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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (April 11)
[April 11, 2014]

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (April 11)


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Converting Leakage Current to DC Output ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,526) developed by three co-inventors for "[c]onverting leakage current to DC output." The co-inventors are Chee K. Fong, Cupertino, Calif., Perry S. Stultz, Carnation, Wash., and Suet F. Tin, Redmond, Wash.



The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2010 (12/958,254). 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=8692526.PN.&OS=PN/8692526&RS=PN/8692526 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Stage Innovations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Stage Innovations, Bellingham, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,693,645) developed by Taka Migimatsu, San Rafael, Calif., for "[v]oice message transmission to multiple destinations and playback." The patent application was filed on Aug. 10, 2009 (12/538,817). 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=8693645.PN.&OS=PN/8693645&RS=PN/8693645 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.


*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Mobile Node Group Formation and Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,693,453) developed by three co-inventors for "[m]obile node group formation and management." The co-inventors are Aveek Ravishekhar Purohit, Sunnyvale, Calif., Jie Liu, Medina, Wash., and Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Redmond, Wash.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2011 (13/327,449). 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=8693453.PN.&OS=PN/8693453&RS=PN/8693453 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, Kirkland, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,409) developed by Jeffrey A. Jouper, Newcastle, Calif., for a system "for managing distribution of electrical power." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2010 (12/958,534). 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=8692409.PN.&OS=PN/8692409&RS=PN/8692409 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Liqid Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Liqid, Golden, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,688,926) developed by four co-inventors for systems and methods "for optimizing data storage among a plurality of solid state memory subsystems." The co-inventors are Jason Breakstone, Evergreen, Ala., Alok Gupta, Oakland, Calif., Himanshu Desai, San Jose, Calif., and Angelo Campos, Haledon, N.J.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2011 (13/270,084). 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=8688926.PN.&OS=PN/8688926&RS=PN/8688926 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Micro Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Micro Motion, Boulder, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,688,943) developed by three co-inventors for a method "for executing a processing routine that utilizes an external memory." The co-inventors are William M. Mansfield, Boulder, Colo., Paul J. Hays, Lafayette, Calif., and Craig B. McAnally, Thornton, Colo.

The patent application was filed on July 23, 2008 (13/002,547). 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=8688943.PN.&OS=PN/8688943&RS=PN/8688943 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Principle Power Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Principle Power, Seattle, has been assigned a patent (8,692,401) developed by two co-inventors for an "[a]symmetric mooring system for support of offshore wind turbines." The co-inventors are Dominique Roddier, Berkeley, Calif., and Christian Cermelli, La Londe les Maures, France.

The patent application was filed on June 24, 2013 (13/925,442). 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=8692401.PN.&OS=PN/8692401&RS=PN/8692401 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Agilent Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Agilent Technologies, Loveland, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,686,129) developed by three co-inventors for methods "for the separation of biological molecules using sulfolane." The co-inventors are Jeffrey C. Braman, Carlsbad, Calif., Lee S. Basehore, Lakeside, Calif., and Natalia Novoradovskaya, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on March 20, 2007 (11/688,652). 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=8686129.PN.&OS=PN/8686129&RS=PN/8686129 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** ZeroNines Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- ZeroNines Technology, Castle Rock, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,688,787) developed by three co-inventors for a system, method and apparatus "for data processing and storage to provide continuous e-mail operations independent of device failure or disaster." The co-inventors are Keith T. Fukuhara, Belmont, Calif., Alan S. Gin, Foster City, Calif., and Shane I. Sareli, Salinas, Calif.

The patent application was filed on July 8, 2005 (11/177,192). 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=8688787.PN.&OS=PN/8688787&RS=PN/8688787 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Purdue Pharma Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Purdue Pharma, Stamford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,685,996) developed by Andreas Stumpf, Dublin, Calif., for methods "for making 3-O-protected morphinones and 3-O-protected morphinone dienol carboxylates." The patent application was filed on May 15, 2012 (13/472,227). 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=8685996.PN.&OS=PN/8685996&RS=PN/8685996 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Ventria Bioscience Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Ventria Bioscience, Fort Collins, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,686,225) developed by four co-inventors for "[m]onocot seed product comprising a human blood protein." The co-inventors are Ning Huang, Davis, Calif., Raymond L. Rodriguez, Davis, Calif., Frank E. Hagie, Sacramento, Calif., and David M. Stalker, Woodland, Calif.

The patent application was filed on April 17, 2012 (13/449,233). 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=8686225.PN.&OS=PN/8686225&RS=PN/8686225 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Agilent Technologies Assigned Patent for Multi-Site Mutagenesis ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Agilent Technologies, Loveland, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,685,676) developed by two co-inventors for "[m]ulti-site mutagenesis." The co-inventors are Holly H. Hogrefe, San Diego, and Janice M. Cline, San Marcos, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 11, 2011 (13/270,698). 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=8685676.PN.&OS=PN/8685676&RS=PN/8685676 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** N30 Pharmaceuticals Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- N30 Pharmaceuticals, Boulder, Colo., has been assigned a patent (8,686,015) developed by five co-inventors for "[p]yrrole inhibitors of S-nitrosoglutathione reductase as therapeutic agents." The co-inventors are Gary J. Rosenthal, Lafayette, Calif., Xicheng Sun, Broomfield, Colo., Sarah Strong, Louisville, Colo., Jian Qiu, Longmont, Colo., and Jan Wasley, Guilford, Conn.

The patent application was filed on May 24, 2013 (13/901,660). 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=8686015.PN.&OS=PN/8686015&RS=PN/8686015 Written by Lesley Gonzales; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for State-based Auxiliary Display Operation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,816) developed by three co-inventors for "[s]tate-based auxiliary display operation." The co-inventors are Michael George Lenahan, Walnut Creek, Calif., Andrew J. Fuller, Redmond, Wash., and Niels van Dongen, Seattle.

The patent application was filed on March 2, 2006 (11/366,682). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8692816.PN.&OS=PN/8692816&RS=PN/8692816 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Operating Light Emitting Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,693,087) developed by two co-inventors for a system and method "for operating a light emitting device utilizing charged quantum dots." The co-inventors are Andreas Nowatzyk, San Jose, Calif., and Rod Fleck, Bellevue, Wash.

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2011 (13/173,108). 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=8693087.PN.&OS=PN/8693087&RS=PN/8693087 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Para-virtualized Asymmetric GPU Processors ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,832) developed by two co-inventors for "[p]ara-virtualized asymmetric GPU processors." The co-inventors are Meher Prasad Malakapalli, Santa Clara, Calif., and Stuart Raymond Patrick, Bellevue, Wash.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 23, 2012 (13/355,790). 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=8692832.PN.&OS=PN/8692832&RS=PN/8692832 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Elwha Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Elwha, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,693,242) developed by nine o-inventors for a "[n]anotube based nanoelectromechanical device." The co-inventors are Howard L. Davidson, San Carlos, Calif., Nathan P. Myhrvold, Bellevue, Wash., Clarence T. Tegreen, Bellevue, Wash., Lowell L. Wood Jr., Belleveu, Wash., Charles Whitmer, North Bend, Wash., Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, Wash., Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, Robert W. Lord, Seattle, and Richard T. Lord, Tacoma, Wash.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 16, 2012 (13/398,551). 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=8693242.PN.&OS=PN/8693242&RS=PN/8693242 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Invention Science Fund I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Invention Science Fund I, Bellevue, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,537) developed by five co-inventors for the use of "pairs of transformers to increase transmission line voltage." The co-inventors are Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Livermore, Calif., Victoria Y. H. Wood, Livermore, Calif., Lowell L. Wood Jr., Bellevue, Wash., Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, Wash., and Jordin T. Kare, Seattle.

The patent application was filed on March 4, 2010 (12/660,932). 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=8692537.PN.&OS=PN/8692537&RS=PN/8692537 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Ringback Tone to Calling Party ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,693,662) developed by four co-inventors for a method of "providing a ringback tone to a calling party." The co-inventors are Gary Clayton, Daly City, Calif., Lisa J. Stifelman, Palo Alto, Calif., Rao Surapaneni, San Jose, Calif., and Madhusudan Chinthakunta, Saratoga, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 30, 2011 (13/221,664). 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=8693662.PN.&OS=PN/8693662&RS=PN/8693662 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Microsoft Assigned Patent for Adaptive Adjustment of Depth Cues ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., has been assigned a patent (8,692,870) developed by three co-inventors for "[a]daptive adjustment of depth cues in a stereo telepresence system." The co-inventors are Kurt Barton Akeley, Novato, Calif., Jaron Zepel Lanier, Sausalito, Calif., and Johnny Chung Lee, Redmond, Wash.

