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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (Feb. 19)
[February 19, 2014]

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Massachusetts (Feb. 19)


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Massachusetts.

*** Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 18 -- Applied Micro Circuits, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,649,394) developed by Timothy P. Walker, Boxford, Mass., for a system and method for "transmitting and receiving asynchronous channels of information via a SerDes Frame Interface 4.2 interface." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2010 (12/905,005). 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=8649394.PN.&OS=PN/8649394&RS=PN/8649394 Written by Merly Lapig; edited by Karen Narag.



*** Seagate Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 18 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,649,249) developed by three co-inventors for a novel method and apparatus for "printing magnetic patterns using heat assisted magnetic recording." The co-inventors are Erhard Schreck, San Jose, Calif., David Fowler, San Jose, Calif., and Michael Mallary, Sterling, Mass.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2005 (11/220,068). 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=8649249.PN.&OS=PN/8649249&RS=PN/8649249 Written by Merly Lapig; edited by Karen Narag.


*** Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, Plano, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,655,627) developed by Johan Arendt Grape, Boxborough, Mass., and Steven Christopher Luby, Brookline, Mass., for "determining a distribution of multiple layers of a composite material within a structural volume." The patent application was filed on Nov. 1, 2010 (12/916,782). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=2&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=51&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28TX.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/TX&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/TX Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Optima Computers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Optima Computers, Enfield, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,656,049) developed by Stuart Fraser, Armonk, N.Y., Homero Joshua Garza, East Longmeadow, Mass., and Nicholas Eugenio Huanca, Hartford, Conn., for a "code injection system and method of operation." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2013 (13/858,856). 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=9&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28CT.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/CT&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/CT Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** MathWorks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- MathWorks, Natick, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,352) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for synchronized workflow management." The co-inventors are Peter Szpak, Newton, Mass., Paulo Pacheco, Westport, Mass., Christian Robl, Offenberg, Germany, and Martin Martin Orehek, Munich, Germany.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 4, 2012 (13/603,027). 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=18&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** SeaChange International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- SeaChange International, Acton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,438) developed by Brian E. Kahn, Arlington, Mass., and Timothy J. Ewald, Nashua, N.H., for a "method and system of queued management of multimedia storage." The patent application was filed on May 13, 2011 (13/107,415). 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=16&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Empire Technology Development Assigned Patent for Real-time Lifestyle Recommendation System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Empire Technology Development, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,655,820) developed by Gene Fein, Malibu, Calif., and Edward Merritt, Lenox, Mass., for a "real-time lifestyle recommendation system." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2008 (12/200,043). 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=10&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28DE.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/DE&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/DE Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Hypermed Imaging Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Hypermed Imaging, Greenwich, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,655,433) developed by five co-inventors for a "hyperspectral imaging in diabetes and peripheral vascular disease." The co-inventors are Jenny E. Freeman, Weston, Mass., Svetlana Panasyuk, Lexington, Mass., Michael Hopmeier, Mary Esther, Fla., Kevin Schomacker, Maynard, Mass., and Derek Brand, Brighton, Mass.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 11, 2013 (13/764,497). 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=16&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28CT.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/CT&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/CT Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Avid Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Avid Technology, Burlington, Mass. has been assigned a patent (8,656,045) developed by four co-inventors for a "communication protocol for controlling transfer of temporal data over a bus between devices in synchronization with a periodic reference signal." The co-inventors are Ron Wallace, Lexington, Mass., Harry Der, Westford, Mass., Martin Corbett, Westford, Mass., and Terrence Fetters, Tewksbury, Mass.

The patent application was filed on May 12, 2011 (13/106,550). 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=23&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Crucial Apex Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Crucial Apex Communications, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,655,900) developed by Jasmin Cosic, Pittsfield, Mass., for an "universal data management interface." The patent application was filed on March 4, 2005 (11/072,845). 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=9&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28DE.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/DE&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/DE Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** EMC Corp. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- EMC Corp., Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,455) developed by five co-inventors for a "managing data loss prevention policies." The co-inventors are Daniel V. Bailey, Pepperell, Mass., John P. Bell II, Cork, Ireland, Siddharth Navare, Herndon, Va., Vishnu C. Pedasingu, Bangalore, India, and Rishi Pidva, Raj, India.

