ill., and Murali Narasimha, Lake Zurich, Ill., for a "measurement report reliability in wireless communication systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method in a mobile station for measurement reporting in a wireless system includes detecting the presence of a cell, applying a first filter to a first number of measurement samples of a first measurement quantity of the cell wherein the first number of measurement samples are determined from a switch point, and applying a second filter to a plurality of measurement samples obtained from measurements made subsequent to the first number of measurement samples." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2009 (12/605,448). 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=8,442,513.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,513&RS=PN/8,442,513 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,712) developed by Lewei Qian, Peoria, Ill., for a "system and method to thermally protect a transistor in an electric drive vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An electronic system for an electric drive mobile machine includes at least one transistor that emits heat, a pressure detector that generates a pressure signal, a temperature detector providing a first temperature signal indicative of the detected first temperature and a second temperature of or substantially adjacent to the transistor, and a controller configured to determine a temperature protection set point based upon the first temperature signal and the pressure signal and execute a control strategy for thermally protecting the transistor when the first temperature signal indicates that the first temperature reaches the temperature protection set point." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2011 (13/222,785). 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=8,442,712&OS=8,442,712&RS=8,442,712 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,564) developed by four co-inventors for an "inter-modulation distortion reduction in multi-mode wireless communication terminal." The co-inventors are Robert T. Love, Barrington, Ill., Ravikiran Nory, Buffalo Grove, Ill., Kenneth A. Stewart, Grayslake, Ill., and Ravi Kuchibhotla, Gurnee, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multimode wireless communication terminal that communicates using a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT determines whether the first and second RATs are in an active state. When the wireless communication terminal is simultaneously transmitting on the first and second RATs, UCI is transmitted on a PUSCH using the first RAT if there is a scheduled PUSCH transmission or an uplink scheduling grant indicating a periodic CSI report, wherein the UCI would otherwise be transmitted on a PUCCH when the terminal is not transmitting using the first and second RATs simultaneously and there is a scheduled PUSCH on the first RAT." The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2011 (13/006,125). 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=8,442,564&OS=8,442,564&RS=8,442,564 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NuVasive Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- NuVasive, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,442,621) developed by five co-inventors for "surgical trajectory monitoring system and related methods." The co-inventors are Josef Gorek, Oakland, Calif., Thomas U. Scholl, San Diego, Eric Finley, San Diego, Albert C. Kim, San Diego, and Martin Herman, Chicago. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for determining a desired trajectory and/or monitoring the trajectory of surgical instruments and/or implants in any number of surgical procedures, such as (but not limited to) spinal surgery, including (but not limited to) ensuring proper placement of pedicle screws during pedicle fixation procedures and ensuring proper trajectory during the establishment of an operative corridor to a spinal target site." The patent application was filed on May 17, 2007 (12/301,233). 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=8,442,621&OS=8,442,621&RS=8,442,621 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,004) developed by four co-inventors for a "service continuity during outbound handover from a home network base station with local internet protocol access." The co-inventors are Hao Bi, Lake Zurich, Ill., Howard Benn, Swindon, United Kingdom, Scott Droste, Crystal Lake, Ill., and Jian Wu, Reading, United Kingdom. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method, a mobile system, and a home network base station are disclosed. A mobile management entity 502 may generate a local network access disable notification message element 650 to provide available options to a mobile system 104 for establishing packet data network connectivity upon an access loss to a home network base station 110. The mobile management entity 502 may send the local network access disable notification message element 650 to the mobile system 104 upon an imminent local network access loss event." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2009 (12/493,440). 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=84,42,004.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,004&RS=PN/84,42,004 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,441,827) developed by four co-inventors for a "power converter assembly having a housing." The co-inventors are Thomas M. Baker, Peoria, Ill., Robert R. Sychra, Washington, Ill., Keith E. Dixler, Peoria, Ill., and Jon N. Husser, McNabb, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A power converter assembly includes a housing and at least one transistor module. The housing has a liquid cooled heat transfer surface. The at least one transistor module is mounted directly to the liquid cooled heat transfer surface and positioned at least partially within the housing." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2010 (12/721,889). 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=84,41,827.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,827&RS=PN/84,41,827 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Redsky Technologies Assigned Patent for Emergency Location Information Gateway for Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and Method of Use ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Redsky Technologies, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,442,481) developed by Nicholas M. Maier, Menlo Park, Calif., and William L. Mertka, Geneva, Ill., for an "emergency location information gateway for public safety answering points (PSAPs) and method of use." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The emergency location information gateway provides Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) with the capability to receive NG911-compliant (i.e., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP-based) and/or SIP-Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)) and other types emergency calls including embedded emergency location information and determine a physical location of a mobile or non-mobile target network device based on the embedded emergency location information. Conversely, a legacy network gateway (LGN) enables the conversion of traditional 911, and E911 calls into NG911 calls for transport and dissemination by so-called Emergency Services IP networks, or ESInets." The patent application was filed on July 28, 2010 (12/844,972). 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=8,442,481.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,481&RS=PN/8,442,481 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent for Using Mobile Communication Devices to Facilitate Coordinating Use of Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,442,542) developed by Arthur Brisebois, Cumming, Ga., and Sharat S. Chander, Woodridge, Ill., for "using mobile communication devices to facilitate coordinating use of resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "System(s), method(s), and device(s) that facilitate managing resources associated with communication devices are presented. A mobile device(s) at cell edge identifies its in-use resource blocks (RBs) to a neighbor base station, or in-use RBs of a neighbor base station to the serving base station. In the former instance, the neighbor base station sorts RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and mobile devices; in the latter instance, the serving base station ranks RBs in ascending order based on signal strengths respectively associated with the RBs and neighbor base stations. RBs having weakest signal strength are reused first for mobile devices at cell edge. Base station establishes a direct wireless radio path with another base station facilitated by employing a sequence of subframes where all subframes but a specified subframe are blanked, and data is transmitted between base stations during the specified subframe." The patent application was filed on June 5, 2012 (13/489,228). 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=8,442,542&OS=8,442,542&RS=8,442,542 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Empire Technology Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Empire Technology Development, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,442,440) developed by Gokhan Memik, Evanston, Ill., Seda Ogrenci Memik, Evanston, Ill., and Bill Mangione-Smith, Kirkland, Wash., for a "hierarchical spectrum sensing for cognitive radios." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure generally describes methods and systems for spectrum sensing within a cognitive radio. Example methods may include but are not limited to scanning radio frequencies within an initial portion of the radio frequency spectrum and analyzing the frequencies scanned within the initial portion. Example methods may also include but are not limited to dividing the initial portion into first and second portions, and selecting one of the first and second portions for further analysis." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2009 (12/511,955). 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=8,442,440.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,440&RS=PN/8,442,440 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Redsky Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Redsky Technologies, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,442,482) developed by Nicholas M. Maier, Menlo Park, Calif., and Gerald R. Eisner, Chicago, for a "method and system for an emergency location information service (E-LIS)." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for determining and verifying a location of mobile and non-mobile devices in emergency situations. The method and system provide a current physical geographic location for a mobile or non-mobile device (e.g., building address, a building floor, a room on a building floor, campus, enterprise, city, state, region, country, continent, etc.) with and without translation of location coordinates, in an emergency situation such as an accident, fire, terrorist attack, military incident, kidnapping, etc." The patent application was filed on May 2, 2011 (13/098,981). 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=8,442,482.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,482&RS=PN/8,442,482 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,021) developed by Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Arlington Heights, Ill., and Ravi Kuchibhotla, Gurnee, Ill., for a "radio link performance prediction in wireless communication terminal." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for predicting performance of a radio link in a wireless communication terminal including hypothesizing a second codeword including information associated with a hypothesized first codeword, obtaining channel state information from a received signal, and estimating a decoder error rate of the first codeword under a condition that the second codeword may not be decoded correctly, wherein the decoder error rate is estimated using the channel state information." The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2009 (12/605,461). 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=84,42,021.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,021&RS=PN/84,42,021 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cummins-Allison Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cummins-Allison, Mount Prospect, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,296) developed by four co-inventors for a "check and U.S. bank note processing device and method." The co-inventors are John E. Jones, Winnetka, Ill., Paul A. Jones, Glenview, Ill., William J. Jones, Barrington, Ill., and Douglas U. Mennie, Barrington, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A check and U.S. bank note processing device configured to process both checks and U.S. bank notes and a method of using the same. The device comprises an input receptacle configured to receive checks and U.S. bank notes and an output receptacle. The device further comprises a transport mechanism configured to transport the checks and U.S. bank notes from the input receptacle past an image scanner. The image scanner is configured to obtain an image of each check and U.S. bank note transported past the image scanner. The device is configured to determine the denominations of U.S. bank notes transported by the transport mechanism. The device further comprises a memory configured to store the images of checks transported past the image scanner." The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2011 (13/240,122). 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=8,442,296.