US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, May 11:
New York Inventors Develop Cleaning Glove
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Erin J. Jacobs and Jeremy S. McDonald, both of Hogansburg, N.Y., have developed a cleaning glove. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning glove includes a waterproof glove having at least one finger stall and a thumb stall, a mounting ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Golf Equipment
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Shenshen Wu of North Dartmouth, Mass., Murali Rajagapalan of South Dartmouth, Mass., and Kevin M. Harris New Bedford, Mass., have developed a golf ball. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "Golf equipment having ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device with Charge Share Countermeasure
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Masashi Hirano of Tokyo has developed a semiconductor device that is implemented a charge share countermeasure without adding a positive metal-oxide semiconductor transistor for precharge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Su Seok Choi of Kyounggi-do, South Korea, has developed an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Bipolar Type Semiconductor Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Makoto Miura of Kokubunji, Japan, Katsuyoshi Washio of Tokorozawa, Japan, and Hiromi Shimamoto of Iruma, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar type ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Solid-state Imaging Device with Floating Diffusion Layer
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Mikiya Uchida of Kyoto, Japan, Yoshiyuki Matsunaga of Kamakura, Japan, and Makoto Inagaki of Muko, Japan, have developed a solid-state imaging apparatus having small noise and high sensitivity, and a method for producing the same. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Paving Stone
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Harald Von Langsdorff of Inglewood, Canada, has developed an ornamental design for a paving stone, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D521,592 on May 23, 2006. The patent has been assigned to F. von ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Golf Club Head
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Koki Motoyoshi and Masafumi Nishitani, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a golf club head, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D521,583 on May 23, 2006. The patent ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Fingertip Flexor Glove
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Merle Harrison Adams Jr. of Bozeman, Minn., has developed an apparatus for increasing flexibility and strength of the distal interphalangeal joints of the fingers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rigid glove has openings at the ends of ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Dark Current Reducing Image Sensors
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Jongcheol Shin of Suwon-si, South Korea, has developed image sensors for reducing dark current and methods of manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a substrate region of a first conductivity type, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Fiber Optic Transceiver Module
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Takayuki Kondo of Suwa, Japan, has developed a fiber optic module that effectively reduces a returned light and is manufactured by a low time and cost consuming process and electronic equipment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fiber ...
Ohio Inventors Discover Alpha-2A-Adrenergic Receptor Polymorphism
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Kersten M. Small and Stephen B. Liggett, both of Cincinnati, have discovered alpha-2A-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes polymorphisms in nucleic acids encoding the alpha-2A ...
Egyptian Inventor Develops Coupler-Multiplexer Permutation Switch
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Tarek A. Ramadan of Cairo, Egypt, has developed a coupler-multiplexer permutation switch (CMPS). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CMPS integrates multiplexng and switching functions on a single substrate. It has a single-mode/multi-mode ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device Array Substrate
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Nack-Bong Choi, Seung-Hee Namn and Jae-Young Oh, all from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Kyoung-Mook Lee of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a method of manufacturing array substrate for liquid crystal display device. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Waveguide Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Toru Hosoi of Tokyo has developed an optical waveguide device used for optical communication and an optical waveguide module modified from the same optical waveguide device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Sai Chang Yun of Taegu-Kwangyokshi, South Korea, and Do Sung Kim of Kumi-shi, South Korea, have developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) device which obtains a high aperture ratio and a wide viewing angle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- David J. Frank of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Kevin K. Chan of Staten Island, N.Y., and Hussein I. Hanafi of Basking Ridge, N.J., have developed a strained silicon-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) using a damascene gate ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Transthyretin Amyloid Disease Treatment Method
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Jeffery W. Kelly of LaJolla, Calif., and Yoshiki Sekijima of Matsumoto, Japan, have developed a method of treating a transthyretin amyloid disease. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kinetic stabilization of the native state of transthyretin ...
Massachusetts, California Inventors Develop Optical Grating Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Hamid R. Khazaei of Westford, Mass., Harmeet Singh of Acton, Mass.,Emily M. Squires of Littleton, Mass., and Hsing Cheng of San Jose, Calif., have developed an optical grating device based multiplexer device with power tap capability. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Light-receiving Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Minoru Niigaki and Kazutoshi Nakajima, both of Hamamatsu, Japan, have developed a semiconductor light-receiving device with improved yield and reproducibility. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor light-receiving device has a ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Wavelength-convertible Light Emitting Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Hyoung Dong Kang of Kyungki-do, South Korea, has developed a wavelength-convertible light emitting device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a wavelength-convertible light emitting diode (LED) which has first ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Bumped Devices Test and Assembling Method
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Salman Akram and Alan G. Wood, both of Boise, Idaho, and Warren M. Farnworth of Nampa, Idaho, have developed methods of testing and assembling bumped die and bumped devices using an anisotropically conductive layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electro-Optic Hybrid Circuit Board
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Ryuusuke Naitou, Hideyuki Usui and Amane Mochizuki, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed an electro-optic hybrid circuit board comprising a wiring circuit board part and an optical waveguide part. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Thin Film Transistor Array Panel
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Kyung-Wook Kim and Seong-Young Lee, both of Seoul, South Korea, and Joo-Ae Youn of Seongnam-si, South Korea, have developed a thin film transistor array panel that is used in a liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing the same. According to ...
German Inventor Develops Back-Lit Liquid Crystal Display
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Norbert Morsch of Wangen, Germany, has developed a back-lit liquid crystal display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module of a back-lit liquid crystal display, as is used in particular in the operating panel of a large domestic ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Devices with Column Select Circuit Layout
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Byung-Gil Choi of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Young-Ho Suh of Kyunggi-do, South Korea, have developed a column select circuit in a static random access memory (SRAM) with a three-dimensional layout. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electro-optical Device and Electronic Apparatus
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Junichi Sano of Chino, Japan, has developed an electro-optical device that allows improvement of its pixel aperture ratio. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate ....
German Inventors Develop Planar Optical Circuit
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Thorsten Spott and Andreas Schumacher, both of Munchen, Germany, have developed a planar optical circuit having at least one functional layer with structures for guidance, changing, regulation, control, production and/or detection of optical signals. According ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electro-Optical Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Tomoyuki Nakano and Keiji Takizawa, both of Toyoshina-machi, Japan, have developed a method of manufacturing electro-optical device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transflective liquid crystal device is provided that has red, green and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thin Film Patterning Substrate Forming Method
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Shunichi Seki and Hiroshi Kiguchi, both of Suwa, Japan, Ichio Yudasaka of Chino, Japan, and Hiroo Miyajima of Matsumoto, Japan, have developed a thin film formation method for forming thin films in patterns on a thin film patterning substrate. According to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Iichiro Inoue of Tenri, Japan, and Tatsuo Uchida of Miyagi, Japan, have developed a liquid crystal display device that includes a pair of substrates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The liquid crystal display device of the present ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Multi-Domain Liquid Crystal Display
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Sung-Kyu Hong of Suwon, South Korea, Hee-Seop Kim of Kyungki-do, South Korea, and Kyoung-Ju Shin of Yongin, South Korea, have developed a multi-domain liquid crystal display and a thin film transistor substrate of the same. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Testing Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Kenichi Oi and Hirotaka Jiten, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed a semiconductor testing device and a semiconductor testing method for conducting evaluation tests on semiconductors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Hermetic Container, Image Display Apparatus
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Tomokazu Andoh of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an image display apparatus formed by using the hermetic container. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hermetic container includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Electroluminescent Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Jin-Woo Park and Jae-Bon Koo, both of Yongin, South Korea, and Kwan-Hee Lee of Seoul, South Korea, have developed an electroluminescent display device with a negligibly small voltage drop of a cathode, no external light reflection, and high contrast and ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Photonic Die Fabrication Method
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Chien-Hua Chen and Robert Newton Bicknell, both of Corvallis, Ore., have developed a method for fabricating light emitting photonic devices that includes forming a photonic crystal structure on a sacrificial layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Variable Optical Delay Line
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Albin Lloyd Kasper of Clifton, N.J., Jane D. LeGrange of Princeton, N.J., and Christi Kay Madsen of South Plainfield, N.J., have developed a variable optical delay line with a large continuous tuning range. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal On Silicon Display
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Ta-Shuang Kuan of Hsin-Chu Hsien, Taiwan, Chia-Tsung Chan of Tao-Yuan Hsien, Taiwan, and Chia-Te Lin of Chia-Yi Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display with micro color filters positioned on the top surface of the transparent ...
New York Inventor Develops Phase Change Memory Cell with High Read Margin
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Thomas Happ of Pleasantville, N.Y., has developed a phase change memory cell with high read margin at low power operation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell device includes a first electrode, phase-change material adjacent the ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Optical Switching System
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Thomas Ducellier of Ottawa, and Alan Hnatiw of Stittsville, Canada, have developed systems and methods for optical switching to colorless ports and colored ports. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wavelength selective switch is provided ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Reflection-Type Liquid Crystal Display
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Hiroshi Kanou, Yuichi Yamaguchi, Teruaki Suzuki and Hironori Kikkawa, all from Tokyo, have developed a reflection-type liquid crystal display and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflection-type liquid ...
Florida Inventors Develop Optical Transceiver Antenna
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Kenneth D. White of Cocoa, Fla., Warren H. Miller of Palm Bay, Fla., Mark T. Montgomery of Melbourne Beach, Fla., Reeder N. Ward of Melbourne, Fla., have developed an optical transceiver antenna that has a pair of cartridges supported by a pan/tilt mount ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Broadcast Receiver
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Takehiro Onomatsu of Osaka, Japan, has developed a broadcast receiver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a broadcast receiver, where the user operates a channel up/down key of a remote controller, when the broadcast signal to be next ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Passive Temperature-Compensated Optical Grating Arrangement
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Henry Huang of Edison, N.J., has developed a passive temperature-compensated optical grating arrangement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive temperature-compensated optical grating arrangement includes a housing of low coefficient ...
