Utah Patent Update – Patents Issued on 02-17-09
The following patents issued this week which were granted to Utah inventors or assigned to Utah companies.
| Patent No. | Title | Inventors | Assignee |
| Biotech/ Pharmaceutical | |||
| 7491728 | Pyrimidinone compounds as calcilytics | Irina V. Shcherbakova (Salt Lake City, UT), Manuel F. Balanddrin (Salt Lake City, UT), Guangfei Huang (Alchua, FL), Otto Geoffroy (Alchua, FL), John Fox (Salt Lake City, UT), Robert Marquis (King of Prussia, PA), Dennis Shinji Yamashita (King of Prussia, PA), Juan Luengo (King of Prussia, PA), Wenyong Wang (King of Prussia, PA) | SmithKline Beecham Corp. (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Computer Software/ Methods | |||
| 7493288 | RF payment via a mobile device | Fred Biship (Glendale, AZ) and Peter D. Saunders (Salt Lake City, UT) | Xantra Fund MX, LLC (Wilmington, DE) |
| 7493402 | Methods and systems for coordinating sessions on one or more systems | Scott F. McCarty (Salt Lake City, UT) and Jeanette L. Hammock (Sandy, UT) | SunGard SCT Inc. (Malvern, PA) |
| Medical Products | |||
| 7490604 | Endotracheal surfactant distribution system | Thomas E. McGee (Salt Lake City, UT) | C.R. Bard, Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
| 7491192 | Cardiovascular access catheter with slit valve | Attilio E. DiFiore (Taylorsville, UT) | C.R. Bard, Inc. (Murray Hill, NJ) |
| Miscellaneous | |||
| 7490467 | Gas flow enhancer for combustion engines | Craig D. Cummings (Park City, UT) | |
| 7490727 | Storage Rack | Dennis D. Spiers (Ogden, UT), Larry D. Williams (Ogden, UT) | |
| 7492988 | Ultra-compact planar AWG circuits and systems | Gregory P. Nordin (Lindon, UT), Yongbin Lin (Huntsville, AL), Seunghyun Kim (Cedar Hills, UT) |