Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 08-17-10
The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.
| 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) |