Nineteen new patents were awarded to Utah inventors on Jan. 24, including:
System for moving a bed using a chain. C. Martin Rasmussen, Fruit Heights. Assigned to Happijac Co., Kaysville. Filed Aug. 11, 2004, a continuation of Application No. 10/903,922, filed July 31, 2004, which claims priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/491,448, filed July 31, 2003, and to provisional patent Application No. 60/492,440, filed Aug. 4, 2003, and to provisional patent Application No. 60/510,270, filed Oct. 9, 2003, and to provisional patent Application No. 60/534,092, filed Jan. 2, 2004, and to provisional patent Application No. 60/544,000, filed Feb. 12, 2004, and to provisional patent Application No. 60/560,872, filed April 9, 2004. Patent No. 6,988,760.
Curing light. Densen Cao, Sandy. Assigned to Cao Group Inc., Sandy. Filed Feb. 6, 2002, a continuation-in-part of Application Nos. 10/016,992, 10/017,454, 10/017,455, and Patent No. 6,783,362, each of which was filed Dec. 13, 2001, and each of which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,331,111, filed Sept. 24, 1999. This new patent also claims priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/304,324, filed July 10, 2001. Patent No. 6,988,890.
Curing light. Densen Cao, Sandy. Assigned to Cao Group Inc., Sandy. Filed Feb. 5, 2002, a continuation-in-part of Application Nos. 10/016,992, 10/017,454, 10/017,455, and Patent No. 6,783,362, each of which was filed Dec. 13, 2001, and each of which is a continuation-in-part of Patent No. 6,331,111, filed Sept. 24, 1999. This new patent also claims priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/304,324, filed July 10, 2001. Patent No. 6,988,891.
Orthopedic screw and method. Daniel F. Justin, Logan; Thomas Wade Fallin, Hyde Park, Cache County; Thomas F. Winters, Winter Park, Fla. Assigned to Ethicon Inc., Somerville, N.J. Filed July 25, 2002, a continuation of and incorporates by reference Application No. 09/542,100, filed April 4, 2000, now issued U.S. Pat. No. 6,468,277. Patent No. 6,989,014.
Valve system and method for unheading a coke drum. Ruben F. Lah, West Jordan. Assigned to Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corp., Falls Church, Va. Filed Nov. 24, 2004, a continuation of Application No. 10/731,874, filed Dec. 9, 2003, and to Patent No. 6,660,131, filed March 11, 2002, and to Patent No. 6,565,714, filed Sept. 5, 2001, which claims priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/275,527, filed March 12, 2001. Patent No. 6,989,081.
Method and system for adapting a telephone line modem for use on the power line. John M. Simonsen, Provo; Gordon E. Smith, Sandy; W. Paul Willis, Alpine; Daniel J. McGuire, Salt Lake City; Douglas A. Steck, Riverton. Assigned to Phonex Broadband Corp., Midvale. Filed May 1, 2001, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/201,221, filed May 2, 2000. Patent No. 6,989,733.
Battery with integrated tracking device. Michael C. Rabanne and Steven D. Ivie, both of West Valley City. Assigned to MRSI International Inc., Stansbury Park, Tooele County. Filed June 17, 2002, a continuation-in-part application of Patent No. 6,570,504, filed Sept. 17, 2001, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,304,186, filed Jan. 31, 2000, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,084,517, filed Aug. 12, 1998. Patent No. 6,989,748.
Method and apparatus for semi-blind communication channel estimation. Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeni, Salt Lake City; Francois Po Shin Chin, Singapore; Chin Keong Ho, Singapore. Assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research, National University of Singapore, both of Singapore. Filed Feb. 6, 2001. Patent No. 6,990,153.
Methods for displaying caller identification information on an integrated display/telephone system capable of displaying images. Joseph C. Corbett, Millville, Cache County; William I. Fletcher, Mendon, Cache County; Alan R. Loudermilk, Chicago. Assigned to Joseph C. Corbett, Millville, Cache County; William I. Fletcher, Mendon, Cache County; Alan R. Loudermilk, Chicago. Filed April 16, 2004, a continuation of Patent No. 6,731,727, filed March 3, 2003, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,546,092, filed June 3, 2002, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,427,003, filed June 1, 2001, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,243,448, filed May 5, 2000, which is a continuation of Patent No. 6,061,434, filed Aug. 14, 1996. Patent No. 6,990,181.
Method and system for communicating and matching electronic files for financial transactions. Joel Edward Warren, Brentwood, Tenn.; Reed Avon Beatse, Taylorsville; Jeremy Philip Becker and Hugh Francis Guilbeau, both of San Francisco; Thomas Vincent Costello, Southhampton, Pa.; Gopa Kumar, Castro Valley, Calif.; Kevin Jude McCabe, Franklin, Mass.; Bruce Allen McPherson, Sausalito, Calif.; David James Moore, Fairfax, Calif.; Marilee Jean Niemi, Oakland, Calif.; Danny Shawn Oursbourn, Rowlett, Texas; Cynthia Lynne Rasche, Arlington Heights, Ill. Assigned to Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta. Filed May 15, 2003. Patent No. 6,990,224.
System and method for converting text-to-voice. Eliot M. Case and Judith L. Weirauch, both of Denver; Richard P. Phillips, Salt Lake City. Assigned to Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver. Filed March 27, 2001, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/241,572, filed Oct. 19, 2000. Patent No. 6,990,450.
Method and apparatus for recording prosody for fully concatenated speech. Eliot M. Case, Denver; Richard P. Phillips, Salt Lake City. Assigned to Qwest Communications International Inc., Denver. Filed June 1, 2001. Patent No. 6,990,451.
Method and system for transmitting secured electronic documents. Dallas H. Powell, Orem; Bruce L Walters, Highland; Kerry R. Ward, Provo. Assigned to Tybera Development Group Inc., Orem. Filed Oct. 18, 2002. Patent No. 6,990,504.
Method and system for using live time shift technology to control a multimedia file. Robert D. Major and Steven D. Lowry, both of Orem; Yuemin Yang, Draper; Richard M. Keene, Park City. Assigned to Novell Inc., Provo. Filed May 18, 2001, a continuation of Application No. 09/811,968, filed March 19, 2001, now abandoned. Patent No. 6,990,512.
Non-invasive automatic offsite patch fingerprinting and updating system and method. Sean Moshir, Michael Bacon and Noah Williams, all of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Christopher A.H. Andrew, Chandler, Ariz.; Jack Lee Hudler, Allen, Texas; Leon Li and Jonathan M. Gordon, both of Mesa, Ariz.; Jonathan Lane, Reno, Nev.; James J. Horton, Gilbert, Ariz.; Dan Ferguson, Orem. Assigned to Patchlink Corp., Scottsdale, Ariz. Filed Sept. 20, 2001, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/234,680, filed Sept. 22, 2000. Patent No. 6,990,660.
Loop and pile sealable sleeping bag. Delbert E. Jaskuloski, Salt Lake City. Filed Dec. 6, 2004. Design Patent No. D513,657.
Game savers container. Scott K. Meyer and Wendy L. Meyer, both of Blanding. Filed Dec. 9, 2002. Design Patent No. D513,672.
Disk drive bezel tray. Roland Kamakau Alo, Cary, N.C.; David Frederick Champion, Durham, N.C.; William Michael Monson, Rochester, Minn.; Tim Kerry Murphy, St. George. Assigned to International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. Filed Aug. 5, 2004. Patent No. D513,751.
Fishing lure. Walter L. Jakeman and Steven R. Warburton, both of Salt Lake City. Filed Jan. 6, 2005. Patent No. D513,780.
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