Slotted golf club head among patents

Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Feb 22, 2005 by Karl R. Cannon

Seventeen patents were awarded to Utah inventors on Jan. 25. U.S. patents are granted each Tuesday. The new patents include:

-- Apparatus for sampling drill hole cuttings. Scott R. Williams, Farmington. Assigned to Harrison R. Cooper Systems Inc., Bountiful. Filed March 28, 2002. Patent No. 6,845,657.

-- Vehicle storage device. Casey C. Jones, Nola M. Samuels, both of Hurricane. Filed July 20, 2001. Patent No. 6,845,895.

-- Liquid reactive materials and method for using same in games and other applications. Dana Scott Kirk, Kearns; Shaun D. Mitchell, Salt Lake City; Derek Allen Sims, West Jordan. Assigned to Impaxx Inc., Vernon, Canada. Filed Feb. 25, 2003, a continuation-in-part of Application No. 60/402,201, filed Aug. 9, 2002. Patent No. 6,845,982.

-- Motorcycle automatic balancing stand and methods. Chris Royal Sr., Chris Royal Jr., both of Grantsville. Filed June 20, 2003. Patent No. 6,845,999.

-- Pressure equalizing curtain air bag. Mark L. Enders, Pleasant View. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed Jan. 30, 2002. Patent No. 6,846,010.

-- Air bag inflator diffuser system and method of manufacture. Bradley W. Smith, Ogden. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed Nov. 19, 2001. Patent No. 6,846,013.

-- Inflatable surface including a plurality of nozzles. Karl K. Rink, Princeton, Idaho; David J. Green, North Brigham City. Assigned to Autoliv ASP Inc., Ogden. Filed March 18, 2002. Patent No. 6,846,014.

-- Adjustable cab extender assembly method and apparatus. Alec C. Wong, Bellevue, Wash.; David C. Warren, Sammamish, Wash.; Wayne K. Simons, Kent, Wash.; Timothy C. Hudsen, Edmonds, Wash.; David M. Roni, Seattle, Wash.; Noelle M. Parlier, Freeland, Wash.; Brian Dressler, Bainbridge Island, Wash.; Steven J. Kirner, Salt Lake City. Assigned to Paccar Inc., Bellevue, Wash. Filed June 6, 2003, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/386,902, filed June 6, 2002. Patent No. 6,846,035.

-- Slotted golf club head. Brad Asplund, Taylorsville; Peter Salm, West Valley City. Assigned to Brakeout Technology LLC, Taylorsville. Filed Feb. 25, 2002, a continuation-in-part of design patent No. D459,424, filed May 21, 2001. Patent No. 6,846,246.

-- Radiolucent bone graft. Ashok C. Khandkar, Salt Lake City; Mahendra S. Rao, Timonium, Md. Assigned to Amedica Corp., Salt Lake City. Filed April 30, 2002, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/287,824, filed May 1, 2001. Patent No. 6,846,327.

-- Method of forming cutting elements. Stewart Middlemiss, Salt Lake City. Assigned to Smith International Inc., Houston, Texas. Filed Feb. 25, 2003, claiming priority to provisional patent Application No. 60/359,630, filed Feb. 26, 2002. Patent No. 6,846,341.

-- Fertilizer manufactured from animal wastes and method of producing same. Larry P. Sower, Milford. Assigned to Crystal Peak Technologies, LLC, Kansas City, Mo. Filed Feb. 21, 2003, a divisional of patent No. 6,682,578, filed Sept. 6, 2002, which is a continuation-in-part of patent No. 6,497,741, filed May 7, 2002, which is a continuation of patent No. 6,409,788, filed Jan. 22, 1999, which claims priority to provisional patent application No. 60/ 072,372, filed Jan. 23, 1998. Patent No. 6,846,343.

-- Resonant motor system. Jack H. Kerlin, Springville. Assigned to Raser Technologies Inc., Provo. Filed Oct. 18, 2002. Patent No. 6,847,186.

-- ID-OD discrimination sensor concept for a magnetic flux leakage inspection tool. William D. Veach, Jed C. Ludlow, both of Salt Lake City. Tyler S. Lloyd, Murray. Assigned to TDW Delaware Inc., Wilmington, Del. Filed April 15, 2004. Patent No. 6,847,207.

-- Optical beamsplitter with electro-wetting actuation. John P. Davis, Bountiful; Timofei Nikita Kroupenkine, Warren, N.J. Assigned to Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, N.J. Filed Aug. 8, 2003. Patent No. 6,847,493.

-- Sub rack based vertical housing for computer systems. Shane R. Robbins, Santaquin; Clark M. Roundy, South Jordan. Assigned to Linux Networx, Bluffdale. Filed Sept. 11, 2003, a continuation of patent No. 6,661,667, filed Sept. 23, 2002, which is a continuation of patent No. 6,487,080, filed Sept. 18, 2001, which claims priority to provisional patent application No. 60/234,858, filed Sept. 22, 2000. Patent No. 6,847,526.

-- Table. Kent Ashby, Logan; David C. Winter, Layton; Curtis S. Nye, Clinton. Assigned to Lifetime Products Inc., Clearfield. Filed April 9, 2003. Design Patent No. D501,103.

Karl R. Cannon is a Registered Patent Attorney and a founding shareholder in the law firm of Clayton, Howarth & Cannon P.C., specialists in patent, trademark and copyright law. He may be contacted at 1-801-255-5335 or by e-mail at kcannon@chcpat.com. Copies of patents are available by mail for $3 each from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Box 9 (Copy Sales), Washington, DC 20231; by credit card via telephone 1-703-308-9726 or toll free 1-800-972- 6382; facsimile 1-703-305-8759; or e-mail ptcs@uspto.gov. Patents can also be viewed and printed free of charge from several Internet sites, including www.uspto.gov or www.delphion.com.