U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Arizona (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 Arizona.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method and System for Utilizing Plurality of Physical Layers to Retain Quality of Service in a Wireless Device During a Communication Session ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,345,591) developed by six co-inventors for a "method and system for utilizing plurality of physical layers to retain quality of service in a wireless device during a communication session." The co-inventors are Alexander G. MacInnis, Ann Arbor, Mich., Thomas Quigley, Franklin, N.C., Arya Behzad, Poway, Calif., Jeyhan Karaoguz, Irvine, Calif., John Walley, Ladera Ranch, Calif., and Mark Buer, Gilbert, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A wireless mobile communication (WMC) device may be determine a quality of service (QOS) required to communicate data. The WMC device may utilize a plurality of physical layers available in the WMC device to retain the QOS throughout the data communication. The physical layers may comprise a plurality of wireless technologies and/or a plurality of transmission power levels within each wireless technology. Selection of physical layers that may be utilized may comprise determination of available QOS through the physical layers, available power in the WMC device, and/or power requirement for communicating data via the physical layers. Data encoding may also be utilized to alter size of communicated data while retaining the required QOS. Data encoding may comprise utilizing encoding schemes, data compression, and/or redundancy bits. A set of deadlines may be utilized to enable switching between available physical layers to ensure maintaining and/or achieving required QOS." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/864,269). 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=8,345,591&OS=8,345,591&RS=8,345,591 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Rotani Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Rotani, Cave Creek, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,345,651) developed by Roc Lastinger, Cave Creek, Ariz., John Spenik, Phoenix, and Brian Woodbury, Gilbert, Ariz., for "methods and apparatus for overlapping MIMO antenna physical sectors." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "MIMO systems communicate with wireless devices. MIMO systems include directional antennas that are oriented so that the physical sectors of the antennas overlap to form areas of overlap. The areas of overlap are oriented in unique directions. Radios are selectively coupled to the portion of the antennas to communicate with the wireless devices. The physical sectors of the antennas that are selectively coupled to the radios overlap. The radios use the antennas to communicate with the wireless devices. The antennas operate as a MIMO antenna." The patent application was filed on May 28, 2011 (13/118,386). 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=8,345,651&OS=8,345,651&RS=8,345,651 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Red Hat Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C., has been assigned a patent (8,345,576) developed by Steven C. Dake, Chandler, Ariz., for "methods and systems for dynamic subring definition within a multi-ring." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the present invention automatically determine via heuristics optimal configurations to form sub-rings of nodes and where to position gateway processors among these sub-rings. The heuristics may be applied at a predefined timing interval configured by the user or in response to various events, such as a node failure or when a node joins the multi-ring network. Another embodiment of the invention may use automatic heuristics to determine when a suboptimal multi-ring configuration exists and formulates a new multi-ring configuration." The patent application was filed on June 19, 2007 (11/765,197). 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=8,345,576&OS=8,345,576&RS=8,345,576 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Raytheon Assigned Patent for Systems and Methods for Detecting Spread Spectrum Signals in an Area of Interest ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,345,597) developed by Richard A. Poisel, Vail, Ariz., for "systems and methods for detecting spread spectrum signals in an area of interest." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting and geo-locating a target transmitting a CDMA or other spread-spectrum signal within an area of interest. Targets are identified by spatially-dividing the area of interest into a number of cells. First and second receiving beams are sequentially directed toward each of the cells from two or more different intercept sites. The presence of the spread-spectrum signal within each cell is identified from the signals received at each directional beam, and if the spread-spectrum signal is present in both the first and the second receiving beams, then the target can be indicated to be present within the cell." The patent application was filed on July 27, 2009 (12/510,086). 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=8,345,597&OS=8,345,597&RS=8,345,597 Written by Neha Bharti; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Methods and Systems for Reducing Angular Velocity Using a Gyroscope Array ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,346,538) developed by Thom Kreider, Peoria, Ariz., Brian Underhill, Phoenix, and Brian Hamilton, Glendale, Ariz., for "methods and systems for reducing angular velocity using a gyroscope array." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided for reducing angular velocity of a vehicle using a gyroscope array. A method comprises dithering a gyroscope of the gyroscope array, obtaining current through a gimbal motor of the gyroscope while dithering the gyroscope, determining a gimbal rate command to reduce angular velocity of the vehicle based on the current through the gimbal motor obtained while dithering the gyroscope, and operating the gimbal motor of the gyroscope based on the gimbal rate command." The patent application was filed on May 25, 2010 (12/787,189). 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=8,346,538&OS=8,346,538&RS=8,346,538 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

*** AdValue Photonics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- AdValue Photonics, Tucson, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,346,029) developed by Shibin Jiang, Tucson, Ariz., for a "highly rare-earth doped fiber." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A multicomponent glass fiber having a doping concentration of 55%-85% (wt./wt.) of a rare-earth oxide is presented. The rare-earth oxide is selected from the group comprising: Pr.sub.2O.sub.3, Nd.sub.2O.sub.3, Pm.sub.2O.sub.3, Sm.sub.2O.sub.3, Eu.sub.2O.sub.3, Gd.sub.2O.sub.3, Tb.sub.2O.sub.3, Dy.sub.2O.sub.3, Ho.sub.2O.sub.3; Er.sub.2O.sub.3, Tm.sub.2O.sub.3, Yb.sub.2O.sub.3, La.sub.2O.sub.3, Ga.sub.2O.sub.3, Ce.sub.2O.sub.3, and Lu.sub.2O.sub.3. Additionally, an all-fiber isolator using highly rare-earth oxide doped fibers is disclosed." The patent application was filed on Dec. 1, 2009 (12/628,914). 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=8,346,029&OS=8,346,029&RS=8,346,029 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,345,984) developed by four co-inventors for a "3D convolutional neural networks for automatic human action recognition." The co-inventors are Shuiwang Ji, Tempe, Ariz., Wei Xu, Los Gatos, Calif., Ming Yang, San Jose, Calif., and Kai Yu, Santa Clara, Calif.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods are disclosed to recognize human action from one or more video frames by performing 3D convolutions to capture motion information encoded in multiple adjacent frames and extracting features from spatial and temporal dimensions therefrom; generating multiple channels of information from the video frames, combining information from all channels to obtain a feature representation for a 3D CNN model; and applying the 3D CNN model to recognize human actions." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/814,328). 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=8,345,984&OS=8,345,984&RS=8,345,984 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Arizona Board of Regents Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Arizona Board of Regents, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,345,910) developed by Junseok Chae, Phoenix, and Michael Kozicki, Phoenix, for a "microphone devices and methods for tuning microphone devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention relates generally to microphone devices useful, for example, in hearing aid devices. The present invention relates more particularly to tunable microphone devices, and methods used to tune them. One aspect of the present invention is a microphone device that includes at least one microphone element. Each microphone element comprises a diaphragm suspended by a substrate; a solid electrolyte disposed on the diaphragm; an anode electrically coupled to the solid electrolyte; and a cathode electrically coupled to the solid electrolyte. The solid electrolyte is disposed between the anode and the cathode, such that ions flowing from the anode to the cathode travel through the solid electrolyte and electrons can flow in the opposite direction." The patent application was filed on Oct. 15, 2008 (12/743,374). 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=8,345,910&OS=8,345,910&RS=8,345,910 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Error Tracking Method and System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,347,151) developed by four co-inventors for an "error tracking method and system." The co-inventors are Colin S. Dawson, Tucson, Ariz., Glen Hattrup, Tucson, Ariz., Howard N. Martin, Tucson, Ariz., and David M. Morton, Tucson, Ariz.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Data storage services are provided for clients for backup of data objects from the clients. A data object is sent to a first location in a first storage device. A determination is made if the data object was successfully stored at the first location, and if so, meta data corresponding with the data object is stored, wherein the meta data includes first path information on a first data path of the data object to the first location. The data object is migrated from the first location to a second location in a second storage device. A determination is made if the data object was successfully stored at the second location, and if so, second path information on a second data path of the data object is added to the second location to the meta data corresponding with the data object, to update the meta data." The patent application was filed on March 21, 2011 (13/053,013). 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=8,347,151.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,151&RS=PN/8,347,151 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Scientific Monitoring Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Scientific Monitoring, Scottsdale, Ariz., has been assigned a patent (8,347,144) developed by Asif Khalak, San Carlos, Calif., and Link Jaw, Scottsdale, Ariz., for a false alarm mitigation.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for reducing false alarms in a monitoring system comprising the steps of: providing an initial fault set (or a preliminary fault set) and using a decision process to successively reduce this initial fault set to a fault ensemble, said decision process using increasing probability or confidence in the initial fault set to generate the fault ensemble, which is considered to reflect a true abnormal condition; the decision process comprising at least two steps: the first step is generating a preliminary fault set by using a standard anomaly detection method with the additional variable (or adaptive) thresholds or temporal filters; the second step is using the preliminary fault set to generate at least one fault ensemble, each of which comprises a reduced number of refined faults that represent a more confident explanation of the cause(s) of an abnormal condition." The patent application was filed on June 11, 2010 (12/802,704). 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=8,347,144.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,144&RS=PN/8,347,144 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

*** Honeywell International Assigned Patent for Reducing Power Consumption for Dynamic Memories Using Distributed Refresh Control ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,347,027) developed by Scott Gray, Peoria, Ariz., and Kevin Stover, Glendale, Ariz., for "reducing power consumption for dynamic memories using distributed refresh control." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for refreshing memory is provided. The method comprises determining when a first memory of a plurality of memories is not being accessed and sending a refresh opportunity command from a master refresh controller to one of a plurality of local refresh controllers when the first memory is not being accessed, wherein the one of a plurality of local refresh controllers controls only the first memory. The method further comprises determining when the first memory needs refreshing and refreshing the first memory." The patent application was filed on Nov. 5, 2009 (12/612,722). 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=8,347,027.PN.&OS=PN/8,347,027&RS=PN/8,347,027 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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