US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, August 29:
Moog Wins $521,600 Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $521,600 contract to Moog Inc., East Aurora, N.Y., for aircraft components and accessories. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command's Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, ...
Professional Health Services Wins $50,888 Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... BLACKSTONE, Va., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $50,888 contract to Professional Health Services Inc., Havertown, Pa., for mobile medical testing. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army's U.S. Property & Fiscal Office, Blackstone, Va. For more ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Etch Stop Layer Forming Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Vishnu K. Agarwal of Boise, Idaho, has developed a method of forming an etch stop layer in a semiconductor structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polysilicon layer on the semiconductor substrate and ions are implanted into the ...
Mississippi Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Sofa
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Lisa A. Adair of New Albany, Miss., Christopher W. Burgett of Saltillo, Miss., and Christie D. Lamb of Tupelo, Miss., have developed an ornamental design for a sofa, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Florida, Virginia Inventors Develop Microelectromechanical Systems Based Acoustic Array
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Mark Sheplak, Toshikazu Nishida and David P. Arnold, all from Gainesville, Fla., and William M. Humphreys of Newport News, Va., have developed an acoustic combination responsive to an acoustic wave. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
British Inventors Develop Raney Catalyst Preparation Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Stephen Michael Andrew Sillitto and George Paul Yiasemides, both of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Great Britain, and Nicholas John Elsworth Adkins of Nantwich, Great Britain, have developed a method for raney catalyst preparation by gas atomization of molten ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Lipid-Encapsulated Therapeutic Agents
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Norbert Maurer, Kim F Wong and Pieter R. Cullis, all from Vancouver, Canada, have developed methods for preparation of lipid-encapsulated therapeutic agents. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fully lipid-encapsulated therapeutic agent ...
Norwegian Inventors Develop Subsea Production System
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Geir Inge Olsen of Oslo, Norway, has developed methods and arrangements for production of petroleum products from a subsea well. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods comprise control of a downhole separator, supplying power fluid ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Bias Circuit
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Hiroyuki Mori of Tokyo has developed a bias circuit that includes a feedback amplifier, a current source, first and second differential transistors, first and second resistive transistors and first and second mirror transistors. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Torque Sensor
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Naoki Nakane and Shigetoshi Fukaya, both of Toyota, Japan, Kiyoshi Sugimura of Toyoake, Japan, Masao Tokunaga of Gamagori, Japan, and Kenji Takeda of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a torque sensor for detecting torque applied to a torsion bar that can be used in a ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Gas Treatment Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- William J. LaBarge of Bay City, Mich., Joachim Kupe of Davisburg, Mich., and Conrad Anderson of Davison, Mich., have developed gas treatment devices and vehicle exhaust systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the ...
German Inventors Develop Radiation-Curable Coatings Curing Apparatus
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Herbert Lange and Hartmut Krannich, both of Obergriesbach, Germany, Reiner Mehnert of Markkleeberg, Germany, and Axel Sobottka of Leipzig, Germany, have developed an apparatus for curing radiation-curable coatings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Downhole Multi-Phase Twin Screw Pump
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Pradeep Dass of Alberta, Canada, has developed a method of adapting a downhole multi-phase twin screw pump for use in wells having a high gas content. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first step involves positioning a supplementary ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Circuit Test Report Format Editor
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Robert Stanley Kolman of Longmont, Colo., has developed a report format editor for circuit test. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphical user interface (GUI) of a report format editor for circuit test displays a number of ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Direct Thermal Imaging Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- John Finger of Milford, Ohio, has developed a means to produce an image in gray scale on a film using direct thermal imaging, and preferably near infrared direct thermal imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
Irish Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bowl
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- John Rocha of Dublin, Ireland, has developed an ornamental design for a bowl, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D517,865 on March 28. The patent has been assigned to Waterford Crystal Ltd., ...
Swedish, Bulgarian Inventors Develop Porous Inorganic Material Macrostructures
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Per Johan Sterte and Borislavova Lubomira Tosheva, both of Lulea, Sweden, and Valentin Panov Valtchev and Svetlana Ivanova Mintova, both of Sofia, Bulgaria, have developed macrostructures of porous inorganic material and a process for their ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Akira Goda, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Hirohisa Iizuka, Seiichi Aritome and Wakako Moriyama, all from Yokohama, Japan, Riichiro Shirota of Fujisawa, Japan, and Hiroaki Hazama of Hachioji, Japan, have developed a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and a method for ...
New Jersey, Illinois Inventors Develop Content Grouping Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Shih-Ping Liou of West Windsor, N.J., Candemir Toklu of Plainsboro, N.J., and Weiyu Zhu of Urbana, Ill., have developed a text-based automatic content classification and grouping method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of content ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Analog Test Performing Apparatus
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Masashi Miyazaki, Kenji Inaba and Toshiyuki Miura, all from Tokyo, have developed a testing apparatus including a plurality of testing module slots onto which different types of testing modules are selectively mounted. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Australian Inventors Develop Clock Trim Mechanism
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Gary Shipton and Simon Robert Walmsley, both of Balmain, Australia, have developed a mechanism for adjusting an onboard system clock on an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "integrated ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Liner Air Gap Formation Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Xiaomei Bu, Alex See, Tae Jong Lee, Fan Zhang, Yeon Kheng Lim and Liang Choo Hsia, all from Singapore, have developed a structure and a method of a semiconductor device with liner air gaps next to interconnects and dielectric layers. According to the U.S ....
British Inventors Develop Well Operations System
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Hans Paul Hopper of Aberdeen, Great Britain, and Thomas G. Cassity of Surrey, Great Britain, have developed a wellhead that has, instead of conventional Christmas tree, a spool tree in which a tubing hanger is landed at a predetermined angular orientation ....
Chinese Inventor Develops Inorganic Bone Adhesion Agent
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Changsheng Liu of Shanghai, China, has developed an inorganic bone adhesive and its use in human hard tissue repairs. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inorganic bone adhesive comprises basic compound, phosphate, calcium phosphate bone ...
French Inventors Develop Chromatic Dispersion Compensating Optical Fiber
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Pierre Sillard of Le Chesnay, France, and Denis Molin of Draveil, France, have developed a single-mode chromatic dispersion compensating optical fiber for a wavelength multiplexing transmission network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
California Inventors Develop Electrodes
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Cindy K. Harnett and Judith L. Rognlien, both of Livermore, Calif., and Robert W. Crocker of Fremont, Calif., have developed electrodes for microfluidic applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "electrode ...
California Inventor Develops Directional Bridge Coupler
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Uriel C. Fojas of Santa Rosa, Calif., has developed a directional bridge coupler. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A directional bridge coupler includes a coaxial balun having a coaxial cable with a plurality of ferrite beads disposed ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light Guiding Plate Manufacturing Apparatus
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Kazuo Kobayashi and Kunisato Kafuku, both of Chiba, Japan, Kazuhiko Nakano of Tokyo, and Hidetaka Kaburagi of Tochigi, Japan, have developed a light guiding plate manufacturing apparatus and light guiding plate manufacturing method. According to the U.S ....
French Inventors Develop Complex Circuit Signal Behavior Test Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Florence Akli of Les Clayes Sous Bois, France, Alain Debreil of Plaisir, France, and Christian Niquet of Bourg-La-Reine, France, have developed a method for demonstrating the dependence of a signal based on another signal. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Yoshinori Kumura, Iwao Kunishima, Tohru Ozaki, Hiroyuki Kanaya and Shinichi Watanabe, all from Yokohama, Japan, and Tohru Ozaki of Tokyo, have developed a semiconductor memory device with ferroelectric capacitor and a method of manufacturing the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Test System
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Yasuyuki Nozuyama and Mahito Shidou, both of Tokyo have developed a method and a program for testing an integrated circuit, particularly for a complementary metal oxide semiconductor circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test system ...
Texas Inventors Develop Surface Coating Liquid Composition
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Rick Poole and Mark Lane, both of San Antonio, have developed a liquid composition additive to reduce curing time of surface coatings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid composition, active curing additive for water or solvent borne ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Acoustic Wave Devices Fabrication Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Jeong Yub Lee of Seoul, South Korea, and Jang Ho Park of Kyungki-do, South Korea, have developed a method of fabricating a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a fabrication method of a SAW device, a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Self-Aligned Contact Forming Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Meng-Hung Chen of Taoyuan, Taiwan, Shian-Jyh Lin of Yonghe, Taiwan, and Chia-Sheng Yu of Banciao, Taiwan, have developed a method for forming a self-aligned contact on a semiconductor substrate provided with a plurality of field-effect transistors. According ...
Seiler Instrument & Manufacturing Wins $214,920 Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $214,920 contract to Seiler Instrument & Manufacturing Co. Inc., St. Louis, for optical sighting and ranging equipment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, ...
Lakeshore Engineering Services Wins $207,582 Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $207,582 contract to Lakeshore Engineering Services Inc., Detriot, Mich., an explosive evaluation of sewers at Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock ...
Spirit Partners Wins $388,961 Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $388,961 contract to Spirit Partners Inc., Port Byron, Ill., for quality inspection services. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more ...
Kipper Tool Wins $3.86 Million Contract
Aug 29, 2006 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $3.86 million to Kipper Tool Co., Gainesville, Ga., for maintenance and repair shop equipment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, ...
California Inventors Develop Universal Mid-Frequency Matching Network
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Eller Y. Juco and Talex Sajoto, both of San Jose, Calif., Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan of Santa Clara, Calif., and Mario David Silvetti of Morgan Hill, Calif., have developed a substrate processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Australian, French Inventors Develop Material Inserting Surgical Instrument
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Peter Petros of Claremont, Australia, and Stuart Morton of Villepreux, France, have developed a surgical instrument for inserting material into the body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The surgical instrument generally includes an outer ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Angular-Rate Detecting Apparatus
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Yoichi Mochida of Fujisawa, Japan, has developedan angular-rate detecting apparatus for detecting an angular rate of a rotating body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Angular-rate detecting apparatus includes four mass portions ...
Michigan, Virginia Inventors Develop Ceramic Casting Core
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Robert E. Grunstra of Spring Lake, Mich., and John Corrigan of Yorktown, Va., have developed a ceramic core for use in casting a hollow metallic article. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceramic core for use in casting an article such as ...
German Inventors Develop Rotational Speed Detection Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Ralf Bohnig of Regensburg, Germany, Achim Przymusinski of Lappersdorf, Germany, and Christian Stahl of Obertraubling, Germany, have developed a method for ascertaining the rotational speed of an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventor Develops System Configuration Modeling Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Ilya Gluhovsky of Mountain View, Calif., has developed isotonic additive models in workload characterization. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for modeling a system configuration, including isotonizing an ...
Danish Inventor Develops Human Ear Shape Correcting Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Michael Miravet Sorribes of Jyllinge, Denmark, has developed a device for non-invasively correcting a human external ear. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device comprises a flat fixture with an adhesive for sticking the fixture ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Resonant Structure
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Karen Kocharyan of Burlington, Mass., has developed a resonant structure for lumped element in nonreciprocal device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure according to the present invention relates to the non-reciprocal microwave ...
Texas Inventors Develop Endodontic Reamer
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Steven Senia, Stuart Minica, E. Steve Senia, Gene Rimmer and Ed D. Moore, all from San Antonio, and William L. Wildey of Hurst, Texas, have developed an endodontic reamer and a method for manufacturing endodontic reamers and files. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Utah Inventor Develops Dental Curing Light
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Densen Cao of Sandy, Utah, has developed a curing light system which is useful for curing light activated composite materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a light emitting semiconductor device, a primary heat sink ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Beauty Cap
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Rosa Edwards of Detroit has developed a cap worn by a user to simulate the user's hair being wrapped in rollers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beauty cap has a plurality of sponge rollers, and a strip of material simulating hair ...
German Inventor Develops Distance Measuring Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Gu Trummer of Baiersdorf, Germany, has developed a distance measuring device and a method for determining a distance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a distance measuring device and a suitable method for ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Rotary Module
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Bowie G. Keefer and Christopher R. McLean, both of Vancouver, Canada, and David G. Doman of Surrey, Canada, have developed a modular pressure swing adsorption apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary module for implementing a ...
French Inventors Develop Inertial Rotation Sensor
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Vincent Ragot of Asnieres, France, and Alain Renault of Pontoise, France, have developed a vibrating resonator inertial rotation sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inertial rotation sensor comprising a vibrating resonator ...
North Carolina, Arizona, Missouri Inventors Develop Groove Cable
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Olaf Storaasli and Ray Lovie, both of Hickory, N.C., Bob J. Overton of Leoir, N.C., Jeff Barker of Statesville, N.C., Charles J. Welnack of Cave Creek, Ariz., and Terry Holshouser Sr. of Lexington, Mo., have developed a cable system and a method that includes a cable ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Particle Beam System
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Charles J. Libby of Winchester, Mass., and Billy W. Ward of Merrimac, Mass., have developed focused particle beam systems and methods using a tilt column. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particle beam systems and methods for interacting with a ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Amplifier Device
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Paulus Thomas van Zeijl of Hengelo, Netherlands, has developed a method for operating an amplifier device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "amplifier device, including: at least one input contact, an amplifier ...
British Inventors Develop Radioactivity Investigations Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Karl Anthony Hughes and John Lightfoot, both of Seascale, Great Britain, have developed an apparatus and a method for measuring activity of radioactivity at a source location within an environment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
British Inventor Develops Wavelength Selective Optical Filter
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- James Whiteaway of Sawbrideworth, Great Britain, has developed an improved wavelength selective optical filter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to an improved wavelength selective optical filter component having ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Steel Article Fabrication Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Edward Lee Raymond of Maineville, Ohio, Mark Alan Rhoads of Cincinnati, and Glenn Charles Culbertson of Mason, Ohio, have developed a method for fabricating a steel article having more than about 0.5 weight percent aluminum. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Robotic Foam Application Process
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Daniel J. Ondrus of Northville, Mich., Jeffrey Petty of Livonia, Mich., and Kenneth P. Tremonti of Troy, Mich., have developed a method for robotically applying large volumes of structural foam within automotive applications. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Centrifugal Fluid Separation System
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Dennis J Hlavinka of Arvada, Colo., and Thomas J. Felt of Boulder, Colo., have developed a method for separating a composite fluid into components in a centrifugal fluid separation system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Sanitary Sewer System Hydraulic Performance Evaluation Method
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- David J. Saylor of Westville, Ind., has developed a method of evaluating a gravity-type flow conveyance system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes the steps of identifying, quantifying and totaling all upstream inflow ...
German Inventors Develop Orthodontic Bracket
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Norbert Abels of Homburg, Germany, and Claus H. Backes of Saarbrucken, Germany, have developed orthodontic brackets with temporarily visible marking features. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-ligating orthodontic brackets include a ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ergonomic Hand Tool
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Daniel P. Hurt of Spring Park, Minn., has developed a hand tool with an ergonomic design that increases the fulcrum length achieved when utilized by a user in comparison to conventional hand tools. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Fire Protection Apparatus
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- Ronald Francis Trumper of St. Bruno, Canada, has developed an apparatus and a method for providing fireproofing to an aircraft auxiliary power unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "fire protection apparatus for ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Reinforced Bulk Bin
Aug 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 29 -- James Watson Barner of Cummings, Ga., has developed methods for making reinforced bulk bin. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforced bulk bin, and methods for making same, wherein a collapsible bulk bin, preferably fabricated from ...