Anti-pinch point devices for imaging platforms, patent No. 7,650,657, invented by Glenn N. Waterman, of Salt Lake City, assigned to Diacor Inc. of West Valley City.

Delay units and methods of making the same, patent No. 7,650,840, invented by John Childs, of Granby, Conn., and Lawrence J. Shank III, of Hartland, Conn., assigned to Dyno Nobel Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Method for restricting fluid flow in a passageway, patent No. 7,650,911, invented by Dan B. Follett, of Morgan, David T. Cumming, of Park City, and Emily B. Christopulos, of Salt Lake City, assigned to Gaphog International LLC of Salt Lake City.

Resettable actuator for downhole tool, patent No. 7,650,951, invented by David R. Hall, Scott Dahlgren, Nathan Nelson and David Lundgreen, all of Provo.

Combination waist pack that unfolds providing a garment and a protective accessory for comfort and protection to combined parts of a person for use in outdoor sports and recreation, patent No. 7,651,016, invented by Daniel Roy Stewart, of Salt Lake City.

Expandable mandrel for use in friction stir welding, patent No. 7,651,018, invented by Scott M. Packer, of Alpine, Jonathan A. Babb, of West Jordan, Russell J. Steel, of Salem, and Monte Russell, of Orem, assigned to SII MegaDiamond of Provo.

Cable storage device, patent No. 7,651,047, invented by Robin Peng, of South Jordan, and C. Cameron Bigler, of Orem, assigned to Jupiter IP LLC of Sandy.

Method and testing equipment for LEDs and laser diodes, patent No. 7,651,268, invented by Desen Cao, of Sandy, and Zhao-hui Lin, of Salt Lake City, assigned to CAO Group Inc. of West Jordan.

Arrow insert apparatus, patent No. 7,651,421, invented by Jacob C. Smith, of Salt Lake City, Kenny R. Giles, of West Valley City, and Teddy D. Palomaki, of Park City, assigned to Jas. D. Easton Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif.

System for generating hydrogen from a chemical hydride, patent No. 7,651,542, invented by Kevin Shurtleff, of Orem, Eric Ladd and John Patton, of West Jordan, Chris Brydon, of Salt Lake City, and Ken Pearson, of Shingle Springs, Calif., assigned to Thulite Inc of Houston.

Integrated circuit with delay selecting input selection circuitry, patent No. 7,652,498, invented by Brad Hutchings, of Provo, and Jason Redgrave, of Mountain View, Calif., assigned to Tabula Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.

Apparatus, system and method for disposing of a call, patent No. 7,653,195, invented by Anirudha Shimpi, of South Jordan, John Sirstins, of Salt Lake City, Forest Baker III, of Salt Lake City, and Forest Baker IV, of Murray, assigned to Noguar LC of Murray.

Method for communicating and matching electronic files for financial transactions, patent No. 7,653,234, invented by Joel Edward Warren, of Brentwood, Tenn., Reed Avon Beatse, of Taylorsville, Jeremy Philip Becker and Hugh Francis Guilbeau Jr., of San Francisco, Thomas Vincent Costello, of Southhampton, Pa., Gopa Kumar, of Castro Valley, Calif., Kevin Jude McCabe, of Franklin, Mass., Bruce Allen McPherson, of Sausalito, Calif., David James Moore, of Fairfax, Calif., Marilee Jean Niemi, of Oakland, Calif., Danny Shawn Oursbourn, of Rowlett, Texas, and Cynthia Lynne Rasche, of Arlington Heights, Ill., assigned to Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta of Atlanta.

Robustness optimization system, patent No. 7,653,522, invented by Richard C. Peralta, of Hyde Park, and Ineke M. Kalwij, of Mission, Calif., assigned to Utah State University.

System and method for providing dynamic multiple-language support for application programs, patent No. 7,653,529, invented by Andre Litster, of Morgan, and Shaun Broadhead, of Heber City.

Method and mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and comparison of semantic abstracts, patent No. 7,653,530, invented by Stephen R. Carter, of Spanish Fork, Delos C. Jensen and Ronald P. Millett, of Orem, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Translation quality quantifying apparatus and method, patent No. 7,653,531, invented by Michael V. Sneddon, of Provo, and Brian R. Chandler, of Spanish Fork, assigned to Multiling Corp. of Provo.

Method for pricing items, patent No. 7,653,576, invented by Gregory Jensen Boss, of American Fork, Rick Allen Hamilton II, of Charlottesville, Va., William Louis Moraca Jr., of McLean, Va., and Timothy Moffett Waters, of Hiram, Ga., assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

System for the processing of information between remotely located health care entities, patent No. 7,653,634, invented by Alok Mathur, of Alpharetta, Ga., assigned to Medicity Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Multi-epoch method for saving and exporting file system events, patent No. 7,653,645, invented by Randall K. Stokes, of Provo, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Method to automate the renewal of digital certificates, patent No. 7,653,810, invented by Russell S. Thornton, of Cedar Hills, Benjamin Hodson, of Cedar Hills, Jayson Seegmiller, of Orem, and Timothy Hollobon, of Woodinville, Wash., assigned to Venafi Inc. of Sandy.

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.