US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, October 11:
Texas Inventor Develops Regional Anesthesia Administering Catheter System
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- David A. Nelson of Austin, Texas, has developed a catheter system and a method for administering regional anesthesia to a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system and method is provided for overcoming various problems ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Animal Control Device
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Anthony L. Lord of Los Angeles has developed an ornamental design for animal control device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,046 on Oct. 10. The original application was filed on Dec. 15, ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shamrock Bingo Dobber
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Mona Lapierre of Nashua, N.H., has developed an ornamental design for a shamrock bingo dobber, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,549 on Oct. 3. The original application was filed on June 22, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Ring Binder
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Kokki Kaneda of Tokyo has developed an ornamental design for a 'ring binder', the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,548 on Oct. 3. The original application was filed on Nov. 18, 2004, and is ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Pile Mesh Fabric
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Boon Do Kim of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a pile mesh fabric that includes a ground thread woven on a first surface and a pile thread woven into the ground thread. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ground includes a plurality of ...
Abel Building Restoration Wins $1.08 Million Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... CHICAGO, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $1.08 million contract to Abel Building Restoration Inc., Grayslake, Ill., to repair, clean and restore exterior masonry. The contract was awarded by GSA's Public Buildings Service, Office of Tenant Operations, ...
Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital Wins $161,000 Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... CANANDAIGUA, N.Y., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $161,000 contract to Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital, Bath, N.Y., for medical services. The contract was awarded by VA Medical Center, Canandaigua, N.Y. For more information ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Heterobipolar Transistor
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Hidekazu Sato, Takae Sukegawa and Kousuke Suzuki, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a heterobipolar transistor and a method of fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention realizes a heterobipolar ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Decorative Illuminated Article
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- John F. Cavanagh of Gainesville, Ga., and Fu-Hsien Hsu of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a decorative illuminated article adapted for use with a lighting string. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorative illuminated article adapted for ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Variable Bit Field Encoding Method
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Anthony P. DeLaurier of Sunnyvale, Calif., Farhad Fouladi of Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Martin Hollis of Cambridge, Great Britain, have developed a color image encoding format and associated encoding mode that provides higher resolution color information, or lower ...
German Inventor Develops Enclosed Space Fire Detection Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Axel Bobenhausen of Bremen, Germany, has developed a method and an apparatus for optically detecting and locating a fire in an enclosed space. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermally reactive elements of an intumescent material that ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Electrogram Signals Filtering Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Steven N. Lu of Fridley, Minn., and Robert W. Stadler of Shoreview, Minn., have developed methods and an apparatus for filtering electrogram (EGM) signals detected by an implantable medical device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
California Inventors Develop Light Emitting Diode Forward Voltage Estimation Method
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Bradford B. Chew of San Ramon, Calif., Ethan Peterson of Castro Valley, Calif., and William Shea of Livermore, Calif., have developed a light emitting diode (LED) forward voltage estimation in pulse oximeter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
German Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Panel with Buttons
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Michael Knochner of Nuremberg, Germany, has developed an ornamental design for a panel with buttons for a dishwashing machine, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,048 on Oct. 10. The patent has ...
German Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Franking Machine
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Lutz Friedrich of Birkenwerder, Germany, and Hans-Peter Constin of Berlin, have developed an ornamental design for a franking machine with scale, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D529,544 on Oct ....
California Inventor Develops Medical Device Radial Expansion Mechanism
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Bruce Addis of Redwood City, Calif., has developed an expansion mechanism that includes an elongate instrument and a plurality of struts arranged around the elongate instrument that provides radial expansion of a medical device. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Manufacture Method
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Toshiji Hamatani and Koichiro Tanaka, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo, have developed a doping apparatus and a method of doping used for the manufacture of semiconductor integrated circuits and the like. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Body Fluid Analyte Sensing Methods
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- W. Kenneth Ward and Jonathan D. Birck, both of Portland, Ore., Geoffrey A. Russell of Beaverton, Ore., and Ellen M. Anderson of Tualatin, Ore., have developed a method of measuring an analyte concentration in body fluid. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Toner Bottle
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Fumio Tazawa of Kashiwa, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a toner bottle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,542 on Oct. 3. The patent has been assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, ...
Missouri, New York, Washington Inventors Develop Brain Computer Interface
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Eric C. Leuthardt of St. Louis, Daniel W. Moran of Ballwin, Mo., Gerwin Schalk of Albany, N.Y., Jonathan Rickel Wolpaw of Delmar, N.Y., and Jeffrey G. Ojemann of Seattle, have developed an electrocorticography-based brain computer interface and related methods, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Masayuki Ohayashi of Ome, Japan, and Takashi Yokoi of Kodaira, Japan, have developed an arrangement of wiring lines (Wls) including power source lines and channel wirings of a semiconductor integrated circuit having plural cells. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Tape Cartridge Receiving Portion
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Kiyoshi Sugimoto of Kuwana, Japan, and Shigeru Matsumoto of Toyokawa, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a tape cartridge receiving portion for a tape printing machine, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued ...
