US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, October 6:
Finnish Inventors Develop Messages Presenting/Converting System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Ari Aarnio of Espoo, Finland, and Sharma Dipanshu of Helsinki, Finland, have developed systems and methods for presenting and/or converting messages. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a text message received by a mobile terminal, some or ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Code Division Multiple Access Base Station System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Seok Moon Kang of Kyoung Sang buk-do, South Korea, has developed a code-division multiple access base station system which reduces the deterioration of call quality. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "radio ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Load Module Creation Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hideo Miyake and Teruhiko Kamigata, both of Kawasaki, Japan, and Akiko Azegami of Tokyo, have developed a method and an apparatus for creating a load module and a computer product thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data shared by ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Variable Delay Line
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Alessandro Minzoni of Morrisville, N.C., has developed a variable delay line using two blender delays. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable delay line comprises a first blender delay configured to provide a first signal, a second ...
California Inventors Develop Bluetooth Cassette-Like Device
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Edwin H. S. Shearer of Pleasanton, Calif., and Kathryn E. Dienst of San Jose, Calif., have developed a hands-free kit for cell-phones that combines the wireless capabilities of Bluetooth and the sound and visual functionalities of a tape player. According to ...
Alabama Inventor Develops Maneuverable Exercise Apparatus
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Gary Lawrence Johnston of Cowarts, Ala., has developed a maneuverable exercise apparatus which enables the user to exercise both upper and lower body muscle groups. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes a frame structure ...
California Inventors Develop Heat Sink
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Thomas E. Stewart of Saratoga, Calif., and Steven J. Furuta of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed an electrical assembly that comprises a circuit board an electrical device, and a heat dissipation device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Photomultiplier
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hisaki Kato, Hideki Shimoi, Kazuya Horiuchi and Toshiaki Ushizu, all from Hamamatsu, Japan, have developed a photomultiplier and a photodetector including the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a ...
California Inventors Develop Optimized Beam Configuration Selection System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Cornelius Van Rensburg of Campbell, Calif., and Piu Bill Wong of Monte Sereno, Calif., have developed a system and a method for selecting optimized beam configuration. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Portable Electronic Devices Display
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Aamir A Abbasi of Mundelein, Ill., has developed a portable electronic device that includes a display, an input device, a lighting circuit, a light sensor and a control circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The lighting circuit includes ...
California Inventors Develop Wireless Communication System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Tao Chen, Fuyun Ling, Jack Holtzman, Yu-Cheun Jou and Stein A. Lundby, all from San Diego, have developed a wireless communication system with base station beam sweeping. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for wireless ...
Colorado, California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Information Security System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- David L. Wood and Derk Norton, both of Louisville, Colo., Paul Weschler of Broomfield, Colo., Yvonne Wilson of Mountain View, Calif., William R. Soley of Campbell, Calif., and Chris Ferris of Whitinsville, Mass., have developed systems and method for improving the ...
Texas Inventor Develops Interpolative Delay Circuit
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Kiyoshi Kase of Austin, Texas, has developed a circuit and a method for interpolative delay. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The circuit includes a delay locked loop with interpolation delay. The delay locked loop includes a differential ...
French Inventor Develops Cage with Lubricant Storage Space
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Jean-Jacques Compassi of Cran-Gevrier, France, has developed a cage with storage space for a lubricant. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "cage with storage space for a lubricant, particularly for roller bearings ...
New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Wireless Channel Selection Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Floyd Backes of Sharon, N.H., William Hawe of Hollis, N.H., Gary Vacon of East Falmouth, Mass., and Paul Callahan of Carlisle, Mass., have developed a wireless channel selection method and a system that uses scanning for identifying access point ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Wireless Devices Location Information Using System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Robert T. Moton Jr. of Alpharetta, Ga., Mark J. Enzmann of Roswell, Ga., and Samuel N Zellner of Dunwoody, Ga., have developed a system and a method for using location information that are associated with wireless devices. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventor Develops Snoop Request Filtering Mechanism
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Robert E. Cypher of Saratoga, Calif., has developed a mechanism and a method employing a plurality of hash functions for cache snoop filtering. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for filtering snoop requests to a cache memory ...
Texas Inventors Develop Scalable Coherent Interface Based System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Bryan Hornung and Robert K. King, both of Plano, Texas,and Bryan Marietta of Austin, Texas, have developed a method of using local storage to handle multiple outstanding requests in a scalable coherent interface (SCI) system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Plastic Anchoring, Mounting Device
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Thomas C. Barmore of Addison, Ill., has developed a plastic anchoring and a mounting device for wires and cables. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "pair of elongated, thin, flexible, plastic strips capable of being ...
British Inventors Develop Radio Communication Equipment Conformance Testing Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Matthew P. J. Baker of Canterbury, Great Britain, and Timothy J. Moulsley of Caterham, Great Britain, have developed a method of conformance testing of a radio communication system during soft handover and a radio test equipment for carrying out the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Ignacio Blanco of Allen, Texas, Jin Zhao of Plano, Texas, and Nathan Kruse of McKinney, Texas, have developed a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices comprising a deposition tool cleaning process having a moving plasma zone. According to the U.S. Patent ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Twisted Pair Communication Cable
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Spring Stutzman, Roger Anderson, David Wiekhorst and Fred Johnston, all from Sidney, Neb., Robert Kenny and John W. Grosh, both of Centennial, Colo., Stuart Reeves and Keith Ford, both of Cheltenham, Great Britain, have developed a cable system for minimizing alien ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Wireless Communication Implementation Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Michael E. Lewis of Hartville, Ohio, has developed a method of array beamforming with wide nulls. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and implementation of wireless communication are disclosed in which wireless signals are exchanged ...
California Inventors Develop Cache Coherency Maintenance Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Paresh Chatterjee, Ragendra Mishra and Senthil Thangaraj, all from Fremont, Calif., and Chayan Biswas of Newark, Calif., have developed systems and methods for cache synchronization between redundant storage controllers. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S, Japanese Inventors Develop Image Rejection Quadratic Filter
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Kimitake Utsunomiya of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Takatsugu Kamata of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an image rejection quadratic filter that is tunable to filter image frequencies over a wide band. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage Control System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Katsuhiro Uchiumi of Fujisawa, Japan, Hiroshi Kuwabara of Ninomiya, Japan, and Keishi Tamura of Odawara, Japan, have developed a storage control system, connected to an external storage control system and a host device. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Molecules Separation Composition
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Daniel J. Simpson of Middleton, Wis., Tonny Johnson of Madison, Wis., and Roderick G. Flemming of McFarland, Wis., have developed compositions for the separation of metals or biomolecules such as polypeptides, nucleic acids, or endotoxins using modified solid supports, ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Double Metal Complex Catalyst
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Michiel Barend Eleveld, Johan Paul Smit, Robert Adrianus Wilhelmus Grotenberg and Riemer Alberts De Groot, all from Amsterdam, Netherlands, have developed a double metal complex catalyst. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
South Carolina Inventor Develops Gas Metering System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Philip K. Higgins of Florence, S.C., and Wayne Stanley Severance Jr. of Darlington, S.C., have developed a metering system and an associated method for supplying gas to a torch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The metering system includes ...
