Apparatus for patient mobility, patent No. 7,434,278, invented by Elizabeth Ann White, of American Fork, and Michael Wawrzynowski, of Hermosa Beach, Calif.

Table top with a plurality of closely spaced depressions, patent No. 7,434,522, invented by Carl R. Stanford, of Clinton, assigned to Lifetime Products Inc., of Clearfield.

Ergonomic collapsible crutch, patent No. 7,434,592, invented by Brad Larson, of North Logan City; Ken Lester, of North Logan City; Clair Nilson, of Logan; Eric Nilson, of Providence; and Mark Nilson, of Providence, assigned to Millennial Medical Equipment LLC, of Logan.

Method and apparatus for friction reduction in a downhole tool, patent No. 7,434,627, invented by Rocky A. Turley, of Houston, Texas, and John W. McKeachnie, of Vernal, assigned to Weatherford/Lamb Inc., of Houston, Texas.

Downhole turbine, patent No. 7,434,634, invented by David R. Hall, Daryl Wise, David Lundgreen, Nathan Nelson and Scott Dahlgren, all of Provo.

Methods and apparatus for transferring a substrate carrier within an electronic device manufacturing facility, patent No. 7,434,676, 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 and Glade L. Warner and David C. Duffin, of Sandy, assigned to Applied Materials Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif.

Health care card closed loop network, patent No. 7,434,729, invented by Christopher P. Cracchiolo, of Manalapan, N.J.; Jason S. Jagatic, of Hoboken, N.J.; Ahana M. Kalappa and Mark C. Keck, of New York City; Shari Pincock, of West Jordan; Todd H. Reynders, of Westfield, N.J.; and Sunil Sachdev, of Forest Hills, N.Y., assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc., of New York City.

Method and apparatus for a C-arm system, patent No. 7,434,996, invented by Zonghua Wang, of Fruit Heights, and Arvidas Bronislavovich Cheryauka, of Salt Lake City, assigned to General Electric Co., of Schenectady, N.Y.

Weldable ultrahard materials and associated methods of manufacture, patent No. 7,435,377, invented by Hyun Sam Cho, of Salt Lake City; Kyung Ryul Han of ChunAhn-si, Republic of Korea; and Tim Valentine, of Surrey, U.K., assigned to ADICO, Asia Polydiamond Co. Ltd. of Kyungki-do, Republic of Korea.

Laulimalide microtubule stabilizing agents, patent No. 7,435,754, invented by Susan L. Mooberry, of San Antonio, Texas, and Bradley S. Davidson, of River Heights, assigned to Utah State University, of Logan.

Current mode sigma-delta modulator, patent No. 7,436,338, invented by Rex K. Hales, of Riverton, and Kent Smith, of Holladay, assigned to SLICEX Inc., of Draper.

Selecting transport addresses to route streams between endpoints, patent No. 7,436,814, invented by Robert T. Bell, of Bountiful, assigned to Cisco Technology Inc., of San Jose, Calif.

Method and apparatus for efficient carrier bin search for a composite spreading code, patent No. 7,436,878, invented by Johnny M. Harris, of Centerville; Samuel C. Kingston, of Salt Lake City; Thomas R. Giallorenzi, of Riverton; Eric K. Hall, of Holladay; and Richard B. Ertel, of Midvale, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp., of New York City.

Method and system for the police response dispatch protocol of an emergency dispatch system, patent No. 7,436,937, invented by Jeffrey J. Clawson, of Salt Lake City.

Positive patient identifica- tion, patent No. 7,436,986, invented by Lloyd M. Caldwell, of Salt Lake City, assigned to Bausch & Lomb Inc., of Rochester, N.Y.

Method for imaging coding by rate-distortion adaptive zero-tree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same, patent No. 7,437,010, invented by Scott E. Budge, of Logan, and Qun Gu, of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Utah State University, of Logan.

Apparatus, system and method for locating a transceiver using RF communications and radio services, patent No. 7,437,167, invented by Steve Gene Kartchner, of Salt Lake City.

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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.