Pedestrian-protection hood lifting systems, patent No. 7,413,049, invented by Michael R. Schramm of Perry, Brent Parks of Englewood, Colo., and David J. Green of Brigham City, assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Methods and apparatus for transferring a substrate carrier within an electronic device manufacturing facility, patent No. 7,413,069, invented by Todd J. Brill of Round Rock, Texas, Michael Teferra of Los Gatos, Calif., Amitabh Puri of San Jose, Calif., Daniel R. Jessop of Eagle Mountain, Glade L. Warner of Sandy and David C. Duffin of Sandy, assigned to Applied Materials Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

Method and system for manual authorization, patent No. 7,413,112, invented by David O. Nelson of West Jordan, assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. of New York, N.Y.

Tarping system for open-top containers, patent No. 7,413,234, invented by Fred P. Smith of Alpine and Nathan H. Morrill of Draper, assigned to Smith Patents LLC of Alpine.

Washer for a degradation assembly, patent No. 7,413,256, invented by David R. Hall, Ronald Crockett and Jeff Jepson, all of Provo.

Hollow pick shank, patent No. 7,413,258, invented by David R. Hall of Provo, Ronald Crockett of Provo, Scott Dahlgren of Provo and Jeff Jepson of Provo.

Apparatus and method for heating a paved surface with microwaves, patent No. 7,413,375, invented by David R. Hall of Provo.

Method and apparatus for monitoring dynamic cardiovascular function using n-dimensional representations of critical functions, patent No. 7,413,546, invented by James Agutter of Salt Lake City, Noah Syroid of Salt Lake City, Julio C. Bermudez of Salt Lake City, Yinqi Zhang of Salt Lake City, Michael E. Holmes of Muncie, Ind., Frank Drews of Salt Lake City, David Lee Strayer of Salt Lake City, Robert William Albert of Salt Lake City, and Dwayne R. Westenskow of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Safety shield for medical needles, patent No. 7,413,562, invented by F. Mark Ferguson of Salt Lake City, Donald D. Solomon of North Salt Lake, Roy L. Barrus of Centerville and Jeremy W. Snow of North Salt Lake, assigned to Specialized Health Products Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Cloth accessory, patent No. 7,413,614, invented by Darren Jones of American Fork, assigned to Alpine Innovations LLC of Lehi.

Button assembly with status indicator and programmable backlighting, patent No. 7,414,210, invented by Paul T. Clegg, Wallace E. Day and Douglas E. Allen, all of Orem, assigned to Vantage Controls, Inc. of Orem.

Method and apparatus inspecting pipelines using magnetic flux sensors, patent No. 7,414,395, invented by Ming Gao of Houston, Texas, Sergio Limon of Bountiful, Richard Clark McNealy of Houston, Texas, and Ron Sherstan of Cypress, Texas, assigned to the General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N.Y.

Disablement of camera functionality for a portable device, patent No. 7,414,529, invented by Gregory J. Boss of American Fork, John J. Gontkof of Melbourne, Fla., Rick A. Hamilton, II of Charlottesville, Va., and Timothy M. Waters of Hiram, Ga., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

Valve-mounted bottom out sensor, patent No. 7,414,536, invented by Evan William Call of Bountiful and Kent Walker Mabey of West Jordan, assigned to ROHO Inc. of Belleville, Ill.

Vehicular radar sensor with distributed antenna, patent No. 7,414,569, invented by Bernard Guy De Mersseman of Rochester Hills, Mich., assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Virtual mosaic wide-field-of-view display system, patent No. 7,414,595, invented by Ronald J. Muffler of Salt Lake City, assigned to Advanced Simulation Displays Co. of Salt Lake City.

Method for hierarchical audio conflict control, patent No. 7,415,119, invented by Gregory J Boss of American Fork, Carl P. Gusler of Austin, Texas, Rick A. Hamilton, II of Charlottesville, Va., and James W. Seaman of Falls Church, Va., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

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* EVERETT ROBINSON, who is registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. He can be reached at 801-649-5858.