US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, April 20:
Japanese Inventors Develop Combustion Engine Air Flow Measuring Device
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Hiromu Kikawa, Izumi Watanabe, Keiichi Nakada and Kei Ueyama, all from Hitachinaka, Japan, and Shinya Igarashi of Naka-machi, Japan, have developed air flow measuring devices for internal combustion engines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Runtime Fault Application Recovery Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Ramesh Subramanian of Gloucester, Canada, James Birchall of Darthmouth, Canada, and Andrew Van Beek of Chelsea, Canada, have developed a system and a method for recovering applications from run time problems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Explosive Charges Ignition Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Owe Englund of Karlskoga, Sweden, has developed a method for initiation and ignition of explosive charges through self-destruction of a laser source. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of initiating explosive charges ignites an ...
Kentucky Inventors Develop Lead Attached Sabot slug
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Christopher R. McMurray of Rineyville, Ky., and Jeffrey W. Stone of Elizabethtown, Ky., have developed a sabot and a firearm round for a firearm. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sabot includes a compression section defining a payload ...
German Inventors Develop Printing Fluid Transferring Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Manfred Wiedemer of Ismaning, Germany, Martin Schleusener of Zomeding, Germany, and Martin Berg of Munchen, Germany, have developed a method and a printer device for transferring printing fluid onto a carrier material as well as appertaining printing ...
Florida Inventor Develops Acoustic Fluid Flow Sensor
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Murray F Feller of Micanopy, Fla., has developed a fluid flow sensor that uses pairs of acoustic transducers to generate quasi-helical acoustic beams reflected multiple times from an inside surface of a pipe. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
German Inventors Develop Carrier Tape Populating Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Oskar Neuhoff of Nittendorf, Germany, and Peter Roider of Barbing, Germany, have developed a packaging system with a tool for enclosing electronic components and a method of populating a carrier tape. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors Develop Pulsed Thermistor Sensor
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- David M. Ellis of Warren, Vt., and Rajesh M. Nair of Nashua, N.H., have developed a pulsed thermistor sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermistor is pulsed with energy, and a time constant of decay of temperature is calculated ...
German Inventors Develop Measuring Device for Flow Sensor
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Erhard Renninger of Markgroeningen, Germany, Uwe Konzelmann of Asperg, Germany, and Tobias Lang of Stuttgart, Germany, have developed a measuring device for a flow sensor in which the drift is minimized, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announce. The ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Distributed Object Model Technology
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Dean Van Gerrevink of Vancouver, Canada, has developed a method and a system for providing string-over-socket scripting language access to distributed object model interfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Drive Device
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Shoji Takahashi of Hannou, Japan, Maki Wakita of Sayama, Japan, and Takuro Kohyama of Nishitokyo, Japan, have developed a disk drive device for driving an information recording disk such as a compact disk or a digital video disk. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Capacitance Type Physical Quantity Sensor
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Akihiko Teshigahara and Junji Ohara, both of Nisshin, Japan, Tetsuo Yoshioka of Okazaki, Japan, Yukihiro Takeuchi of Nishikamo-gun, Japan, Toshimasa Yamamoto of Bisai, Japan, and Kazuhiko Kano of Toyoake, Japan, have developed a capacitance type physical quantity ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Client and Server Communication System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Dennis Chernolvanov and Thomas Pfohe, both of Hamburg, Germany, and Thorsten O. Laux of Mountain View, Calif., have developed methods and systems for integrating with load balancers in a client and a server system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Missouri Inventor Develops Transducer Array Phase Ambiguity Resolving Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Wayne C. Workman of St. Charles, Mo., has developed a system and a method for resolving phase ambiguity of a transducer array to determine direction of arrival of received signals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
French Inventor Develops Real-Time Multi-Task Operating Process
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Serge Goiffon of Toulouse, France, has developed a method for providing a real time operating process for multiple tasks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for a real-time multi-task operating process in which a set ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Client/Server Network Performance Improvement Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Gennaro A. Cuomo and Matt R. Hogstrom, both of Apex, N.C., Christopher James Blythe of Morrisville, N.C., and Erik A. Daughtrey of Durham, N.C., have developed programmatic response-time based workload distribution techniques. According to the U.S. Patent ...
New York Inventors Develop Metal Halide Discharge Tube Forming Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Kent Collins of Hammondsport, N.Y., and Thomas Steere of Hornell, N.Y., have developed a method of forming a metal halide discharge tube and an apparatus therefore. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a metal halide ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Engine Reducing Vibration, Noise Outboard Motor
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Hiroshi Mizuguchi of Wako, Japan, has developed an outboard motor configured for reducing vibration and noise produced during engine operation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outboard motor adapted to be mounted on a stern of a boat ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Light-Emitting Device Producing Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Takashi Hamada and Satoshi Seo, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Shunpei amazaki of Tokyo, have developed an apparatus of a small footprint for producing light-emitting devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates ...
California Inventor Develops Vehicle Inert Gas Generating System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Donald R. Snow Jr. of Fountain Valley, Calif., has developed an inert gas generating system for generating inert gas on a vehicle with a fuel tank and a fuel tank vent. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes an inlet for ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Printing Screen with Improving Side-Bottom Ratio
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Chuang-Chun Chueh and Su-Chiu Lee, both of Taipei County, Taiwan, have developed a printing screen, a printing process and a method for improving side-bottom ratio. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The printing screen mainly comprises a ...
German Inventors Develop Electrohydraulic Brake System Pressure Sensor Module
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Dieter Dinkel of Schwalbach, Germany, Ru Briesewitz of Bruchkobel, Germany, and Peter Hoffmann of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have developed a pressure sensor module for electronic brake systems in motor vehicles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New York Inventor Develops Short Life Coupons Issuing System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Donald Spector of New York has developed a system for issuing short life coupons or other promotional devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "improved short life coupon system which allows a television viewer ...
Arizona, Minnesota Inventors Develop Real-Time Operating System Robust Time Partitioning Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Joseph A Smith of Phoenix, and Aaron Larson of Shoreview, Minn., have developed a system and a method for robust time partitioning of tasks in a real-time computing environment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Hermetically Sealed Microdevice with Getter Shield
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Jeffrey J. Frye and John P. Schuster, both of Grayslake, Ill., and Xiaoyi Ding of Lake Zurich, Ill., have developed microdevices with a structure that requires a vacuum cavity. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Engine Intake Air Measuring Flowmeter
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Hiromu Kikawa, Masayuki Kozawa and Takayuki Saitou, all from Hitachinaka, Japan, Shinya Igarashi of Naka, Japan, and Naoki Saitou of Tokai, Japan, have developed a flowmeter with a resistor heater suitable for measuring the flow rate of air sucked into an automobile ...
Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio Inventors Develop Torque Sensor System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Scott L. Bunyer, Fred W. Hintz, Richard M. Andrews and James D. Cook, all from Freeport, Ill., Steven J. Magee of Lena, Ill., Gary O'Brien of Riverview, Mich., James ZT Liu of Hudson, N.H., and Stephen R. Shiffer of Xenia, Ohio, have developed a torque sensor system ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Surfing Board Leash Tangle Prevention Instrument
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Masahide Kawasaki of Osaka, Japan, has developed a surfing board leash tangle prevention instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a surfing board leash tangle prevention instrument which prevents a leash ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Display Device
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Atsushi Yoshizawa, Takashi Chuman, Takuya Hata, Yoshihiko Uchida, Hideo Satoh and Shuuichi Yanagisawa, all from Tsurugashima, Japan, have developed an image display device and a manufacuring method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Watercraft Duct Structure
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Chester Colburn Nash of Fayetteville, Ga., and Michael Augustin Curtin of Newnan, Ga., have developed a duct structure for an air intake duct for watercraft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a duct ...
California Inventor Develops Brain Function Treating System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Georgia K. Connor of Agoura Hills, Calif., has developed a system for treating brain function including a signal generator and an ear cuff. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various modalities of treatment are possible including approaches ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Bandwidth Allocation System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- John S. Hendricks of Potomac, Md., and Alfred E. Bonner of Bethesda, Md., have developed a method of bandwidth allocation for a television program delivery system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is a method of allocating ...
