Business & Tech
Two Recent Patents From Westford Inventors
Two Westford residents recently saw patents assigned to their innovations in computer song recognition and circuit board technology

Two Westford residents were among those who filed inventions and processes with the U.S Patent and Trademark Agency in July.
The “automated generation of a song for process learning” developed by Westford’s Jane Marcus was given to U.S Patent number 7,977,560 and assigned to the ownership of IBM on July 16.
Processes included Marcus’ patent hopefully enable computers to help people listening to music who know a melody or set of lyrics within a song a selection of potential songs the melody could belong to within a set database.
Find out what's happening in Westfordfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The other patent, number 7,977,581, was given to Intel on July 16 thanks to the work of Westford resident Tao Liang and several others.
Liang’s innovation will hopefully reduce what is known as “weave effect”, a phenomenon on circuit boards that can reduce the amount of data circuit boards can process.
Find out what's happening in Westfordfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.