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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 09-17-10

Friday, September 17th, 2010

The following patent applications, with Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies, were published on July 22, 2010 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. A party wishing to submit prior art for consideration in examination of the application may file the prior art within two months of the publication date pursuant to 37 C.F.R. 1.99.
The links for patent applications published on August 20th, 2010 are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Application No. Title Inventors Assignee
7797701 Method and apparatus for detecting a bit sequence in a data stream Snow; John F. (Taylorsville, UT) Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
7797616 Virtual display driver Jensen; David A. (American Fork, UT), Fagerburg; Eric D. (Orem, UT) Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)
7797610 Method and apparatus for virtual quad-port random access memory Simkins; James M. (Park City, UT) Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
7797582 Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system Stager; Roger Keith (Sunnyvale, CA), Trimmer; Don Alvin (Sunnyvale, CA), Saxena; Pawan (Sunnyvale, CA), Johnson; Randall (Pleasant Grove, UT), Johnston; Craig Anthony (Sunnyvale, CA), Chang; Yafen Peggy (Sunnyvale, CA), Blaser; Rico (San Francisco, CA) NetApp, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
7797301 Methods and systems for automated searching Baird; Bruce R. (Salt Lake City, UT), Zollinger; John M. (Houston, TX) Hyperthink LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
7796675 Burst spread spectrum radio system and method for site monitoring Carter; David (Draper, UT), Prestwich; Sy (Riverton, UT), Baker; James R. (Leesburg, VA), Bevan; Scott (Lehi, UT) Recon Dynamics, LLC (Kirkland, WA)
7796013 Device using histological and physiological biometric marker for authentication and activation Murakami; Rick V. (North Ogden, UT), Miller; David (Morgan, UT), Pettit; Matthew W. (Mountain Green, UT) Ensign Holdings (Salt Lake City, UT)
7795200 Textile cleaning composition and method of use Durrant; Edward E. (Paradise, UT)
7795021 Lineage restricted glial precursors from the central nervous system Rao; Mahendra S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Noble; Mark (Brighton, NY), Mayer-Proschel; Margot (Pittsford, NY) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake, UT)
7794933 Depression-related gene Lanchbury; Jerry (Salt Lake City, UT), Gutin; Alexander (Sandy, UT), Timms; Kirsten (Salt Lake City, UT), Zharkikh; Andrey (Salt Lake City, UT) Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794933 Depression-related gene Lanchbury; Jerry (Salt Lake City, UT), Gutin; Alexander (Sandy, UT), Timms; Kirsten (Salt Lake City, UT), Zharkikh; Andrey (Salt Lake City, UT) Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794761 Methods for inducing anti-anxiety and calming effects in animals and humans Shelby; Nancy J. (Bozeman, MT), Godfrey; Mitchell T. (Bozeman, MT), Rosenfeld; Mark J. (Draper, UT) Seroctin Research & Technology, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794722 Adjuvants and methods of use Teyton; Luc (Del Mar, CA), Bendelac; Albert (Chicago, IL), Savage; Paul B. (Mapleton, UT) The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA),The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL),Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
7794688 Magnesium oxychloride cement Caine; George Eccles (Salt Lake City, UT), Ellis; Charles W. (Salt Lake City, UT) Maya Magstone, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794605 Horizontal belt filter with vacuum pan alignment Wood; Joseph L. (Riverton, UT), Breinholt; Jay L. (South Jordan, UT), Rose; Brandon G. (Taylorsville, UT) FLSmidth A/S (DK)
7794506 Multi-axial prosthetic ankle Christensen; Roland J. (Gunnison, UT) Freedom Innovations, LLC (Irvine, CA)
7794500 Surgical implant Felix; Brent A. (Sandy, UT
7793937 Bullet trap Bateman; Kyle (Provo, UT), Marshall; Thomas (Lakeshore, UT), Bassett; David (Provo, UT) Action Target Inc. (Provo, UT)
7793907 Monitor suspension device and method of use Woodward; Robert (Salem, UT), Larsen; Creed (Pleasant Grove, UT)
7793656 Underwater breathing devices and methods Johnson; Mark (Sandy, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7793646 Bowstring suppression device Cooper; Darin B. (Layton, UT), Jolley; Gideon S. (Syracuse, UT), Walk; Randy J. (Erda, UT) Hoyt Archery, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7793645 Vibration dampening apparatus Walk; Randy J. (Erda, UT), Fogg; Jason L. (Tooele, UT) Hoyt Archery, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7793626 Hydraulic cam follower Bugescu; Florin (Canton, MI), Jones; Jemel (Southfield, MI), Best; Richard (Grem, UT) Schaeffler KG (Herzogenaurach, DE)
7793570 Tension locking tool Mattson; Christopher Andrew (Provo, UT), Winder; Brian G. (Ridgecrest, CA), Mackay; Allen Boyd (Flagstaff, AZ), Jacobsen; Joseph O. (Pleasant Grove, UT), Halverson; Peter A. (Alpine, UT), Frazer; Spencer (Lynnwood, WA) Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
7793471 Floating floor assembled from an array of interconnected subunits, each of which includes a stone, ceramic, or porcelain tile bonded to an injection molded polyolefin substrate Hill; David Tilghman (Orem, UT)
7793439 Snowshoe apparatus Chartrand; Daniel (Deux Montagnes, CA), Palomaki; Teddy D. (Park City, UT), Easton; Gregory J. (Park City, UT) Easton Technical Products, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
D623,627 Optic-shaped headphones Alden; Richard P. (Park City, UT), Kelly; Peter M. (Park City, UT) Skullcandy, Inc. (Park City, UT)
D623,506 Two-piece cap assembly for modular panel mounting systems Ghatikar; Venugopal R. (Salt Lake City, UT), Gatti; William (Sandy, UT), Damen; Michael (Rochetoirin, FR), Martin; Guillaume (Rochetoirin, FR) 3form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
D623,459 Table cover trash bag Villalva; Alicia (Ogden, UT)
D623,411 Brush head for cleaning apparatus Cobabe; Aaron D. (Syracuse, UT), Meyers; David O. (Kaysville, UT), Goff; Darrell E. (Highland, UT), Thiess; W. Kenneth (Parker, CO) SonicScrubbers, Inc. (Layton, UT)
D623,407 Eyeglass case Raile; Bruce (Park City, UT) Sun Optics, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794407 Method of locating the tip of a central venous catheter Rothenberg; Peter M. (Laguna Niguel, CA) Bard Access Systems, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7794944 Eubacterial tmRNA sequences and uses thereof Felden; Brice (Le Lou du Lac, FR) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 09-10-10

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The following patent applications, with Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies, were published on July 22, 2010 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. A party wishing to submit prior art for consideration in examination of the application may file the prior art within two months of the publication date pursuant to 37 C.F.R. 1.99.
The links for patent applications published on August 20th, 2010 are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Application No. Title Inventors Assignee
D623,302 Optical sensor blood flow chamber Barrett; Louis L. (West Point, UT), Law; Perry N. (Centerville, UT) Hema Metrics, LLC (Kaysville, UT)
7793342 Single sign-on with basic authentication for a transparent proxy Ebrahimi; Hashem Mohammad (Salt Lake City, UT), Rupp; Bradley W (Riverton, UT), Oyler; Mel J. (Pleasant Grove, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7793340 Cryptographic binding of authentication schemes Kiester; W. Scott (Orem, UT), Mashayekhi; Cameron (Salt Lake City, UT), Ford; Karl E. (Highland, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7793101 Verifiable virtualized storage port assignments for virtual machines Wipfel; Robert A. (Draper, UT), Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7793069 Indexing for dynamic address translation Hilton; Ronald N. (Holladay, UT) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
7793058 Method and apparatus for negotiating revised service level agreements Boss; Gregory Jensen (American Fork, UT), Dawson; Christopher James (Arlington, VA), Hamilton, II; Rick Allen (Charlottesville, VA), Waters; Timothy Moffett (Hiram, GA) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
7792952 Rating system for web services Howard; Michael L. (Sandy, UT), Harper, Jr.; William R. (Satl Lake City, UT) Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. (Osaka, JP)
7792844 Capturing and presenting site visitation path data Error; Brett M (Orem, UT), Pestana; John (Provo, UT) Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA)
7792843 Web analytics data ranking and audio presentation Iverson; Scott (Orem, UT) Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA)
7792693 Distributed workflow techniques Bultmeyer; Jonathan Paul (Dorchester, MA), Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT), Melman; Howard (Newton, MA), Rasmussen; Bjarne (Concord, MA), Thomas; Kasman Ellis (Wilton, CT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7792049 Techniques for modeling and evaluating protocol interactions Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7791482 Using RFIDs to detect material dilution Angell; Robert L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Kraemer; James R. (Santa Fe, NM) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
7790746 Quinoline derivatives for modulating DNA methylation Phiasivongsa; Pasit (Brentwood, CA), Redkar; Sanjeev G. (Hayward, CA), Gamage; Swarna (Mt Roskill, NZ), Brooke; Darby (Waterview, NZ), Denny; William (Pakuranga, NZ), Bearss; David J. (Cedar Hills, UT), Vankayalapati; Hariprasad (Draper, UT) SuperGen, Inc. (Dublin, CA)
7790034 Apparatus and method for treating FGD blowdown or similar liquids Peeters; Jeffrey Gerard (Toronto, CA), Bonkoski; William A. (Wilmington, DE), Cote; Pierre Lucien (Dundas, CA), Husain; Hidayat (Oakville, CA), Pickett; Timothy Michael (Salt Lake City, UT) Zenon Technology Partnership (Wilmington, DE)
7789936 Methods and systems for removing copper from ferrous scrap Cho; Weol Dong (Salt Lake City, UT), Fan; Peng (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7789902 Ectoparasite eradication method and device Clayton; Dale H. (Salt Lake City, UT), Atkin; Joseph S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Wilding; Kevin G. (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7789862 Multi-chamber, sequentially dispensing syringe Thorne, Jr.; Gale H. (Bountiful, UT) Thorne Consulting & Intellectual Property, LLC (Bountiful, UT)
7789800 Methods and systems for controlling an exercise apparatus using a USB compatible portable remote device Watterson; Scott R. (Logan, UT), Dalebout; William T. (Logan, UT), Ashby; Darren C. (Richmond, UT) ICON IP, Inc. (Logan, UT)
7789666 Training door Sovine; Addison (Orem, UT), Bateman; Kyle (Provo, UT), Bassett; David (Provo, UT), Sovine; James (Orem, UT), Wright; Tom (Highland, UT), Marshall; Thomas (Provo, UT) Action Target Inc. (Provo, UT)
7789652 Fresnel lens angular segment manufacturing apparatus and method Johnson; Neldon P. (Salem, UT) N.P. Johnson Family Limited Partnership (Salem, UT)
7789661 Light emitting diode light source Ostler; Calvin D. (Riverton, UT), Ostler; Kevin D. (South Jordan, UT), Walker; Bruce R. (West Jordan, UT), Cimolino; Marc C. (Snohomish, WA), Elledge; Miles F. (Kirkland, WA) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V (NL)
7789651 Presnel lens angular segment manufacturing apparatus and method Johnson; Neldon P. (Salem, UT) N. P. Johnson Family Limited Partnership (Salem, UT)
7789650 Fresnel lens angular segment manufacturing apparatus and method Johnson; Neldon P. (Salem, UT) N. P. Johnson Family Limited Partnership (Salem, UT)
7789585 Control barrier with rotatable legs Christensen; Marc E. (Salt Lake City, UT), Lipniarski; David J. (North Tonawanda, NY) Off the Wall Products, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
7789515 Projection device with a folded optical path and wire-grid polarizer Hansen; Douglas P. (Spanish Fork, UT), Gardner; Eric (Eagle Mountain, UT) Moxtek, Inc. (Orem, UT)
7789378 Plate spring with adjustable support cam Dittmar; Edbert E. L. (Provo, UT)
7789239 Insert trays for packages, packages including such trays, and methods for packaging articles of manufacture Juliano; Don (Salt Lake City, UT)
7788963 System and method for calibrating a determination of partial pressure of one or more gaseous analytes Orr; Joseph A. (Park City, UT) RIC Investments, LLC (Wilmington, DE)
7788892 User interface and control for cutting reel system Schmidt; Mark Alvin (Charlotte, NC), Reichen; Ronald Lee (Raleigh, NC), Thier; Richard David (Juneau, WI), Poulson; Eric Alan (Paradise, UT), Cripps; Donald Lewis (Smithfield, UT), Flenniken; John Michael (Rock Hill, SC), Susman; Ezekiel A. (Logan, UT) Deere & Company (Moline, IL)
D623,318 Architectural panel having a wood grain with progressive perforation Damen; Michael (Lille, FR) 3form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
D623,319 Architectural panel with flowing element Martin; Guillaume (Villecresnes, FR) 3form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
D623,320 Architectural panel with valley element Martin; Guillaume (Villecresnes, FR) 3form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
77915300 Time duplex apparatus and method for radar sensor front-ends Puglia; Kenneth V. (Westford, MA) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7791528 Method and apparatus for radar signal processing Klotzbuecher; Dirk (Wuerzburg, DE), Poiger; Walter (Saale, DE) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7791422 Voltage controlled oscillator with cascaded emitter follower buffer stages Lu; Yumin (Chelmsford, MA), Gresham; Ian (Somerville, MA) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 08-27-10

