US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, September 25:
Japanese Inventor Develops Memory Embedded Semiconductor Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Takashi Nakabayashi of Osaka, Japan, has developed a memory embedded semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory embedded semiconductor device according to the present invention ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Inside Plug
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Eiko Matsuda and Hirohisa Yokoya, both of Ako, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for an inside plug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,417 on Sept. 19. The patent has been ...
California Inventors Develop On-the-Fly Block Accounting Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Blake H. Lewis of Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Andy C. Kahn of San Francisco, have developed a system and a method for efficient space accounting in a file system with snapshots. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Spring Manufacturing Machine
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Katsuhide Tsuritani of Osaka, Japan, has developed a spring manufacturing machine which delivers a wire rod to a wire rod processing space from a final wire rod guide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order that a moving locus of a ...
Australian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Box Carrying Portable Handle
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Mark Tuddenham of Cranebrook, Australia, has developed an ornamental design for a portable handle for carrying boxes, cartons and the like, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,415 on Sept. 19 ....
Illinois Inventors Develop Optical Characteristics Determination Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Wayne D. Jung and Russell W. Jung both of Morton Grove, Ill., and Alan R. Laudermilk of Chicago, Ill., have developed a method for determing optical characteristics through a protective barrier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventors Develop Object Graph Management Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Craig Federighi and Eric Noyau, both of Mountain View, Calif., and Dan Willhite of San Francisco, have developed a novel system for managing changes to a graph of data bearing objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Communication System Interference Cancellation Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Bruce J. Currivan of Irvine, Calif., Nabil R. Yousef of Foothill Ranch, Calif., Thomas J. Kolze of Phoenix, and Gottfried Ungerboeck of Langnau, Switzerland, have developed a method for cancellation of interference in a communication system with application to ...
California Inventors Develop Snapshot Restoring Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Wayne A. Sawdon of San Jose, Calif., and Frank B. Schmuck of Campbell, Calif., have developed a method of providing a snapshot of a subject of a file system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer readable medium ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Multi-Phase Centrifugal Supercharging System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Daniel W. Jones of Lenexa, Kan., and Michael A. Carlson of Stanley, Kan., have developed a multi-phase centrifugal supercharging system configured for supplying compressed induction fluid to an engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Bitstream Transcoder
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Taku Nakamura, Naoki Yamamoto and Hiroyasu Ohtsubo, all from Yokohama, Japan, and Takuya Imaide of Fujisawa, Japan, have developed an image information transcoding apparatus, a bitstream transcoder and a method for transcoding and transmitting image ...
California Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Richard A. Mann of Torrance, Calif., has developed a semiconductor device for isolating a photodiode to reduce junction leakage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved semiconductor device that reduces reverse bias junction leakage ...
New York Inventors Develop Finite Resource System Access Control Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Nemo Semret and Aurel Lazar, both of New York, have developed a system and a method for allocating resources using spot market and derivative market techniques. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling access to a system ...
California Inventor Develops Stationary Semantic Zooming System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Randall B. Smith of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a system and method for stationary semantic zooming. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stationary semantic zooming allows selected non-spatial rendering attributes, such as level of ...
German Inventor Develops Motor Vehicle Drive Assembly
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Oswald Friedmann of Lichtenau, Germany, has developed a drive assembly for a motor vehicle having a stepless transmission that includes a driven input shaft coupled to an engine and at least one output shaft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventors Develop Combined High Speed Optical Profilometer
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Steven W. Meeks and Rusmin Kudinar, both of Fremont, Calif., have developed a system and a method for measuring defects, film thickness, contamination, particles and height of a thin film disk or a silicon wafer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
North Carolina, California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Devices
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Rizwan Bashirullah of Raleigh, N.C., Ralph K. Cavin III of Cary, N.C., and Wentai Liu of Santa Cruz, Calif., have developed integrated circuit devices having on-chip adaptive bandwidth buses and related methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Medical Dispensing Container
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Richard A. Wolpow of Newport Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a medical dispensing container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,434 on Sept. 19. The patent has been ...
New York Inventor Develops Multiple-Bit Magnetic Random Access Memory Cell
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Yu Lu of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., has developed a multiple-bit magnetic random access memory cell that employs adiabatic switching. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple-bit memory cell for use in a magnetic random access memory ...
Missouri Inventor Develops Trash Receptacle Unit
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Jason C. Rouse and Lindsey Jo Rouse, both of Green City, Mo., have developed a tubular member that is releasably mounted on a base and encircles a trash bag that rests on the base. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Once the trash bag is ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Decorative Corner Guard
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Robert DePaul of Staten Island, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for a decorative corner guard, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,408 on Sept. 19. The original application was filed ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Carrying Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Stephen Baum of New York has developed an ornamental design for a carrying device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,413 on Sept. 19. The original application was filed on June 13, 2005, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Controller
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Naohide Fuwa, Masaaki Konishi, Akinori Osanai, Satoru Watanabe and Masato Ehara, all from Susono, Japan, and Masanobu Kanamaru of Mishima, Japan, have developed a device for controlling internal combustion engines. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Information Retrieval System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Guy Maring Lohman of San Jose, Calif., and Ian Richard Finlay of Uxbridge, Canada, have developed an information retrieval system and a method using index ANDing for improving performance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information ...
German Inventor Develops Shaft Rotational Movement Generating System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Bernhard Konig of Bobingen, Germany, has developed a system for generating a rotational movement of a shaft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a rotational movement of a shaft with a first device for generating ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Hitch Lock Packaging
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Eric Mackey and Mark Van Handel, both of Milwaukee, and Tony Kopp of West Allis, Wis., have developed an ornamental design for a hitch lock packaging, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,409 on ...
California, Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Craig Snedden of Culver City, Calif., and George A. Golota of Glenview, Ill., have developed an ornamental design for a container with lid, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,412 on Sept. 19 ....
New Jersey, Maryland Inventors Develop Voice Call Quality Managing Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Gagan Choudhury of Marlboro, N.J., and Robert G. Dole of Churchville, Md., have developed a method and an apparatus for managing voice call quality over packet networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ...
California Inventors Develop Elongate Object Inclination Determination Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Michael J. Mandella and Stewart R. Carl, both of Palo Alto, Calif., Dale H. Buermann of Los Altos, Calif., and Hector H. Gonzalez-Banos of Mountain View, Calif., have developed an apparatus and a method for determining an inclination of an elongate object contacting ...
German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Display Box
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Uwe Nehus of Verden, Germany, and Ernst Hufenreuter of Herzberg, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a display box, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,411 on Sept. 19. The ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Communication Channels Processing Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Mohamed S. El-Hennawey, John C. Lynch and Marc Saunders, all from Belleville, Canada, have developed a a method and a system for processing digital communication channels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A given digital signal processor ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Display Device Correction Characteristic Determination Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Takashi Sasaki of Taki-gun, Japan, has developed a correction characteristic determining device for determining a correction characteristic in a display device which corrects an image signal constituted of three primary color signals. An abstract of the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Engine System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Eiji Tomii of Shizuoka, Japan, has developed an engine system includes an engine and an engine control unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The engine includes an intake valve that opens and closes the opening of a cylinder, a valve ...
French Inventors Develop Preferred Communication Services Quality Ensuring Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Luc Attimont of St. Germain en Laye, France, and Jannick Bodin of Garches, France, have developed a method to ensure the quality of preferred communication services, a local network, a station, a local network controller and a program module therefor. An ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Synchronous Change Data Capture System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- William D. Norcott of Nashua, N.H., has developed a method and an apparatus for synchronous change data capture in a database system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronous change data capture system and methodology are described ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Breath Mint Dispenser
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Walter I. Bieger of St. Paul, Minn., has developed an ornamental design for a breath mint dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,410 on Sept. 19. The patent has been assigned to Webb ...
Danish Inventor Develops Communication Channel Signals Collision Reduction Technique
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Stig Linander of Farum, Denmark, has developed a technique for reducing collisions of signals that occurr on at least one communication channel in an access network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The access network may include at least ...
McDonnell Douglas Wins $7.48 Million Contract
Sep 25, 2006 ... PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $7.48 million contract to McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, for aircraft and airframe structural components. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more information ...
California Inventors Develop Microelectromechanical Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Satyadev Patel of Sunnyvale, Calif., Peter Richards of San Francisco, Jonathan Doan of Mountain View, Calif., and Terry Tarn of San Diego, have developed electrical contacts in microelectromechanical devices with multiple substrates. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Missouri Inventors Develop Objects Weighted Fair Queuing Scheduling Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Chunhua Hu and Peter Yifey Yan, both of St. Louis, Hossein Saidi of Maryland Heights, Mo., and Paul Seungkyu Min of Clayton, Mo., have developed a method and an apparatus for scheduling access to a common resource for a plurality of objects that are queued in a ...
Hong Kong Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Padlock Shackle Quadrangle
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Jiaqiang Ruan of Kowloon, Hong Kong, has developed an ornamental design for a padlock shackle quadrangle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,402 on Sept. 19. The patent has been assigned to ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Apple Shaped Carabiner
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Brian James Kelleghan and Alexander Purkiss, both of Longmont, Colo., have developed an ornamental design for an apple shaped carabiner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,405 on Sept. 19 ....
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Snap Disc Element
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Pierre P. Schwab of Port St. Lucie, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a snap disc element, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,407 on Sept. 19. The original application was filed ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Metal Container Forming Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Kevin Gong, Peter Hamstra and James D. Moulton, all from Kingston, Canada, Stuart MacEwen of Inverary, Canada, and Robert Mallory of Gananoque, Canada, have developed a method of and an apparatus for pressure-ram-forming metal containers and the ...
