US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, April 5:
STREET TO CLOSE FOR MAJOR CITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Apr 05, 2007 ... The city of Greenville issued the following press release: Crews are visualizing the finish line now for the McBee Station Project. Contractors are optimistic it will be completed by the end of this summer. A huge component of the project is utility installations, street scaping, ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Light Modulator Device
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Kenneth J. Faase, Arthur R. Piehl and Michael G. Monroe, all from Corvallis, Ore., Eric L Nikkel and James R. Przybyla, both of Philomath, Ore., have developed a light modulator device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light modulator ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Photoresist Edge Bead Removal Measurement
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Patrick Simpkins of Edina, Minn., has developed a photoresist edge bead removal measurement that includes determining an edge of a wafer about a circumference of the wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location of a wafer notch on ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Data Streams Correlation Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Davis Pan and James M. Rehg, both of Arlington, Mass., have developed a method and a system for correlating data streams. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Events in a first data stream are correlated with events in a second data stream ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Radial Type Light-Guiding Plate
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Heng Huang Kuo of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a radial type light-guiding plate that comprises a light source, a light-guiding plate and a reflective component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The top face of the light-guiding plate is ...
California Inventor Develops Light Modulation Element Buffer
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Dale W. Schroeder of Scotts Valley, Calif., has developed buffers for light modulation elements in spatial light modulators. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit element that can be used, for example, in a spatial light modulator to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Three-Dimensional Image Capturing Device
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Shuzo Seo of Tokyo has developed a three-dimensional image-capturing device that detects the three-dimensional shape of a measurement subject by means of a time-of-flight measurement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional ...
California Inventor Develops Raster Image Object Selection Quick Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Ste Cote of Lac Beauport, Calif., has developed a quick method of selecting an object in a raster image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quick method of selecting an object in a raster image, comprises the steps of: selecting a seed region in a ...
Hawaii Inventors Develop Network Communication System
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Gabriel K. Wong and Po S. Tsui, both of Honolulu, have developed a network communication system for communication between network nodes that includes individual nodes and a central control station node. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Display Driving Apparatus
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Nobuhisa Sakaguchi of Tenri, Japan, has developed a display driving apparatus for driving a liquid crystal panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standard voltage generating circuit generates standard voltages as many as the number of ...
California Inventor Develops Position Information Writing System
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Richard M. Ehrlich of Saratoga, Calif., has developed systems using extended servo patterns with multi-pass servowriting and self-servowriting. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amount of position error written into a servo burst ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Telecommunication Systems Cost Control Management Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Matti Halkosaari and Janne Roslof, both of Turku, Finland, have developed a method of cost control management in telecommunication systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost control method for a mobile terminal using a mobile ...
California Inventor Develops Commercial Breaks Detection Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Michael L. Harville of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a method for detecting one or more commercial breaks in a set of audiovisual content spanning a duration of time. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: ...
Machining Technologies Wins $10 Million Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., April 5 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $10 million contract to Machining Technologies Inc., Hebron, Md., for guns through 30mm. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more information about US ...
German Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Testing Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Reiner Diewald of Heilbronn, Germany, has developed a method and an apparatus for testing integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing integrated circuits comprises: generation of a change in an input signal ...
California Inventor Develops Portable Telephone Handset Sound Baffle
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- V. Frank Asaro of San Diego has developed a sound baffle for a portable telephone handset. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound baffle attached to a telephone handset comprises a pair of telescopically connected members shaped and ...
British Inventor Develops Data Processing Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Mathew David Ryan of Bracknell, Great Britain, has developed a method of processing data in a processing apparatus that is to perform eye tracking across a sequence of images of a moving head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Telephone Set Personal Digital Assistant Cradle
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Robert Charles Templin, Toby John Kemp, John Mahan and Anders Fahrendorff, all from Ottawa, have developed a telephone set that includes a cradle for receiving a selected electronic device, such as a personal digital assistant. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Magnetic Ink Encoding Pen
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- David H. Koizumi of Portland, Ore., has developed a magnetic ink encoding pen for information signal that is stored in magnetic ink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In another embodiment, a magnetic ink encoding stylus includes a magnetic ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Channels Band Digitization Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- J. William Whikehart of Novi, Mich., and Yao H. Kuo of West Bloomfield, Mich., have developed a system and a method for digitizing a complete band of radio frequency (RF) channels to allow simultaneous processing of more than one channel. According to the U.S ....
Alabama, New York Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Transmission System
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- James P. Burke Jr. of Huntsville, Ala., and Dirk Mueller of Painted Post, N.Y., have developed a dispersion compensated optical fiber transmission system and a module including micro-structured optical fiber. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Italian Inventors Develop Telecommunication Cable
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Luca Castellani of Corsico, Italy, Giovanni Brandi of Milan, Italy, and Massimiliano Pavan of Verdello, Italy, have developed a telecommunication cable with a tubular element, in particular a buffer tube housing at least one transmission element. According to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Wireless User Terminal Connecting Service
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Fumitake Muratsu of Tokyo has developed a service of connecting a wireless user terminal to a service vendor on the Internet by using a wireless local area network (LAN). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network service connecting system ...
Texas Inventors Develop Lithium Ion Battery Power Duration Extending Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Claude Leonard Benckenstein Jr. of Sugar Land, Texas, and David Allen White of Houston, have developed a method for extending power duration for individual lithium ion cells or groups of individual lithium ion cells connected in series, or connected in parallel and ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Servo Writing Apparatus
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Stephen J. Rothermel of Roseville, Minn., and Richard E. Jewett of Minneapolis, have developed a write head alignment for full amplitude time-based servo. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a servo writing ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Hollow Core Photonic Band Gap Infrared Fibers
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Fred Kung and Brian Cole, both of Alexandria, Jasbinder Sanghera of Ashburn, Va., Ishwar Aggarwal of Fairfax Station, Va., Leslie B. Shaw of Woodbridge, Va., and Pablo C. Pureza of Burke, Va., have developed a hollow core photonic band gap chalcogenide optical glass ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Switch Array
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Tomohiko Kanie, Makoto Katayama and Masayuki Nishimura, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed an optical switch that has a planar waveguide in which an optical path is formed. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trench is formed in the ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Guitar Pick Holder
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- John Jeffrey Oskorep of Chicago has developed a guitar pick holder made of a flexible synthetic layer of material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one illustrative example disclosed, a guitar pick holder is made of a thin, flat, and ...
California Inventor Develops Servo Writer Repeatable Timing Error Correction System
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Lawrence M. Bryant of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a repeatable timing error (RTE) correction system for use in a servo writer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A servo writing system for writing servo sectors onto a disk includes a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electric Power Generating System
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Mitsunori Yanagi of Anjo, Japan, has developed an electric power generating system for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power generating system for a vehicle includes a generator having a field coil, a voltage ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Paper Manufacturing Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Kent Bo Eriksson of Husum, Sweden, and Oskar Nordin of Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, have developed a method for manufacturing paper with a constant filler content. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of controlling ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Light Modulation Element
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Po-Hung Yao of Luzhu Shiang, Taiwan, I-Kai Pan of Kaohshiung, Taiwan, Heng-Chun Huang of Miaoli, Taiwan, Yu-Nan Pao of Zhubei, Taiwan, and Yi-Ting Sun of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a light modulation element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors Develop Evanescent Coupling Region Formation Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Prakash Gothoskar and Margaret Ghiron, both of Allentown, Pa., Robert Keith Montgomery of Easton, Pa., Vipulkumar Kantilal Patel of Monmouth Junction, N.J., have developed a tapered structure for providing coupling between external optical device and planar optical ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Scanning Apparatus
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Yukihiro Takeuchi of Nishikamo-gun, Japan, and Nobuaki Kawahara of Nisshin, Japan, and Takahiko Yoshida of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a scanning apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning apparatus includes a mirror coupled ...
Texas, North Carolina Inventors Develop Alternating Current-Direct Current Adapter Interface
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Susan Montgomery Schneider and Michael Edwin Schneider, both of Austin, Texas, and Eric Magne Solie of Durham, N.C., have developed an alternating current/direct current (AC-DC) adapter interface, for providing power to a utility device and a battery for powering said ...
California Inventors Develop Anisotropic Anti-Aliasing
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Terence S. Dowling of San Jose, Calif., and R. David Arnold of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a computer-implemented method for generating a representation of a glyph. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Electro-Optical Cable
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- John Dion of Pepperell, Mass., and Mark A. Carlson of Amherst, N.H., have developed an electro-optical cable for use in transmission of high voltage and optical signals under extremes of temperature. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Montana Inventors Develop Workpieces Microfeature Processing Tool
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Daniel J. Woodruff, Jeffry Alan Davis, Randy A. Harris, David P. Mattson and James J. Erickson, all from Kalispell, Mont., and Matthew C. Egloff of Butte, Mont., have developed an integrated tool with interchangeable wet processing components for processing ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Gas Distribution Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Olav Holm-Christensen of Copenhagen K, South Korea, has developed a method and a device for the distribution of gas. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes the steps of transferring the gas into a swirl chamber through an inlet ...
New York Inventors Develop Single Polarization Optical Fiber
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Xin Chen and Daniel Aloysius Nolan, both of Corning, N.Y., William Allen Wood and Joohyun Koh, both of Painted Post, N.Y., George Edward Berkey of Pine City, N.Y., and Ming-Jun Li of Horseheads, N.Y., have developed single polarization and polarization maintaining ...
California Inventors Develop Field Programmable Gate Array Device
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- William C. Plants of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Arunangshu Kundu of San Jose, Calif., have developed an input/output first in/first out module for a field programmable gate array (FPGA). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
California Inventors Develop Switch-Mode Power Supply Voltage Regulator
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Eugene Lau Cheung of Fremont, Calif., and Talbott Mead Houk of Monte Sereno, Calif., have developed a switch-mode power supply voltage regulator and a methodology. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pulse width modulation of the connection ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Switch Device
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Shinji Maruyama and Norihisa Naganuma, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an optical switch device for switching optical signals. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "In an optical switch device: output ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Apparatus
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Hiroshi Nakahata of Abiko, Japan, has developed a curved support for mirror in optical scanning device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus comprises a first image bearing member; a second image bearing member; a first ...
Texas Inventors Develop Frequency Modification Circuitry
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Lysander Lim and James Maligeorgos, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a frequency modification circuitry for use in radio-frequency communication apparatus and associated methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frequency modification ...
Dutch, Finnish, Romanian Inventors Develop Pixel Coverage Mask Determination Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Sorin Cotofana of Nijmegen, Netherlands, Stamatis Vassiliadis of Pijnacker, Netherlands, Petri Liuha of Tampere, Finland, and Dan Crisu of Bucharest, Romania, have developed a method for determining for a pixel a coverage mask reflecting an orientation of an original ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Digital Still Camera
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Tetsuji Shono of Saitama, Japan, has developed a digital still camera for recording a subject image as digital image data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital still camera of the present invention has a photographing optical system, ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Optical Elements with Multiple Distributed Optical Structure
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Christoph M. Greiner and Thomas W. Mossberg, both of Eugene, Ore., and Dmitri Iazikov of Springfield, Ore., have developed multiple distributed optical structures in a single optical element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical ...
New Zealand Inventors Develop Battery Reserve Life Estimation Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Adnan H. Anbuky and Phillip E. Pascoe, both of Christchurch, New Zealand, have developed an apparatus, methods and computer program products for estimation of battery reserve life using adaptively modified state of health (SOH) indicator-based reserve life ...
British Inventor Develops Wireless Network Throughput Improvement Apparatus
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Adrian P. Stephens of Cambridge, Great Britain, has developed a method and an apparatus to improve throughput in a wireless network that uses a minimum received interference power level. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aggregate ...
Consolidated Foods Wins $24,851 Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... COLEMAN, Fla., April 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $24,851 contract to Consolidated Foods, Memphis, Tenn., for subsistence. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman, Fla. For more information about ...
C.J. Foods Wins $33,600 Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... COLEMAN, Fla., April 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $33,600 contract to C.J. Foods Inc., Eden Prairie, Minn., for subsistence. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman, Fla. For more information about ...
Dori Foods Wins $38,892 Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... COLEMAN, Fla., April 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded a $38,892 contract to Dori Foods Inc., Richmond, Va., for subsistence. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman, Fla. For more information about US ...
Shaver Foods Wins $184,845 Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... COLEMAN, Fla., April 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded an $184,845 contract to Shaver Foods LLC, Fayetteville, Ark., for subsistence. The contract was awarded by the department's Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Complex, Coleman, Fla. For more information ...
Adept Technologies Wins $1.71 Million Contract
Apr 05, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., April 5 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.71 million contract to Adept Technologies LLC, Huntsville, Ala., for guns through 30mm. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more information about US ...
1ST MAW WELCOMES FIRST KC-130J AIRCRAFT IN PACIFIC
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Boasting an all digitally-controlled cockpit and greater speeds, the first KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft on Okinawa arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma March 31. The plane's arrival marked the first J model ...
OKINAWA MARINES FIRST TO RECEIVE NEW BODY ARMOR; INITIAL REVIEWS POSITIVE FOR CORPS' NEXT VEST
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Okinawa Marines received the first 1,000 units of the Corps' latest improvement in battlefield protection March 29-30, and initial reviews of the new Modular Tactical Vest suggest Marines throughout the Corps will soon be ...
MARINE CORPS MODIFIES RIFLE QUALIFICATION
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Officials with the Marine Corps Marksmanship Center of Excellence are implementing many changes to rifle qualifications throughout 2007 including major changes to the scoring system, Marine officials said. Several of ...
JEOPARDY! TEAM SCREENS CANDIDATES ON OKINAWA
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek and a crew from the show visited Okinawa March 31 to April 1 during a five-day Pacific tour in search of possible contestants. A Jeopardy! search team screened more than 300 game show ...
III MEF MARINE RECEIVES MEDALS FOR IRAQ SERVICE
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Staff Sgt. John M. Jencura, an intelligence specialist with 3rd Intelligence Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force, received the Purple Heart and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals April 2 on Camp ...
SEABEES ERECT CAMP FUJI TOWER
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 Detail Fuji is nearing completion of a project that began Dec. 19 at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji's Ammunition Supply Point. The construction of a 40-foot watchtower ...
BASE FIREFIGHTERS CONDUCT HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRAINING, PREPARE FOR REAL-LIFE SCENARIOS
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Without proper training, even the most high-tech equipment is useless. That is why Marine Corps Bases Japan firefighters spend the time they need to train with new equipment. Firefighters with the Foster Fire ...
7TH COMMUNICATIOINS BN. MARINES GET BACK TO BASICS, REFRESH JOB SKILLS
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Lance Cpl. Zachary C. Becknell was only with 7th Communications Battalion for a few months before he was assigned to the battalion's armory as part of the fleet assistance program. Six months later, he is back at his ...
TRAINING CULMINATES WITH COMBAT SCENARIOS
Apr 05, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Nearly 70 III Marine Expeditionary Force Marines and sailors were put to the test on the final day of a month-long pre-deployment training evolution on Camp Schwab March 28. Instructors from 4th Marine Regiment's ...
New York Inventors Develop Lensed Fiber Making Method
Apr 05, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 5 -- Kristen L. Barefoot of Bath, N.Y., G. Scott Glaesemann of Corning, N.Y., John R. Saltzer Jr. of Beaver Dams, N.Y., and Nagaraja Shashidhar of Painted Post, N.Y., have developed lensed fibers and methods of making lensed fibers. According to the U.S. Patent ...