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Detection of observer programs and countermeasures against observer programs, patent No. 8,176,551, invented by David M. Austin of Alpine, and Wesley L. Austin of Bountiful, assigned to Trapware Corp. of Bountiful.
Intercepting a communication session in a telecommunication network, patent No. 8,175,277, invented by Robert T. Bell of Bountiful, Subbiah Kandasamy of Fremont, Calif., and Daniel G. Wing of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. of San Jose, Calif.
Modular open-toe footwear retaining system, patent No. 8,171,654, invented by Walter G. Rudd, Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., Thomas Diegel of Salt Lake City, and Gary C. Moore of Salt Lake City, assigned to Dream Weaverz Lifewear LLC of Tucson, Ariz.
Countersunk fastener assemblies, panel mounting systems, and methods, patent No. 8,171,690, invented by Venugopal R. Ghatikar of Salt Lake City, and Bryan K. Harris of Sandy, assigned to 3form, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Reusable explosive bolt, patent No. 8,171,839, invented by Brandon Terry of Salt Lake City.
Methods of controlling hydraulic motors, patent No. 8,172,002, invented by Stefan Wrede of Kirchhundem, Germany, and Christof Kruse of Wenden, Germany, assigned to Longyear TM Inc. of South Jordan.
Expandable tool with at least one blade that locks in place through a wedging effect, patent No. 8,172,009, invented by David R. Hall of Provo, Jonathan Marshall of Provo, and Scott Dahlgren of Alpine.
Protective laminates, patent No. 8,172,300, invented by Chris E. McCormick of Draper, Brent A. Strong of Sandy, Mike D. Ridges of American Fork, Kevin A. Plumb of Sandy, and Jeff Smith of Draper, assigned to Clearplex Corp. of Draper.
Backlight system, including flexible light source support, patent No. 8,172,426, invented by Robert M. Frey of Salt Lake City, assigned to Moss Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Wind-resistant practice cage, patent No. 8,172,703, invented by William Coleman Lay of St. George.
Basketball system, patent No. 8,172,706, invented by Wendell Peery of Kaysville, Brent Steed of Syracuse, Gary Phillips of Clearfield, and Robert A. Astle of Farmington, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. of Clearfield.
Orthopedic brace having a length-adjusting mechanism and a lockable rotation hinge, patent No. 8,172,781, invented by Paul Oddou of Salt Lake City, Dylann D. Ceriani of San Diego, Calif., James D. Burke of Encinitas, Calif., and Jeffrey T. Mason of Escondido, Calif., assigned to Breg, Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif.
Coated medical device, patent No. 8,172,793, invented by Brian L. Bates of Bloomington, Ind., Anthony O. Ragheb of West Lafayette, Ind., Joseph M. Stewart, IV of Delphi, Ind., William J. Bourdeau of Lafayette, Ind., Brian D. Choules of Washington, James D. Purdy of Lafayette, Ind., and Neal E. Fearnot of West Lafayette, Ind., assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC of Bloomington, Ind.
Method for positioning a catheter guide element in a patient and kit for use in said method, patent No. 8,172,801, invented by Mark L. Adams of Sandy, assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. of Maple Grove, Minn.
Safety shield apparatus and mounting structure for use with medical needle devices, patent No. 8,172,809, invented by F. Mark Ferguson of Salt Lake City, and Eugene E. Weilbacher of Chesterfield, Mo., assigned to Tyco Healthcare Group LP of Mansfield, Mass.
Methods for disinfecting medical connectors, patent No. 8,172,825, invented by Donald D. Solomon of North Salt Lake, F. Mark Ferguson of Salt Lake City, Robert Hitchcock of Sandy, Steven Bandis of West Jordan, James Mercer of West Jordan, Michael Howlett of Salt Lake City, and Mark Adams of Sandy, assigned to The University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
Method of treating a degenerate spinal segment, patent No. 8,172,883, invented by Anton E. Bowden of Lindon, Larry L. Howell of Orem, Peter A. Halveson of Alpine, and Eric M. Stratton of Provo, assigned to Brigham Young University of Provo.
Treatment of fly ash for use in concrete, patent No. 8,172,940, invented by Chett Boxley of Park City, Akash Akash of Salt lake City, and Qiang Zhao of Natick, Mass., assigned to Ceramatec, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Nonlethal payloads, patent No. 8,172,966, invented by Reed J. Blau of Richmond, Lisa S. Liu of Layton, Ronald L. Hansen of Tremonton, and Richard G. Ames of King George, Va., assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Arlington, Va.
Water evaporation device and method of evaporating water, patent No. 8,173,025, invented by J. Keith Reidhead of Moab, and Tyson P. Cox of Moab, assigned to ReformWater, LLC of Salt Lake City.
Pressurized water evaporation system and method of evaporating water, patent No. 8,173,026, invented by Rodney Rasmussen of Salt Lake City, and Paul C. Cox of Salt Lake City, assigned to ReformWater, LLC of Salt Lake City.
Anti-infective methods for treating pathogen-induced disordered tissues, patent No. 8,173,709, invented by B. Ron Johnson of Sandy, assigned to Quadex Pharmaceuticals, LLC of Midvale.
Trench-based power semiconductor devices with increased breakdown voltage characteristics, patent No. 8,174,067, invented by Joseph A. Yedinak of Mountain Top, Pa., Daniel Calafut of San Jose, Calif., and Dean E. Probst of West Jordan, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of South Portland, Maine.
Antenna mounting system and method, patent No. 8,174,461, invented by Robert Hyrum Smith of West Jordan, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York, N.Y.
Hot swappable computer card carrier, patent No. 8,174,835, invented by Daehwan Kim of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Kiron Malwankar of Saratoga, Calif., assigned to Fusion-io Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Bus scaling device, patent No. 8,175,085, invented by Kiron Malwankar of Saratoga, Calif., and Daniel Talayco of Mountain View, Calif., assigned to Fusion-io, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Radio communications system and method having decreased capability for detection by an adversary, patent No. 8,175,134, invented by Thomas R. Giallorenzi of Sandy, Samuel C. Kingston of Salt Lake City, and Robert A. Wright of Sandy, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp of New York, N.Y.
Electron emitter and method of making same, patent No. 8,175,222, invented by Paul D. Moore of Salt Lake City, Stephen G. Bandy of Sunnyvale, Calif., Clifford K. Nishimoto of San Jose, Calif., David H. Humber of Los Gatos, Calif., and Gary F. Virshup of Cupertino, Calif., assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.
System and method for dynamically switching quality settings of a codec to maintain a target data rate, patent No. 8,175,395, invented by Jodie L. Reynolds of Folsom, Calif., Lawrence S. Reznick of Sacramento, Calif., John E. Wilkinson of Carmichael, Calif., Jack A. Prock of Folsom, Calif., and Danny L. Mabey of Farmington, assigned to Interact Devices, Inc. of Folsom, Calif.
Estimating horizontal stress from three-dimensional anisotropy, patent No. 8,175,807, invented by Roberto Suarez-Rivera of Salt Lake City, and Tom R. Bratton of Littleton, Colo., assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation of Sugar Land, Texas.
Mobile computing device network of multivendor, multi-interface computers, patent No. 8,175,913, invented by Nathaniel L. Checketts of Lehi, M. Blake Ferguson of Spanish Fork, Harold F. Widlansky of Salt Lake City, David B. McNamee of Farmington, Dallas J. Earl of Cedar Hills, and Richard J. Bertelsen of Springville, assigned to Mangia of Salt Lake City.
Method and apparatus for rapid identification of column heterogeneity, patent No. 8,176,016, invented by Bing Tian Dai of Singapore, Nikolaos Koudas of Toronto, Calif., Beng Chin Ooi of Singapore, Divesh Srivastava of Summit, N.J., and Suresh Venkatasubramanian of Salt Lake City, assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. of Atlanta, Ga.
Hyperspace index, patent No. 8,176,052, invented by Dillion Inouye of Provo, Ronald P. Millett of Cedar Hills, and John C. Higgins of Orem, assigned to Perfect Search Corp. of Orem.
System and method for efficiently building virtual appliances in a hosted environment, patent No. 8,176,094, invented by Nathaniel Friedman of Munich, Germany, assigned to Novell, Inc. of Provo.
Communication hub for video game development systems having a video game development tool and video game platforms with communication libraries, patent No. 8,176,124, invented by Fraser Graham of Salt Lake City, and Bryce Thomsen of Draper, assigned to Disney Enterprises, Inc. of Burbank, Calif.
System and method for multicasting IPSec protected communications, patent No. 8,176,317, invented by John K. Thomasson of Sandy, Neil R. Terry of Cedar Hills, Matthew M. Davis of American Fork, and Myron L. Mosbarger of Orem, assigned to Helius Inc. of Lindon.
Hash-based data block processing with intermittently connected systems, patent No. 8,176,338, invented by Russell R. Stringham of Orem, assigned to Symantec Corporation of Mountain View, Calif.
Computer program generation system and method thereof, patent No. 8,176,467, invented by Kenneth Weng of Scottsdale, Ariz., Jun Ping Zhang of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Darrell Gene Hansen of Layton, assigned to Harris Corporation of Melbourne, Fla.
Methods and systems for inserting software applications into images, patent No. 8,176,482, invented by Gregory Felix of Lehi, assigned to Symantec Corp. of Mountain City, Calif.
System and method of interfacing a workload manager and scheduler with an identity manager, patent No. 8,176,490, invented by David B. Jackson of Spanish Fork, assigned to Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. of Provo.
Enabling network communication from role based authentication, patent No. 8,176,543, invented by Steven T. Baker of Salt Lake City, assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP of Houston, Texas.
Table top surface and edge, patent No. D658,912, invented by David C. Winter of Layton, Wendell Peery of Kaysville, and Mitch Johnson of South Weber, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc. of Clearfield.
User interface for a timer, patent No. D659,029, invented by Karl L. Connolly of Brigham City, and Chadwick L. Wilson of Woods Cross, assigned to Orbit Irrigation Products Inc. of North Salt Lake.
Protective cover, including keyboard, for mobile computing device, patent No. D659,139, invented by David Gengler of Draper, assigned to Zagg Intellectual Property Holding Co., Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Arrow insert apparatus, patent No. D659,218, invented by Teddy D. Palomaki of Park City, Kenny R. Giles of West Valley City, and Ross M. Hinschberger of West Valley City, assigned to Easton Technical Products Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Fishing rod holder, patent No. D659,223, invented by James Lefgren of Richmond, and Travis Hendrickson of Bear River City.
Divided airbag system, patent No. RE43,353, invented by David W. Schneider of Waterford, Mich., Changsoo Choi of Rochester, Mich., Timothy A. DePottey of Flint, Mich., and Curtis W. Strader of Davison, Mich., assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.
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. For more patents, see the Money page at sltrib.com, go to Sections on the left-hand side and click Patents.