US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, March 26:
Idaho Inventors Develop Substrate Contact Regions Formation Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Michael Nuttall and Garry Anthony Mercaldi, both of Meridian, Idaho, have developed a method for enhancing vertical growth during the selective formation of silicon, and structures formed using same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Vehicle Shock Absorber Fluid Flow Regulation Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Bret M. Norgaard of Poway, Calif., and Douglas J. Cimins of San Diego, have developed an apparatus for fluid flow regulation of a vehicle shock absorber/damper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "shock absorber ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Olefin Polymerization Catalyst Preparation Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Sandor Nagy of Naperville, Ill., has developed an olefin polymerization catalyst and an olefin polymerization processes that use the catalyst. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing an olefin polymerization catalyst is ...
Texas Inventors Develop Energy Storing Starter Assembly
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Robert W. Schriever of Wake Village, Texas, and Dennis E. Roberts of Redwater, Texas, have developed an energy storing starter assembly that comprises a pulley, a hub and a buffering component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
German Inventors Develop Print Image Generating Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Martin Berg and Robert Link, both of Munich, Germany, and Erich Kattner of Neubiberg, Germany, have developed a printing device and a method, in which a humidity promoter is applied prior to the ink-repellent or ink-receptive layer According to the U.S ....
North Carolina Inventors Develop Information Handling System Management Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Brian E. Bigelow of Apex, N.C., Jospeh E. Bolan of Morrissville, N.C., Gregory W. Dake of Durham, N.C., Harold D. Hudson of Pittsboro, N.C., and Edward S. Suffern of Chapel Hill, N.C., have developed an apparatus, a system and a method for the non-disruptive ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ink Jet Head Unit
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Tomoji Suzuki of Nagano, Japan, has developed an ink jet head unit and a printer that incorporating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head chip has a first face formed with nozzle orifices from which ink is ejected, and a ...
German Inventors Develop Drive Motor Pull-Rope Starter Handle
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Christian Vick of Winsen, Germany, and Roland Ladwig of Mechtersen, Germany, have developed a handle for a pull-rope starter of a drive motor, especially of a chain saw. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes at least one ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Software Location-Based Execution Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Clifton Harold Bromley of New Westminster, Canada, and Shafin A. Virji of Vancouver, Canada, have developed a method of location-based execution of software/human machine interface (HMI). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
New York Inventors Develop Surgically Excised Tissue Optically Mapping System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Duncan Harris of Webster, N.Y., and James M. Zavislan of Pittsford, N.Y., have developed a system for optically sectioning and mapping surgically excised tissue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display provides from digital images of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Cartridge
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Junji Shimoda, Akira Tsujimoto, Satoshi Kudo and Toru Suzuki, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Kiyomitsu Kudo of Tokyo, have developed an ink cartridge with an improved joint portion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint member is made ...
French Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Coupling Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Rabah Arhab of St.-Brice-Sous-Foret, France, and Norberto Termenon of Amiens, France, have developed a hydrokinetic coupling apparatus for coupling together a driving shaft and a driven shaft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Transformed Digital Data Reduced-Error Processing Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Joan LaVerne Mitchell of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., and Martin James Bright of Clare College, Great Britain, have developed a method for the reduced-error digital processing of inverse transformed data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
California Inventors Develop Optically Triggered Fire Set/Detonator System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Jay B. Chase of Alameda, Calif., Philip A. Pincosy of Oakland, Calif., Donna M. Chato of Tracy, Calif., Hugh Kirbie of Los Alamos, Calif., and Glen F. James of Livermore, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for simultaneously initiating multiple ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Processing Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Akira Oomori of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an image scanner that scans and stores a document as a color image and a monochrome image when color mode is set. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with specifications of a ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Substituted Phenoxyacetic Acid
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Michael C. Van Zandt of Guilford, Conn., has developed substituted phenoxy acetic acids and pharmaceutical compositions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are substituted phenoxyacetic acids useful in the treatment of chronic ...
German Inventor Develops Web-Fed Press
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Peer Dilling of Friedberg, Germany, has developed an improved web-fed press. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The web-fed press includes a reel carrier and a plurality of printing units arranged one after another for printing a printing ...
New York, Connecticut Inventors Develop Computer System Adaptive Problem Determination Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Rajarshi Das of New Rochelle, N.Y., Jeffrey Owen Kephart of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., Alla Segal of Mount Kisco, N.Y., and Hoi Yeung Chan of Stamford, Conn., have developed a method of adaptive problem determination and recovery in a computer system. According ...
Arizona, Texas, Connecticut Inventors Develop Pigmentation Disorder Treatment Composition
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Mitchell S. Wortzman of Scottsdale, Ariz., Bhiku G. Patel of Chandler, Ariz., Philip J. Gordon of Plano, Texas, and Eugene H. Gans of Westport, Conn., have developed compositions for the treatment of pigmentation disorders and methods for their manufacture. According ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Goal Based Learning System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Mark Stewart Nichols of Downers Grove, Ill., has developed a rule based tutorial system that controls the flow of processing in business simulations of actual environments to teach new skills. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Processing Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Masashi Kanai of Matsumoto, Japan, has developed an image processing apparatus for conducting a desired color correction by using a color correction table. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a color ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Network Devices Value Modulo A Shared Secret Reducing Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Joy Algesheimer and Victor Shoup, both of Zurich, Switzerland, and Jan Camenisch of Rueschlikon, Switzerland, have developed a method for reducing a known value modulo a shared secret value among network devices exchanging messages in a network. According to ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Sequential Lateral Solidification Mask
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Yun-Ho Jung of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a mask and its application in sequential lateral solidification (SLS) crystallization of amorphous silicon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mask includes a light absorptive portion for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Displaying Instrument with Luminous Pointer
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Teruaki Araki of Kariya, Japan, and Ichiro Sugiura of Hekinan, Japan, have developed a displaying instrument and luminous pointer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminous pointer of a displaying instrument has a pointer body with a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Display Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Takeo Shiba of Kodaira, Japan, Mutsuko Hatano of Kokubunji, Japan, Shinya Yamaguchi of Mitaka, Japan, and Seong-kee Park of Higashimurayama, Japan, have developed an image display device which includes a display pixel block and circuit blocks peripheral ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Liquid Ejecting Head
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Isao Tsuruma of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a liquid ejecting head and a process for producing the head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting head of the invention has ink ejected with the electrostatic force, with a ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Software Security Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Duane Allen of Nampa, Idaho, has developed systems and methods for restricting any unauthorized use of software. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for preventing the unauthorized access to data stored on removable ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Full-Adder Post Processor
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- R. Vaughn Langston of Glendale, Ariz., Richard J. Takahashi of Phoenix, and Gregg D. Lahti of Gilbert, Ariz., have developed a full-adder post processor that performs modulo arithmetic. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The full-adder post ...
German Inventor Develops Flat Objects Conveyor Unit
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Berthold Peter Held of Heuchelheim, Germany, has developed a conveyor unit for conveying flat objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, ...
French Inventor Develops Digital Television System Data Encryption Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Michel Maillard of Maintenon, France, has developed a method and an apparatus for encryption of messages between two devices, for example a decoder and a portable security module in a digital television system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New York, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Crosslinked Copolymer Dye-Receiving Layer
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Robert P. Bourdelais of Pittsford, N.Y., Cheryl J. Brickey of Webster, N.Y., Timothy J. Giarrusso of Rochester, N.Y., and Carol Ann McCarthy of North Brookfield, Mass., have developed elements used in thermal dye transfer, and polyester co-polymer dye image-receiving ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Phone Holding Assembly
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Neal W. Luginbill and Yuri Starik, both of Marysville, Ohio, Taro Shimokobe of Dublin, Ohio, and Marek Myszkowski of Mississauga, Canada, have developed a phone holding assembly that adapted to hold a mobile telephone and including an outer member and an inner ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Rotary Actuator Assembly
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Glen A. Morr of Churubusco, Ind., and Larry E. Keeling Jr. of Fort Wayne, Ind., have developed rotary actuators assemblies that translate linear movement into rotational movement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The assembly has a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ultraviolet Sensor
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Kazushi Hayashi, Takeshi Tachibana, Yoshihiro Yokota and Nobuyuki Kawakami, all from Kobe, Japan, have developed an ultraviolet sensor and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultraviolet sensor ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Data Transfer System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Miki Abe, Hiromi Matsuda and Masao Tanaka, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Takafumi Hosoi of Tokyo, have developed a data processing method for transferring and recording content data such as music data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventor Develops Insulin Resistance Treatment Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- John Nestor of Encinitas, Calif., has developed compounds and methods for treating insulin resistance and cardiomyopathy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel compounds, compositions comprising compounds, and methods for methods for ...
Australian Inventors Develop Postholes Dug Cleaning Tool
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Graeme D Maher and Edward A Kelly, both of Queensland, Australia, have developed a tool which can clean postholes dug by an auger. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "tool for cleaning and/or forming holes, the ...
RED CANYON VISITOR CENTER TO OPEN EASTER WEEKEND
Mar 26, 2007 ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Dixie National Forest - issued the following press release: The Red Canyon Visitor Center on the Dixie National Forest's Powell Ranger District will open for the 2007 season on April 6. The visitor center is located ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Linear Actuator
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Toshio Sato of Tsukuba, Japan, and Akira Tadano of Tsuchiura, Japan, have developed a linear actuator which allows a slider to reciprocate in the axial direction of a main cylinder body by introducing a pressure fluid from fluid inlet/outlet ports. According ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Unattended Ground Sensor Assembly
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Jerome C. Kolarczyk of Crystal Lake, Ill., and Joseph J. Wisniewski of Ringwood, Ill., have developed a method of deploying a ground sensor assembly having an antenna from air to a selected ground location. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Solid State Image Sensing Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Masaki Funaki of Ichikawa, Japan, has developed a solid state image sensing device and manufacturing and driving methods thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state image sensing device is composed of a second conductive type ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Electro-Motion Pedal Device Erroneous Operation Prevention Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Kil-Jae Ahn of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, has developed an apparatus for preventing erroneous operation of an electro-motion pedal device in an automobile and methods of use thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
New York Inventors Develop Software Products Job Accounting and Chargeback System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Peter Kassan and Steven Youchnow, both of New York, have developed a method and a system for correlating job accounting information with software license information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A job accounting and chargeback system ...
French Inventors Develop Intelligent Network User Access Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Thierry Boussageon of Fontenay le Fleury, France, Thibaut Feuillet of Caen, France, Jean-Luc Grimault of Mondeville, France, Dominique Kergutuil of Voisins le Bretonneux, France, and Thierry Morel of Tourville sur Odon, France, have developed a user access device to ...
Texas Inventor Develops Down-Hole Drilling System Energy Accelerator
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Robert Clayton of Deer Park, Texas, has developed An apparatus for imparting mechanical vibration on a down-hole drilling system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus for imparting mechanical vibration ...
Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors Discover Peptidomimetics
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Thanos Halazonetis of Phildelphia, and Wolfgang Hartwig of Stanford, Conn., have discovered peptides derived from tumor suppressor proteins and their use in therapy and drug design. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides ...
French Inventor Develops Pack Carrying Handle Making Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Pierre Talou of Cremieu, France, has developed a device for applying a prepared handle to a pack. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for making it possible to apply to a pack, moved along a conveyor, a ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Auxiliary Data Embedding Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Antonius A. C. M. Kalker of Eindhoven, Netherlands, has developed a method and an arrangement for embedding auxiliary data in an information signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for embedding auxiliary data in a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Radiation Detection Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Kazumi Nagano of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a radiation detection device, a method of producing the same, and a radiation image pick-up system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "To eliminate defects ...
German Inventors Develop X-Ray Detector
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Bjo Heismann of Erlangen, Germany, and Thomas von der Haar of Nurnberg, Germany, have developed an x-ray detector that includes a large number of pixels, each of the latter being configured from one or more sub-pixels. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Lawn Mower Control System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Tomoki Fukushima, Hayato Matsuda, Shinichi Katsuragawa and Hiroshi Kobayashi, all from Saitama, Japan, have developed a system for controlling operation of a lawn mower having an internal combustion engine. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S ....
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Loaded Polymer Sheet
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Arthur P. Lagace of Newtonville, Mass., and Ronald E. Blocher of Gettysburg, Pa., have developed a thin, light-weight, flexible sheet product which is useful for the manufacture of radiation attenuation garments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Edge Reinforced Brittle Armor System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Rene' G. Gonzalez of Southfield, Mich., has developed an edge reinforced brittle armor system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge reinforcement for brittle armor plates is described and claimed herein for improving the ballistic ...
Florida Inventors Develop Servo Driven Quilter
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- James Bondanza and James T. Frazer, both of Tamarac, Fla., Terrance L. Myers of Coral Springs, Fla., Roland Bulnes of Margate, Fla., Jeff Kaetterhenry of Davie, Fla., and Glenn E. Leavis of Hollywood, Fla., have developed an apparatus for quilting a multilayered ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lithographic Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Joeri Lof and Henricus Wilhelmus Maria Van Buel, both of Eindhoven, Netherlands, Fransiscus Godefridus Casper Bijnen of Valkenswaard, Netherlands, and Cheng-Qun Gui of Best, Netherlands, have developed an optical element which is placed in the alignment beam during ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lithographic Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Vadim Yevgenyevich Banine, Levinus Pieter Bakker, Aleksey Yurievich Kolesnychenko and Johannes Hubertus Josephina Moors, all from Helmond, Netherlands, and Frank Jeroen Pieter Schuurmans of Valkenswaard, Netherlands, have developed a lithographic apparatus, ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Rate Dependent Change Compensating Circuit Arrangement
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Erkki Sakari Kiuru of Espoo, Finland, has developed a circuit arrangement for compensating for a rate dependent change of a charge-to-voltage conversion factor in a drift-type radiation detector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For ...
Texas Inventors Develop Pipeline Microprocessor Apparatus
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Rodney E. Hooker and Albert J. Loper, both of Austin, Texas, and Daniel W. J. Johnson of Round Rock, Texas, have developed an apparatus and a method for performing a detached load operation in a pipeline microprocessor. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Computer Program Efficient Execution System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Lawrence D. K. B. Dwyer of South San Francisco, Calif., and Michael L. Ziegler of Campbell, Calif., have developed a system and a method for preloading cache memory in response to an occurrence of a context switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Digital Portraits Production Method
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- John Grosso, Johnny Grosso and Garrett Alroy, all from Charlotte, N.C., and John Davis of Matthews, N.C., have developed a system of producing digital portraits and associated methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Loudspeaker Characteristics Accommodation Input Audio Signal
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- David L. Graumann of Portland, Ore., has developed an input audio signal that is a method and an apparatus for adaptively pre-shaping audio signal to accommodate loudspeaker characteristics. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input ...
Japanese Inventor Develops New Key Telephone System
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Norimasa Niiya of Hino, Japan, has developed a new key telephone system, a key telephone, an interface unit, and a transmission scheme determination method for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new key telephone system ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Heteroaromatic Compound
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- George Stuart Cockerill of Maulden, Great Britain, and Karen Elizabeth Lackey of Durham, N.C., have developed series of substituted heteroaromatic compounds, methods for their preparation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heteroaromatic ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Audio Control Device
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Chu-Ting Su and Jul-Cheng Huang, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, Yi-Shu Chang of TaiNan, Taiwan, and Wen-Chi Wang of YunLi Hsien, Taiwan, have developed an Audio Codec which comprises a power selecting circuit an audio compiler circuit and a control amplifier ...
California Inventor Develops Bolt and Nut Engaging Tool
Mar 26, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- Michael F. Wadsley of Covina, Calif., has developed a bolt and nut engaging tool that includes a loop that has an outer surface, an inner surface, a top side and a bottom side. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inner surface has a size ...