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2010 (12/824,257). 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=8692870.PN.&OS=PN/8692870&RS=PN/8692870 Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Vessie Ann Abalos.

*** Dolby Laboratories Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Dolby Laboratories Licensing, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,693,699) developed by five co-inventors for a "method for adaptive control and equalization of electroacoustic channels." The co-inventors are Matthew Fellers, San Francisco, Grant Davidson, Burlingame, Calif., Rongshan Yu, Singapore, Eric Benjamin, Pacifica, Calif., and Kenneth Gundry, San Francisco.

The patent application was filed on July 29, 2009 (13/056,251). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=327&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** GSI Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- GSI Technology, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,236) developed by LeeLean Shu, Los Altos, Calif., Chenming W. Tung, Fremont, Calif., and Hsin You S. Lee, Campbell, Calif., for "systems and methods of sectioned bit line memory arrays, including hierarchical and/or other features." The patent application was filed on Feb. 17, 2012 (13/399,986). 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=86,93,236.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,236&RS=PN/86,93,236 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Newport Media Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Newport Media, Lake Forest, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,579) developed by Mohy Abdelgany, Irvine, Calif., and Jun Ma, Irvine, Calif., for switchable DVB-H receiver.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 10, 2007 (11/869,801). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=346&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Greatbatch Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Greatbatch, Clarence, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,694,102) developed by Ryan A. Stevenson, Maple Valley, Wash., and Robert A. Stevenson, Canyon Country, Calif., for "ionizing radiation-protected active implantable medical device." The patent application was filed on Feb. 7, 2012 (13/367,501). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,694,102.PN.&OS=PN/8,694,102&RS=PN/8,694,102 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Big Switch Network Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Big Switch Network, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,344) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for generating packet forwarding rules based on network policy." The co-inventors are Robert Edward Adams, San Mateo, Calif., Mandeep Singh Dhami, San Jose, Calif., Robert W. Sherwood, Palo Alto, Calif., Daniel E. Talayco, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Shudong Zhou, Fremont, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2011 (13/246,611). 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=86,93,344.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,344&RS=PN/86,93,344 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Performance Optimization for Wireless Networks with Mixed Modulation Types ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,450) developed by Tania Sung-Yi Chen, Sunnyvale, Calif., Bretton Douglas, San Jose, Calif., and Arnold Bilstad, Redwood City, Calif., for a "performance optimization for wireless networks with mixed modulation types." The patent application was filed on June 4, 2010 (12/802,375). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=379&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,416) developed by Jun Zheng, La Jolla, Calif., Chenglin Zhang, La Jolla, Calif., and Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, for a "method and system for an improved user group selection scheme." The patent application was filed on March 8, 2011 (13/042,554). 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=86,93,416.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,416&RS=PN/86,93,416 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Silicon Image Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Silicon Image, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,692,937) developed by William Conrad Altmann, San Jose, Calif., for the video frame synchronization.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2010 (12/712,933). 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=86,92,937.PN.&OS=PN/86,92,937&RS=PN/86,92,937 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for SDMA Resource Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,405) developed by five co-inventors for the SDMA resource management. The co-inventors are Tingfang Ji, San Diego, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, San Diego, Alexei Gorokhov, San Diego, Min Dong, San Diego, and Avneesh Agrawal, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2005 (11/261,837). 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=86,93,405.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,405&RS=PN/86,93,405 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,334) developed by Siddhartha Dattagupta, Fullerton, Calif., and Allen J. Huotari, Garden Grove, Calif., for a "system and method for improved data transmission reliability over a network." The patent application was filed on May 11, 2011 (13/105,264). 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=86,93,334.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,334&RS=PN/86,93,334 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Boeing Assigned Patent for Article Having Hexavalent-chromium-free, Corrosion-inhibiting Organic Conversion Coating Thereon, and its Preparation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Boeing, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (8,691,028) developed by Martin W. Kendig, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Melitta M. Hon, Daly City, Calif., and Leslie F. Warren Jr., Camarillo, Calif., for an "article having a hexavalent-chromium-free, corrosion-inhibiting organic conversion coating thereon, and its preparation." The patent application was filed on May 10, 2006 (11/382,499). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,691,028.PN.&OS=PN/8,691,028&RS=PN/8,691,028 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,398) developed by five co-inventors for "high-availability mobile gateways having interchassis non-uniform service unit redundancy." The co-inventors are Srinivasa Chaganti, San Ramon, Calif., Apurva Mehta, Cupertino, Calif., Samya Das Sarma, Campbell, Calif., Bobby Vandalore, Milpitas, Calif., and Kumar Mehta, Cupertino, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 29, 2011 (13/248,825). 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=86,93,398.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,398&RS=PN/86,93,398 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,140) developed by Joshua P. Weiher, San Jose, Calif., Paul Hughey Henry, San Jose, Calif., and Mark S. Seymour, Felton, Calif., for a bayonet-style disk clamp.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 22, 2012 (13/657,558). 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=86,93,140.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,140&RS=PN/86,93,140 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** SonicWALL Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- SonicWALL, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,782) developed by Bong Gyoune Kim, Santa Clara, Calif., for "image based spam blocking." The patent application was filed on March 1, 2010 (12/715,335). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=315&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Erlanger, Ky., has been assigned a patent (8,694,217) developed by Matthew Eugene Fleming, Santa Ana, Calif., Avernethy Francisco, Torrance, Calif., and Christopher Bartlett Gregg, Gardena, Calif., for a "method and system for adjusting a gear map." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2010 (12/898,486). 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=20140408.PD.&s2=%28KY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/KY&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/KY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,367) developed by five co-inventors for "providing offloads in a communication network." The co-inventors are Kuntal Chowdhury, Andover, Mass., Mohan Rangan, Nashua, N.H., Taiwo Oyedele, Reading, United Kingdom, Michael Digiorgio, Reading, Mass., and Rajeev Koodli, Sunnyvale, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2010 (12/891,535). 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=86,93,367.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,367&RS=PN/86,93,367 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Graceful Restart For Use in Nodes Employing Label Switched Path Signaling Protocols ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,471) developed by four co-inventors for "graceful restart for use in nodes employing label switched path signaling protocols." The co-inventors are Kireeti Kompella, Los Altos, Calif., Manoj Leelanivas, Los Gatos, Calif., Ping Pan, Emerson, N.J., and Yakov Rekhter, New Rochelle, N.Y.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 4, 2011 (13/021,017). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=375&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Applied Materials Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Applied Materials, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,078) developed by Byung Sung Kwak, Portland, Ore., and Nety Krishna, Sunnyvale, Calif., for electrochromic devices.

