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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Minnesota (Jan. 3)
[January 03, 2013]

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Minnesota (Jan. 3)


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Minnesota.

*** ADC Telecommunications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- ADC Telecommunications, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,346,045) developed by Steven C. Zimmel, Minneapolis, Trevor Smith, Eden Prairie, Minn., and Ponharith Nhep, Savage, Minn., for a "fiber optic splitter module." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis and a plurality of fiber optic splitter modules mounted within the chassis. Each splitter module includes at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the chassis are positioned at least one fiber optic adapter. Inserting the splitter module through a front opening of the chassis at a mounting location positions the connector of the splitter module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the chassis. The adapters mounted within the interior of the chassis are integrally formed as part of a removable adapter assembly. A method of mounting a fiber optic splitter module within a telecommunications chassis is also disclosed." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2010 (12/951,495). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,045&OS=8,346,045&RS=8,346,045 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.



*** Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,346,011) developed by four co-inventors for "reducing noise in an image." The co-inventors are Zachary Kelm, Rochester, Minn., Daniel Blezek, Rochester, Minn., Bradley Erickson, Rochester, Minn., and Brian Bartholmai, Rochester, Minn.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computer-implemented method for reducing noise in an image includes receiving a first image in a computer system. The first image depicts an interior of an item and is generated using a technique that provides imaging at selected depths in the item. The first image represents a first interior section having a first thickness. The method includes determining a modification for the first image using a second image of the interior. The second image represents a second interior section encompassing the first interior section and has a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The method includes storing the modification in association with the first image." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2010 (12/823,377). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,011&OS=8,346,011&RS=8,346,011 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.


*** Rosemount Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Rosemount, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,346,191) developed by Cory M. Robinson, Mayer, Minn., Chad M. McGuire, Shakopee, Minn., and Hun Chhuoy, Savage, Minn., for a "wireless measurement transmitter with replaceable module." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A measurement transmitter includes a main housing body with a first cavity closed by a first cover and a second cavity closed by a second cover. A measurement circuit assembly in the first cavity includes power and service communication conductors that extend through the main housing body to contacts in the second cavity. A replaceable module plugs into the contacts in the second cavity and includes a primary battery and a service communication connector. The service communication connector is exposed for connection to service equipment by removal of the second cover." The patent application was filed on Dec. 17, 2010 (12/971,089). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,191&OS=8,346,191&RS=8,346,191 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** ADC Telecommunications Assigned Patent for Adapter Panel with Lateral Sliding Adapter Arrays ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- ADC Telecommunications, Eden Prairie, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,346,044) developed by Mark Smrha, Burnsville, Minn., Hutch Coburn, Eden Prairie, Minn., and Chad J. Sjodin, Shakopee, Minn., for an "adapter panel with lateral sliding adapter arrays." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining rearward cable connections and forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. Openings permitting access to the rearward and forward cable connections of the adapters are provided. The chassis further including a removable rear chassis portion to provide access to cable routing areas within the chassis interior." The patent application was filed on Jan. 14, 2011 (12/930,782). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,044&OS=8,346,044&RS=8,346,044 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** AT&T Mobility II Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- AT&T Mobility II, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,346,206) developed by Scott Andrus, Prior Lake, Minn., and Kevin W. Jones, St. Louis Park, Minn., for a "customizable media feedback software package and methods of generating and installing the package." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for loading a customizable keypress tone package on a desired electronic device includes defining a customizable keypress tone package. The customizable keypress tone package can include one or more customizable keypress tones and can optionally include one or more customizable visual aids. A user requests installation of the defined customizable keypress tone package on the electronic device and the network sends the defined customizable keypress tone package to the electronic device. Once the device receives the package, the device installs the defined customizable keypress tone package on the electronic device." The patent application was filed on July 23, 2007 (11/781,531). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,206&OS=8,346,206&RS=8,346,206 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Medtronic Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Medtronic, Minneapolis, has been assigned a patent (8,346,190) developed by Eric D. Corndorf, Minneapolis, for "precompensating for undesired electrical responses of receiver components of an implantable medical device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure describes to techniques to compensate for distortions introduced into received signals by one or more receiver components that have undesirable electrical responses, such as nonlinear phase response, sloped (or non-flat) amplitude response or both. An external device or other device with more power resources than an IMD filters signals to be transmitted to the IMD to pre-compensate for distortions introduced by the undesired electrical responses of the one or more receiver components of the IMD. In this manner, at least a portion of the burden of digital processing to compensate for undesired electrical responses of the receiver components is shifted from the IMD to the external device, which is better equipped to perform such heavy computationally complex functions." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/550,672). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,190&OS=8,346,190&RS=8,346,190 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,346,077) developed by Brian L. Uhlhorn, St. Paul, Minn., and Howard J. Schantz, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., for a "multi-domain systems and methods for fail secure information transfer." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and techniques for regulating the security of information flow can include multiple information receiving/transmitting domains where a device failure in one or more domains would not comprise the security of the systems. The systems and techniques may be implemented using a multi-domain checking approach in which the respective device operation status in each receiving/transmitting domain is independently monitored. The systems and techniques can advantageously prevent sensitive information from being inadvertently transferred to an untrusted or unauthorized entity." The patent application was filed on April 22, 2010 (12/765,171). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,077&OS=8,346,077&RS=8,346,077 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Method of Route Retrieval ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,346,474) developed by four co-inventors for a "method of route retrieval." The co-inventors are Henry Chen, Beijing, Tom Plocher, Hugo, Minn., Conrad Bruce Beaulieu, Duluth, Minn., and Cheng Jun Li, Beijing.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of route retrieval is provided comprising initializing a first weighted graph, converting a blueprint of an area into a weighted graph, updating the weighted graph in real time, and calculating an optimal route in the area." The patent application was filed on Aug. 28, 2008 (12/200,158). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,346,474&OS=8,346,474&RS=8,346,474 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,347,068) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-mode register rename mechanism that augments logical registers by switching a physical register from the register rename buffer when switching between in-order and out-of-order instruction processing in a simultaneous multi-threaded microprocessor." The co-inventors are Richard James Eickemeyer, Rochester, Minn., Hung Qui Le, Austin, Texas, Dung Quoc Nguyen, Austin, Texas, and Balaram Sinharoy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multi-mode register rename mechanism which allows a simultaneous multi-threaded processor to support full out-of-order thread execution when the number of threads is low and in-order thread execution when the number of threads increases. Responsive to changing an execution mode of a processor to operate in in-order thread execution mode, the illustrative embodiments switch a physical register in the data processing system to an architected facility, thereby forming a switched physical register. When an instruction is issued to an execution unit, wherein the issued instruction comprises a thread bit, the thread bit is examined to determine if the instruction accesses an architected facility. If the issued instruction accesses an architected facility, the instruction is executed, and the results of the executed instruction are written to the switched physical register." The patent application was filed on April 4, 2007 (11/696,363). 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=8,347,068.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,068&RS=PN/8,347,068 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Cardiac Pacemakers Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Cardiac Pacemakers, St. Paul, Minn., has been assigned a patent (8,347,149) developed by six co-inventors for a "system and method for providing fault tolerant processing in an implantable medical device." The co-inventors are Scott R. Stubbs, Maple Grove, Minn., Conrad L. Sowder, Minneapolis, Kenneth P. Hoyme, Plymouth, Minn., William J. Linder, Golden Valley, Minn., Hiten J. Doshi, Plymouth, Minn., and Lynn S. Elliott, Maple Grove, Minn.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments herein generally relate to implantable medical devices and, specifically, to a system and method for providing fault tolerant processing in an implantable medical device. In an embodiment a system for providing fault tolerant processing in an implantable medical device is provided. The system can include an implantable medical device comprising a processor and memory store configured to execute a plurality of threads, temporal and spatial constraints assigned to one or more of the threads, and a kernel. The kernel can include a scheduler and a thread monitor configured to monitor execution of threads against the temporal and spatial constraints, and further configured to issue a response upon violation of either of the constraints by one of the plurality of threads. In an embodiment a method for providing fault tolerant processing in an implantable medical device is provided. Other embodiments are also included herein." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2009 (12/568,652). 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=8,347,149.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,149&RS=PN/8,347,149 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Automatically Moving Annotations Associated with Multidimensional Data between Live Datacubes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,347,207) developed by Rasmus Borgsmidt, Luxembourg, Finuala Tarnoff, Hampshire, United Kingdom, and Bindhu Mary Cherian, Shakopee, Minn., for an "automatically moving annotations associated with multidimensional data between live datacubes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques are described for sharing multidimensional data and associated annotations between software systems. As described herein, the techniques provide mechanisms for defining inter-application "links" for automatically copying data and associated annotations among databases associated with the enterprise software systems. For example, a system may include a first database storing multidimensional data for a first software application, and a second database storing multidimensional data for a second software application. The system further includes an interface by which an administrator defines a link that specifies a source area of the first database and a target area of the second database. A link control module automatically moves multidimensional data and annotations associated with cells or cubes of the multidimensional data from the source area to the target area in accordance with the link." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2007 (11/954,415). 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=8,347,207.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,207&RS=PN/8,347,207 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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