US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, February 22:
DOT Legislation on Federal Railroad Safety Accountability and Improvement Act Sent to Senate
Feb 22, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Transportation. The Secretary at DOT has transmitted a bill ...
Texas Inventors Develop Hydrocarbon Feed Reforming Process
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Xiaobing Feng, Jain-Kai Hung and Gary D. Mohr, all from Houston, and Krishna Kulai Rao of Kingwood, Texas, have developed a process for producing reformate having increased xylenes content and reduced ethylbenzene content. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
German Inventors Develop User Profile Data Management Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Davide Mandato of Fellbach, Germany, and Erno Kovacs of Stuttgart, Germany, have developed a method of management of user profile data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally related to the field of mobile multimedia ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Hydraulic Disc Brake Master Cylinder Lever
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Wayne L Lumpkin of Littleton, Colo., has developed a master cylinder for a bicycle hydraulic disc brake that includes a cylinder wall defining a cylinder interior and a cylinder exterior. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston is ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Adjustable Plunger Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Eric H. Williams of Baltimore has developed an adjustable plunger that includes a detachable plunger portion and a removable candleholder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable plunger apparatus includes a plunger portion ...
Maryland, West Virginia Inventors Develop Vehicle Tire Simulation Hat Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- W. Gregg Sterling of Olney, Md., and W. Jason Rowe of Huntington, W.Va., have developed an amusement hat device configured to visually simulate a vehicle tire and/or wheel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "hat ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Battery Modem
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Sung-Sub Lee of Kyoungki-do, South Korea, and Gab-Ju Jung of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a battery modem that uses a short range wireless technology. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery modem ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Convertible Blanket
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Gerlinde Maria Nattler of Rochester Hills, Mich., has developed a blanket or comforter which is provided with closure members that allow conversion into a robe, a sleeping bag, or other shapes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blanket is ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ladder Platform Holder
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Michael A. Angotti of Palm Beach, Fla., has developed a platform extension and holder for a ladder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "platform extension for securing items to a ladder, said platform extension ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Organic Transistor Forming Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Klaus Dimmler of Colorado Springs, Colo., has developed a method of forming an organic transistor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser ablation method is utilized to define the channel length of an organic transistor. A substrate is ...
Florida Inventor Develops Beverage Container
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- R. Charles Murray of Sarasota, Fla., has developed a beverage container and a method for forming a beverage container with a straw pierceable portion in a wall. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The beverage container has a port formed of a ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Service Directory Framework
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Danny Lo-tien Yeh of Mount Vernon, N.Y., Norman H. Cohen of Suffern, N.Y., Apratim Purakayastha of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Luke Wong of Norwood, N.J., have developed a framework of a service directory that can handle service records changing rapidly by using a ...
Dutch, German Inventors Develop Pure Substance Recovering Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Ray Sircy Ruemekorf of Rosmalen, Netherlands, and Reinhard Uwe Scholz of Kerken, Germany, have developed an apparatus for the purification of a substance from a solution, a suspension or a mixture of liquids by crystallization. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Spanish Inventors Develop Hydrogen Peroxide Solution Obtaining Process
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Pilar De Frutos Escrig, Jose Miguel Campos Martin and Jose Luis Garcia Fierro, all from Madrid, Spain, Encapnacion Cano Serrano of Getafe, Spain, and Gema Blanco Brieva of Alcorcon, Spain, have developed a process to obtain a hydrogen peroxide ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Powder Metal Hydride Hydrogen Generator
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Andreas Schell and Doanh T Tran, both of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Jason W Buelow of Palo Alto, Calif., Rolf Schaller of Stuttgart, Germany, have developed a method of generating hydrogen for use in a fuel cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Optical Switching Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Doron Handelman of Givatayim, Israel, and Uri Mahlab of Or Yehuda, Israel, have developed an optical switching apparatus and methods for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical switching apparatus in an optical communication ...
German Inventors Develop Machine Parts Lubrication Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Michael Weigand of Elfershausen, Germany, has developed a device for supplying lubricant to several lubrication points on machine parts. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for supplying several lubrication ...
