LEXMARK’s NEW KENTUCKY PATENTS
The
U.S. Patent Office issues patents weekly. These patents were issued
Tuesday for inventors or assignees in the Lexington area:
Automotive
vehicle with structural panel having selectively deployable shape
memory alloy elements. Inventors: Ren-Jye Yang, Troy Mich.; Jerry Le,
Canton, Mich.; Clifford Chou, Farmington Hills, Mich.; and Hom-Sen
Tzou, Lexington. Patent 7,278,679 assigned to Ford Global Technologies
LLC, Dearborn, Mich.Method of informing a user of an imaging apparatus
of an event via a print fade. Inventors: Mark Fagan and Brian Jones,
both of Lexington. Patent 7,278,701 assigned to Lexmark International
Inc., Lexington.Method for detecting
whether a cartridge installed in an imaging apparatus is potentially
counterfeit. Inventors: Christopher Adkins and Timothy Strunk, both of
Lexington, and Douglas Peterson Jr., Irvine. Patent 7,280,772
assigned to Lexmark.Method and apparatus to control waste toner
collection in an image forming apparatus. Inventors: William Cook and
Derek Inouye, both of Lexington, and Tom Stickler, Pawleys Island, S.C.
Patent 7,280,776 assigned to Lexmark.System and process for monitoring
the production of synthetic fuel. Inventor: Richard Holmes, Lexington.
Patent 7,280,924 assigned to Richard Holmes, Houston, Texas.
Tonernews.com, October 16, 2007. USA