Canadian, Japanese Inventors Develop Cardiac Arrhythmia Detection System
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Leon Glass of Montreal, and Katsumi Tateno of Kitakyushu, Japan, have developed a method and a system for detection of cardiac arrhythmia. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are many different serious cardiac arrhythmias. The present ...
California Inventors Develop Switch-Mode Oximeter Light Emitting Diode Drive
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Bradford B Chew of San Ramon, Calif., Ethan Petersen of Castro Valley, Calif., and William Shea of Livermore, Calif., have developed a light emitter drive circuit for an oximeter which utilizes a single inductor for driving multiple light emitters. According ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Transistor Structure
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Matthias Passlack of Chandler, Ariz., has developed a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor structure with ion implant in only one of the complementary devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transistor ...
California Inventors Develop Display Unit Power Management Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Randy P. Stanley of Aptos, Calif., and Siripong Sritanyaratana of Union City, Calif., have developed a method, an apparatus and an article for display unit power management. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to manage the power ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Leash Holder
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Will Niskanen of Minneapolis has developed an ornamental design for a golf ball shaped leash holder, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,047 on Oct. 10. The original application was filed on ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Printer
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Susumu Kamiya of Kawasaki, Japan, Kazuhito Sakaguchi of Sagamihara, Japan, Akihiro Miyahara of Kunitachi, Japan, Masaki Ogino of Tokyo, and Norihito Hanafusa of Machida, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a printer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
German Inventors Develop Cerebral Hemodynamics Measuring Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Emmaneula Keller of Kilchberg, Germany, Andreas Nadler of Waedenswil, Germany, and Peter Niederer of Zuerich, Germany, have developed a probe and an apparatus for measuring cerebral hemodynamics and oxygenation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Novelty Noisemaker
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Robert E. Greenwald of Coon Rapids, Minn., has developed an ornamental design for a novelty noisemaker incorporating inflated stick and pennant, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,557 on Oct ....
Belgian Inventor Develops Weaving Machine
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Johny Debaes of Moorslede, Belgium, has developed a method and a face-to-face weaving machine for face-to-face weaving of an upper and lower fabric. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Dynamic Random Access Memory
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Ting-Shing Wang of Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and a fabrication thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DRAM cell is described, including a semiconductor pillar on a substrate, a ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Elastic Woven Tape
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Ah Ping Lam and Hsiao Hui Liu, both of Guangdong, China, have developed a method of forming an elastic woven tape. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic woven tape is disclosed as being composed of at least two kinds of tape ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Measuring Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Masahiro Kimura of Wako, Japan, has developed an optical measuring apparatus and methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical measuring apparatus is constructed to irradiate near infrared light to a desired portion, such as a head, of ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Fodder Mixing Wagon
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Nicolaas Van Der Plas of Oldenzaal, Netherlands, has developed an undercarriage for fodder mixing wagon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fodder mixing wagon including a fodder mixing container equipped with at least one vertical auger ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Feeder Rim Section
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Theodore J. Cole of Milford, Ind., Lionel L. Kreger, Warsaw, Ind., James R. Kraft of New Paris, Ind., and Philip Wilfong, Goshen, Ind., have developed an ornamental design for section of a rim for a feeder, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
German Inventors Develop Jacquard Loom Guide Rod
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Norbert Irmer of Villingen-Schwenninger, Germany, and Peter Wahl of Tuttlingen, Germany, have developed a guide rod with an electromagnet system integrated in the guide rod. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide rod assembly for a ...
Diocese of Alexandria Wins $43,560 Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... POLLOCK, La., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $43,560 contract to Diocese of Alexandria, ALexandria, La., for Roman Catholic religious services. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Penitentiary, Pollock, La. For ...
Lighthouse for the Blind Wins Contract Valued At Up To $96,698
Oct 11, 2006 ... FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $96,698 to Lighthouse for the Blind, New Orleans, for food preparation and serving equipment. The contract was awarded by GSA's Federal Supply Service, Southwest Supply Center, ...
Linda B. Wildes Wins $64,545 Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $64,545 contract to Linda B. Wildes, Bolton, Mass., for the lease of space. The contract was awardd by GSA's Public Buildings Service, Kansas City, Mo. For more ...
Medaccuracy Wins $40,000 Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $40,000 contract to Medaccuracy LLC, Lenexa, Kan., for medication error detection systems. The contract was awarded by VA Medical Center, Spokane, Wash. For ...
ALK Services Wins $1.15 Million Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... QUANTICO, Va., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $1.15 million contract to ALK Services, Inverness, Fla., for grounds maintenance at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery. The contract was awarded by VA National Cemetery Administration, ...
Barnett & Ramel Optical Wins $3.31 Million Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $3.31 million contract to Barnett & Ramel Optical, Omaha, Neb., for eyeglasses. The contract was awarded by VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 15, Leavenworth, kan. For more ...