New York Inventors Develop Optical Encoded Data Signals Routing Optical System
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Arie Shahar and Eldan Halberthal, both of Rye Brook, N.Y., have developed an optical system for decoding, switching, demultiplexing, and routing of optical encoded data signals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Circuit Board Processing Technique
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Urs Bapst of Ncuhaus, Switzerland, Christoph Berger of Horgen, Switzerland, Folkert Horst of Zurich, Switzerland, and Bert Jan Offrein of Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, and Russell Alan Budd of North Salem, N.Y., have developed techniques for circuit board ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Optoelectric Converting Substrate
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Ying-Chih Chen and Shun-Tien Lee, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Yen Chu of Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan, have developed an optoelectric converting substrate with a honeycomb-shaped micro-structured optical waveguide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Oklahoma Inventor Develops Sample Medium Optical Absorbance Measurement Method
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Brian N. Strecker of Stillwater, Okla., has developed a method for measuring optical absorbance of a sample medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for measuring the optical absorbance of a sample medium ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electro-Optical Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Keiji Fukuhara of Eniwa, Japan, has developed an electro-optical device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an electro-optical device capable of reducing the likelihood of preventing moisture from permeating into a laminated ...
California Inventors Develop Composite Pressure Vessels Fiber Optic Damage Detection System
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Thomas L. Andrews of Newport Beach, Calif., and Grimes- Lorie R. Ledesma of Long Beach, Calif., have developed a fiber optic damage detection system for composite pressure vessels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Multi-Domain Liquid Crystal Display
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Hyung Ki Hong of Seoul, South Korea, and Gi-Hong Kim of Kyonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a multi-domain liquid display that prevents deviation of a domain boundary using a patterned spacer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Susumu Shida of Osaka, Japan, has developed a liquid-crystal module which is equipped with a frame, a bezel, and a liquid-crystal panel, the frame includes groove sections. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of the groove sections has an ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Joon Young Yang of Bucheon, South Korea, Yong In Park of Seoul, South Korea, and Sang Hyun Kim of Anyang, South Korea, have developed a liquid crystal display device and a method of fabricating the same. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Tetsuhiro Yamaguchi, Naoshi Yamada, Katsuhiko Morishita and Kiyoshi Ogishima, all from Mie, Japan, Kazuhiro Maekawa of Matsudo, Japan, Masumi Kubo of Ikoma, Japan, Akihiro Yamamoto of Yamatokooriyama, Japan, and Takashi Ochi of Tenri, Japan, have developed a liquid ...
Badger Truck Center Wins $62,679 Contract
May 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $62,679 contract to Badger Truck Center Inc., Milwaukee, for vehicular equipment components. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more ...
Rochester Electronics Wins $34,290 Contract
May 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $34,290 contract to Rochester Electronics LLC, Newburyport, Mass., for digital microcircuits. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more ...
Monroe Cable Wins $44,220 Contract
May 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $44,220 contract to Monroe Cable Co. Inc., Middletown, N.Y., for electrical power cables. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more ...
MOTOR TRANSPORTATION MECHANICS KEEP MLG ROLLING
May 11, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The Marines of 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) send hundreds of vehicles out on Iraq's roadways to provide logistical support to all the units in Al Anbar Province. However, for every turning wheel there is a turning ...
SEMPER GUMBY: MARINE MOVES FROM ADMIN TO MACHINE GUN FOR IRP
May 11, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Improvise, adapt and overcome. Since day one in recruit training, Marines are taught to be prepared for anything - even if that means working outside of their military occupational specialty. Lance Cpl. Joshua ...
'312 MARINE WINS 2ND MAW MARINE OF QUARTER
May 11, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: One Fightertown Marine recently confirmed in Cherry Point, N.C., that the Corps' competitive spirit and constant pursuit of military excellence is still very much alive in the fleet today. Through these qualities, ...
California Inventors Develop Multi-segment Knife Block
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Barbara Ayon of Los Angeles, and Wei Shen of San Gabriel, Calif., have developed kitchen knife blocks that store knives. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A number of arms are coupled to a base. Each arm is to hold a blade of a respective ...
California Inventors Develop Electrochemical Plating System Contact Ring
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- You Wang of Cupertino, Calif., Anzhong Chang of San Jose, Calif., and John O. Dukovic of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a contact ring for an electrochemical plating system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The contact ring includes an ...
German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Correction Tape
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Lutz Paulus of Neuss, Germany, Wulf Herrmannsen of Ronnenberg, Germany, Anja Jansen of Ratingen, Germany, and Werner Moosmann of Tennenbronn, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a correction tape and transparent cap, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Writing Instrument Clip
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Donna Piacenza of Chicago has developed an ornamental design for a clip for a writing instrument, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D521,559 on May 23, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Sanford ...
California Inventors Develop Microfabricated Cell Sorter
May 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- Charles F. Spence of Arcadia, Calif., Anne Y. Fu of Hacienda Heights, Calif., Stephen R. Quake of San Marino, Calif., and Frances H. Arnold of Pasadena, Calif., have developed a microfluidic system for processing a flow of biological material in a ...