US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, February 13:
French Inventor Develops Data Processing System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Patrick Gaston Joseph Boeuf of La Gaude, France, has developed a display device with a focus buoy facility. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "data processing system comprising at least a processing unit executing ...
California Inventor Develops Dynamic Chair with Deterministic Motion Path
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- William E. Wegener of Bulevar, Calif., has developed a dynamic chair providing automatic motion in a seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a dynamic chair having a deterministic motion path that allows a ...
German Inventors Develop Machine Tool
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Dietrich Geiger of Grossbottwar, Germany, Wolfgang Horn of Goppingen, Germany, and Gerald Stengele of Ludwigsburg, Germabny, have developed a machine tool for processing work pieces on at least three axes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Oregon, California Inventors Develop Decompressing Relative Address Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Michael J. St. Clair and John Allan Miller, both of Portland, Ore., Bret L.Toll of Tigard, Ore., Hitesh Ahuja of Thousand Oaks, Calif., have developed a method and apparatus for decompressing relative addresses. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Mobile Communication Terminal
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Ki Hyun Chung of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a method for using a memory area of a mobile communication terminal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method is directed toward managing a personal information manager (PIM) in a ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Power Driver with Geared Tool Holder
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Theodore G. Yaksich of Seneca, S.C., William H. Aultman of Pickens, S.C., and Gary L. Young of Six Mile, S.C., have developed a power driver that includes a motor and a spindle with a distal end thereof opposite the motor. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Texas Inventors Develop Vehicle Activity Data Capture System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Frederic M. Newman and Paul Herring, both of Midland, Texas, have developed an activity data capture system for a well service vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to incrementing a well service rig ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Logical Volume Access Control Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Juan A. Coronado, Matthew J. Kalos, Donald M. Nordahl and Richard A. Ripberger, all from Tucson, Ariz., have developed a method to control access to logical volumes disposed in an information storage and retrieval system using parallel access ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Archival Data Storage System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Kai Lia and Howard Lee, both of Princeton, N.J., has developed an archival storage apparatus for use in a hierarchical storage infrastructure having a primary memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "disk-based ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Mini Peripheral Component Interconnect Module
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Chia-Hsien Lee, Chu-Chia Tsai and Kun-Shan Lee, all from Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a mini peripheral component interconnect (PCI) module having an antenna pin set for electrically connecting to an antenna set. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Pipelined Processing Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Lars-Olov Svensson, Pa Westlund and Peter Holm, all from Stockholm, Sweden, Joachim Roos of Nacka, Sweden, Thomas Stromqvist of Solna, Sweden, have developed an apparatus and method for processing pipelined data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Signal Detection Sensor
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Hiroaki Oka of Hirakata, Japan, Nobuhiko Ozaki of Ikoma, Japan, Hirokazu Sugihara of Katano, Japan, and Satoshi Konishi of Otsu, Japan, have developed a signal detecting sensor that is provided with multi-electrode. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Mobile Device Graphical User Interface
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Riku Suomela and Mika Roykkee, both of Tampere, Finland, have developed a graphical user interface for a mobile device and a method for presenting a graphical user interface on a display of a mobile device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Cell Definition Analysis Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Eric Liang of Jungli, Taiwan, and Mu-Jen Huang of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a method for analyzing a cell definition libraries for designing integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a cell ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Range of Motion Exercise Chair
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Fred Carlo of Valdosta, Ga., has developed a seating device that may be used for exercise or therapy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "seating device including a seating unit movably suspended relative to a ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Physical, Chemical Stability Measuring Device
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Beat Federer of Zurich, Switzerland, Markus Roggli of Moriken, Switzerland, and Martin Roth of Basel, Switzerland, have developed a device for measuring the physical and chemical stability of a substance or formulation. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Nucleic Acid Base Sequence Determination Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Makoto Hazama of Hyogo, Japan, has developed a method of determining a base sequence for nucleic acid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Waveform shaping by Fourier transformation is performed on data of N points from the head of detected ...
German Inventor Develops Substrate Connecting Surfaces Contact Bump Construction
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Elke Zakel of Falkensee, Germany, has developed contact bump construction for the production of a connector construction for substrate connecting surfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "contact bump construction ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Drive Apparatus
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Hiroaki Yada and Keitaro Yamashita, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a disk drive apparatus, and a data processing method for use with disk drive apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disk drive apparatus is provided which ...
Illinois, California, Missouri Inventors Develop Bag-In-Box Beverage Container
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Karen M. Chiera of Elmhurst, Ill., Oscar B. Rochefort of Naperville, Ill., R. James Crosland of La Miranda, Calif., and Dan C. Dickerson of Lawson, Mo., have developed bag-in-box style cartons and containers, of the type in which a non-self-supporting plastic bag or ...
