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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Michigan (June 14)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Michigan. *** Donnelly Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Donnelly, Holland, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,462,204) developed by Kenneth Schofield, Holland, Mich., Mark L. Larson, Grand Haven, Mich., and Keith J. Vadas, Coopersville, Mich., for a vehicular vision system. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A vehicular vision system includes at least a first image capture sensor and a second image capture sensor disposed at a vehicle and spatially separated and having respective fields of view with respect to the direction of travel of the equipped vehicle. A control receives a first image input from the first image capture sensor and a second image input from the second image capture sensor and generates a composite image synthesized from at least the first image input and the second image input. A display system displays the composite image on a single video screen located in a cabin of the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle when the driver is normally operating the equipped vehicle. The single video screen of the display system may have a display luminance that is variable responsive to a sensing of an ambient light level." The patent application was filed on July 1, 2009 (12/496,357). 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=8,462,204&OS=8,462,204&RS=8,462,204 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. of America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. of America, Peachtree City, Ga., has been assigned a patent (8,463,216) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for sensing inter-modulation to improve radio performance in single and dual tuner." The co-inventors are Donald Thomas, Smyrna, Ga., Jason Hingerton, Atlanta, Tatsuya Fujisawa, Atlanta, Jammie Chu, Royal Oak, Mich., Shree Jaisimha, Senoia, Ga., and Robert Baillargeon, East Amherst, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of performing alternate frequency switching in a radio includes tuning the radio to a primary frequency. A candidate alternate frequency is identified. It is determined whether the candidate alternate frequency is a third order inter-modulation artifact. Tuning is switched from the primary frequency to the candidate alternate frequency only if it is determined in the determining step that the candidate alternate frequency is not a third order inter-modulation artifact." The patent application was filed on Jan. 20, 2011 (13/010,225). 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=8,463,216.PN.&OS=PN/8,463,216&RS=PN/8,463,216 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Ink-Logix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Ink-Logix, Royal Oak, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,461,957) developed by Ronald H. Haag, Lake Orion, Mich., Jeffrey R. Engel, West Bloomfield, Mich., and William W. Boddie Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich., for an "in-molded resistive and shielding elements." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An article of manufacture having an in-molded resistive and/or shielding element and method of making the same are shown and described. In one disclosed method, a resistive and/or shielding element is printed on a film. The film is formed to a desired shape and put in an injection mold. A molten plastic material is introduced into the injection mold to form a rigid structure that retains the film." The patent application was filed on May 16, 2012 (13/473,301). 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=8,461,957.PN.&OS=PN/8,461,957&RS=PN/8,461,957 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Gentex Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Gentex, Zeeland, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,463,035) developed by Jon H. Bechtel, Holland, Mich., Jeremy C. Andrus, Zeeland, Mich., and Tom B. Sherman, Ada, Mich., for a "digital image processing for calculating a missing color value." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A spectrally mosaiced digital image is provided with missing color data imputed for each pixel. Circuitry is provided that is configured to perform at least a portion of the calculations related to demosaicing a high dynamic range image." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2010 (12/788,574). 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=8,463,035.PN.&OS=PN/8,463,035&RS=PN/8,463,035 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cyclos Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Cyclos Semiconductor, Berkeley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,461,873) developed by Alexander T. Ishii, Princeton, N.J., and Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Ann Arbor, Mich., for a "resonant clock and interconnect architecture for digital devices with multiple clock networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A clock and data distribution network is proposed that distributes clock and data signals without buffers, thus achieving very low jitter, skew, loose timing requirements, and energy consumption. Such network uses resonant drivers and is generally applicable to architectures for programmable logic devices (PLDs) such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), as well as other semiconductor devices with multiple clock networks operating at various clock frequencies, and high-performance and low-power clocking requirements such as microprocessors, applications specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and Systems-on-a-Chip (SOCs)." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2011 (13/103,985). 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=8,461,873.PN.&OS=PN/8,461,873&RS=PN/8,461,873 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Whirlpool Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Whirlpool, Benton Harbor, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,461,959) developed by five co-inventors for a "consumable holder with process control apparatus." The co-inventors are Matthew P. Ebrom, Holland, Mich., Mark E. Glotzbach, Granger, Ind., Michael S. Hendrickson, Saint Joseph, Mich., Joel A. Luckman, Benton Harbor, Mich., and Richard A. McCoy, Stevensville, Mich. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A consumable holder has a source of a consumable, a first appliance coupling point configured to receive a resource from and convey the resource or consumable to an appliance configured to use the consumable and the resource in a physical operation on an article, a process control apparatus to control conveyance of the resource or consumable to and from the consumable holder, and a second appliance coupling point in communication with the process control apparatus and configured to connect to an appliance. Thus, an appliance coupled to the consumable holder can communicate with the process control apparatus via the second coupling point." The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2008 (12/256,546). 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=8,461,959.PN.&OS=PN/8,461,959&RS=PN/8,461,959 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Stryker Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Stryker, Kalamazoo, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,461,982) developed by David Terrance Becker, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Michael Joseph Hayes, Kalamazoo, Mich., for a "communication system for patient handling devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A patient handling device communication system enables patient handling devices, such as bed, cots, stretchers, and the like, to communicate with other patient handling devices. Communication from one or more patient handling devices may thereby be forwarded to other patient handling devices. Such information may also be forwarded to a healthcare communication network. The patient handling devices may form a mesh network for communicating information amongst themselves and/or to the healthcare communications network." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2012 (13/483,683). 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=8,461,982.PN.&OS=PN/8,461,982&RS=PN/8,461,982 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Dow Corning Toray, Dow Corning, Dow Corning Europe Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Dow Corning Toray, Tokyo, Dow Corning, Midland, Mich., and Dow Corning Europe, Seneffe, Belgium, have been assigned a patent (8,461,258) developed by seven co-inventors for a "method of producing amino acid-modified organopolysiloxane emulsions." The co-inventors are Tomohiro Iimura, Sodegaura, Japan, Shinya Oguri, Ichihara, Japan, Masaru Ozaki, Ichihara, Japan, Tadashi Okawa, Ichihara, Japan, Bethany Johnson, Midland, Mich., Anne-Marie Vincent, Les Bons Villers, Belgium, and Giada Tonet, Chapelle-les-Herlaimont, Belgium. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates to an amino acid-modified organopolysiloxane emulsion obtainable by reacting (a) a carboxy-unprotected amino acid, and (b) organopolysiloxane having an epoxy group in the molecule in an aqueous medium in the presence of a surfactant, is incorporated in a cosmetic product. The present invention also relates to the simple and highly efficient production of emulsions of amino acid-modified polysiloxane, as well as the use of the emulsions as beautifying components." The patent application was filed on Dec. 25, 2008 (12/810,259). 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=84,61,258.PN.&OS=PN/84,61,258&RS=PN/84,61,258 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** GM Global Technology Operations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- GM Global Technology Operations, Detroit, has been assigned a patent (8,461,846) developed by Nathan P. Makarewicz, Oxford, Mich., for a vehicle battery testing. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of estimating a state of charge of a battery in a vehicle undergoing a vehicle assembly process. The method may include the steps of: installing the battery in the vehicle; employing a sensor mounted in the vehicle to automatically sense battery net amp hours during at least a portion of the vehicle assembly process; storing the net amp hours in a control module mounted in the vehicle; mounting a data link connector in the vehicle to provide communication with the controller; temporarily connecting a tool connector of a battery test assembly to the data link connector and transmitting the stored net amp hours data to the battery test tool from the control module; and comparing the net amp hours to a predetermined maximum net amp hours to estimate if the state of charge of the battery is acceptable." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2010 (12/915,159). 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=8,461,846.PN.&OS=PN/8,461,846&RS=PN/8,461,846 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Dow Global Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Dow Global Technologies, Midland, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,461,366) developed by Michael L. Tulchinsky, Midland, Mich., and Robert E. Hefner Jr., Rosharon, Texas, for "sulfonated organophosphine compounds and use thereof in hydroformylation processes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A compound comprising a class of sulfonated triorganophosphine compounds of formula R.sup.1R.sup.2P--R.sup.3[--O--(CH.sub.2).sub.n--(SO.sub.3M)].sub.m, wherein the R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are selected individually from alkyl, aralkyl, and alicyclic groups, wherein R.sup.3 represents a divalent or polyvalent alkylene or alicyclic radical that is bonded to the phosphorus atom and to one or more sulfonate substituents via an alkylether link, and further wherein R.sup.3 does not contain any aryl moieties; n is an integer reflecting a number of methylene groups in the alkylether link; M represents a monovalent cation; and m is an integer representing a total number of sulfonated alkylether substituents. The compound is useful as a ligand in transition metal-ligand complex catalysts that are capable of catalyzing the hydroformylation of an olefinically-unsaturated compound with carbon monoxide and hydrogen to form one or more corresponding aldehyde products. The ligand is incapable of alky-aryl exchange, thereby leading to reduced ligand usage and improving ligand and rhodium recovery and recycling." The patent application was filed on Jan. 9, 2009 (12/812,981). 