[June 18, 2013] U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (June 18) Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** SureFire Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- SureFire, Fountain Valley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,406) developed by Barry W. Dueck, Sunset Beach, Calif., for a "mounting apparatus for firearm sound suppressor." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one example, a method of aligning a firearm sound suppressor includes inserting a front portion of a body of an adapter into a socket of the firearm sound suppressor. The method also includes sliding a tab of the adapter into a slot disposed in an interior surface of the socket to rotationally align the firearm sound suppressor relative to a firearm. The method also includes contacting a plug of the adapter against the interior surface in a complimentary engagement. The plug is provided by a frusto-conical external surface of a rear portion of the body. The tab extends from the plug. Other embodiments are also contemplated." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2012 (13/348,898). 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=8,459,406&OS=8,459,406&RS=8,459,406 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Free Flow Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Free Flow Products, Oceanside, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,298) developed by William T. Valdez, Oceanside, Calif., and Timothy J. Morrison, Oceanside, Calif., for a "check valve for drain pipes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A check valve for deterring intrusion into drain pipes comprises a body member having at least a first orifice and configured to mount on a drain pipe wherein the drain pipe is adapted to promote fluid flow in a single direction. Pivotably mounted on said body member will be a valve member. The mounting arrangement will provide a closed position that substantially occludes the first orifice and a range of open positions when the valve member is pivoted to open in the flow direction. In addition, at least one additional orifice is provided in either the body member or the valve member to permit fluid flow irrespective of the position of the valve member." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2007 (11/715,815). 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=8,459,298&OS=8,459,298&RS=8,459,298 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SureFire Assigned Patent for Firearm Sound Suppressor with Front Plate having a Tapered Bore ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- SureFire, Fountain Valley, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,405) developed by Barry W. Dueck, Sunset Beach, Calif., for a "firearm sound suppressor with front plate having a tapered bore." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one example, a firearm sound suppressor includes a housing and an end plate disposed at a front end of the housing and comprising a bore extending therethrough. The bore includes a tapered portion that opens toward a front surface of the end plate. The tapered portion has an included angle in a range of approximately 10 degrees to approximately 25 degrees. The bore is adapted to pass a first round and first associated gases to reduce a size of a first muzzle flash caused by a firing of the first round by a firearm when the firearm sound suppressor is substantially at thermal equilibrium with a surrounding environment. Other embodiments are also contemplated." The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2012 (13/348,870). 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=8,459,405&OS=8,459,405&RS=8,459,405 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Illinois Tool Works Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Illinois Tool Works, Glenview, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,459,296) developed by Anatoly Gosis, Palatine, Ill., Folkert Fred Koch, San Ramon, Calif., and Frank Otte, Mount Prospect, Ill., for an "aircraft hose retrieval system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present embodiments are directed towards the transfer, retrieval and storage of flexible materials. In one embodiment, a system is provided that generally includes a hose retrieval system having a first hose gripper assembly. The first hose gripper assembly includes a pair of first grippers configured to move between a first open position and a first closed position in opposite crosswise directions relative to a longitudinal axis of a hose. Each first gripper includes a first L-shaped structure, and the first L-shaped structures are configured to overlap one another to define a first bending gap in the first closed position." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2010 (12/860,579). 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=8,459,296&OS=8,459,296&RS=8,459,296 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Orbotech LT Solar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Orbotech LT Solar, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,276) developed by Craig Lyle Stevens, Ben Lomond, Calif., David Eric Berkstresser, Los Gatos, Calif., and Wendell Thomas Blonigan, Pleasanton, Calif., for a "broken wafer recovery system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus and method for recovery and cleaning of broken substrates, for fabrication systems using silicon wafers. A placing mechanism moves a suction head to a location of the broken substrate and a suction pump coupled to a flexible hose is used to remove the broken pieces. A hood is positioned at the inlet of the suction head, and setback extensions are provided at the bottom of the hood to allow air flow into the inlet and prevent thermal conductance from the tray to the hood. Pins are extendable about the inlet of the suction head to enable breakage of the substrate to smaller pieces for removal." The patent application was filed on May 24, 2011 (13/115,064). 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=8,459,276&OS=8,459,276&RS=8,459,276 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Expo Power Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Expo Power Systems, Montclair, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,314) developed by Douglas Frazier, Claremont, Calif., and Chet Mallory, Reno, Nev., for a "battery spill containment trays, battery spill containment systems, and methods of battery spill containment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Battery spill containment trays, battery spill containment systems, and methods of battery spill containment are provided. A spill containment system includes a tray mountable on a rack and including a support surface for supporting a device thereon; and an absorbent member removably installed on the tray below the support surface and configured to absorb a spilled substance of the device." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2010 (12/783,526). 