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Texas Instruments of Dallas has been assigned a patent (9,341,658) developed by five co-inventors for “fast on-chip oscillator trimming.” The co-inventors are Cormac Harrington of Cork, Ireland, David Grant of Manchester, Andrew Alleman of Cary, N.C., Ken Moushegian of Cary, N.C., and Hagen Wegner of Cork, Ireland. The patent application was filed on Feb. 28, 2014 (14/193,898).

FMR of Boston has been assigned a patent (9,344,892) developed by two co-inventors for “mobile device authentication and call routing using dual-tone multi-frequency signaling.” The co-inventors are Gregory Rodrigues of Wrentham, Mass., and Vickie Moosman Anderson of Milford. The patent application was filed on Jan. 19, 2016 (15/000,772).

Smith & Nephew of Memphis, Tenn., has been assigned a patent (9,341,184) developed by five co-inventors for “disposable pumping system and coupler.” The co-inventors are Ernest Dion of Danvers, Mass., Ed McLean of Billerica, Mass., Fred Boussu of West Newbury, Mass., Manny Salinas of North Andover, Mass., and Sean Albert of Barrington. The patent application was filed on Jan. 12, 2015 (14/594,767).

Marmon Utility of Milford has been assigned a patent (9,343,204) developed by five co-inventors for “electrical insulator apparatus and methods of retaining an electrical conductor with an electrical insulator apparatus.” The co-inventors are Charles Clement of Pelham, Guberson Mercedat of North Andover, Mass., Michael Williams of Newburyport, Mass., May Cho of Sudbury, Mass., and Leonard Jean of Melbourne, Fla. The patent application was filed on May 16, 2013 (13/895,934).

BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration of Nashua has been assigned a patent (9,342,989) developed by four co-inventors for a “radio-enabled collision avoidance system.” The co-inventors are Karl Brommer of Exeter, Sterling Anderson of Allston, Mass., Dieter Brommer of Cambridge, Mass., and Karl Iagnemma of Cambridge, Mass. The patent application was filed on July 1, 2013 (13/932,679).

BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration of Nashua has been assigned a patent (9,341,705) developed by Ronald Yannone of Nashua for “passive ranging of a target.” The patent application was filed on Feb. 6, 2013 (13/760,660).

TomTom North America of Lebanon and TomTom Germany of Harsum, Germany, have been assigned a patent (9,341,488) developed by two co-inventors for “time and/or accuracy dependent weights for network generation in a digital map.” The co-inventors are Heiko Mund of Hildesheim, Germany, and Clayton Richard Morlock of Lebanon. The patent application was filed on Dec. 23, 2010 (13/518,922).

Markem-Imaje of Keene has been assigned a patent (9,340,037) developed by three co-inventors for “laser marking using scalable fonts.” The co-inventors are Andrew Yohn of Swanzey, Mark Rapposelli of Geneva and Kevin Franklin of San Diego. The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2014 (14/493,873).

Hypertherm of Hanover has been assigned a patent (9,339,890) developed by three co-inventors for “optimization and control of beam quality for material processing.” The co-inventors are Kenneth Woods of Lyme, Sanjay Garg of Hanover and Tate Picard of Enfield. The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2011 (13/324,135).

DEKA Products of Manchester has been assigned a patent (9,339,603) developed by two co-inventors for “adhesive and peripheral systems and methods for medical devices.” The co-inventors are Larry Gray of Merrimack and Eric Yeaton of Epsom. The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2009 (12/395,185).

Endur ID of Hampton has been assigned a patent (9,339,408) developed by Robert Chadwick of Hampton Falls for a “clasp for securing flexible bands.” The patent application was filed on Oct. 19, 2012 (13/656,206).

Ty-Flot of Manchester has been assigned a patent (9,339,100) developed by two co-inventors for a lanyard attachment assembly. The co-inventors are Darrell Moreau of Manchester and Andre Moreau of Spring Hill, Fla. The patent application was filed on July 10, 2012 (13/545,050).

Dartmouth College of Hanover and New Health Sciences of Bethesda, Md., have been assigned a patent (9,339,025) developed by two co-inventors for a “method for enhancing red blood cell quality and survival during storage.” The co-inventors are Tatsuro Yoshida of West Newton, Mass., and Larry Dumont of Lebanon. The patent application was filed on Aug. 25, 2011 (13/218,114).

Medtronic Advanced Energy of Minneapolis has been assigned a patent (9,345,541) developed by seven co-inventors for a “cartridge assembly for electrosurgical devices, electrosurgical unit and methods of use thereof.” The co-inventors are Roger Greeley of Portsmouth, Brian Conley of South Berwick, Maine, David Flanagan of Somersworth, Aaron Gifford of Lake Elsinore, Calif., Steven Miller of Milton, Blaine Murakami of Corona del mar, Calif., and Thomas Robinson of Addison, Texas. The patent application was filed on Sept. 8, 2010 (12/877,400).

Boston Scientific Scimed, Maple Grove of Minnesota has been assigned a patent (9,345,462) developed by six co-inventors for “direct drive endoscopy systems and methods.” The co-inventors are Barry Weitzner of Acton, Mass., Paul Smith of Smithfield, R.I., John Golden of Norton, Mass., Brian Intoccia of Nashua, Naroun Suon of Lawrence, Mass., and William Shaw of Cambridge, Mass. The patent application was filed on Nov. 28, 2007 (11/946,779).

Boston Scientific Scimed of Maple Grove, Minn., has been assigned a patent (9,345,416) developed by three co-inventors for “means for securing a catheter into a vessel.” The co-inventors are David MacAdam of Millbury, Mass., Charles Gibson of Malden, Mass., and Dustin Dufour of Salem. The patent application was filed on Feb. 27, 2014 (14/192,478).

The U.S. Navy has been assigned a patent (9,345,990) developed by four co-inventors for a “method and apparatus for separation of components of differing buoyancy mixed into a flowing fluid.” The co-inventors are Paul Howard of Newmarket, John Reintjes of Alexandria, Va., Thomas McClelland of Edinburg, Va., and John Tucker of Centreville, Va.

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