Sixteen patents were awarded to Utah inventors on May 29. U.S. patents are granted each Tuesday. The new patents include:
Insertable pest catching device. Michael A. Uhl, Mendon. Filed April 20, 2005, claiming priority to provisional Application No. 60/565,678, filed April 27, 2004. Patent No. 7,222,453.
Apparatus, system and method for directional degradation of a paved surface. David R. Hall, Provo; Scott R. Little, Pleasant Grove; David Wahlquist, Joe R. Fox, both of Spanish Fork. Filed March 1, 2005. Patent No. 7,223,049.
Rhymes tables math expertise system. Larissa Powell, Pleasant Grove. Assigned to Larissa Powell, Pleasant Grove. Filed May 26, 2004, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/474,848, filed June 2, 2003. Patent No. 7,223,102.
Integrated remote control and massage device. Steven J. Brattesani, San Francisco, Calif.; Bruce S. McLean, Sandy. Filed Oct. 23, 2003. Patent No. 7,223,250.
Method and system for microfluidic interfacing to arrays. Michael McNeely, Sandy; Nils Adey, Mark Spute, Michael Howard, Darin Beutel, John Jensen, Thomas Moyer, all of Salt Lake City; Stephen Coffin, Layton; Edward Ayliffe, Park City. Assigned to BioMicro Systems Inc., Salt Lake City. Filed March 8, 2002, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,223,363.
Method of treating mammalian joint maladies by biological fluid transplantation. Charles P. Meader, Grover, Colo.; Paul V. Christofferson, Draper. Assigned to Equine Bio-Tech Inc., Grover, Colo. Filed Dec. 3, 2003, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/430,999, filed Dec. 3, 2002. Patent No. 7,233,422. Patent No. 7,223,363.
Cell surface proteins and use thereof as indicators of activation of cellular signal transduction pathways. Kirill Ostanin, Salt Lake City; Mary Cismowski, San Diego, Calif.; Lauren Silverman, Ossining, N.Y. Assigned to Cadus Technologies Inc., New York, N.Y. Filed Dec. 1, 2003, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,223,533.
Semiconductor light source. Densen Cao, Sandy. Filed Aug. 24, 2001. Patent No. 7,224,001.
System of finite state machines. John Campbell, Plain City; Gardiner S. Stiles, Providence. Filed Aug. 5, 2003. Patent No. 7,224,185.
Link module for a downhole drilling network. David R. Hall, Joe Fox, both of Provo. Assigned to IntelliServ Inc., Provo. Filed July 2, 2003. Patent No. 7,224,288.
Digital X-ray camera. D. Clark Turner, Payson. Assigned to Aribex Inc., Orem. Filed March 21, 2005, claiming priority to patent Application No. 60/546,575, filed Feb. 20, 2004. Patent No. 7,224,769.
Apparatus for noninvasively measuring hematocrit and associated methods. Paul R. Borgmeier, Salt Lake City; Michael J. Criddle, West Valley City. Assigned to Chi Lin Technology Co. Ltd., Hsian, Taiwan. Filed Oct. 27, 2003. Patent No. 7,225,009.
Methods, data structures, and systems to access data in cross-languages from cross-computing environments. Yanfeng Lu, Orem. Assigned to Novell Inc., Provo. Filed Jan. 18, 2002. Patent No. 7,225,222.
Software code management method and apparatus. David A. Eatough, Herriman; James L. Sferas, Sandy. Assigned to LANDesk Software Limited, Dublin, Ireland. Filed July 26, 2001. Patent No. 7,225,430.
Bathtub mat. Doug Fowkes, Provo. Filed Sept. 8, 2005. Design Patent No. D543,405.
Electronic cutter. Robert Workman, Mapleton; Desiree Tanner, San Clemente, Calif.; William Craig Youse, Michael Horito, Gerry Ayala, all of Provo; Jonathan Aaron Johnson, Orem; Ken Yan, Shenzhen, China. Assigned to Provo Craft and Novelty Inc., Spanish Fork. Filed July 14, 2005. Design Patent No.. D543,583.
Karl R. Cannon is a Registered Patent Attorney and a founding shareholder in the Salt Lake area law firm of Clayton, Howarth & Cannon P.C., specialists in patent, trademark and copyright law. He may be contacted at 801-255-5335 or by e-mail at kcannon@chcpat.com. Copies of patents are available by mail for $3 each from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Box 9 (Copy Sales), Washington, DC 20231; by credit card via telephone 703-308-9726 or toll free 800-972-6382; facsimile 703-305-8759; or e-mail ptcs@uspto.gov. Patents can also be viewed and printed free of charge from several Internet sites, including www.uspto.gov or www.delphion.com.