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2011 (13/076,619). 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=15&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** MIT Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,244) developed by Nicholas B. Chang, Arlington, Mass., for a "rate adaptive nonbinary LDPC codes with low encoding complexity." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2011 (13/284,349). 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=19&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** MIT Assigned Patent for Architecture Programming in a Parallel Processing Environment with Switch-interconnected Processors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,141) developed by Anant Agarwal, Weston, Mass., for an "architecture and programming in a parallel processing environment with switch-interconnected processors." The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2005 (11/302,956). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=20&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** EMC Corp. Assigned Patent for System Method for Managing Provisioning of Storage Resources in Network with Virtualization of Resources in Such Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- EMC Corp., Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,100) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for managing provisioning of storage resources in a network with virtualization of resources in such a network." The co-inventors are Bradford B. Glade, Harvard, Mass., David W. Harvey, Newton, Mass., John Kemeny, Westford, Mass., and Matthew D. Waxman, Waltham, Mass.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2011 (13/217,400). 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=21&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Language Analytics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Language Analytics, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,643) developed by Habib Haddad, Boston, and Imad Jureidini, Cambridge, Mass., for a "method and system for adaptive transliteration." The patent application was filed on Oct. 9, 2008 (12/248,422). 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=40&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** AVID Technology Assigned Patent for Hierarchical Multimedia Program Composition ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- AVID Technology, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,854) developed by Timothy Claman, Andover, Mass., Robert Gonsalves, Wellesley, Mass., and Albert W. Kovalick, Santa Clara, Calif., for a "hierarchical multimedia program composition." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2010 (12/844,209). 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=29&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Aptima Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Aptima, Woburn, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,822) developed by Georgiy Levchuk, South Grafton, Mass., Jared Freeman, Bethesda, Md., and Wayne Shebilske, Bellbrook, Ohio., for a "probabilistic decision making system and methods of use." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2009 (12/921,755). 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=33&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Raytheon BBN Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,640) developed by Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Waltham, Mass., for an automatic word alignment.

The patent application was filed on March 2, 2011 (13/038,452). 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=41&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Millennial Media Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Millennial Media, Boston, has been assigned a patent (8,655,891) developed by Jorey Ramer, Cambridge, Mass., Adam Soroca, Cambridge, Mass., and Dennis Doughty, Brookline, Mass., for a "system for targeting advertising content to a plurality of mobile communication facilities." The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2012 (13/680,065). 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=26&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** EMC Corp. Assigned Patent for Automated Detection of Defined Input Values Transformation to Tokens ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- EMC Corp., Hopkinton, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,787) developed by Robert W. Griffin, Hollis, N.H., Daniel V. Bailey, Pepperell, Mass., and Joshua A. Rosenthol, Centreville, Va., for an "automated detection of defined input values and transformation to tokens." The patent application was filed on June 29, 2010 (12/826,491). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=35&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Empirix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Empirix, Billerica, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,656,284) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for determining a quality of user experience while performing activities in IP networks." The co-inventors are Tibor Ivanyi, Pelham, N.H., Anuj Nath, Stoneham, Mass., David Hsing-Wang Wong, Billerica, Mass., Sergey Eidelman, Bolton, Mass., and Anne-Marie Turgeon, Wakefied, Mass.

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2010 (12/762,240). 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=4&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MD.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MD&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MD Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Wright State University, Aptima Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, and Aptima, Woburn, Mass., have been assigned a patent (8,655,822) developed by Georgiy Levchuk, South Grafton, Mass., Jared Freeman, Bethesda, Md., and Wayne Shebilske, Bellbrook, Ohio, for a "probabilistic decision making system and methods of use." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2009 (12/921,755). 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=14&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28OH.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/OH&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/OH Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,954) developed by Gregory Leedberg, Milton, Mass., Kenneth D. Carey, Boston, and George W. Spencer Jr., Westborough, Mass., for a "system and method for collaborative messaging and data distribution." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2009 (12/468,101). 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=25&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Comverse Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Comverse, Wakefield, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,759) developed by four co-inventors for a "controlling a shared service." The co-inventors are Bruce Frankel, Marlton, N.J., Lior Auslander, Voorhees, N.J., Pankaj Trivedi, Voorhees, N.J., and David Policar, Woburn, Mass.

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2009 (13/266,102). 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=38&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,655,589) developed by Piyush Grover, Cambridge, Mass., and Christian Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden, for a "system and method for controlling motion of spacecrafts." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2012 (13/435,641). 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=43&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28MA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/MA Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,656,496) developed by eight co-inventors for a "global variable security analysis." The co-inventors are Shay Artzi, Brookline, Mass., Ryan Berg, Sudbury, Mass., John Peyton, Arlington, Mass., Marco Pistoia, Amawalk, N.Y., Manu Sridharan, Boulder, Colo., Takaaki Tateishi, Yamato, Japan, Omer Tripp, Har-Adar, Israel, and Robert Wiener, Framingham, Mass.

The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2010 (12/951,435). 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=17&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for System and Method for Initiating Execution of Process ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,656,391) developed by Scott H. Prager, Stratham, N.H., Martin T. Moore, Somerville, Mass., and Charles R. Hill, Belmont, Mass., for a "system and method for initiating the execution of a process." The patent application was filed on June 22, 2007 (11/767,023). 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=32&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Comtech EF Data Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Differential Encoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Comtech EF Data, Tempe, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,654,858) developed by Andrei E. Toma, Framingham, Mass., for "methods and apparatus for differential encoding." The patent application was filed on Aug. 18, 2006 (11/506,237). 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=5&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28AZ.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/AZ&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/AZ Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Negotiation Management in Data Processing Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,656,403) developed by five co-inventors for "negotiation management in data processing systems." The co-inventors are Bo An, Amherst, Mass., Frederick Douglis, Basking Ridge, N.J., Bradley William Fawcett, Byron, Minn., Anton V. Riabov, Ossining, N.Y., and Fan Ye, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,142). 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=27&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140218.PD.&s2=%28NY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY&RS=ISD/02/18/2014+AND+AS/NY Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** California Institute of Technology Assigned Patent for Nanostructures Fabrication ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,641,912) developed by four co-inventors for a method "for fabricating monolithic two-dimensional nanostructures." The co-inventors are Dunwei Wang, Boston, Akram Boukai, Mountain View, Calif., James R. Heath, South Pasadena, Calif., and Yuri Bunimovich, Williamsville, N.Y.

