US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, September 21:
California Inventor Develops Hierarchical Information Display Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Paula S. Newman of Los Altos, Calif., has developed a method of visualizing and exploring tree structures whose interior nodes represent substantial amounts of logically related textual information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Self-Contained Tool Handle
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Chun Yong Chen of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a tool handle self-contained a set of screwdriver bit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool handle self-contained a set of screwdriver bits includes a handle and a set of screwdriver bits ...
California Inventor Develops Driver Slew Rate Closed-Loop Control Device
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Mamun Ur Rashid of Folsom, Calif., has developed a device that includes an output circuit to output an output signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device also includes a control loop circuit to measure the real slew of the output ...
British Inventors Develop Disc Components Production
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Christopher Peter Ralph Hill, Richard Church and Benjamin Mycock, all from Bristol, Great Britain, have developed a disc component for a gas turbine engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc component for a gas turbine engine is ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Touch Panel Inaccuracies Avoiding Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Jung-Yuan Tsai, Wan-Ting Tsai and Wei-Tun Lan, all from Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, have developed a method and an apparatus for avoiding pressing inaccuracies on a touch panel. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pulse Width Modulation Signal Generator
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Toshiharu Goto and Isao Shime, both of Yamagata, Japan, have developed a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generator According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PWM signal generator comprises a pulse width indication signal generator outputting ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ladders Protective Device
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Patricia A. Woodward of Groton, Mass., has developed a protective device for ladders. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective device releasably mounted to an upper end portion of a ladder for protecting a surface on which the ladder ...
German Inventors Develop Shaving Apparatus Cleaning Device
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Diana Kappes of Eppstein, Germany, Andreas Larscheid of Kelkheim, Germany, and Uwe Ludascher of Kriftel, Germany, have developed a cleaning device for a shaving head portion of a shaving apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventor Develops Internet Touch, Feel Enhancement Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Scott C. Harris of San Diego has developed a method of enhancing the realism of product descriptions over the Internet, to make Internet shopping more like real life shopping. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enabling touch ...
New York Inventors Develop Electrostatic Actuator
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Peter M. Gulvin of Webster, N.Y., and Joel A. Kubby of Rochester, N.Y., have developed a electrostatic actuator having a segmented membrane with an independently addressable electrode for each segment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
New Mexico Inventor Develops Substrate Selected Material Deposition Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Michael J. Renn of Albuquerque, N.M., has developed methods and apparatus for the deposition of a source material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomizer renders a supply of source material into many discrete particles. A force ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Programmable Multiplexers Synchronization Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Fulong Zhang of Willow Grove, Pa., has developed systems and methods to provide clock and data synchronization for input/output interfaces of a programmable logic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, ...
California Inventor Develops Trans-Lingual Search Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ning-Ping Chan of El Cerrito, Calif., has developed a system and a method for dynamically displaying linguistic annotation on trans-lingual search results in callouts or virtual bubbles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Fabrication Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Todd P. Lukanc of San Jose, Calif., Sarah N. McGowan of San Francisco, Bhanwar Singh of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Joerg Reiss of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a method of lithographic image alignment for use with a dual mask exposure technique. According ...
Italian Inventors Develop Electric Cable
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Sergio Belli of Leghorn, Italy, Alberto Bareggi of Milan, Italy, and Cristiana Scelza of Angellara Di Vallo Della Lucania, Italy, have developed an electric cable for power transmission at low voltage that has at least one conductor and an insulating coating ...
Colorado, California Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Data Communication System
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Heinz Willebrand of Longmont, Colo., and Maha Achour of San Diego, have developed a system for a hybrid wireless optical and a radio frequency (RF) communication link. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid wireless optical and RF ...
Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors Develop Cast Concrete Members Production Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- James A. Westhoff of Langhorne, Pa., James A. Kelly of Upper Black Eddy, Pa., and Craig B. Williams of Fayetteville, Ga., have developed a method and an apparatus for forming cast members. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steps are ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Video Processing Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ikuo Tsukagoshi of Tokyo, Naohiko Kawase of Kanagawa, Japan, and Kikuo Yamamoto of Chiba, Japan, have developed a video processing apparatus, a method and a medium which are suitable to decode a compressed video signal. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
German Inventor Develops Network Element State Displaying Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Martin Takats of Berlin has developed a method for the visual display of states of network elements of a network to be monitored, and also a monitoring device and program module therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Audio Data Recording Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Jung-Kwon Heo of Seoul, South Korea, has developed an apparatus and a method for recording data on a digital video discs (DVD)-audio disk. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "DVD-Audio which includes a data zone ...
German Inventor Develops Work Stage
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Alexander Stingl of Obersulm-Willsbach, Germany, has developed a work stage or working gantry, for receiving and/or positioning a work platform. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work stage includes a work platform having first and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Photomask
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Takumichi Sutani, Kyoko Izuha and Soichi Inoue, all from Yokohama, Japan, and Tadahito Fujisawa of Tokyo, have developed a photomask having a focus monitor pattern. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photomask has a device pattern, which ...
California Inventors Develop Time-Based Media File Processing Control Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Daniel N. Crow and Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson, both of San Francisco, Cary Dean of Sunnyvale, Calif., J. Peter Hoddie of Mountain View, Calif., Steven P. Jobs of Palo Alto, Calif., and Timothy E. Wasko of High River, Calif., have developed a user interface and ...
California Inventors Develop Ergonomic Electronic Torque Wrench
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Brian Cutler of Rowland Heights, Calif., David Duvan of Chino, Calif., Charles Davis of Torrance, Calif., and Zoltan Pavlakovich of San Pedro, Calif., have developed a torque-measuring and a recording wrenche. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Microwave Oven Menu Display Control Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Kyung-Hwan Choi of Changwon Gyeongnam, South Korea, and Won-Kyung Park of Masan Gyeongnam, South Korea, have developed a device and a method for displaying various menus of a microwave oven onto one screen. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventor Develops Footrest Assembly
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Robert Clough of Santa Clarita, Calif., has developed a vehicle seating unit embodying a novel, retractable foot support assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "extendable, retractable footrest assembly for ...
California, Illinois Inventors Develop Shims
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Darren Traub of Irvine, Calif., Jerry W Crews of Los Alamitos, Calif., and Arthur Wagner of Geneva, Ill., have developed non-wood shims including natural fibers originating from waste source materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
New York Inventors Develop Image Transfer Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ken Hayward of Brockport, N.Y., Marc J. Krolczyk of Rochester, N.Y., Dawn M. Marchionda of Marion, N.Y., Thomas L. Wolf of Webster, N.Y., and James S. Laird of Penfield, N.Y., have developed an image transfer system for transferring an image from a first medium, ...
Texas Inventors Develop Raman Amplification Forward Pumping System
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Takeshi Hoshida of Richardson, Texas, and Seemant Choudhary of Irving, Texas, have developed a method and a system for forward pumping Raman amplification in an optical network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical communication ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Electric Knife
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- John R. Nottingham of Bratenahl, Ohio, John W. Spirk of Gates Mills, Ohio, Trevor L. Jaokson of Kirtland, Ohio, Don C. Fuchs Jr. of Mentor, Ohio, and Doug Gall of Strongsville, Ohio, have developed an electric knife with a blade that is adapted to safely carve the ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Low Insertion Force Grommet
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Jerome Adam David Duhr of Westland, Mich, has developed a grommet mainly made of soft, pliable material that has a flange section for sealing against a first side of a vehicle panel around an aperture through the panel. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Texas Inventor Develops Device User Interface Generation Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Brandon A. Grooters of Bedford, Texas, has developed a system and a method which generate a device user interface executable by an information handling system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device database includes a list of devices ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Calibration Assisting Device
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Michiharu Matsuda, Atsushi Kobayashi and Kazunori Uemori, all from Tokyo, and Masayuki Terada of Shizuoka, Japan, have developed a calibration assisting method for assisting the calibration of a weight meter for measuring the loaded weight of a vehicle on the basis ...
