RETURN to News Archive ================================================== Copyright(c) 1998-2003 GEN-ERIC Channel.  All rights reserved. GEN-ERIC Patent News Tuesday, September 23, 2003 ================================================== Use Quick Links to Access any Area of Interest Headlines News Patents of the Day Access Official Gazette and Notices Patents Available for Licensing Patent Employment Opportunities Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES   (patents issued a few hours ago..) The Motion Sickness Patent of the Day goes to Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester for a Digital image sequence display system and method The Moody Blues Patent of the Day goes to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. of Houston for a Biofeedback based personal entertainment system     Index ================================================== NEWS Cadence and Mentor settle patent dispute http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/09/23/rtr1088818.html Mentor Graphics Corp. has agreed to pay $18 million to rival Cadence Design Systems Inc. as part of a patent-suit settlement, the two electronic design systems companies said on Tuesday. As part of the settlement, the companies agreed not to sue each other over certain patented technology for seven years.     Index Nomos and Zmed settle patent claims http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/09/15/daily54.html Nomos Corp. said Friday it settled claims of patent infringement with Zmed Inc. The settlement agreement resolves claims by both companies that the other's products infringed on their patents, according to Nomos, a developer of technology for delivering radiation therapy to cancer patients. Nomos said the settlement, which ends back-and-forth lawsuits filed in Boston, also includes a provision for the companies to cross-license their patent rights. Zmed, which is in the same business, is based in Ashland, Mass.     Index Patent pirates suffer wrath of Palco Labs http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/September/19/biz/stories/01biz.htm In a rare judicial ruling, a Miami federal magistrate recommended the incarceration of two executives for contempt in a case stemming from a patent infringement lawsuit filed two years ago by Santa Cruz medical device maker Palco Laboratories Inc. A federal judge has 10 days from Monday to review the case and determine whether the top executives of VitalCare Group of Miami should land in jail until they comply with their settlement agreement. "This has been a long time coming," said James Gale of Feldman Gale & Weber in Miami, who represents Palco. "The VitalCare defendants have absolutely flouted prior rulings." Palco is a 24-year-old privately held company that develops and markets medical products for diabetics, children and clinical lab use, among other products.     Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY 6,623,428 Digital image sequence display system and method Background:  In a visual display system that depicts a real world motion scene, many people may experience motion sickness, or more precisely, simulator sickness. Individuals experiencing slight levels of simulator sickness may experience some level of positive effects, such as excitement. However, beyond some threshold, the viewer may begin to experience a number of negative effects such as light-headedness, nausea, headache and other undesirable symptoms. It is well understood that providing conflicting or inconsistent psychological cues to a viewer induces this particular type of illness. There is a need therefore for an improved method of generating a digital image sequence that reduces the degree and incidence of motion sickness in viewers. Abstract:  A system and method of generating an immersive digital image sequence capable of providing a perception of self-motion, includes the steps of: generating the digital image sequence; and adjusting the digital image sequence to control the perception of self-motion, whereby the degree of motion sickness induced in a viewer of the digital image sequence is controlled.     Index 6,623,427 Biofeedback based personal entertainment system Abstract:  A personal entertainment system calibrated and controlled by the biological or physiological condition of a user is disclosed. The entertainment system includes a media player; a sensor operative to detect biological parameters and generating a control signal in response to the detected parameters, the sensor being operably coupled to the media player; and a processing element which associates the control signal to at least one type of media preference, and causes the media player to provide media stimuli based on the control signal. Thus the media stimuli provided by the entertainment system is specific to the individual preferences and detected condition of the user.     Index ================================================== ACCESS OFFICIAL GAZETTE AND NOTICES Access this week's Official Gazette http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week38/OG/index2.htm Excerpt from OG Notices Amendments Permitted Removal from Register     Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING to Learn More or to List a Patent Plug-and-play smart data cable The invention includes a smart, plug-and-play cable capable of transparently translating between two different communication protocols. The cables are "plug-and-play" such that two devices can be coupled together for communication without the requirement that the user perform any special set-up steps in order for it to work. To implement this plug-and-play functionality, the smart cable of the present invention determines which communication protocols are required at each of its ports, and selects, activates, enables, or downloads the appropriate communication protocol drivers to enable proper operation. Electric shaver having orbitally moving blades An electric shaver includes blades which while rotating around their own centers also orbit around another axis, thus providing that the blades sweep a large area. Implantable fuel cell This invention makes use of an electrostrictive material to increase the efficiency of a fuel cell as used for the production of power within a human.     Index ================================================== PATENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES to List a Job Patent Related Jobs from Monster Patent Related Jobs from www.IntelPropLaw.com     Index ================================================== GEN-ERIC Channel