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=84,61,366.PN.&OS=PN/84,61,366&RS=PN/84,61,366 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Jazz Pharmaceuticals Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,461,203) developed by five co-inventors for "microbiologically sound and stable solutions of gamma-hydroxybutyrate salt for the treatment of narcolepsy." The co-inventors are Harry Cook, Eden Prairie, Minn., Martha Hamilton, St. Paul, Minn., Douglas Danielson, Otsego, Mich., Colette Goderstad, St. Paul, Minn., and Dayton T. Reardan, Shorewood, Minn. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are formulations of gamma-hydroxybutyrate in an aqueous medium that are resistant to microbial growth. Also disclosed are formulations of gamma-hydroxybutyrate that are also resistant to the conversion into GBL. Disclosed are methods to treat sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, with these stable formulations of GHB. The present invention also provides methods to treat alcohol and opiate withdrawal, reduced levels of growth hormone, increased intracranial pressure, and physical pain in a patient." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2011 (13/182,324). 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=84,61,203.PN.&OS=PN/84,61,203&RS=PN/84,61,203 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sirna Therapeutics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Sirna Therapeutics, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,461,313) developed by Jasenka Matulic-Adamic, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Leonid Beigelman, San Mateo, Calif., for "conjugates and compositions for cellular delivery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention features conjugates, compositions, methods of synthesis, and applications thereof, including folate derived conjugates of nucleosides, nucleotides, non-nucleosides, and nucleic acids including enzymatic nucleic acids and antisense nucleic acid molecules." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2012 (13/456,430). 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=84,61,313.PN.&OS=PN/84,61,313&RS=PN/84,61,313 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Limelight Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Limelight, Tempe, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,463,876) developed by five co-inventors for a "partial object distribution in content delivery network." The co-inventors are Nathan F. Raciborski, Jackson, Wyo., Wylie Swanson, Tempe, Ariz., Jacob S. Roersma, Grand Rapids, Mich., Bryan D. Black, Tempe, Ariz., and Albert P. Tobey, Tempe, Ariz. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for the distribution of content objects in a content delivery network (CDN) are disclosed. A CDN distribution server detects a content object's availability and determines whether the content object is a candidate for distribution. The distribution server detects the availability of the content object in response to a provider making new or updated content available at a content site or a location within the CDN. The distribution server obtains identifying information for a candidate content object and determines a select portion of the content object to be distributed within the CDN. The select portion can be a predetermined number of bytes located at a predetermined position in the content object, the size and location of which may be determined according to content-specific mapping data. The distribution server pushes the select portion of the content object to one or more groups of CDN edge servers absent an end-user request." The patent application was filed on Aug. 1, 2012 (13/564,387). 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=8,463,876&OS=8,463,876&RS=8,463,876 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Cybernet Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Cybernet Systems, Ann Arbor, Mich., has been assigned a patent (8,463,839) developed by Charles J. Jacobus, Ann Arbor, Mich., for a distributed computing environment. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method is described which allows a very large (greater than 100,000) number of applications to communicate logically through a many-to-many multicast cloud on the common carrier Internet efficiently by exploiting characteristics of the applications' data streams which allow substantial message culling as well as more standard routing optimization (conventional multicast and optimization standard to normal Internet routing systems). The method describes the function and type of three types of systems which operate together to implement the method. The first is a network enabled client application, such as a distributed simulation or game, which joins an application cloud or federation and communicates its internal state changes into the cloud via a communication applications programming interface. The second is a lobby manager or broker which accepts entry into a communication cloud or federation and provides information to the federation and the client application for establishing communications between them. And third, is a applications-specific routing system which provides the normal function of routing packets between Internet hosts (client applications running on these hosts), but also allows the routing functions to affected by modules in the router which are associated with the distributed application or simulation being implemented. These application "personalized" routing modules implement substantial application-specific message culling through message omission, rerouting, and other quality of service modifications to substantially reduce overall federation communication traffic and at the same time still effectively implement a point-to-multipoint distributed communications model between clients." The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2001 (09/785,385). 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=8,463,839&OS=8,463,839&RS=8,463,839 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. -1128294 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |