Seventeen new patents were awarded to Utah inventors on Dec. 27, including:
Portable water heater. Trevor Adrian, Park City. Assigned to Taph LLC, Park City. Filed Aug. 9, 2002, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/311,731, filed Aug. 10, 2001. Patent No. 6,978,496.
Multifunctional irrigation tool. Alan John Smith, Bountiful; Michael Ray Ericksen, Farmington; Rodger Leroy Fulwider, Springville. Assigned to Orbit Irrigation Products, Bountiful. Filed Dec. 2, 2003. Patent No. 6,978,504.
Integral initiator assembly for use in inflator devices. Anthony M. Young, Malad, Idaho; Thomas E. Funk, Ogden. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed Aug. 7, 2003. Patent No. 6,979,021.
Flexible inflator with co-extruded propellant and moisture barrier. Bradley W. Smith, Ogden; Ivan V. Mendenhall, Providence, Cache County. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed May 23, 2003. Patent No. 6,979,022.
Energy absorption bracket. Travis Hess, Farr West, Weber County; Kurt Kottke, Bountiful; Corey Farnsworth, Kaysville; Thomas C. Burton, Salt Lake City; Jesse Crookston, North Ogden. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed Sept. 9, 2003. Patent No. 6,979,052.
Apparatus for injecting dry bulk amendments for water and soil treatment. Randal G. Cecala, St. George; David R. Anson, Bakersfield, Calif. Assigned to Wastewater Solutions Inc., Bakersfield, Calif. Filed Dec. 19, 2002, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/407,366, filed Aug. 30, 2002, and provisional patent Application No. 60/408,692, filed Sept. 5, 2002. Patent No. 6,979,116.
Blending jar apparatus with truncated wall. Thomas D. Dickson, Midway, Wasatch County. Assigned to K-TEC Inc., Orem. Filed Sept. 23, 2004, a continuation of Patent No. 6,811,303, filed May 17, 2002. Patent No. 6,979,117.
Curing light. Densen Cao, Sandy. Assigned to Cao Group Inc., Sandy. Filed Feb. 5, 2002, a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,783,362 and Application Nos. 10/016,992, 10/017,454 and 10/017,455, each of which was filed Dec. 13, 2001, and each of which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,311,111, filed Sept. 24,1999. This new patent also claims priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/304,324, filed July 10, 2001. Patent No. 6,979,193.
Light for activating light-activated materials, the light including a plurality of individual chips and providing a particular spectral profile. Densen Cao, Sandy. Assigned to Cao Group Inc., Sandy. Filed July 3, 2002, a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,755,648, filed Feb. 4, 2002, and several others. Patent No. 6,979,194.
Plug locking mechanism. Richard C. Ray, Orem; Jonathan L. Rhees and Ryan A. Kunz, both of Riverton; Martin D. Eastwood, Pleasant Grove. Assigned to Card Access Inc., American Fork. Filed June 29, 2003. Patent No. 6,979,220.
Apparatus and method for preventing free flow in an infusion line. Scott D. Miles, Sandy; Kent F. Beck, Layton; James A. Malmstrom, Kaysville. Assigned to Zevex Inc., Salt Lake City. Filed April 16, 2001, a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,595,950, filed May 11, 2000. Patent No. 6,979,311.
Methods for identifying chromosomal aneuploidy. Genevieve Pont-Kingdon and Elaine Lyon, both of Salt Lake City. Assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City. Filed July 26, 2002, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/307,969, filed July 26, 2001. Patent No. 6,979,541.
Separate-cistron constructs for secretion of aglycosylated antibodies from prokaryotes. Laura C. Simmons, Burlingame, Calif.; Laura Klimowski, Salt Lake City; Dorothea Reilly, San Francisco; Daniel G. Yansura, Pacifica, Calif. Assigned to Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, Calif. Filed Dec. 13, 2001, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/256,164, filed Dec. 14, 2000. Patent No. 6,979,556.
Apparatus and methods for multi-analyte homogeneous fluoro-immunoassays. James N. Herron, Douglas A. Christensen, Hsu-Kun Wang, Karin Caldwell and Shao-Chie Huang, all of Salt Lake City; Vera Janatova, Prague, Czech Republic. Assigned to BioCentrex LLC, Culver City, Calif. Filed Nov. 13, 2001, a continuation of Patent No. 6,316,274, filed March 1, 2000, which is a divisional of Application No. 08/979,582, filed Nov. 26, 1997, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 5,919,712, filed Nov. 13, 1996, which is a divisional of Patent No. 5,677,196, filed June 22, 1994, which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 5,516,703, filed Aug. 20, 1993, and Application No. 08/071,579, filed June 2, 1993, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 5,512,492, filed May 18, 1993. Patent No. 6,979,567.
Extended position error signal for analog servo disk drive. Boyd Norvell Shelton, Ogden. Assigned to Iomega Corp., San Diego. Filed Nov. 7, 2003, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/426,900, filed Nov. 15, 2002. Patent No. 6,980,384.
Message routing. Michael Hamilton, West Des Moines, Iowa; Walter E. Boland, Elbert, Colo.; Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City. Filed March 8, 2000, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/123,661, filed March 9, 1999. Patent No. 6,981,023.
Support for a table. L. Curtis Strong, Clearfield. Assigned to Lifetime Products Inc., Clearfield. Filed July 8, 2004. Design Patent No. D513,140.
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