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Universal air bubble detector, patent No. 7,818,992, invented by Timothy A. Riley, Mark D. Stringham, David H. Blaine, Frank A. Crandall and Philip N. Eggers, all of Salt Lake City, assigned to Zevex Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Vibration monitoring system, patent No. 7,819,009, invented by Frederic Borah of Merrick, N.Y., Anthony Leib Jr. of Commack, N.Y., George Fkiaras of Farmingdale, N.Y., and Ruben F. Lah of West Jordan.

Stowaway, receiver hitch, patent No. 7,819,416, invented by Newell Ryan Moss of North Mapleton.

Apparatus and methods for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures, patent No. 7,819,651, invented by Vernon M. Benson of Morgan, Jason K. Slack of Clinton, Todd A. Rosevear of Taylorsville, James L. Harvey and Mark Roman of Salt Lake City, and Timothy Olschewski of Kearns, assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Minneapolis.

Multiplanar ultrasonic vascular sensor assembly, system and methods employing same, apparatus for movably affixing a sensor assembly to a body and associated methods, patent No. 7,819,810, invented by Bradley J. Stringer, Gary A. Simmons and Shayne Messerly of Farmington, Douglas A. Christensen of Salt Lake City, Cameron P. Ford of Kaysville and Robert W. Evensen of Layton, assigned to Inceptio Medical Technologies LC of Farmington.

Feeding device, including balloon tip and method of manufacture, patent No. 7,819,840, invented by Eddie K. Burnside of Morgan and Bret Hamatake of Grantsville, assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J.

Tibial condylar hemiplasty tissue preparation instruments and methods, patent No. 7,819,878, invented by Daniel F. Justin of Logan, E. Marlowe Goble of Alta, Wyo., Joel Dever of Nibley and Daniel J. Triplett of Providence, assigned to Zimmer Inc. of Warsaw, Ind.

Method and system for generating hydrogen-enriched fuel gas for emissions reduction and carbon dioxide for sequestration, patent No. 7,819,932, invented by R. Bret Rhinesmith of Sheridan, Wyo., Kimberly R. Gerard of Salt Lake City, Kindra Snow-McGregor of Parker, Colo., Michael W. Conder of Highlands Ranch, Colo., Patrick Dixon of Denver and Frank Jarrett of Littleton, Colo., assigned to Carbon Blue-Energy LLC of Sheridan, Wyo.

Systems and methods for remotely determining and changing cutting modes during decoking, patent No. 7,820,014, invented by Ruben F. Lah of West Jordan.

Apparatus and methods for forming composite stiffeners and reinforcing structures, patent No. 7,820,092, invented by Vernon M. Benson of Morgan, Jason K. Slack of Clinton, Todd A. Rosevear of Taylorsville, James L. Harvey and Mark Roman of Salt Lake City, and Timothy Olschewski of Kearns, assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Minneapolis.

Gas diffusion electrode for electrochemical oxygen reduction, patent No. 7,820,339, invented by John Howard Gordon of Salt Lake City, Hachiya Toshinori of Nobeoka, Japan, Shekar Balagopal of Sandy, and Sai Bhavaraju of West Jordan, assigned to Ceramates Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Method for the early detection of breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and colon polyps, and for other gastrointestinal disease conditions and the preoperative and postoperative monitoring of transplanted organs from a donor, patent No. 7,820,382, invented by A. Robert Bauer of Salt Lake City.

Pharmaceutical formulations comprising salts of a protein kinase inhibitor and methods of using same, patent No. 7,820,684, invented by David J. Bearss of Cedar Hills, Rajashree Joshi-Hangal of Pleasanton, Calif., Xiao-Hui Liu of Sandy, Pasit Phiasivongsa of Brentwood, Calif., Sanjeev G. Redkar of Hayward, Calif., and Hariprasad Vankayalapati of Draper, assigned to SuperGen Inc. of Dublin, Calif.

Indoloquinoline compounds as calcium channel blockers, patent No. 7,820,691, invented by Irina Shcherbakova of Midvale and Yuri Nikolyukin of Moorsetown, N.J., assigned to MediProPharma, Inc. of Midvale.

H+-gated ion channel , patent No. 7,820,791, invented by Erik M. Jorgensen and Paola Nix of Salt Lake City, and Asim A. Beg of Ann Arbor, Mich., assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Acquisition and tracking of burst code signals, patent No. 7,822,157, invented by Merle L. Keller, Samuel Charles Kingston, Alan Earl Lundquist, Zachary C. Bagley, Raied N. Mazahreh and Steven J. McEntire, all of Salt Lake City, and Steven Barham of Taylorsville and Warren Paul Willes of Alpine, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York.

Method and apparatus for providing context-sensitive community links, patent No. 7,822,619, invented by Harold R. Davidson of American Fork, Jeffrey D. Campbell of Cedar Hills, Jason A. Hunter, Michael A. Scalora and David A. Duncan of Orem, and Bradley G. Keck of Cupertino, Calif., assigned to Intuit Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.

Method and system to provide contextual, intelligent address book listings, patent No. 7,822,754, invented by Kulvir S. Bhogal of Forth Worth, Texas, Gregory J. Boss of American Fork, Rick A. Hamilton II of Charlottesville, Va., and Alexandre Polozoff of Bloomington, Ill., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

Implicit trust of authorship certification, patent No. 7,822,974, invented by Lloyd Leon Burch of Payson, and Stephen Hugh Kinser and Cameron Craig Morris of Saratoga Springs, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

System and method for text segmentation and display, patent No. 7,823,061, invented by Kwan-Ho Chan of Lubbock, Texas, and T. Wade Fallin of Hyde Park, assigned to Wizpatent Pte Ltd of Singapore.

Noninvasive automatic offsite patch fingerprinting and updating system and method, patent No. 7,823,147, invented by Sean Moshir, Michael Bacon and Noah Williams of Scottsdale, Ariz., Christopher A. H. Andrew of Chandler, Ariz., Jack Lee Hudler of Allen, Texas, Leon Li and Jonathan M. Gordon of Mesa, Ariz., Jonathan Lane of Reno, Nev., James J. Horton of Gilbert, Ariz., and Dan Ferguson of Orem, assigned to Lumension Security Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz.

System and method for applying security policies on multiple assembly caches, patent No. 7,823,186, invented by Sebastien Pouliot of Beauport, Calif., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Vehicle roof rack obstacle detection sensor, patent No. D626,021, invented by Edward Van Lee Kalbach of Nibley.

Airflow attachment, patent No. D626,287, invented by Eric M. Simon and Randall D. Block of Salt Lake City, assigned to Larada Sciences Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Everett Robinson, who is an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. Robinson can be reached at 801-649-5858.