US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, April 17:
Maryland Inventors Develop Low Density Parity Check Decoder Routing Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Mustafa Eroz and Feng-Wen Sun, both of Germantown, Md., Lin-Nan Lee of Potomac, Md., Bob Cassagnol of Silver Spring, Md., and Adam Von Ancken of New Market, Md., have developed a method for decoding a low density parity check (LDPC) coded signal. According to ...
California Inventors Develop Electronic System Test Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Nathaniel David Naegle of Pleasanton, Calif., and David W. Gibbs of Oxnard, Calif., have developed a system and a method for performing predictable signature analysis in the presence of multiple data streams. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop System Operation Simulation Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Andrew Rudoff of Boulder, Colo., and Emrys Williams of Milton Keynes, Great Britain, have developed a method for simulating the operation of a system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes providing a fault tree ...
Arizona, Oregon Inventors Develop Data Processing System Operating Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Michael A. Brown of Phoenix, and Richard L. Coulson of Portland, Ore., have developed a method of detecting and correcting corrupted memory cells in a memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage comprises memory having a ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Test Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Srinivasa Chakravarthy and Rubin A. Parekhji, both of Bangalore, India, Julio C. Hernandez of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., and Kenneth M. Butler of Richardson, Texas, have developed a method of generating an abbreviated netlist that includes pseudopin inputs and ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Coverage-Directed Test Generation Technique
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Shai Fine of Ra'anana, Israel, and Avi Ziv of Haifa, Israel, have developed a clustering-based approach for coverage-directed test generation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coverage-directed test generation technique for functional ...
German Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Internal Operating Operation Measuring Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Aurel von Campenhausen of Cluvenhagen, Germany, Marcin Gnat of Mering, Germany, Joerg Vollrath of Olching, Germany, and Ralf Schneider of Munchen, Germany, have developed an integrated circuit for determining a time duration of an internal operating operation of the ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Built-in-Test Diagnostic, Maintenance Support System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Hashim M. Shabib of Hanover Park, Ill., and Richard D. Woods of Wonder Lake, Ill., have developed a built-in-test (BIT)diagnostic and maintenance support system and a process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic and maintenance ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Industrial Controller Safety Protocol
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Anthony Gerard Gibart of New Berlin, Wis., has developed a method of communication between a producer node and a consumer node over a high reliability network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Messages in a high reliability industrial ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Linear Block Code Correction System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Li-Lien Lin and Wen-Yi Wu, both of Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, have developed a system and a method that applied to an optical recording system for correcting a linear block code. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Failure Analysis Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Roger Yacobucci of Fort Collins, Colo., has developed a method of test and analysis of integrated circuit devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a number of related methods which improve the test and analysis of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Delay Control Circuit Device
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Masanori Tsutsumi of Kyoto, Japan, and Junichi Yano of Osaka, Japan, have developed a delay control circuit device, and a semiconductor integrated circuit device and a delay control method using the delay control circuit device. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Repair Circuit Memory Unit
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Atsushi Miyanishi of Tokyo has developed a semiconductor memory unit with a repair circuit capable of obviating the repair address decoder and reducing the unit area. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory unit with a ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Test Stream Generation Apparatus
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tae-hee Gwak of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a method and an apparatus for generating a test stream wherein tests of digital television software at various levels and various digital broadcast standards can be supported. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Malaysian Inventors Develop Voltage Controlled Oscillator Delay Cell
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Mohan Krishna Kunanayagam and Shubha Sharma, both of Jalan Usahawan, Malaysia, have developed a voltage-controlled oscillator design that provides greater tuning range than a prior art differential amplifier design using 'varactor' diodes. According to the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Organic Semiconductor Element
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Akira Unno of Kamakura, Japan, has developed an organic semiconductor element, a production method therefor and an organic semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic semiconductor element is provided which has the ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Thin Film Transistor Array Panel Manufacturing Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Woon-Yong Park and Bum-Ki Baek, both of Suwon, South Korea, have developed a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor array panel for a liquid crystal display and a photolithography method for fabricating thin films. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Oregon, California Inventors Develop Cache Based Physical Layer Self Test Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tim Frodsham, David S. Dunning and Theodore Z. Schoenborn, all from Portland, Ore., Lakshminarayan Krishnamurty of Hillsboro, Ore., Naveen Cherukuri of San Jose, Calif., and Sanjay Dabral of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a software self test engine that is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Hisashi Ohtani, Misako Nakazawa and Satoshi Murakami, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device using a thin film, a connection wiring ensuring electric connection between conductive thin films. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Signal Transmission Circuit
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Toru Kondo of Tokyo has developed a signal transmission circuit that is favorably used in shift registers that drive solid-state imaging apparatuses, liquid crystal displays, memory devices, and the like. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Network Fault-Tolerant Recovery Technique
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Bryan C. Turner of Apex, N.C., and John Toebes of Cary, N.C., have developed a method of arrangement in a network node for secure storage and retrieval of encoded data distributed among multiple network nodes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Pulse-Based Flip-Flop
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Min-Su Kim of Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, has developed a pulse-based flip-flop that latches a data input signal to convert the data input signal into a data output signal in response to a clock signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
California Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Device Test System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ahmed Rashid Syed of Santa Clara, Calif., has developed test systems for testing integrated circuit (IC) devices and calibration associated systems and methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention provides a ...
California Inventor Develops Flash Memory Device
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Frankie F. Roohparvar of Monte Sereno, Calif., has developed a method of error detection, documentation, and correction in a flash memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device has an error documentation memory array ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thin Film Transistor
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Masahiko Ando of Hitachinaka, Japan, Masatoshi Wakagi of Hitachi, Japan, and Hiroshi Sasaki of Mito, Japan, have developed a thin film transistor with the use of a semiconductor film made of an aggregate of organic semiconductor molecules. According to the ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Bi-Directional Signal Level Shift Circuit
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Yeon-Jun Lee of Suwon-si, South Korea, and Yong-Gu Lee of Bucheon-si, South Korea, have developed a circuit for shifting a level between two bi-directional signals having different voltage levels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Alternating Current Power Dissipation Control Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- David Howard Allen and William Paul Hovis, both of Rochester, Minn., have developed a method and an apparatus for implementing alternating current (AC) power dissipation control during scan operations in scannable latch designs. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light-Emitting Element
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Hisao Ikeda, Makoto Hosoba, Junichiro Sakata and Shunichi Ito, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Hiroki Ohara of Tokyo, have developed a light-emitting element as typified by an organic electro luminescence element and a display device having the light-emitting ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Memory Self Test Control Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Xiaoliang Bai of La Jolla, Calif., Dwayne M. Burek of San Jose, Calif., R. Dean Adams of St. George, Vt., and Robert Abbott of Ottawa, have developed a method of testing memory logic on an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Sen. Cornyn Introduces Veterans' Housing Benefits Enhancement Act
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has introduced the Veterans' Housing Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007 (S. 1096), legislation that would "amend title 38, U.S. Code, to provide certain housing benefits to disabled members of the Armed Forces, to expand certain benefits for ...
PACT Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Kohl
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin, has introduced the PACT Act (S. 1027), legislation that would "prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes." The bill, introduced on March 29, was co-sponsored by Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania; ...
Airport Security Enhancement Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Schumer
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, has introduced the Airport Security Enhancement Act of 2007 (S. 1095), legislation that would "require airports to screen all individuals with access to the secure areas of an airport upon arrival." The bill, introduced on ...
Cold War Medal Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Clinton
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, has introduced the Cold War Medal Act of 2007 (S. 1097), legislation that would "amend title 10, U.S. Code, to provide for the award of a military service medal to members of the Armed Forces who served honorably during the Cold ...
Crane Conservation Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Feingold
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, has introduced the Crane Conservation Act of 2007 (S. 1048), legislation that would "assist in the conservation of cranes by supporting and providing, through projects of persons and organizations with expertise in crane conservation, ...
Sen. Nelson Introduces Resolution Commending University of Florida Men's Basketball Team for Winning Basketball Championship
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, has introduced a resolution (S.Res. 148) "commending The University of Florida men's basketball team for winning the 2007 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Basketball Championship." The resolution, introduced ...
Sen. Alexander Introduces Resolution Designating American Eagle Day
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, has introduced a resolution (S.Res. 146) "designating June 20, 2007, as 'American Eagle Day', and celebrating the recovery and restoration of the American bald eagle, the national symbol of the U.S." The resolution, introduced on ...
Sen. Alexander Introduces Resolution Congratulating University of Tennessee Women's Basketball Team for Winning Basketball Championship
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, has introduced a resolution (S.Res. 147) "congratulating the University of Tennessee women's basketball team for winning the 2007 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship." The resolution, introduced on April 12, was ...
Great Cats, Rare Canids Act Introduced in Senate by Sen. Lieberman
Apr 17, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, April 17 -- Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, has introduced the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2007 (S. 1033), legislation that would "assist in the conservation of rare felids and rare canids by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of ...
Utah Inventor Develops X-ray Device Fluid Connection Assembly
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Gregory C. Andrews of Draper, Utah, has developed a fluid connection assembly which is provided for use with x-ray devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fluid connection assembly includes an adapter block configured to be attached ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Hydrodynamic Bearing Device
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Masato Gomyo, Masayoshi Saichi, Shingo Suginobu, Junya Mizukami and Yoshitaka Murayama, all from Nagano, Japan, have developed a hydrodynamic bearing device and a recording disk drive equipped with it. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Running Material Web Feature Detection Apparatus
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jo Inhelder of Bulach, Switzerland, and Roland Steininger of Zurich, Switzerland, have developed an apparatus and a method for detecting a feature of a running material web. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
Swiss, German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Microscope Stand
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Christophe Apotheloz of Zurich, Switzerland, and Oliver Jagemann of Goettingen, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for microscope stand, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D518,841 on April ...
U.S., Russian Inventors Develop Finite Fields Arithmetic Operations Scheme
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Alexander E. Andreev of San Jose, Calif., and Sergei B. Gashkov of Moscow, Russia, have developed a scheme for arithmetic operations in finite fields. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a logic circuit for ...
Danish Inventor Develops Operand Modulus Operation Performing Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Erik Hojsted of Vanloese, Denmark, has developed methods of modulus calculations that may be performed with high degrees of efficiency. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emod operation is a computational substitute for a traditional ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Fluid Bearing Device
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tomohiro Haga of Ozu, Japan, has developed a fluid bearing device suitable for a spindle motor of a hard disk device or the like. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "fluid bearing device capable of preventing a ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Amplifier Circuit with Output Delay
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Won-Ki Park of SuWon-si, South Korea, has developed an amplifier circuit with an output delay that is selectively changed in accordance with a common mode voltage level. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replica delay circuit adapted for ...
British Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Garment Hanger
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ric Singleton of Stockport, Great Britain, has developed an ornamental design for a garment hanger, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D518,839 on April 11, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Power-On Bias Circuit
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tsung-Hsin Yu of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, has developed a semiconductor integrated circuit incorporating a power-on bias circuit utilizing Schmitt trigger. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "power-on bias circuit ...
California Inventor Develops Multiphase Resonant Pulse Generator
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- William C. Athas of San Jose, Calif., has developed multiphase resonant pulse generators. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiphase resonant pulse generator has N groups of N-1 switches which, when activated, form N paths from a power ...
New Hampshire Inventors Develop Substrate Material Layer Separating Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jongkook Park of Nashua, N.H., Jeffrey P. Sercel of Hollis, N.H., and Patrick J. Sercel of Brentwood, N.H., have developed a method of separating at least one layer of material from a substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift off ...
Texas Inventors Develop Vending Machine Transaction Data Communication System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Erin M. Defosse and James M. Canter, both of Austin, Texas, and Bryan W. Godwin of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a system, a method and an apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Wafers Sensing Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Adriaan Garssen and Joost van Groen, both of Utrecht, Netherlands, and Christianus Gerardus Maria de Ridder of Hoogland, Netherlands, have developed a method for sensing wafers that is located inside a closed wafer cassette. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Nucleic Acid Sequence Utilization Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Steven G Griffiths of Fredericton, Canada, and Rachael J Ritchie of Hanwell, Canada, have developed a nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) and their use as vaccines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California, Texas Inventors Develop Processor Implemented High Radix Division System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ping T. Tang of Hayward, Calif., and Warren E. Ferguson of Austin, Texas, have developed methods, machines, and systems for very high radix division using narrow data paths. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A numerator and denominator ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Electronic Devices Clock Phase Alignment Tuning Apparatus
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tze-hsiang Chao of Hsinchu, Taiwan, Chia-hao Yang of Douliou, Taiwan, and Chia-jung Liu of Banciao, Taiwan, have developed an aparatus and a method of controlling and tuning a fine calibration for clock source synchronization in dual loop of hybrid phase and time ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Component Cooling Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Joseph James Lacey of Cambridge, Wis., has developed systems and methods for cooling electronic components that are rotatable about an axis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a stationary portion, a rotatable portion, ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Load Current Determination Technique
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Mark W. Goseand Douglas B. Osborn, both of Kokomo, Ind., have developed a technique for determining a load current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated driver with improved load current sense capability includes a first ...
Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Microscope with Display Screen
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- David John Copeland of Milton, Mass., and Aidan John Petrie of Jamestown, R.I., have developed an ornamental design for a microscope with display screen, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D518,840 on ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Email Transmission Method
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Yoshifumi Tanimoto of Uji, Japan, has developed a method of transmitting email and a device for transmitting email capable of broadcasting the email including encrypted data effectively. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a personal ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Fuel Cell System
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Stephen Samms of Mesa, Ariz., and Chowdary R. Koripella of Scottsdale, Ariz., have developed a ceramic structure for converting a liquid fuel to an electrical current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light Emitting Module
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Koichi Yanagita and Munehiko Yanagita, both of Utsunomiya, Japan, and Hideo Moriyama of Tokyo, have developed a light emitting module comprising one or more light sources and a method for manufacturing the light emitting module. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Magnolia Paper & Janitor Supply Wins Contract Valued At Up To $150,000
Apr 17, 2007 ... FORT WORTH, Texas, April 17 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $150,000 to Magnolia Paper & Janitor Supply Co. Inc., Memphis, Tenn., for food service, hospitality, cleaning equipment and supplies, chemicals and services. The contract ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Impeller
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Neil Edwin Bowsher of Sullivan, Ill., has developed an ornamental design for an impeller, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D518,831 on April 11, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Agri-Fab ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Atrial Defibrillator Energy Management Apparatus
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Kurt Ware of Vadnais Heights, Minn., and Jay A. Warren of North Oaks, Minn., have developed an apparatus and a method for energy management in atrial defibrillator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for delivering ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Caulk Dispensing Device Sure Grip
Apr 17, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Peter J. Y. Chang of Rockville, Md., and Albert Lee of Clarksville, Md., have developed an ornamental design for a sure grips for a caulk dispensing device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D520,820 ...