US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, May 24:
SEN. JOHNSON ISSUES STATEMENT RESPONSE TO PRESDENTIAL DISTASTER DECLARATION FOLLOWING FLOODING IN EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
May 24, 2007 ... The office of Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., issued the following statement: Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) released the following statement in response to the Presdential Distaster Declaration following the flooding in eastern South Dakota: I am pleased that President Bush responded ...
Spanish Inventor Develops Mixture Producing Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Poul Henrik Ahm of Altea, Spain, has developed a mixture of a carrier and additives for use in germinating units containing seeds or similar growth-suited parts of a plants as well as a method of producing the mixture. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Legacy Microprocessor Instruction Emulation Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- William J. Cannon and Paul D. Ward, both of Centerville, Ohio, Eric W. Zwirner of Dayton, Ohio, and Timothy R. Hoerig of Beavercreek, Ohio, have developed a method for emulating instructions of a legacy microprocessor on a host microprocessor. According to the ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Stationary Arm Fishing Rod Support Stand
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Mike W. Weber of Birchwood, Wis., and Edward J. Stuart of Colfax, Wis., have developed a rod and reel combination support stand assembly adapted for receiving and securing a rod and reel combination having a balancing point. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Fishing Tackle Pack Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May. 24 -- Alan G.Noraker of Aurora, Colo., has developed a method for facilitating use of fishing line by a fisher. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing line compartment having one or more spools containing fishing line parts is provided. The ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Flower Arranging Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Andre Van Zuylen of Katwijk, Netherlands, has developed a device for arranging a bunch of flowers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for arranging a bunch of flowers, in particular a twisted bunch of ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Lateral Motion Control
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May. 24 -- Paul J.Lieb of Norton, Ohio, has developed a tethered float for use in a fluid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "float device which provides an on-demand change in tacking or planing direction without having to ...
Washington Inventor Develops Multi-language Compilation System
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Barend H. Venter of Issaquah, Wash., has developed a system and a method for multi-language compilation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method provide a mechanism for two or more separately written compiler components to ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Fishing Pole Stand Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Sr. Todd Steven Perigo of Rhinelander, Wis., has developed a support stand for a fishing pole, particularly a fishing pole for ice fishing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a support stand for a fishing ...
Washington Inventors Develop Software Component Configuring Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Christopher S. Gouge of Bellevue, Wash., James S. Masson of Bothell, Wash., Theodore C. Van Zwol of Kirkland, Wash., and Michael James Day of Seattle, have developed a computer implemented system that facilitates software installation. According to the U.S ....
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Side Gusseted Flexible Beverage Container
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Ron Berman of Long Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a side gusseted flexible beverage container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D542,646 on May 15. The patent has been ...
French Inventors Develop Cosmetic Composition
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Sandrine Decoster of St. Gratien, France, and Priscille Devin-Baudoin of Vanves, France, and Anne Sabbagh of Rueil Malmaison, France, have developed cosmetic compositions containing a particular aminosilicone and a thickener, and uses thereof. According to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Abnormality Diagnosis Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Hisanori Ozaki of Tokyo, and Akira Kiyomura of Gunma, Japan, have developed an abnormality diagnosis device for an air-fuel ratio sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When carrying out abnormality determination for an air-fuel ratio ...
Chinese, Israeli Inventors Develop Microprocessor Compiler
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Jianhui Li and Bo Huang, both of Shanghai, China, and Orna Etzion of Haifa, Israel, have developed a method of translating a block of code from a source architecture that supports multiple-format registers to a target architecture that does not. According to ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Cable Storage Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Iso Noseda of Nottwil, Switzerland, and Zane Meredith of Root, Switzerland, have developed a device for the storage of cables or cable sections at their ends. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to keep the load on the cables in a ...
California Inventor Develops Set Top Box Lightweight Support Apparatus
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Kuldipsingh Pabla of Santa Clara, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for lightweight support on set top box. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight component is made focus traversable by creating a pseudo native ...
Washington Inventors Develop Computer-program Functionality Extending Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- James H. Hogg of Bellevue, Wash., and William G. Evans of Redmond, Wash., have developed systems and methods for generating extensible metadata. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, source code is compiled to generate an ...
British Inventor Develops Undifferentiated Cell Preparation Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Ilham Saleh Abuljadayel of London has developed a method of preparing an undifferentiated cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of preparing an undifferentiated cell. The method includes contacting a more committed cell with ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Stack Package
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Sherry Xiaoqi Zhu and Cam T. Nguyen, both of San Diego, have developed a stack package for a high density memory usage means. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stack package for a high density memory module includes at least one memory ...
Texas Inventors Develop Trace Data Transmission Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Manisha Agarwala of Richardson, Texas, and John M. Johnsen of Dallas, have developed a method of maintaining coherent synchronization between data streams on detection of overflow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trace data streams are ...
Oklahoma, Wisconsin Inventors Develop Marine Engine Operating Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Reinhard Burk and Brian R. White both of Stillwater, Okla., and Claus Bruestle of Fond du Lac, Wis., have developed a control of exhaust gas stoichiometry with inducted secondary air flow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Container
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Jocelyn Gagne of Varennes, Canada, has developed an ornamental design for container for storing and dispensing films, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D542,648 on May 15. The patent has been ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Program Conversion Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Akira Koseki of Sagamihara, Japan, and Kiyokuni Kawachiya of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a program conversion method, a data processing apparatus and a program. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to "save and restore the ...
Belgian Inventors Develop Optical Fibres Sealingly Enclosing Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Kathleen Bellekens of Winksele-Delle, Belgium, Paul Meurs of Leuven, Belgium, and Freddy Vanwinkel of Kersbeek-Miskom, Belgium, have developed a method of and a device for sealingly enclosing a space into which one or more optical fibres are fed. According to ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Magnetic Resonance Imaging Radio Frequency Coil Array
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Mark Xueming Zou and Joseph Murphy-Boesch, both of Aurora, Ohio, and Sunyu Su of Hudson, Ohio, have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil array. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MRI RF coil array is formed ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Waveguide Production Process
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Ryuusuke Naitou, Hideyuki Usui and Amane Mochizuki, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a process for producing an optical waveguide for deflecting an optical path. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a process ...
California Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Wire Mesh Patterns
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Robert Paul Masleid of Monte Sereno, Calif., has developed wire mesh patterns for semiconductor devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different patterns of interconnects for connecting wells in a semiconductor device are described. For ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Hiroaki Ueno and Daisuke Ueda, both of Ibaraki, Japan, Tetsuzo Ueda and Manabu Yanagihara, both of Toyonaka, Japan, Yasuhiro Uemoto of Otsu, Japan, Tsuyoshi Tanaka of Neyagawa, Japan, Yutaka Hirose of Nagaokakyo, Japan, and Masahiro Hikita of Ashiya, Japan, have ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Multiple Page Sound Tone Dialog
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Laura Lehto of Tampere, Finland, has developed a multiple page sound tone dialog in communication device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention describes a novel methodology for using a multiple page dialog field for setting sound ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Laser Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Osamu Hamaoka of Yamsiotajoacia, Japan, Hiroshi Nakatsu of Mihara, Japan, and Hideki Ichikawa of Shild-gun, Japan, have developed a semiconductor laser device in which a laser diode and a photodiode for monitoring an output of the laser diode are mounted on a mounting ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Antenna Selection Diversity Apparatus
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Yoshiharu Ishihara and Yasushi Iwata, both of Hamamatsu, Japan, and Toshio Obara of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an antenna selection diversity apparatus and a reception method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Optical Waveguide
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Hong Po of Sherborn, Mass., has developed an optical waveguide that can include a first region, a core and a cladding. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The core surrounds the first region, and the cladding surrounds the core. Typically, the ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Light Active Sheet Material
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- John James Daniels of Higganum, Conn., and Gregory Victor Nelson of Branford, Conn., have developed an inorganic light emitting diode light sheet and methods for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Wireless Communication Systems
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Joseph Birli of Munson, Ohio, Greg Skillicorn of Grainger Township, Ohio, and Gary Claypoole of West Chester, Ohio, have developed wireless communication systems for masks or helmets. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various types of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Semiconductor Package
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Hiroshi Aruga, Shinichi Takagi and Kiyohide Sakai, all from Tokyo, have developed a feed through structure for optical semiconductor package. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a stem with a hole, a dielectric sealed ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Solid-state Image Pickup Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Keiji Tatani, Hideshi Abe, Atsushi Masagaki, Atsuhiko Yamamoto and Masakazu Furukawa, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Masanori Ohashi of Nagasaki, Japan, have developed a solid-state image pickup device that can improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of a unit ...
