Middle Tennessee

• U.S. Patent No. RE43,387, entitled “Anchored oxide coatings on hard metal cutting tools” invented by Roy V. Leverenz of Smyrna and John Bost of Franklin, and assigned to TDY Industries, LLC, of Pittsburgh, Pa.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,179,219, entitled “Field emission system and method” invented by James L. Richards of Fayetteville, Larry W. Fullerton of New Hope, Ala., and Mark D. Roberts of Huntsville, Ala., and assigned to Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC, of New Hope, Ala.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,677, entitled “Benzyl-substituted quinolone M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators” invented by Craig Lindsley of Brentwood, William D. Shipe of Chalfont, Pa., Feng Yang of Hatfield, Pa., and Jaime Lynn Bunda of Holland, Pa., and assigned to Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. of Rahway, N.J.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,315, entitled “Lyophilized edible food incorporating a marker and methods of making” invented by Kerry C. Bush of Brentwood, Keith D. Evans of Brentwood, and Stanley J. Konopka of Franklin, and assigned to Advanced Breath Diagnostics, LLC, of Brentwood.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,967, entitled “Spin-on filter with performance enhancement features” invented by Ismail C. Bagci of Cookeville, Kevin C. South of Cookeville, Gregory W. Hoverson of Cookeville, Byron Andrew Pardue of Cookeville, Peter K. Herman of Cookeville, Chris A. Schoonover of Lima, Ohio, and Patrick J. Galecki of Stoughton, Wis., and assigned to Cummins Filtration IP, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,950, entitled “Thermoresponsive microparticle composite hydrogels for electrophoresis” invented by Jeffery W. Thompson of Lafayette, Holly Stretz of Cookeville, and Pedro E. Arce of Cookeville, and assigned to Tennessee Technological University of Cookeville.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,569, entitled “Heat sink for a thermally efficient busway joint pack” invented by Steven Wayne Dozier of Murfreesboro and Matthew A. Williford of Nashville, and assigned to Schneider Electric USA, Inc., of Palatine, Ill.
• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,538, entitled “Tire mold having sidewall structure” invented by John E. Dempsey of Mogadore, Ohio, and assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, of Nashville.

 

East Tennessee

Eastman Chemical Company of Kingsport had two patents issued.

1. U.S. Patent No. 8,178,647, entitled “Copolyester ether elastomer compositions and methods of making copolyester ether elastomer compositions” invented by Gary Stuart Hawkins of Johnson City, Johnson Thomas of Johnson City, Joshua Brock Thomas of Gray, David Ray Arnold of Piney Flats, and Jeff Scott Howell of Jonesborough.

2. U.S. Patent No. 8,178,199, entitled “Nonwovens produced from multicomponent fibers” invented by Rakesh Kumar Gupta of Kingsport, Daniel William Klosiewicz of Kingsport, and Melvin Glenn Mitchell of Penrose, N.C.

UT-Battelle, LLC of Oak Ridge had two patents issued.

1. U.S. Patent No. 8,177,998, entitled “Lithium-loaded liquid scintillators” invented by Sheng Dai of Knoxville, John S. Neal of Knoxville, and Banu Kesanli of Mersin, Turk.

2. U.S. Patent No. 8,176,795, entitled “Apparatuses for prestressing rod-type specimens in torsion for in-situ passive fracture toughness testing in an extremely high-pressure environment of hydrogen” invented by Jy-an Wang of Oak Ridge and Ken C. Liu of Oak Ridge.

Other patents naming inventors from East Tennessee:

• U.S. Patent No. D659,529, entitled “Washer” invented by Randall Walter Ojanen of Bristol and Don Carlin Rowlett of Bedford, Pa., and assigned to Kennametal Inc. of Latrobe, Pa.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,181,211, entitled “Total bandwidth conditioning device” invented by Thomas A. Olson of Maryville, David Kelma of Madisonville, Joseph Lai of Rancho Palos Verdes, Cal., Noah Montena of Syracuse, N.Y., and Steven K. Shafer of Chittenango, N.Y., and assigned to John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc., of East Syracuse, N.Y.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,180,015, entitled “Counting device for counting nested articles and method for counting nested articles” invented by Thomas A. Nalle, III, of Knoxville and Donathan Brown of Lenoir City, and assigned to Thomas A. Nalle, III, of Knoxville.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,221, entitled “{100}<100> or 45.degree.-rotated {100}<100>, semiconductor-based, large-area, flexible, electronic devices” invented by Amit Goyal of Knoxville.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,054, entitled “Optimized liquid-phase oxidation” invented by Lee Reynolds Partin of Kingsport, Wayne Scott Strasser of Kingsport, Alan George Wonders of Longview, Tex., and Marcel de Vreede of Barendrecht, Neth., and assigned to Grupo Petrotemex, S.A., DE C.V. of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mex.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,110, entitled “Truck utility box” invented by Robert S. Hines, Jr. of Unicoi.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,176,995, entitled “Reduced-impact sliding pressure control valve for pneumatic hammer drill” invented by Yarom Polsky of Oak Ridge, Mark C. Grubelich of Albuquerque, N.M., and Mark R. Vaughn of Albuquerque, N.M., and assigned to Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque, N.M.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,176,829, entitled “Armor system and method of manufacture” invented by John Carberry of Talbott, John Boyett of Garnet Valley, Pa., Carl Cline of Danville, Cal., Marcella Mirata of Las Vegas, Nev., Katherine T. Leighton of Newark, Del., Wiktor Serafin of Boothwyn, Pa., and Edgar Aleshire of Elkton, Md., and assigned to Schott Corp. of Elmsford, N.Y.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,176,828, entitled “Glass-ceramic with laminates” invented by John Carberry of Talbott, John Boyett of Garnet Valley, Pa., Carl Cline of Danville, Cal., Marcella Mirata of Livermore, Cal., Katherine T. Leighton of Newark, Del., Wiktor Serafin of Boothwyn, Pa., and Edgar Aleshire of Elkton, Md., and assigned to Schott Corp. of Elmsford, N.Y.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,176,815, entitled “Pneumatically powered roof stripping device” invented by Jeff Allen Sparks of Maryville.
 

West Tennessee

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,743, entitled “Method of chemical treatment of soils containing hazardous substances susceptible to nucleophillic attack” invented by Ronald Britto of Collierville, Madhukant Patel of Cordova, Richard W. Arnseth of Knoxville, Franklin R. Bogle of Knoxville, and Mikael L. Spangberg of West Hartford, Conn., and assigned to Tetra Tech, Inc., of Pasadena, Cal.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,178,699, entitled “Modulators of CCR9 receptor and methods of use thereof” invented by Brandon M. Young of Germantown, Eric C. Anderson of Irving, Texas, Ronald J. Biediger of Houston, Jie Chen of Houston, Brian Dupre of Houston, Robert V. Market of Pearland, Texas, Keith A. Monk of League City, Texas, Michael M. Savage of Pearland, Texas, Reginald Tennyson of Missouri City, Texas, and Pedro Lory of Antwerp, Belg., and assigned to Pfizer Inc. of New York, N.Y.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,848, entitled “Osteogenic fusion device” invented by William F. McKay of Memphis and assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., of Warsaw, Ind.

U.S. Patent No. 8,177,846, entitled “End cap for a vertebral implant” invented by Jonathan Blackwell of Arlington, Thomas E. Drochner of Memphis, and Michael J. Merves of Memphis, and assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., of Warsaw, Ind.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,845, entitled “Osteogenic packing device and method” invented by William F. McKay of Memphis and Bradley T. Estes of Durham, N.C. and assigned to Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., of Warsaw, Ind.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,177,788, entitled “In-line milling system” invented by Terry W. McLean of Cordova and David C. Kelman of Collierville and assigned to Smith & Nephew, Inc., of Memphis.

• U.S. Patent No. 8,176,614, entitled “Drawer-type dishwasher having modular support body” invented by Rodney M. Welch of Beech Bluff and assigned to Whirlpool Corp. of Benton Harbor, MI.

Compiled by Matthew C. Cox of intellectual property law firm Waddey & Patterson P.C.