The patent application was filed on May 21, 200 (12/125,043). 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=8641912.PN.&OS=PN/8641912&RS=PN/8641912 Written by Eloisa Asedillo; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,655,156) developed by five co-inventors for a method for "auxiliary audio transmission for preserving synchronized playout with paced-down video." The co-inventors are Ali C. Begen, London, Canada, Tankut Akgul, Uskudar-Istanbul, Michael A. Ramalho, Sarasota, Fla., David R. Oran, Acton, Mass., and William C. Ver Steeg, Alpharetta, Ga.

The patent application was filed on March 2, 2010 (12/715,481). 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=8655156.PN.&OS=PN/8655156&RS=PN/8655156 Written by Marlyn Vitin.

*** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,655,097) developed by three co-inventors for a system and method "for a blur brush performing adaptive bilateral filtering." The co-inventors are Jen-Chan Chien, Saratoga, Calif., Michael W. Tao, Fremont, Calif., and Sylvain Paris, Boston.

The patent application was filed on Nov. 26, 2008 (12/324,251). 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=8655097.PN.&OS=PN/8655097&RS=PN/8655097 Written by Marlyn Vitin.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Multi-Device Video Communication ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,654,942) developed by two co-inventors for a method "of multi-device video communication." The co-inventors are Maryam Garrett, Boston, and Glen Shires, Danville, Calif.

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2012 (13/447,374). 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=8654942.PN.&OS=PN/8654942&RS=PN/8654942 Written by Marlyn Vitin.

*** SKINNYprice Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- SKINNYprice, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,655,703) developed by Daniel Owen McGuire, Quincy, Mass., for systems and methods "for task-based decreasing price markets." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2013 (13/888,571). 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=8655703.PN.&OS=PN/8655703&RS=PN/8655703 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Polycom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Polycom, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,654,950) developed by David Jordan Lindbergh, Reading, Mass., for a method and apparatus "for automatically suppressing computer keyboard noises in audio telecommunication session." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/745,510). 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=8654950.PN.&OS=PN/8654950&RS=PN/8654950 Written by Marlyn Vitin.

*** Netwaiter Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Netwaiter, Redlands, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,655,743) developed by five co-inventors for a system and method "for online management of restaurant orders." The co-inventors are Gabriel T. Moothart, Corona, Calif., Jared R. Shimoff, Redlands, Calif., John C. Easley, San Bernardino, Calif., Brandon Casci, Somerville, Mass., and Mark A. Birchem, Wakefield, Mass.

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2013 (13/801,550). 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=8655743.PN.&OS=PN/8655743&RS=PN/8655743 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Symantec Assigned Patent for Deriving Content of Social Network Private Site ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Symantec, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,655,792) developed by William Gauvin, Leominster, Mass., for "[d]eriving the content of a social network private site based on friend analysis." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2009 (12/413,409). 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=8655792.PN.&OS=PN/8655792&RS=PN/8655792 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** NetApp Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,655,848) developed by seven co-inventors for a method and apparatus "for replicating a data container of a source storage server at the logical level in an unordered stream of individual data units." The co-inventors are Alan Stuart Driscoll, Fremont, Calif., Devang K. Shah, San Jose, Calif., Peter Frank Corbett, Lexington, Mass., Srishylam Simharajan, Cranberry Township, Pa., Bruce Leverett, Pittsburgh, Michael Kazar, Pittsburgh, and Toby Smith, Pittsburgh.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 26, 2010 (12/713,744). 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=8655848.PN.&OS=PN/8655848&RS=PN/8655848 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** VMware Assigned Patent for Software Immunization Constraint Injection System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- VMware, Palo Alto, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,656,497) developed by eight co-inventors for a "constraint injection system for immunizing software programs against vulnerabilities and attacks." The co-inventors are Vladimir Kiriansky, Los Altos, Calif., Warren Wu, Los Altos, Calif., Charles Renert, Palo Alto, Calif., Sandy, Wilbourn, Palo Alto, Calif., Bharath Chandramohan, Santa Clara, Calif., Timothy Garnett, Boston, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Waltham, Mass., and Derek L. Bruening, Troy, N.Y.

The patent application was filed on April 1, 2011 (13/078,470). 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=8656497.PN.&OS=PN/8656497&RS=PN/8656497 Written by Vessie Ann Abalos.

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