Vermont, New York, Connecticut Inventors Develop Ferroelectric Random Access Memory Cell
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- James William Adkisson and Randy William Mann, both of Jericho, Vt., Charles Thomas Black and Alfred Grill, both of White Plains, N.Y., Katherine Lynn Saenger of Ossining, N.Y., Thomas McCarroll Shaw of Peekskill, N.Y., Wilbur David Pricer of Charlotte, Vt., and ...
California Inventors Develop Non-volatile Semiconductor Memory Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Richard M. Fastow of Cupertino, Calif., and Kuo-Tung Chang of Saratoga, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for coupling to a source line in a memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present ...
Utah Inventors Develop Enhanced Gain Selected Cell Phone Booster System
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Alan Van Buren of Cedar City, Utah, and Patrick L. Cook of St. George, Utah, have developed an enhanced gain selected cell phone booster system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus for boosting the signal ...
California Inventors Develop Signal Demodulating Apparatus
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Mohamed K. Diab of Mission Viejo, Calif., Walter M. Weber of Laguna Hills, Calif., and Ammar Al-Ali of Costa Mesa, Calif., have developedc a method and an apparatus measure blood oxygenation in a subject. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Italian Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Preform Elongation Process
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Antonio Mileo of Ferrara, Italy, and Marco Ruzzier of Milan, Italy, have developed an optical fiber preform elongation process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and apparatus for elongating an optical fibre preform includes ...
California Inventor Develops Fiber Optic Laser System
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- James A. Davis of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has developed a fiber optic laser system with at least one optical waveguide with a laseable core and a pump cladding disposed adjacent the lasing core. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Transmission Module
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Yoshiki Kuhara of Osaka, Japan, and Naoyuki Yamabayashi of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an optical transmission module having a light emitting device that converts an electric signal into an optical signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
SQUADRON FOCUSES ON MISSION READINESS
May 24, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing's Marine Wing Support Squadron 172 conducted training on Camp Foster May 14-17 to ensure all the unit's Marines are prepared to deploy. The name of the game for the exercise was overall ...
California Inventors Develop Optical Interconnect Architecture
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- James K. Chan of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., and Birendra Dutt of Westchester, Calif., have developed an optical interconnect architecture in which optical interconnects are used to distribute signals to or between one or more integrated circuit ...
California Inventor Develops Electromagnetic Radiation Detectors
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Lars S. Carlson of Del Mar, Calif., has developed a technique for suppression of edge current in semiconductor devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive mechanism suppresses injection, into any active guard regions interposed ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Plasma Display Panel Front Filter
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Kyung Ku Kim, Byung Gil Ryu and Hong Rae Cha, all from Seoul, South Korea, Young Sung Kim of Yongin-si, South Korea, and Myeong Soo Chang of Woowang-si, South Korea, have developed a front filter that is attached to a front surface of a plasma display panel. An ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacture Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Setsuo Nakajima and Aiko Shiga, both of Atsugi, Japan, and Naoki Makita and Takuya Matsuo, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device having circuits structured by thin film transistors (TFTs). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
German Inventors Develop Telecommunications Radio System
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Martin Willem Klomp of Spalt, Germany, and Germar Jochem Herbert of Nurberg, Germany, have developed a telecommunications radio system for mobile communication services. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a ...
New Mexico Inventors Develop Detector with Tunable Spectral Response
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Sanjay Krishna, Majeed M Hayat, Sunil Raghavan and Unal Sakoglu, all from Albuquerque, N.M., and J. Scott Tyo of Edgewood, N.M., have developed a semiconductor detector with a tunable spectral response. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Phase-change Memory Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Charles Dennison of San Jose, Calif., and Chien Chiang of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method to selectively increase the top resistance of the lower programming electrode in a phase-change memory cell and structures obtained thereby. According to the ...
German Inventors Develop Mobile Telephone Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Thomas Schlegel of Nuremberg, Germany, has developed a mobile telephone device that comprises multiwire electrical connection devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a high-frequency connecting device comprising a first ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Semiconductor Light Source Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Rowland C. Clarke of Sykesville, Md., Michel E. Aumer of Laurel, Md., and Darren B. Thomson of Ellicott City, Md., have developed a solid state light source which is particularly well adapted to radiate light in the ultraviolet (UV) region. According to the ...
California Inventors Develop Optical Isolator
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Michael R. T. Tan of Menlo Park, Calif., William Trutna of Atherton, Calif., David P. Bour of Cupertino, Calif., and Michael H. Leary of Mountain View, Calif., have developed an optical isolator for coupling light from a first waveguide to a second waveguide ....
New York Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Modal Dispersion Mitigation Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Walter V. Werner of Pittsford, N.Y., and Kerry D. Laviolette of Liverpool, N.Y., have developed a method and an apparatus for mitigation of modal dispersion effects in multimode fiber. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...
French Inventors Develop Nanowire Structures Making Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- David Fraboulet of Quaix en Chartreuse, France, Jacques Gautier of Coublevie, France, Didier Tonneau of Marseille, France, Nicolas Clement of Toulon, France, and Vincent Bouchiat of Biviers, France, have developed a method for making a wire nanostructure in a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Substrate
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Tadataka Edamura of Hamamatsu, Japan, has developed a semiconductor substrate suitable to a polarizing element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a preferred semiconductor substrate for the production of ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Optical Element Mode Conversion Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Christopher Richard Doerr of Middletown, N.J., and Stulz of Lawrence Warren of Neptune, N.J., have developed a spot size converter for coupling an optical signal between optical devices with different spot sizes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Insulated Gate Tunnel-injection Device
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Saichirou Kaneko, Tetsuya Hayashi, Hideaki Tanaka and Teruyoshi Mihara, all from Yokosuka, Japan, Masakatsu Hoshi and Kraisorn Throngnumchai, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an insulated gate tunnel-injection device with heterojunction and a method for ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Operating Mode Data Utilizing Method
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Anssi Lindqvist and Sami Pippuri, both of Helsinki, Finland, Petri Pohjanen of Oulu, Finland, Hannu Ronkko of Espoo, Finland, and Pasi Ketonen of Veikkola, Finland, have developed a system and a method for determining, storing and utilizing operating mode data of a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Wireless Telecommunications Unit
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Masaaki Fukumoto and Toshiaki Sugimura, both of Yokohama, Japan, Shoichiro Ishigaki of Tokyo, and Hirotaka Nakano of Yokosuka, Japan, have developed a wireless telecommunications unit attachable to and detachable from an external unit. According to the U.S ....
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Mode Coupler Structure
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Shrenik Deliwala of Andover, Mass., has developed a mode coupler structure for an optical receiver that is connected to dual mode/multimode fiber. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mode coupler structure includes a discriminating structure ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Power Control System
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Tao Chen of San Diego, and Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. of Concord, Mass., have developed a power control system for use in facilitating transition to an active state suitable for use in a wireless communication system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Fibers Connection Structure
May 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Tsuyoshi Kaneko of Shimosuwa-machi, Japan, have developed a connection structure between optical fibers and a connection method to couple optical fibers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to provide a "connection structure ...
Afcon Products Wins $42,801 Contract
May 24, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 24 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $42,801 contract to Afcon Products Inc., Bethany, Conn., for engine crankshafts. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more ...