U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Kansas (Jan. 29)

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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Kansas.

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Card Compliant Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- Card Compliant, Kansas City, Mo., has been assigned a patent (8,639,592) developed by four co-inventors for "methods and systems for optimizing escheat and derecognition of prepaid cards, stored value cards, credit memos and electronic payment instruments." The co-inventors are Phillip C. Rouse, Shawnee, Kan., Victoria Blake, Shawnee, Kan., Jeff Horen, Overland Park, Kan., and Amanda Culp, Overland Park, Kan. The patent application was filed on June 22, 2009 (12/489,373). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=6&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140128.PD.&s2=%28MO.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/01/28/2014+AND+AS/MO&RS=ISD/01/28/2014+AND+AS/MO Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Hartford Fire Insurance Assigned Patent for System and Method for Processing Payroll-related Insurance Data

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- Hartford Fire Insurance, Hartford, Conn., has been assigned a patent (8,639,539) developed by Jesse L. Pendergrass, Wichita, Kan., Brian M. Farrell, West Hartford, Conn., and Donato L. Monaco, Cromwell, Conn., for a "system and method for processing payroll-related insurance data."

The patent application was filed on May 24, 2013 (13/902,153). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=7&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=20140128.PD.&s2=%28CT.ASST.%29&OS=ISD/01/28/2014+AND+AS/CT&RS=ISD/01/28/2014+AND+AS/CT

Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Netapp Assigned Patent

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- Netapp, Sunnyvale, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,631,200) developed by Sridhar Balasubramanian, Wichita, Kan., for a method and system "for manipulating a spin state of each disk in a drive array."

The patent application was filed on March 20, 2009 (12/407,795). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8631200.PN.&OS=PN/8631200&RS=PN/8631200

Written by Jude Bautista; edited by Marlyn Vitin.

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