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=8,459,314&OS=8,459,314&RS=8,459,314 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Evrio Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Evrio, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,327) developed by John Livacich, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "universal lightweight portable concealment means and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An easy to use, universal, simple, lightweight, compact, portable system of concealment and methods for its construction and use. The concealment system comprises a support and a curtain. The support attaches to a structure and pivots on the attachment. Various embodiments include multiple supports and multiple curtains. A method of hiding in front of a similar pattern. An alternate support may be used to form both tree blinds and ground blinds." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2010 (12/849,008). 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=8,459,327&OS=8,459,327&RS=8,459,327 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Crucible Intellectual Property Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Crucible Intellectual Property, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,331) developed by Quoc Tran Pham, Anaheim, Calif., and Sean Timothy O'Keeffe, Coto de Caza, Calif., for a vacuum mold. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed is a vacuum mold with at least a first plate and a second plate to mold materials (e.g., amorphous alloys), and a method for manufacturing parts using the mold. An ejector mechanism, to eject molded material, is enclosed within an ejector box that is vacuum sealed relative to the plates. An ejector rod for moving the mechanism is also vacuum sealed via a seal in a vacuum feed through opening. Seals are provided between adjacent interfaces of the mold parts (plates and ejector box) to vacuum seal the mold. The mold is connected to at least one vacuum source that applies vacuum pressure thereto via a first vacuum port in a first direction. A second vacuum port may also be provided to apply pressure in a second direction. A vacuum release valve may be connected to the mold to release vacuum pressure applied to the mold." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2011 (13/205,374). 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=8,459,331&OS=8,459,331&RS=8,459,331 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** University of California Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,295) developed by Chang-Jin Kim, Beverly Hills, Calif., and Wyatt C. Nelson, Los Angeles, for a "localized droplet heating with surface electrodes in microfluidic chips." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A microfluidic device for droplet manipulation includes a substrate, a plurality of electrically addressable thin-film electrodes disposed on the substrate, at least one of the plurality of electrodes comprising a heating element in the form of a patterned electrode. A hydrophilic region is disposed in or above a portion of the heating element. The hydrophilic region may be permanent or electronically actuable. The thin-film electrodes have multi-function capabilities including, for instance, heating, temperature sensing, and/or sample actuation." The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2010 (13/144,462). 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=8,459,295&OS=8,459,295&RS=8,459,295 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Volcano Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Volcano, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,459,266) developed by five co-inventors for a "pleated bag for interventional pullback systems." The co-inventors are Timothy K. Glynn, Centereach, N.Y., Ernest W. Heflin, Pleasanton, Calif., Norman H. Hossack, Folsom, Calif., Julie A. Riolo, Sacramento, Calif., and Blair D. Walker, Mission Viejo, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides for pleated bags used with interventional pullback systems, including imaging catheters such as IVUS catheters, as well as for use with other catheters. An exemplary pleated bag of the present invention may be an elongate, sterile bag, having a plurality of pleats near the distal end, and including an orifice proximal to the pleats designed to allow passage of a catheter into the bag. The present invention also provides for a system that includes a pullback device, catheter, and pleated bag. The present invention allows for improved imaging catheter procedures at reduced costs." The patent application was filed on Jan. 30, 2012 (13/361,674). 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=8,459,266&OS=8,459,266&RS=8,459,266 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Applied Materials Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Applied Materials, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,293) developed by Kevin S. Griffin, Livermore, Calif., for an "ampoule with integrated hybrid valve." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Semiconductor manufacturing tools with chemical delivery systems, such as precursor distribution system, use reservoir assemblies as part of a distribution system. One reservoir assembly includes: a canister comprising at least one sidewall, a top, and a bottom encompassing an interior volume therein; an inlet port and an outlet port in fluid communication with the interior volume; an inlet valve for controlling fluid communication between the inlet port and the interior volume; and an outlet valve for controlling fluid communication between the outlet port and the interior volume, wherein at least one of the inlet valve or the outlet valve comprises a dual-function hybrid valve." The patent application was filed on April 23, 2010 (12/766,565). 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=8,459,293&OS=8,459,293&RS=8,459,293 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Asthmatx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Asthmatx, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,459,268) developed by six co-inventors for "methods for treating airways." The co-inventors are Christopher James Danek, Santa Clara, Calif., Michael Biggs, San Francisco, Bryan Loomas, Los Gatos, Calif., Michael D. Laufer, Menlo Park, Calif., Gary Kaplan, San Francisco, and Kelly Shriner, Sunnyvale, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung." The patent application was filed on April 24, 2012 (13/454,557). 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=8,459,268&OS=8,459,268&RS=8,459,268 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Advanced Liquid Logic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Advanced Liquid Logic, Research Triangle Park, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,460,528) developed by five co-inventors for a "reagent storage and reconstitution for a droplet actuator." The co-inventors are Michael G. Pollack, Durham, N.C., Alexander Shenderov, Raleigh, N.C., Philip Paik, Chula Vista, Calif., Vijay Srinivasan, Durham, N.C., and Vamsee K. Pamula, Durham, N.C. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "On-board reagent storage, handling, and dispensing apparatuses and methods for droplet actuator systems are provided. In one embodiment, a fluidic analyzer is provided and includes a droplet actuator including a substrate including a plurality of electrodes configured to actuate a droplet and a reagent storage component in selective fluid communication with the droplet actuator and including a reagent configured to combine with a solvent at a time of use. In another embodiment, a method of conducting fluidic analysis is provided and includes storing a reagent within a reagent storage component in fluid communication with a droplet actuator including a plurality of electrodes configured to actuate a droplet and combining the reagent with a solvent at a time for use within the droplet actuator." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2008 (12/681,879). 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=8,460,528&OS=8,460,528&RS=8,460,528 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for System and Method of Ranking and Searching for Professional Profiles ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Thomas Zuber, Los Angeles, has developed a patent (8,464,162) for a "system and method of ranking and searching for professional profiles." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for searching and ranking professional profiles includes a profile ranking tool that assigns a numeric value to a professional's prestige and competence, called an overall quality score. Different weights are assigned to several different factors that rank a professional based on attributes such as one's peer rating, quality of education, breadth and depth of experience and the quality of work product." The patent application was filed on Sept. 17, 2010 (12/885,325). 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=8,464,162&OS=8,464,162&RS=8,464,162 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Integrated Circuit Having Direction Dependent Wiring ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Qi-De Qian, Santa Clara, Calif., has developed a patent (8,464,187) for an "integrated circuit having direction dependent wiring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In accordance with the present method and system for improving integrated circuit layout, a local process modification is calculated from simulated process response variables at a set of control points. Said modification values are incorporated into the layout constraints imposed by design rules and design intent to account for manufacturing friendliness. Solving the updated constraint equation with user specified objective function produces a new layout with increased manufacturability. The new layout may further contain data tags that enable optimal process correction to be performed on selected locations, leading to reduction in data size and mask complexity. Also in accordance with this invention, physical design tools are enhanced to read and process anisotropic design rules." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2012 (13/547,444). 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=8,464,187&OS=8,464,187&RS=8,464,187 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Methods and Systems for Applications for Z-numbers ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Lotfi A. Zadeh, Berkeley, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,735) for "methods and systems for applications for Z-numbers." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Generally, decisions are based on information. To be useful, information must be reliable. Basically, the concept of a Z-number relates to the issue of reliability of information. A Z-number, Z, has two components, Z=(A,B). The first component, A, is a restriction (constraint) on the values which a real-valued uncertain variable, X, is allowed to take. The second component, B, is a measure of reliability (certainty) of the first component. Typically, A and B are described in a natural language, for example: (about 45 minutes, very sure). Z-number has many applications, especially in the realms of economics, decision analysis, risk assessment, prediction, anticipation, rule-based characterization of imprecise functions and relations, and biomedicine. Different methods, applications, and systems are discussed. Other Fuzzy concepts are also discussed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2012 (13/621,164). 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=8,463,735&OS=8,463,735&RS=8,463,735 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Transactional Security Over a Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Richard F. Carrott, Moorpark, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,713) for a "transactional security over a network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method facilitating purchase transactions over a computer network, including the purchase of electronically storable items. The embodiments herein encrypt "customer identifier string" in an encryption stream and cause the encryption stream to be transferred from the customer to a merchant in the purchase transaction. A verification entity receives the encryption stream which is sent by the merchant for identity verification and payment authorization. Then, the verification entity verifies the identifiers contained in the encryption stream and transfers an identity verification and payment authorization from the verification entity to the merchant." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2012 (13/564,815). 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=8,463,713&OS=8,463,713&RS=8,463,713 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** 3D Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- 3D Systems, Rock Hill, S.C., has been assigned a patent (8,460,451) developed by Pingyong Xu, Valencia, Calif., Khalil Moussa, Chapel Hill, N.C., and John Stockwell, Sylmar, Calif., for a "support material and applications thereof." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one aspect, support materials operable for use in 3D printing systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a support material comprises a wax component comprising at least one ethoxylated fatty alcohol and a viscosity modifying agent, wherein the support material is water dispersible. In some embodiments, the wax component comprises a mixture of at least one fatty alcohol and at least one ethoxylated fatty alcohol." The patent application was filed on Feb. 23, 2011 (13/032,936). 