German Inventor Develops Aeroplane Passenger Seat
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Hartmut Schurg of Schwabisch Hall, Germany, has developed a seat, preferably a passenger seat, and especially an aeroplane passenger seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat, preferably an aeroplane seat, includes a seat base which ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Phase Locked Loop
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Nathan Moyal of West Linn, Ore., Eric Mitchell of Lake Oswego, Ore., and Mark Gehring of Portland, Ore., have developed a phase locked loop (PLL) that has a substantially constant gain over a wide frequency range. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetic Disc Medium
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Shinji Saito, Hitoshi Noguchi and Hideaki Shiga, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a magnetic disc medium capable of high density recording. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "magnetic disc medium ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Door Module
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Kouji Takase, Yukio and Hidenobu Ojima, all from Yokkaichi, Japan, have developed a door module that includes a detachable panel and configured to wire a door harness. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The detachable panel is configured to ...
North Carolina, Illinois Inventors Develop Portable Chair
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ned W. Mizelle of High Point, N.C., and Shay Shalmon of Northbrook, Ill., have developed a portable, folding chair with an enhanced seat and backrest. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The seat includes a suspension system that is capable ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Jet Recording Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Hideo Izawa, Akira Ishikawa and Yuuichi Yamazaki, all from Chiba, Japan, have developed an ink jet recording apparatus using an ink jet printing head to perform printing a paper web with jets of ink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In ...
Australian Inventor Develops Active Feedback Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Timothy Mark Morris-Yates of Willoughby, Australia, has developed a method of providing active user feedback in a graphic user interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises selecting a soft control currently displayed ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Roll-Up Floor Mat
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Robert T. Ellingson of Social Circle, Ga., has developed a roll-up floor mats formed by a plurality of elongated parallel aluminum rails interconnected with flexible hinges. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A commercial floor mat has a plurality ...
German Inventors Develop Piston-Pin Bearing
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Dieter Weinkauf of Stuttgart, Germany, and Gu Zugschwert of Tamm, Germany, have developed a piston-pin bearing for an internal combustion engine wherein a cylindrical piston pin is mounted. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The piston-pin ...
French Inventor Develops Personal Safety Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Bernard R. Ador of Mandelieu, France, has developed a safety anchor for securing a user to a substantially vertical safety structure, e.g., elevator cable. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Safety anchor includes a back plate to which are ...
Washington Inventors Develop Format Consistency Checker
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Joe KengYap and James Noel Helfrich, both of Redmond, Wash., Ashok Kuppusamy of Seattle, Roberto C. Taboada of Bothell, Wash., have developed a format consistency checker (FCC) for monitoring and enhancing text formatting within a document. According to the ...
Washington Inventors Develop Print Head Charge Shield
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Sam Sarmast and Wen-Li Su, both of Vancouver, Wash., have developed a print head charge shield for applying ink onto paper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer according to the present techniques includes a print head having at ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Harness Excess-Length Absorbing Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Tomoyasu Terada of Kosai, Japan, has developed a harness excess-length absorbing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harness excess-length absorbing apparatus includes a protector for receiving a wire harness in a folded-back ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Integrated Engine Welder
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- David J. Bender of Chardon, Ohio, and Bryce Muter of Eastlake, Ohio, have developed a welder/generator and compressor unit that can be transported to a site for welding and/or for operating air and/or electric power tools. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Webpage Providing Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ethan R. Nicholas of San Jose, Calif., and Veena Y. Dong of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method of displaying a preview version of a first webpage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for providing a ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Screw-Driving Tool
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Simon Casutt of Gossau, Switzerland, has developed a screw-driving tool for implant screws having an elongate handle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a screw-driving tool for implant screws having an elongate ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Encoded Audio-Video Data Archiving Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Melanie R. Fendt and Frederick M. Venzie III, both of Cherry Hill, N.J., Jay Yogeshwar of Lawrenceville, N.J., Stephen A. Martucci of Kendall Park, N.J., and Bobby R. Gupta of Robbinsville, N.J., have developed methods and an apparatus for indexing and archiving ...
U.S., Irish Inventors Develop Thermosetting Resin Composition
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Lawrence N. Crane of Brookfield, Conn., Mark M. Konarski of Old Saybrook, Conn., Afranio Torres-Filho of Enfield, Conn., Z. Andrew Szczepaniak of Middletown, Conn., and Brendan J. Kneafsey of Lucan, Ireland, have developed a reworkable compositions incorporating ...
French Inventor Develops Fiber Optic Splicing Cassettes Array
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Michel Dillat of Becon, France, has developed an array of fiber optic splicing cassettes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The array has first and second side plates connected to one another by first and second axes. The fiber optic ...
Tennessee Inventor Develops Outlet Box Assembly
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Robert K. Jolly of Cordova, Tenn., has developed an outlet box assembly for termination of electrical and/or communication wires. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The outlet box assembly generally includes a housing defining an interior ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Optical Time Division Multiplexed Fiber Communication System
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Nadejda Reingand and Jacob Khurgin, both of Baltimore, and Pak Shing Cho of Gaithersburg, Md., have developed a method and a system for optical time division multiplexed fiber communications with coherent detection. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
German Inventor Develops Support Surface Position Changing Mechanism
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Christian Erker of Usinger, Germany, has developed a mechanism for changing a position of a support surface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for changing a position of a support surface for seats and couches and a length of ...
California Inventors Develop Light Reflecting Polymeric Articles
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Abimael Cordova of Whittier, Calif., and Jason Kroskrity of Los Angeles, have developed a light reflecting polymeric articles containing benzoxazolyl-napthalene optical brighteners. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Battery Mechanism
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Joseph F. Sharrow, Kurt W. Solomon and Frank E. Peterkin, all from Fredericksburg, Va., Jack S. Bernardes and Brian J. Hankla, both of King George, Va., have developed mechanisms that preferably can safely, reliably, and remotely combine multiple battery assemblies ....
Missouri Inventor Develops Photosensitive Bottom Anti-Reflective Coating
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Douglas J. Guerrero of Rolla, Mo., has developed anti-reflective compositions and methods of using these compositions to form circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions comprise a polymer dissolved or dispersed in a solvent ...
Rhode Island Inventor Develops Golf Ball Composition
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Michael J. Sullivan of Barrington, R.I., has developed compositions for use in golf balls. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a golf ball comprising at least one interface between a first crosslinkable material ...
Australian Inventors Develop Printing Cartridge
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Tobin Allen King and Silverbrook Kia, both of Balmain, Australia, have developed a printing cartridge that is engageable with a printer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The printing cartridge includes a casing that has a print media ...
German Inventors Develop Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Retransmission Method
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Alexander Golitschek, Christian Wengerter, Michael Philipp Schmitt and Eiko Seidel, all from Langen, Germany, have developed a data transmission apparatus using a constellation rearrangement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid ...
California Inventors Develop Surface-Modified Nanoparticle
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Edward William Adams of San Francisco, and Marcel Pierre Bruchez Jr. of Fremont, Calif., have developed a surface-modified semiconductive and metallic nanoparticles having enhanced dispersibility in aqueous media. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Webbing Winding Device
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Shinji Mori, Teruhiko Koide and Fuminori Komiya, all from Aichi-ken, Japan, have developed a webbing winding device and a clutch mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A webbing winding device in which a breadth dimension of a torque ...
Iowa, Alabama Inventors Develop Self-Test Circuit Apparatus
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Keith D. Egger of Marshalltown, Iowa, and J. David Harp of Montgomery, Ala., have developed an apparatus which is adapted for self-test. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes a microcontroller and a number of relay ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Refrigerator Home Bar Unit Door
Sep 21, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Dong-In Shin and Jae-sek Oh, both of Kwangju, South Korea have developed a refrigerator having a door to open and close a refrigerator compartment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "refrigerator having a door to ...