California, Nevada Inventors Develop Sterilization System
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Darren T. Paskal of Los Angeles, William P. Conley of Calabasas, Calif., Rodger D. Thomason of Santa Monica, Calif., and Gregory L. Noss of Las Vegas, have developed a sanitizing system for sanitizing items. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Developer Supplying Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Katsuhiro Aoki, Yasuo Miyoshi and Hiromitsu Takagaki, all from Yokohama, Japan, Hiroshi Ikeguchi of Saitama, Japan, and Hajime Oyama of Ichiwaka, Japan, have developed a developer supplying device, a roller, a device, an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Selected Video Segment Playback Speed Changing Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Jianlei James Xie and Mark Alan Schultz, both of Carmel, Ind., and Shu Lin of Indianapolis, have developed a system and a method for changing a playback speed for video presentation recorded in a progressive frame structure format According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Keizo Morita of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a semiconductor memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The semiconductor memory has word lines; normal memory cells each having a storage capacitor; normal bit lines connected to the normal ...
California, Indiana Inventors Discover Function-Added Recombinant Phycobiliproteins
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Alexander N. Glazer of Berkeley, Calif., and Yuping Cai of Indianapolis, have discovered multifunctional recombinant phycobiliprotein-based fluorescent constructs and phycobilisome display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Golf Club Head
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Thomas J. Kennedy III of Wilbraham, Mass., has developed a golf club with stepped grooves. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf club head is characterized by stepped grooves in the striking face thereof. The grooves may have a V-shape ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ferroelectric Memory
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Hiroshi Yoshioka and Toru Takeshima, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a ferroelectric memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "ferroelectric memory including a ferroelectric capacitor to store data; a bit ...
French Inventor Develops Integrated Optics Coupling Element
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Christophe Martinez of Grenoble, France, has developed an integrated optics coupling element that comprises a grating which is created in a cladding and its fabrication method thereto. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Safety Harness Dorsal Pad Assembly
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Scott C. Casebolt of St. Paul Park, Minn., and J. Thomas Wolner of Red Wing, Minn., have developed a dorsal pad assembly for use with a safety harness. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preferred embodiment safety harness includes two ...
California Inventors Develop Luminal, Sphincter Augmentation Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Mark E. Deem of Mountain View, Calif., Hanson S. Gifford III of Woodside, Calif., Bernard Andreas of Redwood City, Calif., Sunmi Chew of San Jose, Calif., Ron French of Santa Clara, Calif., and Doug Sutton of Pacifica, Calif., have developed methods and devices for ...
French, Romanian Inventors Develop Thiophene Derivative Desulfurizing Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Alain Rabion of Pau, France, Francois Fajula of Teyran, France, Jean Rene Bernard of Serezin Du Rhone, France, and Vasile Hulea of Iasi about, Romania, have developed a method for desulfurizing thiophene derivatives contained in fuels. According to the U.S. Patent ...
German Inventor Develops Electronic Component Producing Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Georg Meyer-Berg of Munchen, Germany, has developed a method for producing electronic components. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes at least one semiconductor chip, which has an active chip top side with ...
Missouri Inventors Develop Associative Database Scanning Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Ronald S. Indeck, Ron Kaplan Cytron and Mark Allen Franklin, all from St. Louis, have developed a method of associative database scanning and information retrieval. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Impact Absorbing Member
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Hiroo Inui and Kenji Ishii, both of Nagoya, Japan, Teruo Tamada of Yokohama, Japan, Kiyotaka Urakawa of Katano, Japan, and Tadatoshi Tanji of Fujisawa, Japan, have developed a system for the absorption of an impact, that system comprises a blow molded thermoplastic ...
French Inventors Develop Relational Database Management System Schema Mapping Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Jean-Yves Cras of Paris, Henri Biestro of St. Cloud, France, and Ricardo Polo-Malouvier of Levallois-Perret, France, have developed a method of mapping of an relational database management system (RDBMS) schema onto a multidimensional data model. According to ...