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=8,460,451&OS=8,460,451&RS=8,460,451 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Method and System to Daisy-chain Access to Video Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Vadim Dagman, Foster City, Calif., has developed a patent (8,464,298) for a "method and system to daisy-chain access to video resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system to control at least one video resource daisy-chain access system. A first embodiment is a method to operate a video resource daisy-chain access system. The method includes requesting from a coordinator access instructions to receive a broadcast stream from a broadcast source; connecting to the broadcast source, or one of the re-broadcasting clients already receiving the broadcast stream, as instructed by the coordinator; optionally registering with the coordinator as a potential re-broadcasting source for new clients; optionally accepting connection requests from new clients for re-broadcasting of the received broadcast stream; and playing back on the client the received broadcast stream. A second embodiment is a video resource daisy-chain access system. The system includes a coordinator; a broadcasting source having a communication link with the coordinator; a first client having a communication link with the coordinator and a communication link with the broadcasting source; and a second client having a communication link with the coordinator and a communication link with the first client. These embodiments can be applied in several wired and wireless communication applications, even combinations of wired and wireless technologies including, but not limited to, IEEE 802.16 wireless applications, and equivalent technologies." The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2011 (13/021,554). 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=8,464,298&OS=8,464,298&RS=8,464,298 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Photo USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Photo USA, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,460,498) developed by James Peng, Cupertino, Calif., and Dexian Wang, Beijing, for a "method for sublimation coating." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are provided for of applying a sublimation transfer to a coffee cup having a handle connected at two locations to the cup. A sublimation transfer is placed around the container with a dye image an outer surface of the cup and extending beneath the handle. An elastic clamp wraps around the cup and sublimation transfer and extends beneath the handle to press the dye layer against the cup beneath the handle. The clamp has an elongated opening near one end of the clamp and the opening is placed over the handle to fasten the clamp to the cup. The wrapped cup and sublimation transfer is placed on a conveyor oven for sublimation heating, with the clamp being removed for reuse after the sublimation transfer of the dye layer onto the cup is completed." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2011 (13/104,703). 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=8,460,498&OS=8,460,498&RS=8,460,498 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Minnesota, California Inventors Develop Patent for File Repair ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Roderick B. Wideman, Shakopee, Minn., and Don Doerner, San Jose, Calif., have developed a patent (8,463,757) for a file repair. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example methods, and apparatus concern file repair. One example method includes storing a file in a file store and also parsing the file into a set of constituent data blocks. The method includes selectively storing, in a data store, unique data blocks from the set of constituent data blocks. The method includes maintaining, in a combination of the file store and the data store, a threshold number of copies of data blocks. The method also includes maintaining a data structure that stores data for locating the file in the file store and that stores data for recreating the file from data blocks. The method also includes maintaining a data structure that stores data for locating multiple copies of data found in members of the set of constituent data blocks. Files can be repaired using data blocks parsed from stored files or using data blocks stored as data blocks." The patent application was filed on March 15, 2011 (13/047,904). 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=8,463,757&OS=8,463,757&RS=8,463,757 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Setting a Flag Bit to Defer Event Handling to One of Multiple Safe Points in an Instruction Stream ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Guillermo J. Rozas, Los Gatos, Calif., and Alexander Klaiber, Mountain View, Calif., have developed a patent (8,464,033) for "setting a flag bit to defer event handling to one of multiple safe points in an instruction stream." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems thereof for exception handling are described. An event to be handled is identified during execution of a code sequence. A bit is set to indicate that handling of the event is to be deferred. An exception corresponding to the event is generated if the bit is set." The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2011 (13/221,812). 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=8,464,033&OS=8,464,033&RS=8,464,033 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Caliper Life Sciences Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Caliper Life Sciences, Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,460,530) developed by Charles Park, Mountain View, Calif., and Irina Kazakova, Los Gatos, Calif., for a "method for modifying the concentration of reactants in a microfluidic device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of modifying the concentration of reactants and carrying out a chemical reaction on a microfluidic device in which first and second reactants are delivered into a reaction channel combined, the second reactant different from the first reactant and capable of reacting with the first reactant. The first reactant is subjected to a stacking process, thereby producing a first stacked reactant. The second reactant is subjected to the stacking process, thereby producing a second stacked reactant. The first stacked reactant is exposed to the second stacked reactant so that the first stacked reactant and the second stacked reactant undergo a chemical reaction." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2011 (13/235,318). 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=8,460,530&OS=8,460,530&RS=8,460,530 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Conditional Balance Management for Non-issuer Debit Instruments ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Gary S. Shuster, Fresno, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,704) for a "conditional balance management for non-issuer debit instruments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer receives information about a debit account controlled by a third-party issuer, a user owing the account and instructions for managing the account after a specified trigger date. Operating according the instructions, an unknown remaining balance in the account may be exhausted after the trigger date has passed, using a sequence of charges responsive to the initial balance, to the last charge amount completed or attempted, and to whether or not the last charge amount is accepted. In the alternative, or in addition, the account may be managed to convert the remaining balance to a non-monetary coupon (e.g., "virtual currency") for use in an online computer game or the like, after the trigger date." The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2012 (13/674,878). 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=8,463,704&OS=8,463,704&RS=8,463,704 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Applied Materials Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Applied Materials, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,460,519) developed by Mengqi Ye, San Jose, Calif., Zhendong Liu, San Jose, Calif., and Peijun Ding, Saratoga, Calif., for a protective offset sputtering. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Sputtering in a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber may, in one embodiment, utilize a target laterally offset from and tilted with respect to the substrate. In another aspect, target power may be reduced to enhance film protection. In yet another aspect, magnetron magnets may be relatively strong and well balanced to enhance film protection. In another aspect, a shutter may be provided to protect the substrate in start up conditions. Other embodiments are described and claimed." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2006 (11/389,610). 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=8,460,519&OS=8,460,519&RS=8,460,519 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Systems and Methods for Computer Network Defense II ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Tara Chand Singhal, Torrance, Calif., has developed a patent (8,464,334) for "systems and methods for computer network defense II." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention discloses a technique of computer network defense. The technique is called Random IP-Security (RIP-Sec) 30, and it may preferably be deployed in the gateway 18 and other routers 20 of a computer network. The RIP Sec 30 technique uses a unique randomization of the existing artifacts of a data packet. These artifacts of a data packet are IP addresses of the packet. The unique randomization is able to substitute one value of the artifact with another exactly identical value of the artifact, that is, an IP address is replaced by another IP address, where the replaced IP address have no relationship to the original IP address, they having been derived from a unique randomization process of the original data." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2008 (12/148,042). 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=8,464,334&OS=8,464,334&RS=8,464,334 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Storage of Stochastic Information in Stochastic Information Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Sam L. Savage, Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,732) for "storage of stochastic information in stochastic information systems." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A stochastic information system stores a coherent stochastic model corresponding to an uncertain variable in a data store. The coherent stochastic model is stored in a compressed format. The stochastic information system includes a calculation engine operable to calculate a result by performing a simulation using the coherent stochastic model. In some implementations, the stochastic data is encoded and stored as a single element, such as, for example, a string. The stochastic data may be encoded using a quantizer, which may be configured to exploit gaps in the stochastic data. A method includes receiving stochastic information including values for a plurality of trials for use in a stochastic information system, encoding the stochastic information as a string representing the values for the plurality of trials, and storing the encoded stochastic information for use by the stochastic information system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2009 (12/318,644). 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=8,463,732&OS=8,463,732&RS=8,463,732 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Case Western Reserve University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, has been assigned a patent (8,460,529) developed by Young Jik Kwon, Irvine, Calif., for a degradable polyacrylamide gel. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A degradable polyacrylamide gel for analyzing or separating at least one macromolecule in a sample using electrophoresis includes a polyacrylamide cross-linked with at least one degradable cross-linker having a ketal or acetal group with the formula (I), wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and are hydrogen, an alkyl, or a substituted alkyl." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2010 (12/942,636). 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=8,460,529&OS=8,460,529&RS=8,460,529 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** SanDisk Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- SanDisk, Kfar Saba, Israel, has been assigned a patent (8,463,802) developed by Jason T. Lin, Los Gatos, Calif., and Judah Gamliel Hahn, Ofra, Israel, for "card-based management of discardable files." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and storage device are disclosed for card-based management of discardable files, where discardable files are tracked in a discardable file system on a storage device and are invisible to a host file system, which only tracks user files and free space. The method includes the storage device detecting currently free logical clusters corresponding to at least a portion of free space in the storage area and determining whether addresses associated with a subsequent user file write request are in a range of free clusters managed in the discardable file system by the storage device. When addresses in a host write request overlap the addresses of space managed by the discardable file system, the storage device discards discardable files as necessary and removes the newly freed clusters from the discardable file system, such that the discardable file system data structure is resized when room for user files is needed." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/895,428). 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=8,463,802&OS=8,463,802&RS=8,463,802 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell International Assigned Patent for Midamble for WLAN PHY Frames ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Marvell International, Hamilton, Bermuda, has been assigned a patent (8,462,863) developed by Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, Calif., Rohit U. Nabar, Santa Clara, Calif., and Sudhir Srinivasa, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "midamble for WLAN PHY frames." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In a method for generating a single data unit for transmission via a communication channel, a preamble and a first portion of a data payload of the single data unit are generated. A midamble is generated, the midamble including at least one OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol that includes calibration information. A second portion of the data payload of the single data unit is generated, and the midamble is included between the first portion of the data payload and the second portion of the data payload." The patent application was filed on July 22, 2010 (12/841,772). 