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Waist belt having articulated shoulder straps, patent No. 7,865,975, invented by Richard Davies and Christopher A. Davies of Sandy.
Locking mechanism for use with a drawer, patent No. 7,866,192, invented by Angelo Gianelo of Salt Lake City.
Clutch for a jack element, patent No. 7,866,416, invented by David R. Hall and David Lundgreen of Provo, assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. of Houston.
Rotary drill bit, including polycrystalline diamond-cutting elements, patent No. 7,866,418, invented by Kenneth E. Bertagnolli of Riverton, Jiang Qian of Cedar Hills, Jason Wiggins of Draper, Michael A. Vail of Genola and Debkumar Mukhopadhyay of Sandy, assigned to US Synthetic Corp. of Orem.
Storage apparatus for use in a hospital environment and associated method, patent No. 7,866,493, invented by Jacqueline Hurt of Apollo Beach, Fla., and Kim Likens of St. George.
Rotary shaft impactor, patent No. 7,866,585, invented by David R. Hall, Ronald Crockett, Jeff Jepson and Tyson J. Wilde, all of Provo.
Ski exercising and training apparatus, patent No. 7,867,139, invented by R. Joel Loane of Park City.
Instruments and methods for preparing a joint-articulation surface for an implant, patent No. 7,867,236, invented by Robert A. Hodorek of Warsaw, Ind., Daniel F. Justin of Logan, E. Marlowe Goble of Alta, Wyo., Joel Dever of Providence and Gordon J. Baker of Nibley, assigned to Zimmer Inc. of Warsaw, Ind.
Methods for mounting and using tethered joint-bearing implants, patent No. 7,867,280, invented by E. Marlowe Goble of Alta, Wyo., Robert A. Hodorek of Warsaw, Ind., Daniel F. Justin of Logan, Joel Dever of Providence and Marc Yap of Millville, assigned to Zimmer Inc.
Method to reduce wastewater treatment plant footprints and costs, patent No. 7,867,398, invented by John Harmon of Bakersfield, Calif., Marcus G. Theodore of Salt Lake City and Larry P. Wardle of Bountiful, assigned to Earth Renaissance Technologies LLC of Salt Lake City.
Composition for weight reduction comprising capsaicin, green tea extract, L-tyrosine and caffeine, patent No. 7,867,526, invented by Arne Vernon Astrup of Klampen Borg, Denmark, and Soren Toubro of Vipperod, Denmark, assigned to Ideasphere Inc. of American Fork.
Substituted isoindolones and their use as metabotropic glutamate receptor potentiators, patent No. 7,868,008, invented by Bradford Van Wagenen and Radhakrishnan Ukkiramapandian of Salt Lake City, Joshua Clayton of Oakville, Calif., Ian Egle of North York, Calif., James Empfield of Wilmington, Del., Methvin Isaac of Brampton, Calif., Fupeng Ma of Melrose, Mass., Abdelmalik Slassi of Mississauga, Calif., and Gary Steelman, Rebecca Urbanek and Sally Walsh of Wilmington, Del., assigned to AstraZeneca AB of Sodertalje, Sweden.
Compact waveguide load, patent No. 7,868,714, invented by Rory Kim Sorensen and Douglas Wollschleger of Salt Lake City, Neil Kenneth Harker of South Jordan, Steven and Richard Gerald Edwards of Grantsville, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York.
Tracking genetically modified organisms with RFIDs, patent No. 7,868,768, invented by Robert L. Angell of Salt Lake City and James R. Kraemer of Santa Fe, N.M., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.
Varying packet switch behavior based on a quantity of virtual interfaces associated with a virtual switch, patent No. 7,869,439, invented by Loren Douglas Larsen of Lindon, Steven Richard Ramberg of Veradale, Wash., and Andrew Patrick Schultz of Spokane, Wash., assigned to World Wide Packets Inc. of Spokane Valley, Wash.
Systems and methods for electronic marketing, patent No. 7,870,024, invented by Jonathan C. Coon of Holladay.
Risk assessment between aircrafts, patent No. 7,870,085, invented by Robert Lee Angell of Salt Lake City, Robert R. Friedlander of Southbury, Conn., and James R. Kraemer of Santa Fe, N.M., assigned to International Business Machines Corp.
Correlating genealogy records systems and methods, patent No. 7,870,139, invented by Bennett Cookson Jr. Kendall J. Jefferson, Grant Parkinson, Douglas T. Reid and Daren Thayne, all of Orem, and Ken Boyer of Cedar Hills, Jerry Collings of American Fork, James Mark Hamilton of Provo, and Michael J. Wolfgramm of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. of Provo.
Storing information in a common information store, patent No. 7,870,173, invented by Gregory J. Boss of American Fork, Kulvir S. Bhogal of Fort Worth, Texas, Alexandre Polozoff of Bloomington, Ill., and Timothy M. Waters of Hiram, Ga., assigned to International Business Machines Corp.
Digital signal processing circuit having an adder circuit with carry-outs, patent No. 7,870,182, invented by James M. Simkins of Park City, John M. Thendean of Berkeley, Calif., Jennifer Wong of Fremont, Calif., Bernard J. New of Carmel Valley, Calif., Alvin Y. Ching of Sunnyvale, Calif., Anna Wing Wah Wong of Santa Clara, Calif., and Vasisht Mantra Vadi of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Xilinx Inc. of San Jose, Calif.
Data replication from one-to-one or one-to-many heterogeneous devices, patent No. 7,870,354, invented by Justin G. Banks of Salt Lake City, assigned to Bakbone Software,Inc. of San Diego, Calif.
System, method and program to update certificates in a computer, patent No. 7,870,383, invented by Chad D. Lingmann of Bountiful, assigned to International Business Machines Corp.
System and method of providing a fixed-time offset based dedicated co-allocation of a common resource set, patent No. 7,870,552, invented by David B. Jackson of Spanish Fork, assigned to Adaptive Computing Enterprises Inc. of Provo.
Drill bit, patent No. D630,656, invented by Christian M. Lambert of Draper and Michael D. Rupp of Murray, assigned to Longyear TM Inc. of South Jordan.
Everett Robinson, who is an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. He can be reached at 801-649-5858.