US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, January 12:
ALABAMA: Bill Introduced Regarding High School Graduation Examination
Jan 12, 2007 ... MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 287 -- State Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, has introduced legislation (S.B. 360) that would require all public and nonpublic high school students to successfully complete the high school graduation examination prior to graduation. The bill was co-sponsored ...
Italian Inventor Develops Vehicle Warm-Up Phase Management Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Claudio Catalano of Milan, Italy, has developed a method for managing the vehicle warm-up phase in a cold start situation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle is equipped with a hydraulic retarder upstream of the set of gears of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Gas-Barrier Film
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Naoto Mochizuki, Isao Masada, Ryuji Ishimoto, Hideki Umekawa and Hironori Honda, all from Shunan, Japan, Yoji Inui of Hikari, Japan, and Yoshihiro Kimura of Kudamatsu, Japan, have developed a gas-barrier film and a gas-barrier coating agent, and a method for ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Welding Wire Feeder
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Edward A. Enyedy of Eastlake, Ohio, and Keith L. Clark of Concord, Ohio, have developed a welding wire feeder and motor therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "wire feeder for an electric arc welder comprising ...
Texas Inventors Develop Facility Access Control Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Richard Glee Wood of Houston, and Wesley Jack White Jr. of Spring, Texas, have developed methods for controlling access to a facility and access to funds from authorizing providers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods assign an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Microwave Transmission Line
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Tsutomu Takenaka of Tokyo has developed a microwave transmission line with dielectric film layers for negative space charge effects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave transmission line includes a substrate of high-resistivity ...
French Inventors Develop Paint Stirring Machine
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Alain Krzywdziak of Orleans, France, and Yannick Tanchoux of Darvoy, France, have developed a paint stirring machine and a method for mounting the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "paint stirring machine of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electrophotographic Apparatus
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Akira Yoshida and Kazushige Nakamura, both of Yokohama, Japan, Hirotoshi Uesugi of Numazu, Japan, and Masataka Kawahara of Mishima, Japan, have developed an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
New York, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Shielded Medical Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Howard J. Greenwald and Robert Gray, both of Rochester, N.Y., Xingwu Wang of Wellsville, N.Y., Jeffrey L. Helfer of Webster, N.Y., and Ronald E. Miller of Kintnersville, Pa., have developed a shielded medical device that is implanted in a biological ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Display Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Kai-Yu Sun of Hsinchu County, Taiwan, and Cheng-You Liu of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a display device and light source thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The light source is disposed in a housing. An electrode is connected to ...
California Inventor Develops Traveler Information Aggregation System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Andre Gueziec of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Water Treatment Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Yi-Yu Chien of Tainan City, Taiwan, has developed a water treatment device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment device includes a case having an inlet fitting on an underside thereof and a plurality of cylinders overlapped ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Compound Rear Light Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Ko-Chuh Pan of Tainan, Taiwan, has developed a compound rear light device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound rear light device includes a bottom base, a main light base, a backing light base, a license plate light base properly ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Security System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Masahiro Yuhara of Yokohama, Japan, has developed a vehicle security system and a method of controlling the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a vehicle security system for protecting a vehicle against use by an ...
California Inventor Develops Digital Audio Playback Modification Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Erik J. Gilbert of Los Altos Hills, Calif., has developed a method of modification of digital audio playback to compensate for timing differences. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for audio compensation is disclosed ....
California Inventor Develops Gas-Phase Contaminants Gettering System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Suzanne Wakelin of Mountain View, Calif., has developed a system and a method for gettering gas-phase contaminants within a sealed enclosure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A getter and method for making is provided for removing unwanted ...
Sabreliner Wins $86,078 Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... FORT STEWART, Ga., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $86,078 contract to Sabreliner Corp., St. Louis, fot aircraft seat kits. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort Stewart, Ga. For more information about US Fed ...
Beretta USA Wins $39,400 Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $39,400 contract to Beretta USA Corp., Accokeek, Md., for guns from 30mm to 75mm. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more information about US Fed News ...
DRS Test & Energy Management Wins $80,748 Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $80,748 contract to DRS Test & Energy Management Inc., Huntsville, Ala., for electric wire and power and distribution equipment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, ...
Hoosier Industrial Supply Wins $4.5 Million Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $4.5 mllion to Hoosier Industrial Supply, Goshen, Ind., for weapons. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Diffused Light Generating Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Gary Schnuckle of Altadena, Calif., Holger Irmler of Studio City, Calif., Alfredo Ayala of West Covina, Calif., Bryan S.Tye of Canyon Country, Calif., and Jamie Robertson of Wayland, Mass., have developed a method for generating an artificial flickering light ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Organic Negative Temperature Coefficient Composition
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Toshiyuki Kawaguchi of Tokyo, and Masayuki Takahashi of Nishitokyo, Japan, have developed an organic negative temperature coefficient (NTC) composition, an organic NTC device and a production method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop Common Mode Choke
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Richard W. Meadors and Henry G. Paris, both of Chattanooga, Tenn., and James A. Fitzsimmons of Hixson, Tenn., have developed a common mode choke which includes conductors within dielectric layer and associated methods. An abstract of the invention, released by ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Telephone-Activated Devices Detector
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- William R. Owens and Jon N. Leonard, both of Tucson, Ariz., and S. Eric Mattingly of Sahuarita, Ariz., have developed a detector and a method for detecting telephone-activated devices in idle state. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Memory Cell
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Daniel Xu of Santa Clara, Calif., and Chien Chiang of Freemont, Calif., have developed memories that use phase-change materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell may include a phase-change material. Adhesion between the phase-change ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Hydride Gas Purification Process
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Dingjun Wu and Chun Christine Dong, both of Macungie, Pa., and Timothy Christopher Golden and Paula Jean Battavio, both of Allentown, Pa., have developed a process of purification of hydride gases. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Current, Charge-Voltage Converter
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Yasuhiro Miyake of Tokyo has developed a current/charge-voltage converter and reset method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "current/charge-voltage converter having an operational amplifier and a first capacitor ...
Pennsylvania, Michigan Inventors Develop Reactive Gases Built in Purifier
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Jean Louise Vincent of Bethlehem, Pa., Ronald Martin Pearlstein of Macungie, Pa., Kerry Renard Berger of Lehighton, Pa., and Anthony John Lachawiec Jr. of Ann Arbor, Mich., have developed a built in purifier for reactive gases. According to the U.S. Patent ...
German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Hans-Georg Muehlhausen and Kamel Rahal, both of Duesseldorf, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D534,804 on Jan. 9. The patent has ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Apparatus Mounting Mechanism
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Wataru Tanaka and Takashi Iijima, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an electronic apparatus and an unit mounting mechanism. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A mounting mechanism of the present ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Phase Shifter
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Jin-Ho Yoon of Suwon-si, South Korea, has developed a phase shifter that uses tunable Bragg gratings and a method for a tunable phase shift function thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "phase shifter which ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Portable Media Player
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Li-Ni Liang and Wen-Jie Bao, both of Shenzhen, China, have developed an ornamental design for a portable media player, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D534,922 on Jan. 9. The patent has been ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Mobile Phone with Higher Antenna Performance
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Naoki Kobayashi and Eiji Hankui, both of Tokyo, have developed a mobile phone that has an upper antenna at the top of a casing constituting a body and a lower antenna at the bottom of the casing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mobile ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Sinusoidal Current Control Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Sergei Kolomeitsev and Hong Jiang, both of Rochester Hills, Mich., Joseph P. Whinnery of Pontiac, Mich., Thomas Gallagher of Lake Orion, Mich., and John Suriano of Auburn Hills, Mich., have developed an apparatus and method for controlling sinusoidal currents in ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Directional Coupler
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Atsushi Saitoh of Muko, Japan, and Michiko Nakagawa of Nagaokakyo, Japan, have developed a directional coupler and a high-frequency circuit device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A directional coupler includes a conductor pattern formed ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Trim Resistor Assembly
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Charles Scott Nelson of Fenton, Mich., has developed a trim resistor assembly that includes a trimmable resistor element embedded within a polymeric housing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The trimmable resistor element includes ...
Texas Inventors Develop Effective to Real Address Translation Table
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Jason Nathaniel Dale and Jonathan James DeMent, both of Austin, Texas, and Kimberly Marie Fernsler of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a method and an apparatus for efficiently storing an effective address (EA) in an effective to real address translation (ERAT) ...
California Inventors Develop Installable Client Driver
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Mark W. Kroll of Simi Valley, Calif., and Peter Boileau of Valencia, Calif., have developed an installable client driver with ventricular fibrillation (VF) prevention. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cardiac stimulation device includes ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Enantiomeric Isomers Separating Agent
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Yoshio Okamoto and Chiyo Yamamoto, both of Aichi, Japan, have developed a separating agent that includes polysaccharide derivative with a polycyclic structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a separating agent for ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Jae-Young Lee, Joon-Hyuk Kwon, Chi-Wook Kim, Sung-Hoon Kim and Youn-Sik Park, all from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a method and an apparatus for use, e.g., with synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) circuits. According to the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Commutate Silencer of Computer System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Wei-Ming Chen of Yun Lin Hsien, Taiwan, Chao-Jung Chen of Taipei, Taiwan, Wen-Liang Huang of Hsin Chuang, Taiwan, and Kai-Hung Lin of Chung Ho, Taiwan, have developed a commutate silencer of a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Synchronized Atrial Anti-Tachy Pacing System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Joanneke Gerrigje Groen and Malcom J. Begemann, both of Velp, Netherlands, and Chritianus J. J. E. van Groeningen of Utrecht, Netherlands, have developed a synchronized atrial anti-tachy pacing system and a method. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
Ashland Electric Products Wins $66,400 Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $66,400 contract to Ashland Electric Products Inc., Rochester, N.H., for fans, air circulators and blower equipment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For ...
Honeywell International Wins $162,698 Contract
Jan 12, 2007 ... WARREN, Mich., Jan. 12 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $162,698 contract to Honeywell International Inc., Tempe, Ariz., for nonrotating electrical converters. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Warren, Mich. For more information ...
MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION FOR CPL. JASON L. DUNHAM
Jan 12, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pride in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR posthumously to CORPORALJASON L. DUNHAMUNITED STATES MARINE CORPS for service as set forth in the ...
New Jersey, Washington Inventors Develop Recursive Loop Prevention Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Trevor Jim of Princeton, N.J., and Dan Suciu of Seattle, have developed a method for prevention of recursive loops between network elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The occurrence of recursive loops between network elements are ...
California Inventors Develop Thermal Insulating Board for Computers
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Michael Z. Lim of Playa Del Rey, Calif., and Gregory Becker of Redondo Beach, Calif., have developed a thermal insulating board for laptop computers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a laptop platform ...
Alabama Inventors Develop Cardiac Activity Detection Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Raymond E. Ideker of Birmingham, Ala., and Gregory P. Walcott of Wilsonville, Ala., have developed systems, methods and computer program products for detecting the presence of cardiac activity in a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Personalized Information Distribution System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Jan Herman Laarhuis of Enschede, Netherlands, Herman Pals of The Hague, Netherlands, and Jerry Van De Leur of Gouda, Netherlands, have developed a System for personalized information distribution (PID). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
California Inventors Develop Computer Network Routing Protocol
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- J Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Aceves of San Mateo, Calif., David A. Beyer of Los Altos, Calif., and Thane J. Frivold of Redwood City, Calif., have developed an unified routing scheme for ad-hoc internetworking. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Illinois, New Jersey Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Bottle Cap
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Greg McMurrey of Des Plaines, Ill., Machelle D. Stockwell of Cary, Ill., and Jim F. Warner of Westfield, N.J., have developed an ornamental design for a bottle cap, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Texas Inventor Develops Auxiliary Light Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Ta-Wei Lu of Houston has developed an auxiliary light device for a key. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary light device for a key comprises a base, a lighting element, two batteries and a casing assembly. The base is to be fixed ...
California Inventors Develop High Temperature Heap Bioleaching Process
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- William J. Kohr of San Mateo, Calif., Vandy Shrader of Belmont, Calif., and Chris Johansson of San Bruno, Calif., have developed a high temperature heap bioleaching process for chalcopyrite bearing ore. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Interactive Display Card
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Bud Wilcox of Grass Valley, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for an interactive display card, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D534,913 on Jan. 9. The original application was filed on ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Portable Communication Device with Dynamic Power Management Control
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Vivek G. Gupta of Portland, Ore., has developed a portable communication device with dynamic power management control and a method therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a ...
California Inventor Develops Fluorescently Labeled Reagent
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Linda G Lee of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed an ultraviolet excitable energy transfer reagents. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel energy transfer dyes which can be used with shorter wavelength light sources are provided. These dyes include ...
Texas Inventors Develop Data Communication Device
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Andras Farago of Richardson, Texas, and Violet R. Syrotiuk of Plano, Texas, have developed a method and device for optimizing use of a plurality of different approaches to communicating data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device ...
California Inventors Develop Remote Customer Management Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Daithi Larkin of Redwood City, Calif., and Nara Rajagopalan of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method for remote customer management of virtual routers allocated to the customer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized system ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Light Receiving Element
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Seung-Kee Yang of Suwon-shi, South Korea, and Ahn-Goo Choo of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a light receiving element for converting a received light signal into an electric signal and its manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Safety Network System
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Yasuo Muneta, Toshiyuki Nakamura and Teruyuki Nakayama, all from Kyoto, Japan, have developed a safety programmable controller and at least a safety slave unit that are connected through a safety network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Decorative Flat Screen Frame
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Dora C. Florindo of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a decorative flat screen frame, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D534,914 on Jan. 9. The original application was ...
South Korean Inventors Develop High Frequency Distributed Oscillator
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Euisik Yoon and Eun-Chul Park, both of Yuseong-gu, South Korea, have developed a distributed oscillator, and more particularly, a high frequency distributed oscillator that uses coupled transmission lines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Peripheral Memory Management Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Uri Elzur of Zichron Yaakov, Israel, has developed a method of associating a packet with a flow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a system memory, a processor and a peripheral. The peripheral includes a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Molten Iron Production Process
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Isao Kobayashi, Itsuo Miyahara, Hidetoshi Tanaka and Koji Tokuda, all from Hyogo, Japan, have developed a process for producing molten iron. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making molten iron includes the steps of feeding a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Saliva Buffer Capacity Examination Method
Jan 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12 -- Kazuhiro Takagi and Junichi Okada, both of Tokyo, have developed an examination method of buffer capacity of saliva and an examination instrument of buffer capacity of saliva. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to "provide ...