US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, May 7:
DOD ANNOUNCES NAMES OF TWO ARMY SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ
May 07, 2007 ... The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following press release: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died May 3 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when their unit came in contact with enemy forces using ...
DOD ANNOUNCES NAMES OF SOLDIERS FROM WASHINGTON KILLED IN IRAQ
May 07, 2007 ... The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following press release: The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died May 3 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, of wounds sustained when their armored personnel carrier was struck by ...
Raytheon Technical Services Wins $65,000 Contract
May 07, 2007 ... REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., May 7 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $65,000 contract to Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC, Indianapolis, for airfield, communication and missile facilities. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, ...
Mexican, Italian Inventors Develop High Purity Oxaliplatin Preparation Process
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Guillermo Huerta Menez of Toluca, Mexico, and Domenico Fimognari of Milan, Italy, have developed a process for preparing oxaliplatin. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to pure ...
British Inventor Develops Memory Device Updating Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Andrew J. Ogle of Amersham, Great Britain, has developed an efficient system and a method for updating a memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and method for updating a binary image stored across a ...
Texas, California Inventors Develop Trusted Execution Environment Employing Computer System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Dale E. Gulick and Geoffrey S. Strongin, both of Austin, Texas, and William A. Hughes of San Jose, Calif., have developed a computer system that employs a trusted execution environment including a memory controller configured to clear memory. According to the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Printing System with Different Emulations Printer Drivers
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Hirohiko Nakazato of Tokyo has developed a printing system that includes a computer and a printer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The computer includes a plurality of printer drivers provided for different kinds of emulations, ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Combined Toy Horse Head
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Dan A. Olson of Hill City, Minn., has developed an ornamental design for a combined toy horse head and torso, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D541,889 on May 1. The original application was filed ...
Florida Inventors Develop Musical Sounds Generation Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Marc A. Boillot and Radu C. Frangopol, both of Plantation, Fla., and Jean Khawand of Miami, have developed a system and methods for memory-constrained sound synthesis using harmonic coding. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Multi-Core Superconducting Cable
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Masayuki Hirose, Hiroyasu Yumura and Takeshi Kato, all from Osaka, Japan, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Kimiyoshi Matsuo and Shoichi Honjo, all from Tokyo, and Tomoo Mimura of Toyo, Japan, have developed Phase separation jig for superconductive cables and phase separation ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Acetic Acid Purification Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Wei Wang of Boothwyn, Pa., and Shao-Hua Guo of Exton, Pa., have developed a method for removing permanganate-reducing impurities from an acetic acid product is disclosed.. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises contacting an ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Universal Serial Bus Control Apparatus
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- John S. Howard and Abdul R. Ismail, both of Portland, Ore., and John S. Keys of Beaverton, Ore., have developed an apparatus and a method for remote universal serial bus host controlling, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
Texas Inventors Develop Acetic Acid Production Process
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Mark O. Scates of Houston, and David A. Trueba of Webster, Texas, have developed a process for producing acetic acid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved process is disclosed for producing acetic acid, including the following steps: ...
Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors Develop Adjustable Bass Drum Beater
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- George Szwaya of East Troy, Wis., Robert E. Szwaya of Milwaukee, and Michael Dorfman of Prairie View, Ill., have developed a bass drum beater that adjusts to give drum players more options in equipment setup. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Nateglinide Crystal Production Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Daisuke Takahashi, Seiichi Nishi and Satoji Takahashi, all from Yokkaichi, Japan, have developed methods for producing nateglinide crystals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods for producing nateglinide crystals, which ...
Kentucky Inventor Develops Chlorosilane Hydrolysis Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Andrew Bruce Gammie of Florence, Ky., has developed a method of hydrolyzing chlorosilanes to produce a hydrolysate in a looped system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chlorosilanes are hydrolyzed to a hydrolysate in a looped system containing a ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Ethylenically Unsaturated Compound Hydroformylation Process
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Eit Drent and Jacoba Catherina Lucia Johanna Suykerbuyk, both of Amsterdam, Netherlands, have developed a process for the hydroformylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to a ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Memory Controller
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Prashant R. Chandra, Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy and Rohit Natarajan, all from Sunnyvale, Calif., Chen-Chi Kuo of Pleasanton, Calif., and Mark Rosenbluth of Uxbridge, Mass., have developed a memory controller for padding and stripping data in response to read and write ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Storage Device Verification Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Daisuke Kuroki of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a method of verifying a system in which a plurality of master devices share a storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In logical verification of a system in which a plurality of ...