Washington Inventors Develop Flash Memory Device Data Management Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jered Donald Aasheim and Yongqi Yang, both of Bellevue, Wash., and John Kalkman of Woodinville, Wash., have developed dynamic data structures for tracking file system free space in a flash memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Database Management System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Matthew A. Huras of Ajax, Canada, Kevin R. Rose of Toronto, and Aamer Sachedina of Newmarket, Canada, have developed a system and a method for assessing the activity level of a database management system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Sling Tightening Mechanism
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Richard Schultz and Peter Schultz, both of Barto, Pa., have developed an interior weld for furniture with a tubular member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The weld has a first tubular member and a second tubular member. The first tubular ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Driving Assist System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Shunsuke Hijikata of Kamakura, Japan, has developed a driving assist system for vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving assist system of the present invention detects a vehicle condition and a traveling environment of a ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Data Storage Control Unit
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Steven R. Lowe and Kevin J. Ash, both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed an increasing through-put of a storage controller by autonomically adjusting host delay. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage control unit is coupled to one ...
French Inventor Develops Retractable Flaps Display Unit
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Dominique Ploix of Paris has developed a display unit with cantilevered fixed shelves and retractable flaps. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An advantageous display unit is provided in which one or more columns support plural shelves, at ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Recording Apparatus
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Chisato Yoshida of Saitama, Japan, and Hiroshi Maeda of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an optical recording apparatus, an optical recording method, and a digital still camera. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital still camera ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Backup Method Selection Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Masashi Nakanishi, Naoki Shimada and Masahiro Yamada, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed a method, an apparatus, and a computer readable medium for managing back-up. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Duplicate data obtained by copying ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Cache Flush System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Sang Ik Jung of Suwon-si, South Korea, and Seok Jin Yoon of Seongnam-si, South Korea, have developed a cache flush system and a method for a cache flush performed in cache memory against at least one corresponding prescribed event in a multi-processor ...
German Inventor Develops Motor Vehicle Steering Booster Process
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Goetz Baumgarten of Karlsfeld, Germany, has developed a steering booster process and a steering booster system in a motor vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering booster process is provided for a motor vehicle with a steering ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Network Transmission Unit
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Yusuke Ishii of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a transmission unit for use in a network where the transmission unit is connected with a peer transmission unit by at least first and second lines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Dental Hygiene Vending Machine
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Judith A. Cumer of Washington, Pa., has developed a dental hygiene vending machine that comprises a housing with multiple dispensing compartments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing coil is rotatably connected to the housing and ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Pallet Rack
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jayce S. Anderson, Gary J. Rosenberg, Steven E. Krueger and William R. Sniff, all from Stevens Point, Wis., have developed a pallet rack with camber beams. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage rack has upright columns supporting ...
Washington Inventors Develop Auxiliary Memory Operations Redirecting Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jeffrey M. J. Noyle of Kirkland, Wash., has developed a system and a method for using virtual memory for redirecting auxiliary memory operations. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using virtual memory for redirecting auxiliary ...
New York Inventor Develops Seat Suspension Assembly
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Eric Bischoff of New York has developed a seat suspension assembly that includes a base including a first pair of spaced legs adapted to be securable to a support structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first pair of legs is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Body End Structure
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Masashi Makita of Fujisawa, Japan, and Chinmoy Pal of Yokosuka, Japan, have developed a vehicle body end structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body end structure has a longitudinal frame member connected to a transverse ...
California Inventors Develop Portable Fluid Dispenser
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Christopher J. Shapanus of Laguna Hills, Calif., Brian A. Babson of Fountain Valley, Calif., and Joiee Lee Puckett Jr. of Long Beach, Calif., have developed a portable fluid dispenser and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some ...
German Inventor Develops Twist Drill
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Ulrich Krenzer of Zirndorf, Germany, has developed a twist drill for drilling, a drill with a cutting insert, and a replaceable cutting insert for a twist drill. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On a drill with a base body and a ...
California Inventor Develops Computer Programs Compilation Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Stephen Clarke of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a method of compiling a computer program from a sequence of computer instructions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the patent describes a "method of compiling a computer program from a ...
French Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Equipment Front Face
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Gerald Andre of Amberieu en Bugey, France, and Hugues Cheron of Meximieux, France, have developed a cross-member at automobile front. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an equipment front face for a motor vehicle, ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Lever Arm with Tactile Contour
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Terrence Joesph Cassaday of Toronto has developed a lever arm with tactile contour. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "control lever having one end adapted for attachment to a resting device for controlling ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Database Management System Direction Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Keriley K. Romanufa of Scarborough, Canada, and Aamer Sachedina of Newmarket, Canada, have developed a system and a method for relocating pages pinned in a buffer pool of a database system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and ...
Washington Inventor Develops Web Page Accessing System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Timothy David Sharpe of Redmond, Wash., has developed a method and a system for accessing web pages in the background. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and system that allows the user to fetch a subsequent ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Redundant Data Storage System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Charles E. Nichols, William A. Hetrick and Donald R. Humlicek, all from Wichita, Kan., have developed a data storage system recovery from disk failure during system off-line condition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Cup Support Element Securing Structure
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Hikonori Okamoto of Tokyo has developed a structure for securing cup support element in automotive seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "structure for securing a cup support element in a seat cushion of ...
New York Inventor Develops Spice Rack Assembly
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Laura Ann Martin of New York has developed a spice container and rack assemblies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spice rack assembly includes a rack and at least one container that is magnetically coupled to the rack. The at least one ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Document Management System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Chi Hung Dang of Tucson, Ariz., has developed a document management system employing multi-zone parsing process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "document management system that converts documents from different ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Computer System Switching Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Shinichi Hashimoto of Tokyo has developed a power saving control method for use on a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "power saving method and device capable of dynamically select an appropriate ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage System Load Dispersing Control Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Yasuo Watanabe of Kawasaki, Japan, Yasutomo Yamamoto of Sagamihara, Japan, Kazuhisa Fujimoto of Kokubunji, Japan, have developed a storage system having a cluster configuration that prevents a load from concentrating on a certain storage node and enhances access ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Storage Medium Storing Audio Data
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jung-kwon Heo and Jung-seuk Kang, both of Seoul, South Korea, Jung-wan Ko of Yongin, South Korea, and Jae-hoon Heo of Suwon, South Korea, have developed a storage medium which stores catalog information and a catalog information recording and/or playback apparatus and ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Virtual Object Manipulation Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Kelly L. Dempski of Evanston, Ill., and Mitu Singh of Glendale Heights, Ill., have developed a method for manipulating a virtual object displayed on a video conference broadcast at a local and a remote location. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
Texas, Oklahoma Inventors Develop Boreholes Stability, Stress Measurement Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Michael J. Economides, Michael Nikolaou and Sathish Sankaran, Houston, Texas, Peter Valko of College Station, Texas, and Wolfgang F. J. Deeg of Duncan, Okhla., have developed a method for the measurement of the stresses and pressure perturbations surrounding a well, ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Liquid Dispenser
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Michael W. Scharf of McHenry, Ill., David V. Bacehowski of Wildwood, Ill., Julian Francis Ralph Swan of London, and Hal C. Danby of Nr. Sudbury, Great Britain, have developed a liquid dispenser that uses a flexible bag with expansible and collapsible ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Rotating Cavity Gas Turbine Engine Air Baffle
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Robert Paul Czachor and Steven Alan Ross, both of Cincinnati, Michael Charles Eckert of West Chester, Ohio, and Richard William Albrecht of Fairfield, Ohio, have developed a gas turbine engine air baffle for a rotating cavity. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Container Closure
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- David J. Jochem of Evansville, Ind., has developed a container closure that includes a sealing liner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid container closure includes a cap and a cap liner located in the interior region of the cap. The ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Asymmetric Memory Interface
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Joo S. Choi of Boise, Idaho, has developed a dual port memory with asymmetric inputs and outputs, a device, a system and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "asymmetric memory interface including an ...
California Inventors Develop Computer System Subset Selecting Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jeffrey Charles at Atherton, Calif., and Robert Yuj Haitani of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a method for selecting a desired subset from a list of names in a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sophisticated ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Food Serving Tray
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Heng-Te Yang of Tainan, Taiwan, has developed a serving tray with function of keeping food fresh. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serving tray with function of keeping food fresh in the present invention includes a rotary tray provided ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Character String Entering Device
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Naomi Iwayama of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a device for entering a character string into a plurality of character string processing devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention presents a device and a method for entering a ...
German Inventors Develop Roller Blind System
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Rainer Grimm and Horst Bohm, both of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Thomas Becher of Rodgau, Germany, and Hubert Bachmann of Dannstadt, Germany, have developed a roller blind system for a motor vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Disc Saw Felling Head
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Benjamin DiSabatino of Brantford, Canada, has developed a disc saw felling head that has a replaceable lower blade housing and an optional replaceable wear liner in the housing, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S ....
California Inventor Develops Bottle Cap
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Rudolph R. Verderber of San Jose, Calif., has developed a bottle cap with a top and a downwardly depending skirt. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Skirt includes an angled upper portion and a generally cylindrical lower portion with an ...
California Inventors Develop Boattail Plate with Non-Rectangular Geometry
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Jason M. Ortega of Pacifica, Calif., and Kambiz Sabari of Livermore, Calif., have developed boattail plates with non-rectangular geometries for reducing aerodynamic base drag of a bluff body in ground effect. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Peripheral Component Interconnect Device
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Bruce Michael Cassidy of Livermore, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for host messaging unit for peripheral component interconnect (PCI) busmaster devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PCI device contains host messaging ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Memory Management Method
Feb 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 13 -- Vivek G. Gupta of Portland, Ore., has developed a method and an apparatus for memory management. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "In some embodiments, an electronic device includes a processor, a physical ...