US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, February 2:
Japanese Inventors Develop Engine Idle Speed Control Device
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Tsuyoshi Ishikawa of Kawasaki, Japan, Eri Imai of Chigasaki, Japan, and Masaki Koga of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an engine idle speed control device for an internal combustion engine that is provided with an automatic translation. According to the U.S ....
German Inventor Develops Vehicle Lamp
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Helmut Moser of Bruchsal, Germany, has developed a vehicle lamp. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enlarge the design and technical use options of a vehicle lamp, in particular for motor vehicles, which includes at least one functional ...
New York Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Huicai Zhong of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., has developed semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same including contacting gate to source. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductors having electrically coupled gate and impurity ...
German Inventors Develop Ureter Resectoscope
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Bernd Nosel of Lutjensee, Germany, has developed a ureter resectoscope. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "ureter resectoscope with an elongate flexible stem tube of substantial length and small external diameter, ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Oxycodone Overdose Prevention Composition
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Suma Krishnan, Christopher Lauderback, Sanjib Bera, Sven Guenther and Wendy Hirschelman, all from Blacksburg, Va., James Scott Moncrief of Christiansburg, Va., and Travis Mickle of Charlottesville, Va., have developed compounds and compositions for prevention of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicular Headlamp
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Hiroyuki Ishida, Kiyoshi Sazuka and Masashi Tatsukawa, all from Shizuoka-ken, Japan, have developed a vehicular headlamp and a semiconductor light emitting element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular headlamp for emitting light ...
Australian Inventor Develops Simulated Clay Tennis Surface
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Gary Wayne Waterford of Rose Bay, Australia, has developed a simulated clay tennis surface that has a first region tufted with synthetic ribbons of a first height, and a second region tufted with synthetic ribbons higher than those of the first ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Automatic Transmission Six-Speed Powertrain
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Gang Soo Seo and Ki Been Lim, both of Suwon, South Korea, Byeong Ho Soh and Hyu Tae Shim, both of Hwaseong, South Korea, and Gyung Cheol Lee of Gunpo, South Korea, have developed a six-speed powertrain of an automatic transmission with advantages of enhanced durability ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Engine Torque Control Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Takaaki Tokura, Katsumi Kono, both of Toyota, Japan, Ryoichi Hibino and Masataka Osawa, both of Nagoya, Japan, Hiroyuki Nishizawa of Tajimi, Japan, and Norimi Asahara of Nishikamo-gun, Japan, have developed a control apparatus and a method for an automatic transmission ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Vehicle Gear Change Control Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Daniel Laurent of Marly, Switzerland, Pierre Varenne of Neyruz, Switzerland, and Pierre Alain Magne of Saint Aubin, Switzerland, have developed an electric traction motor vehicles with a traction motor in each of the driving wheel. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Information Recording Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Takashi Ono of Tokyo has developed a method of recording information in nonvolatile semiconductor memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a transistor, one or two resistance-change portions, and ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Split Gate Type Nonvolatile Memory Device
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Jin Hyo Jung of Bucheon-si, South Korea, has developed a split gate type nonvolatile memory device and manufacturing method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a nonvolatile memory device comprises the steps ...
German Inventors Develop Headlight Aligning Device
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Herbert Steinbeck and Hans Weiner, both of Muehlacker, Germany, have developed an aligning device for a headlight. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aligning device for a headlight in a vehicle body of a motor vehicle has an adjusting ...
California, Texas Inventors Develop Field Changeable Graphic
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Craig E. Dowdall and Charles E. Buffington, both of Santa Clara, Calif., Joseph D. Walters of San Jose, Calif., and Daniel J. Driscoll of Spring, Texas, have developed a field changeable graphics card for use in a computing device. According to the U.S. Patent ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Portable Computer
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Young Woo Cho, Jong Hwan Kim and Dae Hee Park, all from Kyonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a portable computer and a method for mounting a flat panel display device module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer that ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Minors Stock Market Transactions Enabling Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Susan P. Beacham of Lake Forest, Ill., has developed a method and a system of enabling minors to make stock market transactions via the Internet with adult authorization. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Illumination Lamp
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Masashi Tatsukawa of Shizuoka, Japan, has developed a vehicle illumination lamp with light-emitting elements as light sources. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical lens extends generally in a width direction of a vehicle, and ...
RICHTSMEIER HANDS OVER LOGISTICAL REIGNS TO KESSLER
Feb 02, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Colonel David M. Richtsmeier, commanding officer of 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), transferred authority of the logistics combat element of Multi-National Forces West to Brig ....
COMMANDANT'S NEW POLICY INTENDS TO ROTATE EVERY MARINE INTO COMBAT ZONES
Feb 02, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Marine officials are working to identify the approximately 33,000 Marines who have not been tapped for service in Iraq or Afghanistan and get them to deployable units, a III Marine Expeditionary Force official said ...
