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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (May 23)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Audience Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Audience, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,596) developed by four co-inventors for a "monaural noise suppression based on computational auditory scene analysis." The co-inventors are Carlos Avendano, Campbell, Calif., Jean Laroche, Santa Cruz, Calif., Michael M. Goodwin, Scotts Valley, Calif., and Ludger Solbach, Mountain View, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present technology provides a robust noise suppression system that may concurrently reduce noise and echo components in an acoustic signal while limiting the level of speech distortion. An acoustic signal may be received and transformed to cochlear domain sub-band signals. Features, such as pitch, may be identified and tracked within the sub-band signals. Initial speech and noise models may be then be estimated at least in part from a probability analysis based on the tracked pitch sources. Speech and noise models may be resolved from the initial speech and noise models and noise reduction may be performed on the sub-band signals. An acoustic signal may be reconstructed from the noise-reduced sub-band signals." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2010 (12/860,043). 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=8,447,596&OS=8,447,596&RS=8,447,596 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Envirotest Systems Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Envirotest Systems Holdings, East Granby, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,447,528) developed by Robert Allen Gentala, Tucson, Ariz., Peter Miles McClintock, Tiburon, Calif., and Donald Hugh Stedman, Denver, for a "remote vehicle emissions sensing system and method for differentiating water from hydrocarbons." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Water droplets in exhaust gas that is, or was, analyzed by a remote emissions sensing system are detected. The detection may be made using measurements generally captured by the remote emissions sensing system during typical operation. As such, the detection may be applied "on site" as remote emissions sensing analysis is ongoing, or may be applied post hoc from data previously acquired by a remote emissions sensing system. The detection may be implemented without requiring additional sensors, more sophisticated sensors, and/or other additional or more sophisticated equipment being included in the remote emissions sensing system." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2009 (12/643,208). 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=8,447,528&OS=8,447,528&RS=8,447,528 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent for Determining Sustainability of a Data Center ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,447,569) developed by five co-inventors for "determining sustainability of a data center." The co-inventors are Manish Marwah, Mountain View, Calif., Amip J. Shah, Santa Clara, Calif., Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Fremont, Calif., Thomas W. Christian, Fort Collins, Colo., and Paulo Maciel, Recife, Brazil. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Determining a sustainability impact for available data center architectures. A data center is accessed by a computer. Two or more functional parameters of the data center are then evaluated by the computer. Then, the computer combines the two or more evaluated functional parameters into a quantified judgment to determine a sustainability impact of available architectures of the data center." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2009 (12/560,278). 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=8,447,569&OS=8,447,569&RS=8,447,569 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Translogic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Translogic, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,447,427) developed by Kenneth Michael Hoganson, Aurora, Colo., Gregory Richard Chany, Aurora, Colo., and Bennett Charles Hinnen, Arvada, Colo., for a "system and method for carrier identification in a pneumatic tube system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon identification information for the carrier. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the chip. When a carrier is put in the system, a destination location can be associated with the particular carrier ID. This associated information is then employed to, among many things, monitor and confirm identity of the carrier as it moves to its destination." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2011 (13/087,465). 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=8,447,427&OS=8,447,427&RS=8,447,427 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,447,027) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for language variation guided operator selection." The co-inventors are Xiaofan Lin, San Jose, Calif., Steven J. Simske, Fort Collins, Colo., Sherif Yacoub, Sant Cugat del Valles, Sweden, and Roland John Burns, Sant Cugat del Valles, Sweden. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for language variation guided operator selection is disclosed. The method discloses: initiating a dialog between a contact and a call handling system; identifying a language variation spoken by the contact; determining a skill level with respect to the language variation for each operator within a set of operators; selecting an operator whose skill level in the language variation is above a predetermined value; and transferring the dialog with the contact to the operator. The system discloses means and embodiments for implementing the method." The patent application was filed on Jan, 30, 2004 (10/769,240). 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=8,447,027&OS=8,447,027&RS=8,447,027 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Akonia Holographics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Akonia Holographics, Longmont, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,446,808) developed by four co-inventors for a "use of feedback error and/or feed-forward signals to adjust control axes to optimal recovery position of hologram in holographic data storage system or device." The co-inventors are Mark R. Ayres, Boulder, Colo., Alan Hoskins, Golden, Colo., Paul C. Smith, Louisville, Colo., and John J. Kane, Westminster, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for adjusting at least one alignment control axis of a holographic data storage system or device to or towards a sufficiently optimal recovery position for recovery of a hologram based on a derived feedback error signal and/or a derived feed-forward signal. For the next hologram in the sequence, the derived feedback error signal estimates the direction and magnitude of misalignment of the at least one alignment control axis for one or more previously recovered holograms based on alignment-indicating data. The derived feed-forward signal estimates an optimal alignment value for the at least one alignment control axis for one or more holograms based on recording and recovery operating condition data for the holograms. An iterative alignment procedure may also be used to derive a feedback error signal for one hologram." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/351,047). 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=84,46,808.PN.&OS=PN/84,46,808&RS=PN/84,46,808 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Konica Minolta Laboratory USA, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,446,603) developed by Louis Krupp, Boulder, Colo., for "systems and methods for optimizing function based object operations in interpreted page description languages." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods for optimizing the processing of function based object operations in interpreted page description languages are presented. In some embodiments, the method comprises parsing the PDL document to identify a function based operator in the PDL document; generating program code in a programming language, wherein the program code is functionally equivalent to the function based operator; compiling the program code to generate a shared object and dynamically linking the software that performs the document processing functions to the entry point of the shared object; and invoking the shared object associated with the function based operator when the function based operator is processed." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2010 (12/753,685). 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=84,46,603.PN.&OS=PN/84,46,603&RS=PN/84,46,603 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ricoh Production Print Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Ricoh Production Print Solutions, Boulder, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,446,638) developed by Larry M. Ernst, Longmont, Colo., and Nenad Rijavec, Longmont, Colo., for an "estimation of ink/toner coverage when printing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In summary, the present invention provides a method, apparatus and program product for calculating an estimate of the amount of toner coverage required for printing print data defined in a compressed data stream. The estimate is obtained with reduced processing by obtaining coverage data from a partially decompressed formed of the data stream and using this to obtain the coverage estimate, thus removing the need to do a full de-compression of the data stream. For example the coverage data is a count of toned pixels for at least one intensity level." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2012 (13/608,009). 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=84,46,638.PN.&OS=PN/84,46,638&RS=PN/84,46,638 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Ricoh Production Print Solutions Assigned Patent for Estimation of Ink/Toner Coverage when Printing ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Ricoh Production Print Solutions, Boulder, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,446,637) developed by Larry M. Ernst, Longmont, Colo., and Nenad Rijavec, Longmont, Colo., for an "estimation of ink/toner coverage when printing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In summary, the present invention provides a method, apparatus and program product for calculating an estimate of the amount of toner coverage required for printing print data defined in a compressed data stream. The estimate is obtained with reduced processing by obtaining coverage data from a partially decompressed formed of the data stream and using this to obtain the coverage estimate, thus removing the need to do a full de-compression of the data stream. For example the coverage data is a count of toned pixels for at least one intensity level." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2012 (13/607,951). 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=84,46,637.PN.&OS=PN/84,46,637&RS=PN/84,46,637 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** OCZ Technology Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- OCZ Technology Group, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,446,729) developed by Franz Michael Schuette, Colorado Springs, Colo., for a "modular mass storage system and method therefore." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A modular mass storage system and method that enables cableless mounting of ATA and/or similar high speed interface-based mass storage devices in a computer system. The system includes a printed circuit board, a system expansion slot interface on the printed circuit board and comprising power and data pins, a host bus controller on the printed circuit board and electrically connected to the system expansion slot interface, docking connectors connected with the host bus controller to receive power and exchange data therewith and adapted to electrically couple with industry-standard non-volatile memory devices without cabling therebetween, and features on the printed circuit board for securing the memory devices thereto once coupled to the docking connectors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/713,349). 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=84,46,729.PN.&OS=PN/84,46,729&RS=PN/84,46,729 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rambus Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Rambus, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,446,975) developed by four co-inventors for an "iterative interference suppressor for wireless multiple-access systems with multiple receive antennas." The co-inventors are Tommy Guess, Lafayette, Colo., Michael L. McCloud, Boulder, Colo., Vijay Nagarajan, Boulder, Colo., and Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Thornton, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention teaches to the details of an interference suppressing receiver for suppressing intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency selective communication channels to a multiplicity of receive antennas. The receiver is designed or adapted through the repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive suppression with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard RAKE-based hardware either within the RAKE (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the RAKE (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level). Embodiments may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link. It may be adapted to general signal processing applications where a signal is to be extracted from interference." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2012 (13/372,483). 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=8,446,975&OS=8,446,975&RS=8,446,975 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Echostar Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Echostar Technologies, Englewood, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,447,170) developed by Steven Michael Casagrande, Castle Rock, Colo., for an "automatically recording supplemental content." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A content provider transmits instructions to a content receiver to record multiple instances of content. The instances of content are included in the same frequency band of a broadcast transmitted by the content provider via a first communication link and scrambled utilizing the same control word. The content provider determines to supplement the multiple instances of content and transmits an instruction to record a supplemental instance of content from a second content provider via a second communication link. The content receiver receives the instructions and accordingly receives, descrambles, and stores the multiple instances of content and the supplemental instance of content. In some implementations, the first communication link may be a satellite communication link and the second communication link may be a different type of communication link such as a terrestrial broadcast communication link and/or an Internet protocol communication link." The patent application was filed on Aug. 23, 2011 (13/215,702). 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=8,447,170.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,170&RS=PN/8,447,170 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** GoGo LLC Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- GoGo LLC, Itasca, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,447,292) developed by six co-inventors for a "multi-link aircraft cellular system for simultaneous communication with multiple terrestrial cell sites." The co-inventors are Anand K. Chari, Bartlett, Ill., Harold Grant Saroka, Ashburn, Va., Tim Joyce, Naperville, Ill., Patrick J. Walsh, Naperville, Ill., Yong Liu, Schaumburg, Ill., and Daniel Bernard McKenna, Vail, Colo. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The Multi-Link Aircraft Cellular System makes use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques to improve the call handling capacity of the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network. These additional techniques can include polarization domain and ground antenna pattern shaping (in azimuth, in elevation, or in both planes). Further, if code domain separation is added, dramatic increases in capacity are realized. Thus, the Air-To-Ground cellular communications network can increase its capacity on a per aircraft basis by sharing its traffic load among more than one cell or sector and by making use of multiple physically separated antennas mounted on the aircraft, as well as the use of additional optional signal isolation and optimization techniques." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2006 (11/590,379). 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=8,447,292.PN.&OS=PN/8,447,292&RS=PN/8,447,292 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1125909 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |