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Issued Patents through Digital Ventures
The U.S. patents identified below are managed by Digital Ventures at the University of Washington (UW). Some
of these patents may be available for licensing.
In deciding whether to patent eligible innovative processes, systems,
or methods, Digital Ventures considers a number of factors including:
- Cost
- Estimated time required for "prosecution of a patent" (the length
of time between filing and issuance of a patent) compared with the useful
life of the technology
- Ability of the patent to foster further research at the UW
- Educational value
- Competitive advantage or market landscape
Contact patent@u.washington.edu
for more information.
Patent Number |
Patent Name |
Inventors |
U.S. Issue Date |
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4,622,632
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Data Processing System Having a Pyramidal Array of Processors
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Tanimoto, Pfeiffer
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11/11/1986
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5,151,697
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Data Structure Management Tagging System
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Suzanne Bunton
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9/29/1992
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5,208,491
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Field Programmable Gate Array
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Ebeling, Boriello
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5/4/1993
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5,367,209
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Field Programmable Gate Array for Synchronous and Asynchronous
Operation
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Hauck, Boriello, Burns, Ebeling
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11/22/1994
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5,435,310
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Determining Cardiac Wall Thickness and Motion by Imaging and Three-Dimensional
Modeling
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Sheehan, Bolson, Bookstein, Sampson
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7/25/1995
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5,459,486
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Method and Apparatus for Combining Palettes of Color Quantized
Images
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Iverson, Riskin
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10/17/1995
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5,533,085
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Automatic Indexing of Cine-Angiograms
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Sheehan, Zick, Liu
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7/2/1996
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5,570,430
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Method for Determining the Contour of an In Vivo Organ Using Multiple
Image Frames of the Organ
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Sheehan, Haralick, Lee
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10/29/1996
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5,594,853
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Method and System for Editing the General Sweep and Detail of a
Figure with a Curve
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Salesin, Finkelstein
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1/14/1997
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5,601,084
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Determining Cardiac Wall Thickness and Motion by Imaging and Three-Dimensional
Modeling
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Sheehan, Bolson, Jin
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2/11/1997
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5,666,475
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Method and System for Editing Multiresolution Images at Fractional-Levels
of Resolution Using a Wavelet Representaton
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Salesin, Berman, Bartell
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9/9/1997
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5,734,739
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Method for Determining the Contour of an In Vivo Organ Using Multiple
Image Frames of the Organ
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Sheehan, Haralick, Suri, Shao
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3/31/1998
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5,774,593
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Automatic Scene Decomposition and Optimization of MPEG Compressed
Video
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Zick, Liu
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6/30/1998
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5,847,712
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Method and System for Generating Graphic Illustrations according
to a Stroke Texture and a Tone
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Salesin, Winkenbach, Salisbury, Anderson, Barzel
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12/8/1998
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5,889,524
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Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Objects Using Labeled Piecewise
Smooth Subdivision Surfaces
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Sheehan, McDonald, Bolson, Legget
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3/30/1999
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5,953,534
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Environment Manipulation for Executing Modified Executable &
Dynamically-Loaded Library Files
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Romer, Wolman, Chua-Lee, Voelker
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9/14/1999
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5,982,924
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Method and System for Reproducing Color Images as Duotones
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Power, West, Stollnitz, Salesin
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11/9/1999
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5,995,959
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Method and System for Network Information Access
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Friedman, Kwok, Weld
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11/30/1999
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6,014,513
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Discovering Code and Data in a Binary Executable Program
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Voelker, Romer, Wolman, Chua Lee, Bershad, Chen, Henry M. Levy,
Wong
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1/11/2000
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6,023,742
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Reconfigurable Computing Architecture for Providing Pipelined Data
Paths
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Ebeling, Cronquist, Franklin
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2/8/2000
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6,092,175
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Shared Register Storage Mechanisms for Multithreaded Computer Systems
with Out-of-Order Execution
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Henry M. Levy, Eggers, Lo,Tullsen
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7/18/2000
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6,094,199
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3D Objects Morphing Employing Skeletons Indicating Symmetric Differences
to Define Intermediate Objects Used in Morphing
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Turkiyyah, Storti, Ganter
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7/25/2000
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6,100,893
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Constructing Solid Models Using Implicit Functions Defining Connectivity
Relationships Among Layers of an Object to be Modeled
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Enz, Ganter, Lim, Storti, Turkiyyah
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8/8/2000
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6,106,466
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Automated Delineation of Heart Contours from Images Using Reconstruction-Based
Modeling
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Sheehan, Haralick, Sampson
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8/22/2000
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6,133,921
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Constructing Shape Skeletonsof 3D Objects Using Generalized Voronoi
Diagrams
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Turkiyyah, Storti, Ganter, Chen
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10/17/2000
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6,145,121
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Trace Based Method for the Analysis, Benchmarking and Tuning of
Object Oriented Databases and Applications
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Levy, Tiwary, Narasaya
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11/7/2000
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6,167,490
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Using Global Memory Information To Manage Memory in a Computer
Network
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Henry M. Levy, Feeley, Karlin, Morgan, Thekkath
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12/26/2000
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6,198,489
(B1)
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Computer Generated Watercolor
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Salesin, Curtis, Anderson, Seims
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3/6/2001
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6,304,870
(B1)
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Method and Apparatus of Automatically Generating a Procedure for
Extracting Information from Textual Information Sources
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Kushmerick, Weld, Doorenbos
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10/16/2001
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6,314,511
(B2)
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Mechanism for Freeing Registers on Processors that Perform Dynamic
Out-Of-Order Execution of Instructions Using Renaming Registers
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Levy, Eggers, Lo, Tullsen
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11/6/2001
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6,317,868
(B1)
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Process for Transparently Enforcing Protection Domains and Access
Control as Well as Auditing Operations in Software Components
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Grimm, Bershad
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11/13/2001
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6,370,504
(B1)
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Speech Recognition on MPEG/Audio Encoded Files
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Zick, Yapp
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4/9/2002
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6,427,234
(B1)
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System and Method for Performing Selective Compilation Using Run-Time
Information
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Chambers, Eggers, Grant, Mock, Philipose
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7/30/2002
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| 6,701,310 |
Information search device and information search method using topic-centric query routing |
Atsushi Sigiura, Oren Etzioni |
03/02/2004 |
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