The patent application was filed on May 1, 2012 (13/461,750). 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=86,93,078.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,078&RS=PN/86,93,078 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,693,195) developed by David G. Rohrer, Auburn, Calif., and Glenn C. Simon, Auburn, Calif., for "chassis apparatus protruding electronic devices." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2012 (13/460,991). 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=86,93,195.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,195&RS=PN/86,93,195 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent for Multi-head Disk Drive ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,133) developed by Joe C. Lee, Fullerton, Calif., and Nicholas M. Warner, Livermore, Calif., for a multi-head disk drive.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 13, 2013 (13/766,470). 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=86,93,133.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,133&RS=PN/86,93,133 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Kofax Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Kofax, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,043) developed by six co-inventors for the automatic document separation. The co-inventors are Mauritius A.R. Schmidtler, Escondido, Calif., Scott S. Texeira, San Diego, Christopher K. Harris, San Diego, Sameer Samat, San Diego, Roland Borrey, Villa Park, Calif., and Anthony Macciola, Chino Hills, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2003 (10/742,131). 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=86,93,043.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,043&RS=PN/86,93,043 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Control Resource Mapping for Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,444) developed by five co-inventors for a "control resource mapping for a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Aamod Khandekar, San Diego, Alexei Gorokhov, San Diego, Naga Bhushan, San Diego, Sandip Sarkar, San Diego, and Ravi Palanki, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on May 7, 2012 (13/465,943). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=380&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Headway Technologies Assigned Patent for Sense Amplifier ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Headway Technologies, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,273) developed by Perng-Fei Yuh, San Jose, Calif., Po-Kang Wang, Los Altos, Calif., and Lejan Pu, San Jose, Calif., for "reference averaging for MRAM sense amplifiers." The patent application was filed on Jan. 6, 2012 (13/345,116). 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=86,93,273.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,273&RS=PN/86,93,273 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** LSI Assigned Patent for Energy-based Inter-track Interference Cancellation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,119) developed by four co-inventors for the "energy-based inter-track interference cancellation." The co-inventors are George Mathew, San Jose, Calif., Erich Franz Haratsch, Bethlehem, Pa., Jongseung Park, Allentown, Pa., and Timothy B. Lund, Rochester, Minn.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2012 (13/591,888). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=86,93,119.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,119&RS=PN/86,93,119 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** STMicroelectronics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- STMicroelectronics, Coppell, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,692,761) developed by Greg Neal, Morgan Hill, Calif., for an "apparatus and method for modeling the light field of a local-dimming LED backlight for an LCD display." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2012 (13/456,785). 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=86,92,761.PN.&OS=PN/86,92,761&RS=PN/86,92,761 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Providing Directory Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,484) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for providing directory services by a gateway for peer-to-peer communications." The co-inventors are Jeyhan Karaoguz, Irvine, Calif., Xuemin Chen, San Diego, Wael William Diab, San Francisco, David Garrett, Tustin, Calif., David Lundgren, Mill Valley, Calif., and Rich Prodan, Niwot, Colo.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 30, 2010 (12/982,022). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=370&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** University of California Assigned Patent for Loss Modulated Silicon Evanescent Lasers ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The University of California, Oakland, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,509) developed by John E. Bowers, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Daoxin Dai, Hangzhou, China, for "loss modulated silicon evanescent lasers." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/827,776). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=364&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Methods for Bridging Calls ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,466) developed by Timothy Johnson, San Jose, Calif., for "apparatus and methods for bridging calls or data between heterogeneous network domains." The patent application was filed on April 8, 2009 (12/420,715). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=377&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** SanDisk 3D Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- SanDisk 3D, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,233) developed by four co-inventors for the "re-writable resistance-switching memory with balanced series stack." The co-inventors are Roy E. Scheuerlein, Cupertino, Calif., Henry Chien, San Jose, Calif., Zhida Lan, San Jose, Calif., and Yung-Tin Chen, Santa Clara, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2012 (13/363,252). 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=86,93,233.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,233&RS=PN/86,93,233 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Adimab Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Adimab, Lebanon, N.H., has been assigned a patent (8,691,730) developed by four co-inventors for a "rationally designed, synthetic antibody libraries and uses therefor." The co-inventors are Maximiliano Vasquez, Palo Alto, Calif., Michael Feldhaus, Belmont, Mass., Tillman U. Gerngross, Hanover, N.H., and K. Dane Wittrup, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 12, 2008 (12/210,072). 