CHAIRMAN'S ENLISTED ADVISOR VISITS OKINAWA
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Army Command Sgt. Maj. William J. Gainey, the newly appointed enlisted advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, visited Okinawa April 10-14, touring military installations and meeting with service ...
SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS GATHER ON IE SHIMA TO HONOR LEGENDARY WAR CORRESPONDENT
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: "At this spot, the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy." Those words are inscribed on the Ie Island memorial that honors legendary war correspondent Ernest Taylor Pyle, better known as Ernie Pyle. More than ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Recording-Medium Cartridge
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Toshiyuki Kitahara of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a recording medium cartridge and a recording and reproducing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to "provide a recording-medium cartridge and a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Weft Knitting Machine Yarn Carrier
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Masao Okuno and Toshinori Nakamori, both of Wakayama, Japan, have developed a yarn carrier of a weft knitting machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When bringing pins are engaged with the yarn carrier at the engagement portions near ...
Texas Inventor Develops Jewelry Article with Magnetic Elements
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Ronald W Hartgrove of Houston has developed jewelry articles with magnetic elements and interchangeable settings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the jewelry articles include magnetically coupling body portions and ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Dual-Lock Type Padlock
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Chun Te Yu of Changhua County, Taiwan, has developed a dual-lock type padlock. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-lock type padlock includes a number lock module that is locked and unlocked by a user, and a key lock module that is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Disk Drive Device
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Kyosuke Yoshimoto, Hiroyuki Ohata, Kazuhiko Nakane and Teruo Furukawa, all from Nagaokakyo, Japan, Junichi Kondo and Masafumi Ototake, both of Amagasaki, Japan, and M. C. Rao of Kurashiki, Japan, have developed an optical disk drive device for use with a write-once ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Motorcycle Toy
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Neil Tilbor of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a motorcycle toy, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D514,630 on Feb. 7, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Leynian ...
Texas Inventor Develops Linear Propulsor with Radial Motion
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Carl Phillip Gusler of Austin, Texas, has developed traveling wave propulsion systems operable to move a submersible device through a fluid medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a scalable, configurable ...
Washington Inventors Develop Interferometric Optical Modulator
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Timothy M. Londergan and Galina K. Todorova, both of Seattle, Diyun Huang of Bothell, Wash., and Jingsong Zhu of Mountlake Terrace, Wash., have developed a chromophore. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, chromophores ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Footwear Article
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Kevin Hoffer of Portland, Ore., and Tobie D. Hatfield of Lake Oswego, Ore., have developed a sole for article of footwear for granular surfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sole for an article of footwear to be used on a granular ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Game Piece Stack
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Stephen William Butcher of Monson, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a game piece stack, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D514,629 on Feb. 7, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Heat Energy Production Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- John V. Reints of St. Charles, Ill., has developed a method of producing heat energy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy in the form of heat is recoverable and controllable in a process that reacts an acid and a base in the presence ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electric Heater Showcase
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Kenji Sakanoue of Gyouda, Japan, Kouji Hayase of Ota, Japan, and Kazuo Tetsukawa of Isesaki, Japan, have developed a showcase including an electric heater in a rack. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rack can be inexpensively ...
Virginia Inventor Develops Virtual Advertisements Target Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Michael L. Asmussen of Fairfax County, Va., has developed a method and an apparatus for locally targeting virtual objects within a terminal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are used to target virtual objects to ...
Oregon, Washington Inventors Develop Outbound Input/Output Write-combining Apparatus
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Gregory D. Cummings and Sujoy Sen, both of Portland, Ore., and Kenneth C. Creta of Gig Harbor, Wash., have developed an apparatus and a method for outbound input/output (I/O) write-combining. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Blood Vessel Suturing Apparatus
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- David T. Green of Fairfield, Conn., has developed an apparatus and method for closing incisions in blood vessels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular suturing device is disclosed which includes an elongated tubular body defining ...
