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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Florida (May 31)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Florida. *** University of Florida Research Foundation Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- The University of Florida Research Foundation, Gainesville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,450,449) developed by four co-inventors for "multi-colored conjugated polymers with highly transmissive oxidized state." The co-inventors are John R. Reynolds, Gainesville, Fla., Pengjie Shi, Gainesville, Fla., Jianguo Mei, Greensboro, N.C., and Chad Martin Amb, Gainesville, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to random conjugated copolymers comprising a plurality of one or more different donor (D) repeating units and a plurality of at least one acceptor (A) repeating unit. At least one of the D units has a solubilizing substituent, statistically a portion of the A repeating units are separated from each other by only one D units and a plurality of the A unit are adjacent to one the D units having the solubilizing substituents. The random conjugated copolymers are black or colored in the neutral state and highly transmissive in the oxidized state. The random conjugated copolymers have the structure -[(D).sub.xA].sub.n-, where x>1 and n(x+1).gtoreq.10 or the structure -[(DA)).sub.x-(D'A).sub.y].sub.n-, where D represents one substituted D unit and D' represents another D units and where x.gtoreq.1, y.gtoreq.1 and 2n(x+y).gtoreq.10. Other embodiments of the invention are directed to forming the -[(D).sub.xA].sub.n- or -[(DA).sub.x-(D'A).sub.y].sub.n- random conjugated copolymers by condensation polymerizations between monomers containing complementary reactive groups." The patent application was filed on May 19, 2011 (13/111,350). 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=84,50,449.PN.&OS=PN/84,50,449&RS=PN/84,50,449 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Arizona Chemical Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Arizona Chemical, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,450,446) developed by Thomas Fontana, Jacksonville, Fla., for "rosen phenolic resins and uses related thereto." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Rosin modified phenolic resins are prepared by reacting together resin acid, fatty acid, tri- or higher-functional phenolic compound and aldehyde. The fatty acid may be Monomer (derived from the fatty acid dimerization process). The reaction mixture may optionally include a,l3-olefinically unsaturated carbonyl compounds and/or polyol. The resin may be dissolved in a solvent to form a varnish. The resin may be used as a component of printing inks, e.g., inks for lithographic or gravure printing." The patent application was filed on Aug. 27, 2007 (11/845,410). 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=84,50,446.PN.&OS=PN/84,50,446&RS=PN/84,50,446 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** University of Miami Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- The University of Miami, Miami, has been assigned a patent (8,451,584) developed by Xiangyang Zhou, Miami, Juanjuan Zhou, Miami, and Azzam N. Mansour, Fairfax Station, Va., for a "solid state energy storage device and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A solid state energy storage device has two electrodes, a membrane separator and a solid electrolyte having a substantially solid solvent, a salt and a mediator. The energy storage device stores electric charge by both Faradaic and non-Faradaic systems. The energy storage device may include activated carbon mixed with the electrolyte and sonicated to provide connection between the activated carbon and the mediator. The energy storage device is hot pressed to increase conductivity. The two electrodes may be asymmetric in amount of reduced and oxidized species of mediator." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2010 (12/751,322). 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=8,451,584&OS=8,451,584&RS=8,451,584 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Raytheon Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,451,165) developed by eight co-inventors for a mobile radar system. The co-inventors are Angelo M. Puzella, Marlborough, Mass., Steven T. Cummings, Amherst, N.H., Joseph A. Licciardello, The Villages, Fla., Jerome H. Pozgay, Marblehead, Mass., Stephen J. Pereira, Hopedale, Mass., Michael G. Sarcione, Millbury, Mass., Peter D. Morico, North Grafton, Mass., and James A. Roche Jr., Franklin, Mass. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described is a mobile radar system which provides both persistent surveillance and tracking of objects with adaptive measurement rates for both maneuvering and non-maneuvering objects. The mobile radar system includes a vehicle having mounted therein an active, electronically-steerable, phased array radar system movable between a stowed position and a deployed position and wherein the phased array radar system is operational in both the deployed and stored positions and also while the vehicle is either stationary or moving. Thus, the mobile radar system described herein provides for longer time on target and longer integration times, increased radar sensitivity and improved Doppler resolution and clutter rejection. This results in a highly mobile radar system appropriate for use in a battlefield environment and which supports single-integrated-air-picture metrics including but not limited to track purity, track completeness, and track continuity and thus improved radar performance in a battlefield." The patent application was filed on Dec. 6, 2010 (12/960,785). 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=8,451,165&OS=8,451,165&RS=8,451,165 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,451,917) developed by Yadunandana N. Rao, Sunrise, Fla., Apoorv Chaudhri, Sunrise, Fla., and Robert J. Corke, Glen Ellyn, Ill., for a "method and apparatus for detection of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals by cognitive radios." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Efficient frequency spectrum sharing between at least one incumbent communication system(s) (102, 104) and at least one cognitive radio (CR) system (106, 108) is provided. The CR unit includes OFDM detection (216) for detecting the presence of OFDM signals which indicate the presence of an incumbent communication system within the shared spectrum. The CR system (106) updates channel occupancy information in response to the detected OFDM signals so as not to interfere with the incumbent communication systems (102, 104)." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/165,597). 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=8,451,917&OS=8,451,917&RS=8,451,917 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (8,451,193) developed by Joseph C. Namm, Plantation, Fla., Jorge L. Garcia, Plantation, Fla., and Salvador P. Magana, Wellington, Fla., for an overlayed display. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A display (202) is formed on an OLED layer (210) and at least one other layer formed of different display technology (212). At least one sensor (206 and/or 208) is used to determine a condition which impacts readability of the display (202). The different display layers are enabled and disabled in response to the sensed conditions to provide optimum viewing." The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/550,761). 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=8,451,193&OS=8,451,193&RS=8,451,193 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Analog-Modules Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Analog-Modules, Longwood, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,451,432) developed by five co-inventors for a "laser spot tracking with off-axis angle detection." The co-inventors are Ian D. Crawford, Longwood, Fla., Noal Chandler, Apopka, Fla., John Harwick, Sanford, Fla., Dwight Wildon, Orlando, Fla., and Charles G. Smith, Sanford, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A laser spot tracker comprising a quadrant detector. A portion of a spot of laser light reflected from an object being illuminated (OBI) may be defocused to occupy a significant portion such as one-third of the field of view, while another portion remains focused, therefore allowing for quick calculation of the spot centroid. With such a "composite spot", multiple target (OBI) positions may simultaneously be defined in elevation and azimuth with respect to null by analyzing the energy in each quadrant. The X and Y angle information (off null) for multiple targets (OBIs), and their codes may be displayed. For a large, defocused spot, two segmented multi-element detectors may be used, one in front of and the other behind the focal plane to reduce the effects of hot spots in a spot of laser light collected from an object being illuminated." The patent application was filed on July 13, 2010 (12/835,719). 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=8,451,432&OS=8,451,432&RS=8,451,432 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Wellspring Clinical Lab Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Wellspring Clinical Lab, Altamonte Springs, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,450,465) developed by Calvin Wiese, Altamonte Springs, Fla., for "methods of isolating peptides using surface-free affinity purification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention, referred to as Surface-Free Affinity Purification (SFAP), relates to a system and method for purifying low abundance peptides, including digested plasma proteins. SFAP combines the components and processes of Surface-Free Isolation, Specific Competitive Elution, Dual Epitope Isolation and Protective Solvents in the purification of low abundance proteins, all of which may be performed in a single column. This column is a constant volume Diafiltration Column equipped with stirring that can be driven by an HPLC. Digested plasma may be injected into the Diafiltration Column by the HPLC. Immunoglobulins, Specific Competitive Elutants, Protective Solvents are injected in a series of injections that result in the purified peptides bound to the surfaces of a very-low volume hydrophobic reversed phase trap from which they can be easily injected into mass spectrometry detection instruments." The patent application was filed on Oct. 5, 2011 (13/253,619). 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=84,50,465.PN.&OS=PN/84,50,465&RS=PN/84,50,465 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Jacksonville, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,450,387) developed by seven co-inventors for "biomedical devices containing internal wetting agents." The co-inventors are Kevin P. McCabe, Jacksonville, Fla., Frank F. Molock, Orange Park, Fla., Gregory A. Hill, Atlantic Beach, Fla., Azaam Alli, Jacksonville, Fla., Robert B. Steffen, Jacksonville Beach, Fla., Douglas G. Vanderlaan, Jacksonville, Fla., and James D. Ford, Jacksonville, Fla. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This invention includes a wettable biomedical device containing a high molecular weight hydrophilic polymer and a hydroxyl-functionalized silicone-containing monomer." The patent application was filed on March 30, 2007 (11/694,303). 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=84,50,387.PN.&OS=PN/84,50,387&RS=PN/84,50,387 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Next3D Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Next3D, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,451,320) developed by David Michael Cole, Pembroke Pines, Fla., Alan McKay Moss, Signal Mountain, Tenn., and David Roller Jr., Atlanta, for "methods and apparatus for stereoscopic video compression, encoding, transmission, decoding and/or decompression." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and apparatus for performing stereoscopic image encoding and decoding are described. Left and right eye images are generated. Image difference information is generated, e.g., a set of pixel values resulting from XORing the pixel values of the left and right eye images. One of the left and right eye images is compressed along with the difference map. The compressed image and compressed difference map is stored and/or transmitted. Stereoscopic images are generated by decompressing and using the received compressed image and compressed difference information. Prior to generation of the difference map the left and right eye images may be subject to a transposition operation to minimize the differences between the images and thus the size of the difference map. When transposition is applied, transposition information is stored and communicated in addition to the compressed image data so that the transposition can be reversed during the stereoscopic image generation process." The patent application was filed on Jan. 25, 2010 (12/693,421). 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=8,451,320&OS=8,451,320&RS=8,451,320 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** F3M3 Companies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- F3M3 Companies, Miramar, Fla., has been assigned a patent (8,451,109) developed by Isaac Sayo Daniel, Miami, and Hortencia Daniel, Miami, for a "system and method for improving vehicle operator awareness." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that includes at least one processor, a first set of sensors connected to a first means for controlling a vehicle and electronically connected to the at least one processor, wherein the first set of sensors includes at least one sensor, a second set of sensors connected to a second means for controlling a vehicle and electronically connected to the at least one processor, wherein the second set of sensors includes at least one sensor, at least one alarm electronically connected to the at least one processor, and computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to activate the at least one alarm when the first set of sensors detects the absence of an operator's hand, and the second set of sensors detects the absence of an operator's hand." The patent application was filed on Jan. 7, 2010 (12/683,554). 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=8,451,109.PN.&OS=PN/8,451,109&RS=PN/8,451,109 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1126845 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |