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Japanese Inventor Develops Chip Coil
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Masaki Kitagawa of Ina, Japan, has developed a chip coil, which is used for, for example, compact communication equipment or electronic devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrodes of a chip coil are provided at no magnetic flux ...
Canadian, Australian Inventors Develop Cardiovascular Events Prediction Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Salim Yusuf of Carlisle, Canada, and Jack Hirsh of Burlington, Canada, and John Eikelboom of Canning Vale WA, Australia, have developed a method for predicting cardiovascular events. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Electrical Card Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Zhifeng Wang of Kunsan, China, has developed an electrical card connector having contacts being protected. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical card connector includes an insulative header defining a retaining section divided into ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Coaxial Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Yasuhiro Matsuo of Tokyo has developed a coaxial connector with a switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coaxial connector having a switch includes a switching spring and a connecting plate, which composes a pair of switching means as ...
California, Missouri Inventors Develop Variable-Structure Diagnostics Methodology
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Jie Chang of Newbury Park, Calif., Anhua Wang of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Jiajia Zhang of Los Angeles, and Kirby Keller of Chesterfield, Mo., have developed a variable-structure diagnostics approach achieving optimized low-frequency data sampling for electro-mechanical ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Multi-Function Jack Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Guohua Zhang, HongQiang Han and ZiQiang Zhu, all from Kunsan, China, have developed a jack connector that comprises an insulating housing, a plurality of different contacts and an optical device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Removable Electrical Connector Structure
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Noboru Yamaguchi and Masahito Ozaki, both of Shizuoka, Japan, have developed a structure of a removable connector for allowing an optical connector to be attached to and removed from electronic equipment easily. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Card Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Chien Jen Ting of Tu-chen, Taiwan, has developed an improved card connector for connecting two different electrical cards to a printed circuit board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card connector comprises: a header comprising an ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Adjustable Power Outlet
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Jeremy L. Lewis of Charlotte, N.C., has developed an adjustable power outlet for distributing electricity to auxiliary loads. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power outlet includes a housing that has walls sized and shaped for defining a ...
German Inventors Develop Electrical Lines Ducting Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Heiko Gensert of Eppstein, Germany, Dieter Hagist of Lahnstein, Germany, and Wolfgang Sinz of Sulzbach, Germany, have developed a device for ducting electrical lines through the wall of a fuel tank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Electrical Card Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Yung Chang Cheng of Tu-Chen, Taiwan, has developed an electrical card connector for receiving an electrical card. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector comprises an insulative body, a number of contacts, a cover and a door device ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Spiral Contactor
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Shin Yoshida and Taiji Okamoto, both of Miyagi-ken, Japan, have developed a spiral contactor and a contact sheet having a spiral contactor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting portion is provided only at a winding start portion ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Cable Location Continuously Determining Apparatus
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Shinsuke Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Otsuki, Ken Nishiwaki and Kazutoshi Hidaka, all from Tokyo, have developed a cable location continuously determining apparatus, a method, and a program. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus can ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Slide-Out Electronic Card Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Ipson Lee of Taoyuan, Taiwan, has developed a slide-out electronic card connector that includes a seat body and a slide cavity being defined between two opposite sides of the seat body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple terminals ...
Norwegian Inventor Develops Coupling Arrangement
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Inge Ostergaard of Heggedal, Norway, has developed a coupling arrangement for subsea electrical power distribution. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "coupling arrangement for use in subsea electrical power ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Electrical Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Wei-Hua Pan and Zhi-Qiang Li, both of Kunsan, China, have developed an electrical connector with an improved board lock. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB), ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Cards Serial Link Connection Architecture
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Hayden Clavie Cranford Jr. of Apex, N.C., Vernon Roberts Norman of Cary, N.C., and Martin Leo Schmatz of Gallen, Switzerland, have developed a global architecture for a serial link connection between two cards which must transmit data across wired ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Universal Serial Bus Electrical Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Joseph B. Shuey and Timothy W. Houtz, both of Camp Hill, Pa., and Dean E. Geibel of New Cumberland, Pa., have developed an electrical connector having an inner shield. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "electrical ...
Japanese Inventor Develops High-Frequency Coaxial Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kouichi Tateno of Tokyo has developed a high-frequency coaxial connector, including male connector portions and female connector portions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each connector portion includes a grounding terminal. When connector ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Nucleic Acid Sequences
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Qiandong Zeng and Chad Eric Houseweart, both of Waltham, Mass., David Bush and Timothy Opperman, both of Somerville, Mass., and Lynn Doucette-Stamm of Framingham, Mass., have developed a nucleic acid and amino acid sequences that relates to Streptococcus pneumoniae for ...
Utah Inventors Develop Internal Coaxial Cable Seal System
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- David R. Hall and Cameron Sneddon, both of Provo, Utah, Scott Steven Dahlgren of Alpine, Utah, and Michael A. Briscoe of Lehi, Utah, have developed a seal system for a coaxial cable that is placed within the coaxial cable and its constituent ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pedestal Sink
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Robert H. Mayer of Deerfield Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a pedestal sink, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,181 on June 13. The original application was filed on Jan ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Wire Connection Structure
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Yasutaka Nagaoka and Toru Yamaguchi, both of Shizuoka, Japan, and Seigen Maeno of Aichi, Japan, have developed a structure of connecting a wire to an element-containing unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulative internal resin ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Comfort Military Helmet Liner
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- William Harvey Frye of Oceanside, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for the comfort military helmet liner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,180 on June 13. The original application ...
Rep. Burgess Introduces Medicare Physician Payment Reform, Quality Improvement Act
Aug 01, 2006 ... WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, has introduced the Medicare Physician Payment Reform and Quality Improvement Act of 2006 (H.R. 5866), legislation that would "amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform physician payment under the Medicare Program, to ...
Florida Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Security Identification Wristband
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Scott Curtis and Stephanie E. Curtis, both of Bal Harbour, Fla., have developed an ornamental design for a security identification wristband, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D519,871 on May ...
German Inventors Develop Silicon Resin-Based Binding Agents
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Holger Rautschek and Gu Beuschel, both of Nunchritz, Germany, Bernward Deubzer of Burghausen, Germany, and Karin Haneburger of Munchen, Germany, have developed a silicon resin-based binding agents and their use in methods for producing mineral fiber based shaped ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Animal Control Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Anthony L. Lord of Los Angeles has developed an ornamental design for an animal control device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,188 on June 13. The original application was filed on Sept ....
California Inventor Develops Advanced Storage Controller
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- James R. Bergsten of Danville, Calif., has developed devices which control data flow between one or more host processing systems and one or more data storage subsystems According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Travel Scale
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Joy Mangano of St. James, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for a travel scale, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D519,866 on May 2. The patent has been assigned to Ingenious Design LLC, ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Utility Connection Station
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kristine E. Lichtscheidl of St. Francis, Minn., Mark A. Schaffner of Maple Grove, Minn., Thomas E. Kramer of Coon Rapids, Minn., and Fusu Thao of St. Paul, Minn., have developed a utility connection station that includes a body portion having a top, a bottom, opposite ...
British Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Trucker's Safe-To-Pass Courtesy Light
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Michael W. Pritchard of Somerset, Great Britain, has developed an ornamental design for a trucker's safe-to-pass courtesy light, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D519,870 on May 2. The original ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Surface Cleaning Composition
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Michael Ray McDonald of Middletown, Ohio, Helen Frances O'Connor of Loveland, Ohio, and Robert Henry Rohrbaugh of Hamilton, Ohio, have developed a cleaning/and/or treating surface modification composition, and processes of making and using same. According to ...
New York Inventor Develops Computer-Aided Design
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Robert H. Wolfe Jr. of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has developed a computer-aided design (CAD) system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and method for simultaneous construction of a corresponding CAD model and ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Drilling Fluid Additive
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- David P. Horton of Calgary, Canada, has developed drilling fluids, drilling fluids additives and methods that are useful for limiting tar sands accretion on metal surfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluids useful in oil well drilling ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Alarm Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Hiroki Sasaki of Ikoma, Japan, and Hiroshi Matsuda of Toyonaka, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for an alarm device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D519,869 on May 2. The patent has ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Defect Free Semipermeable Composite Membrane
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Jiang Ji of Salem, N.H., has developed a method for producing defect free composite membranes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defect free semipermeable composite membrane having excellent integrity and high water permeability is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cosmetic Container
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Akiko Ashiwa and Tadayasu Koga, both of Kobe, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a cosmetic container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D523,177 on June 13. The patent has been ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pet Chew Toy
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kevin M. Wisdom of Celebration, Fla., has developed an ornamental design of a pet chew toy, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,189 on June 13. The patent has been assigned to Petsport USA Inc., ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Flutter Test Model
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Hideo Omotani of Saitama, Japan, has developed a flutter test model that includes an elastic spar that simulates the elasticity of an actual wing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flutter test model is provided that utilizes a novel ...
Florida Inventors Develop Airbag Deployment Monitor
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Robert P. Pettypiece Jr. and Timothy Ilyes, both of Lakeland, Fla., and Tex K. Monroe of Deltona, Fla., have developed a method of monitoring of airbag deployment with a tape. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag deployment sensor has ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Food Mat
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Melaney Northrop of Arlington, Texas, has developed an ornamental design for a food mat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,186 on June 13. The patent has been assigned to Doskocil ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electric-Connection Testing Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kenichi Inoue, Akashi Yamaguchi, Takayuki Hirano, Tsutomu Mirimoto and Hiroshi Gotoh, all from Kobe, Japan, have developed an electric-connection testing device used in electric tests on flat objects, such as integrated circuit boards and display ...
Louisiana Inventor Develops Drinking Container
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Bryan Bergeron of Des Allemands, La., has developed drinking containers that are easy to empty and therefore adapted particularly for use by paralyzed, immobile and other movement impaired individuals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Spark Plug Production Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kenichi Nishikawa of Bisai, Japan, and Makoto Sugimoto of Nagoya, Japan, have developed a method for producing spark plug. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for producing a spark plug, the spark plug ...
California Inventor Develops Electrical Distribution System
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Michael P. Gorman of Laguna Niguel, Calif., has developed an electrical distribution system with a wiring module and a functional module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wiring module mounts within an electrical box and has a ...
Washington Inventors Develop Signal Feature Extraction Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Chris Burges and John Platt, both of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a noise-robust feature extraction using multi-layer principal component analysis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a method of "extracting features ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bow Collar
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Theresa Marie Bazar of Los Angeles has developed an ornamental design for a bow collar, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,187 on June 13. The original application was filed on Feb. 18, 2004, ...
VIRGINIA BEACH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MONTHLY MEETING CANCELLED FOR AUGUST
Aug 01, 2006 ... The city of Virginia Beach issued the following press release: The Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission's regularly scheduled monthly meeting that was slated for Thursday, Aug. 3 has been cancelled. The next meeting will be held Thursday, Sept. 7. If you wish to speak before ...
New York Inventors Develop Electrical Connector Assembly
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- David Conroy and Chi Yu, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., have developed an electrical connector assembly for a light fixture. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly includes a base assembly which includes a female pin contact holder, a base ...
German Inventors Develop Wind Power Plant Control System
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Martin Tilscher of Heidenheim, Germany, and Andreas Basteck of Lorrach, Germany, have developed a wind power plant which is connectable to an electric grid that has at least three control levels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California, Illinois Inventors Develop Asset Surveillance Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Randall L. Bickford of Orangevale, Calif., and James P. Herzog of Downers Grove, Ill., have developed a surveillance system and a method having an adaptive sequential probability fault detection test. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Electrical Connector
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Timothy R. Gregori of Lockport, Ill., and Garfield J. Lowe of Bangalore, India, have developed an electrical connector with a latching system for latching the connector to a mating connector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrical ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Processor Link Optimization Verification Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Ming-Wei Hsu and Sheng-Chang Peng, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a method for verifying optimization of processor link. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First, an initial bus width and an initial bus frequency of a bus coupled ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Takehiro Suzuki of Nara, Japan, has developed a semiconductor integrated circuit device for preventing warping of an insulating film therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By having substantially narrow pitches between wires in a first ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pinch Grip Type Bottle-Shaped Container
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Hiromichi Saito and Takao Iizuka, both of Tokyo, have developed a pinch grip type bottle-shaped container. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bottle-shaped container according to the present invention is of pinch grip type and includes a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Fuel Cell Electrode
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kentaro Kishi, Kazunori Anazawa, Chikara Manabe, Masaki Hirakata, Taishi Shigematsu, Miho Watanabe, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takashi Isozaki, Shigeki Ooma and Shinsuke Okada, all from Nakai-machi, Japan, have developed a gas decomposing unit, an electrode for a fuel cell, ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Nail Trimmer
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Gregory A. Kriser of Upper Saddle River, N.J., has developed an ornamental design for a nail trimmer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,175 on June 13. The original application was filed on ...
California Inventors Develop Cyclical Layer Deposition Method
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Hua Chung and Barry L. Chin, both of San Jose, Calif., and Ling Chen of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a cyclical deposition of refractory metal silicon nitride. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to an ...
Indian Inventor Develops Generalized Software Modeling Tool
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Deepak M Srinivasa of Bangalore, India, has developed a method, a system, a software tool and a computer program product for different modeling environments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metamodel representation, termed a 'definition ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cigarette Mini-Pack Shell
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Robert T. Mitten of Glen Allen, Va., and Scott A. Fath of Richmond, Va., have developed an ornamental design for a cigarette mini-pack shell and slide, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D523,171 on June ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Energy Recovery Apparatus
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Kouichi Satou, Seiji Yanagisawa, Yuji Tanaka, Shinichi Takahashi, Yukihiro Fujita, Osamu Matsumoto, Toshihiko Yamamoto and Masahiro Sano, all from Tokyo, have developed a system that is provided to recover unutilized energy as electric power in hydraulic turbine power ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Vented Cooler Door Shelf Device
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- James David Robertson of Atlanta has developed a door shelf device for a transparent cooler door. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf device for mounting on an inside surface of a cooler door comprises a bottom panel and left and ...
Ohio, Tennessee Inventors Develop Dehydrated Potato Flakes
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Maria Dolores Martines-Serna Villagran of West Chester, Ohio, and David John Beverly of Jackson, Tenn., have developed a mixture of dehydrated potato flakes made by a process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dehydrated potato flakes ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pet Habitat
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 1 -- Warren K. Lieu of Dallas has developed an ornamental design for a pet habitat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,182 on June 13. The original application was filed on Nov. 10, 2004, and is ...