US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, October 18:
Lance Wins $16,800 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... BEAUMONT, Texas, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $16,800 contract to Lance Inc., Charlotte, N.C., for potato chips. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex, Beaumont, Texas. For more ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Drive Line Apparatus
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Joseph Timmermans of Oak Park, Mich., and Jean C. Raymond of Montreal, have developed a drive line apparatus for use where there is limited space between a driving member and a driven member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive line ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Head Stone Decorative Bracket Assembly
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- William F. Glennon of Wollaston, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a decorative bracket assembly for a head stone, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,480 on Oct. 17. The original ...
Rhode Island Inventor Develops Supercavitating Underwater Vehicle Speed Determination Assembly
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Robert Kuklinski of Portsmouth, R.I., has developed an assembly and a method for determining speed of a supercavitating underwater vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for determining speed of a supercavitating underwater ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Ice-Hockey Goal Frame
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Terence William Riley of Princeton, Canada, has developed an ice-hockey goal frame with a puck deflector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The puck-deflector is a one-piece moulding in polyurethane, having a sloping apron for deflecting ...
California Inventors Develop Capacitively Coupled Position Encoder
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Jeffry Tola of Upland, Calif., and Kenneth A. Brown of Banning, Calif., have developed a capacitively coupled position encoder for sensing absolute position of a structure over a predetermined range of rotation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Boeing Wins $4.82 Million Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... ST. LOUIS, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $4.82 million contract to Boeing Co., St. Louis, for the maintenance, repair and rebuilding of equipment. The contract was awarded by DoD's Defense Contract Management Agency, St. Louis. For more information about ...
Jupiter Aluminum Wins $543,585 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a contract valued at up to $543,585 to Jupiter Aluminum Corp., Hammond, Ind., for aluminum rolls. The contract was awarded by the department's Prison Industries/UNICOR. Work will be performed in Cumberland, ...
Sikorsky Aircraft Wins $42,084 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $42,084 contract to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., for bearings. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply ...
Norjen Wins $25,625 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $25,625 contract to Norjen Inc., Oxnard, Calif., for edge assemblies. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Richmond, Va. For more ...
Wendel Duchscherer Architect & Engineers Wins $33,045 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $33,045 contract to Wendel Duchscherer Architect & Engineers, Amherst, N.Y., for architect and engineering services. The contract was awarded by VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, ...
S&A Machine & Tool Wins $45,000 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $45,000 contract to S&A Machine & Tool Co., Deer Park, N.Y., for structural fittings. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Richmond, Va. For ...
Boeing Wins $42,084 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $42,084 contract to Boeing Co., Ridley Park, Pa., for bearings. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, ...
Rexnord Industries Wins $32,307 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $32,307 contract to Rexnord Industries Inc., Simi Valley, Calif., for rod end plain bearings. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Richmond, Va. For ...
Staco Energy Products Wins $500,000 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 18 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a contract valued at up to $500,000 to Staco Energy Products Inc., Dayton, Ohio, for transformers. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more information about US Fed ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Fault Detection System
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Bruce L. Hill of Roseville, Minn., Rolf L. Strand of Crystal, Minn., and Michael W. Schultz of Elk River, Minn., have developed a fault detection system and a method for a warm air furnace. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing ...
New Jersey, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Network Resource Allocation Optimization Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Debasis Mitra and Qiong Wang, both of Summit, N.J., and Kajamalai Gopalaswamy Ramakrishnan of Nashua, N.H., have developed decision support mechanisms for bandwidth commerce in communication networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Chandelier Component
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Miguel Flores of Riverside, Calif., and Robert De'Armond of Temecula, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a chandelier component, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D530,445 on Oct. 17 ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Electromagnetic Prober
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Masahiro Fujiwara of Akashi, Japan, has developed a specific dielectric constant calibration method for an electromagnetic prober. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic prober comprising a transmission antenna, a reception ...
Nevada Inventors Develop Gaming Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Tonja M. Peterson, Anthony J. Baerlocher and Paulina Rodgers, all from Reno, Nev., and Bayard S. Webb of Sparks, Nev., have developed an apparatus and a method for operating a gaming device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
German, Croatian Inventors Develop Electrically Conductive Connection Female Terminal
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Uberto Gamaggio of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Matthias Pfaff of Offenbach/Main, Germany, and Zelimir Loncar of Zagreb, Croatia, have developed a female terminal for the electrically conductive connection to a terminal pin, especially a flat-pin ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Youichi Satou and Toshikazu Sei, both of Kawasaki, Japan, and Akira Yamaguchi, both of Kitaadachi-gun, Japan, have developed a semiconductor integrated circuit device with an electrostatic discharge protection unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Automatic Rack Loader
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Eggo Haschke of Deerfield, Ill., and Robert Pinto of Chicago, have developed an apparatus for automatically delivering raw sausages to a smokehouse rack. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous rotating conveyor holds a plurality of ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Lamp Column
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Re Girard of Quebec has developed an ornamental design for a lamp column, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,444 on Oct. 17. The original application was filed on Jan. 18, 2005, and is ...
