Garment for retaining a child in a car-seat, patent No. 7,954,172, invented by Natalie Ann Hepler of Mount Pleasant.

Live-bait-simulating resilient puppet fishing lure, patent No. 7,954,274, invented by Joel Vincent MacDonald of St. George.

Rotary drill bits and systems for inspecting rotary drill bits, patent No. 7,954,380, invented by Jeffrey B. Lund of Salt Lake City, Nicholas J. Lyons and Eric C. Sullivan of Houston, and Terry D. Watts of Spring, Texas, assigned to Baker Hughes Inc. of Houston.

Method of assembling a drill bit with a jack element, patent No. 7,954,401, invented by David R. Hall of Provo, Francis E. Leany of Salem, and Joe Fox and Tyson J. Wilde of Spanish Fork, assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. of Houston.

Loading system and method for elastic projectile, patent No. 7,954,409, invented by Joseph P. Kolnik of Salt Lake City and George M. Elsom of Buffalo, Wyo., assigned to Integrity Ballistics LLC of Boise, Idaho.

Stabilizer for drill strings, patent No. 7,954,566, invented by Jing James Yao of Mississauga, Calif., assigned to Boart Longyear Global Holdco Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Compact spray device, patent No. 7,954,667, invented by Paul E. Furner of Racine, Wis., Thomas P. Gasper of Germantown, Wis., Chris A. Kubicek of East Troy, Wis., Leon M. Lemon of Mendon, Brent D. Madsen of Providence, Nathan R. Westphal of Union Grove, Wis., Kenneth W. Michaels of Spring Grove, Ill., and Cory J. Nelson, M. Scott Carpenter and Michael E. Short of Racine, Wis., assigned to S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. of Racine.

Electronic payment system with PIN and sub-account configurations, patent No. 7,954,704, invented by Brian R. Gephart of South Jordan and Darrell Redford of Layton, assigned to Transsec Data Limited Liability Co. of Wilmington, Del.

Seat belt retractor and torsion bar providing secondary load limiting, patent No. 7,954,854, invented by Gerald J. Keller of Shelby Township, Mich., and Kurt W. Schulz of Romeo, Mich., assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Tarping system for open-top containers, patent No. 7,954,877, invented by Fred P. Smith of Alpine and Nathan H. Morrill of Draper, assigned to Smith Patents LLC of Alpine.

Method and apparatus for spine joint replacement, patent No. 7,955,390, invented by T. Wade Fallin of Hyde Park, Robert W. Hoy of Columbus, Ohio, and E. Marlowe Goble of Logan, assigned to GME Delaware 2 LLC of Audubon, Pa.

Solid-state membrane module, patent No. 7,955,423, invented by John Howard Gordon of Salt Lake City and Dale M. Taylor of Murray, assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of Allentown, Pa.

High-aspect ratio trench structures with void-free fill material, patent No. 7,956,411, invented by James J. Murphy Hui Chen and Eileen Valdez of South Jordan, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. of San Jose, Calif.

Apparatus and method for computerized multimedia medical and pharmaceutical data organization and transmission, patent No. 7,956,894, invented by William Rex Akers of Colleyville, Texas, Jeff W. Canterbury and Kevin P. Hale and Deborah L. Jenkins 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, Robert J. Normyle of Colleyville, Texas, Brandon T. Watts of Park City and Karen D. Rau of Farwell, Minn., assigned to William Rex Akers of Fort Worth.

Linearly expandable broadcast router apparatus, patent No. 7,957,371, invented by Carl L. Christensen of South Jordan, David Lynn Bytheway of Murray and Mitchell T. Hayden of Syracuse, assigned to GVBB Holdings S.A.R.L. of Luxembourg.

Protective covering for an electronic device, patent No. 7,957,524, invented by Phillip Chipping of Salt Lake City, assigned to Zagg Inc.of Salt Lake City.

Method for molecular genealogical research, patent No. 7,957,907, invented by James L. Sorenson of Salt Lake City, Scott R. Woodward of Alpine and Joel Myres of Provo, assigned to Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Methods and systems for managing content dependency deployment, patent No. 7,958,485, invented by David John Steiner of Kaysville and Timothy Paul Hanna of Cedar Hills, assigned to General Electric Co. of Schenectady, N.Y.

Everett Robinson, who is an attorney 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.