German Inventors Develop Organosilane Continuous Preparation Process
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Thomas Kornek and Diana Senden, both of Burghausen, Germany, and Andreas Bauer of Simbach, Germany, have developed a process for the continuous preparation of a silane. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preparation of organosilanes by ...
Parker Hannifin Wins $177,104 Contract
May 07, 2007 ... REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., May 7 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $177,104 contract to Parker Hannifin Corp., Irvine, Calif., for power and hand pumps. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. For more information about US Fed News ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Data Background Processing Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Aloke Guha of Louisville, Colo., and Christopher T. Santilli of Colorado Springs, Colo., have developed a method and a system for background processing of data in a storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Interferometer Calibration Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Andrew L. Van Brocklin and Eric T. Martin, both of Corvallis, Ore., have developed interferometer calibration methods and an apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer includes substantially parallel first ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Wireless Communication Device Receiving Sampling Circuit
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- James S. Prater of Fort Collins, Colo., has developed a sampling circuit for a receiver in a wireless communication device that eliminates the need for separate discrete filtering components that can be expensive and bulky. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California, New Jersey Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory Array Comparand Generating Apparatus
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Sandeep Khanna and Jose Pio Pereira, both of Santa Clara, Calif., Ronald S. Jankov of Woodside, Calif., and Sunder Raj Rathnavelu of Marlboro, N.J., have developed an apparatus and a method for generating a comparand in a content addressable memory (CAM) ...
Nebraska Inventor Develops Hybrid Maize Plant, Seed 33G58
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Dennis James Dolan of York, Neb., has developed a hybrid maize plant and a seed 33G58. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "novel hybrid maize variety designated 33G58 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced ...
Texas, California Inventors Develop Chemical Reaction Catalyzing Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- David E. Bergbreiter and Jun Li, both of College Station, Texas, Jacqueline O. Besinaiz and Shayna D. Sung, both of Bryan, Texas, and Chunmei Li of San Diego, have developed a method of catalyzing a chemical reaction. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Colorado, Texas Inventors Develop Power-Efficient High-Capacity Scalable Storage System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Aloke Guha of Louisville, Colo., Christopher T. Santilli of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Gary B. McMillian of Austin, Texas, have developed a method and an apparatus for power-efficient high-capacity scalable storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Washington Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Electronic Mouse
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Monique Chatterjee of Seattle, and Robert M. Freed of Kenmore, Wash., have developed an ornamental design for an electronic mouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D541,804 on May 1. The patent ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Computer Mouse
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Nelson Tseng and Alex Liu, both of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a computer mouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D541,803 on May 1. The patent has been assigned ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disposable Wearing Article
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Nariaki Shimoe and Toshifumi Otsubo, both of Kagawa-ken, Japan, have developed a disposable wearing article adapted to absorption and to containment of bodily discharges. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable wearing article ...
Washington Inventors Develop Information Rendering System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Steve Dodge and Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov, both of Sammamish, Wash., Brigette Krantz and Rudolph Balaz, both of Redmond, Wash., Manoj K. Biswas and Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah, both of Bellevue, Wash., and Kyril Feldman of Kirkland, Wash., and Arin J. Goldberg of ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Operator Terminal
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Oskar Ponnert of Malmo, Sweden, and Ma Skanor of Rittfeldt, Sweden, have developed an ornamental design for an operator terminal, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D541,800 on May 1. The patent ...
California Inventors Develop Flash Memory Device Data Storing Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Clifton E. Scott, John Gatti and Laxmi Rayapudi, all from San Diego, have developed a system and a method for storing data in a flash memory device that has a code bank and a data bank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes ...
Missouri, Iowa Inventors Develop Corn Variety Plants
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Steven K. Johnson of Chesterfield, Mo., and Bradley A. Sockness of Story City, Iowa., have developed seeds and plants of the corn variety designated I285291. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the plants, seeds and ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Multi-Functional Protective Material
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Holly C. Axtell of Factoryville, Pa., Scott M. Hartley of Clarks Summit, Pa., and Sallavanti Robert A. of Dalton, Pa., have developed multi-functional protective materials and methods for use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California Inventors Develop Universal Printing System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Ping Liang and Minghua Chen, both of Irvine, Calif., have developed a method and a system for printing content from a computing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content from the computing device is converted to a device independent ...
W&G Machine Wins $1.01 Million Contract
May 07, 2007 ... REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., May 7 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.01 million contract to W&G Machine Co. Inc., Hamden, Conn., for helicopter rotor blades, drive mechanisms and components. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, ...
Aviall Services Wins $50,437 Contract
May 07, 2007 ... REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala., May 7 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $50,437 contract to Aviall Services Inc., Dallas, for pipes, tubing, hoses and fittings. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala. For more information about US Fed News ...
KARMAH BECOMES RECENT POCKET OF RESISTANCE FOR IP, PSF
May 07, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Coalition service members regard the majority of Iraq's Al Anbar Province, the region west of Baghdad extending from the Jordanian to Syrian border, as an area under progress and in transition. However, there are still a few ...
Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors Develop Input Data Stream Recovering Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Donald R. Laturell of Allentown, Pa., Peter C. Metz of Macungie, Pa., and Baiying Yu of St. Paul, Minn., have developed a method for recovering data from an input data stream. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clock and data recovery ...
California Inventors Develop Interrupt Controller Virtualizing Processor
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Alexander C. Klaiber of Mountain View, Calif., and Hongwen Gao of Union City, Calif., have developed a processor that maintains virtual interrupt state and injects virtual interrupts into virtual machine guests. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
French Inventors Develop Integrated-Circuit Digital Electronic System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Herve Chalopin and Laurent Tabaries, both of Aubagne, France, have developed an electronic system that comprises an initiator module and a target module addressable by the initiator module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Scalable Bus Structure
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Richard Gerard Hofmann and Mark Michael Schaffer, both of Cary, N. C., have developed a processing system with a sending component and a receiving component connected by a bus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bus may be configured with ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Vehicle Knee Bolster
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Chang-Seong Ko of Yongin-si, South Korea, has developed a vehicular knee bolster to alleviate impact on driver's knees in a vehicle collision. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The kinetic energy of the driver's knees is properly absorbed by ...
California Inventors Develop Position Modulated Optical Reflectance Measurement System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Lena Nicolaides and Alex Salnik, both of Castro Valley, Calif., and Jon Opsal of Livermore, Calif., have developed a system for evaluating semiconductor wafers with illumination sources for generating probe and pump beams. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Beta 2 Adrenergic Receptor Agonist Multibinding Compound
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Edmund J. Moran of San Francisco, and Seok-Ki Choi of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed novel multibinding compounds (agents) that are beta 2 adrenergic receptor agonists and pharmaceutical compositions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Storage Units Expansion Device
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Rueiming Jamp, Chao-Hsien Hsu, Wen-Tsing Chenand Dean-Chung Wang, all from Cupertino, Calif., and Chun-Liang Lee and Chih-Hung Kuo, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed an expansion device for storage units. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventors Develop Computer and Video Systems Integrated Circuit Bus Interface
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Michael Farmwald of Berkeley, Calif., and Mark Horowitz of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a controller device and a method for operating same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one particular exemplary embodiment, the controller device ...
California Inventors Develop Disk Drives Input/Output Channel Switching System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Jack P. Wade of La Jolla, Calif., and Joel Brown of Leucadia, Calif., have developed a system for switching the input/output channel for disk drives between multiple computers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system incorporates the ...
Malaysian Inventors Develop Optical Feedback System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Rizal Jaffar of Melaka, Malaysia, Len Li Kevin Lim of Perak, Malaysia, and Joon Chok Lee of Sarawak, Malaysia, have developed a method for optical feedback for controlling color of light from a light source. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
U.S., Israeli Inventors Develop Removable Electronic Circuit Card
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Aviad Zer and Amir Tsuri, both of Cupertino, Calif., Yosi Pinto of Palo Alto, Calif., and Asher Druck of Nahariya, Israel, have developed an electronic card connectable to a host system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Interferometric Microscopy
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Xavier Colonna De Lega of Middletown, Conn., and Charles McFee of Glastonbury, Conn., have developed an interferometric microscopy that uses reflective optics for complex surface shapes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
South Korean Inventors Develop In-phase Quadrature Channel Imbalance Detection Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Young-Wan Kim, Chang-Seok Lee, Yu-Shin Kim and Eun-Suk Kwak, all from Daejon, South Korea, and Hee-Jin Yoo of Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, have developed an apparatus and a method for detecting in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) channel imbalance in direct conversion digital ...
New York Inventors Develop Nanoparticle Film Forming Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Tao Deng of Watervliet, N.Y., and Amy Linsebigler Smentkowski of Clifton Park, N.Y., have developed a method for forming nanoparticle films and an application thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for making ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Embedded System Design
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Eric D. Schneider of Shorewood, Minn., Gary Nachazel of Dayton, Minn., and John Ryan of Maple Grove, Minn., have developed an embedded system design through simplified add-on card configuration. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are ...
California Inventors Develop Graphics Display System Integrated Circuit
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Xiaodong Xie and Greg A. Kranawetter, both of San Jose, Calif., Chengfuh Jeffrey Tang and James T. Patterson, both of Saratoga, Calif., and Alexander G. MacInnis of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a graphics display system integrated circuit that is used in a set-top ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Computer System Interrupt Control Apparatus
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Akira Kitamura and Noboru Asai, both of Takatsuki, Japan, and Koichi Yasutake of Nagaokakyo, Japan, have developed an interrupt control apparatus for controlling interrupts generated from interrupt resources, as a part of an operating system controlling a computer ...
U.S., New Zealand, British Inventors Develop Polynucleotide Transcription Regulation Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Marion Wood, Clare Eagleton and Elizabeth Visser, all from Auckland, New Zealand, Stephen Rice of Oxford, Great Britain, Ranjan Perera of Carlsbad, Calif., have developed compositions and methods for the modification of gene expression. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Display with Console
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Toshihiko Ichida, Motoo Nasu and Toshiyuki Tsuji, all from Shizuoka-ken, Japan, and Koyuru Nakano of Nara-ken, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a display with console for programmable logic controller, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
California Inventors Develop Interferometer System
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Kevin R. Fine of Menlo Park, Calif., Greg C. Felix of San Jose, Calif., John J. Bockman of Santa Clara, Calif., and Douglas P. Woolverton of Mountain View, Calif., have developed an interferometer system that includes a rhomboid assembly with a first optical stack and a ...
German Inventors Develop Polmorphous Substances Crystalline Modification Production Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Axel Eble of Koln, Germany, Wolfram Sirges of Dusseldorf, Germany, Ulrich Schwiedop of Monheim, Germany, and Armin Heyn of Gladbach, Germany, have developed a process for the production of a specific crystal modification of ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Memory Stick
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Johnson Chen of Walnut, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a memory stick with flashlight and retractable universal serial bus plug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D541,797 on May ...
Iowa Inventors Develop Seed-preferred Regulatory Elements
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Shane E. Abbitt of Ankeny, Iowa, and Rudolf Jung of Des Moines, Iowa, have developed compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions are novel ...
Texas Inventors Develop Device Control Commands Interpreting Method
May 07, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 7 -- Theodore David Wugofski and Chris Crawford, both of Fort Worth, Texas, and Gary Sullivan of Mansfield, Texas, have developed a method and a system for interpreting device control commands. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia system ...