Tailgate lowering apparatus and method, patent No. 8,070,206, invented by Cary Russell Zielinsky of Liberty.

Multiposition tailgate support apparatus and method, patent No. 8,070,207, invented by Cary Russell Zielinsky of Liberty.

Multiposition tailgate adjustment apparatus and method, patent No. 8,070,208, invented by Cary Russell Zielinsky of Liberty.

Multilingual-tile word games, patent No. 8,070,163, invented by John Ogilvie of Salt Lake City.

Site scrub brush, patent No. 8,069,523, invented by Michael J. Vaillancourt of Chester, N.J., and Marshall Kerr of Oceanside, Calif., assigned to Bard Access Systems, Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Multicaliber bolt for a firearm, patent No. 8,069,600, invented by Joseph F. N. Rousseau of Mountain Green, Peter Sodoma of Layton, and David L. Hurst of West Haven, assigned to Browning of Morgan.

Lifting system and apparatus for constructing and enclosing wind turbine towers, patent No. 8,069,634, invented by Tracy Livingston of Heber, James Goldhardt of Heber, Terry Schrader of Southlake, Texas, James Lott of Newburgh, Ind., David Oliphant of Heber, and Harry Daugherty of Whitehouse, Ohio, assigned to General Electric Company of Schenectady, N.Y.

Table with molded plastic table top, patent No. 8,069,796, invented by Carl R. Stanford of Clinton, assigned to Lifetime Products, Inc. of Clearfield.

Pillow block bearing assembly for compound bows, patent No. 8,069,848, invented by Marlow W. Larson of Ogden, assigned to Larson Archery Company of Ogden.

Bearing assemblies, and bearing apparatuses and motor assemblies using same, patent No. 8,069,933, invented by Timothy N. Sexton of Genola, and Craig H. Cooley of Saratoga Springs, assigned to US Synthetic Corporation of Orem.

Superabrasive element, and superabrasive compact and drill bit including same, patent No. 8,069,935, invented by David P. Miess of Highland, and Jiang Qian of Cedar Hills, assigned to US Synthetic Corporation of Orem.

Polycrystalline diamond compact, including a cemented tungsten carbide substrate that is substantially free of tungsten carbide grains exhibiting abnormal grain growth and applications therefor, patent No. 8,069,937, invented by Debkumar Mukhopadhyay of Sandy, Kenneth E. Bertagnolli of Riverton, and Mohammad N. Sani of Orem, assigned to US Synthetic Corporation of Orem.

Combination ladder, ladder components and methods of manufacturing same, patent No. 8,069,948, invented by Newell R. Moss of Mapleton, Jack W. Bowers of Springville, and David Francis of Orem, assigned to Wing Enterprises, Inc. of Springville.

Contact lens package and storage case, holder, and system and method of making and using, patent No. 8,069,979, invented by Stephen D. Newman of Singapore, Jonathan C. Coon of Holladay, Kevin K. McCallum of Draper, Bruce V. Christy, III of Draper, Desmond C. S. Cheon of Singapore, Joanne M. Oliver of San Francisco, Calif., Mark A. Zeh of Mountain View, Calif., Lynda Deakin of San Francisco, Calif., Rachel Wong of Chandler, Ariz., Jonah L. Houston of San Francisco, Calif., Anthony J. Rossetti of San Jose, Calif., and John Ravitch of Oakland, Calif., assigned to 1-800 Contacts, Inc. of Draper.

Apparatus, system, and method for middle turbinate medializer, patent No. 8,070,032, invented by Bryan C. Tagge of North Salt Lake.

Handheld device for selling transaction instruments via Web-based tools, patent No. 8,070,056, invented by Gennye Hannover Feldman of New York, N.Y., Elizabeth Anne Holt of Salt Lake City, Marc Rubner of Scottsdale, Ariz., John R. Rose of Layton, and Nicole Milne Vollmer of Murray, assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. of New York, N.Y.

Luer integrated air venting system, patent No. 8,070,725, invented by Kelly D. Christensen of Centerville, assigned to Becton, Dickinson and Company of Franklin Lakes, N.J.

Devices and methods for attaching an endolumenal gastrointestinal implant, patent No. 8,070,743, invented by Jonathan Kagan of Hopkins, Minn., Mitchell Dann of Wilson, Wyo., Lee Guterman of Amherst, N.Y., Joshua Butters of Chandler, Ariz., Paul Swain of London, United Kingdom, T. Wade Fallin of Hyde Park, and Thomas Baldwin of Amalga, assigned to ValenTx, Inc. of Carpinteria, Calif.

Methods of fabricating a polycrystalline diamond compact including a pre-sintered polycrystalline diamond table having a thermally-stable region, patent No. 8,071,173, invented by Mohammad N. Sani of Orem, assigned to US Synthetic Corporation of Orem.

Silicon nitride body and method of manufacture, patent No. 8,071,495, invented by Vimal K. Pujari of Northboro, Mass., and William T. Collins of Auburn, Mass., assigned to Ceramatec, Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Aqueous disinfectants and sterilants including transition metals, patent No. 8,071,525, invented by Daryl J. Tichy of Orem, and Brian G. Larson of Orem, assigned to Solutions BioMed, LLC of Orem.

