NEW PATENTS

AWARDED MAY 24

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,974,155) developed by six co-inventors for a “variablepulse-shape pulsed-power accelerator.” The co-inventors are Brian S. Stoltzfus, Albuquerque, Kevin Austin, Albuquerque, Brian Thomas Hutsel, Sandia Park, David Reisman, Albuquerque, Mark E. Savage, Albuquerque,

and William A. Stygar, Albuquerque. (Filed Aug. 24, 2015)

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,972,736) developed by six co-inventors for “spreading devices into a 2-D module layout.” The co-inventors are Jeffrey P. Koplow, San Ramon, Calif., Vipin P. Gupta, Reno, Nev., Gregory N. Nielson, Albuquerque, Murat Okandan, Edgewood, Jose Luis Cruz-Campa,

Albuquerque, and Jeffrey S.

Nelson, Albuquerque. (Filed March 12, 2014)

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,972,565) developed by nine co-inventors for “lateral vias for connections to buried microconductors.” The co-inventors are David P. Adams, Albuquerque, Kira L. Fishgrab, Albuquerque, Karl Douglas Greth, Albuquerque, Michael David Henry, Albuquerque, Jeffrey Stevens, Albuquerque, V. Carter Hodges, Albuquerque, Randy J. Shul, Albuquerque, Ronald S. Goeke, Albuquerque, and Robert K. Grubbs, Boise, Idaho. (Filed June 7, 2016)

National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,972,553) developed by Lu Fang, Albuquerque, for a “packaging system with cleaning channel and method of making the same.” (Filed Dec. 22, 2016)

National Technology Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,970,000) developed by three co-inventors for “cellbased composite materials with programmed structures and functions.” The co-inventors are Bryan J. Kaehr, Albuquerque, C. Jeffrey Brinker,

Albuquerque, and Jason L.

Townson, Seattle, Washington. (Filed Jan. 14, 2016)

Ideal Vacuum Products, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent (9,969,527) developed by two co-inventors for a “modular vacuum chamber system.” The co-inventors are Tony

C. Smith, Albuquerque, and Richard D. Holets, Albuquerque. (Filed July 7, 2016)

STC. UNM, Albuquerque, has been assigned a patent

(9,968,698) developed by three co-inventors for “charged singlet-oxygen sensitizers and oppositely-charged surfactants.” The co-inventors are David G. Whitten, Albuquerque, Eric H. Hill, Albuquerque, and Harry C.

Pappas, Albuquerque. (Filed Nov. 5, 2014)

International Business

Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent

(9,971,838) developed by four co-inventors for “mitigating subjectively disturbing content through the use of contextbased data gravity wells.” The co-inventors are Samuel

S. Adams, Rutherfordton, N.C., Robert R. Friedlander, Southbury, Conn., James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, and Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, Va. (Filed Feb. 20, 2015)