US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, May 22:
Australian Inventors Develop Tufting Machine
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Joz Mile and William Brian Wilson, both of Alexandria, Australia, have developed a tufting machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention concerns the production of so called 'hand tufted rugs', carpets and wall hangings by use a ...
California, Utah Inventors Develop Electronic Device Fabrication Facility
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Amitabh Puri of San Jose, Calif., Eric A. Englhardt of Palo Alto, Calif., and David Duffin of Sandy, Utah, have developed a method and an apparatus for integrating large and a small lot electronic device fabrication facilities. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Extra Strength Suture Sleeve
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Luis M. Rodriguez of Coon Rapids, Minn., has developed a tubular, polyurethane reinforced suture sleeve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The suture sleeve comprises a tubular body and a sleeve wall. A circumference of the sleeve wall is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Sewing Machine
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ayako Yoshimura of Nagoya, Japan, and Tomohiko Mori of Inazawa, Japan, have developed a sewing machine that includes an embroidery frame moving device detachably attachable to a sewing machine body and a control device. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Industrial Process Data Acquisition Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Eric M. Rumi, Paul J. Zepf and John Baird, all from Oakville, Canada, Chris Norris-Lue of Guelph, Canada, Tim Rintjemaof Hamilton, Canada, and Yvonne Wu of Mississauga, Canada, have developed a method for optimizing an industrial process data. According to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Manufacturing Apparatus
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Hidemitsu Naya and Koji Hashimoto, both of Tokyo, Masamichi Kawano and Rikio Tomiyoshi, both of Ibaraki, Japan, have developed a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus ...
California Inventors Develop Work-in-Progress Tracking System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Michael E. Orshansky of Oakland, Calif., and Klaus ten Hagen of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a work-in-progress (WIP) tracking system that is used to coordinate a semiconductor supply chain operation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Dispatch Integration System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yu-Wen Ho and Chien-Chung Chen, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Hung-En Tai of Taipei County, Taiwan, have developed a dispatch integration method which is based on semiconductor manufacturing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When multiple ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Adaptive Control System with Hedge Unit
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Eric Norman Johnson and Anthony J. Calise, both of Atlanta, have developed an adaptive control system which is used to control a plant. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The adaptive control system includes a hedge unit that receives at ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Play-Cursor Calculation Process
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Erik Lorenzen of Mesa, Ariz., and Keith Weiner of Queen Creek, Ariz., have developed a software and a process for play-cursor calculation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process and software for achieving ...
Japanese Inventor Develops User Interface Control Apparatus
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Tomonori Minagawa of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an user interface control apparatus and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier which indicates a reason why a direct change is disabled upon application of a specific ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Sequenced Part Delivery Requesting Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Tamara S. Koenig of Spencerville, Ohio, Bradley J. Morrison of Columbus, Ohio, Kevin Wade of Plain City, Ohio, and Biju Vendrappilly of Emakulam, India, have developed a system and a method for requesting delivery of sequenced parts that accounts for parts in ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Integrated Mill
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ray Stevens and Lyle Baker, both of Salmon Arm, Canada, have developed a system for localizing and optimizing harvesting of trees or stands of trees. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system for localizing and ...
New York Inventor Develops Charge Injecting Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Michael D. Potter of Churchville, N.Y., has developed a method for non-damaging charge injection and a system thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for injecting charge includes providing a first material on a second ...
Minnesota, New Jersey Inventors Develop Real-Time Remote Monitoring Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Michael Bergelson of Bronx, Minn., and Narcis M. Naydenov of Wayne, N.J., have developed a system and a method for real-time remote monitoring of implantable medical devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitor is configured ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Antenna Tilt Angle Deciding Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Akio Aoyama and Kojiro Hamabe, both of Tokyo, have developed a method for deciding tilt angle of antenna in radio communication system and apparatus for deciding the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present ...
North Carolina, California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Light Emitting Element Coating Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Gerald H. Negley of Carrboro, N.C., and Michael Leung of Port Hueneme, Calif., have developed methods of coating semiconductor light emitting elements by evaporating solvent from a suspension. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Radio-Frequency Communication Telemetry System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Vineel Vallapureddy and Cynthia Morrissey, both of St. Paul, Minn., Paul Holmquist of Andover, Minn., Earle Roberts of Maple Grove, Minn., Joseph E. Bange of Eagan, Minn., and Jeffrey A. Von Arx of Minneapolis, have developed a dynamic channel selection for raduio ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Linear Power Amplifier Shelf
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Tac Wook Kim of Anyang-si, South Korea, has developed ac linear power amplifier (LPA) shelf for a mobile communication base station. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "LPA shelf for a mobile communication base ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Thin Film Transistor Array Substrate Fabrication Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Seung Hee Nam and Jae Young Oh, both of Kyounggi-do, South Korea, and Kyoung Mook Lee of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a thin film transistor array substrate and a method of fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Arrhythmia Discrimination Device
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Paul Haefner of Circle Pines, Minn., has developed an arrhythmia discrimination method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrhythmia discrimination device and method involves receiving electrocardiogram signals and non-electrophysiologic ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Cardiac Rhythm Management System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ronald W. Heil Jr. of Roseville, Minn., John E. Heil of White Bear Lake, Minn., and Randy Westlund of Minneapolis, have developed an implantable lead with dissolvable coating for improved fixation and an extraction. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Cardiac Muscle Fencing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Shlomo Ben-Haim, Nissim Darvish and Yuval Mika, all from Haifa, Israel, and Maier Fenster of Petach Tikva, Israel, have developed an apparatus for blocking the activity of an area of a tissue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus ...