COMMANDANT, SERGEANT MAJOR OF MARINE CORPS VISIT SAN DIEGO
Feb 02, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The thirty-fourth Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James T. Conway, made his first visit to the depot and Naval Medical Center San Diego as commandant, to share his guidance and vision for the Marine Corps Jan ....
Calibre Systems Wins $16.5 Million Contract
Feb 02, 2007 ... ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $16.5 million to Calibre Systems Inc., Alexandria, Va., for environmental support services. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, ...
TEAM Integrated Engineering Wins $16.5 Million Contract
Feb 02, 2007 ... ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $16.5 million to TEAM Integrated Engineering Inc., San Antonio, for environmental support services. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, ...
AGEISS Environmental Wins $11 Million Contract
Feb 02, 2007 ... ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $11 million to AGEISS Environmental Inc., Evergreen, Colo., for environmental support services. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Mammalian Protein Kinase Involved Cell Proliferation Compound
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Francesco Salituro of Marlborough, Mass., Guy Bemis of Arlington, Mass., Huai Gao of Natick, Mass., and Ghotas Evindar of Toronto, have developed compounds that demonstrate strong and specific inhibition of p38. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Workplace Shopping System
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Nobuo Ogasawara of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a workplace shopping system and a merchandise picking system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide a system to receive orders of merchandise ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Side Emitter Beacon
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Paul L. Stein and David M. Dietrich, both of St. Peters, Mo., Tim B. Murray of St. Louis, Sarmad A. Hannosh of West Linn, Ore, and Richard Gray of Bridlington, Great Britain, have developed an emergency warning light which employs a light source which emits a ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Atherosclerosis Decreasing Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Kenneth M. Weisman of Newtown Square, Pa., and Michael Goldberg of Ivyland, Pa., have developed a method of decreasing atherosclerosis and its complications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of decreasing ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Navigation System Incorporation Antenna
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Masayuki Nakabuchi of Hekinan, Japan, has developed a navigation system that incorporates an antenna which includes a cabinet constructed of electroplated case and cover. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna element is integrated to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Rear Gate
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Takeshi Nagase of Aichi, Japan, has developed a vehicle rear gate that includes a gate panel, a garnish disposed on the gate panel, and a gate handle provided to the garnish. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gate handle can be turnable ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Wireless Communications System
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Kenneth S. Ehrman, Michael L. Ehrman and Yaron Hecker, all from New York, Joseph M. Pinzon of Bronx, N.Y., Jeffrey M. Jagid of Closter, N.J., and Leonard Pimentel of Newfoundland, N.J., have developed a robust wireless communications system operable to provide ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Driveline Clunk Management System
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- David J. Stroh of Farmington Hills, Mich., has developed a system of management of driveline oscillation and clunk in a self-powered vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for reducing clunk in a driveline of a vehicle having an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Light Guiding Apparatus
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Shinichi Imade of Iruma, Japan, has developed a light guiding apparatus that has a first transparent member, a second transparent member, and a transparent member holding portion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first transparent ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Microtissue Arrays Analyzing System
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- David J. Foran of Short Hills, N.J., and Wenjin Chen of Piscataway, N.J., have developed a tissue microarray imaging system that autonomously images, analyzes, and stores data for samples in a tissue microarray. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Tracheotomy Performing Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Rodney S. Gooden of Carnesville, Ga., has developed an apparatus and methods for a tracheotomy to be performed on a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes an applicator base with an aperture placed over the ...
German Inventor Develops Spacer Structure Production Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Helmut Tews of Munchen, Germany, has developed a method for producing a spacer structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a spacer structure includes: forming a gate insulation layer having a gate ...
North Dakota Inventor Develops Internal Combustion Engines Intelligent Sleep Mode Placing Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Noel Wayne Anderson of Fargo, N.D., has developed methods of placing a machine with an internal combustion engine in an intelligent sleep mode. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides one or more methods of placing a ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Pressure Sensor Malfunction Detection Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Songping Yu of Troy, Mich., Paul A. Pietrzyk of Beverly Hills, Mich., and Gary L. Danhoff of Redford, Mich., have developed a method for detecting a malfunction in a manifold absolute pressure sensor used in an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S ....
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Language Model Structures Compression Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Bhiksha Ramakrishnan of Watertown, Mass., and Edward W. D. Whittaker of Tokyo, have developed a method of compression of language model structures and word identifiers for automated speech recognition systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
French Inventors Develop Preventive Treatment Method
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Bruno Ghyselen of Seyssinet-Pariset, France, and Olivier Rayssac of Grenoble, France, have developed a preventive treatment method for a multilayer semiconductor structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "preventive ...
New York Inventors Develop Multicolored Light-Emitting Diode Vehicle Interior Light
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Glenn T. Schmidt of Selden, N.Y., Amy Grumet-Avallone of Smithtown, N.Y., Samuel Zeng of Flushing, N.Y., and Lajos Meszaros of West Babylon, N.Y., have developed a multicolored light-emitting diode (LED) vehicle interior light. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Continuously Variable Automatic Transmission Controller
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Tateki Jozaki, Shigeru Ishii, Tatsuo Wakahara, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Tanaka and Youhei Ishikawa, all from Kanagawa-ken, Japan, have developed a transmission controller of a V-belt type continuously variable automatic transmission. According to the U.S ....
New York Inventor Develops Cooling Bed Plate Transfer Grid Roller
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Ronald L. Plesh, Sr. of Orchard Park, N.Y., has developed a roller mountable to a cooling bed plate transfer grid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "inexpensive, high capacity, and easy to install roller for ...
Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Impact Attenuator System
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- James C. Kennedy Jr. of Worthington, Ohio, Charles R. Miele of Upper Arlington, Ohio, Chuck A. Plaxico of Westerville, Ohio, Joseph R. Preston of Radnor, Ohio, Jay R. Sayre of Gahanna, Ohio, W. Scott Versluis of Dublin, Ohio, Carl J. Serman of Cranberry Township, Pa., ...
Texas Inventor Develops Road Barrier
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Alfred Owen of Frisco, Texas, has developed a road barrier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road barrier has a bottom part and a top part which extends upwardly and forms in the top part at least one downwardly inclined side surface so ...
Ohio, California Inventors Develop Electrosurgical Tissue Treatment Methods
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Philip E. Eggers of Dublin, Ohio, and Hira V. Thapliyal of Los Altos, Calif., have developed methods for electrosurgical tissue treatment in electrically conductive fluid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical probe comprises a shaft ...
Nevada Inventors Develop Adjustable Handle Grip
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Douglas Lloyd Dalton and Morris Reisman, both of Las Vegas, have developed an adjustable collar for attachment around a handle such as the handle of a baseball bat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The adjustable collar has a rubber-like ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Central Diabetes Insipidus Treatment Drug
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Hiroyuki Koshio, Issei Tsukamoto, Takahiro Kuramochi, Seijiro Akamatsu and Chikashi Saitoh, all from Tsukuba, Japan, have developed 4,4-difluoro-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-5H-1-benzazepine derivatives or salts thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New York Inventor Develops Racquet-String Alignment Pick
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Steve Marangoni of Riverhead, N.Y., has developed a stringed-racquet pick. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "stringed-racquet pick including a handle body and a string-realignment member having a conical head with ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Phase Information Restoring Program
Feb 02, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 2 -- Hideyuki Sakaida of Kaisei-machi, Japan, has developed a method, apparatus, and a program for restoring phase information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of restoring phase information using a ...
Booz Allen Hamilton Wins $16.5 Million Contract
Feb 02, 2007 ... ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md., Feb. 2 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a contract valued at up to $16.5 million to Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Va., for environmental support services. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. For ...
Treasury Rule on Exception to HIPAA Nondiscrimination Requirements Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Treasury. The Chief of the Publications and Regulations Branch at IRS has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Exception to the HIPAA ...
State Dept. Report of Texts, Background Statements of International Agreements Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of State. The Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs has transmitted, pursuant to the Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as ...
Interior Report Relative to Competitive Sourcing Efforts Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Interior. The Assistant Secretary has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report ...
State Dept. Reports Relative to Post-Liberation Iraq Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of State. The Assistant Secretary at the Office of Legislative Affairs has ...
AID Report on Program that will be initiated for Colombia Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Assistant Administrator at AID's Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs has transmitted, pursuant ...
Interior Rule on West Virginia Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Plan Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Interior. The Acting Director at the Office of Surface Mining has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
HHS First Evaluation Report on Physician Group Practice Demonstration Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Secretary at HHS has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report entitled ...
Treasury Rule on Bureau of Labor Statistics Price Indexes for Department Stores Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Treasury. The Chief of the Publications and Regulations Branch at IRS has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
State Dept. Report of Action on Nomination for Position of Assistant Secretary of State Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of State. The Assistant Secretary at the Office of Legislative Affairs has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of ...
State Dept. Report Relative to Extending and Amending Certain Memorandums of Understanding Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of State. The Assistant Secretary at the Office of Legislative Affairs has transmitted, pursuant to law, a ...
NASA Performance and Accountability Report Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has received an executive branch communication from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Administrator at NASA has transmitted, pursuant to ...
HHS Report on Participation of Farm Workers in Health Programs Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Secretary at HHS has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report relative to ...
Treasury Rule on Weighted Average Interest Rate Update Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Treasury. The Chief of the Publications and Regulations Branch at IRS has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Report on Impact of Change in Medicare Payments for Part B Drugs Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Finance Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. The Chairman has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report entitled ...
FERC Rule on Financial Accounting, Reporting and Records Retention Requirements Sent to Senate
Feb 02, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The General Counsel at FERC has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Financial Accounting, ...