Washington Inventors Develop Storage Scheduler
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Fnu Sidhartha and Jane Win-Shih Liu, both of Bellevue, Wash., and Matthew D. Hendel of Seattle, have developed a continuous media priority aware storage scheduler. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system ...
Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Power Generation Low Power Circuit
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Oliver L. Richards of Thompson, Conn., and Paul M. Greenland of Worcester, Mass., have developed a low noise block supply method and a control voltage regulator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power circuit for providing power and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Drive with Tray
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Takeshi Makino and Masahiko Nishide, both of Fukui, Japan, have developed a disk drive with a tray, which sets a disk thereon and can be taken out and in from a drive body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "disk ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Porous Thin Films Voids Filling Method
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- James Charles Zesch of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Joost J. Vlassak of Cambridge, Mass., have developed systems and methods for filling voids and improving properties of porous thin films. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Golf Clubs Securing Mechanism
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Roger O. Mahre of St. Paul, Minn., and Charles R. Halverson of Minneapolis, have developed a golf club securing mechanism that includes a rigid member and a flexible member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flexible member is wovenly ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Cannula Retractable Medical Collection Device
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Ming-Jeng Shue, Deborah Huang and Phillip Shue, all from Taichung City, Taiwan, have developed a cannula retractable medical collection device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cannula retractable medical collection device includes a ...
California Inventors Develop Planar Lightwave Circuit Assembly
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Douglas E. Crafts, James F. Farrell, Mark B. Farrelly, Duane Cook and Satyanarayana Rao Peddada, all from San Jose, Calif., have developed a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical packaging ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Orthodynamic Rehabilitator
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Zalman Peles of Kfar Korazim, Ill., has developed a method for self-adaptive motion treatment of a jointed body part of a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a portable orthotic system that performs ...
California Inventors Develop Communication Queues Accessing Facilitation System
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Bhagat V. Nainani and Namit Jain, both of Foster City, Calif., Shailendra K. Mishra and Krishnan Meiyyappan, both of Fremont, Calif., Wei Wang of Belmont, Calif., and Neerja Bhatt of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a system that facilitates accessing ...
HANSEN MARINES SHARE EASTER TRADITION WITH LOCAL CHILDREN
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Volunteers from 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, hosted their 6th annual Easter egg hunt and fun day April 13 on Camp Hansen. The annual hunt dates back nearly 20 years as Marines from several units ...
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VISITS SERVICE AT CAMP FALLUJAH
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates completed his first trip to the Al Anbar Province of western Iraq by visiting Multi National Force - West commanded by Marine Corps Maj. Gen. W.E. Gaskin, April 19. While at ...
JUNIOR MARINES PREPARE FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES DURING LANCE CORPORALS SEMINAR
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Officials with 1st Marine Aircraft Wing are trying to better prepare their junior Marines for leadership in the noncommissioned officer ranks. Dozens of lance corporals with 1st MAW attended the Wing's latest Lance ...
'ADORABLE' MASCOT KEEPS MARINES ON CAMP FUJI IN LINE
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Cpl. Dan Daly Jiggs may be the only Marine to relieve himself on the floor of his commander's office and not receive a court martial. At minimum, Jiggs fled the scene of an accident, violating Article 134 of the ...
WEEK-LONG COURSE EQUIPS YOUNG MARINES WITH LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The Camp Foster Young Marines program held a week-long leadership training course April 9-14 at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The course covered a wide range of areas including drill leadership, using a map and ...
CAMP FUJI'S VOLUNTEER PROGRAM AMONG CORPS' MOST ACTIVE
Apr 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: With a standing force of about 160 service members, Camp Fuji maintains, per capita, one of the most active volunteer programs in the Marine Corps. Lending hands at homes for the disabled, orphanages and community ...
South Carolina Inventor Develops Stanchion Lever Locking Guard
Apr 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 20 -- Roy E. Gogel of Greenville, S.C., has developed a lock guard that prevents bolt cutters or the like from being employed to cut the shackle of a padlock. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock guard is provided which is particularly well ...