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The following patent applications, with Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies, were published on July 22, 2010 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. A party wishing to submit prior art for consideration in examination of the application may file the prior art within two months of the publication date pursuant to 37 C.F.R. 1.99.
The links for patent applications published on August 20th, 2010 are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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Application No. Title Inventors Assignee
20100218233 TECHNIQUES FOR CREDENTIAL AUDITING Henderson; Larry Hal; (Orem, UT) ; Berger; Brett A.; (Spanish Fork, UT)
20100218115 ENHANCED USER INTERFACE FOR CURRENCY TRADING Curtin; Michael Ross; (Highland, UT) ; Crosland; Todd Benjamin; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Muirbrook; Nathan Laurence; (Saratoga Springs, UT)
20100217719 Controller Device Olsen; Andrew J.; (Riverton, UT) ; Hepworth; Paul J.; (South Jordan, UT) ; Gray; Mark L.; (West Jordan, UT) ; Strong; Matthew B.; (Pleasant Grove, UT) Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (Spanish Fork,UT)
20100217631 CONSERVATION MODELING ENGINE FRAMEWORK Boss; Gregory J.; (American Fork, UT) ; Brignull; Alfred J.; (Essex Junction, VT) ; Brignull; Michele Palladino; (Essex Junction, VT) ; Hamilton, II; Rick A.; (Charlottesville, VA) ; Lyle; Ruthie D.; (Durham, NC) ; Sand; Anne R.; (Peyton, CO) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk,NY)
20100217428 System for Controlling an Electronic Cutting Machine Strong; Matthew B.; (Pleasant Grove, UT) ; Gray; Mark L.; (West Jordan, UT) ; Olsen; Andrew J.; (Riverton, UT) ; Hepworth; Paul J.; (South Jordan, UT) ; Pruss; Tim; (Midvale, UT) Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (Spanish Fork,UT)
20100217427 Controller Device Gray; Mark L.; (West Jordan, UT) ; Olsen; Andrew J.; (Riverton, UT) ; Hepworth; Paul J.; (South Jordan, UT) ; Pruss; Tim; (Midvale, UT) ; Strong; Matthew B.; (Pleasant Grove, UT) Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (Spanish Fork,UT)
20100217343 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING VENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIAS Hamdan; Mohamed Hussein; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100217342 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS Hamdan; Mohamed Hussein; (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City,UT)
20100217334 Press-On Link For Surgical Screws Hawkes; David T.; (Pleasant Grove, UT)
20100217330 BONE FIXATION DEVICES AND METHODS Phan; Christopher U.; (San Leandro, CA) ; Brodke; Darrel S.; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100217326 Method of Treating A Degenerate Spinal Segment Bowden; Anton E.; (Lindon, UT) ; Howell; Larry L.; (Orem, UT) ; Halveson; Peter A.; (Alpine, UT) ; Stratton; Eric M.; (Provo, UT)
2010021732420100217324 Compliant Dynamic Spinal Implant And Associated Methods Bowden; Anton E.; (Lindon, UT) ; Howell; Larry L.; (Orem, UT) ; Halveson; Peter A.; (Alpine, UT) ; Stratton; Eric M.; (Provo, UT)
20100217315 DRILL PIN FOR SUTURE PASSING Jolly; Jacob A.; (Naples, FL) ; Burks; Robert T.; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100217268 INTERVERTEBRAL MILLING INSTRUMENT Bloebaum; Roy D.; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Jeyapalina; Sujeevini; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Tanner; Amie M.; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Bowman; Julian C.; (Midvale, UT) UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (Salt Lake City,UT)
20100217260 SELF-LIMITING ELECTROSURGICAL RETURN ELECTRODE WITH PRESSURE SORE REDUCTION AND HEATING CAPABILITIES Aramayo; Thomas F.; (Draper, UT) MEGADYNE MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC. (Draper,UT)
20100217229 BUBBLE FREE-SELF PRIMED IV SET Miner; Tom M.; (Alpine, UT) BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY (Franklin Lakes,NJ)
20100217208 VALVED CONNECTOR Snow; Jeremy W.; (South Jordan, UT) Merit Medical Systems, Inc (South Jordan, UT)
Merit Medical Systems, Inc (South Jordan, UT) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFLATION SYRINGE WITH IMPROVED DISPLAY AND MODULARIZED COMPONENT ASSEMBLY Lampropoulos; Fred P.; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Taylor; Steve; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Stout; Thomas; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Mottola; Jim; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Johnson; Blaine; (Riverton, UT) Merit Medical Systems, Inc (South Jordan, UT)
20100217122 SYRINGE WITH ROTATABLE ELEMENT, INFUSION/ASPIRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SYRINGE, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS, Fumiyama; Hideo; (Tokyo, JP) ; Fojtik; Shawn P.; (Heuga Court, UT)
20100217119 Assessment Of Aortic Heart Valve To Facilitate Repair Or Replacemen Forster; David C.; (Los Altos Hills, CA) ; Beckey; Brian; (Woodside, CA) ; Walsh; Brandon; (Syracuse, UT) ; Heneveld; Scott; (Whitemore, CA)
20100216862 Pyrrole Derivatives As Therapeutic Compounds Weiner; Warren S.; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Slade; Rachel M.; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Klimova; Yevgeniya I.; (Sandy, UT) ; Walton; Ruth J.; (Bountiful, UT) ; Anderson; Mark B.; (Oakland, CA) Myriad Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(Salt Lake City,UT)
20100216599 EXERCISE DEVICE WITH PROXIMITY SENSOR Watterson; Scott; (Logan, UT) ; Ashby; Darren C.; (Richmond, UT)
20100216101 Method and device for teaching and/or calculating mathematic Chung; Jarom; (Draper, UT)
20100216089 Three Dimensional Curing Light Cao; Densen; (Sandy, UT)
20100215786 MORINDA CITRIFOLIA ENHANCED LIP TREATMENT Jensen; Claude Jarkae; (Cedar Hills, UT) ; Robinson; Heidi; (Orem, UT)
20100215614 Enterostatin as Inhibitor of Angiogenesis York; David A.; (Logan, UT) ; Park; Mie Jung; (Logan, UT)
20100215438 PIPE PULLING DEVICE AND METHODS White; Wesley E.; (Bountiful, UT) ; Gough; Kirk; (Bountiful, UT)
20100215277 Method of Massive Parallel Pattern Matching against a Progressively-Exhaustive Knowledge Base of Patterns Huntington; Stephen G.; (Cedar Hills, UT) ; Rowley; Bevan; (Lehi, UT) ; Rowley; E. Derek; (Olympia, WA)
20100214953 DEVICE DISCOVERY AND CHANNEL SELECTION IN A WIRELESS NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT BARNUM; Walter; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100214709 METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO OVERCURRENT CIRCUIT PROTECTION Hall; Duane O.; (Sandy, UT) ; Field; D. George; (Pleasant Grove, UT) ; Goodman; E. Carl; (Bountiful, UT) ; Banta; Kevin D.; (Cedar Hills, UT)
20100214607 Controller Device Hepworth; Paul J.; (South Jordan, UT) ; Olsen; Andrew J.; (Riverton, UT) ; Gray; Mark L.; (West Jordan, UT) ; Strong; Matthew B.; (Pleasant Grove, UT)
20100214160 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR SYSTEM AND METHOD Smith; Ryan L.; (Salem, UT) ; Harris; Logan C.; (Orem, UT) ; Long; David G.; (Provo, UT) ; Robertsen; Adam E.; (Provo, UT) ; Harper; Adam R.; (Provo, UT) ; Quist; Britton T.; (Orem, UT) ; Hintze; Joshua M.; (Austin, TX)
20100214118 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING A PERSON Losee; Paul; (Layton, UT) ; Blankshain; Joseph W.; (Scottsdale, AZ) ; King; Lance; (Midway, UT) ; Maxwell; Daniel C.; (West Valley City, UT) ; Dobson; William Kurt; (Midvale, UT) ; Garland; Kent; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Gallander; Fred; (Park City, UT)
20100214094 Wireless Sensor System Givens; Gerald E.; (Winnsboro, LA) ; Austin; Kenneth Duane; (Perry, UT) ; Hibbert; Dale Anderson; (Middleton, ID)
20100213938 SIMULTANEOUS ACQUISITIONS OF SPIN- AND STIMULATED-ECHO PLANAR IMAGING Jeong; Eun-Kee; (North Salt Lake, UT) ; Choi; Kim Seongeun; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Shi; Xianfeng; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100213156 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MIXING INFANT FORMULA Belnap; Nicole; (Vernal, UT)
20100213131 POROUS COMPOSITE PARTICULATE MATERIALS, METHODS OF MAKING AND USING SAME, AND RELATED APPARATUSES Linford; Matthew R.; (Orem, UT) ; Dadson; Andrew E.; (Provo, UT)
20100213085 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY MIXING TWO SUBSTANCES Belnap; Nicole; (Vernal, UT)
20100213007 LADDER SYSTEM Richards; Michael T.; (Salt Lake City, UT)
20100212971 Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Including A Cemented Tungsten Carbide Substrate That Is Substantially Free Of Tungsten Carbide Grains Exhibiting Abnormal Grain Growth And Applications Therefore Mukhopadhyay; Debkumar; (Sandy, UT) ; Bertagnolli; Kenneth E.; (Riverton, UT) ; Sani; Mohammad N.; (Orem, UT) US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION (Orem,UT)
20100212966 Downhole Tool Actuation Hall; David R.; (Provo, UT) ; Marshall; Jonathan; (Provo, UT)
20100212965 Downhole Tool Actuation Hall; David R.; (Provo, UT) ; Marshall; Jonathan; (Provo, UT)
20100212886 Downhole Tool Actuation having a Seat with a Fluid By-Pass Hall; David R.; (Provo, UT) ; Marshall; Jonathan; (Provo, UT)
20100212885 Downhole Tool Actuation having a Seat with a Fluid By-Pass Hall; David R.; (Provo, UT) ; Dahlgren; Scott; (Alpine, UT)
20100212884 Ratchet Mechanism in a Fluid Actuated Devic Hall; David R.; (Provo, UT) ; Dahlgren; Scott; (Alpine, UT) ; Marshall; Jonathan; (Provo, UT)
20100212790 Decorative display cover Berry; Dave; (Washington, UT) ; Fuellenbach; Lisa; (St. George, UT)
20100212764 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADDING FERTILIZER OR OTHER LIQUIDS TO AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM Grizzle; Glen; (Murrieta, CA) ; Morton; Dave; (Sandy, UT) ; Johnson; Dwight; (Carlsbad, CA) Fertile Earch orp. (Sandy,UT)
20100212407 AIR BUBBLE DETECTOR STRINGHAM; MARK; (SALT LAKE CITY, UT) ; MILLIS; ROGER; (WEST JORDAN, UT) ; FOLEY; JOHN; (SALT LAKE CITY, UT) ; BLAINE; DAVID; (HOLLADAY, UT)
20100212234 SOFFIT AND FASCIA SIDING SYSTEM Monteer; Gary Robert; (Eagle Mountain, UT)
20100212184 MODULAR OPEN-TOE FOOTWEAR RETAINING SYSTEM Rudd, JR.; Walter; (Tucson, AZ) ; Diegel; Thomas; (Salt Lake City, UT) ; Moore; Gary C.; (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 08-17-10

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

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Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
D621,926 Bodily fluid drainage bag cover Christensen; Earl G. (Provo, UT) Sterigear LLC (Provo, UT)
D621,865 Connection insert for a quick connect stand mounting system Chidester; Clinton Reed (Eagle Mountain, UT) Chidester; Clinton Reed (Eagle Mountain, UT)
7779361 Change-alarmed, integrated console apparatus and method Malmstrom; R. Dean (Cedar Hills, UT)
7779347 Systems and methods for collaboratively annotating electronic documents Christiansen; Robert N. (Bountiful, UT), Johnson; Bryce L. (Sandy, UT) Fourteen40, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7778864 System and method for identifying sourcing event metrics for analyzing a supplier Conrad; Michelle (San Ramon, CA), Dakes; Joanna (Tucson, AZ), Velasquez; Daniel (W Syracuse, UT) Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, CA)
7778769 Method and system for calculating least-cost routes based on historical fuel efficiency, street mapping and location based services Boss; Gregory Jensen (American Fork, UT), Hamilton, II; Rick Allen (Charlottesville, VA), Martine; Michael Jack (Chapel Hill, NC), McConnell; Kevin C. (Austin, TX), Miller; John Williams (Suwanee, GA) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
7778262 Radio frequency multiple protocol bridge Beagley; James J. (Draper, UT), Lemke; Jared T. (Pleasant Grove, UT), Taylor; Peter L. (Orem, UT) Vantage Controls, Inc. (Orem, UT)
7778155 Broadcast router configured for alternately receiving multiple or redundant reference inputs Christensen; Carl (South Jordan, UT) Thomson Licensing (Boulogne-Billancourt, FR)
7778020 Apparatus, system, and method for a modular blade Flynn; David (Sandy, UT), Hayes; Alan (Salt Lake City, UT), Lagerstedt; Bert (Pleasant Grove, UT), Strasser; John (Syracuse, UT), Thatcher; Jonathan (Lehi, UT), Warner; Vince (Alpine, UT)
7777956 Micro-lens arrays and curved surface fabrication techniques Bandari; Rajmohan (Salt Lake City, UT), Negi; Sandeep (Salt Lake City, UT), Solzbacher; Florian (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7777625 Weighted saw reflector gratings for orthogonal frequency coded SAW ID tags and sensors Puccio; Derek (Cottonwood Heights, UT), Malocha; Donald (Winter Springs, FL) University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
7777674 Mobile distributed antenna array for wireless communication Haddadin; Osama S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Taylor-Rojas; Aurora (Salt Lake City, UT), Jones; Timothy D. (Cottonwood Heights, UT) L-3 Communications, Corp. (New York, NY)
7777505 Nanopore platforms for ion channel recordings and single molecule detection and analysis White; Henry S. (Salt Lake City, UT), White; Ryan J. (Salt Lake City, UT), Ervin; Eric N. (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7777145 Toggle-style dimmer apparatus and method Burrell; Douglas (American Fork, UT), Clare; David (Salem, UT)
7776842 Amino sugar chelates Ericson; Clayton (Morgan, UT), Ashmead; DeWayne (Fruit Heights, UT), Ashmead; Stephen D. (West Haven, UT), Rees; Amanda (Bountiful, UT) Albion Laboratories, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7776796 Methods of treating wellbores with recyclable fluids Shapovalov; Alexander (Lafayette, LA), Pena; Alejandro (Ciudad Ojeda, VE), Lungwitz; Bernhard (Vernal, UT), Schuurman; Rene (Houston, TX) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Sugar Land, TX)
7776365 Article with skin protecting and moisturizing compound Mower; Thomas E. (Payson, UT) Sakura Properties, LLC (Salem, UT)
7776677 Method of forming an EEPROM device and structure therefor Naughton; John J. (Idaho Falls, ID), Tyler; Matthew (Kaysville, UT) Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC (Phoenix, AZ)
7776243 Recycled materials strengthening process, system and products Braun, Jr.; Al (Providence, UT), Reavis; Daryl D. (Sandy, UT), Starkweather; Michael W. (Sandy, UT) Braun, Jr.; Al (Koloa Kauai, HI)
7776010 Syringe-in-syringe hollow inner barrel/plunger with integral seal and rupturable membrane and related kits, systems, and methods Jessop; Neil (Sandy, UT), McLean; Bruce S. (Sandy, UT), Sheetz; Jared (Eagle Mountain, UT) Ultradent Products, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
7776085 Knee prosthesis with ceramic tibial component Bernero; John P. (Round Rock, TX), Khandkar; Ashok C. (Salt Lake City, UT), Lakshminarayanan; Ramaswamy (Salt Lake City, UT), Hofmann; Aaron A. (Salt Lake City, UT) Amedica Corporation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7775919 Camouflage system Oswald; Christopher M. (Ogden, UT), Cornum; Gary (Millcreek, UT), Corsetti; Robert G. (Farmington, UT) Easton Technical Products, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7775940 Folding elliptical exercise machine Dalebout; William T. (North Logan, UT), Ercanbrack; Gaylen W. (Logan, UT), Butler; Jaremy T. (Paradise, UT), Alleman; Robert L. (North Logan, UT) Icon IP, Inc. (Logan, UT)
77755367775536 Mounted, multi-angle, extendable step Shumway; David L. (Pleasant View, UT)
7775917 Basketball system Nye; S. Curtis (Clinton, UT), Hill; Aaron (Layton, UT), Fuller; Doug (Ogden, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
77754057775405 Sprayer including pressure build-up discharge valve assembly with poppet valve having integrated spring Sweeton; Steve L. (Lake Winnebago, MO), DeJong; David (Ogden, UT) MeadWestvaco Calmar, Inc. (Grandview, MO)
7775526 Bullet trap Lambert; Spencer (Provo, UT), Bateman; Kyle (Provo, UT), Marshall; Thomas (Lakeshore, UT), Bassett; David (Provo, UT) Action Target Inc. (Provo, UT)
7775370 Particle sorting by fluidic vectoring Smith; Barton L. (Logan, UT) Utah State University (North Logan, UT)
7775201 Attachment apparatus and method Cooper; Darin B. (Layton, UT) Hoyt Archery, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7775356 Laptop computer case and stand Palmer; Russell K. (St. George, UT)
7775360 Tree cover system Bornemeier; Erik (Layton, UT), Hendricks; Jared (Draper, UT) TreeKeeper, LLC (West Valley, UT)
7776636 Tree cover system Bornemeier; Erik (Layton, UT), Hendricks; Jared (Draper, UT) TreeKeeper, LLC (West Valley, UT)
7776412 Method for significant reduction of dislocations for a very high A1 composition A1GaN layer Wang; Tao (Sheffield, GB) CAO Group, Inc. (West Jordan, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 08-11-10

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
7774252 Method and system for generating statistically-based medical provider utilization profiles Seare; Jerry G. (Sandy, UT), Smith-Wilson; Patricia A. (Herriman, UT), Van Wagoner; Kurt (Centerville, UT), Mattey; Jean A. (Westlake, OH), Synder; Eileen K. (Sandy, UT), Wahlstrom; Candace C. (Twin Falls, ID), Willis; Michelle (Sandy, UT), Bentley; Matthew R. (South Jordan, UT) Ingenix, Inc. (Eden Prairie, MN)
RE41,495 Method and apparatus for managing power consumption on a bus Baker; William P. (Denver, CO), Shelton; Todd R. (Davis County, UT), Smith; Theodore (Salt Lake County, UT)
D621,501 Reusable diaper with disposable liner Coon; Christine M. (Salt Lake City, UT)
D621,436 Receiving base for a quick connect stand mounting system Chidester; Clinton Reed (Eagle Mountain, UT)
D621,387 Television remote control with a vibrator and beeper button Hansen; Dustin T. (Garden City, UT), Seamons; Jared W. (Garden City, UT)
D7774826 System and method for determining effective policy profiles in a client-server architecture Romanek; David A. (Payson, UT), Ellis; Ty (Elk Ridge, UT), Lewis; Matthew E. (Mapleton, UT), Montroy; Daniel E. (Sandy, UT), Lakis; David Michael (Salt Lake City, UT), Esfarjani; Farzad (Sandy, UT), Muir; Ken W. (Highland, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774827 Techniques for providing role-based security with instance-level granularity Kinser; Stephen Hugh (Saratoga Springs, UT), Burch; Lloyd Leon (Payson, UT), Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774822 Autonomous policy discovery David Buckley; Martin John (Sandy, UT), Ingo; Tambet (Tartu, EE), Mercado; Jose H. (Cambridge, MA), Montero-Luque; Carlos Enrique (Cambridge, MA) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774657 Automatically estimating correlation between hardware or software changes and problem events Hardman; Daniel H. (American Fork, UT) Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA)
7774472 System and method for cross-authoritative configuration management Tanner; Ronald Martin (Provo, UT), Sorenson; Matthew John (Lehi, UT), Carlson; Rick James (Pleasant Grove, UT), Lewis; David Evans (Springville, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774471 Optimized multi-component co-allocation scheduling with advanced reservations for data transfers and distributed jobs Jackson; David Brian (Spanish Fork, UT) Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774370 Controlling the validity status of communicated messages Sampson; Scott E. (Orem, UT)
7774347 Vortex searching Millett; Ronald P. (Orem, UT), Inouye; Dillon K. (Provo, UT), Higgins; John C. (Orem, UT) Perfect Search Corporation (Provo, UT)
7774353 Search templates Millett; Ronald P. (Orem, UT), Inouye; Dillon K. (Provo, UT), Higgins; John C. (Orem, UT) Perfect Search Corporation (Provo, UT)
7774210 Method and system for recording and maintaining patient history data as well as generating concurrent billing records Sandberg; Dale (Pleasant Grove, UT) DHI Computing Service, Inc. (Provo, UT)
D7774188 Running a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots Stringham; Russell R. (Orem, UT) Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA)
7770334 Door assembly for a modular enclosure Mower; Barry D. (Layton, UT), Steed; Brent (Syracuse, UT), Calkin; Jay (Ogden, UT), Watson; Neil (Layton, UT), Astle; Robert A. (Farmington, UT), Strong; L. Curtis (Clearfield, UT), Howe; Rich (Pleasant View, UT), Winter; David C. (Layton, UT), Ashby; Kent (Logan, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7774060 System for providing emergency medical care with real-time instructions and associated methods Westenskow; Dwayne R. (Salt Lake City, UT), Orr; Joseph A. (Park City, UT), Syroid; Noah (Salt Lake City, UT), Snell; Daniel (Tucson, AZ), Agutter; James (Salt Lake City, UT), Drews; Frank (Salt Lake City, UT), Lingutla; Srinath (Salt Lake City, UT), Balakrishnan; Santosh (Salt Lake City, UT), Kuck; Kai (Hamburg, DE), Brewer; Lara (Bountiful, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
Power trench gate FET with active gate trenches that are contiguous with gate runner trench Marchant; Bruce Douglas (Murray, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (South Portland, ME)
7770337 Modular enclosure with offset panels Mower; Barry D. (Layton, UT), Steed; Brent (Syracuse, UT), Calkin; Jay (Ogden, UT), Watson; Neil (Layton, UT), Astle; Robert A. (Farmington, UT), Strong; L. Curtis (Clearfield, UT), Howe; Rich (Pleasant View, UT), Winter; David C. (Layton, UT), Ashby; Kent (Logan, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7772056 Transistors for replacing metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors in nanoelectronics Miller; Mark S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Jackson; Justin B. (Salt Lake City, UT), Kapoor; Divesh (Salt Lake City, UT), Millis; Justin (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7770917 Inflatable curtain venting Henderson; David (Ogden, UT), Petersen; Kurt (Wellsville, UT), Williams; Jeffrey D. (Roy, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7772668 Shielded gate trench FET with multiple channels Pan; James (West Jordan, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (South Portland, ME)
7773460 Medication regimen communicator apparatus and method Holt; Lindsay (Bountiful, UT)
7770871 Internal winch system for a flagpole Swenson; Paul (Salt Lake City, UT), Dickey; Mark (Salt Lake City, UT) Colonial Discount Flag & Flagpole (Sandy, UT)
7773967 Multi-mode–multi-band direct conversion receiver with complex I and Q channel interference mitigation processing for cancellation of intermodulation products Smith; Francis J. (Park City, UT) Smith; Francis J. (Park City, UT)
7770607 Double weft/warp airbag fabric and related airbags and manufacturing methods Coleman; James C. (North Ogden, UT), Kismir; Altay Nihat (Tilbury, CA) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7772134 Method of annealing using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Jennings; Dean (Beverly, MA), Liang; Haifan (Draper, UT), Yam; Mark (Monte Sereno, CA), Parihar; Vijay (Fremont, CA), Mayur; Abhilash (Salinas, CA), Hunter; Aaron (Santa Cruz, CA), Adams; Bruce (Portland, OR), Ranish; Joseph Michael (San Jose, CA) Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA)
7772176 Detergent compositions containing .alpha.-sulfofatty acid esters and methods of making and using the same Huish; Paul Danton (Salt Lake City, UT), Jensen; Laurie A. (Midvale, UT), Libe; Pule B. (Salt Lake City, UT) The Sun Products Corporation (Wilton, CT)
7771550 Method and system for manufacture and delivery of an emulsion explosive Halander; John B. (Salt Lake City, UT), Nelson; Casey L. (Murray, UT), Bonner; Clark D. (West Jordan, UT) Dyno Nobel, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7771481 Total disc implant Khandkar; Ashok C. (Salt Lake City, UT), Brodke; Darrel S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Lakshminarayanan; Ramaswamy (West Jordan, UT) Amedica Corporation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7770921 Airbag for protection of a vehicle occupant Mueller; Louis (W Roy, UT), Sandwall; Erik (Alingsas, SE), Ohrvall; Henrik (Bastad, SE), Borjeson; Gustav (Alingsas, SE) Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, SE)
7771483 Tibial condylar hemiplasty implants, anchor assemblies, and related methods Justin; Daniel F. (Logan, UT), Goble; E. Marlowe (Alta, WY), Dever; Joel (Nibley, UT), Creger; Carlyle J. (Logan, UT), Triplett; Daniel J. (Providence, UT) Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, IN)
7771360 Breast scanning system Johnson; Steven A. (Salt Lake City, UT), Berggren; Michael (Salt Lake City, UT), Borup; David T. (Salt Lake City, UT), Hanover; Barry K. (Salt Lake City, UT), Hanover; Rita (Salt Lake City, UT), Kammeyer; Martin (Sandy, UT), Olsen; Scott (Salt Lake City, UT), Pattee; Jeffrey (Salt Lake City, UT), Setinsek; Frank L. (Fruit Heights, UT), Stewart; Kortlan D. (Salt Lake City, UT), Wiskin; James (Salt Lake City, UT) Techniscan, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7770339 Roof system for a modular enclosure Mower; Barry D. (Layton, UT), Steed; Brent (Syracuse, UT), Calkin; Jay (Ogden, UT), Watson; Neil (Layton, UT), Astle; Robert A. (Farmington, UT), Strong; L. Curtis (Clearfield, UT), Howe; Rich (Pleasant View, UT), Winter; David C. (Layton, UT), Ashby; Kent (Logan, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7771329 Strength system with pivoting components Dalebout; William T. (North Logan, UT), Willardson; Jared R. (Smithfield, UT), Olson; Michael (Logan, UT) ICON IP, Inc. (Logan, UT)
7770924 Liquid cooled hybrid Cox; Matthew A. (Centerville, UT), Smith; Bradley W. (Plain City, UT), Parkinson; David W. (Ogden, UT), Parks; Brent A. (Englewood, CO) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
D7770926 Airbag adaptive venting for out-of-position occupants Schneider; David W. (Waterford, MI), Rose; Larry D. (South Weber, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7770925 Airbag protection flap Seymour; Brian T. (Oakland Township, MI), Lachat; Michael (Shelby Township, MI), Rose; Larry D. (South Weber, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
DD621,465 Playground equipment Kearl; Jacob (Plain City, UT), Nye; Stephen F. (Syracuse, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7774827 Techniques for providing role-based security with instance-level granularity Kinser; Stephen Hugh (Saratoga Springs, UT), Burch; Lloyd Leon (Payson, UT), Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7774568 Clustered snapshots in networks Sudhakar; Gosukonda Naga Venkata Satya (Bangalore, IN) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7770914 Passenger airbag mounting apparatus Dumbrique; Conrad (Lake Orion, MI) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7770668 Modular rotary drill head Kruse; Christof (Wenden, DE), Wrede; Stefan (Kirchhundem, DE), Wahl; Hans-Juergen (Zella-Mehlis, DE) Longyear TM, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
7770786 System and method for value creation Birch; Robert D. (Orlando, FL), Lupo; Joseph P. (Apopka, FL), Irwin; Scott A. (Winter Springs, FL), Weagraff; Stephen D. (Orlando, FL), Karani; Sanjiv (Mason, OH), Gordon; Jeff (Longwood, FL) Convergys CMG Utah (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 08-03-10

Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
Biotech/Pharmaceutical
7767708 Growth stimulant compositions Chung; Shih (Sandy, UT), Kennedy; Thomas J. (Waunakee, WI), Knight; Peter James (Stewartsville, NJ), Robins; Daniel S. (New York, NY), Shao; Zezhi Jesse (Basking Ridge, NJ) Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp. (Summit, NJ)
Chemistry/Materials
7767128 Apparatus and methods for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures Benson; Vernon M. (Morgan, UT), Slack; Jason K. (Clinton, UT), Rosevear; Todd A. (Taylorsville, UT), Harvey; James L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Roman; Mark (Salt Lake City, UT), Olschewski; Timothy (Kearns, UT) Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
7767162 Concentric hopper and burn chamber for sulphorous acid generator Jackson; Edward W. (Salt Lake City, UT), Johnson; Franklin D. (Salt Lake City, UT) Sweetwater License Holdings, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
7767524 Method and structure for forming a shielded gate field effect transistor Yilmaz; Hamza (Saratoga, CA), Calafut; Daniel (San Jose, CA), Sapp; Steven (Felton, CA), Kraft; Nathan (Pottsville, PA), Challa; Ashok (Sandy, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporatiion (South Portland, ME)
7767746 Basalt fiber and nanoclay compositions, articles incorporating the same, and methods of insulating a rocket motor with the same Gajiwala; Himansu M. (Layton, UT) Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, MN)
7768064 Structure and method for improving shielded gate field effect transistors Sapp; Steven (Felton, CA), Challa; Ashok (Sandy, UT), Kocon; Christopher B. (Mountaintop, PA) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (South Portland, ME)
7768075 Semiconductor die packages using thin dies and metal substrates Yilmaz; Hamza (Saratoga, CA), Sapp; Steven (Felton, CA), Wang; Qi (Sandy, UT), Li; Minhua (Sandy, UT), Murphy; James J. (South Jordan, UT), Diroll; John Robert (Sandy, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (South Portland, ME)
Computer Hardware/Electronics
7768379 Method and system for a travel-related multi-function fob Bonalle; David S. (New Rochelle, NY), Larkin; Carl (Bognore Regis, GB), Saunders; Peter D. (Salt Lake City, UT) American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (New York, NY)
7768990 Multi-user receiver and method for successive acquisition Schlegel; Christian (Park City, UT), Kingston; Samuel C. (Salt Lake City, UT), Giallorenzi; Thomas R. (Riverton, UT), Rice; Michael (Provo, UT), Sun; June (Salt Lake City, UT) L3 Communications Corporation (New York, NY)
Computer Software/Methods
7769105 System and method for communicating low data rate information with a radar system McIntire; William K. (Sandy, UT), Thomson; Larry S. (Bountiful, UT), Robbins; David H. (Bountiful, UT), Boesch; James J. (Salt Lake City, UT) L-3 Communications, Corp. (New York, NY)
7769141 Method and system for visual spatial caller identification Cupal; Matthew D. (Providence, UT), Romriell; Joseph N. (Alpine, UT), Shupe; Allen (Sandy, UT), Sorenson; James L. (Salt Lake City, UT) Sorenson Communications, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7769728 Method and system for intra-row, inter-row compression and decompression of data items in a database using a page-based structure where allocating a page-buffer based on a stored value indicating the page size Ivie; James R. (Lindon, UT)
7769736 System and method for efficient issuance of queries Vella; Shon (Orem, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7769895 System and method for ensuring that a web browser displays the highest ranked image format possible for an image Williams; Neal (Highland, UT), Cheney; Mardell (Highland, UT), Pilling; Nathan (Orem, UT) Corda Technologies, Inc. (Lindon, UT)
7770099 Enhanced human computer user interface system for searching and browsing documents Young; Corey (Provo, UT), Kovanen; David (Browns Point, UT), Fullmer; Joseph (Orem, UT)
7770131 Subsystem, shared-control apparatus and method Malmstrom; R. Dean (Cedar Hills, UT)
7770168 Systems and methods for distributing software using nodes within a network group Malmstrom; R. Dean (Cedar Hills, UT)
7770204 Techniques for securing electronic identities Pathakis; Scott William (Sandy, UT), Beus; David Kent (Highland, UT), Carter; Stephen R (Spanish Fork, UT), Cook; Michael William (Orem, UT), Davis; Howard Rollin (Salem, UT), Nielson; Dustin Lance (Salt Lake City, UT), Johnson; David Nephi (Provo, UT), Griffis; Jerry E (Lehi, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
Mechanical Devices
7766038 Manifold for multi-jet pool fixture Geddes; Brent (Riverton, UT), Wilson; Scott A. (Salt Lake City, UT) Venturi Jet Sets, Inc. (Riverton, UT)
7766998 Water extraction apparatus Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Wilde; Tyson J. (Provo, UT), Gerla; Andrew (Provo, UT), Larsen; Joshua (Provo, UT)
D620,959 Core lifter Drenth; Christopher L. (Draper, UT), Zhang; Hongyan (Wuxi, CN) Longyear TM, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
Medical Products
7766943 Modular percutaneous spinal fusion system and method Fallin; T. Wade (Hyde Park, UT), Justin; Daniel F. (Logan, UT) Medicine Lodge Inc. (Logan, UT)
7766947 Cervical plate for stabilizing the human spine Hawkes; David T. (Pleasant Grove, UT), Sweeney; Thomas M. (Sarasota, FL) Ortho Development Corporation (Draper, UT)
7766969 Modular progressive implant for a joint articulation surface Justin; Daniel F. (Logan, UT), Goble; E. Marlowe (Logan, UT), Hodorek; Robert A. (Warsaw, IN) Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, IN)
7769468 Transparent electromagnetic applicator and hyperthermia treatment method Turner; Paul F. (Bountiful, UT), Hagmann; Mark (Salt Lake City, UT), Youd; Thomas L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Elsworth; Jason Lynn (Salt Lake City, UT) BSD Medical Corporation (Salt Lake City, UT)
Miscellaneous
7766898 Non-circular side port bore for introducer sheath Mottola; Jim (South Jordan, UT), Stevens; Brian (Pleasant Grove, UT) Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
7768144 Underwater wave/energy transducer Mottola; Jim (South Jordan, UT), Stevens; Brian (Pleasant Grove, UT) Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
D621,068 Architectural panel with thatch reed design Goodson; Raymond Lynn (Sandy, UT), Goodson; R. Talley (Salt Lake City, UT), Goodson; Boyd T. (Salt Lake City, UT) 3Form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Recreational Products
7766797 Breakaway or folding elliptical exercise machine Dalebout; William T. (North Logan, UT), Ercanbrack; Gaylen W. (Logan, UT), Butler; Jaremy T. (Paradise, UT), Alleman; Robert L. (North Logan, UT) Icon IP, Inc. (Logan, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 07-27-10

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
Chemistry/ Materials
7763753 Methods for the production of 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene Paraskos; Alexander J. (Ogden, UT), Kramer; Michael P. (Wellsville, UT) Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)
Computer Hardware/Electronics
7763818 Spherical bistable mechanism Lusk; Craig (Lutz, FL), Howell; Larry L. (Orem, UT) Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
7765549 Distributing batches of items in a workflow Lauer; Steven Paul (Heber City, UT) Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (Dallas, TX)
Computer Software/Methods
7762457 System and method for dynamic fob synchronization and personalization Bonalle; David S. (New Rochelle, NY), Larkin; Carl (Bognore Regis, GB), Saunders; Peter D. (Salt Lake City, UT) American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (New York, NY)
7763580 Methods for treating conditions associated with the accumulation of excess extracellular matrix Noble; Nancy A. (Salt Lake City, UT), Border; Wayne A. (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7765525 Operations manager infrastructure for dynamically updating software operational policy Davidson; Harold R. (American Fork, UT), Huff; Gerald B. (Berkeley, CA) Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
7765542 Method and system for describing and extracting application information Wiggins; Greg (Pleasant Grove, UT), Moorjani; Rajesh (Pune, IN), Rai; Vivek Kumar (Gwalior, IN), Bhagwat; Vivek Umesh (Pune, IN), Ahuja; Sanjay (Nagpur, IN), Surve; Santosh D. (Pune, IN) Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, CA)
Mechanical Devices
7762364 Hybrid vehicle Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Dahlgren; Scott (Provo, UT)
7762429 Portable water cooler for use with bagged fluids and bagged fluids for use therewith Macler; Henry (Monroe, LA), Macler; Jeffrey (Texumseh, MO), Avery; Steven (South Jordan, UT) International Packaging Innovations, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
7762441 Carrying device Benally; Jerrold L. (Midvale, UT)
7762579 Ejection mitigation device Garner; Brett (South Weber, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7762616 Cross-member for a trailer frame and a trailer frame incorporating the same Smith; Fred P. (Alpine, UT), Morrill; Nathan H. (Draper, UT) Sidump’r Trailer Company, Inc. (Plainview, NE)
D620,510 Drill bit Hall; David R. (Provo, UT) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX)
Medical Products
7762992 Safety needle with positive flush Triplett; Daniel J. (Providence, UT), Sheetz; Kevin W. (Sandy, UT), Burnside; Eddie K. (Grantsville, UT) C. R. Bard, Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ)
7762364 Hybrid vehicle Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Dahlgren; Scott (Provo, UT)
7762429 Portable water cooler for use with bagged fluids and bagged fluids for use therewith Macler; Henry (Monroe, LA), Macler; Jeffrey (Texumseh, MO), Avery; Steven (South Jordan, UT) International Packaging Innovations, LLC (St. Louis, MO)
7762441 Carrying device Benally; Jerrold L. (Midvale, UT)
7762579 Ejection mitigation device Garner; Brett (South Weber, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7762616 Cross-member for a trailer frame and a trailer frame incorporating the same Smith; Fred P. (Alpine, UT), Morrill; Nathan H. (Draper, UT) Sidump’r Trailer Company, Inc. (Plainview, NE)
D620,510 Drill bit Hall; David R. (Provo, UT) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX)
Mining Products
7762353 Downhole valve mechanism Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Bailey; John (Spanish Fork, UT) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX)
7762359 Cutter assembly including rotatable cutting element and drill bit using same Miess; David P. (Highland, UT) US Synthetic Corporation (Orem, UT)
Miscellaneous
7762026 Bearing brace apparatus Smelser; James M. (Sandy, UT) SME Steel Contractors, Inc. (West Jordan, UT)
D620,276 Mobility assistance device Miller; F. Troy (Logan, UT) Stander, Inc. (Logan, UT)
D620,620 Resin panel with reinforced translucent wood veneer design Suare; Ruben (Salt Lake City, UT), Goodson; R. Talley (Salt Lake City, UT), Rea; Kirby V. (Salt Lake City, UT), Goodson; Raymond L. (Sandy, UT) 3form, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Recreational Devices
7762927 Game apparatus Gordon; Donald W. (Springville, UT)
D620,253 Golf ball and accessory bag Baker; Val Douglas (Highland, UT)
D620,427 Bicycle bucket Madsen; Jared (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 07-20-10

