US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, February 26:
California Inventor Develops Ischemia Discriminator
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Mark W. Kroll of Simi Valley, Calif., has developed an implantable device that detects and discriminates between ischemia and myocardial infarction. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device includes a plurality of electrodes that ...
German Inventors Develop Defective Functional Unit Identification Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Tord Bjorsne of Dietenhofen, Germany, and Holger Dresel of Altendorf, Germany, have developed a method to assist identification of a defective functional unit in a technical system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method to assist in ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Wireless Telecommunications Network System
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Marianne Picha of Batavia, Ill., and Richard N. Talmadge of Naperville, Ill., have developed a method and a system for implementing hard handover in wireless telecommunications network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes ...
California Inventor Develops Data Backing Up System
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Yoshiki Kano of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a mapping apparatus for backup and restoration of multi-generation recovered snapshots. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Restoration of data is facilitated in the storage system by combining ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Mobile Station Security Functions Performing Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Asko Komsi of Cambridge, Mass., has developed a system and a method for performing security functions of a mobile station adapted to communicate via a communications network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mobile station comprises a ...
Virginia, California Inventors Develop Raw Data Stream Preparation Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Bertelrud Arlid of Hampton, Va., and Franz Russell of Lancaster, Calif., have developed a method of preparing a stream of raw data for transmission in a communication channel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream of raw data is ...
California, Arizona Inventors Develop Frequency Spectrum Conversion Process
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Alan Steven Howarth of La Canada, Calif., and Wesley Howard Bateman of Dolan Springs, Ariz., have developed a process for frequency spectrum conversion to natural harmonic frequencies process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Processing Etching Technique
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Vijayakumar S. RamachandraRao of Hillsboro, Ore., and David H. Gracias of Portland, Ore., have developed etching techniques used in semiconductor processing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing problems associated with porous low ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Brass Wind Musical Instrument Mouthpiece
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- James Kelly of Oakfield, Wis., has developed mouthpieces for brass wind musical instruments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mouthpiece for a brass wind musical instrument is composed solely of a colored polymer material. Its size and ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Rack-Mountable Cable Manager
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Mark E. Canty of Aurora, Ill., Michael J. McGrath of New Lenox, Ill., and Thomas Chung Yin Wong of Chicago, have developed an integrally molded cable manager for routing cables wherein the cable manager is generally enclosable by a cover. According to the U.S ....
German Inventor Develops Clock Synchronization Circuit
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Lorenzo Di Gregorio of Eching, Germany, has developed a clock synchronization circuit for synchronizing two clock signals for data transfer between function blocks in different time domains. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Austrian Inventor Develops Inductive Load Driving Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Heinz Novak of Graz, Austria, has developed a method for driving pulse-width-controlled inductive loads, and a drive circuit for this purpose. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a switch that is in series with the inductive load is ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Foot Apparel Rack Assembly
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Karen Lynn Botner of Dayton, Minn., has developed a rack and tray assembly for supporting foot apparel and collecting and retaining water, snow and debris temporally released therefrom. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rack and tray ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Composite Door Forming Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Gary Fagan of Charlotte, N.C., and Richard H. Kon of Cornelius, N.C., have developed a composite door structure and a method of forming a composite door structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises: mixing together a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Soft-Output Decoding Apparatus
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Toshiyuki Miyauchi of Tokyo, and Kouhei Yamamoto of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a soft-output decoding apparatus and a method, and a decoding apparatus and a method, suitable for repetitive decoding. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
California Inventor Develops Electromechanical Acceleration Sensors
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Robert E. Stewart of Woodland Hills, Calif., has developed coplanar proofmasses that are employable to sense acceleration along three axes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one example comprises a first proofmass ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Template Positioning Tool
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Roger E.Bugh of North Canton, Ohio, has developed a tool for positioning templates with respect to curved rail. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for positioning a plurality of templates with respect to a curved rail includes a ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Microelectronic Structure Forming Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Boyan Boyanov and Hyun-Mog Park both of Portland, Ore., Grant M. Kloster of Lake Oswego, Ore., and Vijay Ramachandrarao of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a method of forming a structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Low-Complexity Spatial Downscaling Video Transcoder
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Chia-Wen Lin and Yuh-Ruey Lee, both of Chiayi, Taiwan, and Yeh-Kai Chou of Changhua Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a low-complexity spatial downscaling video transcoder and method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transcoder ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Gasseous Media Pressure Measurement Gauge
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Ren-Guey Lee of Tucheng, Taiwan, Dong-Lin Chuang of Wuqi Town, Taiwan, and Hsi-Wen Wang of Jhongli, Taiwan, have developed a pressure gauge for measuring pressure in liquid and gasseous media. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California Inventors Develop Multi-Pitch Test Probe Assembly
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- David M. Mahoney of Palo Alto, Calif., and Mohsen Hossein Mardi of Fremont, Calif., have developed a multi-pitch test probe assembly for testing semiconductor dies having contact pads. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Die probing devices ...
Arizona, California Inventors Develop Queue Partitioning Mechanism
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Sarath Kotamreddy of Chandler, Ariz., and Tuong Trieu of Folsom, Calif., have developed a queue partitioning mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment a chipset is disclosed. The chipset includes a graphics ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Decoding Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Toru Yamada of Tokyo has developed an image decoder and image decoding method with a frame mode basis and a field mode basis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoder which applies a decoding process to image data includes a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light Emitting Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo and Satoshi Seo of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a light emitting device and method of manufacturing thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device of forming a film from an organic compound material at low ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Notebook Computer Wireless Communications Turning Structure
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Chuen-Lin Chiang of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a structure for turning on/off wireless communications of notebook computer by latch member. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention ...
Kentucky Inventor Develops Fishing Reel
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Gregory D. Isaacs of Eastern, Ky., has developed a fishing reel comprising an improved bail and/or spool system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example of the fishing reel, an improved bail and spool system may be adapted to ...
New York, Wisconsin Inventors Develop Plastic Bags Forming, Filling and Sealing Machines
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Toby R. Thomas of Victor, N.Y., Alexander R. Provan of Canandaigua, N.Y., Craig E. Cappel of Pittsford, N.Y., Larry E. Benedict of Palmyra, N.Y., and Gerald R. Winiecki of Suring, Wis., have developed a process used for packaging a product in a web of material that ...
U.S., French Inventors Develop Universal Serial Bus Smart Card
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Serge Fruhauf of Saratoga, Calif., Taylor J. Leaming of Austin, Texas, and Alain C. Pomet of Marseille, France, have developed an universal serial bus (USB) smart card having enhanced testing features and a related system, an integrated circuit, and ...
Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors Develop Seeds of Corn Variety I181334
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Peter J. Bradbury of Sycamore, Ill., and Nathaniel Page of Madison, Wis., have developed inbred corn seed and plants of the variety designated I181334, and derivatives and tissue cultures thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According ...
New York Inventors Develop Articles Inducting Apparatus
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Richard T. Evans and Mark Gallagher, both of Endicott, N.Y., Kenneth Gluck of Vestal, N.Y., and Eugene Stradley of Owego, N.Y., have developed a method for using an apparatus to induct articles onto a conveyor comprising at least one conveyor belt. According ...
German Inventors Develop Wafer Lifting Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Rudiger Hunger and Falk Bednara, both of Dersden, Germany, and Steffen Herberg of Kesselsdorf, Germany, have developed a wafer lifting device with a lifting platform arranged under a wafer support member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Error Tracking Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Colin S. Dawson, Glen Hattrup, Howard N. Martin and David M. Morton, all form Tucson, Ariz., have developed a method of storing information concerning the paths of data objects in a computing system to facilitate identifying defective components. According to ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Electric Energy Meter for Electrical Energy Measure
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Fred F. Schleifer of Elk Mound, Wis., has developed methods and an apparatus for supplying power for use in metering electrical energy over a wide range of voltages with a single meter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wide ranging ...
U.S., Russian Inventors Develop Magnetofluidic Accelerometer
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Anton E. Suprun and Yuri I. Romanov, both of Novosibirsk, Russia, and Dmitri Simonenko of Potomac Falls, Va., have developed a sensing element of an accelerometer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "housing for a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Foot Activated Pedal Hinge System
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Akito Takegawa of Chiba, Japan, has developed a hinge assembly for a foot assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pedal hinge system comprises a hinge interconnecting a footboard and a heel plate, wherein the hinge includes a pair ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Micro Electro Mechanical System Structure Driving Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Sang-woo Lee and Jong-pal Kim, both of Seoul, South Korea, and Byeung-leul Lee of Yongin-si, South Korea, have developed an apparatus and a method for driving and detecting a motion of micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) structure using single ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Nanoscale Powders Post-Processing Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Tapesh Yadav and Karl Pfaffenbach, both of Longmont, Colo., have developed methods for preparing high aspect ratio nanomaterials from spherical nanomaterials useful for oxides, nitrides, carbides, borides, metals, alloys, chalcogenides, and other compositions, the ...
North Carolina, Arizona Inventors Discover Protein Kinase Stress-Related Protein
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Oswaldo da Costa e Silva and Ruoying Chen, both of Apex, N.C., Nocha van Thielen of Cary, N.C., Rodrigo Sarria-Millan of Morrisville, N.C., and Hans J. Bohnert of Tucson, Ariz., have discovered protein kinase stress-related proteins and methods of use in ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Drain Water Filter Assembly
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- John C. Votel of Woodbury, Minn., has developed a drain water filter assembly for filtering debris laden liquids. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The filter assembly has an apertured filter holder constructed and arranged to be placed ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Soybean Variety XB36Q06
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Debra Kay Steiger of Wauseon, Ohio, has developed a seed of soybean variety XB36Q06. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB36Q06. This invention thus relates to ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Multi-Layer Vacuum Assembly-Enabled Fundamental Building Material
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Arthur Chu of Richmond Hill, Canada, has developed a fundamental building material to strengthen building structure through a plurality of vacuum layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-layer vacuum assembly-enabled fundamental building ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Takahiro Saito and Kenichi Mori, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an image processing apparatus, image processing system, and an image processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "image processing ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Phase Components Sequence Fast Retrieval Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Chunlin Li of Toronto, and Francis Dawson of Woodbridge, Canada, have developed a method and a system for fast retrieval of the sequence components from phase. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a method and system ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Process Cartridge Plastic Material Recycling Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Noboru Koumura and Nagatoshi Konno, both of Ibaraki, Japan, and Seiichi Kato of Shizuoka, Japan, have developed a method of recycling plastic materials forming a process cartridge. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Deployable Cutting Blade Tool
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- E. Skott Greenhalgh of Wyndmoor, Pa., has developed a tool with deployable cutting blade. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool having a deployable cutting blade for making an undercut in a substrate is disclosed. The tool has a chamber ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Inductive Power Source
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Jeremy Burr and Rajgopal Ramamoorthy, both of Portland, Ore., have developed a system for providing power to a computer peripheral device during the normal operation of the device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base is provided that ...
Texas Inventors Develop Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex System
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Henry Stephen Eilts, Srinath Hosur and David Patrick Magee, all from Plano, Texas, have developed methods for phase estimation and compensation in orthogonal frequency division multiplex systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Texas Inventor Develops Electronic System
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Xiaodong Sun Yang of San Antonio has developed an electronic system for multielectrode sensors and electrochemical devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "basic electronic unit, an integrated electronic system, ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Wireless Network Service Provider
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Wei-Kun Su and Shih-Huang Ou Yang, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed an wireless network service provider such as access point and wireless gateway, and a relating channel-searching method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
California Inventors Develop Motion Controlled Handheld Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- David L. Marvit and Albert H. M. Reinhardt, both of San Francisco, B. Thomas Adler of Menlo Park, Calif., and Bruce A. Wilcox of San Luis Obispo, Calif., have developed a handheld device with preferred motion selection. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
French Inventors Develop Transition Detection, Validation, Memorization Circuit
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Vincent Vallet of Mennecy, France, and Philippe Hauviller of Itteville, France, have developed a transition detection, validation and memorization (TDVM). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TDVM circuit detects the position of a transition ...
California Inventor Develops Capacitor Start-Up Apparatus
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Guy Thrap of Del Mar, Calif., has developed a capacitor start-up apparatus and a method with fail safe short circuit protection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "electronic circuits couple energy storage devices, ...
Washington Inventors Develop Joint Adaptive Optimization Soft Decision Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Wonzoo Chung of Renton, Wash., Thomas J. Endres of Seattle, and Christopher D. Long of Maple Valley, Wash., have developed a adaptive soft decision device for jointly optimizing decision device and decision feedback equalizers operation therewith. According to ...
California Inventors Develop Substrate Handling Robot
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- James A. Cameron of Los Altos, Calif., and Steven G. Reyling of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a substrate handling robot that includes an arm drive mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first arm is connected to the arm ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Distributed Feedback Semiconductor Laser Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Keishi Takaki and Tomofumi Kise and Masaki Funabashi, all from Tokyo, have developed a distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser device with an ununiform arrangement of a diffraction grating. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DFB ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Acoustic Distance Measuring Device
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Steve Carkner, Paul Holden and Jamie Risk, all from Ontario, Canada, have developed an accoustical apparatus and a method for measuring water level in a ground water well with obstructions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
Florida Inventor Develops Network Node Mobility Determination Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Eric D. White of Altamonte Springs, Fla., has developed a system and a method capable of determining the mobility of a node in a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and method for determining the ...
Vermont Inventors Develop Adaptive Integrated Circuit
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- George M. Braceras of Essex Junction, Vt., and Harold Pilo of Underhill, Vt., have developed an adaptive integrated circuit that is based on transistor current measurements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Transmit Amplitude Independent Adaptive Equalizer
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Apu Sivadas, Kenneth Steven Lazaris-Brunner and Rajiv Kumar Shukla, all from Burlington, Canada, Atul Krishna Gupta of Mississauga, Canada, Vasilis Papanikolaou of Toronto, and Bharat Tailor of Cambridge, Canada, have developed a transmit amplitude independent ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Foldable ramp
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Karl Hartmann of Allegan, Mich., and James F. Weiderman, both of Sturgis, Mich., have developed folding ramps for moving items into or out of the bed of a pickup truck or other utility vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California Inventors Develop Tester Interface Module
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Arash Behziz and David Evans, both of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Keith Breinlinger of Pleasanton, Calif., and Frank Parrish of Simi Valley, Calif., have developed a tester interface module for connecting a plurality of signal paths from at least one electronic assembly to ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Downlink Transmitted Power Adjustment Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Xiaohua Chen of Randolph, N.J., Walid E. Nabhane of Mount Laurel, N.J., and Alexandro Salvarani of Edison, N.J., have developed a hybrid method for adjusting downlink transmitted power. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An algorithm ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Nonresonant Knock Sensor
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Harumasa Shibata, Akito Yokoi and Masao Kohashi, all from Tokyo, have developed a nonresonant knock sensor mounted to an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked body constituted by a first insulating sheet, a first ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops General Packet Radio Service Re-Attachment Method
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Mehrzad Asadi of Cary, N.C., has developed a method of automatic general packet radio service (GPRS)/enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE) re-attach. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a method of ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Soybean Variety XB15W06
Feb 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- Martin Arthur Fabrizius and Michael Thomas Roach, both of Redwood Falls, Minn., have developed a soybean variety XB15W06. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated ...