US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, March 13:
Missouri Inventors Develop Hand-Held Cutting Device
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Cean M. Gardner and Mark T. Gardner, both of Carl Junction, Mo., have developed a cutting device that is operable with one hand for cutting a circle or an elliptical shape in a sheet of material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Pyrrolo[3,4-C]Pyrrole Direct Preparation Process
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Vincent Ruffieux of Marly, Switzerland, and Florence Modoux of Basel, Switzerland, have developed a process for the direct preparation of pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrroles (DPPs). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Organic Electroluminescent Display
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Woong-Kyu Min of Seoul, South Korea, Cheol-Woo Park of Suwon, South Korea, and Ho-Yong Jeong of Kyungsangbuk-do, South Korea, have developed an organic electroluminescent (EL) display and a driving method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Lead Wire Attachment Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Shin Suda and Tohru Kurata, both of Tokyo, have developed a copper plate that is mounted on a titanium electrode element by spot welding, and a lead wire is attached to the copper plate by solder, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
Maryland, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Identification Tag Reading System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- John Kvarnstrand and Nicolaas du Toit, both of Columbia, Md., Bing Foo of Rockville, Md., Cornelius du Toit of Ellicott City, Md., and Greg Mendolia of Hollis, N.H., have developed radio frequency identification (RFID) tag systems, methods and readers ....
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Power Circuit Interrupting Apparatus
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Thomas E. Natili of Butler, Pa., and David M. Tallman of Marshall Township, Pa., have developed an apparatus and a method for detecting a gas associated with a glowing contact and interrupting a power circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Oregon, North Carolina Inventors Develop Shielded Zero Insertion Force Socket Fabrication Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Leonard O. Turner of Sherwood, Ore., and Tony Hamilton of Durham, N.C., have developed a shielded socket that includes a conducting plate including a plurality of apertures, and an insulating layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
French Inventors Develop Automated Machine for Setting Bendable Nailing Pins
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Pierre Cassese of Rue de la Mairie, France, Alain Cassese of Allee de la Marniere, France, Jean Cassese of Place du Colombier, France, Philippe Cassese of Les Essarts, France, and Bernard Bucaille of Ferme de la Vallee, France, have developed an automated machine for ...
British Inventors Develop Movable Sample Holder
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Peter John Wells, Duncan Searle and David Roberts McMurtry, all from Gloucestershire, Great Britain, have developed a device allowing axial and rotational movement of a sample holder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for the ...
German Inventor Develops Direct Current Motor Speed Control Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Walter Mayer of Bruhl, Germany, has developed a circuit and a method for the speed control of a direct current (DC) motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a circuit and a method for the speed control of a DC ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Motor Controller Encoder
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- George Ellis of Blacksburg, Va., and Siegfried Held of Donaueschingen, Germany, have developed an encoder in a motor system that measures radial movement and translational movement of a disk with a single integrated sensor disposed on a microprocessor ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Computer System Architecture
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Peter M. Kogge of Granger, Ind., has developed architectures for self-contained, mobile, memory programming. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "computer system comprising: a plurality of memories each containing ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Pin with Voltage Probe Pin-Head
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- David Nelson Kimbley of Colorado Springs, Colo., has developed methods for manufacturing a resistor-pin assembly of a voltage probe. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pin includes a pin-head having a substantially flat surface at one ...
Pennsylvania, California Inventors Develop Dianilino Squarane Compounds Novel Group
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Michael R. Palovich of Lansdale, Pa., Brent McCleland of Green Lane, Pa., Guangping Bi of Audubon, Pa., Katherine L. Widdowson of King of Prussia, Pa., and Michelle Werner of Davis, Calif., have developed a novel group of dianilino squarane compounds, processes for ...
Irish Inventors Develop Coated Work-Piece Thermal Regulation Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Michael Austin and Jan Weber, both of Taum, Ireland, and Luuk Hijlkema of Moycullen, Ireland, have developed an apparatus for configuring an externally coated workpiece. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, the apparatus ...
Florida Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Receiving Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Richard Kirchofer of Cocoa, Fla., and Raymond Nielsen of Orlando, Fla., have developed a interference rejection global positioning system (GPS) antenna system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method ...
