US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, May 23:
U.S., South Korean Inventors Develop Intermediate Frequency Generating Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Mohsen Abdellaoui and Dan Meacham, both of San Diego, Yong-suk Kim of Daejeon, South Korea, Wan-jin Kim of Seoul, South Korea, and Woo-Kyung Lee of Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed an apparatus and a method for frequency generation in mobile communication ...
Indian Inventor Develops Multiplexed Wireless Receiver
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Narasimhan Venkatesh of Hyderabad, India, has developed a multiplexed wireless receiver and transmitter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baseband receiver having quadrature analog outputs and a plurality of analog control and status ...
California Inventor Develops Passive Repeater, Terminator
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Robert T. Beierle of Bar, Calif., has developed a passive terminator between a plurality of nodes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive terminator between a plurality of nodes includes a first voltage divider configured to passively ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Forming Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Masakatsu Yamada, Toshiyuki Takano and Yasuhiro Matsumoto, all from Ibaraki, Japan, have developed an image forming apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "image forming apparatus including: an image ...
Texas Inventors Develop Interferer Detection Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Timothy M. Schmidl of Dallas, Eko N. Onggosanusi of Allen, Texas, and Anand G. Dabak of Plano, Texas, have developed an interferer detection and a channel estimation for wireless communications networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disc Chucking Mechanism
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Yasuo Osada of Saitama, Japan, and Hiromu Watanabe of Tokyo, have developed a disc chucking mechanism and a disc drive apparatus having the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disc chucking mechanism includes: a central shaft that ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Hitoshi Furuya, Shigeru Yoshino and Takashi Sato, all from Atsugi, Japan, have developed an optical head base unit that forms a part of an optical apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disk apparatus includes a head that reads ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Octavio S. Lubrano of Tigard, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,734 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Optical Pickup Actuator
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Seok-jung Kim and Yong-hoon Lee, both of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Sun-mo Kim of Seoul, South Korea, have developed an actuator that is used with an optical pickup having a plurality of objective lenses so that a plurality of optical discs having different ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Side Element
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Matthew J. Holmes of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a side element of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,730 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Lens Drive Device
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Jun Suzuki and Katsumi Ishii, both of Tokorozawa, Japan, have developed a lens drive device that have metal wire-like elastic members, and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "lens ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Extended Microphone with Positioning Display
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Kuo-Chung Chen of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an extended microphone for a radio communication equipment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The extended microphone includes a microphone body; an adapter for connecting the extended ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Multi-Hop Intelligent Relaying Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Shalini Periyalwar and Nimal Senarath, both of Nepean, Canada, and Yoon Chae Cheong of Kanata, Canada, have developed a multi-hop relaying method and an apparatus which is used in a cellular network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Carrier Image Cleaning Member
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Takeo Suda of Tokyo has developed a cleaning member for cleaning an image carrier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cleaning member includes a support plate having a planar face portion configured to be fixed to an object in a position ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Electronic Package Cutting Process
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Ming-Lun Ho and Ming-Chieh Kao, both of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, have developed a process of cutting electronic package. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a cutting process for cutting connected electronic package ...
Texas Inventors Develop Seismic Telemetry System
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Thomas Buie and Kambiz Afkami, both of Richardson, Texas, Lawrence P. Behn of Houston, Thomas G. Leete of Plano, Texas, John E. Barnett Jr. of Mesquite, Texas, and James Iseli of Allen, Texas, have developed a system for remotely controlling, acquiring and monitoring ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Tracy L. Teague of Beaverton, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,731 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
Indian Inventor Develops Voice Quality Testing Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Jayasimha M. Raghavan of Bangalore, India, has developed a system, method, and an apparatus for testing voice quality in a communication network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more test signals at a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Disc Driving Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Hiroto Nishida of Kahoku-gun, Japan, and Akira Matsumoto of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an optical disk driving apparatus for selectively driving a plurality of optical disks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is an ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Bertrand Racine of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,733 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Formation Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Tatsuro Osawa of Nagano-ken, Japan, has developed an image formation apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image formation apparatus includes a cleaning device capable of coming into and out of contact with the front surface of a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Electrical Connector
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Wei Che Wang of Tu-chen, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for an electrical connector, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,401 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Hon Hai ...
South Carolina Inventor Develops T-Top Watercraft Foldable Windshield
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Richard Gonzales of Mount Pleasant, S.C., has developed a foldable windshield device for attachment to a T-top of a motorized watercraft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "foldable windshield device for removable ...
Florida Inventor Develops Disabled Watercraft Emergency Sailing System
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Paul C. McKain of Tallahassee, Fla., has developed an emergency sail system for disabled watercraft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency sail system for disabled watercraft comprises a mast receptacle for interfacing with the ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Casual Shoe
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Rory W. Fuerst of Atherton, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a casual shoe, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,723 on June 13, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Keen LLC, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Forming Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Tomoe Aruga, Nobumasa Abe and Yujiro Nomura, all from Nagano-Ken, Japan, have developed an image forming apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus comprises: an image transfer carrying means having flexibility ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Aquarium Airflow Diverter
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Justin Sabbaugh of Commerce Township, Mich., has developed a method of altering airflow of an aquarium air supply by placing a bottle over the air supply thus, altering the airflow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method can be ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Forming Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Satoru Yamamoto and Kuniyasu Kimura, both of Ibaraki, Japan, and Mitsuhiko Sato and Hideyuki Ikegami, both of Chiba, Japan, have developed an image forming apparatus and program for controlling image forming apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Australian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Dance Footwear
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- David Wilkenfeld and Felicia Leoncelli, both of Sydney, Australia, have developed an ornamental design for a dance footwear, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,722 on June 13, 2006. The ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Sports Brassiere
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Jerry Aurilia and Leslie Aurilia, both of Paradise Valley, Ariz., have developed an ornamental design for a sports brassiere with storage pouches, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,717 on June 13, ...
Australian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Drill Bit
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Liam Patrick Ellis of Fairlight, Australia, has developed an ornamental design for a drill bit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,398 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Surgibit ...
Washington Inventor Develops Client Side Hypertext Transfer Protocol Stack Software
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Kestutis Patiejunas of Redmond, Wash., has developed methods and systems for implementing a client side hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) stack in a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software components and methods are ...
Washington Inventor Develops Interlaced Video Image Processing Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Stephen J. Estrop of Carnation, Wash., has developed methods and apparatuses for facilitating processing of interlaced video images for progressive video displays. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with certain exemplary ...
California Inventors Develop Computer Operating System Super-user Privilege Virtualizing Technique
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Xun Wilson Huang and Srinivasan Keshav, both of Mountain View, Calif., and Cristian Estan of La Jolla, Calif., have developed techniques for virtualizing super-user privileges in a computer operating system that includes multiple virtual processes, such as virtual ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Rechargeable Battery Pack
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Richard Maglionico and Sharyl J. Maglionico, both of Lehighton, Pa., have developed an ornamental design for a rechargable battery pack for providing uninterrupted power, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Distributed Computing System Process Termination Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- John W. Maly of LaPorte, Colo., and Ryan C. Thompson of Loveland, Colo., have developed a system for terminating processes that are executing on a plurality of distributed computing nodes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Sphingosine Kinase Inhibiting Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Charles D. Smith of Hummelstown, Pa., Kevin J. French of Harrisburg, Pa., and Jong K. Yun of Hummelston, Pa., have developed compositions and methods for inhibiting sphingosine kinase and for treating hyperproliferative disease, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
Swedish, Finnish Inventors Develop Liquid Leakage Detection/Indication Device
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Emil Oskar Horlin and Hanna Sofia Horlin, both of Kista, Sweden, Timo Siikaluoma of Stockholm, Sweden, and Tom Horlin of Hankasalmi, Finland, have developed a device and a method for detection/indication of liquid leakage. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Television Set
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Holger Hoehn of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a television set, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,407 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Hannspree Inc., ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Livestock Moving Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Jon Davis Mollhagen of Lorraine, Kan., has developed an apparatus for urging a livestock animal through an enclosed alleyway. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for urging livestock animals includes at least one alleyway which is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Optical Connector Plug
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Makoto Shiraishi and Makoto Amagasaki, both of Aichi, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for an optical connector plug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D523,396 on June 20, 2006. The ...
New York Inventor Develops Vessel Bulkhead Door
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- David E. Pendergraph of Auburn, N.Y., has developed a bulkhead door for providing closing of a bulkhead opening of vessels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "bulkhead door for watertight closing of a bulkhead ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Processor Multi-threading Techniques
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Amit A. Merchant and David J. Sager, both of Portland, Ore., and Darrell D. Boggs of Aloha, Ore., have developed multi-threading techniques for a processor utilizing a replay queue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor is provided ...
Virginia Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Funnel Plate
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Thomas P. Sisson of Forest, Va., has developed an ornamental design for a funnel plate, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,404 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Danville ...
