The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the following patents recently to Chicago-area companies:
– ACCO Brands Inc., Lincolnshire, stapler anvil, 6,925,849
– Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, sealant applicator and method employing impulse clearing, 6,926,695
– Boeing Co., Chicago:
Ultrasonic fuel-gauging system, 6,925,869
Apparatus for manufacturing operations using non-contact position sensing, 6,926,094
Aircraft with thrust vectoring for switchably providing upper-surface blowing, 6,926,229
Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, 6,926,231
Runway-independent omni-role modularity enhancement (ROME) vehicle, 6,926,235
Infrared temperature sensors for solar panel, 6,926,440
Method and apparatus for synchronous impeller-pitch vehicle control, 6,926,566
Cable access box for commercial aircraft, 6,927,334
Control system and method for a magnetic indexer for high-accuracy hole drilling, 6,927,560
System and method for radar detection and calibration, 6,927,725
Computational air data system for angle of attack and angle of sideslip, 6,928,341
Autotiller control system for aircraft, 6,928,363
Battery overtemperature control system and method, 6,928,381
– Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest, method for controlling fuel pressure for a fuel-injected engine, 6,925,990
– C.P. Hall Co., Chicago, photostabilizers, UV absorbers and methods of photostabilizing a sunscreen composition, 6,926,887
– Careguide Systems Inc., Gurnee, female clean-intermittent catheter system, 6,926,708
– ChemGrout Inc., La Grange Park, suction housing for rotor/stator pump, 6,926,492
– Credo Technology Corp., Broadview, jig assembly, 6,926,477
– Feelsure Health Corp., Park Ridge, valve for bladder-control device, 6,926,665
– Flexible Steel Lacing Co., Downers Grove, scraper blade for conveyor belts, 6,926,133
– Fluid Management Inc., Wheeling, paint-colorant dispenser, 6,926,171
– FMC Technologies Inc., Chicago:
Tree-fruit harvester, including deflector with pivoting upper portion and associated methods, 6,925,792
Metal-to-metal sealing system, 6,926,283
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview:
Method and apparatus for placing a product in a flexible recloseable container, 6,925,779
Vibration damping clip, 6,926,237
Biased-strap tension-retaining device, 6,926,258
Threaded fastener for use within multiple substrates, 6,926,484
– McNish Corp., Aurora, condensate removal system, 6,926,022
– Medi-Physics Inc., Arlington Heights, device for loading radioactive seeds, 6,926,657
– Molex Inc., Lisle, terminal assembly for high-speed connector, 6,926,539
– Motorola Inc., Schaumburg:
Mobile communication device having a light accessory port, 6,926,451
Surface treatment of mechanically abraded glass, 6,926,592
Interconnect apparatus for fuel cells, 6,926,989
Fuel cell having porous electrodes and method for forming same, 6,926,990
Flexible test cable, 6,927,332
Flexible circuit-board assembly, 6,927,344
Vertically integrated photosensor for CMOS imagers, 6,927,432
Sleep-mode batteries in electronics devices and methods therefore, 6,927,555
Amplifier power control in frequency-hopping applications and methods, 6,927,627
Method and apparatus for multiantenna transmission, 6,927,728
Dual-directional display for communication device, 6,927,747
Method and system for providing a disambiguated keypad, 6,927,763
Method and apparatus for providing a dispatch patch service in a CDMA communication system, 6,928,063
Methods of addressing and signaling a plurality of subscriber units in a single slot, 6,928,065
Amplifier predistortion system and method, 6,928,122
Method for estimating time to full charge in a rechargeable battery, 6,928,372
– Nalco Co., Naperville, method of using water-soluble polymers in a membrane biological reactor, 6,926,832
– OpinionLab Inc., Highland Park, collecting a user response to an explicit question specifically concerning a particular Web page of a Web site, 6,928,392
– Pactiv Corp., Lake Forest, methods of using an oxygen scavenger, 6,926,846
– Pharmanutrients, Lake Bluff, methods and compositions for the attenuation and/or prevention of stress/catabolic responses, 6,927,239
– Phoenix Closures Inc., Naperville, closure assembly with a formed exterior top, 6,926,857
– Se-Kure Controls Inc., Franklin Park, lasso for securing an object to be monitored and a method of securing an object to be monitored using the lasso, 6,927,689
– SPSS Inc., Chicago, system and method for building a time-series model, 6,928,398
– TIX Co., Chicago, center-sill car jack utilizing air bellows, 6,926,256
– UOP LLC, Des Plaines:
High-activity isomerization catalyst and process, 6,927,188
Fractionation and treatment of full-boiling-range gasoline, 6,927,314
– W. W. Grainger Inc., Lake Forest, system and method for data storage and retrieval, 6,928,446
– Weber-Stephen Products Co., Palatine, barbecue grill assembly, 6,925,998
– Zenith Electronics Corp., Lincolnshire, mapping system for transmission and reception of multiple data types, 6,927,708
