US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, October 25:
British Inventors Develop Vehicle Lock Mechanism
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Peter J Coleman and Gurbinder S. Kalsi, both of West Midlands, Great Britain, have developed a lock mechanism for a vehicle door latch that includes a superlock function. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock mechanism for a vehicle door ...
Nevada Inventor Develops Toggle Locked Coupling
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Myrl J. Saarem of Carson City, Nev., has developed a coupling that is provided for joining the ends of relatively soft plastic conduit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hinged shell halves contain gripping teeth that penetrate and secure ...
British Inventors Develop Trench-Gate Semiconductor Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Steven T. Peake of Warrington, Great Britain, Philip Rutter of Stockport, Great Britain, and Raymond J. Grover of Manchester, Great Britain, have developed trench-gate semiconductor devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trench-gate ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Liftable Blender Assembly
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Howard W. Bongratz of Gurnee, Ill., has developed a variable height, multiple position batch blender assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liftable blender assembly has a container, which is easily filled and emptied in that it may ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Patient Safety System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- David Alan Heck of Zionsville, Ind., Kathryn Gardner Rapala of Carmel, Ind., and Philip H. Canada of Fishers, Ind., have developed a patient safety alerting system and methods for providing enhanced patient safety using a patient alerting system. According to ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Golf Grip Cleaning Wipe
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Scott R. Goode of Columbia, S.C., and Paul Rawl of Lexington, S.C., have developed a method for cleaning a golf club grip. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "articles, solutions, and methods for enhancing the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Information Handling System Cards Retaining Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Christopher S. Beall of Pflugerville, Texas, and Alex Z. Rodriguez of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a system and a method for retaining cards in an information handling system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card retention system ...
German Inventors Develop Apoptotic Process Influencing Pharmaceutical Agent
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Bertram Weiss, Michaele Peters-Kottig and Georg Beckmann, all from Berlin, and Monika Lessl of Gienicke-Nordbahn, Germany, have developed two human mater proteins as well as their use for fertility disorders, therapy and diagnosis, the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Bicycle Trailer Frames Bracket Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Scott Sutherland of Hood River, Ore., has developed a bicycle trailer with a foldable passenger compartment and a foldable seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to improve the safety of a bicycle trailer with a foldable passenger ...
California Inventors Develop Parallel Bus Channels Deskewing System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Ejaz Ul Haq of Sunnyvale, Calif., and James R. Slager of Saratoga, Calif., have developed a method and a system for deskewing parallel bus channels to increase data transfer rates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a ...
Texas Inventors Develop Self Restraining Gasket
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Jim Jones of Aledo, Texas, has developed a sealing and restraining gasket for preventing separation of a pipe joint used to join a bell end of a female pipe to the male end of a mating pipe. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gasket is ...
California Inventor Develops Solar Energy Collector
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Robert Z. Litwin of Canoga Park, Calif., has developed an apparatus and method for collecting solar energy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus is a trough-type solar collector having one or more mirrors and lenses for directing ...
Massachusetts, Texas Inventors Develop Speed Cooking Oven
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- David H. McFadden of Lexington, Mass., and David A. Bolton of Southlake, Texas, have developed a speed cooking oven with gas flow control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speed cooking oven is disclosed comprising a cooking cavity, a ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Can End Manufacturing Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- James A. McClung of Canton, Ohio, has developed an apparatus and a method for forming can bodies or container end panels, commonly called can ends, from a sheet of material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for ...
California Inventors Develop Strobe Effects Providing Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Mark Thomas of Cupertino, Calif., and Joel Osias of San Jose, Calif., have developed methods and apparatuses for providing strobe effects for a wheel lighting system or wheel illuminating system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For one ...
Texas Inventors Develop Electrochemical Cell, Bipolar Assembly
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Charles J. Greenwald, Oliver J. Murphy and Carlos E. Salinas, all from Bryan, Texas, Craig C. Andrews and Rattaya Chow Yalamanchili, both of College Station, Texas, Alan J. Cisar of Cypress, Texas, and Chris Boyer of Houston, have developed a bipolar assembly for use ...
Texas Inventor Develops Metal Ring Gasket
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- L. Murray Dallas of Fairview, Texas, has developed a metal ring gasket for a threaded union that provides a high-pressure, fluid-tight, metal-to-metal seal between subcomponents of a fluid conduit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Michigan, North Carolina Inventors Develop Selective Graft Polymerization Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Walter H. Ohrbom and Patricia A. Herrel, both of Hartland Township, Mich., and John W. Rehfuss of Huntersville, N.C., have developed a method of making an acrylic graft polymer, especially a urethanized acrylic graft polymer. An abstract of the invention, ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Data Storing Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Andrew L. Van Brocklin and Makarand P. Gore, both of Corvallis, Ore., and Cari Dorsh of McMinnville, Ore., have developed optical disks that include machine readable data that is written with dye that is invisible to the naked eye and a laser-imagable coating that ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Glide-Height Disk-Tester
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Toshiya Shiramatsu and Hideaki Tanaka, both of Odawara, Japan, Masayuki Kurita of Fujisawa, Japan, Shozo Saegusa of Chiyoda-machi, Japan, Remmelt Pit of Cupertino, Calif., and Mike Suk of San Jose, Calif., have developed a glide-height disk-tester and a method of ...
Idaho, Texas Inventors Develop Combined Back-Up Alarm
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Dennis N. Anderson of Meridian, Idaho, James E. Stewart Jr. of Middleton, Idaho, Alfred Pelot of Boise, Idaho, and Eric C. Paul of Fort Worth, Texas, have developed a combined back-up and battery low-level alarm for vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Indicator System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Shigekazu Sugimoto of Takahama, Japan, and Yoshichika Abe of Anjo, Japan, have developed an indicator system having light emitting diode (LED) indicators and an open-circuit detecting circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Display Control Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Kouji Kaneda of Tokyo has developed a display control device for vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "If a successive lighting operation inhibition mode is not set up, a pointer portion of a speed meter is lighted, and then a ...
California Inventors Develop Proton Conducting Membrane
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Sossina M. Haile and Sekharipuram R. Narayanan, both of Altadena, Calif., and Calum Chisholm and Dane A. Boysen, both of Pasadena, Calif., have developed a solid acid material that is used as a proton conducting membrane in an electrochemical device. According ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Woven Industrial Fabric
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- James Harrison of Kanata, Canada, has developed an industrial fabric that includes yarn assemblies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "woven industrial fabric, including a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Fuel Cell Separator
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Fumio Tanno of Chiba, Japan, has developed a fuel cell separator that is molded from a resin composition which contains specific amounts of graphite, thermosetting resin and internal release. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The graphite ...
Austrian Inventor Develops Datastream Transmitter
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Dietmar Straeussnigg of Villach, Austria, has developed a method for transmitting an analog datastream that includes coding data input into a data input device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resulting coded data is assembled into ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Cassette Reading Processing Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Masakazu Andou of Hino, Japan, and Mamoru Umeki of Hachioji, Japan, have developed a cassette reading processing device, a cassette reading processing method and a cassette. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cassette to record a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Gas Sensor
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Kazuya Nakagawa of Kariya, Japan, has developed a gas sensor for measuring a concentration of a specified gas contained in exhaust gasses of an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas sensor having a first end ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Detection Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Kuo-Hui Li and Hung-Kun Chen, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) detection apparatus for networking devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "OFDM ...
