US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, May 4:
Japanese Inventors Develop Contact Probe Manufacturing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Masahiro Aoyagi, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Tokoro, Katsuya Kikuchi and Yoshikuni Okada, all from Tsukuba, Japan, and Shigeo Kiyota of Tokyo, have developed a contact probe used for measuring and evaluating high-speed high-frequency characteristics. According to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Intermediate Code Preprocessing Apparatus
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Tetsuyuki Kobayashi of Tokyo has developed an intermediate code execution apparatus which executes intermediate code obtained by compiling source code created in a predetermined program language. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This ...
California Inventors Develop Software Lifecycle Cross-Spectrum Application Model
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Jagadish Bandhole and Sekaran Nanja, both of San Jose, Calif., and Shan Balasubramaniam of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a cross-spectrum application model for dynamic computing environments (DCEs) in software lifecycle. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Texas Inventor Develops Business Modeling Tool for Software Configuration
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- G. Gordon Knowles of Dallas has developed a system and a method for configuring software that uses a business modeling tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring software includes communicating a business configuration ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Static Gas Bearing System
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Choshoku Sai of Utsunomiya, Japan, and Kotaro Akutsu of Soka, Japan, have developed a static gas bearing system, a stage mechanism, an exposure apparatus and a device manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus ...
Washington Inventor Develops Software Functional Size Estimation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Paul A. Below of Poulsbo, Wash., has developed a system and a method for function point sampling for software size estimates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system, method, and computer program product for ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Different Computer Language Bridging Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Mark Philip Gibbons of Lausanne, Switzerland, has developed a method for allowing objects in a first programming language to communicate with objects in a second programming language without the use of a broker. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Gate Oxide Layer Fabrication Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Anand T. Krishnan of Farmers Branch, Texas, Srinivasan Chakravarthi of Murphy, Texas, and Haowen Bu of Plano, Texas, have developed an interface improvement by stress application during oxide growth through use of backside films. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Business Model User Interface Using Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Tidhar Ziv of Hertzelia, Israel, has developed a method of connecting an external program to a server-based database system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for providing a user interface ...
Kansas, Missouri Inventors Develop Integrated Enterprise Modeling Device
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Nalledath P. Vinodkrishnan and Lavanya Srinivasan, both of Overland Park, Kan., and Thomas C. Gifford of Kansas City, Mo., have developed modeling standards validation tool for use in enterprise architecture modeling. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Adjustable Bearing
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Xiangming Wu, Hongwei Zhou and Lingen Huang, all from Shanghai, China, have developed an adjustable bearing that is used for the girder of the viaduct, as well as the guideway girder for track-bound vehicle and the magnetic levitation train. According to the ...
French Inventors Develop Film-Like Laminate Packing Production Process
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Claude A. Marbler of Phalsbourg, France, and Sabine Cerf of Sarrebourg, France, have developed a packing that is made from a film-like laminate and a process for production of this packing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Texas Inventor Develops Screwless Clip Mounted Computer Drive
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Dave Williams of El Paso, Texas, has developeda screwless clip mounted computer drive, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,212,411 on May 1. The patent has been assigned to Axxion Group Corp., El ...
California Inventors Develop Network Software Remote Application Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Daniel Putterman, Brad Dietrich, John Doornbos and Pedro Freitas, all from San Francisco, have developed methods and an apparatus for implementing a remote application over a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface, ...
Texas, Arizona Inventors Develop Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Joseph J. Nahas, Thomas W. Andre and Chitra K. Subramanian, all from Austin, Texas, and Nicholas David Rizzo of Gilbert, Ariz., have developed a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) with residual write field reset. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pattern Dimension Correction Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Toshiya Kotani of Tokyo, and Shigeki Nojima of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a method of correcting a finish pattern dimension by using optical proximity correction (OPC). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Transceiver Module
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Eric Larson of Boulder, Colo., has developed a transceiver module that has an interface surface and which is received within a cage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cage has a cage latch that retains the transceiver module. The ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Ion Implantation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Wei-Cheng Lin of HsinChu County, Taiwan, has developed a method for preventing wafer surface from bombardment by micro-dust particles during the ion implantation process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method adjusts, in mobile way, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Entangled Photon Pair Generating Apparatus
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Shigeki Takeuchi of Sapporo, Japan, has developed an entangled photon pair generating apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entangled photon pair generating apparatus has a first definite polarization photon pair generating ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Motor Assembly with Redundant Bearings, Support Elements
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Clint Edward Conrady and Ronald Paul Dean, both of Fort Collins, Colo., have developed a motor assembly using redundant bearings and support elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor assembly comprises a plurality of redundant ...
Texas Inventors Develop Configurable Digital System Specifying Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Wolfgang Roesner and Derek Edward Williams, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a method, a system and a program product for specifying and using register entities to configure a simulated or physical digital system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Kentucky Inventors Develop Content-Based Graphical User Interface
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Randall S. Stevens, Nathaniel McConathy and Christopher A. Wells, all from Lexington, Ky., have developed a computer program embodied on a computer-readable media for providing a content-specific graphic user interface. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Adaptive Inductive Power Supply
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- David W. Baarman of Fennville, Mich., has developed a contactless power supply that has a dynamically configurable tank circuit powered by an inverter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The contactless power supply is inductively coupled to ...
Honk Kong Inventor Develops Interactive Shoe Light Device
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Wong Wai Yuen and Wong Kui Hang, both of Ma On Shan N.T., Honk Kong, have developed an improved system for illuminating devices that are incorporated into clothing and accessories. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive shoe light ...
German, Indian Inventors Develop Integration Software Designing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Heinz Pauly of Ludwigshafen, Germany, Karl-Heinz Foerg of Schriesheim, Germany, and Prasad Kompalli of Bangalore, India, have developed a rapid application integration method using an integrated development environment. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventor Develops Touch Activated Purse Illumination Assembly
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Cindy Tait of Riverside, Calif., has developed a touch-activated purse illumination assembly with a base unit housing a circuit assembly, a power source and at least one elongated light emitting portion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
German Inventors Develop Neuronal Regeneration Improvement Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Hans Werner Muller and Christine C. Stichel-Gunkel, both of Dusseldorf, Germany, have developed a method for the improvement of neuronal regeneration by prevention or inhibition of basal membrane formation induced by a lesion of neuronal tissue, the U.S. Patent & ...
Israeli Inventors Develop System Behavior Specifying Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- David Harel of Jerusalem, and Rami Marelly of Rishon Le Zion, Israel, have developed an apparatus for specifying a system behavior. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is proposed a methodology for specifying the behavior of reactive ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Shelf with Removable Backplane
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Grant Edward Carlson of Florissant, Colo., and Karl Heinz Cunha of Colorado Springs, Colo., have developed a shelf that defines a tubular closed passage with a frontend opening and a backend opening. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors Develop Linear Fluorescent Lighting Fixture
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Eric J. Haugaard of Kenosha, Wis., Craig Raleigh of Saukville, Wis., Alan J. Ruud of Racine, Wis., and Dallas I. Buchanan of Evanston, Ill., have developed a linear fluorescent high-bay implementation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Device
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Kristopher J. Frutschy of Phoenix, and Udbhava A. Shrivastava of Tempe, Ariz., have developed an integrated package inductor for integrated circuit devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and devices in which an ...
Boeing Wins $358,325 Contract
May 04, 2007 ... REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., May 4 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $358,325 contract to Boeing Co., Ridley Park, Pa., for airframe structural components. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. For more information about US Fed News ...
Texas Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Structure Forming Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Rana P. Singh and Paul A. Ingersoll, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a semiconductor device structure and method for forming. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device structure has trenches of two widths or more. The ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Operating System Control Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Heung-For Cheng of Portland, Ore., has developed a method for dispatching multiple software applications as threads executed by an operating system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for controlling operating system ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Vehicle Security System Remote Controller
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Miao-Yan Li of Zhongshan, China, has developed an ornamental design for a remote controller for vehicle security system, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D515,515 on Feb. 21, 2006. The original application ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Thin Film Resistor Making Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Eric W. Beach of Tucson, Ariz., and Philipp Steinmann of Unterschleissheim, Germany, have developed a thin film resistor head structure and method for reducing head resistivity variance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making integrated ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Source Code Compilation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Robert M. N. Klarer and Sandor C. A. Mathe, both of Toronto, have developed methods of compiling source code files that have multiple occurrences of identical units of source code. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a ...
Oregon, Texas Inventors Develop Thin Film Formation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Curt Nelson of Corvallis, Ore., David Punsalan of Eugene, Ore., and Peter S. Nyholm of Austin, Texas, have developed methods, apparatuses, devices, and/or systems for forming a thin film, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Insulating Film Forming Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Tamotsu Owada, Hirofumi Watatani, Ken Sugimoto and Shun-ichi Fukuyama, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an insulating film forming method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first film made of silicon carbide is formed over a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Servo Writer
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Akihiro Hashimoto of Odawara, Japan, has developed a servo writer for writing a servo signal on a tape. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a servo writer when, detecting an abnormality from servo signals written on a tape-shaped ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Improved Power Routing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Mark T. Bohr of Aloha, Ore., and Robert W. Martell of Portland, Ore., have developed a method and an apparatus for improved power routing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus comprising: a die having a top ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Signal Trace Plurality Routing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Chung-Yi Fang and Tze-Hsiang Chao, both of Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and Yi-Show Su of Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a method for routing a plurality of signal traces out of a plurality of corresponding bumper pads for implementation of a die on a multi-layer circuit ...
U.S., French Inventors Develop Strained Semiconductor Layer Formation Process
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Mariam G. Sadaka, Bich-Yen Nguyen, Voon-Yew Thean and Ted R. White, all from Austin, Texas, and Alexander L. Barr of Crolles, France, have developed a process for forming a strained semiconductor layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Printing Component Synchronization Technique
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Stephen F. Goldberg of Dayton, Ohio, has developed a technique for detecting that all components that make up a completed portion of a form are synchronized. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting that for a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Laser Annealing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Naoto Kusumoto and Koichiro Tanaka, both of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, have developed a technique of annealing, for instance, a semiconductor material uniformly and efficiently over a large area. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In crystallizing ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Table-Top Dimmer
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Noel Mayo of Philadelphia, Elliot G. Jacoby of Glenside, Pa., and Joel S. Spira of Coopersburg, Pa., have developed an ornamental design for a table-top dimmer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D515,516 on Feb ....