German Inventors Develop Diversity Receiver System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hermann Link of Donaueschingen-Grueningen, Germany, and Stefan Schradi of Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, have developed an apparatus for selecting a receiver among a plurality of receivers in a diversity receiver system that is based upon automatic gain ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Bandgap Reference Circuit
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- John C. Teel and Tony R. Larson , both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a bandgap reference circuit for ultra-low current applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary bandgap circuit can be configured to generate a positive ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Image-Rejecting Antenna Apparatus
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Do-hoon Kwon of Seoul, South Korea, has developed an image-reject antenna apparatus having a function for intercepting an image frequency signal among signals received from an antenna unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
California Inventors Develop Multiple Synthesized Clocks Generation System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Siavash Fallahi of Newport Coast, Calif., Chun Ying Chen of Irvine, Calif., and Mark J. Chambers of Mission Viejo, Calif., have developed an apparatus for generating multiple clocks from a single reference clock source. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Welding Electrode Driving System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Qi Fen Jiang of Ontario, Canada, has developed a Welding electrode driving system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two slidable carriages of identical construction are slidably mounted in a welding device side by side and move alternately ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thermocrosslinkable Resin Dispersion
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hiromitsu Nakayama and Hirofumi Inoue, both of Kyoto, Japan, have developed a thermocrosslinkable resin dispersion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "aqueous resin dispersion useful as a primer capable of providing ...
West Virginia, Ohio Inventors Develop Swing Trainer
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Marcus E. Frankovitch and Michael G. Simon, both of Weirton, W.Va., Thomas Gulan of Bloomingdale, Ohio, and Anthony Perun of Toronto, Ohio, have developed an apparatus and a method for a golf swing training club. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Two-Wire Power Transmitting, Receiving Device
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hiroo Tazaki of Suita, Japan, Yoshinari Mizuta of Otsu, Japan, and Mituo Miyagaki of Nishinomiya, Japan, have developed power transmitting/receiving communication methods and an apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When power is ...
German Inventor Develops Coating Composition
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Manfred Baumeister of Bobingen, Germany, has developed a coating composition for the manufacture of printable coated paper and board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coating mix for the production of coated paper and board is described ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Antimicrobial Active Polymer
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Kyung-hoon Lee and Seung Min Ryu, both of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Yeon-kyoung Jung of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a water-soluble, antimicrobial active polymer and ink composition comprising the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Intelligent Frequency Hopping Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Anuj Batra of Dallas, Kofi Dankwa Anim-Appiah of Allen, Texas, and Jin-Meng Ho of Plano, Texas, have developed a method of intelligent frequency hopping such as in bluetooth and home radio frequency networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Airline Reservation System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Paul Blair and Dean Seifert, both of Parker, Colo., and Kurt L. Hansen of Castle Rock, Colo., have developed an airline ticket payment and reservation system and methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accepting payments from a ...
California Inventors Develop Electronic Devices Adaptable Communication Techniques
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- C. Douglass Thomas of Campbell, Calif., and Peter P. Tong of Mountain View, Calif., have developed an improved approache for users of electronic devices to communicate with one another. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electronic ...
Washington Inventor Develops Simplified High Frequency Tuner
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Edwin A. Suominen of Valley, Wash., has developed a method that tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Cubic Bezier Curves Control Points Generation Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Robert Matthew Katka of Pewaukee, Wis., has developed a method for generating control points for cubic bezier curves. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "methods and devices for generating a cubic Bezier curve between ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Backup Data Generation Management Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Haruaki Watanabe and Kouji Arai, both of Tokyo have developed a method of managing generation of backup data and storage control device used therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing a generation of backup data in a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Mobile Station
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Katsuhiko Tsunehara and Mikio Kuwahara, both of Kokubunji, Japan, Ayumu Koide of Yokohama, Japan, and Nobukazu Doi of Hachioji, Japan, have developed a mobile station for providing a user with a service using positional information. According to the U.S. Patent ...
EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF WEST VIRGINIA SCHOOLS REACH EXEMPLARY STATUS
Oct 06, 2006 ... The West Virginia Department of Education issued the following news release: The West Virginia Board of Education recognized 74 state schools in 32 counties for achieving Exemplary Accreditation status under the Office of Education Performance Audits (OEPA) standards. "This is a ...
HAMPSHIRE, MCDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS MAY SOON BE BACK UNDER LOCAL CONTROL
Oct 06, 2006 ... The West Virginia Department of Education issued the following news release: The West Virginia Board of Education (WVBOE) today committed to studying the potential for Hampshire and McDowell County Schools to regain local control within the year. This action came after an in ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage System Control Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Yuko Matsui of Odawara, Japan, and Koji Nagata of Oi, Japan, have developed a storage system control method, a storage system, and a storage apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a storage system including a first ...
Georgia, Iowa, Montana Inventors Develop Novel Euthanasia Composition
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- John David Stone of Alpharetta, Ga., Michael Lee Putnam of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Robert O. Keene of Bozeman, Mont., have developed a composition and a method for humane euthanasia of animals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Welding Power Source Output Mode Selecting Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Allen Sykes of Greenville, Wis., and David Kraus of Appleton, Wis., have developed a method and an apparatus of electronically selecting an output mode of a welding power source. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Power-Assisted Differential Assembly
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Bruce A. Duncan of Clinton Township, Mich., has developed an axle assembly for a motor vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly comprises a carrier housing and a differentially assembly rotatably mounted to the carrier ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Electric Blanket
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Barry P. Keane of Seneca, S.C., has developed an electric blanket and a method for making electric blanket. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain electric blanket embodiments include a laminated scrim blanket with a heating element ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Data Processing System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Nagasubramanian Gurumoorthy of Hillsboro, Ore., and Shivaprasad Sadashivaiah of Portland, Ore., have developed an apparatus to map virtual pages to disparate-sized, non-contiguous real pages. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer Stacking Architecture
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Qun Shi of Plainsboro, N.J., has developed a method and an apparatus for digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) stacking. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An architecture for stacking DSLAMs employs a master DSLAM having a ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Scratch Resistant Coating Compositions
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct 6 -- Kieran F. Andre and Colin W. Veitch, both of Fairhaven, Mass., have developed a scratch-resistant coating compositions for golf equipment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a scratch-resistant composition ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Signals Classification System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Gary L. Sugar and Neil R. Diener, both of Rockville, Md., and Karl A. Miller of Frederick, Md., have developed a system and method for classifying signals occurring in a frequency band. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more ...
Canadian, British Inventors Develop Radio Receiver Interference Rejection Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- William R. Kirkland of Kanata, Canada, Steve A. Beaudin of Ottawa, and David A. Brown of Hatfield Heath, Great Britain, have developed a method of receiving a wanted radio signal in the presence of unwanted interference. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California, Colorado Inventors Develop Processor Instruction Execution Element
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Marc Tremblay of Menlo Park, Calif., and William Joy of Aspen, Colo., have developed implicitly derived register specifiers in a processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor executes an instruction set including instructions in ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Vehicles Entertainment Device
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Joseph A. Tabe of Silver Spring, Md., has developed a megatelecommunication technology that is the electronic hand off stereo phone system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "entertainment device for vehicles ...
California Inventor Develops Radio Frequency Power Oscillator
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Thomas Busch-Sorensen of San Diego has developed a power oscillator for controlling the wave shape and amplitude of an input signal to produce a desired output signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An radio freqyuency power oscillator ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Recording Medium Sample Data Reproduction Method
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Hyung Sun Kim and Byung Jin Kim, both of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a method of reproducing data from a recording medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of recording and reproducing sample ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Computer System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Yasuyuki Mimatsu and Manabu Kitamura, both of Yokohama, Japan, Naoto Matsunami of Hayama, Japan, and Kenji Muraoka of Odawara, Japan, have developed a computer system for managing storage areas in a plurality of storage devices. According to the U.S. Patent ...
California Inventors Develop Wireless Communications Velocity Estimation Device
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Gilbert Christopher Sih and Shimman Patel, both of San Diego, Andrew Kan of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Stein A. Lundby of Solana Beach, Calif., have developed a method of improving the reception of a signal in a wireless communications device. According to the U.S ....
California Inventors Develop Secure Conduit System
Oct 06, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- Craig McCarthy, John Edwards and G. Bradford Saunders, all from San Diego, and Stanley Dunaway of Oceanside, Calif., have developed a secure conduit system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A conduit ...