The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the following patents to Chicago-area companies between Oct. 5 and 11:
6,799,546–Starting procedure for an internal combustion engine, Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest
6,799,619–Composite material collation machine and associated method for high-rate collation of composite materials, Boeing Co., Chicago
6,799,791–Deployable vehicle fairing structure, Aerotail LLC, Winnetka
6,799,890–Tamper-evident resealable packaging, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview
6,799,931–Tree fastener with flexible tab control, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview
6,799,937–High-visibility traversable boom system, Pettibone LLC, Downers Grove
6,799,973–System for teaching children about the use of money, Safe-T Products Inc., Lombard
6,799,994–Cord management apparatus and method, Telefonix Inc., Waukegan
6,800,004–Marine exhaust cooling system, Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest
6,800,027–System and method for saving status of paused game of chance, WMS Gaming Inc., Chicago
6,800,054–Blood-separation chamber with preformed blood-flow passages and centralized connection to external tubing, Baxter International Inc., Deerfield
6,800,094–Mobile bearing patellar prosthesis with orbital translation, Zimmer Technology Inc., Chicago
6,800,114–Pressure-equalization apparatus and methods, Andrew Corp., Orland Park
6,800,124–Ethylene oxide sterilization process indicator inks, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview
6,800,131–Gypsum-containing board and tile, and method for producing gypsum-containing board and tile, United States Gypsum Co., Chicago
6,800,253–Apparatus and process for improved aromatic extraction from gasoline, Denim Engineering Inc., Park Ridge
6,800,274–Photostabilizers, UV absorbers, and methods of photostabilizing a sunscreen composition, The C.P. Hall Co., Chicago
6,800,310–Cereal agglomeration process and agglomerated cereal product, Kraft Foods Holdings Inc., Northfield
6,800,432–Apparatus and method for inactivating viral contaminants in body fluids, Baxter International Inc., Deerfield
6,800,786–Preparation of desflurane, Baxter International Inc., Deerfield
6,800,820–Mesoscale MEMS switch apparatus and method, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,800,832–Method and apparatus for welding, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview
6,800,946–Selective underfill for flip chips and flip-chip assemblies, Motorola Inc., Arlington Heights
6,801,040–Electronic battery tester with battery failure temperature determination, Midtronics Inc., Willowbrook
6,801,041–Sensor having electrode for determining the rate of flow of a fluid, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago
6,801,082–Power amplifier circuit and method using bandlimited signal component estimates, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,086–Adaptive digital pre-distortion using amplifier model that incorporates frequency-dependent non-linearities, Andrew Corp., Orland Park
6,801,111–Latch for an electrical device, Square D Co., Palatine
6,801,136–Method of reducing noise in a borehole electromagnetic telemetry system, Gas Research Institute, Des Plaines
6,801,157–Guided wave radar level transmitter, Magnetrol International Inc., Downers Grove
6,801,159–Device for use with a portable inertial navigation system (“PINS”) and method for transitioning between location technologies, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,164–Broadband and multiband antennas, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,228–Method and user interface for specifying toppings and their placement on a pizza, IPDEV Co., Chicago
6,801,443–Power supply with snubber circuit, Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview
6,801,512–Method and apparatus for providing a distributed architecture digital wireless communication system, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,538–Method and device for controlling outliers in offered load estimation in a shared medium communication network, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,571–Method and apparatus for optimizing data compression in a wireless digital access system, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,590–Method and apparatus for symbol independent discriminator correlator automatic frequency control, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,611–Call pod for having conference calls in a portable environment, Callpod Inc., Chicago
6,801,642–Method and apparatus for limiting storage or transmission of visual information, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,680–Signal interconnect incorporating multiple modular units, Tellabs Operations Inc., Naperville
6,801,754–Intelligent repeater and method to provide increased signaling, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,764–Broadband medical emergency response system, Boeing Co., Chicago
6,801,769–Modular aircraft information network system and an associated method of packaging the same, Boeing Co., Chicago
6,801,783–Base site and method for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg
6,801,850–Method and system for tracking moving objects, University of Illinois-Chicago
6,801,916–Method and system for generation of medical reports from data in a hierarchically organized database, Cyberpulse LLC, Highland Park
