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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (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 Massachusetts. *** Extreme Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Extreme Networks, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,030) developed by Larry R. Dennison, Walpole, Mass., for a "software control plane for switches and routers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Provider Network Controller (PNC) addresses the challenges in building services across Next Generation Network (NGN) architectures and creates an abstraction layer as a bridge, or glue, between the network transport and applications running over it. The PNC is a multi-layer, multi-vendor dynamic control plane that implements service activation and Layer 0-2 management tools for multiple transport technologies including Carrier Ethernet, Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Transport MPLS (T-MPLS), optical and integrated networking platforms. Decoupling transport controls and services from the network equipment simplifies service creation and provides options for carriers to choose best-in-class equipment that leverages the PNC to enable rapid creation and management of transports and services. The PNC provides Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) interfaces to abstract transport objects expressly designed to support both wholesale and retail services, and supports service offerings with varied bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, thus achieving enterprise Ethernet economics." The patent application was filed on Feb. 29, 2008 (12/074,268). 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=84,42,030.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,030&RS=PN/84,42,030 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Brooks Automation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Brooks Automation, Chelmsford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,667) developed by Patrick D. Pannese, Lynnfield, Mass., for "applications of neural networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for real time control and monitoring of a semiconductor manufacturing process. More generally, these techniques may be usefully employed in a variety of real time control systems, particularly systems requiring complex scheduling decisions or heterogeneous systems constructed of hardware from numerous independent vendors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 18, 2008 (12/032,733). 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=8,442,667&OS=8,442,667&RS=8,442,667 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Teledyne Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Teledyne Instruments, Thousand Oaks, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,892) developed by Andrey K. Morozov, Falmouth, Mass., and Douglas C. Webb, Falmouth, Mass., for a "gas-filled bubble seismo-acoustic source." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A sound source includes a tubular resonator configured to be filled with a gas. The exterior of the resonator includes rigid and elastomeric portions. The interior of the resonator includes a first volume and a second volume. The volumes are separated by a rigid tubular wall containing at least one orifice. The at least one orifice enables a flow of gas between the volumes. The resonator also includes at least one rigid tubular member configured to move along the rigid tubular wall. The position of the at least one rigid tubular member regulates at least one dimension of the path between the volumes. The sound source also includes a volume velocity actuator disposed within the resonator. The sound source also includes a processing circuit configured to provide a control signal to cause the volume velocity actuator to perturb the gas within the resonator at a defined frequency." The patent application was filed on March 12, 2012 (13/418,017). 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=84,41,892.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,892&RS=PN/84,41,892 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Medium Accessing Mechanisms within Multiple User, Multiple Access, and/or MIMO Wireless Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,975) developed by five co-inventors for "medium accessing mechanisms within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications." The co-inventors are Peiman Amini, Mountain View, Calif., Matthew James Fischer, Mountain View, Calif., Vinko Erceg, Cardiff by the Sea, Calif., Joseph Paul Lauer, North Reading, Mass., and Joonsuk Kim, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Medium accessing mechanisms within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A multi-user super-frame (MU-SF), as controlled by a MU-SF owner, is used to govern the manner by which various wireless communication devices have access to the communication medium. When various wireless communication devices operate within a wireless communication system, communication medium access can be handled differently for wireless communication devices having different capabilities. Per the MU-SF, those having a first capability may get medium access in accordance with a first operational mode (e.g., carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)), while those having a second capability may get medium access in accordance with a second operational mode (e.g., scheduled access). The respective durations for each of the first operational mode and the second operational mode within various MU-SFs need not be the same; the respective durations thereof may be adaptively modified based on any number considerations." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2010 (12/821,094). 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=84,41,975.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,975&RS=PN/84,41,975 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Dynamic Protection against Failure of a Head-end Node of One or more TE-LSPs ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,919) developed by Jean-Philippe Vasseur, Dunstable, Mass., for a "dynamic protection against failure of a head-end node of one or more TE-LSPs." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique dynamically protects against failure of a head-end node of one or more primary Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths (TE-LSPs) in a computer network. According to the novel technique, a neighboring upstream node ("protecting node") of the head-end node learns of the primary TE-LSPs (and their respective state control blocks) extending from the head-end node to one or more address prefixes. The protecting node establishes a repair TE-LSP for each of the primary TE-LSPs to a corresponding downstream neighboring node of the head-end node (a "next-next-hop"). In response to detecting a failure of the head-end node, the protecting node locally reroutes traffic destined for the address prefixes to an appropriate repair TE-LSP. Due to the failure of the head-end node, the protecting node then refreshes the states of the primary TE-LSPs using replicated state control blocks accordingly, until the repair TE-LSPs are no longer needed." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2006 (11/334,151). 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=84,41,919.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,919&RS=PN/84,41,919 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Nashua, N.H., has been assigned a patent (8,442,445) developed by four co-inventors for a "protocol reference model, security and inter-operability in a cognitive communications system." The co-inventors are Apurva N. Mody, Lowell, Mass., Matthew J. Sherman, Succasunna, N.J., Ranga Reddy, Bridgewater, N.J., and Thomas Kiernan, Little Silver, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various cognitive communications system architectures and their corresponding Protocol Reference Models (PRMs) are disclosed. Such PRMs incorporate a Cognitive Plane in addition to conventional Data and Management Planes. The additional Cognitive Plane functionality may include, for example, spectrum sensing, spectrum management, geolocation, and security functions. The Cognitive Plane may further include a Policy Engine and a Learning and Reasoning Module. In some embodiments, Management Plane functions may be effectively combined to form a database of primitives (and their respective values) called a Management Information Base (MIB). In addition, techniques are provided by which various components of cognitive and non-cognitive, as well as mesh-enabled and non-mesh-enabled nodes in a network, inter-operate with each other. The architectures allow a Spectrum Manager (or Signal Space Manager) to combine information from various network layers (e.g., PHY/MAC Layers, Spectrum Sensing Function, Geolocation Function, and/or Security Sublayers), and to make informed decisions on spectrum utilization." The patent application was filed on Aug. 11, 2008 (12/189,682). 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=8,442,445.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,445&RS=PN/8,442,445 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Analogic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Analogic, Peabody, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,295) developed by Jonathan Sam, Haverhill, Mass., for an anti-counterfeiting/authentication. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes an imager that images an object, which includes a marker that is visually obscured, a marker identifier that identifies markers in the image of the object, and an image processor that combines the image of the object and a visual representation for the identified marker into a combined image, wherein a presence of a visual representation for the marker included with the object in the combined image indicates the object is authentic. A method includes imaging an object that includes a visually obscured marker and generating an image of the object, identifying the marker in the image of the object, generating a combined image that includes the image of the object and a visual representation of the identified marker, presenting the combined image, wherein the object is authenticated as not counterfeit in response to the visual representation of the marker corresponding to a reference authentication marker for the object." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2010 (12/825,478). 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=8,442,295.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,295&RS=PN/8,442,295 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent for Automatic Electrode Integrity Management Systems and Methods ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,442,635) developed by five co-inventors for "automatic electrode integrity management systems and methods." The co-inventors are Derek D. Bohn, Woodbury, Minn., M. Jason Brooke, Woodstock, Md., Rajesh K. Gandhi, Woodbury, Minn., Alok S. Sathaye, Boston, and Aaron R. McCabe, Minneapolis. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for automatic electrode integrity management. Interelectrode impedance is measured for various electrode combinations of an implantable cardiac function management device. The impedance data is processed, such as at an external remote server, to determine whether an electrode is failing or has failed, to select an alternate electrode configuration, to alert a physician or patient, to predict a time-to-failure such as by using population data, or to reprogram electrode configuration or other device parameters of the implantable cardiac function management device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 22, 2011 (13/031,762). 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=8,442,635&OS=8,442,635&RS=8,442,635 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent for Method for Determining 3D Poses Using Points and Lines ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,305) developed by Srikumar Ramalingam, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method for determining 3D poses using points and lines." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A three-dimensional (3D) pose of a 3D object in an environment is determined by extracting features from an image acquired of the environment by a camera. The features are matched to a 3D model of the environment to determine correspondences. A camera reference frame of the image and a world reference frame of the environment are transformed to a corresponding intermediate camera reference frame and a corresponding world reference frame using the correspondences. Geometrical constraints are applied to the intermediate camera reference frame and the intermediate world reference frame to obtain a constrained intermediate world reference frame and a constrained world reference frame. The 3D pose is then determined from parameters of the constrained intermediate world reference frame and the constrained world reference frame." The patent application was filed on June 28, 2010 (12/824,828). 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=8,442,305.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,305&RS=PN/8,442,305 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cognex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cognex, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,304) developed by seven co-inventors for a "system and method for three-dimensional alignment of objects using machine vision." The co-inventors are Cyril C. Marrion, Acton, Mass., Nigel J. Foster, Natick, Mass., Lifeng Liu, Arlington, Mass., David Y. Li, West Roxbury, Mass., Guruprasad Shivaram, Chestnut Hill, Mass., Aaron S. Wallack, Natick, Mass., and Xiangyun Ye, Framingham, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention provides a system and method for determining the three-dimensional alignment of a modeled object or scene. A 3D (stereo) sensor system views the object to derive a runtime 3D representation of the scene containing the object. Rectified images from each stereo head are preprocessed to enhance their edge features. 3D points are computed for each pair of cameras to derive a 3D point cloud. The amount of 3D data from the point cloud is reduced by extracting higher-level geometric shapes (HLGS), such as line segments. Found HLGS from runtime are corresponded to HLGS on the model to produce candidate 3D poses. A coarse scoring process prunes the number of poses. The remaining candidate poses are then subjected to a further more-refined scoring process. These surviving candidate poses are then verified whereby the closest match is the best refined three-dimensional pose." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2008 (12/345,130). 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=8,442,304.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,304&RS=PN/8,442,304 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** DirecTV Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- DirecTV Group, El Segundo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,442,387) developed by Mark D. Goodwin, Mountain View, Calif., and Deborah Elizabeth Rodgers, Framingham, Mass., for a "method and system for displaying a series of recordable events." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for displaying identifiers for one or more series of recordable events is described. A system, such as the system of a digital video recorder, may receive a set of recordable events data, such as a listing of all television shows to be broadcast over a two-week period. The system analyzes the set of recordable events data for determining one or more sets of recordable events, where each set includes recordable events having the same title. The system analyzes each set of recordable events to determine sub-sets of recordable events based on relationships between the recordable events of each sub-set. The system displays an identifier for each sub-set of a given set of recordable events when the given set of recordable events is selected for display. A user may select to record a sub-set of recordable events by selecting the identifier that represents the sub-set." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2010 (12/686,090). 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=8,442,387.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,387&RS=PN/8,442,387 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Pseudo-relative Mode WRED/Tail Drop Mechanism ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,925) developed by Joe Lamb, Hopkinton, Mass., and Benjamin Findlen, Shrewsbury, Mass., for a "pseudo-relative mode WRED/tail drop mechanism." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A buffer memory can be configured to temporarily store data in a number of queues. A processor can be configured to measure a fullness of the buffer memory. The processor can be configured to adjust thresholds and drop profiles based on a measured global resource usage for a weighted random early detection (WRED) technique with less resources than a conventional." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2008 (12/135,617). 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=84,41,925.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,925&RS=PN/84,41,925 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,442,498) developed by six co-inventors for "methods, systems and computer program products for remote DVR interface provisioning." The co-inventors are Fenglin Yin, Lexington, Mass., Diego Sebastian Rozensztejn, Brookline, Mass., Abhishek Gupta, Addison, Texas, Okeno Palmer, Woburn, Mass., Guillermo Ortiz, Brookline, Mass., and Jack Jianxiu Hao, Lexington, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure details the implementation of methods, systems and computer program products for remote digital video recorder (DVR) interface provisioning (hereinafter, "DIP"). DIP systems allow for authentication, validation, and registration of users and/or user devices as well as management of identifiers associated with those users and devices. Through interaction with DIP systems, users may associate different devices with each other and/or with one or more underlying service systems and/or accounts to allow integrated use of multiple devices in association with those services. In one implementation, DIP systems may be employed to register one or more mobile and/or remote devices (e.g., mobile phones) with DVR systems to allow for remote manipulation of video recording schedules, content management, parental control management, and/or the like DVR features. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a provisioning interface for display to a user, the provisioning interface including an interface element configured to receive a mobile device identifier; receiving a mobile device identifier input to the provisioning interface; receiving a local media receiver device identifier; querying a service account based on the local media receiver device identifier; retrieving a service account activation code based on the query; and storing the mobile device identifier in association with the activation code in a database." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2008 (12/339,240). 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=8,442,498.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,498&RS=PN/8,442,498 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Flextronics AP Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Flextronics AP, Broomfield, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,441,810) developed by Mark Telefus, Orinda, Calif., and Bahman Sharifipour, Westford, Mass., for a "cascade power system architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cascade power system comprises a non-isolated converter in a cascade configuration with an isolated converter and a controller that is coupled with the output of the isolated converter and the switching element of the non-isolated converter. The non-isolated converter steps-down the input voltage to a lower regulated voltage. The isolated converter converts the regulated voltage to a square wave signal that is output to a transformer and the controller. Thus, a the resulting feedback loop comprising the isolated converter, controller and non-isolated converter is completely independent from the output of the system. As a result, a feedback relation can be derived in the form of a feedback algorithm that can effectively regulate/adjust the output of the non-isolated converter and therefore the isolated converter output as well. Further, because the non-isolated converter steps down the voltage and the isolated converter operates on this low stepped down voltage, the system is able to be highly efficient." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2010 (12/942,333). 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=84,41,810.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,810&RS=PN/84,41,810 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** MicroCHIPS Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- MicroCHIPS, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,611) developed by four co-inventors for "medical device with reservoir-based sensors." The co-inventors are John T. Santini Jr., North Chelmsford, Mass., Norman F. Sheppard Jr., New Ipswich, N.H., Chung Chang Young, Weston, Mass., and Robert S. Langer, Newton, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A medical device is provided which may include a reservoir which has an opening and contains a sensor; a reservoir cap closing off the opening to isolate the sensor from an environmental component outside the reservoirs, the reservoir cap being impermeable to the environmental component and adapted to selectively undergo a phase change to disintegrate the reservoir cap and thereby expose the sensor to the environmental component. A method of use may include (i) selectively disintegrating a reservoir cap to expose a sensor which is disposed inside a reservoir of a device implanted in a patient, the disintegrating comprising inducing a phase change in the reservoir cap; and (ii) using the sensor to generate an output signal, wherein the output signal is recorded and stored in a writeable computer memory chips, directed to a microprocessor for immediate analysis and processing, or sent to a remote location away from the device." The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2010 (12/688,508). 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=8,442,611&OS=8,442,611&RS=8,442,611 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Electric Assigned Patent for System and Method for Detecting Errors in Position Tracking Systems Used for Medical Applications ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,442,619) developed by Dun Alex Li, Salem, N.H., Joseph Casey Crager, Newton, Mass., Douglas Karl Johnson, Hampton, N.H., for a "system and method for detecting errors in position tracking systems used for medical applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for identifying errors while tracking instrument navigations is enclosed. The method may include assigning a plurality of virtual points to a plurality of sensors. At least one of the virtual points may be a non-fixed virtual point. The assignment of virtual points to sensors may be determined based on the medical instrument, or the medical instrument attachment, being used. Virtual point locations may be determined for the non-fixed virtual point. The locations of the non-fixed virtual point may be determined based on the medical instrument, or the medical instrument attachment, being used. The vector values for vectors terminating at the non-fixed virtual point may be adjusted. The field integrity values for the virtual points may be computed. If a field integrity value is greater than a threshold value, an error signal may be communicated." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2006 (11/468,481). 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=8,442,619&OS=8,442,619&RS=8,442,619 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,988) developed by Greg Cheever, Hampstead, N.H., Sanil Kumar Puthiyandyil, Nashua, N.H., and Rajesh Ramankutty, Westford, Mass., for a "method for providing home agent geographic redundancy via a service redundancy protocol." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for providing redundancy in servicing packet data communications within wireless mobile data networks are disclosed. More particularly, the method and system provide a redundant Home Agent with the ability to assume the role of the primary Home Agent in the event of a primary Home Agent network, software, or other failure. The redundancy allows the Home Agent services to remain functional even in the event of a failure of one of the Home Agents in the redundant group, which may be composed of one or more Home Agents. The Home Agents can use a service redundancy protocol which is composed of messages that are sent between the redundant group of Home Agents. The messages allow the Home Agents to, for example, back up call session information, check on the status of one another, and share priority information." The patent application was filed on July 17, 2012 (13/551,112). 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=84,41,988.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,988&RS=PN/84,41,988 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,306) developed by Tyler W. Garaas, Boston, and Alan Sullivan, Middleton, Mass., for a "volume-based coverage analysis for sensor placement in 3D environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Coverage of sensors in a CTV system in a three-dimensional environment are analyzed by partitioning a 3D model of the environment into a set of voxels. A ray is cast from each pixel in each sensor through the 3D model to determine coverage data for each voxel. The coverage data are analyzed to determine a result indicative of an effective arrangement of the set of sensors." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2010 (12/856,475). 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=8,442,306.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,306&RS=PN/8,442,306 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Redundancy in Voice and Data Communications Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,920) developed by Frank K. Bradbury, Saugus, Mass., Parvez Khan, Reading, Mass., and Steven R. Dunstan, Beverly, Mass., for a "redundancy in voice and data communications systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes receiving information at an interface circuit and providing the information from the interface circuit to a processing circuit through a direct communications path between the interface circuit and a processing circuit, which processes the information received from the interface circuit. The method further includes providing the information from the interface circuit to the processing circuit via a crosspoint switch in response to a failure of the direct communications path, wherein the direct communication does not pass through the crosspoint switch." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2011 (12/986,888). 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=84,41,920.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,920&RS=PN/84,41,920 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ecowell Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Ecowell, Pullman, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,442,674) developed by six co-inventors for a "container-less custom beverage vending invention." The co-inventors are Donald Edward Tilton, Newman Lake, Wash., Cameron Todd Wheeler, Edmonds, Wash., Brian Lee Boler, Pasco, Wash., Andrew Craig Whitaker, Cambridge, Mass., Reid Andrew Schilperoort, Pullman, Wash., and Preston Fitzjarrell David, Pullman, Wash. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus describing a convenience beverage vending machine and its operation are described. An embedded computer interface allows consumers to create their own drinks or choose from a menu of drinks. Drinks are dispensed in a re-usable container. The beverages may be made from hot water, cold water or carbonated water that is mixed with various flavors of syrup, sweeteners and nutritional supplements. Identification may be presented and the computer recognizes the consumer and pulls up that consumer's account to determine funds available and previous drink selections and mixtures. The machine may incorporate an automatic cleaning cycle for both the valves and the dispense area." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2011 (13/021,607). 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=8,442,674&OS=8,442,674&RS=8,442,674 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Microsoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,441,930) developed by four co-inventors for estimating communication conditions. The co-inventors are Jin Li, Sammamish, Wash., Humayun Mukhtar Khan, Issaquah, Wash., Guo-Wei Shieh, Sammamish, Wash., and Manish Jain, Malden, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments are configured to provide communication features, including providing channel condition estimates for a communication path, such as packet loss, jitter, and/or available bandwidth, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, a method uses aspects of in-band data packets to provide channel condition estimates. In one embodiment, a system includes a bandwidth estimation component that operates to classify payload packets as part of performing capacity estimation and available bandwidth estimation operations." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/643,433). 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=84,41,930.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,930&RS=PN/84,41,930 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Bose Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Bose, Framingham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,019) developed by Christian A. Trott, Durham, N.C., and Eric J. Koetsch, Gardner, Mass., for a "method and apparatus for avoiding wireless audio signal transmission interferences." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, in general, the invention features a method including a second wireless system determining a frequency of active operation of a first wireless system, and communicating wirelessly on the second wireless system in the vicinity of the wireless communication on the first wireless system, the wireless communication utilizing a spread-spectrum technique that excludes the determined frequency." The patent application was filed on Feb. 3, 2005 (11/050,160). 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=84,42,019.PN.&OS=PN/84,42,019&RS=PN/84,42,019 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,441,953) developed by Monte Becker, Northboro, Mass., and Hoai Tran, Gilroy, Calif., for "reordering with fast time out." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device reorders first cells of a first conversation; determines whether a reorder window size is exceeded a first time based on the first conversation; subjects the first conversation to a fast time out when the reorder window size is exceeded the first time; reorders second cells of a second conversation while subjecting the first conversation to the fast time out; prepares a packet based on the first conversation; and transmits the packet to a PFE of another device." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2010 (12/938,910). 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=84,41,953.PN.&OS=PN/84,41,953&RS=PN/84,41,953 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 16 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,442,078) developed by six co-inventors for a "microfluidic radial fiber laser utilizing an external polarizer to modulate its azimuthal intensity distribution." The co-inventors are Alexander Stolyarov, Somerville, Mass., Lei Wei, Cambridge, Mass., Ofer Shapira, Cambridge, Mass., Fabien Sorin, Paris, Yoel Fink, Brookline, Mass., and John D. Joannopoulos, Belmont, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The laser includes an optical fiber including a cavity containing a microfluidic gain medium bounded by a composite structure of alternating layers of high and low index materials forming an axially invariant, rotationally symmetric photonic bandgap cavity. The optical fiber also includes at least one microfluidic channel containing liquid crystal modulators in the fiber cladding extending in an axial direction and further includes a pair of electrodes flanking the microfluidic channel. An electrical potential across the pair of electrodes will rotate the liquid crystal molecules to rotate the linearly polarized state of light emitted from the cavity. An external linear polarizer is disposed around the fiber to modulate azimuthal laser intensity distribution." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2011 (13/323,059). 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=8,442,078&OS=8,442,078&RS=8,442,078 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1125094 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |