Patents received Feb. 7, 2006:

Bayer MaterialScience LLC for "Flame retardant, thermoplastic polycarbonate molding compositions, No. 6,995,212." Inventors were James Y. J. Chung, Wexford, Winfried G. Paul, Pittsburgh. The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions and in particular to flame retardant polycarbonate compositions

PPG Industries Ohio Inc. for "Heatable wiper rest area for a transparency, No. 6,995,339." Inventors were James H. Schwartz, Gibsonia, Allen R. Hawk, Pittsburgh. This invention relates to heatable wiper rest area for a transparency and method of fabricating a transparency having a heatable wiper rest area, and in particular to a vehicle windshield having a heatable wiper rest area that is hidden from view from the exterior of a vehicle.

NVIDIA Corp. for "Trilinear optimization for texture filtering, No. 6,995,767." Inventors were Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, CA, Paul S. Heckbert, Pittsburgh. One or more aspects of the invention generally relate to computer graphics, and more particularly to filtering texture map data.

Microsoft Corp. for "Rebinning methods and arrangements for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data, No. 6,996,294." Inventors were Cha Zhang, Pittsburgh, Jin Li, Princeton, NJ, Yunnan Wu, Redmond, WA. This invention relates to image-based rendering (IBR), and more particularly to certain rebinning methods and arrangements for use in compressing IBR data.

McKesson Automation Inc. for "Dispensing cabinet with unit dose dispensing drawer, No. 6,996,455." Inventors were Victor Eggenberger, North Versailles, Kirk Young, Pittsburgh, Allen Bowers, Pittsburgh. The present invention is directed to dispensing cabinets and, more particularly, to dispensing cabinets having drawers of the type which are opened and closed under the control of a computer to control access to the contents of the drawer.