Deseret News | 13 new patents awarded to Utahns

13 new patents awarded to Utahns

By By Karl R. Cannon

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007 1:00 a.m. MDT

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Thirteen patents were awarded to Utah inventors on July 10. U.S. patents are granted each Tuesday. The new patents include:

• Vertical and horizontal adjustable hinge assembly. Brent Bonham, Springville. Filed Oct. 25, 2004, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/513,668, filed Oct. 23, 2003. Patent No. 7,240,400.

• High frequency thermoacoustic refrigerator. Orest G. Symko, Salt Lake City; Ehab Abdel-Rahman, Cairo, Egypt. Assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City. Filed Oct. 1, 2004, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,240,495.

• Method for modeling material constitutive behavior. Ning Fang, Logan; Thomas H. Fronk, Providence. Assigned to Utah State University, Logan. Filed May 17, 2005, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/574,090, filed May 25, 2004. Patent No. 7,240,562.

• Method and apparatus for detecting and determining event characteristics with reduced data collection. Peter D. Totman, David J. Macon, both of Ogden; Randy L. Everton, Mark R. Egget, both of Brigham City. Assigned to Alliant Techsystems Inc., Edina, Minn. Filed July 30, 2002. Patent No. 7,240,564.

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• Explosive device with accelerated bioremediation capacity. Farrell G. Badger, Mapleton; Brendan M. Welch, Farmington; Ronald D. Thomas, Woodland Hills; Lyman G. Bahr, Payson; Dean F. Richards, Pleasant Grove. Assigned to Dyno Noble Inc., Salt Lake City. Filed Dec. 30, 2003, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,240,618.

• Systems and methods for establishing communication between and identification tag reader and a computing device. Paul Hepworth, Riverton; George Powell, Sandy; Jeremy Fillingim, South Salt Lake. Assigned to The Code Corp., Draper. Filed Jan. 21, 2004. Patent No. 7,240,831.

• Systems and methods for recycling asphalt. David A. Packer, Todd Morgan, Mark Bjarnson, all of Kaysville; Robert Van Arsdale, Bountiful. Filed Dec. 12, 2006, a divisional of Patent No. 7,150,420, filed July 7, 2003. Patent No. 7,240,866.

• Method of screening for agents that regulate the shedding of membrane bound aproteins and method of use. Stephen M. Prescott, Matthew Topham, both of Salt Lake City; Fumio Sakane, Sapporo, Japan; Akinobu Taketomi, Nakatsu, Japan. Assigned to the University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City. Filed Mar. 22, 2002, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,241,570.