US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, March 23:
Belgian Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Connection Regions Contact Resistance Reduction Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Robert Lander, Marcus Johannes Henricus van Dal and Jacob Christopher Hooker, all from Leuven, Belgium, have developed a method for reducing the contact resistance of the connection regions of a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop PRO862 Polypeptide
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Luc Desnoyers, Ellen Filvaroff, Audrey Goddard and Austin Gurney, all from San Francisco, Paul J. Godowski of Hillsborough, Calif., and William I. Wood of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a method of identification and an isolation of novel deoxyribonucleic acid and ...
California Inventors Develop Diffracting Structure Parameter Measurement Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Andrei V. Shchegrov of Campbell, Calif., Anatoly Fabrikant of Fremont, Calif., and Mehrdad Nikoonahad of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a method for measuring one or more parameters of a diffracting structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventors Develop Field Programmable Gate Array
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Man Wang of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Suhail Zain of San Ramon, Calif., have developed a fast processing path using field programmable gate array (FPGA) logic units. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described embodiments relate to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Polyolefin Resin Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Shuji Machida, Yutaka Kobayashi, Hideo Kusuyama and Akira Tanaka, all from Chiba, Japan, have developed a polyolefin-based resin composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The polyolefin-based resin composition (I) of the present ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Curable Fluoropolyether Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Noriyuki Koike, Takashi Matsuda and Yasunori Sakano, all from Gunma-ken, Japan, have developed a curable fluoropolyether composition and rubber article. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "curable fluoropolyether ...
Alabama Inventor Develops Real-Time Imaging Spectropolarimeter
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Robert W. McMillan of Owens Cross Roads, Ala., has developed an imaging spectropolarimeter for measuring the polarization and spectral content and the spatial signature of a target scene. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging ...
French Inventors Develop Open-Loop Electric Current Sensor
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Pierre Cattaneo of Collonges-sous-Saleve, France, and Claude Gudel of Le Pas de l'Echelle, France, have developed an open-loop electric current sensor and a power supply circuit which is provided with such sensors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Peptide Antagonist Utilization Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Alessio Fasano of West Friendship, Md., has developed peptide antagonists of zonulin and methods for use of the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Peptide antagonists of zonulin are disclosed, as well as methods for the use of the ...
Washington Inventors Develop Hematopoietic Cell Proliferation Inhibiting Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Cindy A. Sprecher, James W. West and Richard D. Holly, all from Seattle, Julia E. Novak of Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Andrew J. Nelson of Shoreline, Wash., have developed a method for inhibiting proliferation of hematopoietic cells or hematopoietic cell ...
German Inventors Develop Sick Skin Healing Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Martin Albrecht of Moenchengladbach, Germany, and Miklos Ghyczy of Cologne, Germany, have developed a composition for treatment of skin, hair and nails. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "composition, especially ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Test Apparatus for Device-under-Test
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Nobuei Washizu of Tokyo has developed a test apparatus and a test method for testing a memory-under-test. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "There is provided a test apparatus for testing a ...
HUDDLESTON POND UPDATE WORK PROGRESSING, BUT STATE AND FEDERAL PERMITTING REQUIRED
Mar 23, 2007 ... The city of Peachtree City issued the following press release: The City of Peachtree City's repair of Huddleston Pond is ongoing, but faces a slight delay due to requirements for State and Federal permitting for the work. Problems with the pond began in early 2006 with the loss ...
VETERANS REMEMBER BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: In the spirit of forgiveness and the celebration of an alliance between once bitter enemies, U.S. and Japanese veterans, their families, and political figures gathered on Iwo Jima for a commemoration of the 62nd anniversary ...
Texas Inventor Develops Aluminum Multilayer Metallization Process
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Abhay Ramrao Deshmukh of Arlington, Texas, has developed a method for optimizing a percentage of via fills in a semiconductor wafer during an aluminum multilayer metallization process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Flash Spectroscopy Standoff Chemical Detection System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Richard C. Slater of Waban, Mass., has developed a flash spectroscopy standoff chemical detection system that produces a pump wave and is used to pump a parametric device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The parametric device is ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Active Path Menu Navigation System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Armin E. Moehrle of Chicago has developed a navigation system that is used to navigate a hierarchical menu such as a directory structure or a pull-down menu. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for navigating within a multi-level ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Data Transmitting, Receiving Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Masayuki Mori of Kanagawa, Japan, Keizo Ihara of Saitama, Japan, Nobukazu Sasaki of Yamanashi, Japan, and Teruyoshi Kobayashi of Tokyo, have developed an apparatus that transmits data to and receives data from a memory included in a sensor, which stores calibration ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Programmable Application Specific Integrated Circuit
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- James Garland Grabill and Mark Alan Norden, both of Fort Wayne, Ind., Rodney Louis Wilson of Churubusco, Ind., Thomas Robertson Dickson II of Warren, Ind., and Bruce Edward Reidenbach of Albion, Ind., have developed a programmable application specific integrated ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Takayuki Sawada of Tokyo, and Sunao Tabata of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an image processing apparatus for generating an address based on a difference maximum-minimum (MAX-MIN). An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
German Inventor Develops Superstructure Condition Monitor Device
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Martin Kowalski of Nuremberg, Germany, has developed a device for monitoring the condition of the superstructure especially of fixed railroad tracks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for monitoring the ...
German Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Testing System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Peter Pochmuller of Dresden, Germany, has developed a test system and a test structure for testing an integrated circuit and an integrated circuit with a test structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Akio Kojima, Yasuhiro Kuwahara, Toshiharu Kurosawa and Hirotaka Oku, all from Osaka-fu, Japan, and Tatsumi Watanabe of Kyoto-fu, Japan, have developed an image processing apparatus for converting color image data in control language of an output unit to a color image ...
German Inventors Develop Color Brightness Variations Recognition Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Ralf Ringler of Neuenstein, Germany, and Mario Pawlowski of Munchingen, Germany, have developed a method and an apparatus for recognition of color brightness variations. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case of a method and a ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Recombinant Toxin Fragments
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Keith Alan Foster, John Chaddock, Philip Marks, J. Mark Sutton, Patrick Stancombe and Jonathan Wayne, all from Salisbury, Great Britain, Clifford Charles Shone of Alderbury, Great Britain, and Conrad Padraig Quinn of Lilburn, Ga., have developed a single chain ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Damascene Structures Formation Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Chun-Jen Weng of Tai-Nan, Taiwan, Yu-Shiang Lin of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, and Chih-Yi Cheng of Chang-Hua, Taiwan, have developed a method of forming damascene structures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate including a dielectric ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Packaging Articles Aqueous Dispersion and Coatings
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Grant Schutte, Jeffrey Niederst and Daniel E. Rardon, all from Pittsburgh, Robert M. O'Brien of Monongahela, Pa., John W. Condit of Cranberry Township, Pa., and Dawn S. Herko of Wexford, Pa., have developed novel aqueous dispersions that are suitable for use as ...
French Inventor Develops Residual Monomer Trapping Process
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Thierry Senninger of Hayange, France, has developed a process for trapping residual monomer with an epoxide functional group in a thermoplastic composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for trapping a free ...
German Inventors Develop Non-Pilling Polyester Fiber
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Andreas Maurer of Langenneufnach, Germany, Markus Hohenberger of Augsburg, Germany, and Roland Schreiner of Bobingen, Germany, have developed a process for producing low pill polyester fibers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
California Inventors Develop Circuit Description Processing Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Sushama Ghanekar and Kumar Deepak, both of San Jose, Calif., Wei Lin of Santa Clara, Calif., and Jimmy Zhenming Wang of Saratoga, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for processing a circuit description for logic simulation. According to the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Electrical Scanning Probe Microscope Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Mao-Nan Chang of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has developed an electrical scanning probe microscope (SPM) apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The SPM apparatus is equipped with an atomic force microscope with an infrared laser source, a ...
U.S., PHILIPPINE MEDICAL TEAMS TREAT EVACUEES
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Medical personnel from 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and the USS Comstock worked alongside Filipino medical teams to provide treatment to people in evacuation and transition centers March 13-14. The Americans ...
