The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the following patents recently to Chicago-area companies:
Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago:
– Balloon occlusion device having a proximal valve, 6,923,822
– Cell proliferation inhibitors, 6,924,304
Ameritech Services Inc., Hoffman Estates, method and system for call tracing, 6,925,164
Andrew Corp., Orland Park, wideband dual polarized base-station antenna offering optimized horizontal beam radiation patterns and variable vertical beam tilt, 6,924,776
Ball Horticultural Co., West Chicago, trailing interspecific impatiens, 6,924,416
Boeing Co., Chicago:
– Articulating glide mechanism for asymmetric door operation, 6,922,871
– Enhanced rudder-control system, 6,923,405
– Light-emitting-diode indicator, 6,924,744
– Temperature-compensated interferometer, 6,924,894
Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest:
Fuel system for a marine propulsion device, 6,923,165
Exercise treadmill, 6,923,746
C.E. Niehoff & Co., Evanston, system and method for controlling electric load and battery charge in a vehicle, 6,924,621
Cabot Microelectronics Corp., Aurora, method and apparatus for providing a miniature, flexible voltage upconverter, 6,925,150
C-Sam Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, device system and methods of conducting paperless transactions, 6,925,439
Deslauriers Inc., Broadview, unbonded system for strength testing of concrete cylinders, 6,923,070
Electro-Motive Diesel Inc., La Grange, engine-cylinder power measuring and balance method, 6,923,155
FMC Technologies Inc., Chicago, small-bore gate valve, 6,923,423
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Schaumburg, system and method for correlated clock networks, 6,925,622
Great Dane Limited Partnership, Chicago, trailer with side wall having laminate panel, 6,923,493
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview:
– Bonded interlocking flooring, 6,922,965
– Damper apparatus, 6,922,869
– Strapping machine with paddle-formed strap path, 6,923,113
– Banded container package with opening feature, 6,923,314
– Self-drilling fastener, 6,923,611
– Gas diffuser for head tube assembly of welding gun, 6,924,461
Jet Lithocolor Inc., Downers Grove, foil laminate credit card and method of producing foil laminate credit card with double-sided printing, 6,924,026
McTier Supply Co., Lake Forest, hose-separation transmitter system and methods, 6,924,733
Medline Industries Inc., Mundelein, body split surgical drape for shoulder, with pouch, 6,923,186
Molex Inc., Lisle, power connector for mounting on a circuit board, 6,923,661
Molon Motor & Coil Corp., Rolling Meadows, three-wire reversing system, 6,924,612
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg:
– Charging system for charging electronic devices in garments, 6,924,619
– Method and apparatus for reduction of electromagnetic feed through in a SAW filter, 6,924,716
– Method and apparatus for discovering neighbors within a piconet communication system, 6,925,064
– Method and apparatus for communication, 6,925,095
– Method and apparatus for performing high-quality fast-predictive motion search, 6,925,123
– Method and apparatus for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio in an orthogonal frequency, division multiplex signal, 6,925,128
– Method and apparatus for quickly establishing a CDMA dispatch call, 6,925,309
– Method and apparatus for vehicle-operator performance assessment and improvement, 6,925,425
– Method and apparatus for providing an animated display with translated speech, 6,925,438
– Remote system-integrity verification, 6,925,566
Pactiv Corp., Lake Forest, antifogging compositions and methods for using the same, 6,923,997
Robert Bosch Corp., Broadview, disc brake, 6,923,296
Spyglass Inc., Naperville, method and system for content conversion of hypertext data using data mining, 6,925,595
Stratos International Inc., Chicago, control of VCSEL emission for better high-speed performance, 6,925,099
Travel Caddy Inc., Des Plaines, luggage with visual inspection panels, 6,923,302
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, heat-activated membrane-introduction apparatus and method for screening materials, 6,923,939
WMS Gaming Inc., Waukegan, synchronization of display indicia on stand-alone gaming machines, 6,923,720
Woodhead Industries Inc., Deerfield, handlamp, 6,923,553
Zenith Electronics Corp., Lincolnshire, robust system for transmitting and receiving map data, 6,924,753
Zimmer Technology Inc., Chicago, implant registration device for surgical navigation system, 6,925,339
