Energy storage , patent No. 7,600,376, invented by David R. Hall, Francis Leany, David Wahlquist and Scott Dahlgren, all of Provo.

System for steering a drill string , patent No. 7,600,586, invented by David R. Hall and Jim Shumway of Provo.

Portable computer stand , patent No. 7,600,730, invented by Chily C. Leung of Magna.

Pick assembly , patent No. 7,600,823, invented by David R. Hall, Ronald Crockett, Scott Dahlgren and Jeff Jepson, all of Provo.

Golf training aid , patent No. 7,601,072, invented by Steven G. Nelson of Springville, assigned to Golf Swing Concepts International LLC of Highland.

Cable crossover exercise apparatus with lateral arm movement , patent No. 7,601,105, invented by Allen Heyson Gipson III, Richard Allen Compton and Gerald Daines Nelson, all of Colorado Springs, Colo., assigned to ICON IP Inc. of Logan.

Antibodies to cyclooxygenase variants , patent No. 7,601,816, invented by Daniel Simmons and N. Vishvanath Chandrasekharan of Provo, assigned to Brigham Young University of Provo.

EMI shielding containers , patent No. 7,601,921, invented by Amber Schroader of Cedar Hills.

RF waveguide mode suppression in cavities used for measurement of dielectric properties , patent No. 7,602,193, invented by J. Mark Baird of Sandy and Darren J. Corey of Salt Lake City, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York

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System and method for determining a fine frequency offset of a received signal , patent No. 7,602,834, invented by Thomas R. Giallorenzi of Herriman, Johnny M. Harris of Centerville, Dan M. Griffin of Bountiful and Sam Kingston of Salt Lake City, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York City.

Multirate spread spectrum composite code , patent No. 7,602,835, invented by Samuel C. Kingston and David W. Thorson of Salt Lake City, Johnny M. Harris of Centerville, Thomas R. Giallorenzi of Riverton and Dan M. Griffin of Bountiful, assigned to L-3 Communications Corp. of New York City.

Audio feedback processing system , patent No. 7,602,925, invented by Richard A. Kreifeldt of Sandy, Curtis R. Reed of Salt Lake City and Aaron M. Hammond of Eagle Mountain, assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. of Northridge, Calif.

Method for image coding by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same , patent No. 7,602,982, invented by Scott E. Budge of Logan and Qun Gu of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Utah State University of Logan.

Adaptive method and system for encoding digital images for the Internet , patent No. 7,602,984, invented by Kasman Ellis Thomas of Wilton, Conn., assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Multi-element probe array , patent No. 7,603,153, invented by Stephen C. Jacobsen, David P. Marceau, Shayne M. Zurn and David T. Markus, all of Salt Lake City, assigned to Sterling Investments LC of Salt Lake City.

Method and system of acquiring images with a medical imaging device , patent No. 7,603,155, invented by Vernon Thomas Jensen of Draper, assigned to General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N.Y.

Method for diagnosing a disease, patent No. 7,603,171, invented by Steven C. Eror of Salt Lake City and Lynn H. Satterthwaite of North Ogden, assigned to Fresh Medical Laboratories Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Methods and apparatus for integrating large and small lot electronic device fabrication facilities , patent No. 7,603,195, invented by Amitabh Puri of San Jose, Calif., David Duffin of Sandy, and Eric A. Englhardt of Palo Alto, Calif., assigned to Applied Materials Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

Methods and apparatus for material control system interface , patent No. 7,603,196, invented by David C. Duffin and Glade L. Warner of Sandy, Daniel R. Jessop of Eagle Mountain, Michael Teferra of Los Gatos, Calif., and Amitabh Puri of San Jose, Calif., assigned to Applied Materials Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

Assigning value to elements contributing to business success , patent No. 7,603,373, invented by Brett M. Error and Christopher Reid Error of Orem, assigned to Omniture Inc. of Orem.

Dynamic routing through a content distribution network , patent No. 7,603,481, invented by Stephen R. Carter of Spanish Fork, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Method and apparatus for monitoring dynamic systems using n-dimensional representations of critical functions , patent No. 7,603,631, invented by Julio C. Bermudez, Stefano Foresti, Dwayne R. Westenskow and James Agutter, all of Salt Lake City, and Debra Gondeck-Becker of Wayzata, Minn., assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Pen cap , patent No. D602,084, invented by Brandon Mackay and Barton Burdette of Salt Lake City, assigned to Snugz/USA Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Composter , patent No. D602,222, invented by Carl R. Stanford of Clearfield and Kent Ashby of Logan.

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.