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,296&RS=PN/8,442,296 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Sound ID Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Sound ID, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,435) developed by five co-inventors for a "method of remotely controlling an Ear-level device functional element." The co-inventors are Michael R. Jones, Naperville, Ill., Caslav V. Pavlovic, Palo Alto, Calif., Ephram Cohen, San Francisco, Nicholas R. Michael, San Francisco, and Meena Ramani, Cupertino, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method controls a functional element of an ear-level device of a type including a functional element, a memory, a microphone and a speaker, each coupled to a processor. Communication between the ear-level device and a companion device, such as a mobile phone, is established. A functional element for control is selected through the user interface of the companion device. A control instruction for controlling the selected functional element is chosen using the user interface and is transmitted from the companion device to the ear-level device to provide instruction to the ear-level device to control the selected functional element in the chosen way." The patent application was filed on July 21, 2010 (12/841,084). 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=8,442,435.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,435&RS=PN/8,442,435 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Futurewei Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Futurewei Technologies, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,442,072) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of preventing transport leaks in hybrid switching networks by extension of the link layer discovery protocol (LLDP)." The co-inventors are Robert Sultan, Somers, N.Y., Linda Dunbar, Plano, Texas, Lucy Yong, Tulsa, Okla., and T. Benjamin Mack-Crane, Downers Grove, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a first data structure comprising a first virtual local area network identifier (VID) and a first forwarding type, comparing the first VID and a first forwarding type with a second VID and a second forwarding type in a second data structure, and reporting a misprovisioned data structure if the first VID is the same as the second VID and the first forwarding type is not the same as the second forwarding type. Also disclosed is a method comprising implementing a network protocol to forward provisioning information in a plurality of VID Tables corresponding to a plurality of nodes, and analyzing the provisioning information to detect misprovisioned nodes." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2008 (12/057,190). 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=8,442,072&OS=8,442,072&RS=8,442,072 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of Illinois Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- The University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,442,091) developed by five co-inventors for a "microchannel laser having microplasma gain media." The co-inventors are Sung-Jin Park, Champaign, Ill., J. Gary Eden, Champaign, Ill., Paoyei Chen, McKinney, Texas, Paul A. Tchertchian, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Thomas M. Spinka, Urbana, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The invention provides microchannel lasers having a microplasma gain medium. Lasers of the invention can be formed in semiconductor materials, and can also be formed in polymer materials. In a microlaser of the invention, high density plasmas are produced in microchannels. The microplasma acts as a gain medium with the electrodes sustaining the plasma in the microchannel. Reflectors are used with the microchannel for obtaining optical feedback to obtain lasing in the microplasma gain medium in devices of the invention for a wide range of atomic and molecular species. Several atomic and molecular gain media will produce sufficiently high gain coefficients that reflectors (mirrors) are not necessary. Microlasers of the invention are based on microplasma generation in channels of various geometries. Preferred embodiment microlaser designs can be fabricated in semiconductor materials, such as Si wafers, by standard photolithographic techniques, or in polymers by replica molding." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2008 (12/682,977). 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=8,442,091&OS=8,442,091&RS=8,442,091 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Decision Command Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Decision Command, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,442,932) developed by Willard I. Zangwill, Chicago, for a "system and method for making decisions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed that assist in making decisions, valuing a choice or action, promoting creative solutions, and reducing risks. Among other situations, the systems and methods consider situations where the user or users are evaluating a possible single choice or several alternative choices. The criteria to evaluate the decisions are input into a grid, and the user or users rate the one or more alternatives against the different criteria. Given several alternative choices or options, the system and method provides the probability each alternative is the right selection. In one embodiment, the system implements a Bayesian approach. The systems and methods may estimate the value of an option or choice, where the value might be financial or other metric, and may estimate the value of a risk, opportunity or factor that might influence the result. The systems and methods may estimate the amount the chance of being surprised or missing some relevant consideration has been reduced by the analysis. The possibility of black or gray swans can also be estimated, in the phraseology of Nassim Taleb. Systems and methods so disclosed may be employed in financial analyzes, project or strategy selection, betting, resolution of disagreements, intelligence analysis, and so on." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2010 (12/719,956). 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=8,442,932&OS=8,442,932&RS=8,442,932 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Rockwell Automation Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Rockwell Automation Technologies, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, has been assigned a patent (8,442,933) developed by nine co-inventors for a "web-based visualization mash-ups for industrial automation." The co-inventors are John Joseph Baier, Mentor, Ohio, Clifton Harold Bromley, Westminster, Canada, Mark Hobbs, Hartford, Wis., Teunis Hendrik Schouten, Langley, Canada, Douglas James Reichard, Fairview Park, Ohio, Kevin George Gordon, Vancouver, Canada, Taryl Jon Jasper, South Euclid, Ohio, Robert Joseph McGreevy, Oswego, Ill., and Bruce Gordan Fuller, Alberta, Canada. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A visualization system that generates visual mash-ups for industrial automation includes a mash-up component that combines output from a subset of disparate sources into a common interface. The disparate sources include at least one of equipment, computers, or devices within an industrial automation environment. A visualization component generates and displays a mash-up visualization that includes information associated with the common interface." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2012 (13/565,491). 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=8,442,933&OS=8,442,933&RS=8,442,933 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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