Mobile billboard advertising system and apparatuses, patent No. 7,882,653, invented by Eslee Buckley Barlow of Salt Lake City, assigned to Frog Marketing Inc. of West Jordan.

Apparatus and method for twisting a wing to increase lift on aircraft and other vehicles, patent No. 7,883,060, invented by Warren F. Phillips of Paradise, assigned to Utah State University of North Logan.

Inflatable seat belt including a thorax air bag, patent No. 7,883,106, invented by Robert A. Mical of Dearborn Heights, Mich., assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Inflator for an air bag, patent No. 7,883,108, invented by Bryce Robinette of Brigham City and Ken Clark of Morgan, assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Textile gas guide for inflatable curtain, patent No. 7,883,112, invented by Dana Wold of Farmington Hills, Mich., James E. Nelson of Salt Lake City, Brian Czach of Shelby Township, Mich., and Mark S. Hatfield of Providence, assigned to Autoliv.

Reinforced gingival retraction cord, patent No. 7,883,335, invented by Dan E. Fischer of Sandy and Ammon Black of West Valley City, assigned to Ultradent Products Inc. of South Jordan.

Connector system for a proximally trimmable catheter, patent No. 7,883,502, invented by Kelly B. Powers of North Salt Lake, Catherine C. Breiter of Holladay, Jordan P. Diamond of Salt Lake City, Jason R. Stats of Layton and Daniel J. Triplett of Providence, assigned to C.R. Bard, Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J.

Multifunctional second instrument for cataract removal, patent No. 7,883,521, invented by Paul W. Rockley of Laguna Niguel, Calif., and Randall J. Olson of Salt Lake City, assigned to Abbott Medical Optics Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif.

Threaded suture anchor and method of use, patent No. 7,883,529, invented by M. Mary Sinnott of Logan and Alan Chervitz of Palm Harbor, Fla., assigned to Stryker Orthopaedics of Mahwah, N.J.

Dual fuel slagging gasifier, patent No. 7,883,556, invented by Reginald Wintrell of Orem.

Radiation detector, patent No. 7,884,332, invented by Raymond DeVito of North Logan, assigned to Utah State University of Logan.

Structure and method of forming a topside contact to a backside terminal of a semiconductor device, patent No. 7,884,390, invented by John T. Andrews of Eagle Mountain, Hamza Yilmaz of Saratoga, Calif., Bruce Marchant of Murray and Ihsiu Ho of Salt Lake City, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. of South Portland, Maine.

Carbon nanotube-based compliant mechanism, patent No. 7,884,525, invented by Spencer P. Magleby of Provo, Martin L. Culpepper of Danvers, Mass., Larry L. Howell of Orem, Christopher M. DiBiasio of Cambridge, Mass., and Robert M. Panas of Westborough, Mass., assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Cambridge, Mass.

Systems and methods for reconstruction of sensitivity encoded MRI data, patent No. 7,884,604, invented by Evgueni G. Kholmovski of Salt Lake City and Dennis Lee Parker of Centerville, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Method for controlling a characteristic of an induction field, patent No. 7,884,611, invented by David R. Hall, Harold L. Snyder, Jr., Paula Turner and Clint Cook, all of Provo.

Multicolor holographic replication by masking, patent No. 7,884,984, invented by Brett Ronald Nelson of Logan and Michael G. Fickes of Kennett Square, Pa., assigned to E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. of Wilmington, Del.

Contactless method for power and communications in a tape library, patent No. 7,885,034, invented by Jonathan E. Bosley of Saratoga Springs, and Aaron L. Herring, Daniel S. Moore and Shawn M. Nave of Tucson, , Ariz., assigned to IBM Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

Adjustable countdown timer, patent No. 7,885,146, invented by Alan Parkinson and Pamela Parkinson of Sandy, and Katie Cochran of Bountiful, assigned to Potty Time Inc. of Sandy.

Expert system supported interactive product selection and recommendation, patent No. 7,885,820, invented by Rod Mancisidor and Ahmed Gheith of Round Rock, Texas, Charles R. Erickson of Cedar Park, Texas, and William W. Chan of Austin, Texas, assigned to Convergys CMG Utah Inc. of Salt Lake City.

System and method for electronic medical file management, patent No. 7,885,822, invented by Brandon T. Watts of Park City, William Rex Akers and Robert J. Normyle of Colleyville, Texas, Jeff W. Canterbury and Kevin P. Hale of Fort Worth, Texas, Blake B. Miller and Craig Alan Walker of Austin, Texas, James R. King of Waxahachie, Texas, Jerry L. Graves of Benbrook, Texas, Jay Travis Patterson of Arlington, Texas, and Karen D. Rau of Farwell, Minn., assigned to William Rex Akers of Fort Worth.

Distributing products from suppliers to consumers in a network environment, patent No. 7,885,856, invented by Richard W. Berger of Aptos, Calif., John L. Funk of Salt Lake City and Brant W. Berger of Capitola, Calif., assigned to Richard W. Berger of Paso Robles, Calif.

Architectural panel with embossed pebble design, patent No. D632,405, invented by Elizabeth Egan Metcalf of Salt Lake City, assigned to 3form Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Everett Robinson, an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list for The Tribune.