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=20140408.PD.&s2=%28NH.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/NH&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/NH Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Litepoint Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Litepoint, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,529) developed by Christian Volf Olgaard, Saratoga, Calif., Ruizu Wang, San Ramon, Calif., and Guy Shaviv, Zichron Yaakov, Israel, for a "method for enabling a device under test (DUT) to retry a portion of a pre-defined test sequence." The patent application was filed on April 2, 2012 (13/437,652). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=359&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Unbound Networks Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Unbound Networks, San Carlos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,490) developed by Damon Finney, San Jose, Calif., and Ashok Mathur, San Carlos, Calif., for a "parallel processing using multi-core processor." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2013 (13/786,232). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=368&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Access Point Resource Negotiation and Allocation over Wireless Interface ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,316) developed by Ravi Palanki, San Diego, Parag A. Agashe, San Diego, and Aamod D. Khandekar, San Diego, for the "access point resource negotiation and allocation over a wireless interface." The patent application was filed on Feb. 5, 2010 (12/701,028). 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=86,93,316.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,316&RS=PN/86,93,316 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Leap Motion Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Leap Motion, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,693,731) developed by David Holz, San Francisco, and Hua Yang, Millbrae, Calif., for an "enhanced contrast for object detection and characterization by optical imaging." The patent application was filed on Jan. 16, 2013 (13/742,845). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=323&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** E I du Pont de Nemours and Co. Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Depositing Pattern on Substrate ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- E I du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,691,667) developed by Charles Douglas MacPherson, Santa Barbara, Calif., Dennis Damon Walker, Santa Barbara, Calif., and Matthew Stainer, Goleta, Calif., for "method and apparatus for depositing a pattern on a substrate." The patent application was filed on Dec. 29, 2005 (11/321,780). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,691,667.PN.&OS=PN/8,691,667&RS=PN/8,691,667 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Headway Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Headway Technologies, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,142) developed by Wenyu Chen, San Jose, Calif., and Joe Smyth, Aptos, Calif., for the "magnetic recording assisted by spin torque oscillator with a radio frequency current bias." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2013 (14/077,168). 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=86,93,142.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,142&RS=PN/86,93,142 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Virginia Venture Industries Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Virginia Venture Industries, Centerville, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,056) developed by Kenneth A. Abeloe, Carlsbad, Calif., for "methods and apparatuses for printing three dimensional images." The patent application was filed on July 15, 2013 (13/941,729). 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=86,93,056.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,056&RS=PN/86,93,056 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** salesforce.com Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- salesforce.com, San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,693,649) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for interfacing with a phone system in an on-demand service environment." The co-inventors are Marco Casalaina, San Francisco, Gautam Vasudev, San Francisco, Rahul Kaw, Pleasanton, Calif., Rachel Wang, Foster City, Calif., and Jason A. Ellis, Geneva, Ill.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2010 (12/878,288). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=335&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Multi-antenna Communication Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,577) developed by five co-inventors for "multi-antenna communication systems utilizing RF-based and baseband signal weighting and combining." The co-inventors are Severine Catreux, Cardiff, Calif., Vinko Erceg, Cardiff, Calif., Pieter Roux, San Diego, Pieter Van Rooyen, San Diego, and Jack Winters, Middletown, N.J.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 26, 2010 (12/911,979). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=347&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,408) developed by Tom Chin, San Diego, Kuo-Chun Lee, San Diego, and Carl Guangming Shi, San Diego, for "methods and systems for subscriber station-based admission control." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2008 (12/131,912). 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=86,93,408.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,408&RS=PN/86,93,408 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Monolithic Power Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Monolithic Power Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,276) developed by Pengjie Lai, San Jose, Calif., and Jian Jiang, San Jose, Calif., for the "power supply, associated management unit and method." The patent application was filed on Dec. 28, 2011 (13/339,083). 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=86,93,276.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,276&RS=PN/86,93,276 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Juniper Networks Assigned Patent for Centralized Control of Aggregation Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,374) developed by five co-inventors for the "centralized control of an aggregation network with a reduced control plane." The co-inventors are James M. Murphy, Alameda, Calif., Abhijit K. Choudhury, Cupertino, Calif., Pradeep Sindhu, Los Altos Hills, Calif., Ina Minei, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Jayabharat Boddu, Los Altos, Calif.

The patent application was filed on March 15, 2013 (13/842,453). 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=86,93,374.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,374&RS=PN/86,93,374 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Entropic Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Entropic Communications, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,419) developed by David Barr, San Jose, Calif., for a "method and apparatus for using dynamic subchannels in a communications network." The patent application was filed on July 11, 2011 (13/179,843). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=383&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** RingCentral Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- RingCentral, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,655) developed by four co-inventors for "system and method for provisioning temporary telephone numbers." The co-inventors are Vi Dinh Chau, San Francisco, Naveen Gupta, Sunnyvale, Calif., Rituparna Mukherjee, Mountain View, Calif., and Nisha K. Ahluwalia, San Francisco.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2011 (13/199,549). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=334&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Linear Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Linear Technology, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,215) developed by William Hall Coley, Cary, N.C., Charles Edward Hawkes, Cary, N.C., and Kurk David Mathews, Menlo Park, Calif., for a "DC/DC converter with magnetic flux density limits." The patent application was filed on June 2, 2011 (13/151,689). 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=86,93,215.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,215&RS=PN/86,93,215 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Power Integrations Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Power Integrations, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,217) developed by Mingming Mao, Saratoga, Calif., for a "power supply controller with minimum-sum multi-cycle modulation." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2011 (13/242,947). 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=86,93,217.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,217&RS=PN/86,93,217 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Matthew Rolston Photographer Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Matthew Rolston Photographer, Beverly Hills, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,692,930) developed by Matthew Rolston, Beverly Hills, Calif., for a "mobile device with operation for modifying visual perception." The patent application was filed on Nov. 19, 2010 (12/950,192). 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=86,92,930.PN.&OS=PN/86,92,930&RS=PN/86,92,930 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Brocade Communications Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Brocade Communications Systems, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,477) developed by Yan-Zhe Wang, Palo Alto, Calif., and Mani Prasad Kancherla, Milpitas, Calif., for "transaction and connection independent protocol load balancing." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2011 (13/296,112). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=372&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** U.S. Navy Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (8,692,397) developed by five co-inventors for a "mechanism for the conversion of vertical motion to translational or rotational motion." The co-inventors are William W. Lai, Ridgecrest, Calif., Alfred J. Baca, Ridgecrest, Calif., M. Joseph Roberts, Ridgecrest, Calif., Lawrence C. Baldwin, Ridgecrest, Calif., and Michael T. Owens, Escondido, Calif.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 26, 2012 (13/727,254). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,692,397.PN.&OS=PN/8,692,397&RS=PN/8,692,397 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Racing Optics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Racing Optics, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (8,693,102) developed by Bart Wilson, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., Seth Wilson, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and Stephen S. Wilson, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., for a touch screen saver.

