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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Washington (Aug. 27)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Google Assigned Patent for 3D Model Updates Using Crowdsourced Video ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,081) developed by Andrew Lookingbill, Palo Alto, California, and Steven Maxwell Seitz, Seattle, for "3D model updates using crowdsourced video." The patent application was filed on Oct. 16, 2013 (14/055,132). 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=8,818,081.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,081&RS=PN/8,818,081 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Thermal Loading Mechanism ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Intel, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,816,496) developed by Ted Lee, Federal Way, Washington, and Tejinder Pal S. Aulakh, Auburn, Washington, for a thermal loading mechanism. The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (12/978,340). 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=8,816,496.PN.&OS=PN/8,816,496&RS=PN/8,816,496 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Sling Media Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Sling Media, Foster City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,750) developed by six co-inventors for a "personal media broadcasting system with output buffer." The co-inventors are Jason Gary Krikorian, Woodside, California, Blake Gary Krikorian, Hillsborough, California, Bhupendra Natwerlal Shah, Bonney Lake, Washington, Raghuveer Tarra, Cupertino, California, Parimal Bajpai, Bangalore, India, and Vijayachandran Velliyan Mariappan, Chennai, India. The patent application was filed on Sept. 13, 2012 (13/615,306). 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=8,819,750.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,750&RS=PN/8,819,750 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus to Detect Touch Pattern ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,816,985) developed by Daniel Tate, Seattle, and Edward Grivna, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, for "methods and apparatus to detect a touch pattern." The patent application was filed on Dec. 20, 2012 (13/723,020). 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=8,816,985.PN.&OS=PN/8,816,985&RS=PN/8,816,985 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Telenav Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Telenav, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,704) developed by Shane-Woei Lee, Fremont, California, and Ryan Robert Peterson, Seattle, for a "navigation system with road object detection mechanism and method of operation thereof." The patent application was filed on Feb. 8, 2012 (13/369,203). 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=8,818,704.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,704&RS=PN/8,818,704 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,816,986) developed by Seok-Pyong Park, Everett, Washington, and Ryan D. Seguine, Seattle, for multiple touch detection. The patent application was filed on June 1, 2009 (12/455,413). 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=8,816,986.PN.&OS=PN/8,816,986&RS=PN/8,816,986 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Coding Blocks of Data Using Generalized form of Golomb Codes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,817,882) developed by Yuriy Reznik, Seattle, for "coding blocks of data using a generalized form of golomb codes." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2011 (13/069,655). 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=88,17,882.PN.&OS=PN/88,17,882&RS=PN/88,17,882 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adobe Systems Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatus for Facial Feature Replacement ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Adobe Systems, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,131) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and apparatus for facial feature replacement." The co-inventors are Jue Wang, Kenmore, Washington, Elya Shechtman, Seattle, Lubomir D. Bourdev, San Jose, California, and Fei Yang, Highland Park, New Jersey. The patent application was filed on Nov. 24, 2010 (12/954,487). 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=8,818,131.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,131&RS=PN/8,818,131 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Panasonic Avionics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Panasonic Avionics, Lake Forest, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,745) developed by Steven Sizelove, Woodinville, Washington, Cedric Rhoads, Trabuco Canyon, California, and Brian Kirby, Lynnwood, Washington, for a "media device interface system and method for vehicle information systems." The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2008 (12/210,652). 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=8,819,745.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,745&RS=PN/8,819,745 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Advanced Micro Devices Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,687) developed by Jaewoong Chung, Bellevue, Washington, and Debarshi Chatterjee, Mountain View, California, for "scheduling for multiple memory controllers." The patent application was filed on May 7, 2010 (12/775,647). 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=8,819,687.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,687&RS=PN/8,819,687 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for Personalized Availability Characterization of Online Application Services ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,704) developed by Madhusudan R. Hosaagrahara, Kirkland, Washington, and Peeyush Ranjan, Sammamish, Washington, for "personalized availability characterization of online application services." The patent application was filed on Aug. 5, 2011 (13/204,178). 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=8,819,704.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,704&RS=PN/8,819,704 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Intel Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Content Playback and Recording ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Intel, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,457) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for content playback and recording." The co-inventors are Jeff Chasen, Redmond, Washington, Jeff Leitner, Shoreline, Washington, Jeff Buzzard, Seattle, Timothy Graham, Seattle, and Stephen Roger Hastings, Kirkland, Washington. The patent application was filed on Oct. 8, 2013 (14/049,047). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,819,457.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,457&RS=PN/8,819,457 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent for Integrated Circuit Device with Programmable Blocks and Analog Circuit Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,816,890) developed by five co-inventors for an "integrated circuit device with programmable blocks and analog circuit control." The co-inventors are Jean-Paul Vanitegem, San Jose, California, Haneef Mohammed, Beaverton, Oregon, Hans Klein, Pleasanton, California, Harold M. Kutz, Edmonds, Washington, and Ata Khan, Saratoga, California. The patent application was filed on April 9, 2013 (13/859,621). 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=8,816,890.PN.&OS=PN/8,816,890&RS=PN/8,816,890 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for System and Method for Forming Multi-user Collaborations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,536) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for forming multi-user collaborations." The co-inventors are Mark Lucovsky, Montecito, California, Carl P. Sjogreen, San Francisco, Salar A. Kamangar, Palo Alto, California, and Adam Bosworth, Mercer Island, Washington. The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2011 (13/227,417). 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=8,819,536.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,536&RS=PN/8,819,536 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,817,888) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding with reduced requirements for division operations." The co-inventors are Barin Geoffry Haskell, Mountain View, California, David William Singer, San Francisco, Adriana Dumitras, Santa Clara, California, and Atul Puri, Redmond, Washington. The patent application was filed on June 15, 2011 (13/161,474). 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=88,17,888.PN.&OS=PN/88,17,888&RS=PN/88,17,888 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Variable Accuracy Inter-picture Timing Specification for Digital Video Encoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,817,883) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding." The co-inventors are Barin Geoffry Haskell, Mountain View, California, David William Singer, San Francisco, Adriana Dumitras, Santa Clara, California, and Atul Puri, Redmond, Washington. The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2011 (13/335,726). 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=88,17,883.PN.&OS=PN/88,17,883&RS=PN/88,17,883 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cypress Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,784) developed by Jason Rubero, Moscow, Idaho, and Jonathan Thurgood, Pullman, Washington, for "hardware description language (HDL) incorporating statistically derived data and related methods." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2005 (11/136,873). 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=8,818,784.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,784&RS=PN/8,818,784 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Variable Accuracy Inter-picture Timing Specification for Digital Video Encoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,817,880) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding with reduced requirements for division operations." The co-inventors are Barin Geoffry Haskell, Mountain View, California, David William Singer, San Francisco, Adriana Dumitras, Santa Clara, California, and Atul Puri, Redmond, Washington. The patent application was filed on June 15, 2011 (13/161,494). 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=88,17,880.PN.&OS=PN/88,17,880&RS=PN/88,17,880 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Google Assigned Patent for System and Method for Detecting Equations ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,033) developed by Zongyi Liu, Issaquah, Washington, and Raymond Wensley Smith, Los Altos, California, for a "system and method for detecting equations." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2012 (13/458,654). 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=8,818,033.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,033&RS=PN/8,818,033 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Adobe systems Assigned Patent for Low Memory Content Aware Fill ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Adobe systems, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,135) developed by Dan Goldman, Seattle, and Elya Shechtman, Seattle, for "low memory content aware fill." The patent application was filed on Oct. 16, 2012 (13/652,548). 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=8,818,135.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,135&RS=PN/8,818,135 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Rogers Family Trust Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Rogers Family Trust, Atherton, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,079) developed by eight co-inventors for a "system and method for defining application definition functionality for general purpose web presences." The co-inventors are Alan Bush, Redmond, Washington, Valeriy V. Pelyushenko, San Jose, California, Zahid N. Ahmed, Westborough, Massachusetts, Michael Galpin, San Jose, California, Herbert Wayne Stiel, San Francisco, Shashi P. Suravarapu, San Ramon, California, Robert Saran Hoexter, Half Moon Bay, California, and Joshua Brunaugh, Sunnyvale, California. The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2007 (11/702,194). 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=8,819,079.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,079&RS=PN/8,819,079 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand. *** VMware Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- VMware, Palo Alto, California, has been assigned a patent (8,819,357) developed by Murali Vilayannur, San Jose, California, Jinyuan Li, Bellevue, Washington, and Satyam B. Vaghani, San Jose, California, for a "method and system for ensuring cache coherence of metadata in clustered file systems." The patent application was filed on July 12, 2011 (13/181,129). 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=8,819,357.PN.&OS=PN/8,819,357&RS=PN/8,819,357 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Personalized Shopping Avatar ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,883) developed by Cindy Lawrence, University Place, Washington, Victor Tiscareno, Issaquah, Washington, and Stanley Ng, Los Altos, California, for a personalized shopping avatar. The patent application was filed on July 23, 2009 (12/508,353). 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=8,818,883.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,883&RS=PN/8,818,883 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Symantec Assigned Patent for User Restoration of Workflow Objects and Elements from Archived Database ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Symantec, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,818,961) developed by Louis Beatty, Ormond Beach, Florida, and Steven R. DeVos, Kirkland, Washington, for "user restoration of workflow objects and elements from an archived database." The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/610,246). 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=8,818,961.PN.&OS=PN/8,818,961&RS=PN/8,818,961 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand. 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