From Deseret News archives:
13 new patents awarded to Utahns
• 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.
• 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.
• Human metabatropic glutamate receptor. Karen J. Krapcho, Thomas M. Stormann, Cynthia Levinthal, Lance G. Hammerland, Laura Storjohann, all of Salt Lake City. Assigned to NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc., Salt Lake City. Filed Jan. 17, 2003. Patent No. 7,241,863.