German Inventors Develop Heterocyclic Organic Compound Reduction Process
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Hanns Wurziger of Darmstadt, Germany, Guido Pieper of Mannheim, Germany, and Norbert Schwesinger of Ilmenau, Germany, have developed a process for the reduction of aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic organic compounds by means of hydrides and/or derivatives thereof, ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Data Transmitting Circuit
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Nai-Shung Chang of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an operation method of input/output (I/O) pad with monitoring ability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O pad has a data transmitting circuit, a data monitoring control circuit, ...
French Inventors Develop Thiazolo [3,4,5-De] [4,1]Benzothiazepine Type Product Preparation Process
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Stephane Mutti of Le Perreux sur Marne, France, Joel Malpart of Olivet, France, Michel Lavigne of Chilly Mazarin, France, and Michel Cheve of Soisy sur Seine, France, have developed a process for the manufacture of a product of the thiazolo [3,4,5-de] ...
Texas Inventor Develops Processor Registers Accessing Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Charles F. Shelor of Arlington, Texas, has developed an apparatus and a method for accessing registers within a processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus and method are provided for a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Antivirus Network System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Chih-Kun Ho of Taipei, Taiwan, and Chien Ping Lo of Junghe, Taiwan, have developed an antivirus network system and a method having a virtual scanning processor with plug-in functionalities. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preferred ...
California Inventor Develops Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Wei Yuan of San Diego has developed a fractional-N frequency synthesizer with sigma-delta modulator for variable reference frequencies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency synthesizer includes: a phase detector, a loop filter, a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Cyclic Carbamate Ester Production Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Kazuto Ikemoto of Niigata, Japan, has developed a method for producing cyclic carbamate ester. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a cyclic carbamate ester produces the cyclic carbamate ester by reacting an organic compound ...
Florida Inventor Develops Safety Applications Digital Capacitive Sensing Device
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Robert T. Fergusson of Palm Harbor, Fla., has developed a digital capacitive sensing device for security and safety applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive sensing system senses the presence of an object proximate to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Active Type Light Emitting Display Device
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Takayoshi Yoshida of Yonezawa, Japan, have developed an active type light emitting display device in which a large number of pixel structures are arranged. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One pixel is comprised of a controlling thin film ...
British Inventors Develop Cabergoline Preparation
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Alan Greenwood and Mark Philip Gamble, both of Hitchin, Great Britain, Derek McHattie of Stotfold, Great Britain, and Parveen Bhatarah of Craniford, Great Britain, have developed a preparation of cabergoline. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Floating Bridge Amplifier System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Joseph Norman Berry of Lawrenceville, Ga., has developed a high fidelity audio amplifier or preamplifier system incorporating a floating bridge circuit topology. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio amplifier system includes at least ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Reduced State Estimation Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Purusottam Mookerjee of Bridgewater, N.J., and Frank J. Reifler of Cinnaminson, N.J., have developed a reduced state estimation with multisensor fusion and out-of-sequence measurements. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventor Develops Disposable Cutting Head
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Kim Laube of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has developed a disposable cutting head which is basically a four element clip together assembly with a base, lower and upper cutting blades, and spring. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The base ...
Texas Inventor Develops Geographic-Based Communication Service System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Brett B.Stewart of Austin, Texas, has developed a method of providing geographic based promotion services to a computing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Global Positioning System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Chiayee Steve Chang of San Jose, Calif., Lionel Jacques Gerin of Palo Alto, Calif., Ashutosh Pande of Malpitas, Calif., and Ikuo Tsujimoto of Nara, Japan, Junichi Suzuki of Osaka, Japan, have developed a global positioning system (GPS) -based positioning system for ...
California Inventor Develops Airplane Cockpit Display System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Gerald J. Block of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., has developed a display system for airplane cockpit or other vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system for an airplane or other vehicle is disclosed. A rear projection liquid ...
South Carolina, California Inventors Develop Quinazolinones Syntheses
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- George Yiannikouros, Panos Kalaritis and Brandon E. Yonce, all from Florence, S.C., Kurt Alan Welday Jr. of Hartsville, S.C., Gustave Bergnes of Pacifica, Calif., Edward Ha of San Francisco, have developed synthesis of certain quinazolinone ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Water-Absorbent Resin
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Teruyuki Kanto of Himeji, Japan, and Kunihiko Ishizaki of Suita, Japan, have developed a production process for a water-absorbent resin. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to "provide: a process in which a coarse gel ...
U.S., Ukrainian Inventors Develop Isolated Polynucleotide Molecule
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Andrii Y. Voronovsky, Liubov R. Fayura, Barbara V. Kshanovska, Kostiantyn V. Dmytruk, Kateryna A. Sibirna, Andrii A. Sibirny, all from Lviv, Ukraine, and Charles Abbas of Champaign, Ill., have developed transformation systems for flavinogenic yeast. According to the ...
Michigan, California, Indiana Inventors Develop Wide-angle Radar
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Greg J.Sapletal of Plainwell, Mich., Shawn Shi of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Kirk E. McClure of Kokomo, Ind., have developed a horizontally polarized wide-angle radar object detection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar includes ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Web Adjuster Device
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Aaron J. Acton of Whitestown, Ind., and W. Patrick Beck of Indianapolis, have developed a web adjuster for use with a web. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping member and a bearing member are mounted to a web adjuster frame and ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Antenna Apparatus
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Chang-Jung Lee of Taoyuan, Taiwan, has developed an antenna apparatus that comprises a reflector which includes a V-like structure (from the cross-sectional view) with an angle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation unit (antenna) ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Component Manufacturing Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Eiichi Takata of Nagaokakyo, Japan, Yasuji Yamamoto of Shiga-ken, Japan, Genji Inuidani of Kameoka, Japan, and Michio Kadota of Kyoto, Japan, have developed a method for manufacturing an electronic component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Minnesota, California Inventors Develop Context Sensitive Font Generation Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Robert E. Hughes Jr. of Duluth, Minn., Chadwick C. Coffey of Two Harbors, Minn., and Michael J. Flagg of San Diego, have developed programs, methods and an apparatus for context sensitive font generation, especially handwriting fonts. According to the U.S ....
California Inventors Develop Sense Amplifying Magnetic Tunnel Device
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Fredrick A. Perner of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Manish Sharma of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a sense amplifying magnetic tunnel (SAMT) device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SAMT device is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, ...
French, German Inventors Develop Video Images Displaying Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Didier Doyen of Le Bouexiere, France, Jonathan Kervec of Plelan le Grand, France, and Herbert Hoelzemann of Merkelbach, Germany, have developed a method of displaying video images on a plasma display panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Recording Apparatus, Electronic Apparatus
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Masayuki Hongo, Hiroyuki Tamaki and Shinji Takagi, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a recording apparatus and an electronic apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "There is provided a ...
California Inventors Develop Data Communicating Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Arnavkumar M. Pathan of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Lucy Chiu of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method and a system for configuring a peripheral card in a communications environment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...
California Inventors Develop Nucleic Acid, Amino Acid Sequences
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Kenneth W. Wood and Roman Sakowicz, both of Foster City, Calif., Lawrence S. B. Goldstein of San Diego, and Don W.Cleveland of Delmar, Calif., have developed a plus end-directed microtubule motor that is required for chromosome congression. According to the U.S ....
Oregon Inventors Develop Phase Locked Loops Jitter Reduction Apparatus
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Keng L. Wong of Portland, Ore., and Chee How Lim of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a method and an apparatus for jitter reduction in phase locked loops (PLLs). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and ...
New York Inventors Develop Information Handling System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- George E. Corbin and Joseph A. Kardash, both of Hyde Park, N.Y., have developed a method and an apparatus for providing local data persistence for web applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Web page provided to a client ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Protein Inhibitors
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Pavel G. Komarov and Elena A.Komarova, both of Oak Park, Ill., and Andrei V. Gudkov of Glencoe, Ill., have developed a protein (p53) inhibitors and a therapeutic use of the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The therapeutic use of ...
German, Finnish Inventors Develop Liquid State Polymer Monitoring Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Peter Huber of Bad Homburg, Germany, Camie Heffels of Gernsheim, Germany, Marian Mours of Weisenheim am Sand, Germany, Klaus Reindel of Hassloch, Germany, Ju Ettmuller of Hassloch, Germany, Janusz Sadowski of Tampere, Finland, and Jyrki Salminen of Porvoo, Finland, ...
California Inventors Develop Hinge Assembly
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Carlos Duarte of Glendora, Calif., and Fred S. Romero of Covina, Calif., have developed a slide hinge for spa cover. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge assembly for coupling a spa cover to a spa includes a mounting bracket, a slide ...
German Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory Apparatus
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Jean-Marc Dortu of Munchen, Germany, has developed semiconductor memory apparatus and methods of operating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus has at least one first sense amplifier for amplifying a voltage level ...
British Inventors Develop Boot Code Updating Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- James E. King of Wokingham, Great Britain, and Paul J. Garnett of Camberley, Great Britain, have developed a method and an apparatus for updating boot code using a system controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus ...
German Inventors Develop Sealed Shoe Production Process
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Franz Haimerl of D-Iffeldorf, Germany, and Alfons Meindl of D-Kirchanschoering, Germany, have developed footwear comprising a shank and a sole construction having an outsole. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The shank is constructed with ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Domino Output Latch
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- James R. Lundberg and Raymond A. Bertram, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a P-domino latch that includes a domino stage, a write stage, an inverter, a low keeper path, a high keeper path, and an output stage. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Dynamic Damper Manufacturing Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Kazunobu Haneishi and Katsuhide Sasaki, both of Tochigi, Japan, have developed a manufacturing method for dynamic damper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a manufacturing method of a dynamic damper comprising steps ...
British Inventor Develops Hinge Assembly
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Ricky William Barnett of Radlett, Great Britain, has developed a hinge assembly, and an associated method that provide multiple axes of rotation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "hinge assembly, and an ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Particles Detection Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Robert J. Saccomanno of Montville, N.J., has developed an apparatus and a method for detecting particles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow tube is surrounded by eight off-axis ellipsoidal mirrors all having a common first focus ...
California Inventors Develop Register Window Spill Technique
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Chandra Thimmanagari of Fremont, Calif., Sorin Iacobovici of San Jose, Calif., Rabin Sugumar of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Robert Nuckolls of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a method for performing a spill operation for a register window. According to the ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Liquid Crystal Display Monitor
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Ae-Jung Seo and Bong-Hee Kim, both of Seoul, South Korea, have developed an ornamental design for a liquid crystal display monitor having image design displayed thereon, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Stator Core Manufacturing Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Shigenobu Nakamura of Anjo, Japan, has developed a method of manufacturing stator core of vehicle rotary electric machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each tooth of a stator core has circumferential projections at an inner tooth edge ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Plant Stems Bunching Machine
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Michiel Peter Oderwald of Delft, Netherlands, and Andreas Gerardus Vis of Zoetermeer, Netherlands, have developed a machine and a method for bunching plant stems and to a gripper for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible ...
Israeli, Spanish Inventors Develop Processor System
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Guillermo Savransky and Ronny Ronen, both of Haifa, Israel, and Antonio Gonzalez of Barcelona, Spain, have developed a processor system and a method that reduces the number of register value copying made from alias registers to corresponding real (architectural) ...
California Inventors Develop Fluid Ejection Device with Feedback Circuit
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- John Wade of Ramona, Calif., has developed a fluid ejection device with feedback circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid ejection device includes a plurality of fluid ejecting elements, each fluid ejecting element controllable ...
California Inventor Develops Indic Intermediate Code
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Robert M. Harman of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a method of building words with characters that are difficult to find on a keypad. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate code and electronic device therefore uses a method ...
California Inventors Develop Head Gimbal Assembly Manufacturing Method
Mar 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 13 -- Jafar Hadian of Cupertino, Calif., and Jamshid Bozorgi of Fremont, Calif., have developed methods of manufacturing a load beam that include a flexure/slider assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-form of a load beam has a base, ...