• Alcoa Inc., for "Weight redistribution in freight trucks, No. 7,410,183." Inventors were Zachary John Stowell, Hagerstown, Md.; David Stephen Musso, Streamwood, Ill.; Charles Bartlett Stewart, Washington, D.C.; Evan James English, Alexandria, Va.; Christopher Matthew D'Eramo, Eighty Four; Adam Thomas Clavelle, San Francisco; Shandor Glenn Dektor, Jennifer Crystal Perreira and Allan Freas Velzy, all of Pittsburgh; Jayeon Kim, Elkton, Md.; and Charles Michael Sanford Shaw, Ann Arbor, Mich. The present application relates to moving tandem axles to properly distribute weight in a freight trailer.

• Cellomics Inc., for "Peptide biosensors for anthrax protease, No. 7,410,769." Inventor was Sarah Burroughs-Tencza, Pittsburgh. This invention is in the field of fluorescence-based cell and molecular biochemical assays for toxin detection and drug discovery.

• Nova Chemicals Inc., for "Interpolymer resin particles, No. 7,411,024." Inventor was Steven M. Krupinski, Pittsburgh. The present invention relates to polyolefin resin particles that contain a vinyl aromatic monomer that is polymerized in the polyolefin matrix to form an interpenetrating network of polyolefin-polymerized vinyl aromatic monomer, e.g. polystyrene.

• The University of Pittsburgh, for "Cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, No. 7,411,058." Inventors were Patricia W. Dowling and Julius S. Youngner, both of Pittsburgh. The present invention relates to nucleic acids and proteins of experimentally generated cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, and particularly to cold-adapted equine influenza viruses having additional phenotypes, such as attenuation, dominant interference, or temperature sensitivity.

• Seagate Technology LLC, for "Heat assisted magnetic recording with heat profile shaping, No. 7,412,143." Inventors were Robert Earl Rottmayer and Julius Kurt Hohlfeld, both of Wexford; William Albert Challener, Sewickley; Chubing Peng, Pittsburgh; and Edward Charles Gage, Mars. This invention relates to optical transducers, and more particularly to optical transducers that can be used to produce a small spot of electromagnetic radiation.

-- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, www.uspto.gov