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Safety carabiner, patent No. 8,001,663, invented by William R. Belcourt of Salt Lake City, Ben Walker of Draper, David Mellon of Park City, Jeremy Saxton of Draper, and Brendan Perkins of Salt Lake City, assigned to Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd. of Salt Lake City.
Male chastity device, patent No. D638,928, invented by A. Frank Miller of Wellington; assigned to A.L. Enterprises Inc. of Price.
Manually operated wheeled snow shovels with steerable shovel blades or plows, patent No. 8,001,707, invented by Peter Coles of Salt Lake City, assigned to Colesworks, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Conformable track assembly for a robotic crawler, patent No. 8,002,365, invented by Stephen C. Jacobsen of Salt Lake City, Brian J. Maclean of Salt Lake City, Ralph W. Pensel of Sandy, and Christopher R. Hirschi of Salt Lake City, assigned to Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass.
Configurable interior and/or exterior portable article illumination system, patent No. 8,002,430, invented by Greg Kennedy of Moab, and Douglas Kennedy of Moab, assigned to Tactical Lighting Solutions, LLC of Moab.
Method for manufacturing a complex structure, patent No. 8,002,716, invented by Stephen C. Jacobsen of Salt Lake City, and David P. Marceau of Salt Lake City, assigned to Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass.
Methods and apparatus for leak detection in blood processing systems, patent No. 8,002,727, invented by James M. Brugger of Newburyport, Mass., and Christopher McDowell of Holladay, assigned to NxStage Medical, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass.
Winged needle with needle shield, patent No. 8,002,746, invented by Timothy J. Erskine of Sandy, assigned to Erskine Medical LLC of High Falls, N.Y.
System and method for spinal implant placement, patent No. 8,002,798, invented by Kingsley Richard Chin of Philadelphia, Pa., T. Wade Fallin of Hyde Park, Joshua A. Butters of Chandler, Ariz., and Daniel F. Justin of Logan, assigned to Stryker Spine of France.
Bone fixation implant system and method, patent No. 8,002,812, invented by Mark Falahee of Ann Arbor, Mich., Phil Reed of Davie, Fla., Doris Blake of Delray Beach, Fla., and Trace R. Cawley of Boca Raton, Fla., assigned to US Spine, Inc. of Salt Lake City.
Petroleum products from oil shale, patent No. 8,002,972, invented by Robert D. Morris, Jr. of Orem, and Robert D. Morris, III of Saratoga Springs, assigned to EnShale, Inc. of St. George.
Toughened silicon carbide and method for making the same, patent No. 8,003,042, invented by Raymond Ashton Cutler of Bountiful, Roger Marc Flinders of Taylorsville, and Darin Ray of Centerville, assigned to Ceramatec, Inc. of SLC.
Method for forming trenches with wide upper portion and narrow lower portion, patent No. 8,003,522, invented by Hui Chen of South Jordan, Ihsiu Ho of Salt Lake City, Stacy W. Hall of West Jordan, Briant Harward of West Jordan, and Hossein Paravi of Sandy, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose, Calif.
Methods of transporting heavy hydrocarbons, patent No. 8,003,844, invented by Todd Dana of Park City, and James W. Patten of Sandy, assigned to Red Leaf Resources, Inc. of Cottonwood Heights.
Compact thermoacoustic array energy converter, patent No. 8,004,156, invented by Orest G. Symko of Salt Lake City, and Young S. Kwon of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.
System and method for managing distribution of vehicle power in a multiple battery system, patent No. 8,004,242, invented by Bruce A. Purkey of Rogers, Ark., and Dale B. Henningson of Manti, assigned to PH Ingenuities, LLC of Rogers, Ark.
Cantilever probe structure for a probe card assembly, patent No. 8,004,299, invented by Scott R. Williams of St. George, Edward Laurent of North Wales, Pa., David T. Beatson of Kennett Square, Pa., Bahadir Tunaboylu of Chandler, Ariz., and Edward L. Malantonio of Conshohocken, Pa., assigned to SV Probe Pte. Ltd. of Singapore.
Use of RFIDs to measure flow-rates of materials flowing through piping, patent No. 8,004,414, invented by Robert L. Angell of Salt Lake City, and James R. Kraemer of Santa Fe, N.M., assigned to International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, N.Y.
Liquid exposure detection, patent No. 8,004,415, invented by Gregory J. Boss of American Fork, Peter G. Finn of Brampton, Calif., Rick A. Hamilton, II of Charlottesville, Va., Brian M. O'Connell of Cary, N.C., James W. Seaman of Falls Church, Va., and Keith R. Walker of Austin, Texas, assigned to International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, N.Y.
