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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Feb. 14)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Applied Micro Circuits Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Applied Micro Circuits, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,375,201) developed by Bradley John Booth, Austin, Texas, for an "ethernet PHY level security." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for securing links at the physical (PHY) layer in an IEEE 802.3 Ethernet communication system. A local device (LD) receives an electrical waveform representing link partner security information from a network-connected link partner (LP) via unformatted message pages. The LD accesses predetermined LP reference information stored in a tangible memory medium. The LD compares the received LP security information to the LP reference information. In response to the LD matching the received LP security information to the LP reference information, a secure link to the LP is verified. Likewise, the LD may send electrical waveforms representing security information to the LP via the unformatted message pages. In response to the LP matching the LD security information to the LD reference information, a secure link to the LD is verified." The patent application was filed on March 5, 2009 (12/399,002). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,375,201.PN.&OS=PN/8,375,201&RS=PN/8,375,201 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Preventing Fast Read Before Write in Static Random Access Memory Arrays ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,375,172) developed by four co-inventors for "preventing fast read before write in static random access memory arrays." The co-inventors are Eddie K. Chan, Austin, Texas, Michael J. Lee, Austin, Texas, Ricardo H. Nigaglioni, Austin, Texas, and Bao G. Truong, Austin, Texas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A mechanism is provided for enabling a proper write through during a write-through operation. Responsive to determining the memory access as a write-through operation, first circuitry determines whether a data input signal is in a first state or a second state. Responsive to the data input signal being in the second state, the first circuitry outputs a global write line signal in the first state. Responsive to the global write line signal being in the first state, second circuitry outputs a column select signal in the second state. Responsive to the column select signal being in the second state, third circuitry keeps a downstream read path of the cache access memory at the first state such that data output by the cache memory array is in the first state." The patent application was filed on April 16, 2010 (12/761,618). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,375,172.PN.&OS=PN/8,375,172&RS=PN/8,375,172 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Motion Computing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Motion Computing, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,660) developed by Todd W. Steigerwald, Austin, Texas, and Jerry Mayfield, Georgetown, Texas, for an "apparatus and method for reducing the electromagnetic interference between two or more antennas coupled to a wireless communication device." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An apparatus for reducing the electromagnetic interference between two or more co-located antennas is described herein. In one embodiment, the apparatus is positioned proximate to a second antenna for intercepting electromagnetic energy radiated from a first antenna during transmission of a signal. To reduce interference at the second antenna, the apparatus includes a plurality of resonant circuit elements, each being configured to resonate at or near a carrier frequency of the transmitted signal for redirecting at least a portion of the electromagnetic energy away from the second antenna. A method for reducing the electromagnetic interference between two or more antennas coupled to a wireless communication device is also disclosed herein." The patent application was filed on Jan. 4, 2007 (11/619,668). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,374,660.PN.&OS=PN/8,374,660&RS=PN/8,374,660 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,094) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems to verify a communication path between a field device and a process controller in a process control system." The co-inventors are Gary Law, Georgetown, Texas, Brandon Hieb, Cedar Park, Texas, David R. Denison, Austin, Texas, and Cheyenne Hernandez, New Manila Quezon, Philippines. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Example methods and systems to verify a communication path between a field device and a process controller in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes transmitting via a first wireless communication path to a first portion of a process control system associated with one of the field device or the process controller, a command signal from a verification controller. In response to receiving the command signal in the first portion of the process control system, transmitting a verification signal via a first wired communication path from the first portion of the process control system to a second portion of the process control system associated with the other one of the field device or the process controller. Then, in response to receiving the verification signal in the second portion of the process control system, transmitting a reception signal via a second wireless communication path from the second portion of the process control system to the verification controller and in response to receiving the verification signal in the verification controller, verifying the communication path between the field device and the process controller." The patent application was filed on Dec. 11, 2008 (12/333,074). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,094.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,094&RS=PN/83,74,094 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Hewlett-Packard Development Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Hewlett-Packard Development, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,374,175) developed by Dwight D. Riley, Houston, for a "system and method for remote direct memory access over a network switch fabric." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for remote direct memory access over a network switch fabric. Some illustrative embodiments may include a system comprising a first system node, a direct memory access (DMA) controller, a second system node, and a network switch fabric coupling together the first and second system nodes (the network switch fabric comprises a rooted hierarchical bus). The DMA controller is configured to perform a DMA transfer of data between the first and second system nodes across the network switch fabric. The data is formatted as one or more remote DMA (RDMA) protocol messages that are routed across the network switch fabric based on a bus end-device identifier corresponding to the second system node." The patent application was filed on April 27, 2005 (11/116,008). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,175.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,175&RS=PN/83,74,175 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,214) developed by June Chul Roh, Allen, Texas, and Anuj Batra, Dallas, for a frequency-hopping scheme. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method comprises generating, by logic, a random number. The method also comprises determining a next frequency in said sequence using the random number and one or more of a minimum separation, a channel number, and a number of channels. The method further comprises hopping to the next frequency." The patent application was filed on April 13, 2010 (12/759,684). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,74,214.PN.&OS=PN/83,74,214&RS=PN/83,74,214 Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Apple Assigned Patent for Methods for Optimal Collaborative MIMO-SDMA ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Apple, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,374,650) developed by Jayesh H. Kotecha, Austin, Texas, and Jayakrishnan C. Mundarath, Madison, Wis., for "methods for optimal collaborative MIMO-SDMA." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for collaboratively designing optimized beamforming vectors is disclosed for a wireless multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) communication system to optimize an aggregate SNR performance metric across the different users, thereby permitting the flexibility to trade off computational requirements and size of control information exchanged with performance. Using adaptive vector space search methods, the space of all receive beamformers is searched to find the set which maximizes either the sum or product of SNRs of the users." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2006 (11/535,702). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,374,650.PN.&OS=PN/8,374,650&RS=PN/8,374,650 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,898) developed by nine co-inventors for a "bulk material ship routing and inventory management schedule optimization." The co-inventors are Amr S. El-Bakry, Bedminster, N.J., Jin-Hwa Song, Whitehouse Station, N.J., Vikas Goel, Houston, Kevin C. Furman, Houston, Federico D. Carvallo, Sugar Land, Texas, Sangbum Lee, Fairfax, Va., James Dreher, Houston, Aristides Miroyannis, Houston, and Richard Perry Connell, Houston. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention is a computational system to generate feasible marine transportation schedules given a proposed bulk material supply chain. The decision support tool will fulfill the objectives and scope defined above. The technology employed will require (a) the use of mathematical programming modeling techniques (mixed integer linear programming) to mathematically formulate the business problem, and (b) advanced proprietary solution methods to produce solutions satisfying all constraints of the mathematical model while optimizing an objective function. The decision support tool has the following capabilities: Read input data, Generate feasible bulk material ship Schedule, Evaluate bulk material ship Schedule with User-defined Objective Function, Allow Case comparison, Graphical user interface (GUI) for specifying input data and displaying results." The patent application was filed on Sept. 1, 2009 (12/584,239). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,898&OS=8,374,898&RS=8,374,898 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,851) developed by four co-inventors for a "voice activity detector and method." The co-inventors are Takahiro Unno, Richardson, Texas, Jesper Gormsen Kragh, Langaa, Denmark, Fabien Ober, Villeneuve-Loubet, France, and Ali Erdem Ertan, Dallas. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Acoustic echo control for hands-free phone has acoustic echo cancellation and echo suppression with a voice activity detection for the echo suppression based on near-end input power together with an estimate for acoustic echo cancellation gain." The patent application was filed on July 30, 2007 (11/830,343). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,851&OS=8,374,851&RS=8,374,851 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Southern Methodist University Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Southern Methodist University, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,854) developed by Scott C. Douglas, University Park, Texas, and Malay Gupta, Schaumburg, Ill., for a "spatio-temporal speech enhancement technique based on generalized eigenvalue decomposition." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present invention describes a speech enhancement method using microphone arrays and a new iterative technique for enhancing noisy speech signals under low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) environments. A first embodiment involves the processing of the observed noisy speech both in the spatial- and the temporal-domains to enhance the desired signal component speech and an iterative technique to compute the generalized eigenvectors of the multichannel data derived from the microphone array. The entire processing is done on the spatio-temporal correlation coefficient sequence of the observed data in order to avoid large matrix-vector multiplications. A further embodiment relates to a speech enhancement system that is composed of two stages. In the first stage, the noise component of the observed signal is whitened, and in the second stage a spatio-temporal power method is used to extract the most dominant speech component. In both the stages, the filters are adapted using the multichannel spatio-temporal correlation coefficients of the data and hence avoid large matrix vector multiplications." The patent application was filed on March 27, 2009 (12/413,070). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,854&OS=8,374,854&RS=8,374,854 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Geoscape Analytics Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Geoscape Analytics, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,836) developed by Elan Yogeswaren, Houston, for "methods and systems for constructing and using a subterranean geomechanics model spanning local to zonal scale in complex geological environments." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In an exemplary embodiment, a method and system is disclosed for developing a subterranean geomechanics model of a complex geological environment. The method can include estimating a pore pressure field, a stress field, a geomechanics property field, and a geological structure field from a geological concept model; geostatistically interpolating vectors and tensors from the estimated fields; and combining the results from the estimated fields and the geostatistically interpolated vectors and tensors to derive a geostatistical geomechanical model of the geological environment." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2009 (12/616,026). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,836&OS=8,374,836&RS=8,374,836 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, Md., has been assigned a patent (8,374,807) developed by A. Daniel Hall, Friendswood, Texas, for a "method and apparatus that detects state of charge (SOC) of a battery." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method and apparatus are provided for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a battery. Curves are generated to expresses a relationship between a first parameter and an SOC over a region of interest. A voltage and a current of the battery during a period of time are measured to create a set of voltage and current data, which is then processed to create a set of processed data. The processed data is then combined with the generated curves to generate processed data as a function of SOC. A curve is generated that evaluates each SOC for accuracy and chance likelihood of fit. An SOC that minimizes both the error and chance is selected and output for display to the user on a user interface." The patent application was filed on Nov. 11, 2009 (12/616,593). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,807&OS=8,374,807&RS=8,374,807 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Gyrodata Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Gyrodata, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,374,793) developed by Roger Ekseth, Sjetnemarka, Norway, John Lionel Weston, Chedzoy, United Kingdom, and Gary William Uttecht, Houston, for "reducing error contributions to gyroscopic measurements from a wellbore survey system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method reduces error contributions to gyroscopic measurements from a first gyroscopic sensor and a second gyroscopic sensor. The method includes receiving a first set of measurement signals and a second set of measurement signals indicative of at least one substantially perpendicular component and indicative of a substantially parallel component of the Earth's rotation. The method further includes receiving one or more measurement signals generated by a plurality of accelerometers and calculating a first and second mass unbalance offset error for the first gyroscopic sensor and the second gyroscopic sensor, respectively." The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2011 (13/243,989). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,793&OS=8,374,793&RS=8,374,793 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Verizon Patent and Licensing Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Verizon Patent and Licensing, Basking Ridge, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,374,872) developed by Manohar R. Kesireddy, Plano, Texas, for a "dynamic update of grammar for interactive voice response." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A device provides a question to a user, and receives, from the user, an unrecognized voice response to the question. The device also provides the unrecognized voice response to an utterance agent for determination of the unrecognized voice response without user involvement, and provides an additional question to the user prior to receiving the determination of the unrecognized voice response from the utterance agent." The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/264,392). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,872&OS=8,374,872&RS=8,374,872 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Morphism Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Morphism, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,873) developed by James H. Stephens Jr., Austin, Texas, for "training and applying prosody models." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles." The patent application was filed on Aug. 11, 2009 (12/538,970). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,873&OS=8,374,873&RS=8,374,873 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Nuance Communications Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Nuance Communications, Burlington, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,374,874) developed by Charles W. Cross Jr., Wellington, Fla., and Hilary A. Pike, College Station, Texas, for "establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application in dependence upon attributes of user interaction." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Establishing a multimodal personality for a multimodal application, including evaluating, by the multimodal application, attributes of a user's interaction with the multimodal application; selecting, by the multimodal application, a vocal demeanor in dependence upon the values of the attributes of the user's interaction with the multimodal application; and incorporating, by the multimodal application, the vocal demeanor into the multimodal application." The patent application was filed on Sept. 11, 2006 (11/530,628). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,874&OS=8,374,874&RS=8,374,874 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Halliburton Energy Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Halliburton Energy Services, Houston, has been assigned a patent (8,374,835) developed by William H. Lind, Magnolia, Texas, and Kevin L. Glass, Spring, Texas, for a "method and apparatus to improve design, manufacture, performance and/or use of well tools." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems are provided to improve design, manufacture and performance of oilfield equipment and well tools using three dimensional (3D) scanning technology and one or more feedback loops. Manufacturing processes and techniques associated with a well tool may be evaluated based on comparing "as built" 3D data with a design data file for the well tool. Based on differences between "as built" 3D data and the design data file, one or more changes in associated manufacturing procedures and/or technique may be made. Computational fluid dynamic applications may be used to simulate fluid flow characteristics of a well tool using associated design data file, "as built" 3D data and/or after use 3D data. The associated design data file, manufacturing procedures and/or procedures for use of the well tool may be modified based on comparing simulated fluid flow data with desired fluid flow characteristics for the well tool." The patent application was filed on Nov. 26, 2008 (12/745,671). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,835&OS=8,374,835&RS=8,374,835 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Tightly-coupled GNSS/IMU Integration Filter Speed Scale-factor and Heading Bias Calibration ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,788) developed by June Chul Roh, Plano, Texas, for a "tightly-coupled GNSS/IMU integration filter speed scale-factor and heading bias calibration." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Embodiments of the invention provide methods to calibrate a tightly-coupled integration filter for inertial sensor-assisted GNSS (global navigation satellite system) receiver. The inertial measurement unit (IMU) contains inertial sensors such as accelerometer, magnetometer, and/or gyroscopes. Embodiments include creating a coordinate transformation matrix using a latest position fix (latitude and longitude). Transforming state variables to a local navigation coordinate using coordinate transformation matrix. The state variables of the integration filter which include speed scale-factor and/or heading bias are estimated. A blended calibrated position fix is outputted." The patent application was filed on March 29, 2012 (13/434,134). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,788&OS=8,374,788&RS=8,374,788 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Texas Instruments Assigned Patent for Precise Detection of Triggers and Trigger Ordering for Asynchronous Events ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 14 -- Texas Instruments, Dallas, has been assigned a patent (8,374,841) developed by Manisha Agarwala, Richardson, Texas, and John M. Johnsen, Dallas, for a "precise detection of triggers and trigger ordering for asynchronous events." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of trace collection in a data processor begins trace data collection even if a trace trigger is received during an interval when a central processing unit is stalled. Trace data collection is deferred if a trace trigger is received during an interval of an invalid instruction boundary until a valid instruction boundary." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2002 (10/301,900). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,374,841&OS=8,374,841&RS=8,374,841 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1114419 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service |