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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (Feb. 14)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** DexCom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- DexCom, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,374,667) developed by six co-inventors for a "signal processing for continuous analyte sensor." The co-inventors are James H. Brauker, Cement City, Mich., Victoria E. Carr-Brendel, San Diego, Paul V. Goode, Cherry Hill, N.J., Apurv Ullas Kamath, San Diego, James Patrick Thrower, Oakland, N.J., and Ben Xavier, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the estimated analyte values based on statistical, clinical, or physiological parameters, comparing the estimated analyte values with corresponding measure analyte values, and providing output to a user. Estimation can be used to compensate for time lag, match sensor data with corresponding reference data, warn of upcoming clinical risk, replace erroneous sensor data signals, and provide more timely analyte information encourage proactive behavior and preempt clinical risk." The patent application was filed on Oct. 16, 2008 (12/253,120). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,374,667.PN.&OS=PN/8,374,667&RS=PN/8,374,667 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,135) developed by Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Howell, N.J., and Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, N.J., for "methods and systems for location-based allocation of macro cell resources." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for reusing macro cell resources in femto cell base stations or relay stations in a non-collaborative manner are disclosed. In addition, orthogonal resource allocation between a macro cell base station and femto cell base stations/relay stations may be dynamically adjusted by considering user-population variance. Moreover, an additional level of spatial reuse by femto cell base stations or relay stations can be provided by employing macro cell user location information." The patent application was filed on Sept. 25, 2009 (12/567,145). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,135.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,135&RS=PN/83,74,135 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,101) developed by Peilong Li, Beijing, Honghai Zhang, Ewing, N.J., and Sampath Rangarajan, Bridgewater, N.J., for a "multicast with joint layer resource allocation in broadband wireless networks." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for allocating resources and modulation and coding schemes to transmit layers of a data stream are described. Embodiments provide efficient utilization of resources by collectively allocating resource slots to layers assigned a common modulation and coding scheme. Modulation and coding schemes are assigned based on a maximal utility that is modeled on the collective resource allocation." The patent application was filed on July 29, 2010 (12/846,158). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,101.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,101&RS=PN/83,74,101 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,374,172) developed by Rittwik Jana, Parsippany, N.J., John Murray, Denville, N.J., and Christopher Rice, Parsippany, N.J., for a "method and apparatus for managing communication sessions." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server operably couplable to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network and an Interactive Television (ITV) system, where the server includes a controller to receive a session transfer request from a first communication device operably connected to the ITV system and presenting media content where the session transfer request includes identification information associated with a second communication device operably connected to the ITV system, and transmit an INVITE message to the second communication device and transmit a media adjustment message to a Media Resource Function Processor (MRFP) of the IMS network, where the media content is adjusted and transmitted to the second communication device based on receipt of the media adjustment message, where the adjusted media content is generated by the MRFP based on the identification information associated with the second communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed." The patent application was filed on April 3, 2009 (12/418,178). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,172.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,172&RS=PN/83,74,172 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Empire Technology Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Empire Technology Development, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,374,091) developed by Mung Chiang, Cherry Hill, N.J., for a "TCP extension and variants for handling heterogeneous applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An extension to TCP is generally provided that allows TCP to handle heterogeneous applications, especially those with delay and smoothness-sensitive contents, and wireless transmission media having noisy, fading radio channels. The TCP extension decouples reliability control from rate control, sacrificing reliability for delay control (transmission rate and retransmission decision) that may be suitable for delay and smoothness-sensitive contents. Furthermore, the TCP extension may select TCP variants and modifications to the TCP variants based on one or more of application needs, channel conditions, or local observables such as loss and delay to better adapt to different types of applications and physical layers." The patent application was filed on March 26, 2009 (12/411,405). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,091.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,091&RS=PN/83,74,091 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** InterDigital Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- InterDigital Technology, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned a patent (8,374,190) developed by Marian Rudolf, Montreal, and James M. Miller, Verona, N.J., for a "wireless communication method and apparatus for providing high speed downlink packet access services." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and wireless multi-cell communication system for providing high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services. The system includes a radio network controller (RNC) in communication with a plurality of base stations. The RNC sends a control signal to at least one base station having a plurality of timeslots, e.g., in a time division duplex (TDD) system and/or frames including transmission timing intervals (TTIs), e.g., in a frequency division duplex (FDD) system assigned thereto for the establishment of HSDPA channels. The control signal indicates a maximum allowed HSDPA transmit power for each of the timeslots and/or TTIs. The base station sends a feedback signal to the RNC indicating the results of measurements of the power of the transmitted HSDPA timeslots and/or TTIs during a predetermined time period." The patent application was filed on March 23, 2004 (10/806,502). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,190.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,190&RS=PN/83,74,190 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Vonage Network Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Vonage Network, Holmdel, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,106) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for group calling in an IP-based communication system." The co-inventors are Morgan Whitney, Denver, Lee Gonzales, Denver, John Mathew, Emerson, N.J., Michael Komitee, Hoboken, N.J., and Michael Decandia, Middletown, N.J. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for group calling in an IP-based communication system includes receiving an administrator identifier, receiving one or more invitee identifiers, initiating a first connection from a central location and initiating at least one or more second connections from the central location to join an administrator and at least one invitee. The administrator identifier and one or more invitee identifiers can be a telephone number or other identifiers associated with the communication system. To establish the group call, the administrator identifier and one or more invitee identifiers are received from the administrator. The first connection initiation is to the administrator and the second or more connection initiations are to the at least one invitee. System for making a group call includes a user interface adapted for use by the administrator, a database manager, a database, a load balancer and a group calling pool adapted for SIP-based group call setup." The patent application was filed on Dec. 16, 2008 (12/316,888). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,106.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,106&RS=PN/83,74,106 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** General Instrument Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- General Instrument, Horsham, Pa., has been assigned a patent (8,374,085) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for achieving broadband matching of narrow-band resonator filter impedances to loads and sources." The co-inventors are Christopher Poli, Doylestown, Pa., Richard S. Grzeczkowski, Warrington, Pa., Steven A. Didomenico, Mount Laurel, N.J., Christopher J. Stone, Newtown, Pa., and Leonard G. Filomeo, San Diego. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method (400) for managing a data stream (30) encoded according to a digital transmission protocol and configured for broadcasting to a consumer network device (14) within a broadband communications network (10). A message relating to the data stream is encapsulated (402) within a transport layer data packet (502). The packet has a destination port number field. A value associated with a predetermined parameter of the digital transmission protocol is created (404) within the field. Based on the value, the packet is forwarded (406) to the consumer network device according to a network layer protocol. When the forwarded message is received by the consumer network device, the consumer network device processes the data stream based on the message, and establishes an application layer communication socket based on the destination port number value. The socket is usable to receive further messages associated with the predetermined parameter of the digital transmission protocol." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2011 (13/027,934). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,085.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,085&RS=PN/83,74,085 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Broadcom Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,374,225) developed by eight co-inventors for a "voice/data/RF integrated circuit." The co-inventors are Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Newport Coast, Calif., Maryam Rofougaran, Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Hooman Darabi, Irvine, Calif., Frederic Christian Marc Hayem, San Diego, Claude G. Hayek, Huntington Beach, Calif., Vafa James Rakshani, Newport Coast, Calif., Nelson R. Sollenberger, Farmingdale, N.J., and Yossi Cohen, Laguna Niguel, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A Voice-Data-RF IC includes a baseband processing module, an RF section, and an interface module. The baseband processing module converts an outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream, converts an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice signal, converts outbound data into an outbound data symbol stream, and converts an inbound data symbol stream into inbound data. The RF section converts an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream, converts the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal, converts an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream, and converts the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal. The interface module provides coupling between the baseband processing module, the RF section, and with off-chip circuits." The patent application was filed on Dec. 19, 2006 (11/641,999). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,225.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,225&RS=PN/83,74,225 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Synchronization of Wireless Nodes ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,374,163) developed by Gavin Bernard Horn, La Jolla, Calif., Avneesh Agrawal, San Diego, and Ashwin Sampath, Princeton, N.J., for a "synchronization of wireless nodes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A first wireless node may synchronize its timeslots with the timeslots of a second wireless node that was previously transmitting and receiving data in an asynchronous manner with respect to the timeslots of the first wireless node. By synchronizing timeslots, the wireless nodes may avoid interference that may otherwise occur if the wireless nodes operate in an asynchronous manner. A wireless node shares its timing information with other wireless nodes by repeatedly transmitting timing reference signals in conjunction with a synchronization metric that defines the relative priority of the timing reference. In the event a wireless node does not receive a GPS-based timing reference, the wireless node may synchronize to a timing reference based on the parameters of the synchronization metric of that timing reference. In the event a wireless node does not receive any timing references, the wireless node may define and advertise it's a timing reference and associated synchronization metric. To avoid synchronization race conditions, the synchronization metrics may be defined such that wireless nodes that have different timing references will advertise different synchronization metrics." The patent application was filed on Nov. 9, 2007 (11/938,058). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,163.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,163&RS=PN/83,74,163 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** AT & T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for Method and System for Computing Multicast Traffic Matrices ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- AT & T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,374,103) developed by Lee Breslau, Basking Ridge, N.J., William Fenner, Woodside, Calif., and Alexandre Gerber, Madison, N.J., for a "method and system for computing multicast traffic matrices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for receiving, from one or more ingress routers, a first set of records including data corresponding to network traffic, receiving, from one or more egress routers, a second set of records including data corresponding to network traffic and creating a multicast traffic matrix using at least a portion of the data included in the first and second sets of records." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2010 (12/847,213). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,103.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,103&RS=PN/83,74,103 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,898) developed by nine co-inventors for a "bulk material ship routing and inventory management schedule optimization." The co-inventors are Amr S. El-Bakry, Bedminster, N.J., Jin-Hwa Song, Whitehouse Station, N.J., Vikas Goel, Houston, Kevin C. Furman, Houston, Federico D. Carvallo, Sugar Land, Texas, Sangbum Lee, Fairfax, Va., James Dreher, Houston, Aristides Miroyannis, Houston, and Richard Perry Connell, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a computational system to generate feasible marine transportation schedules given a proposed bulk material supply chain. The decision support tool will fulfill the objectives and scope defined above. The technology employed will require (a) the use of mathematical programming modeling techniques (mixed integer linear programming) to mathematically formulate the business problem, and (b) advanced proprietary solution methods to produce solutions satisfying all constraints of the mathematical model while optimizing an objective function. The decision support tool has the following capabilities: Read input data, Generate feasible bulk material ship Schedule, Evaluate bulk material ship Schedule with User-defined Objective Function, Allow Case comparison, Graphical user interface (GUI) for specifying input data and displaying results." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2009 (12/584,239). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,898&OS=8,374,898&RS=8,374,898 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Method of Creating and Utilizing Diversity in a Multiple Carrier Communication System ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,374,613) developed by Rajiv Laroia, Far Hills, N.J., Junyi Li, Bedminster, N.J., and Sathyadev Venkata Uppala, Whitehouse Station, N.J., for a "method of creating and utilizing diversity in a multiple carrier communication system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In many cellular systems, reusing spectrum bandwidth, creates problems in boundary regions between the cells and sectors where the signal strength received from adjacent base stations or adjacent sector transmissions of a single base station may be nearly equivalent. The invention creates a new type of diversity, referred to as multiple carrier diversity by utilizing multiple carriers, assigning different power levels to each carrier frequency at each base station, and/or offsetting sector antennas. The cell and/or sector coverage areas can be set so as to minimize or eliminate overlap between cell and/or sector boundary regions of different carrier frequencies. Mobile nodes traveling throughout the system can exploit multiple carrier diversity by detecting carriers and selecting to use a non-boundary carrier based on other system criteria in order to improve performance. Boundary carriers may, but need not be, identified and excluded from consideration for use by a wireless terminal." The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/060,249). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,374,613.PN.&OS=PN/8,374,613&RS=PN/8,374,613 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method for enriching Spoken Language Translation with Dialog Acts ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,374,881) developed by Srinivas Bangalore, Morristown, N.J., and Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Goleta, Calif., for a "system and method for enriching spoken language translation with dialog acts." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for enriching spoken language translation with dialog acts. The method includes receiving a source speech signal, tagging dialog acts associated with the received source speech signal using a classification model, dialog acts being domain independent descriptions of an intended action a speaker carries out by uttering the source speech signal, producing an enriched hypothesis of the source speech signal incorporating the dialog act tags, and outputting a natural language response of the enriched hypothesis in a target language. Tags can be grouped into sets such as statement, acknowledgement, abandoned, agreement, question, appreciation, and other. The step of producing an enriched translation of the source speech signal uses a dialog act specific translation model containing a phrase translation table." The patent application was filed on Nov. 26, 2008 (12/324,388). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,881&OS=8,374,881&RS=8,374,881 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent for System and Method for Standardized Speech Recognition Infrastructure ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, has been assigned a patent (8,374,867) developed by Andrej Ljolje, Morris Plains, N.J., Bernard S. Renger, New Providence, N.J., and Steven Neil Tischer, Atlanta, for a "system and method for standardized speech recognition infrastructure." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for selecting a speech recognition model in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure. The system receives speech from a user, and if a user-specific supervised speech model associated with the user is available, retrieves the supervised speech model. If the user-specific supervised speech model is unavailable and if an unsupervised speech model is available, the system retrieves the unsupervised speech model. If the user-specific supervised speech model and the unsupervised speech model are unavailable, the system retrieves a generic speech model associated with the user. Next the system recognizes the received speech from the user with the retrieved model. In one embodiment, the system trains a speech recognition model in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure. In another embodiment, the system handshakes with a remote application in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure." The patent application was filed on May 27, 2005 (12/618,371). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,867&OS=8,374,867&RS=8,374,867 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Google Assigned Patent for Sampling Training Data for an Automatic Speech Recognition System Based on a Benchmark Classification Distribution ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Google, Mountain View, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,374,865) developed by four co-inventors for "sampling training data for an automatic speech recognition system based on a benchmark classification distribution." The co-inventors are Fadi Biadsy, New York, Pedro J. Moreno Mengibar, Jersey City, N.J., Kaisuke Nakajima, Mountain View, Calif., and Daniel Martin Bikel, New York. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A set of benchmark text strings may be classified to provide a set of benchmark classifications. The benchmark text strings in the set may correspond to a benchmark corpus of benchmark utterances in a particular language. A benchmark classification distribution of the set of benchmark classifications may be determined. A respective classification for each text string in a corpus of text strings may also be determined. Text strings from the corpus of text strings may be sampled to form a training corpus of training text strings such that the classifications of the training text strings have a training text string classification distribution that is based on the benchmark classification distribution. The training corpus of training text strings may be used to train an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system." The patent application was filed on April 26, 2012 (13/456,671). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,865&OS=8,374,865&RS=8,374,865 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Electronic Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Electronic Technology, Irvington, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,809) developed by David DeLeo, Sayreville, N.J., and Franklin Miller, Union, N.J., for "systems for monitoring data from points along voltage transmission lines." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A transceiver module for monitoring a voltage distribution network that includes a voltage carrying power line and a transmitter along the voltage carrying power line for transmitting a first monitoring signal that includes information related to the condition of the voltage distribution network. The transceiver module comprises a receiver located along the voltage carrying power line at a distance from the transmitter, the receiver configured to receive the first monitoring signal; a sensor that monitors a condition of the voltage distribution network and produces a sensor signal that contains information related to the condition being monitored; and a monitor in communication with the receiver and the sensor thereby receiving the first monitoring signal and the sensor signal, the monitor configured to provide a second monitoring signal that includes the information contained in the first monitoring signal and the sensor signal." The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2009 (12/394,622). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,809&OS=8,374,809&RS=8,374,809 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NEC Laboratories America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,840) developed by four co-inventors for a "system and method for feedback-guided test generation for cyber-physical systems using monte-carlo." The co-inventors are Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Boulder, Colo., Franjo Ivancic, Princeton, N.J., Aarti Gupta, Princeton, N.J., and Truong X. Nghiem, Philadelphia. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for generating test vectors includes generating traces of a system model or program stored in memory using a simulation engine. Simulated inputs are globally optimized using a fitness objective computed using a computer processing device. The simulation inputs are adjusted in accordance with feedback from the traces and fitness objective values by computing a distance between the fitness objective value and a reachability objective. Test input vectors are output based upon optimized fitness objective values associated with the simulated inputs to test the system model or program stored in memory." The patent application was filed on Oct. 14, 2009 (12/578,855). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,840&OS=8,374,840&RS=8,374,840 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. 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