Irish Inventors Develop Rearview Mirror Assembly
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Patrick J Lawlor of Dublin, Ireland, Niall R Lynam of Holland, Ireland, John P Desmond of Newbridge, Ireland, and Patrick J Dowling of Athy, Ireland, have developed a rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lithographic Apparatus
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Koen Jacobus Johannes Maria Zaal and Tjarko Adriaan Rudolf Van Empel, both of Eindhoven, Netherland, Joost Jeroen Ottens of Veldhoven, Netherland, and Jan Hopman of Delft, Netherland, have developed a lithographic projection apparatus that comprises an illuminator ...
California Inventor Develops Animal Training Apparatus
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Linda J. Lady of Fremont, Calif., has developed an animal training apparatus with a leash connector attached to a chest portion of a harness. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The harness is arranged for preventing the leash connector from ...
German Inventors Develop Distance Measurement Device
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Michael Kasper of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Mirko Essling of Kellenbach, Germany, and Klaus-Werner Jorg of Schopp, Germany, have developed a measuring device with a signal generator and a signal receiver, and is located at a measurable distance from the signal ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Pet Chew Toy
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Van H. Brown of Andrews, N.C., has developed a pet chew toy with integrally-formed flavor pockets. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pet chew toy includes an animal skin substrate having first and second opposing major surfaces. At least ...
French Inventors Develop Multi-Terminal Client Installation Operation Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Fabrice Bourgart of Perros Guirec, France, and Gilles Ramel of Lannion, France, have developed an internal asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)-based multi-terminal client installation and method of operating same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Downstream Broadcast Peripheral Component Interconnect Switch
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Dwight D. Riley of Houston has developed an interconnect switch that provides a full peripheral component interconnect (PCI) compatibility while increasing performance via concurrency. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The switch contains ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Oversize Carabiner
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Jeffrey A. Kramer of Miami Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for an oversize carabiner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,406 on Sept. 19. The original application was filed ...
German Inventor Develops Asynchronous Transfer Mode Communication Layer Coupling Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Andreas Klug of Holzkirchen, Germany, has developed a method and an apparatus for coupling an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) communication layer to a plurality of time-division multiplex communication terminals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California, New York Inventors Develop Electrophoretic Dispersion Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Zarng-Arh George Wu and Huiyong Paul Chen, both of San Jose, Calif., Wan Peter Hsu of Fremont, Calif., Mahmoud-Zohdi Armoush of Santa Clara, Calif., Rong-Chang Liang of Cupertino, Calif., and Rongchi Yu of Glenmont, N.Y., have developed a method of electrophoretic ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Video Processing Techniques
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Gil Skaletzky of Karkur, Israel, has developed a cascade of video processing entities and a method for processing video According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a method for "processing video by receiving input video data ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Information Packets Transmission System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Paul H. Feinberg of River Vale, N.J., has developed a system and a method for transmitting information over multiple channels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of transmitting packets of information over multiple ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Dimmer Jeweled Frame
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Joel S. Spira of Coopersburg, Pa., has developed an ornamental design for a jeweled frame for a dimmer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,404 on Sept. 19. The patent has been assigned to ...
California Inventor Develops Memory Characters Rendering Font System
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Curtis R. Priem of Fremont, Calif., has developed a system and method for rendering fonts into a memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method comprises a data structure located within the memory. The system and method ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Media Subsystem Operation Method
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Jari Selin of Helsinki, Finland, has developed a method and an apparatus for reducing synchronization delay in packet-based voice terminals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry, embodied in a media subsystem, reproduces a speech or ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Driver Bit
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Robert Schluter of Kinnelton, N.J., has developed an ornamental design for a driver bit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D528,395 on Sept. 19. The original application was filed on Nov. 1, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Engine-Driven Operating Machine
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Hitoshi Yasuda and Satoshi Kojima, both of Kawagoe, Japan, have developed an engine-driven operating machine that has been made soundproof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soundproof engine-driven operating machine has a small ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Fan Idler Pulley
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Marc R. Cadarette of London, Canada, Michel Ozorak of St. Thomas, Canada, Hao Tran of Windsor, Canada, and Yahya Hodjat of Oxford, Mich., have developed a fan idler pulley with a threaded hub for attaching a fan shaft. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Belt
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Paulus Maria Smeets of Tilburg, Netherlands, Gerardus Petrus Maria Van Dijnsen of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Jeroen Herman Van Liempd of Bavel, Netherlands, have developed a belt for a continuously variable transmission. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Golf Club Head
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Lai-Fa Lo of Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a golf club head that includes a body and at least one light cover. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The body includes a striking face for striking golf balls and a crown. At least one ...
U.S., Chinese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Switch Plate
Sep 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 25 -- Shaojie Xu of Overland Park, Kan., and Hui Xu of Shanghai, China, have developed an ornamental design for a switch plate, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D528,403 on Sept. 19. The original ...