US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, January 5:
Illinois Inventors Develop Golf Putter Head
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kenneth Casner Jr. and Joseph Casner, both of Calumet City, Ill., have developed a golf putter head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf putter head is disclosed wherein the putter head has a sole that defines an arcuate surface in two ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Continuously Cast Product of Steel Manufacture Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Yutaka Awajiya, Masayuki Nakada, Makoto Suzuki and Koichi Tsutsumi, all from Fukuyama, Japan, and Yukinori Iizuka of Tokyo, have developed a manufacturing method for a continuously cast product of steel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Magnetoresistive Sensor
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Xuefei Tang and Paul E. Anderson, both of Eden Prairie, Minn., Song S. Xue of Edina, Minn., Michael C. Kautzky of Eagan, Minn., and Patrick J. Ryan of St. Paul, Minn., have developed a magnetoresistive sensor with specular sidewall layers. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Magneto-Resistance Transducer System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kazuhiko Hayashi, Junichi Fujikata, Tsutomu Ishi, Shigeru Mori, Keishi Ohashi, Masafumi Nakada, Kiyokazu Nagahara, Kunihiko Ishihara and Nobuyuki Ishiwata, all from Tokyo, have developed a magneto-resistance effect element, a magneto-resistance effect head, a ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Vehicle Heating, Ventilation Control System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Bradley C. Errington of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and Junichi Kanemaru of Upper Arlington, Ohio, have developed a method for controlling a vehicle heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Electrostatic Discharge Circuit Capacitor Design
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Chang-fen Hu of Pan-Chao, China, has developed an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit for an integrated circuit (IC). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ESD protection circuit has a resistor and a capacitor module having a ...
California Inventor Develops Liquid Metal Varactor
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Timothy Beerling of San Francisco has developed a liquid metal varactor and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A varactor includes a container forming a liquid chamber, a first electrode mounted adjacent the chamber, and a second ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thin-Film Magnetic Head
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kiyoshi Sato, Toshinori Watanabe, Hideki Gochou, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Toru Takahashi, Hisayuki Yazawa, Hiromi Ikegami, Chiaki Ikegami and Masaki Ikegami, all from Niigata-ken, Japan, have developed a thin-film magnetic head that appropriately suppresses side fringing and ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Decorative Waistlet
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Nicole Brown and Tom L. Austin, both of Greenville, S.C., have developed an ornamental design for a decorative waistlet, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D534,453 on Jan. 2. The original ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Human Being Locomotion Prevention Apparatus
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Patrick W. Smith of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed less lethal weapons for multiple shots. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for interfering with locomotion by one or more targets being animal or human, uses a plurality of ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Benzoyl Peroxide Stabilization Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Joseph Schwarz and Michael Weisspapir, both of Richmond Hill, Canada, have developed a stabilized solution of organic peroxide in a non-volatile solvent. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stabilization of benzoyl peroxide for extended ...
Florida, California, Virginia Inventors Develop Vertical Wind Tunnel Flight Simulator
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- N. Alan Metni and William J. Kitchen, both of Orlando, Fla., Charles Eastlake of Port Orange, Fla., Kenneth Mort of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Michael Palmer of Poquoson, Va., have developed a vertical wind tunnel flight simulator that comprises a flight chamber wherein ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Vehicle Load-Bearing Mounting Reinforcement Structure
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Sandeep Vijaywargiya of Troy, Mich., Joseph V Rozenbaum of Ortonville, Mich., and John A Radomski of Inkster, Mich., have developed a load-bearing reinforcement structure for assisting the secure mounting of a load producing element. According to the U.S ....
New York Inventors Develop Stepper-Motor Performance Optimizing System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- John R. Rogers of Troy, N.Y., and Kevin Craig of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., have developed a system for optimizing the performance of a stepper motor by optimizing step-time sequence instructions given to the stepper motor. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Dual-Type Magnetic Detection Element
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Masamichi Saito, Yosuke Ide and Naoya Hasegawa, all from Niigata-ken, Japan, have developed a dual-type magnetic detecting element in which free magnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer have suitably selected beta values. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Cranial Implant Ferrule
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Benjamin D. Pless of Atherton, Calif., and Dennis Potts of Scotts Valley, Calif., have developed a ferrule for removably retaining a self-contained implantable device within a cranial opening of a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Solenoid Drive Circuit
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kiyokatsu Satoh and Masaki Kanazawa, both of Niiza, Japan, have developed a solenoid drive circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid drive circuit includes a control circuit which comprises a detector with a resistor for ...
German Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Heating, Air-Conditioning System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Ian Bendell of Monsheim, Germany, Wolfgang Dieksander of Filderstadt, Germany, and Gebhard Schweizer of Leonberg, Germany, have developed a heating and air-conditioning system for a motor vehicle with front and rear internal vehicle compartments. According to ...
German Inventors Develop Vehicle Air Conditioning System Controlling Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Thomas Gutbrod and Thomas Noeth, both of Bad Neustadt, Germany, have developed a method for controlling an air conditioning unit for an automobile. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intensity of solar radiation is determined in a vehicle ...
German Inventor Develops Inert Rendering Method with Nitrogen Buffer
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Ernst Werner Wagner of Winsen, Germany, has developed an inert rendering method with a nitrogen buffer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an inert rendering method for preventing and/or extinguishing fires in ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Multi-Processor Communication System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Robert J. Clow of Aurora, Ill., Lee D. Tice of Bartlett, Ill., Jerry L. Howard of Herscher, Ill., Manley S. Keeler of Naperville, Ill., and John F. Meggesin of St. Charles, Ill., have developed a variable group communication system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Mechanical Fuse
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Tadayuki Tsutsui of Matsudo, Japan, Kei Ishii of Higashi Katsushika-gun, Japan, Yoshihiro Tanimura of Chiryu, Japan, Kouji Yamada of Okazaki, Japan, and Yuuichi Aoki of Chita-gun, Japan, have developed a mechanical fuse and a method of manufacturing the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kyoichi Hosokawa, Ryotaro Kudo and Shinichi Yoshida, all from Takasaki, Japan, Kenichi Onda of Hitachi, Japan, and Yoichi Uehara of Maebashi, Japan, have developed a switching power supply device and the semiconductor integrated circuit for power supply ...
New Jersey, Texas Inventors Develop Shared Network Resource Management Scheduler
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Jian-Guo Chen of Basking Ridge, N.J., Ambalavanar Arulambalam of Edison, N.J., David E. Clune of Califon, N.J., and David P. Sonnier of Austin, Texas, have developed a scheduler for shared network resources that implements a plurality of user selectable data scheduling ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Porous Resin Bead Production Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kenjiro Mori, Tatsuya Konishi and Ayako Matsunawa all Ibaraki, Japan, have developed a method of producing a porous resin bead. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, as a resin bead which can be developed for use ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Thin-Film Magnetic Head
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kiyoshi Sato of Niigata-ken, Japan, has developed a thin-film magnetic head with helical coils and a manufacturing method for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of first coil segments is formed in a space encompassed by ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Exercise Machine
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Donald Clifton Maser of Altoona, Pa., has developed a transmission for use with an exercise machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for an easy to mount and easy to use exercise machine especially helpful to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Brushless Motor Driving Device
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Takeshi Hirochi and Masahiro Miyata, both of Kariya, Japan, and Toshio Tsutsui of Takahama, Japan, have developed a brushless motor driving device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "brushless motor driving device ...
German Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory Apparatus
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Winfried Kamp, Siegmar Koppe, Thomas Kunemund and Michel D'Argouges all from Munchen, Germany, Noel Hatsch of Unterhaching, Germany, and Heinz Soldner of Bruckmuhl-Heufeldmuhle, Germany, have developed a content addressable memory (CAM) apparatus for predecoded search ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Memory Cartridge System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Hiromu Ueshima, Yoshiaki Nakanishi and Masaki Ohashi, all from Kusatsu, Japan, have developed a method for executing a program stored on a memory cartridge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cartridge system includes a main body, ...
California Inventors Develop Indirect Address Rewriting Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kevin G Wallace and Steven R Kusmer, both of San Francisco, Dietrich W Schultz of Foster City, Calif., Hal R Schectman of Portola Valley, Calif., Judith A Hay of Mountain View, Calif., and Michael P Thompson of San Carlos, Calif., have developed a computer implemented ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Hard Disk Drive Clamp
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Do-wan Kim of Suwon-si, South Korea, has developed a disk clamp of a hard disk drive that installs a disk firmly for storing data which uses a spindle motor of the hard disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disk clamp includes a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Internet Navigation Apparatus
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Owen Wayne Weber of Coppell, Texas, has developed a monitor that analyzes and generates a profile of an Internet website data transmission. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The profile indicates the relative load and/or execution times of different ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Vertically Movable Partition Walls
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Miles E. Peterson of Ontario, Canada, has developed a partition wall that is upwardly movable into storage position and downwardly movable into vertical, down position. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wall comprises a plurality of ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Cardiovascular Reflex Control Device Electrode Design
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Robert S. Kieval of Medina, Minn., Bruce J. Persson of New Brighton, Minn., David J. Serdar of Shorewood, Minn., Peter T. Keith of St. Paul, Minn., and Eric D. Irwin of Minneapolis, have developed electrode designs and methods of use for cardiovascular reflex control ...
U.S., Swedish Inventors Develop Web-Based Operation System Providing Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Drew E. Morris of Alpine, N.J., Shervin Pishevar of Gaithersburg, Md., Fredrik Malmer of Alingsas, Sweden, Erik Viktor Arvidsson of Jonkoping, Sweden, have developed a web-based operating system that is downloaded from a server to a network-enabled ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Switching Power Supply Unit
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Haruhiko Hatakeyama of Nihonbashi, Japan, has developed a switching power supply unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first side circuit connected to a primary coil of a transformer includes a main switching element driving the primary ...
Washington, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Database Management System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Elizabeth Jean O'Neil and Patrick Eugene O'Neil, both of Cambridge, Mass., Peter Carlin of Seattle, and Jun Fang of Sammamish, Wash., have developed a computerized method of generating an invertible bitstring for use in a computer environment. According to the ...
California Inventors Develop Hard Disk Drive
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Andre Sirilutporn Chan of Milpitas, Calif., and Ferdinand Hendriks of Morgan Hill, Calif., have developed a device that streamlines air flow inside a hard disk drive with a stationary afterbody which is located adjacent to each of the disks. According to the ...
California Inventors Develop Handheld Computers Data Synchronization Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- E. Michael Lunsford of San Carlos, Calif., Jesse Donaldson of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Francis J. Canova Jr. of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method for synchronization of data between two handheld computers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Java Thread Synchronization Accelerating Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Deep K. Buch of Folsom, Calif., has developed a method for flexible acceleration of java thread synchronization on multiprocessor computers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and machine-readable medium measure requests by threads ...
Washington Inventors Develop Computer Implemented File Transformation System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Sameet H. Agarwal, Balan Sethu Raman and Michael Eric Deem, all from Redmond, Wash., Prasanna V. Krishnan of Bellevue, Wash., and Sambavi Muthukrishnan of Woodinville, Wash., have developed a system and a methodology to facilitate interoperability and compatibility ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Adjustable Vehicle Seat
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Patrick W. McManus of Bloomington, Ind., and Martin P. McManus of Mishawaka, Ind., have developed an adjustable seat for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable seat for a vehicle includes a first support and a second ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Heat Exchanger Tank
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Hajime Ohata, Muneo Sakurada, Yoshihisa Eto, Naoto Takayanagi, all from Konan, Japan, have developed an evaporator of a freezing cycle in an on-vehicle air-conditioning system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In tubular portion of a tank, ...
Belgian Inventor Develops Housing Unit
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Jan Verhelst of Menen, Belgium, has developed a housing unit with an extensible room. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The invention relates to a housing unit, such as a caravan or a motor home with an ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Measurement Device Path Calibration System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Vahe' Adamian of Lexington, Mass., has developed a system for calibrating a measurement device path. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of calibrating first and second adapters comprises the steps of calibrating coaxial ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Networked Nodes Data Distribution Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Cedric Tan Yau and Mikhail Voloshin, both of Champaign, Ill., have developed a method, a system and an article of manufacture for data distribution over a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data distribution network includes a ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Voltage Mode Controlled Electric Machine
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Steven James Collier-Hallman of Frankenmuth, Mich., has developed a method for controlling an electric motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for controlling a voltage mode controlled electric machine ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Tailgate Counterbalancing Hinge
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Donald Mossom Austin of Perkinsfield, Canada, has developed a tailgate counterbalancing hinge assembly that includes a linear torque rod, a first end assembly and a second end assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One end assembly ...
California Inventors Develop Network Devices Accessing Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Rajeev Grover of Rocklin, Calif., Douglas W. Arens of Roseville, Calif., and Keven Paul Morlang of Fair Oaks, Calif., have developed techniques for configuring network parameters to a device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Door-Opening Apparatus
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Hirofumi Watanabe of Yamanashi, Japan, has developed door-opening/closing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The door-opening/closing apparatus includes a door, a driving unit that drives the door to close the door, a door movement ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Data File Archiving Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Brian Kling of Piscataway, N.J., and Joyce Zhong of Bridgewater, N.J., have developed a system and a method for self-recovering real-time data-feed compression and archiving. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Tire Demounting Tool
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Roger Kliskey of Brimfield, Ohio, has developed a tire demounting tool for demounting a second bead of a tire from a wheel rim having a flange. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "tire demounting tool for demounting ...
German Inventors Develop Vehicle Door Impact Protection System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Reiner Armbruster of Muehlacker, Germany, Andre Scholz of Wiernsheim, Germany, Martin Goehrke of Loechgau, Germany, Jens Zimmer of Leonberg, Germany, and Andreas Kohler of Bad Liebenzell, Germany, have developed an impact protection system is provided for a door of a ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Osteoporosis Treatment Device
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Carl T. Brighton of Malvern, Pa., and Solomon R. Pollack of Wales, Pa., have developed a device for treating osteoporosis, hip and spine fractures and fusions with electric fields. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Washington Inventor Develops Electric Powered Handheld Screwdriver
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Joel Townsan of Seattle has developed an electric powered handheld screwdriver with a main body and a reaching arm. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The main body has a power source, a drive motor, and a drive shaft. Attached to the outer ...
Washington Inventors Develop Computer Operating System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Alessandro Forin of Redmond, Wash., and Johannes V. Helander of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a highly componentized system architecture with object mutation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with another aspect, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Recording and Playback Apparatus
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Yoshitsugu Taki, Masahiro Kodama and Toshiya Kurokawa, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Ryuji Takatsuka of Tokyo, have developed a recording and/or playback apparatus called tape library which accommodates a plurality of cassette tapes and records or plays back data onto ...
California Inventors Develop Hard Disk Drive Servo Information Writing Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Kwong-Tat Chan of Pleasanton, Calif., Tom Chan of San Marino, Calif., Bipinchandra V. Gami of Northridge, Calif., Tung Nguyen of San Jose, Calif., and Yih Hurng Jung of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a method for writing servo information onto a disk of a hard ...
Texas, Maine Inventors Develop Wellbore Facilitation System
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Craig D. Johnson of Montgomery, Texas, Matthew R. Hackworth of Pearland, Texas, Patrick W. Bixenman of Houston, and L. McD. Schetky of Camden, Maine, have developed an apparatus suitable for use in a wellbore that comprises an expandable bistable ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Film
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Bin Liu of Pittsburgh, and Dieter K. Weller of Gibsonia, Pa., have developed heat assisted magnetic recording systems with composite recording films. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetic recording films include superparamagnetic ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Database System Locking Mechanism
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Gang Luo, Curt J. Ellmann, Jeffrey F. Naughton and Michael W. Watzke, all from Madison, Wis., have developed a locking mechanism employing a name lock for materialized views. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system includes a ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Soot Detection Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Frank B Walton of Pinawa, Canada, has developed a system and a method for detecting soot and or ash loading within a filter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises the steps of transmitting a source radio frequency (RF) ...
California Inventor Develops Hard Disk Drive Actuator Arm Assembly
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- Momo Boljanovic of Milipitas, Calif., has developed an actuator arm assembly of a hard disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly includes a flexure that is attached to an actuator arm and a head coupled to the flexure. The ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Nuclear Medicine Imaging Method
Jan 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 5 -- William G. Hawkins of Shaker Heights, Ohio, has developed a method of limited-angle frequency-distance resolution recovery in nuclear medicine imaging. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear camera includes a plurality of detector heads ...