US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, March 14:
Japanese Inventor Develops T-Nut for Hopper Feeding
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Yutaka Nagayama of Kishiwada, Japan, has developed T-nut for hopper feeding having a projection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to avoid the flange portion of a T-nut of from overlapping the portion between the ...
Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors Develop Wireless Communication Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Charles Binzel of Bristol, Wis., and Marcia Otting of Mundelein, Ill., have developed an apparatus and a method for receiving an emergency call during network access class restrictions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Drink Dispenser Assembly
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Guido Petrus Johannes Van Der Klaauw of Hilversum, Netherlands, Bart Jan Bax of Den Haag, Netherlands, and Marius Corstiaan Van Duuren of Poortugaal, Netherlands, have developed a drink dispenser assembly and container for drink and drink dispensing ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Genichiro Matsuda, Akimitsu Shimamura and Gen Fukatsu, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a semiconductor apparatus capable of satisfying both fault detection with a high fault detection rate and fault detection at an actual operating speed. According to ...
New York Inventors Develop Virtual Display Headset
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- David Vogler and James Gresko, both of Rochester, N.Y., Paul J. Travers of Honeoye Falls, N.Y., Paul J. Churnetski of West Henrietta, N.Y., and Stephen J. Glaser of Pittsford, N.Y., have developed a headset for operably disposing a virtual display and optional ...
REP. GRAVES ANNOUNCES FIRE GRANT FOR HALE
Mar 14, 2007 ... Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo. (6th CD), issued the following press release: Rep. Sam Graves announced that the Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $237,500 grant for the Hale Fire Protection District. The funds will be used to acquire a new vehicle. "This is great news for Hale and ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Golfing Accessory
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jean-Guy Pare of Quebec has developed a golfing accessory for supporting a golf club away from a ground surface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The golf club has a shaft. The accessory includes a substantially elongated body defining a ...
British, German Inventors Develop Container Closure Arrangement
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Bernard Sams and Stephen Sams, both of London, Martin Zethoff of Kelkheim, Germany, Thomas Radtke of Oberursel, Germany, and Kenneth Young of Konigstein, Germany, have developed a closure arrangement for closing and opening in a base component. According to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Information Processing Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Yoji Kawamoto of Tokyo has developed an information processing apparatus adapted to exchange information with another information processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a user gets interested in some music he/she ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Thin Film Transistor Array Panel
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jong-Hwan Cha of Pusan, South Korea, Geun-Ha Jang of Yongin, South Korea, and Dae-Sung Yi of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a thin film transistor array panel for a liquid crystal display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate ...
Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Portable Juvenile Swing Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Chinawut P. Paesang of Cumberland, R.I., and Jeff Pemberton of Plainville, Mass., have developed a swing apparatus that comprises a swing and a support stand to which the swing is coupled for swinging movement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Dynamic Antenna System
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Louis L. Nagy of Warren, Mich., has developed a dynamic antenna system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The antenna system includes at least one antenna element and an adaptable frequency-selective-surface responsive to operating ...
Washington Inventors Develop Region Imaging Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- John R. Lewis and Clarence T. Tegreene, both of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a device for image transmission that includes a first scanner at a first location and a second scanner at a second location, with an optical fiber linking the scanners. According ...
Texas Inventors Develop Mobile Subscriber Messages Bundling Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jheroen P Dorenbosch of Paradise, Texas, and Kevin C Mowry of Irving, Texas, have developed an instant message proxy for circuit switched mobile environment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instant message (IM) proxy according to the ...
California Inventors Develop Information Encoding Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Kelly Brian Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen and Hau Thien Tran, all from Irvine, Calif., have developed a parallel concatenated turbo trellis encoder structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual path turbo trellis coded modulation encoder ...
Tennessee Inventor Develops Tank Monitor Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Kenneth Alan Cupples of Knoxville, Tenn., has developed an integral sealed antenna mount for cellular based monitors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank monitoring apparatus, having an externally protruding antenna, has the ...
British Inventors Develop Data Mirroring System
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Kevin Cordina of Sawbridgeworth, Great Britain, John Courtney of Greenisland, Great Britain, and Mark Carson of Belfast, Great Britain, have developed a remote storage site for a system employing remote data mirroring. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Wireless Telecommunications Network
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Mark Yarkosky of Overland Park, Kan., has developed a method and system for adjusting coverage areas of a wireless telecommunications network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless telecommunications network, multiple mobile stations may ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Mobile Communication Terminal
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Hideyuki Nagasawa, Eriko Oseki, Fukiko Maeda, Tatsuro Oi and Kazuhiro Yamada all from Kanagawa, Japan, Takashi Kondo and Masayuki Tsuda, both of Tokyo, Dai Kamiya of Chiba, Japan, Takefumi Naganuma of Kyoto, Japan, and Nobuyuki Watanabe of Saitama, Japan, have ...
California Inventors Develop Wireless Network Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Allen L. Hollister of Scotts Valley, Calif., and Steve C. Evans of Soquel, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for a wireless network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The network includes a first wireless device and a second ...
Texas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Wall Mountable Controller
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jon Dukerschein and Rashid Skaf, both of Plano, Texas, Jomichael Porter of Addison, Texas, and Ronnie D. Rowe of Garland, Texas, have developed an ornamental design for a wall mountable controller, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Three-Dimensional Flexible Container Support Box
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Sindhu Ramachandran of Wheeling, Ill., Michele M. Ulm of Antioch, Ill., Jesse F. Rodriguez of Arlington Heights, Ill., Sidney T. Smith of Lake Forest, Ill., William S. Hurst of Burlington, Wis., and Pierre Caloz of Geneva, have developed a box for supporting a ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Error Correction Layer Embedding Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Marten Erik Van Dijk of Cambridge, Mass., and Kouhei Yamamoto of Shinagawa-ku, Japan, have developed a method of embedding an additional layer of error correction into an error correcting code, where information is encoded into code words that are arranged in columns ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Golf Club Grip
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Chin-Pai Lin of Pingtung Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a golf club grip. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golf club grip has an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. The inner sleeve has a first end, a second end, an outer wall and an ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Organic Electroluminescence Display Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jae-Bon Koo of Yongin-si, South Korea, and Sang-Il Park of Seoul, South Korea, have developed an organic electroluminescence display device and a method for fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Radio Communication Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Stefan Eriksson and David Bladsjo, both of Stockholm, Sweden, and Arne Berglund of Upplands Vasby, Sweden, have developed a layer one of the radio interface and its interaction with higher layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexibly ...
French Inventor Develops Fluid Dispenser Assembly
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Jean-Paul Lecoutre of Breteuil sur Iton, France, has developed a fluid dispenser assembly with a fluid dispenser and a wrapper at least partly encasing the dispenser. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The wrapper defines at least one ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Error-Correction Coding Method for Digital Visual Interface
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Naoki Ejima, Toshiroh Nishio and Akihisa Kawamura, all from Hirakata, Japan, Hiroshige Okamoto and Tetsuya Hiroe, both of Kanagawa, Japan, Hidekazu Suzuki of Yamatokoriyama, Japan, and Sho Murakoshi of Tokyo, have developed error correction encoding and decoding ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Vacuum-Packed Diaper Vending Machine
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Alan Kay Snell of Idaho Falls, Idaho, has developed an arrangement at a commercial establishment for facilitating the changing of a diaper of a child by a customer of the commercial establishment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Archery Equipment Arrow Nock
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Stephen P. Korsa of Fort Collins, Colo., and Alan S. Korsa of Arvada, Colo., have developed an arrow nock that has a nock body, an actuator and a pair of retaining tabs. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The retaining tabs retain the bowstring in ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Mobile Communication System
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Eun-Young Park of Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, has developed a radio link protocol (RLP) frame receiving method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RLP frame receiving method transmits an RLP frame entirely and quickly in consideration of a ...
Nevada, California Inventors Develop Computer Gaming System
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Michael S. Wiltshire, James J. Lisenbee and Timothy A. Wiltshire, all from Reno, Nev., and Jayant S. Karmarkar of Aptos, Calif., have developed computer-implemented gaming systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer gaming ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Gallium Nitride Based Semiconductor Light Emitting Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Tetsuya Taki of Aichi-ken, Japan, has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) based semiconductor light emitting device and a method of making the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GaN based semiconductor light emitting device has: an ...
California Inventor Develops Check Bit Encoder Circuit
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Robert E. Cypher of Saratoga, Calif., has developed an apparatus that comprises a check bit encoder circuit and a check/correct circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus operates on encoded data blocks, wherein each encoded ...
New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan Inventors Develop Augmented Reality System Accuracy Registration Determination Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Yakup Genc and Nassir Navab, both of Plainsboro, N.J., Mihran Tuceryan of Plainfield, Ind., and Erin McGarrity of East Lansing, Mich., have developed a method for determining registration accuracy of an augmented reality system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Telephone Device Security Alarm Systems
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- George Crisafulli of Hatfield, Pa., has developed a security alarm operation in telephone device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus and technique for providing a monitoring alarm telephone which not ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Transmitter Operating Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Yufei W. Blankenship and T. Keith Blankenship, both of Streamwood, Ill., have developed a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base model matrix is defined for the largest code length ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Integrated Circuit
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Masamichi Fujito of Kodaira, Japan, Yutaka Shinagawa of Iruma, Japan, Kazufumi Suzukawa of Ichikawa, Japan, Ayako Kakuda of Akishima, Japan, Akira Kato of Tachikawa, Japan, Toshihiro Tanaka of Akiruno, Japan, have developed a semiconductor integrated circuit with a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light-Emitting Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo, and Yasuyuki Arai of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a light-emitting device with coating film on portions of substrates and a sealing member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Although an organic resin substrate ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Old Data Modification Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Mark A. Schmisseur of Phoenix has developed a method, a system, and a program for generating parity data when updating old data stored in an array of storage devices in a data organization type which utilizes parity data. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Scan Test Circuit
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Kenichi Natsume of Tokyo has developed a scan test circuit with reset control circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan test circuit includes a scan flip-flop that receives a reset signal, a data signal, a scan data signal, and a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Akira Tsunoda and Jun Koyama, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Shunpei Yamazaki of Tokyo, have developed a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, comprises a ...
Italian Inventors Develop Hydraulic Tensioner
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Bruno Maino of Monza, Italy, Daniele Redaelli of Merate, Italy, and Stefano Banfi of Bussero, Italy, have developed a tensioner equipped with anti-rotation device capable of being disabled. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Charge Storage Memory Cell Programming Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Chao-I Wu of Tainan, Taiwan, has developed a circuit and a method for self-converging programming of a charge storage memory cell, such as nitrided read only memory or floating gate flash. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Electro Luminescence Display Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Woo Chan Kim and Jae Young Yang, both of Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, have developed an electro luminescence display device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro luminescence display device is adapted for preventing the ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Polygonal Fluid Storage Tank
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Paul D. Bennett, Paul J. Silva and Theodore C. Kruysman, all from Eugene, Ore., has developed a polygonal fluid storage tank that comprises a tank frame and a tank liner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tank frame comprises vertical ...
German Inventors Develop Molecular Electronic Arrangement
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Johannes Kretz and Richard Johannes Luyken, both of Munchen, Germany, Wolfgang Rosner of Ottobrunn, Germany, and Jessica Hartwich of Neubiberg, Germany, have developed a molecular electronics arrangement. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Wireless Communication Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Koichi Okita and Ryosuke Kurata, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication network and software upgrading method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station control portion selects one ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Axle Assembly
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Frank C. Weith of Shelby Township, Mich., has developed an axle assembly including a differential gear set having a ring gear. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The axle assembly includes a carrier assembly housing that contains the differential ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Transistor Structure Transparent Channel
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- John F. Wager III and Randy L. Hoffman, both of Corvallis, Ore., have developed a transistor structures with a transparent channel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "enhancement mode, field effect transistors ...
New Hampshire Inventors Develop Meander Line Antenna Coupler
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- John T. Apostolos of Merrimack, N.H., and Patrick D. McKivergan of Londonderry, N.H., have developed a meander line antenna coupler and a shielded meander line. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switched meander line structure is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electrically Operated Vehicle Drive Controller
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Eiji Takasu, Kenji Douzono and Toshio Okoshi, all from Anjo, Japan, have developed an electrically operated vehicle drive controller used with an electrically operated machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an ...
German Inventor Develops Data Alignment Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Rolf Kassa of Braunschweig, Germany, has developed methods of data alignment for telecommunications networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment module receives a sequence of un-aligned data words, finds a frame alignment word, ...
California Inventors Develop Error Detection Circuit
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Subhasish Mitra of Rancho Cordova, Calif., Kee S. Kim of El Dorado Hills, Calif., Tak M. Mak of Union City, Calif., and Prashant M. Goteti of Folsom, Calif., have developed methods of errors detection in electronic devices. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Indian, Malaysian Inventors Develop Frequency Offset Estimation System
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Karthik Muralidhar of Robertsonpet, India, and Ser Wah Oh of Johor, Malaysia, have developed a method for estimating a frequency offset between a receiver and a transmitter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Card Connector
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Hidenori Taguchi of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a card connector with an ejection mechanism that rapidly positions and ejects a card. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card connector comprises a main body having a first card ...
California Inventors Develop Organic Electronic Device Formation Process
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Gang Yu and Shiva Prakash, both of Santa Barbara, Calif., have developed an electronic device that includes a substrate including a pixel driving circuit, a first conductive member, and a second conductive member. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
Utah Inventor Develops Eyeglass Case, Display Apparatus
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Bruce Raile of Park City, Utah has developed methods and apparatuses for an eyeglass case and display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the present invention, an eyeglass case permitting a consumer to view at ...
Austrian Inventor Develops Electronic Circuit Testing Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Erwin Thalmann of Villach, Austria, has developed a circuit configuration for testing a circuit using a test device for providing a test mode, where test procedures are performed sequentially. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The test ...
Texas Inventor Develops Golf Club Head
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- David P. Billings of McKinney, Texas, has developed a golf club head that allows a user to customize the location of the center of gravity. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The golf club head comprises a club head having a hollow cavity ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Card Connector with Anti-Mismating Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Yung-Chang Cheng and Chien-Jen Ting, both of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, have developed a card connector that includes an insulating housing; a number of contacts received in the insulating housing and a shell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Projection Type Display Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Shingo Makimura, Makoto Hashimoto and Kazunori Kataoka, all from Kanagawa, Japan, Yoshiro Okawa of Kagoshima, Japan, and Tomohiro Wada of Kumamoto, Japan, have developed a display device, a method of production of the same, and a projection type display ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Chain Tensioner
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Ken Yamamoto and Eiji Maeno, both of Shizuoka, Japan, have developed a chain tensioner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a chain tensioner that is compact, excellent in operation, easy to maintain and handle and ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Wave Antenna Wireless Communication Device
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- Steven N. Terranova of Cary, N.C., and Ian J. Forster of Essex, Great Britain, have developed a wireless communication device coupled to a wave antenna that provides greater increased durability and impedance matching. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Mobile Vehicle Local Time Providing Method
Mar 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 14 -- William E. Mazzara Jr. of Drayton Plains, Mich., and Timothy D. Lenane of Royal Oak, Mich., have developed a system and a method for providing local time to a mobile vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time information message is ...