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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (Oct. 1)
[October 01, 2014]

U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in California (Oct. 1)


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California.

*** LSI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- LSI, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,276) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for efficient data shuffling in a data processing system." The co-inventors are Changyou Xu, Fremont, California, Zongwang Li, San Jose, California, Sancar K. Olcay, Sunnyvale, California, Yang Han, Sunnyvale, California, and Kaichi Zhang, Fremont, California.



The patent application was filed on Sept. 22, 2011 (13/239,683). 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=88,50,276.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,276&RS=PN/88,50,276 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Agilent Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,849,602) developed by Ken A. Nishimura, Fremont, California, and Kenneth Rush, Colorado Springs, Colorado, for "calibrating reconstructed signal using multi-tone calibration signal." The patent application was filed on Oct. 27, 2011 (13/283,084). 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=8,849,602.PN.&OS=PN/8,849,602&RS=PN/8,849,602 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.


*** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,713) developed by Francesco DiMambro, Cupertino, California, for the data routing acceleration.

The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2009 (12/578,181). 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=88,48,713.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,713&RS=PN/88,48,713 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Intel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Intel, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,483) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for purchasing upgraded media features for programming transmissions." The co-inventors are Anthony A. Shah-Nazaroff, Santa Clara, California, Jean M. Goldschmidt Iki, San Jose, California, Kenneth Alan Moore, Ben Lomond, California, and Christopher D. Williams, Soquel, California.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 14, 2009 (12/637,044). 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=88,50,483.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,483&RS=PN/88,50,483 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Lytx Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Lytx, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,849,501) developed by Bryon Cook, San Diego, Peter Ellegaard, San Diego, and Louis Gilles, San Diego, for a "driver risk assessment system and method employing selectively automatic event scoring." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2010 (12/691,639). 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=8,849,501.PN.&OS=PN/8,849,501&RS=PN/8,849,501 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Hello Inc. Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Hello Inc., San Francisco, has been assigned a patent (8,850,421) developed by James Proud, San Francisco, for a "telemetry system with remote firmware updates or repair for remote monitoring devices when the monitoring device is not in use by the user." The patent application was filed on June 21, 2013 (13/923,614). 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=88,50,421.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,421&RS=PN/88,50,421 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Dynamic Node Configuration in Directory-based Symmetric Multiprocessing Systems ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Oracle International, Redwood City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,576) developed by Bruce J. Chang, Saratoga, California, Damien Walker, San Jose, California, and Bruce Petrick, Sunnyvale, California, for the "dynamic node configuration in directory-based symmetric multiprocessing systems." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2012 (13/559,292). 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=88,48,576.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,576&RS=PN/88,48,576 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,056) developed by Jean Chouanard, Redwood City, California, Swee B. Lim, Cupertino, California, and Michael J. Wookey, Los Gatos, California, for a "method and system for managing client-server affinity." The patent application was filed on Aug. 22, 2005 (11/209,291). 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=8,850,056.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,056&RS=PN/8,850,056 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,521) developed by four co-inventors for "providing differentiated network services and priorities to VPN routers/clients." The co-inventors are Mohamed Khalid, Cary, North Carolina, Sunil Cherukuri, Morrisville, North Carolina, Haseeb Sarwar Niazi, Morrisville, North Carolina, and Muhammad Afaq Khan, Santa Clara, California.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2009 (12/535,555). 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=88,50,521.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,521&RS=PN/88,50,521 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Voltage Supply Droop Detector ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,777) developed by Ravi K. Ramaswami, Cupertino, California, for a "voltage supply droop detector." The patent application was filed on March 25, 2011 (13/072,117). 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=8,847,777.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,777&RS=PN/8,847,777 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Yahoo! Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,358) developed by Julien Lecomte, Milpitas, California, and Liang-Yu Chi, San Francisco, for a "system and method for keyboard navigation in a search results page." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2007 (11/863,427). 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=88,50,358.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,358&RS=PN/88,50,358 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Multi-user Uplink Communications ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Broadcom, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,624) developed by five co-inventors for "multi-user uplink communications within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communication systems." The co-inventors are Peiman Amini, Mountain View, California, Joonsuk Kim, Saratoga, California, Matthew James Fischer, Mountain View, California, Joseph Paul Lauer, North Reading, Massachusetts, and Vinko Erceg, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2010 (12/858,357). 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=88,48,624.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,624&RS=PN/88,48,624 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** SonicWALL Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- SonicWALL, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,566) developed by Jennifer Rihn, Mountain View, California, and Jonathan J. Oliver, San Carlos, California, for "time zero detection of infectious messages." The patent application was filed on Oct. 29, 2007 (11/927,438). 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=88,50,566.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,566&RS=PN/88,50,566 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Invensense Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Invensense, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,693) developed by Joseph Seeger, Menlo Park, California, Goksen G. Yaralioglu, Mountain View, California, and Baris Cagdaser, Sunnyvale, California, for a "method and system for using a MEMS structure as a timing source." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2012 (13/448,261). 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=8,847,693.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,693&RS=PN/8,847,693 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Atmel Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Atmel, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,730) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for scanning and device detection in a communication system." The co-inventors are Katelijn Vleugels, San Carlos, California, Barry Thompson, Menlo Park, California, Nils Bunger, Mountain View, California, and Ilya Minkin, Los Altos, California.

The patent application was filed on June 9, 2006 (11/423,202). 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=88,48,730.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,730&RS=PN/88,48,730 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Methods and Apparatuses for Device Discovery ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,559) developed by Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, and Avinash Jain, San Diego, for "methods and apparatuses for device discovery." The patent application was filed on Jan. 26, 2012 (13/358,839). 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=88,48,559.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,559&RS=PN/88,48,559 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Chevron USA Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Chevron USA, San Ramon, California, has been assigned a patent (8,849,574) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for perturbing an initial horizon-picking solution to follow local features of a volume." The co-inventors are Jesse Mathias Lomask, Oakland, California, Jason Michael Francis, Houston, William Stephen Kowalik, Subiaco, Australia, and Younis Altobi, Houston.

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2011 (13/193,300). 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=8,849,574.PN.&OS=PN/8,849,574&RS=PN/8,849,574 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Utilizing Broadcast Signals to Convey Restricted Association Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,656) developed by seven co-inventors for "utilizing broadcast signals to convey restricted association information." The co-inventors are Gavin B. Horn, La Jolla, California, Fatih Ulupinar, San Diego, Parag A. Agashe, San Diego, Rajat Prakash, La Jolla, California, Aamod Khandekar, San Diego, Alexei Gorokhov, San Diego, and Naga Bhushan, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Nov. 12, 2008 (12/269,637). 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=88,48,656.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,656&RS=PN/88,48,656 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Reliance Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Reliance Communications, Santa Cruz, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,595) developed by four co-inventors for "private anonymous electronic messaging." The co-inventors are Benjamin Paul Hencke, Santa Cruz, California, Kerry Patrick Quinn, Santa Cruz, California, Alf Martin Wolter Arnberg, Santa Cruz, California, and Howard Allen Wood, Aptos, California.

The patent application was filed on July 5, 2012 (13/542,618). 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=88,50,595.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,595&RS=PN/88,50,595 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Broadcom, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,808) developed by Hongwu Chi, Palo Alto, California, and Michael Ming Lee, Cupertino, California, for a "process, voltage, and temperature insensitive biasing." The patent application was filed on June 10, 2013 (13/913,752). 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=8,847,808.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,808&RS=PN/8,847,808 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Detecting Anomalous Application Access to Contact Information ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,406) developed by Daniel L. Morrill, Mountain View, California, and Stuart Teng, Mountain View, California, for "detecting anomalous application access to contact information." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2012 (13/440,628). 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=88,50,406.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,406&RS=PN/88,50,406 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,718) developed by five co-inventors for the "hierarchical metering in a virtual router-based network switch." The co-inventors are Zahid Hussain, San Jose, California, Sachin Desai, Santa Clara, California, Naveed Alam, Cupertino, California, Joseph Cheng, Sunnyvale, California, and Tim Millet, Mountain View, California.

The patent application was filed on May 18, 2009 (12/467,609). 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=88,48,718.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,718&RS=PN/88,48,718 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,252) developed by four co-inventors for "USB host wake from sleep state for mobile devices." The co-inventors are Hemalkumar Chandrkant Doshi, Sunnyvale, California, Rajkumar Jayaraman, San Jose, California, Seshendra Gadagottu, Hyderabad, India, and Narendra Damahe, Bothell, Washington.

The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2011 (13/288,355). 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=88,50,252.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,252&RS=PN/88,50,252 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Assisted State Transitions of User Equipment ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,553) developed by Bongyong Song, San Diego, and Yih-Hao Lin, San Diego, for "assisted state transitions of a user equipment within a wireless communications system." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2011 (13/012,308). 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=88,48,553.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,553&RS=PN/88,48,553 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Sandisk 3D Assigned Patent for Three Dimensional Non-volatile Storage with Multi Block Row Selection ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Sandisk 3D, Milpitas, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,415) developed by Roy E. Scheuerlein, Cupertino, California, and Tianhong Yan, San Jose, California, for the "three dimensional non-volatile storage with multi block row selection." The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2011 (13/323,573). 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=88,48,415.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,415&RS=PN/88,48,415 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Transmission Strategy in MBSFN Subframes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,742) developed by Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, and Tao Luo, San Diego, for the "transmission strategy in MBSFN subframes." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2010 (12/889,145). 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=88,48,742.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,742&RS=PN/88,48,742 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** FireEye Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- FireEye, Milpitas, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,571) developed by Stuart Gresley Staniford, San Francisco, and Ashar Aziz, Fremont, California, for "systems and methods for detecting malicious network content." The patent application was filed on Nov. 3, 2008 (12/263,971). 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=88,50,571.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,571&RS=PN/88,50,571 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,458) developed by four co-inventors for the fast-bypass memory circuit. The co-inventors are Venkata Kottapalli, Fremont, California, Scott Pitkethly, San Francisco, Christian Klingner, Sunnyvale, California, and Matthew Gerlach, Plymouth, Michigan.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2011 (13/327,693). 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=88,48,458.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,458&RS=PN/88,48,458 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Synopsys Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,277) developed by eight co-inventors for "detecting random telegraph noise induced failures in an electronic memory." The co-inventors are Karen Amirkhanyan, Yerevan, Armenia, Hayk Grigoryan, Yerevan, Armenia, Gurgen Harutyunyan, Abovyan, Armenia, Tatevik Melkumyan, Yerevan, Armenia, Samvel Shoukourian, Yerevan, Armenia, Alex Shubat, Los Altos Hills, California, Valery Vardanian, Yerevan, Armenia, and Yervant Zorian, Santa Clara, California.

The patent application was filed on July 15, 2011 (13/183,471). 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=88,50,277.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,277&RS=PN/88,50,277 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** RingCentral Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- RingCentral, San Mateo, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,689) developed by Vlad Vendrow, Redwood Shores, California, for the telephony application platform.

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2013 (13/930,406). 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=88,48,689.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,689&RS=PN/88,48,689 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Aperiodic Sounding Reference Signal Transmission Method and Apparatus ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,520) developed by five co-inventors for an "aperiodic sounding reference signal transmission method and apparatus." The co-inventors are Wanshi Chen, San Diego, Peter Gaal, San Diego, Juan Montojo, San Diego, Tao Luo, San Deigo, and Xiliang Luo, Northridge, California.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2011 (13/023,957). 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=88,48,520.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,520&RS=PN/88,48,520 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Oracle International Assigned Patent for Compiling Multi-threaded Applications for Targeted Criticalities ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Oracle International, Redwood City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,413) developed by Spiros Kalogeropulos, Los Gatos, California, and Partha Tirumalai, Fremont, California, for "compiling multi-threaded applications for targeted criticalities." The patent application was filed on May 31, 2012 (13/485,176). 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=88,50,413.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,413&RS=PN/88,50,413 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Unity Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Unity Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,425) developed by four co-inventors for "conductive metal oxide structures in non volatile re-writable memory devices." The co-inventors are Lawrence Schloss, Palo Alto, California, Julie Casperson Brewer, Hoboken, New Jersey, Wayne Kinney, Emmett, Idaho, and Rene Meyer, Atherton, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2013 (14/023,233). 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=88,48,425.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,425&RS=PN/88,48,425 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Intellisis Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Intellisis, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,726) developed by Douglas A. Palmer, San Diego, for the "I/O data interface for packet processors." The patent application was filed on Jan. 24, 2013 (13/749,558). 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=88,48,726.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,726&RS=PN/88,48,726 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Cell-based Highly Detectable Pilot Multiplexing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,621) developed by Michael Mao Wang, San Diego, Naga Bhushan, San Diego, and Ravi Palanki, San Diego, for an "apparatus and method for cell-based highly detectable pilot multiplexing." The patent application was filed on June 9, 2009 (12/481,164). 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=88,48,621.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,621&RS=PN/88,48,621 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Interference Control in Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,574) developed by four co-inventors for the "interference control in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Murat Mese, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, Arak Sutivong, Bangkok, Thailand, David Jonathan Julian, San Diego, and Tingfang Ji, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2005 (11/293,686). 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=88,48,574.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,574&RS=PN/88,48,574 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Altera Assigned Patent for Circuits and Methods for Providing Clock Signals ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Altera, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,626) developed by five co-inventors for "circuits and methods for providing clock signals." The co-inventors are Yan Chong, San Jose, California, Warren Nordyke, Cupertino, California, Pradeep Nagarajan, San Jose, California, James Kimble Lin, Campbell, California, and Weiqi Ding, Fremont, California.

The patent application was filed on March 15, 2013 (13/839,282). 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=8,847,626.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,626&RS=PN/8,847,626 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Distributed Connectivity Verification Protocol Redundancy ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,062) developed by Sami Boutros, San Ramon, California, Sylvain Masse, Suisse, Switzerland, and Clarence Filsfils, Brussels, for "distributed connectivity verification protocol redundancy." The patent application was filed on Aug. 9, 2010 (12/853,006). 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=8,850,062.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,062&RS=PN/8,850,062 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Hulu Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Hulu, Santa Monica, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,471) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for providing user control of advertising breaks associated with a media program." The co-inventors are Jason A. Kilar, Santa Monica, California, Jean-Paul Colaco, Manhattan Beach, California, Richard W. Tom, Marina del Rey, California, and Jessica P. Ivy, Venice, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2011 (13/246,645). 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=88,50,471.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,471&RS=PN/88,50,471 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Oracle International Assigned Patent for System and Method for Using Aspects to Generate Event Data Records ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Oracle International, Redwood Shores, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,412) developed by Jean Bovet, Menlo Park, California, and Boris Selitser, Castro Valley, California, for a "system and method for using aspects to generate event data records." The patent application was filed on May 14, 2009 (12/466,207). 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=88,50,412.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,412&RS=PN/88,50,412 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Volterra Semiconductor Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Volterra Semiconductor, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,722) developed by Jieli Li, Fremont, California, Charles R. Sullivan, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Anthony J. Stratakos, Kentfield, California, for a "method for making magnetic components with N-phase coupling, and related inductor structures." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2012 (13/724,246). 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=8,847,722.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,722&RS=PN/8,847,722 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Flexera Software Assigned Patent for System and Method for Capacity Licensing ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Flexera Software, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,605) developed by Vikram Venkata Koka, Fremont, California, and Ann Shvarts, San Jose, California, for a "system and method for capacity licensing." The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2014 (14/161,484). 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=88,50,605.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,605&RS=PN/88,50,605 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Headway Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Headway Technologies, Milpitas, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,495) developed by Yan Wu, Cupertino, California, and Kowang Liu, Fremont, California, for the "plasmon generator self-annealing with current injection in TAMR." The patent application was filed on Dec. 2, 2013 (14/093,993). 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=88,48,495.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,495&RS=PN/88,48,495 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Symantec Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Symantec, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,570) developed by Zulfikar Ramzan, Cupertino, California, for "filter-based identification of malicious websites." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2008 (12/165,467). 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=88,50,570.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,570&RS=PN/88,50,570 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Integrated Circuit with Separate Supply Voltage ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,463) developed by five co-inventors for an "integrated circuit with separate supply voltage for memory that is different from logic circuit supply voltage." The co-inventors are Brian J. Campbell, Cupertino, California, Vincent R. Von Kaenel, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Daniel C. Murray, Morgan Hill, California, Gregory S. Scott, Santa Clara, California, and Sribalan Santhanam, Palo Alto, California.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 3, 2013 (14/095,648). 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=88,48,463.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,463&RS=PN/88,48,463 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,849,473) developed by five co-inventors for a "system and method for notifying and for controlling power demand." The co-inventors are Benoit Claise, Othee, Belgium, John D. Parello, Campbell, California, Charles B. Schoening, Little Silver, New Jersey, Emmanuel Tychon, Angleur, Belgium, and Tirthankar Ghose, San Ramon, California.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 17, 2011 (13/211,798). 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=8,849,473.PN.&OS=PN/8,849,473&RS=PN/8,849,473 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Visualization of Changes and Trends Over Time in Performance Data Over Network Path ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,324) developed by four co-inventors for the "visualization of changes and trends over time in performance data over a network path." The co-inventors are Alexander Clemm, Los Gatos, California, Eric Dorman, Newark, California, Steve Chen-Lin Chang, Cupertino, California, and Gaurang Mokashi, Santa Clara, California.

The patent application was filed on Feb. 2, 2011 (13/019,848). 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=8,850,324.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,324&RS=PN/8,850,324 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Bandwidth Management ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,577) developed by four co-inventors for the bandwidth management. The co-inventors are Gurjeet S. Saund, Saratoga, California, James B. Keller, Redwood City, California, Manu Gulati, Saratoga, California, and Sukalpa Biswas, Fremont, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 24, 2012 (13/625,416). 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=88,48,577.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,577&RS=PN/88,48,577 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Wide-area Application Services Device ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,063) developed by five co-inventors for "wide-area application services device to determine packet loop errors in a data center that communicates over a wide area network." The co-inventors are Arivu Ramasamy, San Jose, California, Martin Cieslak, Northville, Michigan, Zachary Seils, Austin, Texas, Natarajan Chidambaram, San Jose, California, and Abdolreza Saadat, San Jose, California.

The patent application was filed on July 27, 2011 (13/191,575). 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=8,850,063.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,063&RS=PN/8,850,063 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Dual Cookie Security System with Interlocking Validation Requirements and Remedial Actions to Protect Personal Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,520) developed by four co-inventors for "dual cookie security system with interlocking validation requirements and remedial actions to protect personal data." The co-inventors are Robert C. Pike, Menlo Park, California, Michael Burrows, Palo Alto, California, Marius Schilder, Sunnyvale, California, and Andrew B. Fikes, Los Altos, California.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 12, 2006 (11/609,847). 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=88,50,520.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,520&RS=PN/88,50,520 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Web Browser Audio Controls ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,317) developed by Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, for "web browser audio controls." The patent application was filed on Nov. 8, 2007 (11/937,416). 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=8,850,317.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,317&RS=PN/8,850,317 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Flexible Interconnect Cable Having Signal Trace Pairs and Ground Layer Pairs Disposed on Opposite Sides Of Flexible Dielectric ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,847,696) developed by James Leroy Blair, San Diego, and Jeffrey Thomas Smith, San Diego, for a "flexible interconnect cable having signal trace pairs and ground layer pairs disposed on opposite sides of a flexible dielectric." The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2010 (12/957,071). 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=8,847,696.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,696&RS=PN/8,847,696 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Seamless Overlay Connectivity Using Multi-homed Overlay Neighborhoods ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,513) developed by five co-inventors for the "seamless overlay connectivity using multi-homed overlay neighborhoods." The co-inventors are Saumitra Mohan Das, San Jose, California, Vidya Narayanan, San Diego, Arvind S. Krishna, San Diego, Deviprasad Putchala, San Diego, and David Craig, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2010 (12/869,354). 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=88,48,513.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,513&RS=PN/88,48,513 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Codexis Mayflower Holdings Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Codexis Mayflower Holdings, Redwood City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,849,575) developed by 13 co-inventors for "methods, systems, and software for identifying functional biomolecules." The co-inventors are Claes Gustafsson, Belmont, California, Sridhar Govindarajan, Redwood City, California, Robin A. Emig, Redwood City, California, Richard John Fox, Redwood City, California, Ajoy K. Roy, Redwood City, California, Jeremy S. Minshull, Los Altos, California, S. Christopher Davis, San Francisco, Anthony R. Cox, Mountain View, California, Phillip A. Patten, Portola Valley, California, Linda A. Castle, Mountain View, California, and Daniel L. Siehl, Menlo Park, California, Rebecca Lynne Gorton, Irvine, California, and Teddy Chen, Belmont, California.

The patent application was filed on May 5, 2006 (11/429,628). 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=8,849,575.PN.&OS=PN/8,849,575&RS=PN/8,849,575 Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Neology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Neology, Poway, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,763) developed by Francisco Martinez de Velasco Cortina, La Jolla, California, and Manfred Rietzler, Marktoberdorf, Germany, for a "system and method for providing secure identification solutions." The patent application was filed on Jan. 18, 2013 (13/745,243). 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=8,847,763.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,763&RS=PN/8,847,763 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Conexant Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Conexant Systems, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,896) developed by four co-inventors for an "adaptive high dynamic range surface capacitive touchscreen controller." The co-inventors are Mark E. Miller, Mission Viejo, California, George C. Sneed, Irvine, California, Ramakrishna Y. Vadapalli, Hyderabad, India, and Sudhaker Anumula, San Diego.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 9, 2010 (12/878,796). 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=8,847,896.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,896&RS=PN/8,847,896 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** SanDisk 3D Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- SanDisk 3D, Milpitas, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,430) developed by seven co-inventors for the "step soft program for reversible resistivity-switching elements." The co-inventors are Xiying Chen Costa, San Jose, California, Roy Scheuerlein, Cupertino, California, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, San Jose, California, Brian Le, San Jose, California, Li Xiao, San Jose, California, Tao Du, Palo Alto, California, and Chandrasekhar R. Gorla, Sunnyvale, California.

The patent application was filed on Nov. 18, 2010 (12/949,146). 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=88,48,430.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,430&RS=PN/88,48,430 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Over-voltage Protection in High-swing Amplifier ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,688) developed by Benjamin Joseph Mossawir, San Carlos, California, for an "over-voltage protection in a high-swing amplifier." The patent application was filed on Aug. 3, 2012 (13/566,120). 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=8,847,688.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,688&RS=PN/8,847,688 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Broadcom, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,078) developed by Alexander MacInnis, Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Uri El Zur, Irvine, California, for a "method and system for a thin client and blade architecture." The patent application was filed on April 5, 2012 (13/440,396). 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=8,850,078.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,078&RS=PN/8,850,078 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent for Adaptive Partial Packet Decoding ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,568) developed by six co-inventors for the "adaptive partial packet decoding." The co-inventors are Syed A. Mujtaba, Santa Clara, California, Kee-Bong Song, Santa Clara, California, Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, California, Xiaowen Wang, Cupertino, California, Tarik Tabet, Los Gatos, California, and Youngjae Kim, San Jose, California.

The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2012 (13/567,136). 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=88,48,568.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,568&RS=PN/88,48,568 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Internet Radio Broadcast Using Cellular ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,548) developed by Ahmad Jalali, Rancho Santa Fe, California, Leonard N. Schiff, San Diego, and William G. Ames, Poway, California, for the "internet radio broadcast using cellular." The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2009 (12/535,537). 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=88,48,548.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,548&RS=PN/88,48,548 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Computing Device with Untrusted User Execution Mode ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,573) developed by J. Bradley Chen, Los Gatos, California, Bennet S. Yee, Mountain View, California, and David C. Sehr, Cupertino, California, for a "computing device with untrusted user execution mode." The patent application was filed on Sept. 21, 2010 (12/886,960). 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=88,50,573.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,573&RS=PN/88,50,573 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Infinera Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Infinera, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,720) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for determining propagation delay in a network." The co-inventors are Vinod Narippatta, Bangalore, India, Edward E. Sprague, Woodside, California, Ting-Kuang Chiang, Saratoga, California, and Chung Kuang Chin, Saratoga, California.

The patent application was filed on March 25, 2010 (12/732,063). 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=88,48,720.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,720&RS=PN/88,48,720 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Optimizing Throughput in Wireless Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,549) developed by six co-inventors for "optimizing throughput in a wireless communication system." The co-inventors are Tao Cui, Durham, North Carolina, Feng Lu, Sunnyvale, California, Anil Kumar Goteti, Evanston, Illinois, Vignesh Sethuraman, Santa Clara, California, Subramanya P. Rao, Cupertino, California, and Parvathanathan Subrahmanya, Sunnyvale, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2009 (12/552,206). 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=88,48,549.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,549&RS=PN/88,48,549 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** McAfee Assigned Patent for Hardware-based Device Authentication ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,543) developed by four co-inventors for hardware-based device authentication. The co-inventors are Vincent Edward Von Bokern, Rescue, California, Purushottam Goel, Portland, Oregon, Sven Schrecker, San Marcos, California, and Ned McArthur Smith, Beaverton, Oregon.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2012 (13/726,140). 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=88,50,543.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,543&RS=PN/88,50,543 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Consuming Paid Media in Internet-based Content Platform ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,490) developed by four co-inventors for "consuming paid media in an internet-based content platform." The co-inventors are John Thomas, Mountain View, California, Prabhu Balasubramanian, Mountain View, California, Akash Hasmukh Parikh, Mountain View, California, and Robert Lee Thompson, Mountain View, California.

The patent application was filed on June 19, 2013 (13/921,489). 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=88,50,490.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,490&RS=PN/88,50,490 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Element CXI Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Element CXI, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,411) developed by Steven Hennick Kelem, Los Altos Hills, California, and Douglas A. Landauer, Ben Lomond, California, for a "compiler system, method and software for a resilient integrated circuit architecture." The patent application was filed on June 20, 2007 (11/766,034). 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=88,50,411.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,411&RS=PN/88,50,411 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Dynamic Device-associated Feedback Indicative of Responsible Device Usage ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,348) developed by seven co-inventors for "dynamic device-associated feedback indicative of responsible device usage." The co-inventors are Anthony M. Fadell, Portola Valley, California, Yoky Matsuoka, Palo Alto, California, David Sloo, Menlo Park, California, Michael Plitkins, Berkeley, California, Michael James Matas, San Francisco, Matthew Lee Rogers, Los Gatos, California, and Evan J. Fisher, Palo Alto, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2012 (13/632,118). 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=8,850,348.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,348&RS=PN/8,850,348 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for System and Method for Integrated WiFi/WiMax Neighbor AP Discovery and AP Advertisement ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,669) developed by Robert C. Meier, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Keith Dettloff, Burbank, California, and John G. Waclawsky, Frederick, Maryland, for a "system and method for integrated WiFi/WiMax neighbor AP discovery and AP advertisement." The patent application was filed on Nov. 14, 2012 (13/676,758). 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=88,48,669.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,669&RS=PN/88,48,669 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Apple Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Apple, Cupertino, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,572) developed by seven co-inventors for "methods for handling a file associated with a program in a restricted program environment." The co-inventors are Toby Paterson, San Francisco, Jason C. Beaver, San Jose, California, Gregory Novick, Santa Clara, California, John Iarocci, Los Gatos, California, Curtis C. Galloway, Santa Cruz, California, Dallas B. De Atley, San Francisco, and Christopher S. Linn, Palo Alto, California.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 15, 2010 (12/688,724). 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=88,50,572.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,572&RS=PN/88,50,572 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Smart User-customized Graphical Keyboard ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,349) developed by Xincheng Zhang, Sunnyvale, California, and Yefei Peng, Palo Alto, California, for a "smart user-customized graphical keyboard." The patent application was filed on April 6, 2012 (13/441,489). 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=8,850,349.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,349&RS=PN/8,850,349 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Forwarding Internet Protocol Version 6 Link-local Multicast to Support Roaming of Wireless Mobile Client Devices ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,609) developed by Tao-Yuan Hsiao, San Jose, California, and Tak Ming Francis Pang, Palo Alto, California, for the "forwarding internet protocol version 6 link-local multicast to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices." The patent application was filed on July 26, 2011 (13/191,073). 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=88,48,609.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,609&RS=PN/88,48,609 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Synaptics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Synaptics, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,899) developed by four co-inventors for "systems and methods for signaling and interference detection in sensor devices." The co-inventors are Clyde Washburn, Victor, New York, Eric Bohannon, Henrietta, New York, Imre Knausz, Fairport, New York, and Kirk Hargreaves, Sunnyvale, California.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 15, 2011 (13/233,790). 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=8,847,899.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,899&RS=PN/8,847,899 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Fortinet Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Fortinet, Sunnyvale, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,586) developed by Xu Zhou, San Jose, California, Lin Huang, Fremont, California, and Michael Xie, Palo Alto, California, for an "operation of a dual instruction pipe virus co-processor." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2014 (14/266,672). 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=88,50,586.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,586&RS=PN/88,50,586 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent for Virtual Content Store in Interactive Services Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,474) developed by five co-inventors for a "virtual content store in interactive services architecture." The co-inventors are Khalid Mohammed Azam, Fremont, California, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Fremont, California, Gary Ward Richardson, Pleasanton, California, Daniel Michael Kiewlich, Burlingame, California, and Hoi-Tauw Jozef Chou, San Ramon, California.

The patent application was filed on July 26, 2010 (12/843,545). 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=88,50,474.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,474&RS=PN/88,50,474 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** OptumSoft Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- OptumSoft, Menlo Park, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,409) developed by David R. Cheriton, Palo Alto, California, for "notification-based constraint set translation to imperative execution." The patent application was filed on May 21, 2008 (12/154,399). 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=88,50,409.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,409&RS=PN/88,50,409 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Apparatus and Method for Recovering Burst-mode Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) and Non-return-to-zero (NRZ) Data ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,847,691) developed by Zhi Zhu, San Diego, Xiaohua Kong, San Diego, and Nam V. Dang, San Diego, for an "apparatus and method for recovering burst-mode pulse width modulation (PWM) and non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data." The patent application was filed on Feb. 1, 2012 (13/363,410). 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=8,847,691.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,691&RS=PN/8,847,691 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Precoding Control Channels in Wireless Networks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,603) developed by five co-inventors for "precoding control channels in wireless networks." The co-inventors are Tao Luo, San Diego, Dung Ngoc Doan, San Diego, Taesang Yoo, San Diego, Xiaoxia Zhang, San Diego, and Kibeom Seong, West New York, New Jersey.

The patent application was filed on June 16, 2010 (12/816,708). 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=88,48,603.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,603&RS=PN/88,48,603 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Method for Sub-rating Ethernet Passive Optical Network Medium Access Control Based Communication Link ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Broadcom, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,523) developed by Edward Wayne Boyd, Petaluma, California, and Sanjay Goswami, Santa Rosa, California, for a "method for sub-rating an ethernet passive optical network (EPON) medium access control (MAC) based communication link." The patent application was filed on June 17, 2011 (13/163,283). 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=88,48,523.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,523&RS=PN/88,48,523 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** McAfee Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- McAfee, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,591) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for concept building." The co-inventors are Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Saratoga, California, William Deninger, Millbrae, California, Faizel Lakhani, Campbell, California, and Joel Christner, San Jose, California.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 13, 2009 (12/352,720). 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=88,50,591.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,591&RS=PN/88,50,591 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Oracle America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,345) developed by Randall B. Smith, Palo Alto, California, for a "method for interacting with a system that includes physical devices interfaced with computer software." The patent application was filed on May 13, 2004 (10/846,430). 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=8,850,345.PN.&OS=PN/8,850,345&RS=PN/8,850,345 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Qualcomm Assigned Patent for Inter-frequency Indication of Association Data for Multi-carrier Wireless Deployments ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Qualcomm, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,848,658) developed by Alexei Y. Gorokhov, San Diego, Aamod Dinkar Khandekar, San Diego, and Ravi Palanki, San Diego, for the "inter-frequency indication of association data for multi-carrier wireless deployments." The patent application was filed on April 15, 2010 (12/761,170). 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=88,48,658.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,658&RS=PN/88,48,658 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Broadcom Assigned Patent for Frequency Selective Transmission ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Broadcom, Irvine, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,639) developed by Ron Porat, San Diego, Matthew James Fischer, Mountain View, California, and Vinko Erceg, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, for the "frequency selective transmission within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2012 (13/448,307). 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=88,48,639.PN.&OS=PN/88,48,639&RS=PN/88,48,639 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Pixar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Pixar, Emeryville, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,963) developed by five co-inventors for "systems and methods for generating skin and volume details for animated characters." The co-inventors are Michael Comet, Concord, California, William F. Sheffler, Hercules, California, Ryan Kautzman, San Francisco, Jiayi Chong, San Bruno, California, and Jonathan Page, Lafayette, California.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2011 (13/017,533). 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=8,847,963.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,963&RS=PN/8,847,963 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Nvidia Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Nvidia, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,436) developed by Brian Fahs, Los Altos, California, Ming Y. Siu, Santa Clara, California, and Robert Steven Glanville, Cupertino, California, for "opcode-specified predicatable warp post-synchronization." The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2010 (12/892,887). 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=88,50,436.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,436&RS=PN/88,50,436 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Synaptics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Synaptics, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,847,890) developed by Cody G. Peterson, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Douglas M. Krumpelman, Hayden, Idaho, and Michael D. Levin, Los Altos, California, for a "leveled touchsurface with planar translational responsiveness to vertical travel." The patent application was filed on Aug. 4, 2011 (13/198,610). 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=8,847,890.PN.&OS=PN/8,847,890&RS=PN/8,847,890 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Google Assigned Patent for Distribution of Video in Multiple Rating Formats ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Google, Mountain View, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,469) developed by Jianfeng Yang, San Jose, California, for the "distribution of video in multiple rating formats." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2012 (13/412,580). 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=88,50,469.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,469&RS=PN/88,50,469 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Intel Assigned Patent for Relational Modeling for Performance Analysis of Multi-core Processors Using Virtual Tasks ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Intel, Santa Clara, California, has been assigned a patent (8,850,404) developed by four co-inventors for "relational modeling for performance analysis of multi-core processors using virtual tasks." The co-inventors are Christopher J. Cormack, Hillsboro, Oregon, Nathaniel Duca, Menlo Park, California, Mike Burrows, Sammamish, Washington, and Serhat A. Tekin, Portland, Oregon.

The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2009 (12/645,568). 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=88,50,404.PN.&OS=PN/88,50,404&RS=PN/88,50,404 Written by Balkishan Dalai; edited by Jaya Anand.

*** Invensas Assigned Patent for Co-support Component and Microelectronic Assembly ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 -- Invensas, San Jose, California, has been assigned a patent (8,848,391) developed by Richard Dewitt Crisp, Hornitos, California, Belgacem Haba, 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.

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