Texas Inventor Develops Pre-Expanded Connector
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Ghazi J. Hashem of Houston has developed a method and an apparatus for providing an expandable threaded connection between segments of expandable tubulars. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Threaded connections are machined into ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Solid Polymer Type Fuel Cell Separator
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Hiroya Okumura and Takashi Shibata, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed a separator for solid polymer type fuel cell and process for producing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separator for solid polymer-type fuel cell is ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Crimped Gas Riser with Jacket Assembly
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- David L. Robison of Madison, Ohio, and Jason Knaus of Euclid, Ohio, have developed a riser assembly that is provided for transmitting gas from a buried line to a meter manifold. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The riser assembly includes ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pulsed Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Akiharu Miyanaga and Tohru Inoue, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo, have developed a pulsed plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method for forming a film. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Wireless Telecommunications Network Distributed Game
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Akseli Anttila, Mikko Makipaa, Petteri Saarinen and Oleg Beletski, all from Helsinki, Finland, and Toni Kopra, Hemant Madan and Barbara Heikkinen, all from Espoo, Finland, have developed a method and a system for playing a distributed game over a wireless ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Automatic Feeding Device and Recording Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Shinya Sonoda and Nozomu Nishiberi, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an automatic feeding device and a recording apparatus provided with such automatic feeding device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
British Inventors Develop Streptokinase Rendering Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Francis Joseph Carr, Fiona Suzanne Adair, Anita Anne Hamilton and Graham Carter, all from Aberdeen, Great Britain, have developed a method for rendering streptokinase less immunogenic to a human. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protein, ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Mechanized Sticks Holder
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Juanito B. Calagui of Passaic, N.J., has developed improved methods and apparatus concerning chopsticks holders. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed including a first device which includes a first stick having a ...
New York Inventor Develops Saw Blade
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Ralph Carl Bishop of Shelter Island, N.Y., has developed tiers of kerf engaging elements at saw blade sides. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tiers recede from the blade's most forward peripheral cutting elements and project laterally ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Inflator Body
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Chris A. Adamini of Sterling Heights, Mich., and David S. Whang of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., have developed an inflator having an inflator body with a plurality of elongate chambers and bores formed therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Push Switch
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Atsumi Sasaki, Toshiharu Mori and Kenji Sawada, all from Tokyo, have developed a push switch with an operating body, a case, a return spring, and a light source. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operating body is controlled by push ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Latch Mechanism
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Craig C. Mulder of Dorr, Mich., and John M. Arend of Belmont, Mich., have developed a latching and locking system for a cover for the cargo bed of a vehicle having a tailgate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a cover ...
California Inventor Develops Camera Latch
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Christoph H. Krah of San Jose, Calif., has developed a portable computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The portable computer includes a base. The portable computer also includes a lid that pivots relative to the base. The portable ...
Washington Inventor Develops Video Compression System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Yuriy Reznik of Seattle has developed systems and methods for video compression. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method of encoding a matrix of transform coefficients is performed. The method includes receiving a ...
Swiss, German Inventors Develop Gas-Insulated Switchgear Assembly
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Christoph Schweizer of Regensdorf, Switzerland, Diego Sologuren-Sanchez of Wettingen, Switzerland, Walter Holaus of Zurich, Switzerland, and Erwin Manz of Lauchringen, Germany, have developed an insulation and connection technology for gas-insulated switchgear ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Monitor
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Kwang-sung Hwang of Suwon-si, South Korea, and Kyung-kyun Lee of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a monitor with an improved structure of a link to accommodate a part of a cable and a terminal assembly connected to the cable. An abstract of the invention, ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ion Beam
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Gary L. Viviani of Boxford, Mass., has developed an ion beam for enhancing optical properties of materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to expose a material to an ion beam during a continuous material production ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Switch Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Chieko Ito of Miyagi-ken, Japan, has developed switch device with operation member which is not easily disengaged from housing even when large amount of load is applied. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch device includes a switch ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Non-Ferrous Alloys Continuous Casting Method
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Ali Unal of Export, Pa., has developed a method of continuous casting non-ferrous alloys which includes delivering molten non-ferrous alloy to a casting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The casting apparatus rapidly cools at ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Fingerprint Sensor Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Hiroyuki Hara of Chino, Japan, has developed an apparatus which can provide a fingerprint sensor with high sensing precision. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fingerprint sensor according to the invention can include capacitance ...
British, Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Laser Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Shuichi Hirukawa and Katsuhiko Kishimoto, both of Nara, Japan, and Hidenori Kawanishi of Oxford, Great Britain, have developed a semiconductor laser device and an optical disc unit. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Received Signals Distortion Removal Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Katsuaki Abe and Shinichiro Takabayashi, both of Kawasaki, Japan, Masayuki Orihashi of Ichikawa, Japan, and Job Cleopa Msuya of Yokosuka, Japan, have developed a digital reception apparatus for removing distortion from received signals. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Game Machine
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Akiharu Miyanaga, Toshiji Hamatani and Norihiko Seo, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo, have developed a game machine for providing a game, the regularity of which cannot be easily recognized by the player, by making use of a chaotic random ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Hard Disk-Mounting Module
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Chao-Yu Li of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a hard disk-mounting module that includes a drawable mounting frame and at least one tray member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mounting frame includes a frame body, and at least one ...
British Inventors Develop Video Processing System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Peter John Brightwell of London, Nicholas Dominic Wells of Brighton, Great Britain, and Phillip Nicholas Tudor of Horley, Great Britain, have developed a video processing system that also compresses coding decision data. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Fruit Skewer
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Tariq Farid and Kamran Farid, both of Hamden, Conn., have developed a fruit skewer having an elongated central shaft for receiving and securing fruit, food or non-food items thereon for display or cooking. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Transducer
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Anthony D. Kurtz of Saddle River, N.J., and Alexander A. Ned of Wayne, N.J., have developed an ultra high temperature hermetically protected wirebonded piezoresistive transducer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra high temperature ...
New Mexico Inventor Develops Wavefront Sensing System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Daniel M. Topa of Albuquerque, N.M., has developed a method and system for more precisely determining the location of a focal spot in a wavefront sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of wavefront sensing with a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Transmission Unit Peak Cancellation Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Won-Hyoung Park and Tae-Hyun Kim, both of Kyungki-Do, South Korea, have developed an apparatus for improving peak-to-average ratio (PAR) characteristics of a transmission signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peak cancellation ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Multi-Wavelength Laser Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Toshiyuki Kawakami and Mototaka Taneya, both of Nara, Japan, have developed a multi-wavelength laser device capable of emitting laser beams with a plurality of wavelengths. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-wavelength laser device ...
Texas Inventors Develop Sorption Heating Apparatus
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Rocco DiFoggio and Paul Bergren, both of Houston, have developed a method and an apparatus for sorption cooling of sensors and electronics and heating of chambered samples deployed in a downhole tool suspended from a wireline or a drill string. According to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Air Bag Folding Up Device
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Kazuyoshi Nishijima, Tetsuji Endo, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Toshiyuki Sugiyama, Mikio Ochiai, Yoshinori Goto, Masaki Ueno and Masahito Ishizuka, all from Fuji, Japan, have developed an air bag that is unfolded on a planar surface and is inflated with air. According to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Code-Division Multiple Access Receiver
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Emiko Sakuma of Tokyo has developed a synchronous acquisition device for a small-circuit-scale code-division multiple access (CDMA) receiver. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The synchronous acquisition ...
Nevada Inventor Develops Casino Gambling System
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Richard E. Rowe of Reno, Nev., has developed a casino gambling system with a biometric access control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casino gambling system may comprise a plurality of casino gambling units and at least one computer ...
New York Inventors Develop Polyester Composition
Oct 25, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Teh-Ming Kung and Paul D. Yacobucci, both of Rochester, N.Y., and Eric E. Arrington of Canandaigua, N.Y., have developed a polyester composition that is useful for image-receiving layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention ...