The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the following patents recently to Chicago-area companies:
ACCO Brands Inc., Lincolnshire, stapler apparatus, 6,902,094
Boeing Co., Chicago:
Tie-in device for the correlation of coordinate systems, 6,901,673
Capacitance-acceleration-derivative detector, 6,901,801
Automated tube-trimming system, 6,901,833
Blast-attenuation device and method, 6,901,839
Wireless landing-gear-monitoring system, 6,902,136
Solid-state spark detection, 6,903,357
Methods and systems for predicting electromagnetic scattering, 6,904,374
Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest:
DC motor with integral controller, 6,902,446
Marine propulsion system with vertical adjustment without requiring a U-joint, 6,902,451
Compliance Software Solutions Corp., Vernon Hills, method and computer-readable medium for collection of environmental data and generation of user report for compliance with FDA requirements, 6,904,370
Dynetics Engineering Corp. Inc., Lincolnshire, card-package-production system with adhesive-card-attachment station and method, 6,902,518
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Intranet mediator, 6,904,428
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview:
Zipper with preactivated peel seal, 6,901,637
Container closure, 6,902,075
Method and apparatus for feeding slider-zipper tape to application station, 6,902,091
Collated road-marker assembly and system and method for automatically applying collated road markers to roadway surfaces, 6,902,348, 6,902,349 and 6,902,350
Intelligent Medical Objects Inc., Northbrook, adaptive data manager, 6,904,432
JJL Technologies LLC, Morton Grove, miniaturized system and method for measuring optical characteristics, 6,903,813
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg:
Apparatus for intrinsically safe power interface, 6,902,412
FED cathode structure using electrophoretic deposition and method of fabrication, 6,902,658
Power-fault battery-protection circuit, 6,903,533
Hand-held communications devices with joysticks and switch-contact layouts therefore, 6,903,724
Dynamic interactive animated screen saver, 6,903,743
Method and apparatus for group call services, 6,904,023
Method and apparatus for a source-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network, 6,904,029
Spread-spectrum-receiver apparatus and method, 6,904,081
Method and apparatus for adaptive signaling in a QAM communication system, 6,904,097
Low-noise linear transmitter using cartesian feedback, 6,904,268
Method and apparatus for interurban dispatch private calling, 6,904,285
Velocity enhancement for OFDM systems, 6,904,550
Nalco Co., Naperville, system for feeding solid materials to a pressurized pipeline, 6,901,945
Nanosphere Inc., Northbrook, nanoparticles having oligonucleotides attached thereto and uses therefore, 6,902,895 and 6,903,207
PCTEL Inc., Chicago, DSL link with embedded control and multichannel capability, 6,904,083
Stratos International Inc., Chicago, circuit board construction for use in small-form-factor fiber-optic communication system transponders, 6,903,934
Sunstar Americas Inc., Chicago, enhanced dental hygiene system with direct UVA photoexcitation, 6,902,397
WestfaliaSurge Inc., Naperville, iodine-propylene glycol teat dip, 6,902,747
Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago, golf club vibration-dampening and sound-attenuation system, 6,902,495
World Properties Inc., Lincolnwood, electrically conductive silicones and method of manufacture thereof, 6,902,688
Zenith Electronics Corp., Lincolnshire, multipath ghost-eliminating equalizer with optimum noise enhancement, 6,904,085