German Inventors Develop Electronically Commutated External Rotor Direct Current Motor
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Walter Hofmann of Mulfingen, Germany, Gunter Streng of Schrozberg, Germany, and Jochen Schwarz of Schontal-Berlichingen, Germany, have developed electronically commutated external rotor direct current (DC) motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Metal Oxide Formation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Eugene P. Marsh of Boise, Idaho, have developed a method of forming metal oxide and semimetal oxide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes methods of forming metal oxide and/or semimetal oxide. The invention can include ...
California Inventor Develops Product Servo Sector Writing Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Tehri S. Lee of San Jose, Calif., has developed a method of writing product servo sectors to a disk of a disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of spiral tracks are written to the disk, wherein each spiral track comprises a ...
California Inventors Develop Hard Disk Drive Defect Detection Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Geng Wang of San Jose, Calif., and Sang Lee of Pleasanton, Calif., have developed a method for detecting a defective disk of a hard disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes placing a disk into a tester so that a first ...
California Inventor Develops Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Image Sensor
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Sohei Manabe of San Jose, Calif., has developed a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor that uses high frame rate with frame addition and movement compensation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Florida, Arizona Inventors Develop Electrical Output Power Generation System
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Joseph Michael Teets of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Jon William Teets of Scottsdale, Ariz., have developed a rankine--microturbine for generating electricity. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine rotor spool with at least one ...
German Inventor Develops Particle Beam Apparatus
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Helmut Muller of Schwabisch Gmund, Germany, has developed a particle beam apparatus wherein a particle beam travels along an optical axis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle beam apparatus has a cooled anti-contaminator and/or a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Fluxgate Sensor
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Won-youl Choi and Sang-on Choi, both of Suwon, South Korea, Myung-sam Kang and Keon-yang Park, both of Chungchongnam-do, South Korea, Byeong-cheon Koh of Sungnam, South Korea, and Kyung-won Na of Yongin, South Korea, have developed a fluxgate sensor integrated in a ...
Texas, California Inventors Develop Cam Actuated Cold Plate
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Christian L. Belady of Richardson, Texas, and Christopher C. Womack of San Diego, have developed a cooling system for a computer that includes a cam-actuated cold plate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compliant, thermally conductive pins ...
German Inventor Develops Diversified Program Flow Generation Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Rolf-Dieter Pavlik of Erlangen, Germany, has developed a method of generating and/or executing a diversified program flow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of generating and/or executing a diversified program flow from a program ...
German Inventors Develop Magnetic Resonance Apparatus Local Coil Unit
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Helmut Greim of Adelsdorf, Germany, and Thomas Kundner of Erlangen, Germany, have developed a local coil unit for a magnetic resonance apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local coil unit for acquisition of a magnetic resonance ...
California Inventors Develop Data Processing System
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Hinkmond Wong of Sunnyvale, Calif., Nedim Fresko of San Francisco, and Mark Lam of Milpitas, Calif., have developed a process for platform-independent selective ahead-of-time compilation in a system that includes a host and a device. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Multi-Slot Socket
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Scott Noble of Beaverton, Ore., has developed an apparatus that includes a socket and a dynamic random access memory module that is installed in the socket, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,212,408 on ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Heat Shrinkable Tube Manufacturing Apparatus
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Seon Tae Kim of Seoul, South Korea, and Tae Jung Lee of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed an expansion tube with expansion slits and an apparatus for manufacturing heat shrinkable tube having the expansion tube. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Vehicle-Mounted Energy Conversion Device
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- William K. McDavid Jr. of Tetonia, Idaho, has developed a vehicle-mounted generator that converts the energy of wind or flowing water to mechanical or electrical energy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted generator is powered ...
California Inventor Develops Variable Frequency Clock Signal Producing Circuit
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Thomas E. Bleakley of El Dorado Hills, Calif., has developed a circuit for producing a variable frequency clock signal with a high frequency low jitter pulse component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Partial Redundancy Elimination Arrangement
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Arch Robison of Champaign, Ill., has developed a method to transform original code into optimized code. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement is provided for eliminating partial redundancy. Original code is processed to perform ...
New York, Connecticut Inventors Develop Radiation Measuring Element, Method
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- James H. Griggs, David J. Steklenski and Michael T. Wolf, all from Rochester, N.Y., and John G. Attwood of Cheshire, Conn., have developed a method of using the dosimeter to provide accurate and traceable measurement of doses of ionization radiation in a prescribed area ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Radiographic Image Conversion Panel
May 04, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4 -- Akihiro Maezawa and Noriyuki Mishina, both of Hino, Japan, have developed a radiographic image conversion panel and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a radiographic image conversion panel including a ...