US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, February 12:
Swiss Inventors Develop Optical Components Magnetically Positioned Precision Holder
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Heinz Zimmermann of Balgach, Switzerland, Harald Schnitzler of Luechingen, Switzerland, and Klaus-Peter Zimmer of Heerbrugg, Switzerland, have developed a magnetically positioned precision holder for optical components. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
British, French Inventors Develop Memory Access Control Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- David Hennah Mansell of Usk, Great Britain, Michael Robert Nonweiler of Cambridge, Great Britain, and Peter Guy Middleton of Mougins, France, have developed a data processing apparatus and a method for controlling access to a memory in the data processing ...
California, Colorado Inventors Develop Object-Addressed Memory Hierarchy
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Gregory M. Wright of Mountain View, Calif., Mario I. Wolczko of San Carlos, Calif., and Matthew L. Seidl of Longmont, Colo., have developed an object-addressed memory hierarchy that facilitates accessing objects stored outside of main memory. According to the ...
German Inventor Develops Semiconductor Sensor Module
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Michael Kandler of Munchen, Germany, has developed a module made of one or more semiconductor sensors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensor module in a flexible housing with integrated transmission means. A ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Halftone Threshold Matrix
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Danielle Kathryn Dittrich, Joan LaVerne Mitchell and Yue Qiao, all from Longmont, Colo., have developed a halftone method and an apparatus that provides simultaneous, multiple lines per inch screens. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Zoom Lens System
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Akira Sawamoto of Suwa, Japan, has developed a zoom lens system that projects, onto a screen, projection light from an image generating device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zoom lens system that includes lens groups that have ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Mechanical Cam Type Zoom Lens Device
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Masaaki Toguchi of Hakusan-cho, Japan, and Yasuhiro Kondo of Mizuho-ku, Japan, have developed a mechanical cam type zoom lens device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A mechanical cam type zoom lens ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Devices Transferring Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Yu-Cheng Chen, Wen-Tung Wang, Jung-Fang Chang and Ching-Hsuan Tang, all from Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a method for transferring devices by lateral etching of a sacrificial layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electroluminescent Display Device Manufacturing Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 --Mitsuoki Hishida of Gifu, Japan, has developed a electroluminescent display device manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A step of forming graphical symbols in an electroluminescent display device is performed by applying ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Objective Lens
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Fumisada Maeda and Shinichi Nagashima, both of Tokyo, have developed an objective lens, and an optical pickup device that use the objective lens. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An objective lens unit used for an optical pickup device is ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Storage Array Subsystems Improved Volume Migration Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Stanley Krehbiel Jr., William Hetrick, Joseph Moore, William Delaney, Carey Lewis and Scott Hubbard, all from Wichita, Kan., have developed methods and a structure for improved volume migration between storage array subsystems. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Indian Inventors Develop Cinnamate Preparation Process
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Srinivasan Palaniappan and Malladi Sairam, both of Andra Pradesh, India, have developed a process for preparation of cinnamates using polyaniline salts as catalysts. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention more particularly ...
California Inventors Develop Slider-Disk Interface Tester
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Charles Mathew Mate and Robert N. Payne, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed a slider-disk interface tester for measuring the friction force at the interface that uses a 'negative-pitch' slider in contact with a rotating disk. According to the U.S. Patent ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Organic Light Emitting Device Fabrication Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Raymond Kwong of Plainsboro, N.J., and Min-Hao Michael Lu of Lawrenceville, N.J., have developed a method of fabricating an organic light emitting device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first organic layer is deposited over a first ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Strained Silicon Layer Device Formation Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Liang-Gi Yao, Shih-Chang Chen and Mong-Song Liang, all from Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and Kuen-Chyr Lee of Tainan, Taiwan, have developed a method for producing high throughput strained- silicon channel metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor. According to ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Flip-Chip Semiconductor Assemblies In-Line Testing Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Chad A. Cobbley and Tongbi Jiang, both of Boise, Idaho, John Van Nortwick of Kuna, Idaho, and Bret K. Street of Meridian, Idaho, have developed a method for electrically testing a flip-chip semiconductor assembly formed from at least one integrated circuit (IC) die ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Zoom Lens
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Willem Gerard Ophey of Eindhoven, Netherlands, has developed a zoom lens. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a zoom lens comprising, from the object side to the image side, a front lens group and a controllable lens group, the ...
Oregon, Arizona Inventors Develop Lamp Ballast Programmable Waveform
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- James R Cole of Albany, Ore., Peter Guy Howard of Junction City, Ore., and Michael A. Pate of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a programmable waveform ballast that has a power supply and a waveform generator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Texas Inventors Develop Highly Versatile Optical Element Mount
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- John Taboada and John Martin Taboada, both of San Antonio, have developed devices for rapidly mounting and securing optical elements to a moveable fixture. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly versatile optical mount fabricated from a ...
California Inventors Develop Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Seongsin Kim of San Jose, Calif., Wilson H. Widjaja of Cupertin, Calif., and Suning Xie of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed moisture passivated planar index-guided vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Cache Pollution Avoiding Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Sudarshan Kadambi of Hayward, Calif., and Vijay Balakrishnan of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for avoiding cache pollution due to speculative memory load operations in a microprocessor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disc Cartridge with Annular Shaped Mating Projection
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Daiki Kobayashi, Takatsugu Funawatari and Kenji Takahashi, all from Tokyo, have developed a disc cartridge that accommodates an optical disc in a cartridge body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disc cartridge includes a cartridge body ...
New York Inventors Develop Pixel Detectors Production Monitoring Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Aaron Judy Couture of Schenectady, N.Y., Douglas Albagli of Clifton Park, N.Y., and George Edward Possin of Niskayuna, N.Y., have developed a method for monitoring production of pixel detectors and detectors produced thereby. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Log-Structured Write Cache
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Steven Robert Hetzler of Los Altos, Calif., and Daniel Felix Smith of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method and a system for staging write data to improve a storage system's performance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method ...
Connecticut, New York Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cosmetic Applicator
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Daniel Py and Gladys Valencia, both of Stamford, Conn., Stephanie Ferreira of Bridgeport, Conn., and Julian V. Chan of Spring Valley, N.Y., have developed an ornamental design for the cosmetic applicator, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Processing Recording Medium
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Wataru Ito of Kaisei-machi, Japan, have developed a method, a system and a recording medium for image processing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image processing according to a sensation expression can be carried out regardless of ...
California Inventor Develops Data Structures Unification System
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Michal J. Cierniak of San Jose, Calif., has developed a system and a method of unifying data structures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equivalent data structures are combined so that multiple programming languages can recognize the data ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Washing Machine
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Jae Hyun Lee, Zin Woo Park, Jee Su Hong and Young Seok Lee, all from Seoul, South Korea, and Hyung Jun Kim of Kyungg-do, South Korea, have developed an ornamental design for washing machine, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
California Inventors Develop Extraordinary Magnetoresistance Sensor
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Matthew J. Carey, Stefan Maat and Neil Smith, all from San Jose, Calif., and Bruce A. Gurney of San Rafael, Calif., have developed an extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) sensor that uses a ferromagnetic multilayer to provide perpendicular magnetic biasing for the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Microphone Support
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kazuhisa Kondo of Machido, Japan, has developed a microphone support which may adjust an angle or a direction of a microphone mounted on a desk in a conference room. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a ...
New York Inventors Develop Para-Brominated Hydroxyaromatic Compounds Preparation Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Eric James Pressman of East Greenbush, N.Y., Jonathan Lloyd Male of Schoharie, N.Y., Ryan Christopher Mills of Mechanicville, N.Y., and John Yaw Ofori of Niskayuna, N.Y., have developed a method for preparing hydroxyaromatic compounds brominated in the para-position, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Plastic Film
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kenichi Fukuda and Akihiro Matsufuji, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a plastic film and an image display unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "plastic film comprising a transparent plastic substrate, a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Recording and Reproduction Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kazuhito Kurita, Tokio Kanada and Mikinori Matsuda, all fom Kanagawa, Japan, Tadami Nakamura and Ryosuke Anno, both of Saitama, Japan, have developed a recording and/or reproducing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording ...
German Inventors Develop N-Methyldialkylamines Preparation Process
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Peter Lappe and Helmut Springer, both of Dinslaken, Germany, have developed a process for preparing N-methyldialkylamines from secondary dialkylamines and formaldehyde. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Head-Protecting Airbag Device
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Chiharu Totani, Masayasu Okada and Toshinori Tanase, all from Aichi, Japan, have developed a head-protecting airbag device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag of the head-protecting airbag device according to the present invention ...
German Inventors Develop Corynebacterium Glutamicum Strain with Enhanced Ssecretion Activity
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 --Stephan Berens, Jo Kalinowski and Alfred Puhler, all from Bielefeld, Germany, have developed a corynebacterium glutamicum strain with enhanced secretion activity. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a ...
Iowa Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cabinet
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Fred Ritchie and Deonna Fritz, both of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Robert Mehmen of Shell Rock, Iowa, Daniel Jackson of Center Point, Iowa, and Mark Ryan of Waterloo, Iowa, have developed an ornamental design for a cabinet, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kunio Shijo, Kazuhiro Takemoto, Tetsuo Kimoto, Tomoya Yoshida and Kei Yamada, all from Tokyo, have developed an image processing apparatus management method and image processing apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Substance Mass Measurement Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Brian T. Cunningham and John R. Williams, both of Lexington, Mass., have developed an apparatus and a method for measuring the mass of a substance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring the mass of a substance ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Front Converter Lens
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Nobuyuki Miyazawa of Utsunomiya, Japan, has developed a converter lens that includes a front unit and a rear unit disposed on an image side with respect to the front unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The front unit has positive ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Lens Production Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Takahisa Jitsuno and Keiu Tokumura, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed a production method for optical lens and a production method for optical fiber connector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The production method for an optical fiber ...
British Inventors Develop Retroreflective Device
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Vincent Andrei Handerek of Grays, Great Britain, and Leslie Charles Laycock of High Ongar, Great Britain, have developed a retroreflective device that comprises gradient index lenses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop D-Panthenyl Triacetate Making Process
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Jon Kirk Smith of Marion, Mass., Zongzheng Liu of Fall River, Mass., Murugappa Vedachalam of Raynham, Mass., and David Compton of Waquoit, Mass., have developed a process of making D-panthenyl triacetate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Piezoelectric Structure
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Richard Topliss, Gareth McKevitt and Anthony Hooley, all from Cambridge, Great Britain, David Livingstone and Mark Richard Shepherd, both of Hertfordshire, Great Britain, and Andrew Matheson of Belmont, Mass., have developed construction of benders that are a single, ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Vehicles Stabilizer Pad
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Andry Lagsdin of Hanover, Mass., has developed a stabilizer pad for vehicles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "stabilizer pad apparatus including a metal frame for attachment to a stabilizer arm and a resilient ...
California Inventors Develop Inter-Integrated Circuit Port
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Thane M. Larson and Kirk Bresniker, both of Roseville, Calif., have developed an inter integrated circuit bus router for preventing communication to an unauthorized port. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Exposure Light Reflection Element
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Minoru Sugawara of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a reflection element of exposure light and a production method therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "reflector for extreme ultraviolet light, its manufacture ...
German Inventor Develops Gas Bearing for Rapidly Rotating Shaft
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Gerhard Wanger of Arberg, Germany, has developed a gas bearing for a rapidly rotating shaft, comprising an adjusting device for eccentrically adjusting a gas bearing and a method for operating a gas bearing of this type. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
German Inventors Develop 4-Aminomethyl-1-Aryl-Cyclohexylamine Compound
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Bernd Sundermann and Claudia Hinze, both of Aachen, Germany, and Hans Schick of Berlin, have developed 4-aminomethyl-1-aryl-cyclohexylamine compounds. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns ...
