Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued 7-31-07
The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.
| Patent No. | Title | Inventors | Assignee |
| 7,249,441 | Power drive unit for automobile windows | Hartle; Charles Wayne Hartle, Salt Lake City, UTT | |
| 7,249,607 | Landfill conduit servicing systems and methods for servicing landfill conduits | David L. Hansen, Ivins, UT; Dennis W. Super, Vestal, NY | Landfill Service Corporation, Apalachin, NY |
| 7,249,783 | Airbag tether release | David W. Parkinson, North Ogden, UT; Earl H. Nelson, Ogden, UT; Bradley W. Smith, Ogden, UT | Autoliv ASP, Inc., Ogden, UT |
| 7,249,908 | Combined guardrail and cable safety systems | Peter Bergendahl, Angelholm, SE; Don J. Gripne, Olympia, WA; Chuck Norton, Farmington, UT; Elzard Sikkema, Murray, UT | Trinity Industries, Inc., Dallas, TX |
| 7,249,943 | Apparatus for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures | Vernon M. Benson, Morgan, UT; Jason Slack, Clearfield, UT; Todd A. Rosevear, Taylorsville, UT | Alliant Techsystems Inc., Edina, MN |
| 7,250,022 | Exercise device with centrally mounted resistance rod | William T. Dalebout, North Logan, UT; Michael Olson, Logan, UT | |
| 7,250,497 | Large deletions in human BRCA1 gene and use thereof | Thomas Scholl, Salt Lake City, UT; Brant C. Hendrickson, Salt Lake City, UT; Benjamin Ward, Park City, UT; Dmitry Pruss, Salt Lake City, UT | Myriad Genetics, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT |
| 7,250,587 | Method for simultaneously toasting bread and steaming | David Ely, West Jordan, UT; Brian K. Beesley, Draper, UT; Alan Parkinson, Sandy, UT; Claude Brandt, Salt Lake City, UT | Back to Basics Products, LLC, Vernon Hills, IL |
| 7,250,588 | Combination bread toaster and steamer device | David Ely, West Jordan, UT; Brian K. Beesley, Draper, UT; Alan Parkinson, Sandy, UT; Claude Brandt, Salt Lake City, UT | Back to Basics Products, LLC, Vernon Hills, IL |
| 7,250,772 | Method and apparatus for characterizing a signal path carrying an operational signal | Cynthia Furse, Salt Lake City, UT; Paul Smith, West Valley City, UT | University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 7,251,455 | Techniques for antenna tracking | Vaughn Lee Mower, Bountiful, UT; Roy Fletcher Lunsford, Syracuse, UT; Ryan Clark Beard, Bountiful, UT; Jeffrey Craig Wright, Woods Cross, UT | L-3 Communications Corporation, New York, NY |
| 7,251,752 | Computerized product improvement apparatus and method | Phillip M. Adams, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| D547,601 | Food processor | LuJie Ting, Shenzhen, CN; Brian K. Beesley, Draper, UT | Back to Basics Products, Inc., Bluffdale, UT |
| D547,873 | Behavior observation counter | Pauline Hood, Sandy, UT | |
| D547,880 | Portion of a shed | Kent Ashby, Logan, UT; Barry D. Mower, Layton, UT | Lifetime Products, Inc., Clearfield, UT |