US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, March 8:
Idaho Inventors Develop Semiconductor Die Testing Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Chad A. Cobbley of Boise, Idaho, and Timothy L. Jackson of Eagle, Idaho, have developed a method of testing semiconductor die. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present technique relate to forming die stacks ....
Ohio Inventors Develop Biological Agent Identification Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Richard L. Sutherland of Bellbrook, Ohio, Donna M. Brandelik of New Carlisle, Ohio, and Christina K. Shepherd of Beavercreek, Ohio, have developed a device and a method for detection and identification of biological agents. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Color Separation Device
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Kazuhiro Fujita of Tokyo, and Satoshi Yamauchi of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a method of color separation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A color separation device according to the present invention comprises a first color ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Fuel Cell Powered Charging System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Calvin C. Potter and Paul T. Wingett, both of Mesa, Ariz., and Sharon K. Brault of Chandler, Ariz., have developed a charging system for an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that is disposed within a submerged docking station. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Blown Air Absolute Humidity Control Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Kazumitsu Kawahara of Tokyo has developed a method of controlling the absolute humidity of blown air in a roasting-and-drying process and a roasting-and-drying apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method makes humidity control ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Pollutant Molecule Identification Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- See Leang Chin of Sainte-Foy, Canada, has developed a method for remote sensing of pollutant molecules in a transparent medium that uses ultra-short intense lasers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method for ...
New York Inventor Develops Cart charge system
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Darrell L Carter of Cortland, N.Y., has developed a charging mechanism aboard an electrically powered vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging mechanism includes means for generating electrical current and means connected to ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Projection Device Elevator Assembly
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Tony Rogers of Milwaukie, Ore., Greg Sample of Newberg, Ore., and Clark Wilson of Clackamas, Ore., have developed an elevator assembly for use with a projection device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the elevator ...
French Inventors Develop Keratin Fibres Dyeing Composition
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Alain Genet of Aulnay Sous Bois, France, and Ste Sabelle of Paris, have developed a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising a cationic para-phenylenediamine derivative substituted with a diazacyclohexane or diazacycloheptane ring. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Advertisement Distribution System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Masahiro Inoue of Saitama, Japan, and Kazuyoshi Haruhara of Tokyo, have developed a system and an advertisement distribution system which receives advertisement contents from at least one advertisement provider through a communications network. According to ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Electrochemiluminescence Production Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Robert Wilson of Willaston, Great Britain, David Jorge Schiffrin of Hoylake, Great Britain, and Hashem Akhavan-Tafti of Howell, Mich., have developed a method for producing electrochemiluminescence. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Data Processing Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Gopal B. Avinash and Matthew J. Walker, both of New Berlin, Wis., and John M. Sabol of Sussex, Wis., have developed a data processing and a feedback method and a system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is provided for offering ...
French Inventors Develop Human Keratin Materials Dyeing Composition
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Gre Plos of Paris, and Luc Gourlaouen of Asnieres, France, have developed a composition for dyeing human keratin materials, comprising at least one fluorescent dye and at least one compound comprising an acid functional group and processes therefor. According to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Notifying Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Kazunori Horikiri, Hitoshi Abe and Yusuke Kano, all from Ashigarakami-gun, Japan, and Hirotake Kudo of Ebina, Japan, have developed an information notifying method and an apparatus that assures security by notifying a portable telephone terminal of information on the ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Color Machine Vision System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Richard A. Sones of Cleveland has developed color machine vision system for colorimetry. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inspection for use with color machine vision systems is provided in which a device-independent digital ...
California Inventor Develops Secure Network Communications Facilitation Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Edwin H. Wrench Jr. of San Diego has developed a system for facilitating secure network communications that includes a security computer system and corresponding software. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The security system is utilized in ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Electro-Optic Reflective Element Assembly
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Ian A McCabe, Desaraju Varaprasad, Hamid Habibi and Niall R Lynam, all from Holland, Mich., have developed an electro-optic reflective element assembly that includes a pair of substrates and an electro-optic medium sandwiched therebetween. According to the ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Fluid Material Distributing Fountain
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Richard B. Muir and Devan B. Muir, both of San Diego, William F. Polley of Marco Island, Fla., and Wu C. Liang of Taoyuan, Taiwan, have developed a fountain that flows with fluidic material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fountain for ...
California Inventors Develop Composite Film
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Ana R. Londergan of Campbell, Calif., and Thomas E. Seidel of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed methods and procedures for engineering of composite conductive films by atomic layer deposition (ALD). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Distributed Data Processing Network Message Delivery System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Yueh-shian T. Chi of San Jose, Calif., Parris C. M. Hawkins of Pleasanton, Calif., and Charles Q. Huang of Union City, Calif., have developed a message delivery system in a semiconductor assembly facility with a plurality of assembly line devices. According to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Plasma Display Panel
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Kentaro Ueda, Toshiyuki Akiyama and Yasutaka Tsutsui, all from Tokyo, have developed a plasma display panel that is capable of enhancing a discharge efficiency. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A plasma ...
New York Inventors Develop Light Scanning Arrangement
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Frederick F. Wood of Medford, N.Y., and Dmitriy Yavid of Stony Brook, N.Y., have developed a light scanning arrangement includes a frame directly moved by an inertial drive in order to oscillate a scan element supported by a hinge on the frame at high scan rates and ...
Utah Inventors Develop Hydraulic Cartridge, Unitary Frame Connection
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- David R. Hall, Scott Dahlgren, Timothy C.Duke and Joe Fox, all from Provo, Utah, have developed a hydraulic cartridge and unitary frame connection for a high pressure high temperature press apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
BAE Systems/Rockwell-Collins Wins $1.53 Million Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $1.53 million contract to BAE Systems/Rockwell-Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the repair and modification of receiver-transmitters and other replacement parts. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, ...
BAE Systems Wins $81,408 Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded an $81,408 contract to BAE Systems, Austin, Texas, for the repair and modification of data entry keyboards. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more information ...
Moog Aircraft Group Wins $78,000 Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $78,000 contract to Moog Aircraft Group, Salt Lake City, for the repair and modification of butterfly valves. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more ...
Moog Wins $1.95 Million Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $1.95 million contract to Moog Inc., East Aurora, N.Y., for the repair and modification of hydraulic drive units. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more ...
BAE Systems Wins $226,875 Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $226,875 contract to BAE Systems, Lansdale, Pa., for harness assemblies. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more information about US Fed ...
Hamilton Sundstrand Wins $1.9 Million Contract
Mar 08, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, March 8 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $1.9 million contract to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn., for alternating current generators and other replacement parts. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, ...
California Inventor Develops Optical Alignment Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Steve McHugh of Santa Barbara, Calif., has developed an optical alignment method and a system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical feedback technique is utilized for accurately determining the angular orientation of a collimator ...
California Inventor Develops Spatial Filter
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Bo Li of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a spatial filter for sample inspection system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spatial filtering is disclosed that improves the signal to noise ration of a sample inspection system of the type ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Device
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Hideo Kikuchi and Junichi Sasaki, both of Tokyo, have developed an electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a shielding configuration of a chip part, a shielding effect and a cooling effect are sufficiently obtained at the ...
U.S., Chinese Inventors Develop Multifunctional Nutrient Supplement
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Dingzhong Xie, Yong Feng and Hui Zeng, all from Changsha, China, and Ming Xie of Bridge City, Texas, have developed a multifunctional nutrient supplement and a process for creating the supplement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Vanity Sink
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Robert H. Mayer of Deerfield Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a vanity sink, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D537,922 on March 6. The original application was filed on Nov. 3, ...
Maryland, Virginia Inventors Develop Facial Identification Enhancement Apparatus
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Tianlong Chen, Yinong Wei and Yi Rui, all from Gaithersburg, Md., Jonathon Vu and Donald A. Milne, both of Fairfax, Va., and Yingbin Wang of Falls Church, Va., have developed a method and an apparatus for facial identification enhancement. According to the ...
California, Texas Inventors Develop Finite Impulse Response Filter
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Hiroshi Takatori and James Little, both of Sacramento, Calif., and Susumu Hara of Austin, Texas, have developed a finite impulse response filter with an independent coefficient sets for each filter tap. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Neutral Fat Reducing Composition
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Toshiaki Aoyama, Kiyoharu Takamatsu and Yukio Hashimoto, all from Osaka, Japan, Mitsutaka Kohno and Motohiko Hirotsuka, both of Tsukuba-gun, Japan, and Makoto Kito of Kyoto, Japan, have developed a composition for diminishing neutral fat in blood. According to the ...
Iowa Inventor Develops Soybean Cultivar 915034
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- William H. Eby, Panora, Iowa, has developed a novel soybean cultivar, designated 915034. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 915034, to the plants of soybean 915034 and to methods for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Diode Detecting Circuit
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Shinji Saito of Akiruno, Japan, has developed a diode detecting circuit which cancels temperature dependence of a detecting diode so as to obtain highly sensitive detection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The diode detecting circuit has ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Composite Shoulder Prosthesis
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Jean-Maxwell Cyprien and Jean-Claude Bonvin, both of Geneva, Andre Burdet of Corcelles pres Payerne, Switzerland, Jean-Dominique Demottaz of Vessy, Switzerland, and Bernard Neuhaus of Biel, Switzerland, have developed a shoulder prosthesis for upper humeral ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Person Authentication System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Hideaki Watanabe, Yoshihito Ishibashi and Shinako Matsuyama, all from Tokyo, and Ichiro Futamura and Masashi Kon, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a person authentication system that includes a person identification authority. According to the U.S ....
Colorado Inventors Develop Improved Power Plane Decoupling Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Otto Richard Buhler of Boulder, Colo., and Kevin Michael Horn of Brighton, Colo., have developed a system and a method for improved power plane decoupling. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a preferred embodiment, two dielectric layers ...
Texas Inventors Develop Plunger Pump Housing
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- George H. Blume of Austin, Texas, has developed a plunger pump housing and access bore plug. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Suction valve spring retainers mounted using an access bore plug are described for use in plunger pump housings ...
Kentucky Inventors Develop Error Imaging Compensation Optical Apparatus
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Roger Steven Cannon of Nicholasville, Ky., and Wilson Morgan Routt Jr. of Lexington, Ky., have developed an optical system for torsion oscillator laser scanning unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus compensates for ...
German Inventors Develop Hybrid Injection Unit
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Walter Wohlrab of Weissenburg, Germany, Herbert Pickel of Neutraubling, Germany, have developed a injection molding machine with a hybrid injection unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid injection unit for an injection molding ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Plasma Display Panel Driving Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Jeong Pil Choi of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a method of driving a plasma display panel that enables to improve a contrast characteristic of the plasma display panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of driving ...
Florida Inventors Develop Digital Scale
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Anson Wong and Alejandro Herrera, both of Boca Raton, Fla., have developed a digital scale. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital scale includes a display screen and a buttonless top platform. A controller is operatively associated ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Actuator Hydraulic Control Device
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Toshihiko Igashira of Toyokawa, Japan, and Satoshi Hayashi of Kuwana, Japan, have developed a hydraulic control device, a system and a method for controlling actuator device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supplying unit supplies ...
California Inventors Develop Key Caching System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Deepak Prabhakar Dhamdhere, Fiona J. Cain and Andrew M. Davidson, all from San Jose, Calif., Jeffrey Scott Kuskin of Mountain View, Calif., and Tao-Fei Samuel Ng of Fremont, Calif., have developed a key-caching system that retrieves actively used keys from a ...
German Inventors Develop Electronic Component
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Bernd Waidhas of Pettendorf, Germany, Gerald Bock of Regensburg, Germany, and Albert Schott of Hochdorf, Germany, have developed an electronic component that includes a substrate with outer contact areas comprising copper. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Track Luminaire
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- James E. Kuchar and Andrew E. Medeiros, both of Fall River, Mass., and Alejandro Mier-Langner of Providence, R.I., have developed an ornamental design for a track luminaire, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
Oregon, Washington Inventors Develop Image Processing Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Jun Tian and John Stach, both of Tualatin, Ore., and Neil E. Lofgren of White Salmon, Wash., have developed an image processing method that uses reversible watermarking. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ability to remove a watermark ...
Washington, Virginia Inventors Develop Digital Right Management System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Joshua D. Hug of Seattle, and Xiaodong Fu of Herndon, Va., have developed a client device that is equipped with a digital rights management system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment of the present ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Face Verification System
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Seok-cheol Kee of Kyungki-do, South Korea, has developed a method for verifying users and updating database, and a face verification system that uses the same. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "To reduce ...
Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland Inventors Develop Optical Signals Switching Assembly
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Michael L. Smith of Jefferson City, Tenn., John Carberry of Talbott, Tenn., Roy Guynn of Blacksburg, Va., and Vincent J. Tekippe of Millersville, Md., have developed an apparatus for switching optical signals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Entry Port Sealing Member
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Larry R. Cox and Dean C. Krenz, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a sealing member for an entry port. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing member includes an elastomeric interior portion and a rigid exterior portion. At least one ...
Texas Inventors Develop Digital Controlled Oscillator Gain Calibration Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Gennady Feygin, Oren E. Eliezer and Dirk Leipold, all from Plano, Texas, and Robert B. Staszewski of Garland, Texas, have developed a method of gain calibration of a digitally controlled oscillator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Light Emitting Diode Device Fabrication Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Chuong Anh Tran of Orange, Calif., and Trung Tri Doan of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed light emitting diodes (LEDs) with improved light extraction by roughening. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Compressor Mounting Bracket
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Robin G. Skinner of Tecumseh, Mich., has developed a mounting bracket for a compressor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mounting bracket includes a mounting member and an elongate bracing member. The mounting member is secured to the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Plasma Display Panel Driving Method
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Eishi Mizobata of Tokyo has developed a method for driving a plasma display device which is capable of causing writing discharge to normally occur. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sub-field includes an initializing period, a scanning ...
Indian Inventors Develop Multiple Fluorescent Natural Dye Compound
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Usha Goswami and Anutosh Ganguly, both of Goa, India, have developed a multiple fluorescent natural dye compound from a marine organism and a method of use thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a novel ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Floating Housing
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Maximilian A. Biberger of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Michael Lee Manasco of Tempe, Ariz., have developed an ornamental design for floating housing, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D537,913 on March ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Voice Recording, Playback Apparatus
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Chiou-Min Chen of Taipei County, Taiwan, has developed a voice recording and playback apparatus with random and sequential addressing. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Present invention is a voice ...
French Inventors Develop Refractometer
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Guillaume Laffont of Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Pierre Ferdinand of Houilles, France, have developed a refractometer with blazed Bragg gratings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to measure the refractive index of a medium, for ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Sink
Mar 08, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 8 -- Elise A. Sutopo of Sheboygan, Wis., has developed an ornamental design for a sink, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D537,926 on March 6. The patent has been assigned to Kohler Co., Kohler, ...