US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, December 29:
Ohio Inventors Develop Blow Molding Hollow Plastic Containers Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Douglas S. Struble and John W. Safian, both of Maumee, Ohio, have developed a mold system for blow molding hollow plastic containers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold system for blow molding hollow plastic containers includes an ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Rotary Cutting Tool
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Mark L. Greenwood of Hartland, Wis., and Kevin Cranker of Dousman, Wis., have developed a rotary cutting tool with multiple helical cutting edges with differing helix angles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary cutting tool is ...
German Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Vehicle Seat
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Frank Beermann of Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany, has developed an ornamental design for a vehicle seat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D534,005 on Dec. 26. The patent has been assigned to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Processing Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Yousuke Kowno Yokohama, Japan, and Akira Ohmura of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an information processing device for taking and displaying pictures electronically, and when displayed, the pictures can be either enlarged or reduced. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Pickup Apparatus
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Osamu Yuki of Atsugi, Japan, and Seiji Hashimoto of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an image pickup apparatus with an exposure control circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to form a magnified image without degradation of a ...
Kentucky Inventors Develop Artificial Pond
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Joseph K. Mauro Sr. of Erlanger, Ky., and Philip A. Mayleben of Edgewood, Ky., have developed a kit for constructing an artificial pond. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial pond having a motor pump unit with a brushless ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Receiver
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Andreas Molisch of Arlington, Mass., and Yves-Paul Nakache of Cambridge, Mass., have developed an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver that detects frequency shift keying (FSK) symbols in a communications network. According to the U.S ....
Texas Inventors Develop Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase P38
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Melaine Cobb, Michelle Hutchinson, Zhu Chen and Kevin Berman, all from Dallas, have developed an isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods are provided for potentiating the activity ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Digital Camera
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Ryuichi Shiohara of Nagano, Japan, has developed a digital camera and a method of changing data processing sequence which is used for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "digital camera such that the order ...
Illinois, California Inventors Develop Water Purification Process
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Mark M. Clark of Urbana, Ill., and Robert Riley of La Jolla, Calif., have developed a process for water purification by polymer colloids. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colloid comprises a sulfone polymer. The colloid may be used as a ...
German Inventors Develop Coating Material
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Hubert Baumgart and Beate Gebauer, both of Munster, Germany, and Simone Jurczik of Senden, Germany, have developed a coating material, related production method and its use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Automobile Body
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Donald A Renkert of Royal Oak, Mich., John P Sgalia of Farmington Hills, Mich., and Dan M Zimmermann of Bloomfield Township, Mich., have developed an ornamental design for an automobile body, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Folding Chair Anti-Pinching Device Portion
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Ming-Chin Lu and Hui-Chuan Liang, both of Taipei, Taiwan, Chin-Shu Yeh of San-Chong, Taiwan, Marian Harding Cochran of Hollywood, Fla., and Daniel Wayne Forbes of Jupiter, Fla., have developed an ornamental design for a portion of an anti-pinching device of a folding ...
Thai, Singapore Inventors Develop Semiconductor Die No-Lead Package Fabrication Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Saravuth Sirinorakul, Somchai Nondhasitthichai and Sitta Jewjaitham, all from Bangkok, Thailand, and Yee Heong Chua of Singapore, have developed a method of fabricating no-lead package for semiconductor die with half-etched leadframe. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Gateway Digital Loop Carrier Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Seiji Kitayama of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a gateway digital loop carrier device provided between an integrated access device and a switch that have interfaces different from each other. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Thermal Pressing Machine
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Shoji Hasegawa of Tokyo, has developed a press mechanism to drive a press plate, a clamp mechanism of a molding machine which drives one die toward another die, and a molding machine comprising this clamp mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Liquid Treating Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Yuji Mizuno of Tokyo have developed a method of liquid treating device without any restrictions for a sludge discharge device set above a liquid tank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyclone separator adapted to swirl liquid to subject ...
California Inventors Develop Multi-Layer Microfluidic Separation Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Jeffrey A. Koehler of Pasadena, Calif., and Paren P. Patel of Sierra Madre, Calif., have developed a frit material and a bonding method for microfluidic separation devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer microfluidic ...
Kentucky Inventor Develops Recombinant Watermelon Hydroperoxide Lyase Protein
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- David Hildebrand and Hirotada Fukushige, both of Lexington, Ky., have developed a hydroperoxide lyase (HL) protein in host cells via recombinant expression of the protein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recombinant watermelon (Citrullus ...
California Inventor Develops Motion Video Signal Encoder
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Albert S. Wang of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a method for encoding a motion video signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion video signal encoder maximizes image quality without exceeding transmission bandwidth available to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Secondary Battery State-of-Charge Estimating Apparatus
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Yoshiaki Kikuchi of Toyota, Japan, and Hidenori Takahashi of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a secondary battery state-of-charge estimating apparatus and a method using polarization voltages, and a recording medium usable thereby. An abstract of the invention, ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Asynchronous Transfer Mode Header Compression Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Timothy Bornemisza of Middletown, N.J., Marc Raoul Auguste Ghislain Delvaux of Metuchen, N.J., and Daniel Amrany of Wayside, N.J., have developed a system and a method for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) header compression for digital subscriber line ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Asynchronous Transfer Mode Communication System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Hyong S. Kim and Robert D. Sansom, both of Pittsburgh, and Lawrence R. Cleeton of Butler, Pa., have developed an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) traffic with unknown characteristics including traffic with weighted priorities and traffic without weighted ...
California Inventors Develop Protein Market Pellet
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- William F. Alpenfels of Del Mar, Calif., and Patricia Marilu Vilalta of San Diego, have developed a protein market pellets and a method of making and using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protein marker pellet for use in a gel ...
California Inventors Develop Electrically-Programmable Integrated Circuit Fuse
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Lakhbeer S. Sidhu and Irfan Rahim, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed programmable fuses for integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuses may be based on polysilicon or crystalline silicon fuse links coated with ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Digital Imaging Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Edward T. Laird of Lombard, Ill., has developed a system for detecting objects that includes a digital image device such as charge coupled device camera to control a defined area for unauthorized intrusions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventors Develop Nitrogen Oxide Sensor System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Louis Peter Martin of Castro Valley, Calif., and Ai Quoc Pham of San Jose, Calif., have developed a nitrogen oxide sensor system for measuring the amount of nitrogen oxide in a gas. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electrode is ...
Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Fuel Deoxygenation System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Sergei F. Burlatsky of Vernon, Conn., Louis J. Spadaccini of Manchester, Conn., Foster Philip Lamm of South Windsor, Conn., and Mallika Gummalla of Longmeadow, Mass., have developed a fuel system for an energy conversion device that includes a deoxygenator system with ...
Texas Inventors Develop Communication System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Anand Kannan of Irving, Texas, Gang Xu of Denton, Texas, and Sridhar Rajagopal of Houston, have developed an apparatus, and an associated method, for operating upon data communicated during operation of a communication system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon, Washington Inventors Develop Images Viewing System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Donald G. Hoke of Estacada, Ore., and Richard N. Martin of Vancouver, Wash., have developed a system and a method for enabling a person to view images of the person wearing an accessory before purchasing the accessory. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Washington Inventor Develops Monitor Interconnect Performance Improvement Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Dawson Yee of Clyde Hill, Wash., has developed a method of performing calibration of display signals transmitted to a computer monitor by a host computer via an analog monitor interconnect. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the ...
Washington, Oregon Inventors Develop Video Field Rate Persistence Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Kevin T. Ivers of Woodland, Wash., and Evan Albright of Portland, Ore., have developed a method of video field rate persistence for the video waveform data to eliminate flickering. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video field rate ...
British Inventor Develops Electromagnetic Compatibility Improvement Apparatus
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- David Michael Bray of Edinburgh, Great Britain, has developed an apparatus and a method for improving electromagnetic compatibility. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for providing improved electromagnetic ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Exhaust Gas Purification System
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Toshimasa Koga, Naoya Tsutsumoto, Terunori Kondou, Makoto Otake and Takao Inoue, all from Yokohama, Japan, and Junichi Kawashima of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an exhaust gas purifying system of internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Buried Waste Treatment
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Stephanie Walsh and John G. Richardson, both of Idaho Falls, Idaho, John R. Dick and Paul A. Sloan, both of Rigby, Idaho, and Reva A. Nickelson of Shelley, Idaho, have developed a method of in situ retrieval of contaminants or other substances using a barrier system ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Wafers Thin Films Planarization Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- John M. de Larios and Yezdi N. Dordi, both of Palo Alto, Calif., Mike Ravkin of Sunnyvale, Calif., John Boyd of Atascadero, Calif., and Fred C. Redeker of Fremont, Calif., have developed an electroplating apparatus for depositing a metallic layer on a surface of a ...
California Inventor Develops Mask Compliance Testing Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Roger Lee Jungerman of Petaluma, Calif., has developed a method of mask compliance testing using bit error ratio measurements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mask compliance of a digital signal from a reference device is determined. Bit ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Field Effect Transistor Formation Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Todd R. Abbott, Zhongze Wang, Jigish D. Trivedi and Chih-Chen Cho, all from Boise, Idaho, have developed a method of forming a field effect transistor with halo implant regions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a field effect ...
Bermudian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Peaceful Heart Pendant
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Linda Barnes Lovett of Warwick, Bermuda, has developed an ornamental design for a peaceful heart pendant, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D534,096 on Dec. 26. The patent has been assigned to ...
Washington Inventor Develops Liquid Crystal Display Fabrication Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Apostolos Voutsas of Vancouver, Wash., has developed a method for crystallizing a silicon film in liquid crystal display (LCD) fabrication. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises: forming an amorphous silicon film having a ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Multi-Phase Step Motor
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- David Coutu of East Hampton, Conn., and Robert A. Fournier of Newington, Conn., have developed a method to prevent midrange resonance during operation of a multi-phase step motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The frequency of the pulse ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Light-Emitting Diodes Manufacturing Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Wei-Chih Lai, Jinn-Kong Sheu, Chi-Ming Tsai and Cheng-Ta Kuo, all from Tainan County, Taiwan, have developed a method for manufacturing high efficiency light-emitting diodes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the method, a substrate is ...
Texas Inventors Develop Isolation System with Digital Communication
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Jeffrey W. Scott, Navdeep S. Sooch and David R. Welland, all from Austin, Texas, have developed an isolation system that is suitable for use in telephony, medical instrumentation, industrial process control and other applications. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Luminescent Display Panel Drive Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Koji Henmi and Naoki Yazawa, both of Yonezawa, Japan, have developed a device for and a method of driving luminescent display panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving device that enables compensating for the decrease ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Resin Molding Machine
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Shigeyuki Tofukuji and Tomoo Sakamoto, both of Chikuma, Japan, have developed a resin molding machine, in which a work is clamped and molded with resin in a molding die. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resin molding machine has a ...
Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Regenerative Sweep Air Control Process
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Dean Hoyt of Burlington, Mass., and Douglas Moore of Epping, N.H., have developed processes for controlling regenerative sweep air for membrane systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process for controlling ...
California Inventor Develops High-Pressure Wafer Processing Chamber
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- John Parks of San Jose, Calif., has developed a chamber for high-pressure wafer processing and a method for making the same According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, a wafer processing chamber for performing a high pressure wafer ...
California Inventor Develops Primary Volume Resynchronization Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Adam M. Phelps of San Francisco have developed a method of handling link failures in remote mirroring applications using snapshots. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resynchronizing a primary volume in a primary system and a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Flat Panel Displays Manufacturing Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Hiroshi Yamanaka of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a method of manufacturing flat panel displays. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable formation of a pattern of constituent elements, arranged in correspondence with an arrangement of ...
Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors Develop Digital Binocular Fusing Apparatus
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Randall E. McCoy of Fort Littleton, Pa., and William C. Farley of Turnersville, N.J., have developed digital binocular fusing apparatus that places a primary image in registration with a lenticular lens to produce a secondary three- dimensional image from the primary ...
U.S., Belgian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Wipe
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Jeffrey Lee Butterbaugh, Francis Cornelio Ford, Jaydeep Jawaharlal Mody, Peter Robert Foley, Ronald Scott Burrage and Vincenzo Catalfamo, all from Cincinnati, and Denis O'Sullivan of Brussels, Belgium, have developed an ornamental design for a wipe, the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Automatic Ticket Gate with Reader/Writer Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Tatsuo Maeda and Akihiko Yamagata, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a reader/writer device and an automatic ticket gate that includes the same for checking ticket. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna unit prevents a ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Stored-Value Card Assembly
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Michael R. Francis and Barry C. Brooks, both of Minneapolis, have developed a stored-value card assembly that includes a stored-value card, an edible product and a wrapper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stored-value card defines a ...
California Inventor Develops Sputtered Film Uniform Isotropic Stresses Production Apparatus
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Donald Leonard Smith of Bolinas, Calif., has developed a method for depositing a film on substrates by sputter deposition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method and apparatus for producing uniform, isotropic ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Decorative Plate, Platter Hanger
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Trina Waniga of New York has developed an ornamental design for a decorative plate and platter hanger, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D534,004 on Dec. 26. The original application was filed on ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Stereoscopic Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Michael Goldstein of Herzelia, Israel, Abraham Yaron of Givataim, Israel, and Shay Ghilai of Tel Aviv, Israel, have developed stereoscopic image pick up devices with color imaging capability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California Inventors Develop Telecommunications Switching Network
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Jason Dove of Novato, Calif., and Paul Franceschini of Petaluma, Calif., have developed a scalable multi-service node for use in a communication network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable multi-service node system uses a ...
Russian Inventors Develop Fullerene-Containing Carbon Production Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Georgy Andreevich Duzhev, Igor Vladimirovich Basargin, Boris Mikhailovich Filippov, Nikolay Igorevich Alekseev, Dmitry Vladimirovich Afanasiev and Aleksandr Alekseevich Bogdanov, all from St. Petersburg, Russia, have developed a method for producing ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Nanocrystallite Manufacturing Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Moungi Bawendi of Boston, and Nathan E. Stott of Cambridge, Mass., have developed a method of manufacturing a nanocrystallite from a M-containing salt forms a nanocrystallite. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nanocrystallite can be a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Brayton Cycle Outlet Pump Laser
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- George Emanuel of Arlington, Texas, has developed a laser with Brayton cycle outlet pump. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chemical oxygen-iodine laser comprises an oxygen generator and a nozzle for accelerating generated oxygen to a ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Mirror
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Aletha A. McNally of Shawnee, Kan., has developed an ornamental design for a mirror, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D534,003 on Dec. 26. The original application was filed on Feb. 10, 2005, ...
Texas Inventors Develop Embedded Memory Test Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- James Michael Jarboe Jr. of Allen, Texas, Nathan Weyer Wright of MissouriCity, Texas, Nicholas Henry Schutt of Houston, and Van Ho of Stafford, Texas, have developed a method and an apparatus that enables the testing of multiple embedded memory arrays associated with ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Integrated Circuits Processing Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Anders Berndtsson of Kullavik, Sweden, has developed a device for and a method of processing integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for processing integrated circuits by communication between them and at least one ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Tetsuzo Ueda of Osaka, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer layer is formed on a single-crystal substrate and an epitaxially grown layer composed of a ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Admixed Contaminant Separating Method
Dec 29, 2006 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Charles E. Spangler Jr. of Harrison City, Pa., and William J. Murphy of Pittsburgh, have developed a method of separating admixed contaminants from superalloy metal powder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for ...