Energy measurement system and method, patent No. 8,004,665, invented by Dirk D. Cooley of Ogden, assigned to Lumenis, Ltd. of Yokneam, Ill.
Capture and regeneration of a network data using a virtual software switch, patent No. 8,004,998, invented by Joseph H. Levy of Eagle Mountain, Calif., Matthew Scott Wood of Salt Lake City, Paal Tveit of Salt Lake City, Brian Edginton of West Jordan, Steve Shillingford of Lindon, and James Brown of Lindon, assigned to Solera Networks, Inc. of South Jordan.
Selecting transport addresses to route streams between endpoints, patent No. 8,005,099, invented by Robert T. Bell of Bountiful, assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc. of San Jose, Calif.
Ambient noise sound level compensation, patent No. 8,005,231, invented by Timothy J. Shuttleworth of Woodland Hills, Calif., Richard A. Kreifeldt of Sandy, C. Rex Reed of Salt Lake City, and Brian R. Ellison of Salt Lake City, assigned to Harman International Industries, Incorporated of Northridge, Calif.
Integrated optical vapor cell apparatus for precision spectroscopy, patent No. 8,005,332, invented by Holger Schmidt of Capitola, Calif., and Aaron Roe Hawkins of Provo, assigned to The Regents of the University of California of Oakland, Calif.
Dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch systems, patent No. 8,005,937, invented by Jonathan K. Wesley, Sr. of Bountiful, Ryan Sealy of Layton, Mark Severson of Copperton, Jonathan Featherstone of Bountiful, Nathan Daniels of Woods Cross, Erik Cooley of Layton, and Richard King of Provo, assigned to FATPOT Technologies, LLC of Bountiful.
Checkpoint sequence fallout metrics management during path analysis, patent No. 8,006,187, invented by Michael Paul Bailey of Provo, and Christopher Reid Error of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Adobe Systems Incorporated of San Jose, Calif.
Spectrum analyzer interface, patent No. 8,006,195, invented by Ryan Woodings of Boise, Idaho, Brian Tuttle of Boise, Idaho, and Don Valate Harrison of Salt Lake City, assigned to Meta Greek, LLC of Boise, Idaho.
Core barrel assembly with tapered design, patent No. D643,859, invented by Christopher L. Drenth of Draper, assigned to Longyear TM, Inc. of South Jordan.
Techniques for project lifecycle staged-based access control, patent No. 7,954,135, invented by Michel Shane Simpson of American Fork, Volker Gunnar Scheuber-Heinz of Pleasant Grove, Lee Edward Lowry of Orem, and William Street of Orem; assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Brokering state information and identity among user agents, origin servers and proxies, patent No. 7,954,144, invented by Hashem Mohammad Ebrahimi of Salt Lake City and Robert Drew Major of Orem; assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Dynamically configuring a client for virtual private network access, patent No. 7,954,145, invented by Surendranath Mohanty of Bangalore, Ind.; Gautham Chambrakana Ananda of South Canara District, Ind.; Girish Ks of Bangalore, Ind.; and Vishnu Govind Attur of Bangalore, Ind.; assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.
Handbag with interchangeable handbag cover, patent No. D638,627, invented by Michelle Romero of West Valley City, Annette B. Cavaness of Provo, and Christian J. Seegmiller of Riverton; assigned to Miche Bag LLC of South Jordan.
Cushion, patent No. D638,647, invented by Steve Heroux of South Burlington, Vt.; assigned to HIP Innovations LLC of Williston.
Portable cooking stove, patent No. D638,654, invented by Matt Plott of Nibley; assigned to Cache Sales LLC of Logan.
Golf club head, patent No. D638,894, invented by Carlyle Potter of St. George.
Catheter including power injectable lumen, patent No. D638,930, invented by Ryan T. Moehle of Salt Lake City, Jeffrey D. Bright of Stansbury Park, and Sunita Pargass of Salt Lake City; assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. of Murray Hill, N.J.
Slide key clamp, patent No. D638,932, invented by Li Min She of Guangdong, China, and Joel K. Faulkner of Holladay; assigned to Health Line International Corp. of Centerville.
Dental illumination device, patent No. D638,944, invented by Wade Smith of Pleasant Grove, Neil T. Jessop of Sandy, Dee Jessop of West Jordan and Jared Sheetz of Eagle Mountain; assigned to Ultradent Products Inc. of South Jordan.
Everett Robinson, who is an attorney registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, compiles this list weekly for The Salt Lake Tribune. Robinson can be reached at 801-649-5858.
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