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    Targeted News Service
    December 30, 2011 Friday 2:03 PM EST


    U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in North Carolina (Dec. 30)

    Alexandria, VA.


    ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded
    to inventors in North Carolina.

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    Synopsys Assigned Patent

    ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 30 -- Synopsys, Mountain View, Calif., has been
    assigned a patent (8,085,279) developed by Grigor S. Avagyan, Yerevan,
    Armenia, and Jeffrey T. Brubaker, Carrboro, N.C., for a "drawing an
    image with transparent regions on top of another image without using
    an alpha channel."

    The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark
    Office states: "An image display system draws a first image on top of
    a second image. Pixels of the first image include one or more color
    channels which encode color information, but do not include an alpha
    channel which encodes transparency information. The system encodes
    transparency information for the pixels in the first image using at
    least one bit in at least one color channel of each pixel. The system
    draws the first image on top of the second image using the
    transparency information encoded in the color channels of the pixels
    to obtain a combined image."

    The patent application was filed on Oct. 30, 2009 (12/610,241). 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%2 FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,085,279 &OS=8,085,279&RS=8,085,279

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