Graft ligament anchor and method for attaching a graft ligament to a bone, patent No. 8,048,158, invented by Jo Hays, of Logan; David Overaker, of Annandale, N.J.; Joseph Contiliano, of Stewartsville, N.J.; and Joseph H. Sklar, of Longmeadow, Mass., assigned to DePuy Mitek Inc. of Raynham, Mass.

Translucent resin wall system, patent No. 8,046,967, invented by Ruben Suare and R. Talley Goodson, both of Salt Lake City, assigned to 3form Inc. of Salt Lake City.

System and method for secured voting transactions, patent No. 8,047,435, invented by Neldon P. Johnson, of Salem, assigned to N.P. Johnson Family Limited Partnership of Salem.

Multistage inflator, patent No. 8,047,569, invented by Matthew A. Cox, of Centerville, and Michael P. Jordan, of South Weber, assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc. of Ogden.

Area-based calculation of ink usage, patent No. 8,047,626, invented by Maxim Wasyl Derhak, of West Jordan; Matthew R. Despain, of Sandy; Dean Andrew Derhak of West Jordan; and Rohit A. Patil, of Salt Lake City, assigned to Onyx Graphics Inc. of Midvale.

Noise-suppression pump apparatus and method, patent No. 8,047,813, invented by Earl Vaughn Sevy, of Enoch.

Medical device for navigation through anatomy and method of making same, patent No. 8,048,004, invented by Clark C. Davis, of Holladay; Stephen C. Jacobsen, of Salt Lake City; Clay W. Northrop, of Salt Lake City; Ted W. Layman, of Park City; Kevin T. Olson, of Salt Lake City; Edward J. Snyder, of Park City; D. Kent Backman, of Salt Lake City; and Todd H. Turnlund, of Park City, assigned to Precision Vascular Systems Inc. of West Valley City.

Catheter assembly and method for internally anchoring a catheter in a patient, patent No. 8,048,062, invented by Mark L. Adams, of Sandy; William J. Shaw, of Cambridge, Mass.; Donald C. Hovey, of Sherborn, Mass.; and Luis J. Maseda, of Natick, Mass., assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. of Maple Grove, Minn.

System and method for segmentally modular spinal plating, patent No. 8,048,120, invented by Thomas Wade Fallin, of Hyde Park, and Daniel F. Justin, of Logan, assigned to Medicine Lodge Inc. of Logan.

System and method for the rapid, automated creation of advanced composite tailored blanks, patent No. 8,048,253, invented by David R. Cramer, of Basalt, Colo.; Neal J. Beidleman, of Aspen, Colo.; Colin R. Chapman, of Carbondale, Colo.; Don O. Evans, of New Castle, Colo.; Michael K. Passmore, of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; and Michael L. Skinner, of Draper, assigned to Fiberforge Corp. of Glenwood Springs, Colo.

Reducing nontarget nucleic acid dependent amplifications, amplifying repetitive nucleic acid sequences, patent No. 8,048,631, invented by Richard Cawthon, of Salt Lake City, assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation of Salt Lake City.

Systems and methods for securely monitoring an individual, patent No. 8,049,597, invented by Rick V. Murakami, of North Ogden; David Miller, of Morgan; Matthew W. Pettit, of Mountain Green; and Larry V. Lunt, of Holladay, assigned to Ensign Holdings LLC of Salt Lake City.

Adaptive conferencing pod sidetone compensator connecting to a telephonic device having intermittent sidetone, patent No. 8,050,398, invented by Xin Xu, of Ottawa, Calif., assigned to Clearone Communications Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Method and image reconstruction device for generating computed tomography image data, patent No. 8,050,480, invented by Frederic Noo, of Midvale; Harald Schondube, of Erlangen, Germany; and Karl Stierstorfer, of Erlangen, Germany, assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft of Munich, Germany.

Recognition method and system, patent No. 8,050,500, invented by Thayne S. Batty, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Steven N. Long, of Salt Lake City, assigned to Senapps LLC of Salt Lake City.

Computer-readable medium product label apparatus and method, patent No. 8,050,964, invented by David R. Montague, of Mapleton, assigned to ETagz Inc. of Provo.

Trade strategy monitor platform, patent No. 8,051,000, invented by Dion Keith Kurczek, of Chicago, Ill.; James Mazzu, of Boston, Mass.; George Rozanitis, of Boston, Mass.; Franklin Harold Gold ,of Needham, Mass.; Chad Pangborn, of Boston, Mass.; Alonzo Kent Thacker, of Draper; and Max Matthew George, of Syracuse, assigned to FMR LLC of Boston, Mass.

Controlled storage utilization, patent No. 8,051,141, invented by Arijit Dutta, of Bopodi, India, and Harpreet Singh Walia, of Bangalore, India, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Methods for managing the exchange of communication tokens, patent No. 8,051,172, invented by Scott E. Sampson, of Orem.

Techniques for establishing virtual devices, patent No. 8,051,432, invented by Sambit Kumar Dash, of Bangalore, India, and Harpreet Singh Walia, of Bangalore, India, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

Media player cradle, patent No. D647,881, invented by Scott K. Warner, of Lehi, assigned to Semco Plastic Co. Inc. of St. Louis, Mo.

Triangular light column, patent No. D648,059, invented by Kevin L. Fisher, of Erda, and Galen M. Leith, of Salt Lake City, assigned to 3form Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Heater vent boot and glove drying rack, patent No. D648,091, invented by Byron J. Southwick, of Tremonton.

Everett Robinson, 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.