The patent application was filed on May 4, 2009 (12/435,212). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,693,102.PN.&OS=PN/8,693,102&RS=PN/8,693,102 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Big Horn Valve Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Big Horn Valve, Sheridan, Wyo., has been assigned a patent (8,690,119) developed by four co-inventors for a "leak-free reciprocating stemmed valve." The co-inventors are Kevin Burgess, Sheridan, Wyo., Daniel E. Clawson, Fresno, Calif., David Yakos, Bozeman, Mont., and Bryan Walthall, Bozeman, Mont.

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2011 (13/161,821). 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=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28WY.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/WY&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/WY Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent for Ultra-thin HDD Embedded Disk Clamp Design ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,139) developed by Jifang Tian, Fremont, Calif., Jian Yang, Fremont, Calif., and Qiang Yang, Fremont, Calif., for the "ultra-thin HDD embedded disk clamp design." The patent application was filed on Aug. 2, 2012 (13/565,713). 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=86,93,139.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,139&RS=PN/86,93,139 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** HRL Laboratories Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- HRL Laboratories, Malibu, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,729) developed by Paul Alex Dow, Los Angeles, Deepak Khosla, Camarillo, Calif., and David J. Huber, Venice, Calif., for "hierarchical spatial representation for multimodal sensory data." The patent application was filed on Aug. 14, 2012 (13/585,356). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=324&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Generation and Use of Reference Signals ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,429) developed by five co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for generation and use of reference signals in a communications system." The co-inventors are Juan Montojo, San Diego, Amir Farajidana, Sunnyvale, Calif., Alexei Y. Gorokhov, San Diego, Kapil Bhattad, San Diego, and Ravi Palanki, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on March 30, 2010 (12/750,556). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=382&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,698) developed by Michael Carnes, San Francisco, and Jerome Tu, Saratoga, Calif., for "method and apparatus to reduce non-linear distortion in mobile computing devices." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2008 (12/112,792). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=7&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=328&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Connectem Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Connectem, Santa Clara, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,401) developed by Heeseon Lim, Cupertino, Calif., and Nishi Kant, Fremont, Calif., for a "method and system for optimized handling of context using hierarchical grouping (for machine type communications)." The patent application was filed on July 19, 2012 (13/553,772). 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=86,93,401.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,401&RS=PN/86,93,401 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent for High Order Gray Code ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,123) developed by Guoxiao Guo, Foothill Ranch, Calif., Jie Yu, Irvine, Calif., and Abhishek Dhanda, San Jose, Calif., for a "disk drive correcting high order gray code using track estimator and decoding low order track code separately." The patent application was filed on June 27, 2011 (13/170,000). 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=86,93,123.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,123&RS=PN/86,93,123 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Silicon Storage Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Silicon Storage Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,274) developed by Hieu Van Tran, San Jose, Calif., and Samar Saha, Milpitas, Calif., for "systems and methods of non-volatile memory sensing including selective/differential threshold voltage features." The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2013 (13/776,690). 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=86,93,274.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,274&RS=PN/86,93,274 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Method of Forming CMOS Device with Stressed-channel NMOS Transistor and Strained-channel PMOS Transistor ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,691,644) developed by Seung-Chul Song, San Diego, Amitabh Jain, Allen, Texas, and Deborah J. Riley, Murphy, Texas, for a "method of forming a CMOS device with a stressed-channel NMOS transistor and a strained-channel PMOS transistor." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/541,957). 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=86,91,644.PN.&OS=PN/86,91,644&RS=PN/86,91,644 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent for Disk Drive ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,134) developed by Wei Xi, Mission Viejo, Calif., and Sanghoon Chu, San Jose, Calif., for a disk drive.