Texas Inventor Develops Food Preparation Utensil
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Anthony Crosby Quaglino of Georgetown, Texas, has developed an utensil configured for opening shellfish shell and a method for providing same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knife comprises an elongated handle, a blade attached to and ...
Singapore, Chinese Inventors Develop Retaining Ring Structure
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Yew Hoong Phang of Singapore, and Jianguang Chang of Shanghai, China, have developed an improved design for a retaining ring for a chemical mechanical poling machine which provides superior flexibility and instantaneous in-situ control of the polishing rate in the ...
Washington, Oregon Inventors Develop Basic Input Output System Initialization Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Andrew J. Fish of Olympia, Wash., and Robert P. Hale of Portland, Ore., have developed a method and an apparatus of logging device errors during a basic input output system (BIOS) initialization. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
German Inventors Develop Sliding Clutch
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Winfried Huthmacher of Franfurt am Main, Germany, and Roland Schneider of Kelkheim, Getrmany, have developed a sliding clutch for a device for transferring a film from a backing tape. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding clutch for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Amplifier Circuit
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Toshifumi Nakatani of Izumi, Japan, Jyunji Itoh Hirakata, Japan, and Hideo Nakano of Takatsuki, Japan, have developed an amplifier circuit that amplifies a differential signal supplied by a pair of input terminals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
South Carolina Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Frog Lighter
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Rong Lin of Greer, S.C., has developed an ornamental design for a frog lighter, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,446 on Oct. 17. The original application was filed on Nov. 18, 2005, and is ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Bit-Line Sense Amplifier
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Kwang Myoung Rho of Kyungki-Do, South Korea, has developed a differential amplifier and a bit-line sense amplifier adopting the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit-line sense amplifier is disclosed that includes switching elements ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Kenzo Kurotsuchi, Norikatsu Takaura, Osamu Tonomura, Motoyasu Terao, Hideyuki Matsuoka and Riichiro Takemuram, all from Tokyo, have developed a technique applicable effectively to a high-density integrated memory circuit formed by using a phase change ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Raymond V. Damadian of Woodbury, N.Y., and Robert Wolf of Medford, N.J., have developed a method for magnetic resonance imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient is examined by magnetic resonance imaging in different positions ...
Vermont, California Inventors Develop Drop Ejection Assembly
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Paul A. Hoisington and Melvin L. Biggs, both of Norwich, Vt., Andreas Bibl of Los Altos, Calif., and John C. Batterton of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a drop ejector that includes a plurality of projections to control fluid flow, the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ink-Jet Head
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Tadanobu Chikamoto of Nagoya, Japan, has developed an ink-jet head and a reservoir unit included in ink-jet head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink-jet head comprises a passage unit and a reservoir unit. The passage unit includes a ...
Utah Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Battery-Operated Cleaning Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Ann J. Davis and Brian J. Davis, both of West Valley, Utah, have developed an ornamental design for a rechargeable, battery-operated cleaning device with telescoping handle and rotating head, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
Hicks Striping & Curbing Wins $99,625 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $99,625 contract to Hicks Striping & Curbing, Salem, Ore., for the maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. The contract was awarded by USDA's Forest Service, R-6 Western Oregon ZAP, Willamette ...
ESA South Wins $17,731 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... PENSACOLA, Fla., Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $17,731 contract to ESA South, Pensacola, for asbestos abatement. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Pensacola, Fla. For more information ...
Scantek Wins $123,983 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $123,983 contract to Scantek Inc., Columbia, Md., for pocket noise vibration analyzers. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Materiel Command, 311 Human Systems Wing, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. For ...
SICPA Securink Wins $181,815 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury has awarded an $181,815 contract to SICPA Securink Corp., Springfield, Va., for typographic cope (currency overprinting and processing equipment) green ink. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Engraving & ...
Custom Prosthetics Wins $40,000 Contract
Oct 18, 2006 ... PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 18 -- The U.S Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a $40,000 contract to Custom Prosthetics Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., for dental services. The contract was awarded by VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, ...
FERC ISSUES ORDER TO MINERGY NEENAH REGARDING NOTICE OF CANCELLATION
Oct 18, 2006 ... The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy 7Regulatory Commission issued the text of the following delegated order: In Reply Refer To:Minergy Neenah, LLCDocket No. ER06-1509-000 Ms. Regina Y. Speed-BostSullivan & Worcester, LLPAttorney for Minergy Neenah, LLC1666 K ...
British, Saudi Arabian Inventors Develop Magnetic Gradient Field Projection
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Peter Gordon Morris of Wollaton Park, Great Britain, and Abdullah Hussien Jamea of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, have developed a magnetic gradient field projection for use in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Crankshaft Damper
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- John Roes and Don Wilson, both of Strathroy, Canada, Marc Cadarette of London, Canada, and Yahya Hodjat of Oxford, Mich., have developed a crankshaft damper with an integral pulse ring. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The crankshaft ...
Vermont, New York Inventors Develop Reprogrammable Integrated Circuit
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Matthew Breitwisch of Essex Junction, Vt., Steven Mittl of Essex, Vt., Jian W. Zhu of Flushing, N.Y., and Chung H. Lam of Peekskill, N.Y., have developed a reprogrammable integrated circuit (IC) that includes overwritable nonvolatile storage cells. According ...
Alabama Inventors Develop Imbedded Component Integrated Circuit Assembly
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Jim D. Raby and Casey L. Hatcher, both of Madison, Ala., Mark T. McMeen of Huntsville, Ala., and Jason B. Gjesvold of Harvest, Ala., have developed an imbedded component integrated circuit assembly and a method of making the same. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Washington Inventors Develop Facial Image Processing System
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Brian K. Guenter, Sashi Raghupathy, Kirk Olynyk and Sing Bing Kang, all from Redmond, Wash., and Stephen Marschner of Kirkland, Wash., have developed methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Garment
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Markus Rindle of Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland, has developed an ornamental design for a garment, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,687 on Oct. 10. The patent has been assigned to Salmon SA, ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Portion of Article of Footwear
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Leah Larson of Santa Barbara, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of an article of footwear, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D529,688 on Oct. 10. The patent has been ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Water Wave Shaped Ornamental Lamp
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Xiuju Wen of Zhe Jiang Province, China, has developed an ornamental design for water wave shaped ornamental lamp, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,442 on Oct. 17. The original application ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Wafer Dividing Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Masaki Hashimura, Takao Sato and Koichi Ota, all from Aichi, Japan, have developed a method in which a semiconductor wafer with a semiconductor layer formed on a substrate is divided into a large number of semiconductor chips. According to the U.S. Patent ...
British Inventors Develop Data Sets Feature Mapping Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Douglas Rayner Carmichael and Sean Alaric Chapman, both of Weymouth, Great Britain, have developed methods of deriving a transformation which maps features of a first data set onto corresponding features in a second data set. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Differential Comparator Circuit
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Toshiaki Awaji and Takashi Sekino, both of Tokyo, have developed a differential comparator circuit, a test head, and a test apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a differential comparator circuit that is mounted on ...
Texas Inventor Develops Logic Circuit
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Joseph D. Wert of Arlington, Texas, has developed a circuitry for providing overvoltage backdrive protection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "logic gate for use in an electronic system comprising: a first ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Deck Light
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Jon M. Cale and Stephen A. Hodes Jr. both of Overland Park, Kan., have developed an ornamental design for a deck light, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D530,441 on Oct. 17. The original ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Football Helmet Birdhouse
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Michael David Taylor and Marlene June Taylor, both of Plain City, Ohio, and Steven Edward Carpenter Jr. of South Charleston, Ohio, have developed an ornamental design for a football helmet birdhouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Flashlight
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Anthony Maglica of Anaheim, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a flashlight, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D530,439 on Oct. 17. The patent has been assigned to Mag Instrument ...
Dutch, German Inventors Develop Magneto-Resistive Imaging Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Ulrich Katscher of Norderstedt, Germany, and Johannes Jacobus Van Vaals of Eindhoven, Netherlands, have developed a magneto-resistive (MR) imaging method for carrying out the method and a computer program for controlling an MR apparatus of this kind. According ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Memory Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Yasuaki Watanabe of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a memory device for improved reference current configuration. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is composed of a memory array including floating gate memory cells; a sense ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Alternate Current-Direct Current Converting Device
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Tadaharu Kusumi of Osaka, Japan, has developed a technology of converting an alternate current (AC) to a direct current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AC adaptor has a switching regulator for converting alternate current to direct ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Input Data Topological Dimension Estimation Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Joel M. MacAuslan of Nashua, N.H., has developed a method for determining a tangent space and filtering data onto a manifold. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for determining the number of constraints on a set of input data, or ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Substrate Testing Method
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Toshihiko Orii, Hitoshi Abe and Naoki Ando, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Osamu Akimoto of Tokyo, have developed a method for testing a semiconductor substrate on which pixel driving cells are formed so as to be arranged in a form of a matrix. According to the ...
California Inventor Develops Bone Structure Modeling System
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Maria-Grazia Ascenzi of Los Angeles has developed a system for modeling macrostructural characteristics of a bone. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a structural and mechanical model and modeling methods for ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Ferroelectric Memory
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Shan Sun, Xiao-Hong Du, Fan Chu and Bob Sommervold, all from Colorado Springs, Colo., have developed a method of providing a reference for a ferroelectric memory. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Power Source Apparatus
Oct 18, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 18 -- Hironori Tanaka, Kunihiro Matsuura and Satoshi Kodera, all from Tokyo, have developed a power source apparatus that generates a power-supply voltage and a power-supply current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a power ...