Patents

Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

GRANTED FEB. 26

APPLICANTS: Daniel H. Richards, Durham

ASSIGNEE: ZellComp, Durham

TITLE: Composite decking system

NUMBER: 7,334,373

FILING DATE: May 10, 2005

GRANTED MARCH 4

APPLICANTS: William E. Cosselmon, Charlottesville, Va.; Stephen E. Allen, Milford, Mass.; Robert P. Fadden, Hillsborough; Jeffrey M. Partridge, Durham

ASSIGNEE: Serenex, Durham

TITLE: Gel box for an auto sample feed gel system

NUMBER: D563,562

FILING DATE: Feb. 15, 2005

APPLICANTS: Jeffrey Slater, Raleigh; Carson E. Ahlman, New York, N.Y.; Christopher P. Nunes, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; Anthony Rogers, Holland, Pa.

ASSIGNEE: Nomaco, Zebulon

TITLE: Connector for toy products

NUMBER: D563,486

FILING DATE: March 23, 2007

APPLICANTS: Bjorn Jawerth, Morrisville; Viraj Mehta, Duluth, Ga.

TITLE: Folding keyboard

NUMBER: D563,407

FILING DATE: Feb. 7, 2006

APPLICANTS: Ashish A. Chandwadkar, Morrisville; Chris O'Rourke, Apex

ASSIGNEE: Cisco, San Jose, Calif.

TITLE: System and method for optimizing sessions and network resources in a load-balancing environment

NUMBER: 7,340,744

FILING DATE: April 8, 2005

APPLICANTS: Fred A. Bower III, Durham

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: Cooperatively multitasking in an interrupt-free computing environment

NUMBER: 7,340,740

FILING DATE: April 22, 2003

APPLICANTS: Anthony Correale Jr., Raleigh

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: System and method for creating a standard cell library for reduced leakage and improved performance

NUMBER: 7,340,712

FILING DATE: June 1, 2005

APPLICANTS: Hayden C. Cranford Jr., Vernon R. Norman, Cary; Martin L. Schmatz, Rucschlikon, Switzerland

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: Method and system for using statistical signatures for testing high-speed circuits

NUMBER: 7,340,660

FILING DATE: Oct. 7, 2003

APPLICANTS: Gerald G. Pechanek, Cary; Patrick R. Marchand, Apex; Larry D. Larsen, Raleigh

ASSIGNEE: Altera Corp., San Jose, Calif.

TITLE: Providing parallel operand functions using register file and extra path storage

NUMBER: 7,340,591

FILING DATE: Oct. 28, 2004

APPLICANTS: James R. Godwin, Linwood H. Overby Jr., Raleigh; David A. Herr, Apex

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: Methods for providing data from network secure communications in a cluster computing environment

NUMBER: 7,340,530

FILING DATE: Jan. 17, 2001

APPLICANTS: Mark J. Buxton, Chandler, Ariz.; Patrick J. Fay, Apex; William W. Macey Jr., Palo Alto, Calif.; Eric L. Debes, Santa Clara, Calif.

ASSIGNEE: Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.

TITLE: Superior misaligned memory load and copy using merge hardware

NUMBER: 7,340,495

FILING DATE: June 30, 2003

APPLICANTS: John M. Lake, Cary

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: System and method for reducing memory leaks in virtual machine programs

NUMBER: 7,340,493

FILING DATE: July 2, 2003

APPLICANTS: James H. Goodnight, Cary; Wolfgang M. Hartmann, Heidelberg, Germany; John C. Brocklebank, Raleigh

ASSIGNEE: SAS Institute, Cary

TITLE: Hybrid neural network generation system and method

NUMBER: 7,340,440

FILING DATE: Dec. 8, 2006

APPLICANTS: Norman C. Strole, Raleigh

ASSIGNEE: IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y.

TITLE: Method and system for monitoring and control of complex systems based on a programmable network processor

NUMBER: 7,340,312

FILING DATE: June 26, 2003

APPLICANTS: Michael S. Welch, Raleigh

ASSIGNEE: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sweden