California Inventors Develop Light Waveguide
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- David S. Sumida of Los Angeles, Authi A. Narayanan of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Hans W. Bruesselbach of Calabasas, Calif., have developed a method for fabricating and using a light waveguide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide is ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Closed-Loop Neuromodulation Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Michael R. S. Hill of Minneapolis, Gary W. King of Fridley, Minn., Thomas J. Mullen of Ham Lake, Minn., and Xiaohong Zhou of Plymouth, Minn., have developed a method and an apparatus to provide therapy to a patient for protecting cardiac tissue from ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Magnetically Enhanced Injection Catheter
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Toby Freyman of Watertown, Mass., has developed a catheter which is adapted to deliver therapeutic or diagnostic agents to a target tissue of a human body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter in accordance with the present invention ...
California Inventor Develops Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Mirror Device Making Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yee-Chung Fu of Fremont, Calif., has developed a method for making a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS device includes a mirror having a top surface with trenches, a beam connected ...
New York Inventors Develop Hybrid-Dual-Fourier Tomographic Algorithm
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Robert R. Alfano and Wei Cai, both of Bronx, N.Y., have developed a hybrid-dual-fourier tomographic algorithm for a fast three-dimensionial optical image reconstruction in turbid media. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconstruction ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Cellular Phone Advertising Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Motokazu Okawa of Tokyo has developed a cellular phone that is composed of a housing, a keyboard, first and second display devices, a memory, a receiver-transmitter, and a controller computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The keyboard ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Percent Body Fat Measuring Apparatus
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yoshio Higuchi of Osaka, Japan, has developed a percent body fat measuring apparatus using a half-wave waveform. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A percent body fat measuring apparatus includes a first and a second electrodes with which a ...
California Inventors Develop Cardiac Ischemia Detection Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Xiaoyi Min of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Yougandh Chitre of Valencia, Calif., Jeffery D. Snell of Chatsworth, Calif., Gene A. Bornzin of Simi Valley, Calif., and Jong Kil of Glendale, Calif., have developed a method for detecting ventricular electrical ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Electrophysiology, Ablation Catheter
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Rassoll Rashidi of Lakewood, Ohio, has developed an electrophysiology, ablation catheter with second passage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deflectable tip cardiac electrophysiology/ablation lumen catheter includes first and second ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Shallow Trench Isolation Film Fabrication Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Geon-Ook Park of Seoul, South Korea, has developed methods for fabricating an shallow trench isolation (STI) film of a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for fabricating a STI of a semiconductor device are ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Bath Accessory
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Aaron Chu, Ken Hsui and Jau-Chi Lai, all from Taichung, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a bath accessory, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,786 on June 13, 2006. The patent ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Towel Dispenser
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- James Brady of Wilmington, Ohio, has developed an ornamental design for a towel dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,785 on June 13, 2006. The original application was filed on Jan ....
Texas, California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Processing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Douglas S. Ondricek of Dallas, and David V. Pedersen of Scotts Valley, Calif., have developed methods for processing at least one die which comprises an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example of a method of the ...
Washington Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tiger-Shaped Pillow Case
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Karen Sue Keller of Seattle has developed an ornamental design for a tiger-shaped pillow case, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,788 on June 13, 2006. The original application was filed on ...
British Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Dispenser
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Giovanni Benedetti of West Kilbride, Great Britain, Graham Sharp of Renfrew, Great Britain, and Stephen Slack of Airdrie, Great Britain, have developed an ornamental design for a dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yuji Okawa of Ibaraki, Japan, has developed a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a treatment method of a semiconductor wafer facilitating picking-up of semiconductor chips and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Tetsuya Kurosawa and Yoshihisa Imori, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a main surface, a rear ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ferroelectric Capacitor Manufacturing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Masao Nakayama and Takeshi Kijima, both of Suwa, Japan, have developed a method for manufacturing a ferroelectric capacitor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a ferroelectric capacitor in accordance with the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Contents Data Transmission/Reception System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Keiichi Fukuda of Fukushima, Japan, has developed a contents data transmission/reception system in which contents data, such as audio data and video data, is transmitted and received between plural apparatuses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Media Storage Organizer
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Thomas Hunt of Carlsbad, Calif., and Thomas E. Veloskey of San Marcos, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a media storage organizer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,790 on June 13, ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Towel Dispenser
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- John C. Sellars of Wauwatosa, Wis., has developed an ornamental design for the towel dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,780 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Sellars ...
Texas Inventors Develop Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Michael J. McBride, Jesse C. Ramos, Mark E. Culp and Pirainder S. Lall, all form Austin, Texas, and Matthew Ryskoski of Kyle, Texas, have developed a method for advanced process control of thermal oxidation processes, and systems for accomplishing ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Diaper Receptacle Decorative Cover
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Susan Kahn of Scarsdale, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for a decorative cover for a diaper receptacle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,789 on June 13, 2006. The original ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Chair Desk Combination Frame
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Peter Glass of Arroyo Grande, Calif., and Robert J. Mills of Torrance, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a chair desk combination frame, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,777 on June ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Computer Power Management Feature Verification Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Chia-Chuan Wu of Fongshan, Taiwan, has developed a method for testing and verifying power management features of computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically testing and verifying power management features of ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Polysilicon Crystallization Mask
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Myung-Koo Kang and Sook-Young Kang, both of Seoul, South Korea, and Hyun-Jae Kim of Seongnam, South Korea, have developed a mask for crystallizing polysilicon and a method for forming thin film transistor using the mask. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Digital Right Management Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Dani Dariel of Omer, Israel, has developed an integrated circuit for digital rights management. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for implementing digital rights management includes a ...
California Inventor Develops Semiconductor-On-Insulator Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Petar B. Atanackovic of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a method of fabricating a semiconductor-on-insulator semiconductor wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a semiconductor-on-insulator semiconductor wafer is ...
New York, North Carolina Inventors Develop Autonomic Computer Backup System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- David Frederick Bantz of Chappaqua, N.Y., John Peter Karidis of Ossining, N.Y., and David Carroll Challener of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a secure method for automatically backing up information resident on a user computer that uses excess capacity on a set of ...
Vermont, New York Inventors Develop Semiconductor Structure Fabrication Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Toshiharu Furukawa, William R. Tonti and Richard Q. Williams, all from Essex Junction, Vt., and Carl Radens of La Grangeville, N.Y., have developed a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Hafnium Oxide Formation Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Cem Basceri and Gurtej S. Sandhu, both of Boise, Idaho, and F. Daniel Gealy of Kuna, Idaho, have developed methods of forming hafnium oxide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes methods of forming hafnium-containing materials, ...
Virginia Inventor Develops Integrated Circuitry Formation Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Jianping Zhang of Bristow, Va., has developed methods of forming integrated circuitry. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes methods of forming integrated circuitry. In one implementation, a method of forming an integrated ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Furniture Leg Ornamentation
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Jamie Lowsky of Aventura, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for furniture leg ornamentation, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,778 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
U.S., Israeli Inventors Develop Semiconductor Wafer Testing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Ariel Ben-Porath of Gealia, Israel, and Douglas Ray Hendricks of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method for electrically testing a semiconductor wafer during integrated-circuit fabrication process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
French Inventor Develops Material Compound Wafer Manufacturing Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Thibaut Maurice and Eric Guiot, both of Goncelin, France, have developed a method of manufacturing a material compound wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a material compound wafer by forming ...
California, Oregon Inventors Develop Modular Basic Input Output System Update Mechanism
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Andrew H. Gafken of Folsom, Calif., Todd D. Wilson of Granite Bay, Calif., Thomas Dodson of El Dorado Hills, Calif., and John V. Lovelace of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a method for updating a system basic input output system (BIOS) for a ...
Alabama Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Chair
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Jerry C. Camp Jr., Rory S. Rehmert and Timothy M. LeRoy, all from Birmingham, Ala., and Jackie Hogan of Cullman, Ala., have developed an ornamental design for a chair, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Michigan Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Chair
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Robert L.Russell of Kentwood, Mich., and Randal T. Lewis of Rockford, Mich., have developed an ornamental design for a chair, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,766 on June 13, 2006. The ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Formation Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Andrew D. Bailey III of Pleasanton, Calif., and Shrikant P. Lohokare of Fremont, Calif., have developed a system and a method for forming a semiconductor in a dual damascene structure including receiving a patterned semiconductor substrate. According to the ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shelving
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Richard Edward O'Reilly of Pembroke, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for shelving with a drop leaf and a drawer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,772 on June 13, 2006. The patent ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Application Program Interface Interception System
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Yona Hollander and Ophir Rachman, both of Tel Aviv, Israel, and Oded Horovitz of Hertzelia, Israel, have developed a method and a system for intercepting an application program interface (API) within a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Interconnect-Forming Method
May 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 22 -- Xinming Wang, Daisuke Takagi, Akihiko Tashiro, Yukio Fukunaga and Akira Fukunaga, all from Tokyo, have developed an interconnects-forming method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an interconnects-forming ...