The patent application was filed on June 23, 2011 (13/167,062). 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=86,93,134.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,134&RS=PN/86,93,134 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Coding Using Motion Vector Segmentation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,547) developed by James Bankoski, Wynantskill, N.Y., Paul Wilkins, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Yaowu Xu, San Diego, for "apparatus and method for coding using motion vector segmentation." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2011 (13/081,097). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=356&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Channel Hopping Based Content Protection ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,520) developed by four co-inventors for a "channel hopping based content protection having an out-of-band communication band." The co-inventors are Yong Jin Kim, San Diego, Cong T. Nguyen, San Diego, Babak Aryan, San Diego, and Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2010 (12/894,775). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=362&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus of Temporal Error Concealment for P-frame ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,540) developed by Fang Shi, San Diego, and Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego, for "method and apparatus of temporal error concealment for P-frame." The patent application was filed on March 9, 2006 (11/373,596). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=8&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=357&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/CA Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Deka Products Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Deka Products, Manchester, N.H., has been assigned a patent (8,690,617) developed by five co-inventors for a swimming propulsion device. The co-inventors are Christopher C. Langenfeld, Nashua, N.H., Christopher M. Werner, San Jose, Calif., Ryan K. LaRocque, Pepperell, Mass., Thomas S. Schnellinger, North Andover, Mass., and Stanley B. Smith III, Raymond, N.H.

The patent application was filed on March 28, 2011 (13/073,343). 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=8&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140408.PD.&s2=%28NH.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/NH&RS=ISD/04/08/2014+AND+AS/NH Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Mems Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm Mems Technologies, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,084) developed by Surya Ganti, Los Altos, Calif., Kasra Khazeni, San Jose, Calif., and Jeff Sampsell, Pueblo West, Colo., for an "interferometric modulator in transmission mode." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2012 (13/458,215). 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=86,93,084.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,084&RS=PN/86,93,084 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Frame Rate Adaptation ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,692,934) developed by Alexander MacInnis, Los Altos, Calif., for a "method and system for frame rate adaptation." The patent application was filed on April 9, 2013 (13/859,207). 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=86,92,934.PN.&OS=PN/86,92,934&RS=PN/86,92,934 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** OCZ Technology Group Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- OCZ Technology Group, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,208) developed by Karl Reinke, Santa Clara, Calif., Dokyun Kim, Fremont, Calif., and William Allen, Cupertino, Calif., for a "PCIe bus extension system, method and interfaces therefore." The patent application was filed on Aug. 8, 2011 (13/205,300). 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=86,93,208.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,208&RS=PN/86,93,208 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Sensing Circuit ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,272) developed by four co-inventors for a sensing circuit. The co-inventors are Seong-Ook Jung, Seoul, South Korea, Jisu Kim, Seoul, South Korea, Kyungho Ryu, Seoul, South Korea, and Seung H. Kang, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on June 30, 2011 (13/173,641). 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=86,93,272.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,272&RS=PN/86,93,272 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,144) developed by Tzong-Shii Pan, San Jose, Calif., Yi Lu, San Jose, Calif., and Yanning Liu, San Ramon, Calif., for "head gimbal assemblies and methods for measuring slider parameters." The patent application was filed on May 30, 2013 (13/906,205). 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=86,93,144.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,144&RS=PN/86,93,144 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** LSI Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Sample Averaging in Data Processing ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- LSI, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,693,120) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for sample averaging in data processing." The co-inventors are Shaohua Yang, San Jose, Calif., Changyou Xu, Fremont, Calif., Wu Chang, Santa Clara, Calif., and Ming Jin, Fremont, Calif.

The patent application was filed on March 17, 2011 (13/050,765). 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=86,93,120.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,120&RS=PN/86,93,120 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Method for Power Headroom Reporting ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 11 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,693,362) developed by four co-inventors for the power headroom reporting. The co-inventors are Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Del Mar, Calif., Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Del Mar, Calif., Juan Montojo, San Diego, and Peter Gaal, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on April 4, 2011 (13/079,724). 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=86,93,362.PN.&OS=PN/86,93,362&RS=PN/86,93,362 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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