WING NCOS LEARN LEADERSHIP THROUGH BATTLE SKILLS TRAINING
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: More than 50 Marines and sailors with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing spent a week in the Central Training Area to conduct a Battle Skills Training exercise March 12-16. One of the primary goals of the exercise was to have ...
US, ROK MARINES TEAM UP FOR EXERCISES
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Republic of Korea - Two squads of Marines stack up on both sides of a door. When squad leaders give the command, the Marines will charge into a suspected insurgent hideout and secure the building. "Go! ...
MEB MARINES, SAILORS DEDICATE SCHOOL, DONATE SUPPLIES DURING PHILIPPINE HUMANITARIAN MISSION
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: As Marines and sailors from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade and soldiers from the Armed Forces of the Philippines completed repairs on two buildings at Marcial O. Ranola Memorial School March 17, the Marines dedicated ...
MOBILE TEAM PREPARES MARINES FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIAL EMERGENCIES
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: More than one and a half hours by car from any other American installation, a group of Marines on Camp Fuji recently learned to handle emergency situations involving nuclear, biological and chemical leaks. Three ...
TRAINING CHALLENGES MARINES TO BALANCE MISSION WITH SEARCH FOR IEDS
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: More than 40 Marines with 2nd Platoon, Motor Transportation Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 4 participated in convoy operations training March 15-18 in the Central Training Area. The training focused on teaching ...
PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS RECOGNIZE MARINES
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Three Marines with 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division were among 10 service members awarded certificates of commendation by top officials with the Philippine National Police in Zamboanga City March 5. Staff ...
German Inventors Develop Optical Element Monitor Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Jochen Hutt of Schramberg, Germany, and Rainer Flaig of Eschbronn, Germany, has developed an apparatus for monitoring an optical element of a processing head of a thermal machine tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Load Control Circuit
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Russell Weightman of Abington, Pa., has developed a load control circuit and a method for achieving reduced acoustic noise. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load control circuit having first and second terminals for connection in series ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop polyethylene Terephthalate Reheat Rate Improving Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Donna Rice Quillen and Earl Edmondson Howell Jr., both of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed compositions and a method for improving reheat rate of polyethylene terephthalate using activated carbon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
U.S., British, Italian Inventors Develop Curable Composition Flexible Polymer Element
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Jeffrey Thomas Carter of Middlesbrough, Great Britain, Patrick Terence McGrail of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Great Britain, Carmelo Lo Faro of San Giovanni La Punta, Italy, and Robin Kelvin Maskell of Phoenix, have developed a flexible polymer element as toughening agent ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Polymer Materials with Boehmite Particle
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Hui Tang of Worcester, Mass., Christopher L. Mirley of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Ralph Bauer of Niagara Falls, Canada, have developed boehmite particles and polymer materials incorporating same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modified ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Aqueous Composition with Anionic Organic Polymeric Particles
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Duncan Carr of Neenah, Wis., and Michael Sigman of Appleton, Wis., have developed an aqueous composition comprising anionic organic polymeric particles and colloidal anionic silica-based particles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thermally Conductive Polymer Molded Article
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Naoyuki Shimoyama and Tsukasa Ishigaki, both of Saitama, Japan, Masayuki Tobita of Isesaki, Japan and Toru Kimura of Funabashi, Japan, have developed a thermally conductive polymer molded article and a method for producing the same. According to the U.S ....
Israeli Inventors Develop Peptide-Based Influenza Vaccine
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Ruth Arnon of Rehovot, Israel, Tamar Ben-Yedidia of Mazkeret Batya, Israel, and Raphael Levi of Yahud, Israel, have developed a human synthetic peptide-based influenza vaccine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human synthetic ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Dual-Cure Sealant Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Margarita Acevedo of Minneapolis, and Mai T. Nguyen-Misra of Shoreview, Minn., have developed a dual-cure sealant composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "sealant composition comprising at least one of a ...
Canadian, South Korean Inventors Develop Diabetes Treatment Pharmaceutical Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Dal-Hoon Son of Ontario, Canada, Sung-Soon Son of Seoul, Canada, Kuk-Hyun Shin of Seoul, South Korea, and Sam-Sik Kang of Daejeon, South Korea, have developed a pharmaceutical composition comprising an extract of Elfvingia applanata for the prevention and the ...
Vermont, Connecticut Inventors Develop Wafers Alignment Structure
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Stephen Ellinwood Luce and Edmund Juris Sprogis, both of Underhill, Vt., Jeffrey Peter Gambino of Westford, Vt., Mark David Jaffe of Shelburne, Vt., and Timothy Joseph Dalton of Ridgefield, Conn., have developed structures for aligning wafers and methods for ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Patch Panel System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Frank Velleca and John A. Siemon, both of Woodbury, Conn., have developed a patch panel system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "patch panel system including a patch panel having a first outlet including a first ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Digital Audio Players Remote Controller
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Masatomo Naruki and Takeshi Ikuhara, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a remote controller for digital audio players, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D538,789 on March ...
California Inventor Develops Luminous Flux Spectrum Control Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- David W. Cunningham of Los Angeles has developed a method for controlling the luminous flux spectrum of a lighting fixture. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling a lighting fixture of a kind having ...
California Inventor Develops Immune System Disorders Treatment Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Alain Delcayre of San Jose, Calif., has developed compounds for treatment of infectious and immune system disorders and methods for their use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides polypeptides comprising an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Resist Pattern Thickening Material
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Miwa Kozawa, Koji Nozaki, Takahisa Namiki, Junichi Kon and Ei Yano, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a resist pattern thickening material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resist pattern thickening material has resin, a ...
WING MARINES STAY SHARP WITH AIRCRAFT SIMULATOR TRAINING
Mar 23, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: When flying in an aircraft, the lives of everyone on board rest in the hands of the air crew, and there is little room for mistakes. Emergencies can happen at any time and can involve any component of the aircraft, but ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Combined Tape
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Tadaaki Hamahara and Hideyuki Kimura, both of Yokohama, Japan, and Junichi Ohshima of Zushi, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a combined tape and disk player, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Notebook Computer
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Yue-Hai Zhang of Shenzhen, China, and Chien-Li Tsai of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a notebook computer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D538,800 on March 20. The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Disc Player with Radio Tuner
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Kenji Kimura of Tsuchiura, Japan, Kazufumi Sei of Tokyo, and Hiroshi Yamamoto of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a disc player with radio tuner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent ...
German Inventors Develop Vehicle Battery State Determination Device
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Wunibald Frey of Schwieberdingen, Germany, Helmut Meyer of Gerlingen, Germany, and Marc Knapp of Erdmannhausen, Germany, have developed a method and a device for determining the state of a vehicle battery. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California Inventors Develop Psoriasis Treat Method
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Junming Le of Jackson Heights, N.Y., Jan Vilcek of New York, John Ghrayeb of Thorndale, Pa., David Knight of Berwyn, Pa., Scott Siegel of Westborough, Mass., and Peter Daddona of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed methods of treating psoriasis with anti- tumor ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Vaccine Composition
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Norbert Frydman of Ramat Gan, Israel, and Gilad Gallili of Jerusalem, have developed a vaccine composition and method of using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a stable compacted, compressed or ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Welding Wire Handling System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Dieter Kuper of Grayslake, Ill., has developeda system for handling welding wire and a method of handling welding wire using the system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "coiled supply of welding wire in ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Wireless Network Device
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Shih-Chi Wong and Nai-Yo Chi, both of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a wireless network device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D538,795 on March 20. The patent has ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Optical Modulating Apparatus
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Gyu-Woong Lee of Suwon-si, South Korea, Yun-Je Oh of Yongin-si, South Korea, and Seong-Taek Hwang of Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea, have developed an optical modulating apparatus with a bias controller and bias control method for the same. According to the U.S ....
Oregon Inventors Develop Dual Exposure Source Lithography System
Mar 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Michael J. Berman of West Linn, Ore., and George E. Bailey of Welches, Ore., have developed a dual exposure source lithography system that forms a first and a second portion of a pattern on a wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...