British Inventors Develop Computer Resource Scheduling Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Daniel G Waddington of Lancaster, Great Britain, have developed a method of administering resource utilization in a computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resource utilization in a computer is achieved by running a first process to make ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Fixing Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Noboru Oishi, Masahiko Shimosugi and Shigeru Tsunoda, all from Tokyo, have developed a fixing roller which has a heat source therein and has a rubber layer on an outer periphery of a metal pipe. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardness of ...
Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Computer Software Management Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Russell H. Gowland and Paul A. Kline, both of Midland, Mich., Dan A. Nugent of Canton, Mich., Bruce L. O'Connor of Alto, Mich., Michael A. Chenelle of Painesville, Ohio, Steven E. Gratto of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Peter J. Henry of Broadview Heights, Ohio, Jeffrey J ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Fixing Device
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Masami Miyazaki of Itami, Japan, has developed a fixing device which has a fixing roller that includes an inside roller, an outside roller and a regulation member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The regulation member is disposed outside ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Multi-Threaded Program Analysis Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Curt D. Tudor of Chapel Hill, N.C., has developed a method of detecting and causing latent deadlocks in multi-threaded programs. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for analyzing multi-threaded programs are provided. The ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Television Set
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Holger Hoehn of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a television set, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,408 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been assigned to Hannspree Inc., ...
Massachusetts, Maine Inventors Develop Marine Vessels Door System
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Robert A. Dasilva of Lowell, Mass., Jerome P. Fanucci of Lexington, Mass., and Michael McAleenan of Georgetown, Maine, have developed a hatch or a door system for securing and sealing openings in marine vessels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Animal Restraining Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Jeong Han and Volker Neugebauer, both of Galveston, Texas, have developed an animal restraining apparatus for physiological and pharmacological studies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An animal restraining apparatus is disclosed which ...
California Inventor Develops Underwater Vehicle Buoyancy Managing Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Steven M. Simpson of Ojai, Calif., has developed a system and a method for managing the buoyancy of an underwater vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system and a method, including a gas supply ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop Process Generated Steam Re-Compression Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Robert Lin and Steven Paul Bellner, both of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed a process to produce an intermediate pressure steam from a high temperature process stream resulting from an aromatic carboxylic acid production process. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Multi-Color Image Formation Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Kenjiro Nishiwaki and Toshio Furukawa, both of Nagoya, Japan, have developed an apparatus for forming a multi-color image by sequentially transferring single-color separated-developer-images. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus ...
Texas Inventors Develop Dynamic Server Meta-page Rendering Method
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Kulvir Singh Bhogal of Fort Worth, Texas, and Nizamudeen Ishmael Jr. of Austin, Texas, have developed dynamic server page meta-engines with data sharing for dynamic content and non-Java Server Page (JSP) segments rendered through other engines. According to the ...
California Inventors Develop Litter Sifter Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Ronald M. Schmidt and Linda M. Schmidt, both of Burbank, Calif., have developed an apparatus, a system and a method for litter sifter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A litter sifter includes a lower portion having through-holes. An upper ...
California Inventors Develop Heterogeneous Applications Communications Exchange System
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Chris Bussler of Half Moon Bay, Calif., and Roger Bodamer of San Carlos, Calif., have developed a multi-view conversion system and a method for exchanging communications between heterogeneous applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Television Set
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Holger Hoehn and Reinier Bloem, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a television set, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D523,406 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been ...
Louisiana Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Apron
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Iona Brown Sanders of Slidell, La., has developed an ornamental design for an apron combined with hooks, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D522,719 on June 13, 2006. The original application was ...
Washington Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Robert M. Moehring of Clyde Hill, Wash., and Diane E. Bennett of Seattle, have developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D522,725 on June 13, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Latent Image Developing Device
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Shinjiro Toba and Masaaki Sato, both of Shizuoka, Japan, have developed a developing device for developing a latent image which is formed on an image bearing member by using developer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Multidirectional Floating Dock Element
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Roy Ahern of Hudson, Wis., has developed a multidirectional floatation element that is useful for assembling decks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The multidirectional floating element is preferably a polyhedron in overall shape including ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Disk Reproducing Apparatus
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Makoto Kudara and Kiyoshi Kobiyama, both of Shirakawa, Japan, have developed an upright optical disk reproducing apparatus equipped with a disk reproducing means for reproducing information recorded on an optical disk. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Semiconductor Device Substrate
May 23, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Yukiko Mizukoshi of Kita-ku, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a substrate for a semiconductor device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D523,403 on June 20, 2006. The patent has been ...