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=8,462,863&OS=8,462,863&RS=8,462,863 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Georgia, California Inventors Develop Patent for Heterogeneous Mobile Networking ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Kyutae Lim, Alpharetta, Ga., Joy Laskar, Marietta, Ga., and Ara Chakrabarti, San Ramon, Calif., have developed a patent (8,463,280) for a heterogeneous mobile networking. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and process for establishing a mapped network of access points for a user of a wireless device is provided. A unique and customized network is selected from cellular connections, private wireless connections, public wireless connections, and wireless card connections such that a unique and personalized control of wireless connectivity may be established. Greater wireless resources are thus made available and provide for greater connectivity and improved battery life for a user's device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,777). 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=8,463,280&OS=8,463,280&RS=8,463,280 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nokia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Nokia, Espoo, Finland, has been assigned a patent (8,463,175) developed by Gabor Bajko, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method, apparatus, and computer program product for wireless network discovery through passive and active scanning." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments of the invention are disclosed to improve the discovery of wireless networks having desired service offerings. In example embodiments of the invention, a method comprises: determining whether to perform passive or active scanning; transmitting a wireless generic advertisement service request specifying one or more required characteristics of a transmitting device, if the determination is to perform active scanning; passively listening for one or more wireless generic advertisement service responses sent to a broadcast address by one or more wireless devices, the responses including one or more required characteristics of a passive listening device, if the determination is to perform passive scanning; and receiving one or more wireless generic advertisement service responses sent to a broadcast address by one or more wireless devices having the characteristics specified in the transmitted request." The patent application was filed on Sept. 16, 2011 (13/234,463). 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=8,463,175&OS=8,463,175&RS=8,463,175 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Dynamic Method Enterprise Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Dynamic Method Enterprise, Hong Kong, has been assigned a patent (8,463,122) developed by Santosh Kumar Sadananda, San Jose, Calif., Christopher M. Look, Pleasanton, Calif., and Jeffery J. Maki, Fremont, Calif., for a "quality of service in an optical network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus for performing a path based quality check for a specified bit rate in a wavelength division multiplexing optical network is described. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method selects from a database one of the available paths as a currently selected path. The database stores a representation of the available paths from an access node of the optical network to other access nodes of the optical network. The method further determines a cumulative noise, cumulative chromatic dispersion, and a maximum allowable chromatic dispersion for the currently selected path. In addition, the method determines whether the currently selected path passes the path based quality check based on whether the cumulative noise is less than the maximum allowable noise at a specific bit rate and whether the chromatic dispersion is less than the maximum allowable chromatic dispersion at the specified bit rate." The patent application was filed on Aug. 13, 2012 (13/584,655). 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=8,463,122&OS=8,463,122&RS=8,463,122 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Research In Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Research In Motion, Waterloo, Canada, has been assigned a patent (8,463,913) developed by Jan John-Luc Bakker, Keller, Texas, Andrew Allen, Mundelein, Ill., and Adrian Buckley, Tracy, Calif., for a "system and method of responding to a request in a network environment including IMS." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for facilitating responding to a request in a network environment including IMS. A component associated with a recipient is configured to receive an incoming message from a sender, wherein the incoming message is substantially free of an indication of acceptance by the sender of a body of a particular content type. A component associated with the recipient is configured to provide an outgoing message including at least one body of the particular content type." The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2008 (12/240,381). 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=8,463,913&OS=8,463,913&RS=8,463,913 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for Network Processors and Methods Allowing for Prefetching Instructions Based on a Packet Type of a Packet ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Justin Mark Sobaje, Los Angeles, Calif., has developed a patent (8,462,789) for "network processors and methods allowing for prefetching instructions based on a packet type of a packet." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A network processor of an embodiment includes a packet classification engine, a processing pipeline, and a controller. The packet classification engine allows for classifying each of a plurality of packets according to packet type. The processing pipeline has a plurality of stages for processing each of the plurality of packets in a pipelined manner, where each stage includes one or more processors. The controller allows for providing the plurality of packets to the processing pipeline in an order that is based at least partially on: (i) packet types of the plurality of packets as classified by the packet classification engine and (ii) estimates of processing times for processing packets of the packet types at each stage of the plurality of stages of the processing pipeline. A method in a network processor allows for prefetching instructions into a cache for processing a packet based on a packet type of the packet." The patent application was filed on May 9, 2012 (13/467,066). 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=8,462,789&OS=8,462,789&RS=8,462,789 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Hitachi Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Hitachi, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,464,003) developed by Shinichi Hayashi, San Jose, Calif., and Toshio Otani, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "method and apparatus to manage object based tier." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Exemplary embodiments provide a technique to manage object based tier to improve allocation of media to unallocated area. In one embodiment, a method of allocating an area of a logical volume to an unallocated area of a virtual volume for a write command comprises: calculating an object location of an object based on the write command and an object allocation information, the write command containing a virtual volume name and a virtual volume address of a virtual volume; selecting a tier from a plurality of tiers based on the calculated object location and an object and tier definition information; selecting a media type from a plurality of media types based on the selected tier and a tier and media definition information; and selecting a logical volume from a plurality of logical volumes based on the virtual volume specified by the write command, the object allocation information, a pool information, and the selected media type." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2010 (12/707,214). 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=8,464,003&OS=8,464,003&RS=8,464,003 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Hierarchical Management of System Resources ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Alcatel Lucent, Paris, has been assigned a patent (8,463,908) developed by Christopher W. Murray, Nepean, Canada, Gurudas Somadder, San Jose, Calif., and Attaullah Zabihi-Sessian, Kanata, Canada, for a "method and apparatus for hierarchical management of system resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A capability is provided for managing resources of a system. The system resources are managed using a hierarchical organization of the system resources. The resources of the system are managed using at least one hierarchical resource pool, where a hierarchical resource pool includes a master resource pool and a plurality of virtual resource pools. The master resource pool includes a logical representation of the resources managed by the hierarchical resource pool. The virtual resource pools include logical representations of respective subsets of the resources managed by the hierarchical resource pool. A method for managing resources of a management system includes receiving, from a borrower, a resource request for one of a plurality of resources of the management system where the resources are managed using a hierarchal resource pool, identifying a virtual resource pool associated with the resource request, and determining whether to serve the resource request from the identified virtual resource pool." The patent application was filed on March 16, 2010 (12/724,542). 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=8,463,908&OS=8,463,908&RS=8,463,908 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for System, Method and Computer Program Product for Facilitating Informed Decisions Relating to the Fair Sharing of the Costs of Insurance Between a Group and a Third Party ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Daniel L. Owen, Los Altos, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,625) for a "system, method and computer program product for facilitating informed decisions relating to the fair sharing of the costs of insurance between a group and a third party." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, and computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium are provided. In use, census information pertinent to a group insured by one or more insurance policies is received from a user. Further, second information describing attributes of one or more insurance policies available to the group for a particular type of insurance is received from the user. In addition, for each individual or family in the group and each of the available one or more insurance policies, an application is executed that is capable of calculating uncovered costs associated with the second information and calculating a total of the uncovered costs for the group. Also, third information regarding a premium of each of the available one or more insurance policies for the group is received from the user. Moreover, fourth information regarding a rule for and type of fair sharing of a total of the premium and the uncovered costs between the group and a third party is received from the user. Still yet, the total of the uncovered costs, the third information, and the fourth information are processed to produce the fair sharing of the total of the premium and the uncovered costs of insurance between the group and the third party. In addition, payments by the group and by the third party that are consistent with the rule for fair sharing provided by the user are delivered to the user." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2010 (12/790,717). 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=8,463,625&OS=8,463,625&RS=8,463,625 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Ericsson Assigned Patent for Transmitter Disabling Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden, has been assigned a patent (8,463,139) developed by Stefan Dahlfort, Santa Clara, Calif., for a transmitter disabling device. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An optical transmitter disabling device for controlling an optical transmitter, particularly of an optical network termination node of a passive optical network comprising a monitoring module and a disabling module, the monitoring module being adapted to determine at least when the optical transmitter is active, the disabling module being adapted to be connected to an activation input of the optical transmitter and wherein the disabling module is adapted to interrupt an activation signal to the optical transmitter at least when the monitoring module determines that the optical transmitter is active outside of a predetermined time interval." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2008 (12/996,842). 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=8,463,139&OS=8,463,139&RS=8,463,139 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Student Venture Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Michael K. Madison II, San Jose, Calif., and Maya Madison, San Jose, Calif., have developed a patent (8,463,691) for a student venture management. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A technique involves providing an actual cost commitment and investing a retail value of the actual cost commitment to a student venture, and receiving a return on the retail value and a return on actual cost that is equal to the return on the retail value minus the actual cost commitment. A system constructed according to the technique may include an investment decision engine, a portfolio management engine, and a venture scholar fund operations engine. The system may further include, for example, an authentication engine and a public information engine." The patent application was filed on Oct. 16, 2008 (12/288,350). 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=8,463,691&OS=8,463,691&RS=8,463,691 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Sony Assigned Patent for Detection of Low Contrast for Image Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Sony, Tokyo, has been assigned a patent (8,463,037) developed by Kensuke Miyagi, Sunnyvale, Calif., Florian Ciurea, San Jose, Calif., and Pingshan Li, Sunnyvale, Calif., for a "detection of low contrast for image processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "There are many applications that conduct both generation of contrast or complexity level and motion estimation for video processing. The applications often use a block matching technique. An embedded system such as a personal digital camera is an example of such an application. Additionally, comparison of error differences around the location of minimum error in a motion estimation error table is able to be used to determine low contrast in a scene." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/077,404). 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=8,463,037&OS=8,463,037&RS=8,463,037 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nestec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Nestec, Vevey, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (8,463,553) developed by Augusto Lois, San Diego, Calif., for "methods for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention provides methods, systems, and code for accurately classifying whether a sample from an individual is associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In particular, the present invention is useful for classifying a sample from an individual as an IBS sample using a statistical algorithm and/or empirical data. The present invention is also useful for ruling out one or more diseases or disorders that present with IBS-like symptoms and ruling in IBS using a combination of statistical algorithms and/or empirical data. Thus, the present invention provides an accurate diagnostic prediction of IBS and prognostic information useful for guiding treatment decisions." The patent application was filed on Aug. 20, 2007 (11/841,660). 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=8,463,553&OS=8,463,553&RS=8,463,553 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventors Develop Patent for Graphical Forecasting Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Craig Andrew Kaplan, Aptos, Calif., and Calen Lopata, Aptos, Calif., have developed a patent (8,463,679) for a graphical forecasting interface. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system, method, apparatus, and technique for gathering and providing information forecasts is disclosed. An example of a system according to the technique includes a graph module having at least and interactive portion and an optional static portion. The interactive portion of the graph can be capable of plotting future data points provided by a user. The static portion of the graph can contain a plot of past data points. The graphical forecasting interface provides a simple mechanism for a user to make one or a plurality of future predictions as to an information item using a graphical input." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2011 (13/243,995). 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=8,463,679&OS=8,463,679&RS=8,463,679 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Marvell World Trade Assigned Patent for Balancing Caching Load in a Peer-to-peer Based Network File System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Marvell World Trade, St. Michael, Barbados, has been assigned a patent (8,463,788) developed by Somenath Bandyopadhyay, Santa Clara, Calif., Abhijeet P. Gole, Cupertino, Calif., Jayesh Bhatt, Sunnyvale, Calif., for "balancing caching load in a peer-to-peer based network file system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques relating to network file systems for balancing caching load in peer-to-peer based network file systems are described. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining, by a cluster containing two or more computer systems, information about files cached at a network that includes three or more computer systems configured to cache data associated with a file server system. The method also includes receiving, from one of the computer systems of the network, a request to identify at least one computer system of the network that caches a specified file. Further, the method includes identifying, by the cluster in response to the received request, one or more computer systems of the network that cache the specified file based on the maintained information. Furthermore, the method includes providing, by the cluster to the requesting computer system, information referencing at least the identified one or more computer systems of the network." The patent application was filed on Aug. 29, 2011 (13/220,200). 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=8,463,788&OS=8,463,788&RS=8,463,788 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Valeo Schalter und Sensoren Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Valeo Schalter und Sensoren, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, has been assigned a patent (8,462,988) developed by Cathy Boon, Orange, Calif., for a "method and system for universal lane boundary detection." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and system for detecting road markings, is provided. One implementation involves receiving an image (3) of a road (4) in front of a vehicle (2) from an imager (1), determining a region of interest in an identified road in the image, and detecting road markings (8L, 8R) by detecting lane markings (7L, 7R) in the region of interest, and if lane markings cannot be detected, then detecting road boundaries in the region of interest." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2008 (12/523,494). 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=8,462,988&OS=8,462,988&RS=8,462,988 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** California Inventor Develops Patent for System and Method for Enhancing Financial Institution Revenues Through Acceleration of Debit Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Will Knapp, Cayucos, Calif., has developed a patent (8,463,680) for a "system and method for enhancing financial institution revenues through acceleration of debit processing." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for enhancing financial institution revenue through acceleration of debit processing is provided. The method includes modeling the processing of account debit transactions, identifying ways to accelerate the processing of the account debit transactions and accelerating the account debit transactions. In a further embodiment, account debit transaction processing is accelerated from beginning on what has traditionally been referred to as Day 0 to beginning on some day before Day 0." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2012 (13/448,344). 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&c 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. -1128651 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]