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Printer Friendly Version ================================================== HEADLINES (patents issued a few hours
ago..) The Sine Function Patent of the Day goes
to Nokia Corporation of Finland for a Method and system
for distributing geographical addresses across the surface of the earth
The Living Motion Emulator Patent of the Day goes to an
Independent Inventor from Virginia for a Method for producing natural motions
Index ================================================== NEWS Sony Settles Patent Suit For
$40 Million http://www.rtoonline.com/Content/Article/Nov04/SonySettlesPatentCase112904.asp Ampex
Corporation announced that it has reached a settlement with Sony Corporation
whereby Ampex will withdraw the patent litigation it initiated in July 2004 in
the International Trade Commission (ITC) and in the Federal District Court for
the District of Delaware relating to digital still cameras manufactured and sold
by Sony. Under the terms of the settlement, Sony will be licensed under several
Ampex patents to manufacture and sell various products, including digital video
tape recorders and digital still cameras. In return for a payment of $40.0
million, Sony will be permitted to use Ampex patents in any of its products for
the period through April 2006. After that time, the licenses provide for running
royalties based on sales of products including digital video tape recorders and
digital still cameras to the extent that they utilize Ampex patents. The
licenses provide that their terms are confidential. Index FANUC Robotics
America Files Lawsuit Against Four Companies for Infringing Patented Robot
Technology http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041129/dem034_1.html FANUC Robotics
America today filed a lawsuit against four companies, claiming patent
infringement of three of FANUC Robotics' patents related to the safe, efficient,
and economical use of robots in hazardous environments. The defendants named in
FANUC Robotics' lawsuit are Behr Systems, Inc., its parent company Durr AG of
Germany, Motoman, Inc., and its parent company Yaskawa Electric Corporation of
Japan. FANUC Robotics' lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Michigan, claims that the defendants have manufactured
and sold products that incorporate FANUC Robotics' patented technology and that
are being used in a variety of industrial robot systems, including those used
throughout the automotive manufacturing industry for painting applications.
Index 3Com and PCTEL Settle Intellectual Property Dispute http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=67235 3Com
and PCTEL this week said they have settled an intellectual property dispute
relating to wireless technology modem patents, in litigation since March 2003.
As part of the terms of the settlement Marlborough-based 3Com and Chicago,
Ill.-based PCTEL would each receive a license to the other company’s model
technology patents. More specifically, 3Com has agreed to business arrangements
with PCTEL regarding certain wireless software and antennas. PCTEL, meanwhile,
has agreed to reverse $3.2 million of accrued royalties related to 3Com’s patent
infringement claims, to be recorded during its current fiscal quarter.
Index ================================================== PATENTS OF THE DAY
6,826,385
Method and system for distributing
geographical addresses across the surface of the earth
Abstract: A method
and system for increasing the number of geographical addresses for mobile
devices in regions of the Earth nearer to the equator than those regions closer
to the North and South poles and without significantly increasing the size
(number of bits) of the addresses is provided. Typically, regions nearer to the
equator have higher populations and a greater need for large amounts of
geographical addresses than those regions found closer to the South and North
poles. By using the sine of a latitude coordinate for a particular location
instead of the actual latitude coordinate, the range of available geographical
addresses for mobile devices in the most densely populated regions on Earth can
be significantly increased while decreasing the number of addresses available in
regions closer to the South or North poles.
Index
6,826,449
Method for producing natural
motions
Abstract: A
method to produce natural motions, or self-motion, of animate or inanimate
bodies or their parts by the application of pulses at two or more locations on
the surface, or inside, of the bodies or their parts. Here, energy is converted
into motion in one step. Turn on the pulses, and motion results instantly. The
mechanism can emulate living motions, and as living motions can take on infinite
gaits and forms, so can the mechanism produce infinite forms of motion. Smooth,
repeatable, controllable or random motions can be induced. Just as living
muscles convert the pulses from the nervous system into natural motion in one
step, so will the mechanism convert artificially generated pulse-trains into
motion in one step. The dynamic coupling or modulation of waves which travel
within a body, and which are caused by artificially generated pulse-trains,
produces the desired motions in directions perpendicular to the plane of the
pulses. Changing the number of pulse-trains, the frequency and/or the amplitude
of the pulses, or other parameters, can vary the speed, gait or form of the
motion induced by the pulsing method. The moving bodies can be made to turn
sideways, at 90 degrees, or at any other angle.
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Index ================================================== PATENTS AVAILABLE FOR
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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.
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