HealthStaff Wins $30,960 Contract
Oct 11, 2006 ... LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $30,960 contract to HealthStaff, Shawnee Mission, Kan., for dental hygienist services. The contract was awarded by VA Veterans Integrated Service Network 15, Leavenworth, kan. For ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Kogo Endo of Chino, Japan, Eiji Oishi of Shimosuwa-machi, Japan, and Yasuhito Aruga of Okaya, Japan, have developed an electronic apparatus comprising the display device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display ...
Mississippi Inventors Develop Junction Field Effect Transistor
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Igor Sankin, Jeffrey B. Casady and Joseph N. Merrett, all from Starkville, Miss., have developed a lateral trench field-effect transistor in wide bandgap semiconductor materials, methods of making, and an integrated circuit that incorporates the ...
Spanish Inventors Develop Containers Filling Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Enric Martinell Gisper-Sauch and Jordi Menendez Cortina, both of Barcelona, Spain, have developed an apparatus for filling containers for pharmaceutical uses. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The ...
California Inventors Develop Shadow Mapping Method
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Walter E. Donovan of Milpitas, Calif., and Liang Peng of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a system, a method and an article of manufacture for shadow mapping. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and article of manufacture ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Digitizing Tablet
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Osamu Yoshikawa and Hirotoshi Ishibashi, both of Tokyo, have developed a digitizing tablet that can control the vibration of an operation panel or a support substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric substrate having a ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Image Display System
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Gregory J. May of Corvallis, Ore. has developed a display system that is configured to receive data bearing collected images. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system includes a single image-projection device, and a reflective ...
Washington Inventor Develops Personal Mobile Computing Device
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Xuedong D. Huang of Bellevue, Wash., has developed a personal mobile computing device having antenna microphone and speech detection for improved speech recognition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile computing device, adapted to be ...
California Inventors Develop Lighting Device
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Michael Desmond of Long Beach, Calif., and Richard Plavetich of Laguna Beach, Calif., have developed a lighting device incorporating plasma lamp for vehicles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a vehicle has at least ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Cellular Telephone
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Mitsunori Okagaki of Tottori, Japan, has developed a communication terminal whose display unit having a limited display area is effectively used to improve its handiness. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control circuit 11 causes ...
California Inventors Develop Mobile Device Controlling Apparatus
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Jeffrey Charles Hawkins of Atherton, Calif., and Robert Yuj Haitani of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for controlling a mobile device by using a pivoting input switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile ...
California, Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Acoustic Touch Sensor
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Joel C. Kent of Fremont, Calif., Robert Adler of Northbrook, Ill., and Charles Dudley Cooper of Harrisburg, Pa., have developed a touch sensor with an acoustic substrate, an acoustic transducer, and an acoustically diffractive grating. According to the U.S ....
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Game Design
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Michael Edward Gannon of Tampa, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a game design, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,556 on Oct. 3. The original application was filed on May 13, ...
California Inventor Develops Floating-Gate Transistor
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- John McCollum of Saratoga, Calif., has developed a transistor having fully-depleted junctions to reduce capacitance and increase radiation immunity in an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating-gate transistor for ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Proteins Denaturation Reagent
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Kim E. Paulsen of Brooklyn Park, Minn., has developed reagents, methods and kits for denaturation of protein, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,115,719 on Oct. 3. The patent has been assigned to ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Modular Feather Duster Handle
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Terrence Treacy of Mansfield, Texas, has developed an ornamental design for a modular feather duster handle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,051 on Oct. 10. The patent has been assigned to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Folding Cellular Phone
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Yasuhiro Kaneko of Saitama, Japan, has developed a folding cellular phone and a slide cellular phone with excellent usability. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A folding cellular phone has a status ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Projector
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Kazuaki Matoba, Junichi Nose, Junji Tada, Kouhei Tamano and Katsumi Asakawa, all from Tokyo, have developed a method of controlling projector on network system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector comprises: an optical engine ...
Utah, Ohio Inventors Develop Soft Tissue Grafts Tensioning System
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Hugh S. West Jr. of Salt Lake City, and John R. West of Cincinnati, have developed a tensioning system for use in joint repair surgery that involves independent tensioning of multiple tissue graft strands attached to a bone tunnel. According to the U.S. Patent ...
California Inventor Develops Implant Holder
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Gary K. Michelson of Venice, Calif., has developed instruments and methods for inserting and expanding interbody spinal fusion implants having an expandable height, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No ....
New Jersey, New York Inventors Develop Mobile Hosts Paging Method
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Thomas F. La Porta of Holmdel, N.J., Ramachandran Ramjee of Matawan, N.J., and Li Li of Ithaca, N.Y., have developed a method for paging of mobile hosts on an Internet protocol (IP) network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base stations ...
Florida Inventor Develops Religious Lamp
Oct 11, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 11 -- Joyce Yulee of Niceville, Fla., has developed a religious lamp that has a base with a cross extending upwardly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body of Jesus is crucified upon the cross, the head of Jesus tilting upwardly whenever the ...