German Inventors Develop Refresh Signal Generating Circuit
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Joachim Schnabel and Andre Schaefer, both of Munich, Germany, have developed a device and a method for outputting a refresh signal for a memory cell of a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Potty Protector Urine Shield
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Donna Fair Conn and William Edward Conn, both of Montgomery Village, Md., have developed a flexible protector urine shield when flat is rectangular-shaped with rounded corners at the top. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle on the ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Ventricular Collapse Detection System
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Gino F Morello of Leonia, N.J., has developed a pump system that includes an implantable pump which includes a motor with a rotor and a stator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stator includes a plurality of stator windings, and a ...
German Inventor Develops Vehicle Occupant Restraining System
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Carl-Ju Schroth of Soest, Germany, has developed a restraint system for restraining a person in a vehicle of transportation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restraint system for restraining a person in a vehicle of transportation, ...
North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Array Processor Very Long Instruction Word Allocation Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Nikos P. Pitsianis and Sanjay Banerjee, both of Durham, N.C., Gerald G. Pechanek of Cary, N.C., and Benjamin Strautin of Cambridge, Mass., have developed methods and an apparatus for indirect very long instruction word (VLIW) memory allocation. According to ...
California Inventor Develops Cascoded Rectifier
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Marco Soldano of El Segundo, Calif., has developed a high voltage rectifier device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "high voltage rectifier device exhibiting low forward resistance and fast switching time formed ...
Texas Inventor Develops Membranes Premature Rupture Treatment Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- David Berry of Austin, Texas, has developed compositions and methods for use in treatment of premature rupture of membranes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The compositions of the invention include a therapeutic amount of an avian thick ...
California, Minnesota Inventors Develop Blood Vessel Punctures Percutaneous Sealing Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Rodney Brenneman of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and Andrew H. Cragg of Edina, Minn., have developed an apparatus and a method for percutaneous sealing of blood vessel punctures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for promoting ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Capacitor Forming Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Hiroko Koike and Mitsutoshi Higashi, both of Nagano, Japan and Takashi Mochizuki of Shiojiri, Japan, have developed a method of formation of a capacitor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of formation of a ...
California Inventor Develops Computer Operating System Development Process
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Kanoj Sarcar of Mountain View, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for detecting an overflow condition in a kernel stack during operating system development. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present ...
Massachusetts, California Inventors Develop Polynucleotide Metabolism Regulator
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Gary Ruvkun of Newton, Mass., and Kaveh Ashrafi of San Francisco, have developed polynucleotide and polypeptide fat metabolism regulators and uses thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, this invention relates to nucleic acid ...
CEI Michigan Wins $1.19 Million Contract
Feb 22, 2007 ... DETROIT, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a $1.19 million contract to CEI Michigan LLC, Howell, Mich., for the maintenance, repair and alteration of real property. The contract was awarded by GSA's Public Buildings Service, Office of Tenant Operations, ...
Boeing Wins $27,780 Contract
Feb 22, 2007 ... HOUSTON, Feb. 22 -- NASA has awarded a $27,780 contract to Boeing Co., Seattle, for engineering document access in support of 747 aircraft. The contract was awarded by NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston. For more information about US ...
Correlated Solutions Wins $448,342 Contract
Feb 22, 2007 ... HAMPTON, Va., Feb. 22 -- NASA has awarded a $448,342 contract to Correlated Solutions Inc., West Columbia, S.C., for the development of a scanning electron microscope based measurement systems with software implementation capable of measuring crack tip strains. The contract was awarded ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Panel Grinding Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Sang-Sun Shin and Jong-Go Lim, both of Kyoungsangbuk-Do, South Korea, have developed a device for grinding liquid crystal display panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for grinding a liquid crystal display panel ...
German Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Seat
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Thomas Foelster of Grafenau, Germany, and Thomas Heckmann of Aidlingen, Germany, have developed a motor vehicle seat with a seat cushion and a backrest that has a fixing bracket for a child's seat placed on the seat cushion. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Chlorine Dioxide Generating Electrolytic Process
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Felice DiMascio of Rocky Hill, Conn., and Mike Hunter of Workingham Berkshire, Great Britain, have developed an electrolytic process for generating chlorine dioxide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous feed stream of an alkali ...
New York Inventors Develop Low Power Modulating Clutch Control System
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Aaron Ronk of Lake George, N.Y., John D. Zalewski of Liverpool, N.Y., and James S. Brissenden of Baldwinsville, N.Y., have developed clutch control systems that are operable to efficiently convert electrical energy to mechanical potential energy for subsequent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electromagnetic Clutch
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Hirokazu Ichinose, Isamu Shirai and Shigeru Ito, all from Isesaki, Japan, have developed an electromagnetic clutch for intermittently transmitting motive power from a driving source to a driven device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Sensitive Immunochromatographic Assay
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Whalley K. Fong of Coquitlam, Canada, has developed a method for quantitatively measuring the amount of an analyte of interest in a fluid sample. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for quantitatively measuring the amount of an analyte of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Component-Mounted Component Manufacturing Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Norihito Tsukahara of Kyoto-fu, Japan, and Daisuke Sakurai of Hyogo-ken, Japan, have developed a method and an apparatus for manufacturing electronic component-mounted component, and electronic component-mounted component. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventor Develops Square Bottomed Plastic Bag Stack
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Frank Su of Cerritos, Calif., has developed a square bottomed plastic bag stack and a method of making the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for manufacturing square bottom plastic bags designed to ...
California Inventor Develops Multi-Path Digital Power Supply Controller
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Anthonius Bakker of Morgan Hill, Calif., has developed a multi-path digital power supply controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-path digital power supply controller includes a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (ADC1) ...
Idaho, New Mexico Inventors Develop Borehole Seismic Waves Detection Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Phillip B. West and Teddy R. Reed, both of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and James R. Fincke of Los Alamos, N.M., have developed methods and an apparatus for detecting seismic waves propagating through a subterranean formation surrounding a borehole. According to the ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Hydrocarbon Well Completion Type Selection Process
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Ronald G. Dusterhoft of Houston, Donald Ritter of Dallas, Daniel Moos of Palo Alto, Calif., Mark David Zoback of Standford, Calif., and Martin Brudy of Nierstein, Germany, have developed a system and a process for optimal selection of hydrocarbon well completion type ...
U.S., Swedish Inventors Develop Burned Lime Feeding Feeding Device
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Lennart Westerberg of Mobile, Ala., George W. Bearry of Natchez, Miss., Don Parker of Lynwood, N.C., and Patrik Lownertz of Karlstad, Sweden, have developed a feeding device and a process and a feeding system which utilize the feeding device. According to the ...
California Inventor Develops Ventilated Protective Garment
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Paul Golde of Tustin, Calif., has developed an aerodynamic ventilated protective garment which may take the form of a jacket or coat. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A ventilated protective garment ...
California Inventor Develops Data Tracing Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Radhika Thekkath of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a system and a method for program counter and data tracing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tracing mechanism of the present invention enables increased visibility into the hardware ...
Louisiana Inventor Develops Shellfish Product Cooking Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Michael J Hulin of Cypremort Point, La. has developed an automated apparatus and a system for cooking, drying and peeling shellfish products. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "fully automated apparatus and system ...
Chinese Inventors Develop High Performance Sense Amplifier
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Wenzhe Luo and Paul Ouyang, both of Shanghai, China, have developed a system and a method for sensing a current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes an operational amplifier including a first input terminal, a second ...
Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors Develop Taxol Detection Immunoassay Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Mahmoud Ahmed ElSohly and Waseem Gul, both of Oxford, Miss., Jodi Blake Courtney of Doylestown, Pa., Dennis Stocker of Yardley, Pa., and Salvatore J. Salamone of Stockton, N.J., have developed an immunoassay method for detecting taxol in a sample. According to ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Herpe Treatment Method
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- Richard A. Rosenbloom of North Wales, Pa., has developed prophylactic and treatment methods for treatment of herpes, as well as methods for reducing or preventing the transmission of herpes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods ...
Wisconsin, Georgia Inventors Develop Refastenable Garments Making Apparatus
Feb 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 22 -- David Albert Maxton of Menasha, Wis., Chris Alan Pettit of Oshkosh, Wis., Steven John Shimon of Sherwood, Wis., and Megan Elizabeth Clemmensen of Roswell, Ga., have developed an apparatus for making prefastened and refastenable garments. According to the U.S ....