Maryland, Oregon Inventors Develop Immortalized, Malignant, Human, Adult Prostate Epithelial Cell Lines
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Suzanne L. Topalian of Brookeville, Md., W. Marston Linehan of Rockville, Md., Cathy D. Vocke of Germantown, Md., and Robert K. Bright of Portland, Ore., have developed an immortal human prostate epithelial cell lines and clones and their applications in the research ...
Texas Inventors Develop Electronic Humidity Chamber
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Patrick M. Laswell of Spring, Texas, and Kent E. Newsham of The Woodlands, Texas, have developed an electronic humidity chamber for vapor desorption to determine high capillary pressures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Signals Mediating Sending, Receiving Interface Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Tsutomu Hoshino, Hiroshi Sugita, Kenichi Sonobe, Hirota Takahashi, Kazuya Edogawa and Tomokazu Kaneko, all from Iwatsuki, Japan, have developed an interface apparatus for mediating sending and receiving signals between devices connected by a signal ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Cable Hanger
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kevin Goodwin of Frankfort, Ill., and Albert R. Cox of Orland Park, Ill., have developed a cable hanger for securing multiple cables to support structures that includes antenna towers and poles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cable ...
California Inventor Develops Clustered Server Facility Creation Process
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Troy Charles Whitlow of Roseville, Calif., has developed a facility creation process for clustered servers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a facility in a clustered server configuration, includes: creating a facility ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop High Efficiency Wavelength Converter
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Shang-Yi Wu of Jhongli, Taiwan, Vivien Tsai of Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Ming-Hsien Chou of Holmdel, N.J., have developed a method for forming an optical waveguide with a symmetric refractive index profile within a ferroelectric crystal. According to the U.S ....
California Inventors Develop Polypeptide Designated CVSP14
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Edwin L. Madison and Jiunn-Chern Yeh, both of San Diego, have developed a prognostic, diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the proteases and domains thereof and the encoding nucleic acid molecules. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Reading Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Masahiro Shirai and Masashi Shimamura, both of Saitama, Japan, have developed an image reading apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "image reading apparatus which enables the area occupied by the apparatus ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Printing System
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Koji Somei of Fukuoka, Japan, has developed a printer system and printing data notification method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A portable terminal comprises: a printing end acquisition unit for ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Electrophoretic Medium
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Richard M. Webber of Brookline, Mass., has developed an electrophoretic medium and a display with improved image stability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophoretic medium comprises a plurality of particles suspended in a ...
RAMADI'S NEW MAYOR TAKES LEAD ON CITY'S RECONSTRUCTION
Feb 12, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The city of Ramadi has long needed strong leadership to make bigger steps in its reconstruction, and that leadership arrived recently in the form of a new mayor. Latif Obaid Ayadah was appointed as Mayor of Ramadi ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Information Processing Apparatus
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Junichi Miyata of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an information processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user sets a desired print function for a printer having a print function. In accordance with the set print function, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Golf Club Head
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Hiroshi Kawami of Kobe, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a head for golf club, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D536,402 on Feb. 6. The patent has been assigned to SRI Sports Ltd., ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Pharmaceutical Product Controlled Dissolution Method
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Saeed A. Qureshi of Nepean, Canada, has developed a method and an apparatus for reproducible dissolution testing of pharmaceutical products. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for reproducible dissolution of a pharmaceutical ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Large-Scale Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Process Projection Aligner
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Kazuya Kamon of Tokyo has developed a projection aligner for use in a large-scale integrated circuit manufacturing process. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A projection aligner of the present invention, ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Laundry Storage Device
Feb 12, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- Seth E. Bixby of Stevensville, Mich., and Raymond L. Yao of St. Joseph, Mich., have developed an ornamental design for a laundry storage device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D536,198 on Feb ....