US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, November 17:
Ginn Group Awarded Army Contract
Nov 17, 2006 ... FORT MCPHERSON, Ga., Nov. 17 -- Ginn Group Inc., East Point, Ga., has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort McPherson, Ga., for professional, administrative and management support services. No contract amount was specified ($0). For more ...
HCI Integrated Solutions Awarded Army Contract
Nov 17, 2006 ... FORT MCPHERSON, Ga., Nov. 17 -- HCI Integrated Solutions, Fairfax, Va., has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort McPherson, Ga., for professional, administrative and management support services. No contract amount was specified ($0). For more ...
Logistics Awarded Army Contract
Nov 17, 2006 ... FORT MCPHERSON, Ga., Nov. 17 -- Logistics Co. Inc., Fayetteville, N.C., has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort McPherson, Ga., for professional, administrative and management support services. No contract amount was specified ($0). For more ...
New Hampshire Inventors Develop Cutting Component Removably Securing Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Michael William Hilliard of Somersworth, N.H., Jatinder Singh Sappal of Rochester, N.H., and Mark Anthony Wingate of New Durham, N.H., have developed an apparatus for removably securing a cutting component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device with Output Circuit
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Kazufumi Komura of Kasugai, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device capable of detecting and suppressing simultaneous switching output (SSO) noise after the semiconductor device has been mounted on a board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Drug Eluting Stent
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Timothy A Limon of Cupertino, Calif., has developed stents with struts with narrowed portions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The narrowed portions have a coating disposed thereon for the local delivery of a drug." The inventor ...
German Inventor Develops Electromagnetic Relay
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ralf Hoffmann of Berlin has developed a double relay which has two relay actuators which are inserted into a common receptacle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each relay actuator has a first fixed contact and a movable contact. Arranged ...
German, Dutch Inventors Develop Vehicle Seat Backrest
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Bernd Kraemer of Zingsheim, Germany, Silvio Hartlaub of Cologne, Germany, and Jan Thunnissen of Wanssum, Netherlands, have developed a backrest for a vehicle seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The backrest of a vehicle seat having a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Recording Rate Automatic Setting Recording Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Shinichi Kikuchi of Yokohama, Japan, Hideo Kataoka of Tokyo, and Kazuya Fujita of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a recording rate automatic setting recording device and a recording rate automatic setting recording method. An abstract of the invention, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Internet Facsimile Machine
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Yoshifumi Tanimoto of Hirakata, Japan, has developed an Internet facsimile machine including a processor for receiving an electronic mail that includes format information of an original image data and a standardized image data. According to the U.S. Patent ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Adapter
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- In-Yeol Jeong of Seoul, South Korea, has developed an ornamental design for an adapter for branching a hose, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D531,282 on Oct. 31. The original application was ...
California Inventors Develop Image Interpolation Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Huipin Zhang of Milpitas, Calif., Cheung Auyeung of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Takao Yamazaki of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a method of performing sub-pixel based edge-directed image interpolation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
New York Inventors Develop Audio Enabling Software Recording Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Susan T. Tingey and Kenneth A. Parulski, both of Rochester, N.Y., and Paul B. Gilman of Penfield, N.Y., have developed a recording audio enabling software and images on a removable storage medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Minnesota, Oklahoma Inventors Develop Computer Disc Drive
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Tao Zhang of Shakopee, Minn., John Christopher Morris of Eden Prairie, Minn., Dustin Mark Cvancara of St. Paul, Minn., and Raye Abdoulie Sosseh of Oklahoma City, have developed an apparatus and a method of maintaining stability in a servo loop of a disc drive ....
Florida Inventor Develops Lens Tether
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Joey Copia of Dunedin, Fla., has developed a visual acuity system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises a pair of eyeglasses, or in the alternative, a pair of sunglasses. The pair of eyeglasses or sunglasses has a ...
Virginia Inventor Develops Visual Assistance Guide System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- James A. Fish Jr. of Newport News, Va., has developed a visual assistance guide system for disrupter placement and method of use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual assistance guide system for placement of a disrupter device for ...
California Inventor Develops Multi-Pixel Electron Emission Inspector
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- David L. Adler of San Jose, Calif., has developed an inspection system for inspecting a specimen. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a plurality of columns for directing a plurality of multi-pixel incident beams onto a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Color Conversion Filter
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Koji Kawaguchi and Yukinori Kawamura, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Yotaro Shiraishi of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a color conversion filter and a color conversion color display with the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetic Disk Drive
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Yoshikatsu Fujii, Sadahiro Nishida, Osamu Beppu and Hidefumi Tominaga, all from Kanagawa-ken, Japan, and Shinji Matsushita of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a magnetic disk drive and a magnetic disk drive control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Local Bias Map
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Shirley Hemar and Gad Greenberg, both of Tel Aviv, Israel, Yair Eran of Rehovot, Israel, and Ami Sade of Nahariya, Israel, have developed a local bias map that uses line width measurements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Jet Printer
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Takashi Hasebe, Saburo Shimizu, Tetsu Sekine and Shuta Hamada, all from Hachioji, Japan, have developed an ink jet printer in which an ink is jetted after being heated. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "ink jet ...
German Inventors Develop Hydraulic Valve Actuator
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Udo Diehl of Stuttgart, Germany, Uwe Hammer of Hemmingen, Germany, and Karsten Mischker of Leonberg, Germany, have developed an hydraulic valve actuator for activating a gas-exchange valve. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Spray Head Shower
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Hing Fai Gary Tse Hong Kong has developed an ornamental design for a spray head for showers, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D531,261 on Oct. 31. The original application was filed on May 9, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Organic Electroluminescence Panel
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ryuji Nishikawa and Norihiro Ikeda, both of Gifu, Japan, have developed an organic electroluminescence panel and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a cathode of an organic element, a stress reducing ...
California, Arkansas, Virginia Inventors Develop Modular Patient Support System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Russell Frieder and Anthony Sances Jr., both of Santa Barbara, Calif., Srirangam Kumaresan of Goleta, Calif., David Renfroe of Fayetteville, Ark., Will J. Myers of Rogers, Ark., and Seong K. Mun of McLean, Va., have developed a patient life support module adapted for ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Heating Pad
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Steven Yue of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a heating pad with a phase change material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating pad includes an envelope containing a heating unit and a phase change material which encloses the heating ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Radiation Imaging System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Konstantinos E. Spartiotis and Markku Eraluoto, both of Espoo, Finland, have developed a radiation imaging system, a device and a method for scan imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for high energy radiation direct ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Electrical Ground Protection Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Arthur A. Silverman of Pittsburgh has developed an apparatus and a method for providing protection against an electrocution hazard in an appliance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for protecting against ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Dual-Output Current Driver
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Marc Gerardus Maria Stegers of Delft, Netherlands, and Rudolphe Gustave Hubertus Eschauzier of Bergschenhoek, Netherlands, have developed a dual-output current driver which includes a pair of output stages that provide output current to various devices such as light ...
California Inventors Develop Array Imaging System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Mark F. Oldham of Los Gatos, Calif., Howard G. King of Berkeley, Calif., Douwe D. Haga of Redwood City, Calif., and Tracy L. Ferea of Mountain View, Calif., have developed an apparatus for imaging an array of a plurality of features associated with a sample ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Trip Indicator
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Michael J. Whipple of Rochester, Pa., Edward E. Lias of Aliquippa, Pa., and Jeff S. Gibson of Hookstown, Pa., have developed a trip indicator and an electrical switching apparatus that employs the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Plasma Display Panel with Square Cells
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Byoung Kuk Min of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a plasma display panel with square cells. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a plasma display panel, and more particularly, to a cell structure of a plasma ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Writing Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Kayoko Taniguchi of Kanagawa, Japan, and Akihiro Kuroda of Tokyo, have developed an information writing device for writing the information on a disc-shaped recording medium that is used on being mounted on a disc driving device. According to the U.S. Patent ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops High-Speed Serial-Link Driver
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- John W. Poulton of Chapel Hill, N.C., has developed a high-speed serial-link driver that transmits a differential data signal to a conventional differential receiver via a differential channel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Reticle Inspection Apparatus
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Boaz Kenan, Emanuel Elyasaf and Yair Eran, all from Rehovot, Israel, Avner Karpol of Nes Ziona, Israel, and Ehud Tirosh of Jerusalem, have developed a method and an apparatus for reticle inspection using aerial imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Modular Endovascular Prosthesis
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Timothy A. M. Chuter and David T. Pollock, both of Burlingame, Calif., and Tamara L. Trayer of Belmont, Calif., have developed a system and a method for forming a junction between elements of a modular endovascular prosthesis. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop High Voltage Power Supply Voltages Stabilization Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ram Naidu of Newton, Mass., Zhengrong Ying of Wakefield, Mass., and Carl R. Crawford of Brookline, Mass., have developed a method of and a system for stabilizing high voltage power supply direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) voltages in multi-energy X-ray ...
Kipper Tool Wins $386,204 Contract
Nov 17, 2006 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Nov. 17 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $386,204 contract to Kipper Tool Co., Gainesville, Ga., for sets, kits and outfits of hand tools. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more information ...
Accent Controls Awarded Army Contract
Nov 17, 2006 ... FORT MCPHERSON, Ga., Nov. 17 -- Accent Controls Inc., Riverside, Mo., has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort McPherson, Ga., for professional, administrative and management support services. No contract amount was specified ($0). For more ...
California Inventors Develop Exposed Areas Filling Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Oliver Shih and Hitoshi Watanabe, both of San Jose, Calif., Adityo Prakash of Redwood Shores, Calif., David Kita of Foster City, Calif., and Edward Ratner of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a method of filling exposed areas in digital images. According to ...
Washington Inventors Develop Multicylinder Stirling System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Maurice A. White of Pasco, Wash., John E. Augenblick of Richland, Wash., and Allen A. Peterson of Kennewick, Wash., have developed an approach that allows for a double-acting, multi-cylinder, thermodynamically resonant, alpha configuration free-piston Stirling ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Color Braun Tube Apparatus
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Tsutomu Takekawa and Hirofumi Ueno, both from Ibaraki, Japan, have developed a color braun tube apparatus with non-circular electron beam passage aperture. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main lens is formed by a focus electrode, an ...
Washington Inventors Develop Contextual Information Gathering Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- James O. Robarts and Johnson Apacible, both of Redmond, Wash., Kenneth H. Abbott of Kirkland, Wash., Joshua M. Freedman of Mercer Island, Wash., and Dan Newell of Medina, Wash., have developed techniques for creating, modifying, categorizing, modeling, distributing, ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Microphone Mounting Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Chin-Chun Chen of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a mounting device for mounting a microphone on a musical instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting device for mounting a microphone on a musical instrument includes a holder ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Cathode Ray Tube Electron Gun
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Bong-Wook Jung, Deog-Ho Kim, Kwang-Jin Yun and Se-Ja-Chul Hwang, all from Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed an electron gun for a cathode ray tube with a scanning velocity modulation coil mounted on an outer circumference of a neck of the cathode ray ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Conductive Layer Formation Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ying-Chang Houng of Hsinchu County, Taiwan, Hong-Ching Lin of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chi-Jen Shih of Fongshan, Taiwan, and Shao-Ju Shih of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed methods for forming conductive layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Louisiana Inventor Develops Pulse Transmitter
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Frank Carpenter of Lake Charles, La., has developed a pulse transmitter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse transmitter for fluid metering includes concentric gearing, with the exciter gear concentric with the main shaft in the ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Cylinder Assembling Hydraulic System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Eugene C. Bair of Holland, Mich., has developed a hydraulic system for synchronized extension of multiple cylinders. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift table maintains levelness while lifting a support surface via two or more lift ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Wound Dressing Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Terrance Dozier and Glenda Dozier, both of Macon, Ga., have developed a sterile absorbent pad with an adhesive caring sheet with release sheets thereon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "wound dressing bandage ...
California, Hawaii Inventors Develop Received Communication Management Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ramesh Venkataperumal of Belmont, Calif., Carl Keller of Danville, Calif., and Katherine H. Mobley of Honolulu, have developed a method of using assessments of communication senders to assist in managing received communications. An abstract of the invention, ...
British Inventors Develop Optical Fibre-Based Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Zulfadzli Yusoff, Walter Belardi, Peh Chiong Teh, Ju Han Lee, Tanya Mary Monro and David John Richardson, all from Southampton, Great Britain, have developed optical fibre-based devices that utilise the Raman effect. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetic Disk Drive
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Noboru Yoshida and Masato Taniguchi, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed data storage devices, storage device control methods and magnetic disk drives. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to ...
U.S., Dutch Inventors Develop Image Conversion Unit
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Erwin Ben Bellers of Fremont, Calif., and Gerard De Haan of Eindhoven, Netherlands, have developed an image conversion unit for converting an input image into an output image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image conversion unit for ...
South African Inventor Develops Nuclear Reactor Plant Cooling System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- David Richard Nicholls of Halfway House, South Africa, has developed a method of operating and a method of constructing a nuclear reactor plant. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a cooling system which includes at ...
Virginia Inventor Develops Ship Separator Support System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Bryan L. Miller of Hardyville, Va., has developed a transportable and a configurable camel and a ship separator system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camel and ship separator support system uses a pontoon having length and width ...
Texas Inventors Develop Ball Grid Array Packaging System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Greg E. Howard of Dallas, and Leland S. Swanson of McKinney, Texas, have developed a method and a system for packaging ball grid arrays. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of packaging ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Bonding Pad Structure Formation Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Chung Liu of Taipei, Taiwan, Yuan-Lung Liu of Yuan-Lin, Taiwan, and Ruey-Yun Shiue of Hsin Chu, Taiwan, have developed a method of forming a bonding pad that is immune to intermetal dielectric cracking. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Canadian, Austrian Inventors Develop Vertical Furnace Binding System
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Kenneth T. Hutchinson and Clarence A. Nichols, both of Mississauga, Canada, Kenneth M. Donaldson of Toronto, Keith E. Joiner of Burlington, Canada, and Jimmy Sarvinis of Brisbane, Austria, have developed a binding system for applying a vertical compressive force to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pedal Locking Device
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Hideyuki Miyajima, Naoki Sato and Kuniaki Okuno, all from Seto, Japan, have developed a pedal locking device and a pedal device for locking a foot-depressed pedal at a low position. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal is switched between a ...
Washington Inventors Develop Binary Theme File Format
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Roland L. Fernandez of Woodinville, Wash., Christopher A. Evans of Sammamish, Wash., Richard W. Stoakley of Seattle, and Scott S. Hysom of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a binary theme file format that provides optimized access to retrieve graphical component theme ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Cross-Talk Reduction Circuit
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Ira E. Baskett of Tempe, Ariz., has developed a cross-talk reduction circuit and a method therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a pair of differential amplifiers have outputs coupled together. A signal received on ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Multi-Energy Computed Tomography Adaptive Scatter Correction Method
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Sergey Simanovsky and Carl R. Crawford, both of Brookline, Mass., Zhengrong Ying of Wakefield, Mass., and Ram Naidu of Waban, Mass., have developed a method of and a system for adaptive scatter correction in multi-energy computed tomography. According to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Direct Fuel Injection Spark Ignition Internal Combustion Engine
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Toshiya Kono, Mitsuhiro Akagi and Katsuaki Uchiyama, all from Yokohama, Japan, and Hitoshi Ishii of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a direct fuel injection spark ignition internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When, ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Integrated Photonic Broadband Light Source
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- David G. Dawes of Dublin, Ohio, has developed an integrated broadband light source system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "broadband light source that is typically a single chip monolithic silicon integrated ...
German Inventors Develop Vehicle Conveyor Gear
Nov 17, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 17 -- Gert Schonnenbeck and Peter Janssen, both of Neu-Anspach, Germany, Peter Faust of Mucke, Germany, and Marcel Offermann of Bad Homburg v.d. Hohe, Germany, have developed a conveyor with a drive shaft for connection with a drive motor. According to the U.S ....