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
Chemistry/ Materials
7758745 Diesel desulfurization method Cheng; Shun-Sheng (Salt Lake City, UT)
7758709 Monolithic gas generant grains Hussey; Brett (Bountiful, UT), Mendenhall; Ivan (Providence, UT), Bradford; Roger (Malad, ID) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7757793 Thermally stable polycrystalline ultra-hard constructions Voronin; Georgiy (Orem, UT), Belnap; J. Daniel (Pleasant Grove, UT) Smith International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
7757788 Ultrahard composite constructions Belnap; John Daniel (Pleasant Grove, UT), Griffo; Anthony (The Woodlands, TX), Eyre; Ronald K. (Orem,UT), Middlemiss; Stewart N. (Salt Lake City, UT) Smith International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Computer Hardware/ Electronics
7758349 Magnetic component connector, circuit boards for use therewith, and kits for building and designing circuits Han; In Suk (Sandy, UT), Lim; Dong-Kyun (Kyeonggi-Do, KR), Park; Iisun (Kyeonggi-Do, KR) MR Board, Inc. (Sandy, UT)
Computer Software/ Methods
7761770 Disk controller architecture to allow on-the-fly error correction and write disruption detection Larsen; Troy D. (North Ogden, UT), Arnell; Adam T. (Syracuse, UT), Culley; Martin L. (Ogden, UT), Wallentine; Don W. (Mantua, UT), Feye; Facil T. (West Jordan, UT) EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, MA)
7761488 File creation API Thaler; Drew (San Francisco, CA), Bertagnolli; John (Parker, CO), Shields; Mike (Salt Lake City, UT), Wynne; Ed (Pinckney, MI) Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
7761457 Creation of segmentation definitions Error; Christopher Reid (Orem, UT), Error; Brett Michael (Orem, UT) Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA)
7761399 Recommendation networks for ranking recommendations using trust rating for user-defined topics and recommendation rating for recommendation sources Evans; Matthew Reid (Draper, UT) Evree LLC (Draper, UT)
7761367 Method and system for financially monitoring an order Scalora; Michael Amore (Orem, UT), Andrus; Brian Keoki (Spanish Fork, UT), Duncan; David Audley(Orem, UT) Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
7760915 Method, system, and program product for encrypting information Bhogal; Kulvir S. (Fort Worth, TX), Boss; Gregory J. (American Fork, UT), Hamilton, II; Rick A.(Charlottesville, VA), Polozoff; Alexandre (Bloomington, IL) International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
7760697 Fast and long range node discovery in spread spectrum networks Giallorenzi; Thomas R. (Riverton, UT), Harris; Johnny M. (Centerville, UT), Griffin; Dan M. (Bountiful, UT), Ertel; Richard B. (Midvale, UT), Hall; Eric K. (Holliday, UT) L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, NY)
Mechanical Device
D619831 Support structure for a table Branch; Paul (Layton, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7758069 Knee airbag and restraint system for suppressing deployment of head/torso airbag Enders; Mark L. (Pleasant View, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7757966 High-speed jet control Smith; Barton L. (Logan, UT) Utah State University (North Logan, UT)
7757617 Fold-in-half table with pivotally adjustable leg assemblies Larcom; Larry (Roy, UT), Winter; David C. (Layton, UT), Bennett; Joel (Clinton, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
Medical Products
7758816 Large area cytocentrifuge sample chamber Stokes; Barry O. (Logan, UT), Mullen; Kevin M. (Smithfield, UT), Nelson; Patti A. (Paradise, UT), Holman; Randal P. (Logan, UT) Wescor Inc. (Logan, UT)
7758646 Total disc implant Khandkar; Ashok C. (Salt Lake City, UT), Brodke; Darrel S. (Salt Lake City, UT), Lakshminarayanan; Ramaswamy (Salt Lake City, UT) Amedica Corporation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7758581 Polyaxial reaming apparatus and method Chervitz; Alan (Palm Harbor, FL), Triplett; Daniel J. (Providence, UT) Facet Solutions, Inc. (Hopkinton, MA)
7758544 Safety shield for medical needles Solomon; Donald D. (North Salt Lake, UT), Smith; Daniel K. (Woods Cross, UT) Specialized Health Products, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7758530 Method for measuring recirculation in catheters Difiore; Attilio E. (Taylorsville, UT), Walton; Mark E. (Bountiful, UT) Bard Access Systems, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Mining Products
7757971 Diamond nozzle Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Wahlquist; David (Spanish Fork, UT), Morris; Thomas (Provo, UT) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX)
7757791 Cutting elements formed from ultra hard materials having an enhanced construction Belnap; John Daniel (Pleasant Grove, UT), Middlemiss; Stewart N. (Salt Lake City, UT) Smith International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
7757790 Superabrasive compact with selected interface and rotary drill bit including same Schmidt; Scott M. (Draper, UT), Sandstrom; Michael John (Highland, UT) US Synthetic Corporation (Orem, UT)
7757789 Drill bit and insert having bladed interface between substrate and coating Yong; Zhou (Spring, TX), Yu; Jiaqing (Houston, TX), Tucker; Chris A. (Provo, UT) Smith International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Miscellaneous
D620040 Eyewear Daems; Kurt (Layton, UT), Grigsby; Brian (Tremonton, UT) Wolf Peak Holdings, Inc. (Layton, UT)
7758216 Decorative lamp illuminations structure Small; Robert (Park City, UT)
Recreational Products
7758471 Trampoline enclosure attachment to trampoline mat Nelson; Chris (Provo, UT) Skywalker Holdings, LLC (Rancho Mirage, CA)
7757812 Universal belay device Bamberg; Eberhard (Salt Lake City, UT), Young; Nathaniel (Salt Lake City, UT) The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 07-13-10

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
Biotech/ Pharmaceutical
7754705 Cationic steroid antimicrobial compositions and methods of use Savage; Paul B. (Mapleton, UT), Leung; Donald Y (Englewood, CO) Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, CO)
Chemistry/Materials
7753065 Hydrant backflow restriction system Bevins; Michael J. (Riverton, UT), Gilson; Bradley S. (Draper, UT) TAP Security, LC (Draper, UT)
7753252 Method for construction of pressure vessels with a liner using friction stirring processes Taylor; Brian E. (Draper, UT), Flak; Richard A. (Springville, UT), Steel; Russell J. (Salem, UT), Packer; Scott M. (Alpine, UT) Smith International (Houston, TX)
SII Megadiamond (Provo, UT)
Advanced Metal Products (West Bountiful, UT)
7753303 Rotary shaft impactor Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Crockett; Ronald (Provo, UT), Fox; Joe (Provo, UT)
7754038 Cross-grade spin welding apparatus and method Ripplinger; Jacob F. (Nibley, UT), Ripplinger; C. Robert (Millville, UT) Sonoco Development, Inc. (Hartsville, SC)
7754333 Thermally stable diamond polycrystalline diamond constructions Eyre; Ronald K. (Orem, UT), Griffo; Anthony (The Woodlands, TX), Oldham; Thomas W. (The Woodlands, TX) Smith International, Inc. (Houston, TX)
7754567 Scalable power field effect transistor with improved heavy body structure and method of manufacture Wang; Qi (Sandy, UT), Huang; Ming-Huang (Madison, WI), Sharp; Joelle (Herriman, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (South Portland, ME)
7755137 Bandgap engineered MOS-gated power transistors Dolny; Gary (Mountain Top, PA), Wang; Qi (Sandy, UT) Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (So. Portland, ME)
7756251 X-ray radiation window with carbon nanotube frame Davis; Robert C. (Provo, UT), Vanfleet; Richard R. (Provo, UT), Hutchison; David N. (Ithaca, NY) Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
Computer Hardware/ Electronics
7753682 Reorientable electrical receptacle Gerard; Kimberly R. (Murray, UT) 360 Electrical, LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
7755506 Automation and theater control system Clegg; Paul T. (Lindon, UT), Meiners; Jared (Lehi, UT), Losee; Scott C. (Santaquin, UT), Allen; Douglas E. (Lindon, UT), Chatterton; Michelle (Lindon, UT), Lemke; Jared T. (Pleasant Grove, UT), Beagley; James (Herriman, UT) Legrand Home Systems, Inc. (Middletown, PA)
7755533 Interferometric switched beam radar apparatus and method Harris; Logan Carl (Orem, UT), Smith; Ryan Lee (Salem, UT) ImSAR LLC (Salem, UT)
7756118 Video switching system utilizing a prioritized common network Harmon; Tom (Sandy, UT), Levie; Jeff (South Jordan, UT), Morrell; Garn (Kaysville, UT), Thornblad; Roger (Sandy, UT) Utah Scientific, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Computer Software/ Methods
7756617 Vehicular monitoring system Cluff; Larry Allen (Salt Lake City, UT), Morgan; David LeBaron (Provo, UT) Morgan; David Lebaron (Provo, UT)
7756728 Healthcare system and user interface for consolidating patient related information from different sources Maughan; Rex Wendell (Murray, UT), Jacobsen; Jeffry Brent (Logan, UT) Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, PA)
7756890 Semantic identities Carter; Stephen R. (Spanish Fork, UT) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
7756975 Methods and systems for automatically discovering information about a domain of a computing device Cronk; Robert (Springville, UT) Symantec Corporation (Cupertino, CA)
7757228 Systems and methods for writing an image to a computer system Eatough; David A. (Herriman, UT), Hillyard; Paul (Lindon, UT) LANDesk Software Limited (Shannon, IE)
7757294 Method and system for maintaining the security of design information Simkins; James M. (Park City, UT) Xilinx, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Mechanical Device
7753155 Front drive system for a snowmobile Snyder; Jacob B. (Salem, UT), Davis; Donald A. (Provo, UT)
7753393 Hitch assistance system Young; Troy Eugene (Salt Lake City, UT)
Medical Products
7753937 Linked bilateral spinal facet implants and methods of use Chervitz; Alan (Palm Harbor, FL), Justin; Daniel F. (Logan, UT), Fallin; T. Wade (Hyde Park, UT), Hoy; Robert W. (Paradise, UT) Facet Solutions Inc. (Hopkinton, MA)
7756582 Gastric stimulation anchor and method Imran; Mir A. (Los Altos Hills, CA), Colliou; Olivier K. (Los Gatos, CA), Layman; Ted W. (Park City, UT) IntraPace, Inc. (Mountain View, CA)
Miscellaneous
7753203 Sharps handling devices Lampropoulos; Fred P. (Salt Lake City, UT), McArthur; Gregory R. (Sandy, UT), Mottola; Jim (Salt Lake City, UT), Wright; Anne-Marie (Salt Lake City, UT) Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (South Jordan, UT)
7756289 Image watermarking systems and methods Curtis; Donald B. (Highland, UT) Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Provo, UT)
D619,370 Combined toothbrush and teether Tegeder; Troy (Vail, AZ), Phillips; Ryan (West Jordan, UT), Phillips; Heather (West Jordan, UT), Phillips; Sandra (Pocatello, ID) Live-Right, LLC (Pocatello, ID)
D619,647 Silk screener Horito; Michael (Provo, UT), Sego; Rebecca (Spanish Fork, UT), Croy; Lee (Salt Lake City, UT), Budge; Janna (Portland, OR), Tanner; Dayne (Spokane, WA), Allan; Tyler (Springville, UT) Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (Spanish Fork, UT)
D619,725 Shower wrap Puffer; Connie L. (Hurricane, UT), Puffer; Carl J. (Hurricane, UT)
Mining Products
7753143 Superabrasive element, structures utilizing same, and method of fabricating same Miess; David P. (Highland, UT), Qian; Jiang (Cedar Hills, UT) US Synthetic Corporation (Orem, UT)
7753144 Drill bit with a retained jack element Hall; David R. (Provo, UT), Leany; Francis (Salem, UT), Fox; Joe (Spanish Fork, UT), Wilde; Tyson J. (Aurora, CO), Black; Boyd B. (Iowa City, UT) Schlumberger Technology Corporation (Houston, TX)

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Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 07-06-10

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.

Patent No. Title Inventors Assignee
Biotech/Pharmaceutical
7749535 Compositions and methods using Morinda citrifolia Mower; Thomas W. (Elkridge, UT), Bawden; James C. (Provo, UT), Harmon; Marlin C. (Bountiful, UT), Stutz; Craig R. (Orem, UT), Wang; Chuan (Orem, UT) Neways, Inc. (Springville, UT)
7749545 Fucoidan compositions and methods for dietary and nutritional supplements Mower; Thomas E. (Payson, UT) Sakura Properties, LLC (Salem, UT)
7749725 Drug screening and diagnosis based on paracrine tubular renin-angiotensin system Rohrwasser; Andreas (Salt Lake City, UT), Morgan; Terry (Salt Lake City, UT), Lalouel; Jean-Marc (Salt Lake City, UT) University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, UT)
7749983 Metabolically stable alkoxyalkyl esters of antiviral or antiproliferative phosphonates, nucleoside phosphonates and nucleoside phosphates Hostetler; Karl Y. (Del Mar, CA), Beadle; James R. (San Diego, CA), Ruiz; Jacqueline (San Diego, CA), Almond; Merrick R. (Apex, NC), Painter; George R. (Chapel Hill, NC), Riley; Timothy A. (Raleigh, NC), Francom; Paula (Salem, UT) Chimerix, Inc. (Durham, NC) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
7750007 Imidazo[1,2-beta]pyridazine and pyrazolo[1,5-alpha]pyrimidine derivatives and their use as protein kinase inhibitors Bearss; David J. (Cedar Hills, UT), Liu; Xiao-Hui (Sandy, UT), Vankayalapati; Hariprasad (Draper, UT), Xu; Yong (Midvale, UT) SuperGen, Inc. (Dublin, CA)
Chemistry/Materials
7748424 Filament winding apparatus and methods of winding filament Anderson; Alan H. (Placentia, CA), Allman; Mike Glen (Spanish Fork, UT), Ashton; Larry Jed (Mapleton, UT), Simpson; Craig Bjamson (Mapleton, UT), Ta’ala; Benko Samasoni (Salem, UT), White; Troy Larry (Goshen, UT) Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. (Torrance, CA)
Computer Hardware/Electronics
7750634 Methods and apparatus for detecting elements and compounds Christensen; Charles L. (South Ogden, UT)
7752074 Method of enhancing electronic communications with contextually relevant content Bosarge; Jason (Salt Lake City, UT), Little; Roger (Salt Lake City, UT) Sponster LLC (Salt Lake City, UT)
7752317 Workstation virus lockdown in a distribution environment Cox; Richard H. (Orem, UT), Beus; David (Highland, UT), Anderson; Brad R. (Provo, UT), Haeger; Edward S. (Park City, UT), Buckley; Martin (Sherwood, GB) Novell, Inc. (Provo, UT)
Computer Software/Methods
7752260 Domain name acquisition and management system and method King; Raymond (Portland, OR), Wiener; Ron (Portland, OR), Bayles; Len Albert (Salt Lake City, UT) SnapNames.com, Inc. (Portland, OR)
7752336 Method and apparatus for resource locator identifier rewrite Gmuender; John E. (San Jose, CA), Nguyen; Huy Minh (Fountain Valley, CA), Levy; Joseph H. (Salt Lake City, UT), Massing; Michael B. (San Jose, CA), Chen; Zhong (Fremont, CA), Telehowski; David M. (Sunnyvale, CA) SonicWALL, Inc. (San Jose, CA)
Mechanical Devices
RE41,424 Torque responsive actuation device Benson; Steven R. (Murray, UT)
Medical Products
7749253 Spine distraction implant and method Zucherman; James F. (San Francisco, CA), Hsu; Ken Y. (San Francisco, CA), Fallin; T. Wade (Hyde Park, UT), Klyce; Henry A. (Piedmont, CA) Kyphon S RL (Neuchatel, CH)
7749266 Methods and devices for delivery of prosthetic heart valves and other prosthetics Forster; David C. (Los Altos Hills, CA), Heneveld; Scott (Whitmore, CA), Walsh; Brandon (Syracuse, UT), Beckey; Brian (Woodside, CA) AorTx, Inc. (Los Altos Hills, CA)
7751877 Neural interface system with embedded id Flaherty; J. Christopher (Topsfield, MA), Capachione; L. Renee (Acton, MA), Morris; Daniel S. (Stanford, CA), Caplan; Abraham H. (Cambridge, MA), Saleh; Maryam (Providence, RI), Guillory; K. Shane (Salt Lake City, UT) BrainGate Co., LLC (Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)
Miscellaneous
7748177 Modular tile with controlled deflection Jenkins; Mark L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Shapiro; Jeremiah (West Valley City, UT), Forster; Cheryl (Salt Lake City, UT), North; Vaughn W. (Salt Lake City, UT), Stott; David L. (Providence, UT) Connor Sport Court International, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)
7748741 Spool tensioning device for airbag installation Mitchell; Abraham J. (Logan, UT), Gammill; Kurt (Layton, UT) Autoliv ASP, Inc. (Ogden, UT)
7748807 Off-radial-axis circular printing device and methods Jones; Randy Quinn (Sunnyvale, CA), Youngberg; Carl Eric (Mapleton, UT), Gardner; Clayton Grant (Alamo, CA), Struk; Robert Steven (Sunnyvale, CA), Lugaresi; Thomas John (Los Gatos, CA), Thompson; Michael Ralph (Los Gatos, CA), Bradshaw; George Lynn (Palo Alto, CA), Brick; James Charles (Sunnyvale, CA), Unter; Jan Eugene (Alamo, CA) Elesys, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA)
7748863 Solar light apparatus and system Holman; Jeffrey T. (Pleasanton, CA), Willard; W. Shane (Kaysville, UT) Holman; Jeffrey T. (Farmington, UT)
D619,023 Moisture detection device Brooking; Michael J. (Dong Guan, CN), Barney; Christopher W. (Sandy, UT) Gizmode, LLC (Sandy, UT)
D619,163 Multi-cartridge system Horito; Michael (Provo, UT), Croy; Lee (Salt Lake City, UT), Budge; Janna (Portland, OR) Provo Craft and Novelty, Inc. (Spanish Fork, UT)
Recreational Products
7749111 System and method for bonding an acrylic surface to a frame Stevens; Larry (Fruit Heights, UT) Lifetime Products, Inc. (Clearfield, UT)
7749144 Adjustable abdominal exercise machine Hammer; Rodney (Lewiston, UT) Icon IP, Inc. (Logan, UT)

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