3D channel architecture for semiconductor devices, patent No. 8,072,027, invented by Suku Kim of Singapore, Dan Calafut of San Jose, Calif., Ihsiu Ho of Salt Lake City, Dan Kinzer of El Segundo, Calif., Steven Sapp of Felton, Calif., Ashok Challa of Sandy, Idaho, Seokjin Jo of South Jordan, and Mark Larsen of Sandy, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose, Calif.

Semiconductor die containing lateral edge shapes and textures, patent No. 8,072,044, invented by Michael D. Gruenhagen of Salt Lake City, and Rohit Dikshit of Herriman, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose, Calif.

Fluid energy apparatus and method, patent No. 8,072,089, invented by Wayne F. Krouse of Houston, Texas, Frederick E. Becker of Reading, Mass., Kerry N. Oliphant of Sandy, and Andrew R. Provo of West Fairies, Vt.

Externally guided and directed field induction resistivity tool, patent No. 8,072,221, invented by Harold L. Snyder, Jr. of Rockwall, Texas, and Paula Turner of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corporation of Houston, Texas.

Interpreting data from a site, patent No. 8,072,322, invented by Michael L. Howard of Renton, Wash., assigned to Control4 Corporation of Salt Lake City.

System and method for reducing pin-count of memory devices, and memory device testers for same, patent No. 8,072,820, invented by Scott Gatzemeier of Alpine, Wallace Fister of Meridian, Idaho, Adam Johnson of Boise, Idaho, and Ben Louie of Fremont, Calif., assigned to Micron Technology, Inc. of Boise, Idaho.

Correlation apparatus and method for accommodating spreading code frequency offset, patent No. 8,073,084, invented by Thomas R. Giallorenzi of Sandy, Johnny M. Harris of Centerville, Dan M. Griffin of Bountiful, Richard Ertel of Sandy, and Eric K. Hall of Sandy, assigned to L-3 Communications, Corp. of New York, N.Y.

User interface methods and systems for image brightness and contrast, patent No. 8,073,285, invented by Donald B. Curtis of Highland, assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. of Provo.

Performing a business transaction without disclosing sensitive identity information to a relying party, patent No. 8,073,783, invented by Patrick R. Felsted of Cedar Hills, Thomas E. Doman of Pleasant Grove, James G. Sermersheim of Woodland Hills, Daniel S. Sanders of Orem, Andrew A. Hodgkinson of Pleasant Grove, and Dale R. Olds of Draper.

Systems and methods for managing a provider's online status in a distributed network, patent No. 8,073,929, invented by Bryant Eastham of Draper, assigned to Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. of Osaka, Japan.

Apparatus, system, and method for storage space recovery after reaching a read count limit, patent No. 8,074,011, invented by David Flynn of Sandy, Bert Lagerstedt of Pleasant Grove, John Strasser of Syracuse, Jonathan Thatcher of Lehi, John Walker of Sandy, Michael Zappe of Wheat Ridge, Colo., Stephan Uphoff of Roswell, Ga., Joshua Aune of South Jordan, and Kevin Vigor of Salt Lake City, assigned to Fusion-IO, Inc. of Salt Lake City.

Dynamic instruction and data updating architecture, patent No. 8,074,053, invented by James D. Pennock of Salt Lake City, Ronald Baker of Sandy, Brian R. Parker of West Valley City, and Christopher Belcher of Lehi, assigned to Harman International Industries, Incorporated of Northridge, Calif.

System and method for displaying and manipulating hierarchically linked data in a genealogy database using a graphical interface, patent No. 8,074,185, invented by John H. Sherwood of Farmington, and Michael C. Miller of Farmington, assigned to Sherwood Electronics Laboratories, Inc. of Farmington.

System for creating a customized software installation on demand, patent No. 8,074,214, invented by Scott A. Isaacson of Woodland Hills, Eric W. B. Anderson of Alpine, and Robert Wipfel of Draper, assigned to Oracle International Corporation of Redwood City, Calif.

Framework and technology to enable the portability of information cards, patent No. 8,074,257, invented by Patrick R. Felsted of Cedar Hills, Andrew A. Hodgkinson of Pleasant Grove, Daniel S. Sanders of Orem, James G. Sermersheim of Woodland Hills, and James Mark Norman of Pleasant Grove.

Authentication mark-up data of multiple local area networks, patent No. 8,074,259, invented by Joseph H. Levy of Eagle Mountain, Shannon L. Johnson of Citrus Heights, Calif., David M. Telehowski of San Jose, Calif., and Zhong Chen of Fremont, Calif., assigned to SonicWall, Inc. of San Jose, Calif.

Computer communications monitor, patent No. 8,074,267, invented by Michael S. Stimpson of Riverton, assigned to Symantec Corporation of Mountain View, Calif.

Ski tip connector, patent No. D650,029, invented by R. Scott Coleman of Ogden, and David O. Meyers of Kaysville, assigned to Hookease IP Holdings, LLC of Ogden.

Seal for head assembly, patent No. D650,052, invented by Christopher L. Drenth of Draper, assigned to Longyear TM, 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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