Modular floor tile with nonslip insert system, patent No. 7,958,681, invented by Jorgen J. Moller Jr. of Salt Lake City.

Protecting users from malicious pop-up advertisements, patent No. 7,962,955, invented by Gregory J. Boss of American Fork, Gang Chen of Oceanside, N.Y., Rick A. Hamilton II of Charlottesville, Va., and John S. Langford of Austin, Texas, assigned to International Business Machines Corp. of Armonk, N.Y.

Precision-controlled, variable-thrust, solid-propellant rocket motor, patent No. 7,958,718, invented by L. Don Berchtold and Ralph S. Tappan of Brigham City, assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Minneapolis.

Dent removal tool, patent No. 7,958,767, invented by Hamid Janversan of Salt Lake City.

Projectile expelling apparatus, patent No. 7,958,876, invented by William Coleman Lay of St. George.

Drill bits with enclosed slots, patent No. 7,958,954, invented by K. Shayne Drivdahl of Park City and Michael D. Rupp of Murray, assigned to Longyear TM Inc. of South Jordan.

Protection device stem design, patent No. 7,959,118 and patent No. 7,959,119, invented by Paul Tusting Jonathan Woodward and Bill Belcourt of Salt Lake City, Joe Skrivan of Draper and Dave Mellon of Park City, assigned to Black Diamond Equipment Ltd. of Salt Lake City.

Systems and methods for providing a dynamic laundry bag apparatus, patent No. 7,959,356, invented by Kristine Sommers of Morgan.

Apparatus, system and method for implanting dental prosthesis, patent No. 7,959,439, invented by Scott E. Bulloch of West St. George and Russell G. Olsen of Cedar City, assigned to Intrinsic Medical LLC of Cedar City.

Golf ball position marking device and method of use, patent No. 7,959,526, invented by Peter J. Petela of Draper.

Exercise device with resistance, patent No. 7,959,544, invented by Dennis D. Palmer of Sandy.

Apparatus and method for the insertion of a medical device, patent No. 7,959,610, invented by Linda D. Elbert of Bloomington, Ind., D.H. Perkins of Bountiful, Srinivas Nishtala of Westford, Mass., and Stephane Gobron of Mount Prospect, Ill., assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. of Maple Grove, Minn.

Access port identification systems and methods, patent No. 7,959,615, invented by Jason R. Stats of Layton and Kelly B. Powers of North Salt Lake, assigned to C.R. Bard Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J.

Differential covering and coating methods, patent No. 7,959,671, invented by Eric K. Mangiardi, Jason M. Reynolds and Tony D. Alexander of Charlotte, N.C.; and Ulf R. Borg of Cornelius, N.C., assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. of South Jordan.

Combustion catalyst carriers and methods of using the same, patent No. 7,959,693, invented by W. Wesley Parish of Orem and Michael D. Thompson of Alpine, assigned to Ferox LLC of Orem.

Electrolytic method to make alkali alcoholates using ceramic ion conducting solid membranes, patent No. 7,959,784, invented by Shekar Balagopal of Sandy and Vinod K. Malhotra of Cedar City, assigned to Ceramatec Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Direct antimicrobial susceptibility assay, patent No. 7,960,136, invented by Read Robert Taintor of North Salt Lake, assigned to Kwikculture LLC of North Salt Lake.

Pharmaceutically active compounds containing tetrazolyl and triazolyl rings, patent No. 7,960,422, invented by Erwan Arzel of Sodertalje, Sweden, Donald A. McLeod of Sandy, and Louise Edwards, Methvin Isaac, Abdelmalik Slassi and Tao Xin, all of Ontario, Calif., assigned to AstraZeneca AB of Sodertalje.

Semiconductor dice with backside trenches filled with elastic material for improved attachment, packages using the same and methods of making the same, patent No. 7,960,800, invented by Michael D. Gruenhagen of Salt Lake City, Suku Kim and James J. Murphy of South Jordan, Eddy Tjhia of Sunnyvale, Calif., Chung-Lin Wu of San Jose, Calif., Mark Larsen of Sandy and Douglas E. Dolan of York, Maine, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. of South Portland, Maine.

Forwarded clock filtering, patent No. 7,961,039, invented by Bryan K. Casper, James E. Jaussi and Mozhgan Mansuri of Hillsboro, Ore.; Timothy Hollis of Spanish Fork, Stephen R. Mooney of Beaverton, Ore., and Frank O'Mahony of Portland, Ore., assigned to Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.

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.

For more patents, see the Money page at sltrib.com, go to Sections on left-hand side and click Patents.