The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the following patents recently to Chicago-area companies:
Andrew Corp., Orland Park, linearizing LINC amplifiers using predistortion, 6,930,547
Ball Horticultural Co., West Chicago, New Guinea impatiens plant named Balcebpiel, PP15,922
Baxter International Inc., Deerfield, vented-medical-fluid tip-protector methods, 6,929,751
Boeing Co., Chicago:
– Dual-flexure-plate angular accelerometer, 6,928,876
– Modularized integrated aircraft seat structure, 6,929,218
– Spark checker-spark arc gage, 6,930,441
– Embedded fiber-optic demodulator, 6,930,820
– Method for generating three-dimensional CAD models of complex products or systems, 6,931,294
Brunswick Corp., Lake Forest:
– Method for controlling a shift procedure for a marine propulsion system, 6,929,518
– Cooling method for a marine propulsion system, 6,929,520
Cabot Microelectronics Corp., Aurora, method of forming a current-controlling device, 6,929,983
Cummins Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, method and apparatus for document processing, 6,929,109
Electro-Motive Diesel Inc., La Grange:
– Diesel engine water pump with improved oil control, 6,929,449
– Traction motor fault-detection system, 6,930,490
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Schaumburg, underbump metallurgy structural design for high-reliability bumped packages, 6,930,032
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview:
– Process and apparatus for forming packaging bags with a fastener, 6,928,791
– Hydraulically compensated stabilizer system, 6,929,271
– Fastener, 6,929,273
– Belt-drive assembly for feeding zipper tape, 6,929,594
– System for cooling a welding device, 6,930,281
Magneco/Metrel Inc., Addison, tundish impact pad, 6,929,775
Midtronics Inc., Willowbrook, electronic battery tester with battery failure temperature determination, 6,930,485
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg:
– Circuit board with embedded components and method of manufacture, 6,928,726
– High-pressure sensor, 6,928,880
– Feed-through design and method for a hermetically sealed microdevice, 6,929,974
– Apparel having multiple alternative sensors and corresponding method, 6,930,608
– Method and apparatus for processing services in communication system, 6,930,997
– Vehicle active network with backbone structure, 6,931,004
– Method and apparatus for a target-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network, 6,931,249
– System and method of call-admission control in a wireless network, 6,931,251
– Communication devices with application shortcut keys and methods therefore, 6,931,264
– Dual-access serial peripheral interface, 6,931,470
– Method and apparatus for patching code and data residing on a memory, 6,931,477
– Dynamic image provisioning, 6,931,661
Neuroscience Toolworks Inc., Evanston, comprehensive pain-assessment systems and methods, 6,929,607
Perkins Manufacturing Co., La Grange, refuse container lifter, 6,929,441
Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, method for making a puffed food-starch product, 6,929,813
Robert Bosch Corp., Broadview, stroke-gain device for a master cylinder, 6,928,813
Rockwell Electronic Commerce Technologies LLC, Wood Dale, apparatus and method for providing caller-specific data to agent station and for automatically launching corresponding application, 6,931,119
Technical Concepts LLC, Mundelein, system and method for dispensing soap, 6,929,150
Tellabs Operations Inc., Naperville, method and apparatus for maintaining a predetermined ratio of a pilot tone power and a mean optical output power of an optical signal, 6,931,214
Triodyne Inc., Northbrook, zero-speed indicating devices and processes for testing same, 6,928,855
