US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, May 31:
SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DAILY MEETING CALENDAR, MAY 31
May 31, 2007 ... The South Carolina House of Representatives issued the text of its Daily Meeting Calendar: REGULAR SESSION BEGINNING TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2007 INDEX THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2007 LANDRUM HIGH SCHOOL "CARDINALS" VARSITY BASEBALL TEAM 2007 CLASS A STATE ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Microdevice Manufacturing Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Takanori Anazawa of Sakura, Japan, and Atsushi Teramae of Yachimata, Japan, have developed a method of manufacturing microdevice with laminated structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Computer Implemented Method of Resource Sharing
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Thomas Gray of Carp, Canada, and Michael Weiss of Ottawa, have developed a computer implemented method of sharing a resource amongst a plurality of applications issuing requests in different request classes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Group III Nitride Crystal
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Hirokazu Iwata and Seiji Sarayama, both of Miyagi, Japan, have developed a group III nitride crystal and a crystal growth process and a crystal growth apparatus of a group III nitride. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal growth ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Optical Disk Drive Gear Transmission System
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Chun-Lung Ho and Yi-Cheng Tsao, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a disk drive that includes a gear transmission system disposed with a casing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gear transmission system includes first and second ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Semiconductor Substrates Treatment Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Trung Tri Doan and Lingyi A. Zheng, both of Boise, Idaho, and Lyle D. Breiner and Er-Xuan Ping, both of Meridian, Idaho, have developed a method for treating a plurality of discrete semiconductor substrates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Wire Material Plating Equipment
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Tomio Kitsuwa of Osaka, Japan, has developed an apparatus for plating a wire material in a manner that plating-squeezing is performed by a non-oxidized gas or a charcoal squeezing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for plating a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Shutter Closing Mechanism
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Hideaki Tsutsumi and Mitsunori Matsumura, both of Tokyo, and Manabu Obata and Zensaku Mitsuji, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a shutter opening/closing mechanism for a disc cartridge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a disc ...
California Inventors Develop Storage System Driver
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Giridhar Athreya of Lake Forest, Calif., Chris B. Legg of Oceanside, Calif., and Juan Carlos Ortiz of San Diego, have developed an universal multi-path driver for storage systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the ...
French Inventor Develops Material Supply Strip
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Alain Bethune of Savigny, France, and Sophie Hee Vayrette of Paris, have developed a material supply strip, a system and a method of applying pieces of material to objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of applying pieces of ...
California Inventor Develops Mobile, Uniprocessor Computer System
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- James P. Kardach of Saratoga, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for processing real-time events associated with a wireless communication protocol. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may perform real-time event ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Device Abstraction Layer External Device Support Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Thomas L. Krinke II of Hugo, Minn., and Brian E. Boehm of Oakdale, Minn., have developed systems and methods that provides external device support for a device driver abstraction layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Portable Bed System
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Scott T. Thom of Sandusky, Ohio, has developed an ornamental design for a portable bed system with resilient pad supported by multiple inflatable bladders, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,407 on May ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Cellular Molecules Crystal Structure
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Christin Frederick and Haruo Saito, both of Newton, Mass., have developed crystal structures of cellular molecules that play important roles in immunity, phosphorylation events and disease initiation mechanisms. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
U.S., Brazilian Inventors Develop Ligand for Transition Metal
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Stephen L. Buchwald of Newton, Mass., Xiaohua Huang of Cambridge, Mass., and Danilo Zim of Campinas, Brazil, have developed ligands for metals and improved metal-catalyzed processes based thereon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Processing Apparatus Software Storing Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Tadashi Hata and Satoshi Ono, both of Ebina, Japan, have developed an information processing apparatus that have a memory in which a downloader is previously stored. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A download method comprises an auxiliary ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disc Drive Suspension
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Toshiki Ando, Noriyuki Saito, Masao Hanya and Seiji Yamashita, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed a disc drive suspension contained in an information processor, such as a personal computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc ...
California Inventor Develops Magnetic Tunnel Junction Sensors
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Mustafa Pinarbasi of Morgan Hill, Calif., has developed a self-pinned current perpendicular to plane muagnetoresistive sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge-perpendicular-to-plane self-pinned magnetic tunnel junction sensor is ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Data Storage Device Suspension Load Beam
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- John S. Wright of Minneapolis has developed a suspension load beam in a disc drive, such as a hard drive using a magnetic storage medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension load beam used for attachment to a slider assembly and ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Nanoscale Junction Array
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Zhong L. Wang of Marietta, Ga., and Pu X. Gao of Atlanta, have developed nanoscale junction arrays and methods for making same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoscale junction array includes an elongated nanowire and a plurality of ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Computer Resource Allocation Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Karl Robert Huppler, Henry Joseph May and Kenneth Charles Vossen, all from Mantorville, Minn., and Peter Joseph Heyrman of Rochester, Minn., have developed a method of dynamic allocation of computer resources based on thread type. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Thermosetting Resin Coating Powder Composition
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Jeno Muthiah of Bartlett, Ill., has developed thermosetting resin coating powder compositions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coating powders having a low curing temperature are comprised of an acid functional acrylic resin having an acid ...
Hong Kong Inventor Develops Electrical Circuit Interrupter
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Raymond Wai Hang Chu of Chaiwan, Hong Kong, has developed an apparatus and a method for circuit interruption, with auto-power on and fault memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interrupter includes first and second locks in series ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Electric Device Operation Control Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Xin Zhou and Christopher J. Wieloch, both of Brookfield, Wis., Michael T. Little of Milwaukee, James J. Kinsella of Pleasant View, Tenn., and Peter J. Unsworth of Lewes, Great Britain, have developed a method and a system of controlling asynchronous contactors for a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Treated Pigment
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Takaaki Yodo, Naoyuki Kitaoka and Hideo Shibata, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a treated pigment produced by treating at least one pigment with a carbodiimide-based compound. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Server System Session Data Maintenance Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Gabriel G. Montero of Chapel Hill, N.C., Srinivas Hasti of Durham, N.C., and David B. Colasurdo of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a method and an apparatus for invalidating session data stored in a database. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Pigment Treating Compound
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Masanori Kano, Kazunori Itoh, Naoyuki Kitaoka, Takaaki Yodo and Hideo Shibata, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a treated pigment, use thereof and a compound for treating pigment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Amine Preparation Process
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Keisuke Yaegashi of Osaki, Japan, and Masafumi Mikami of Osaka, Japan, have developed a process for preparing amines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process for preparing an amine which comprises in preparing an ...
26TH MEU ENGINEERS BREACH BI-LATERAL DEMOLITION TRAINING IN MIDDLE EAST
May 31, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Combat Engineer Platoon lit the fuse on three days of live-fire demolition training, here, May 23. Working alongside a similar unit of engineers from a regional ...
California Inventors Develop Waves Guiding Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- John Ottusch, John L.Visher and Joseph S. Colburn, all from Malibu, Calif., Daniel F. Sievenpiper of Santa Monica, Calif., Bryan Ho Lim Fong of Los Angeles, Matthew W. Ganz of Marina del Rey, Calif., Mark F. Gyure of Oak Park, Calif., and Jonathan J. Lynch of Oxnard, ...
California Inventor Develops Head-disk Interface Reliability Increasing Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Mike Suk of San Jose, Calif., has developed a method for increasing reliability during a read and/or write operation in a disk drive with a head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is read from a disk using a head. An amplitude of a ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Vehicle Air Bag Assembly
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Pongdet P. Wipasuramonton of Rochester, Mich., Charles S.E. Walczak of Warren, Mich., and Shakir M. Salmo of Sterling Heights, Mich., have developed an air bag which when deployed is located between adjacently seated occupants (including driver and passenger) of the ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Outdoor Luminaire
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Craig Duane Volkens of Overland Park, Kan., has developed an ornamental design for outdoor luminaire, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,306 on May 22. The original application was filed on ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Composite Material Production Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Shigeru Hanzawa and Naoki Hashimoto, both of Nagoya, Japan, have developed a composite material and production method for composite material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material including a base material and composite ...
Washington Inventors Develop Metamaterial Scanning Lens Antenna System
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Mark R. Davis, Kin Li and Jean Minas H. Tanielian, all from Bellevue, Wash., Robert B. Greegor of Auburn, Wash., A. Nielsen of Kent, Wash., and Claudio G. Parazzoli of Seattle, have developed systems and methods for radiating radar signals, communication signals, or ...
New Jersey, New York Inventors Develop Air Cellular Cushioning Article
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Charles Kannankeril of North Caldwell, N.J., Michael Metta of Wayne, N.J., and Robert O'Dowd of Wesley Hills, N.Y., have developed air cellular cushioning articles suitable for packaging end uses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
U.S., Brazilian Inventors Develop Pixel Fragment One Value Determining Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Karim M. Abdalla of Menlo Park, Calif., Emmett M. Kilgariff of San Jose, Calif., and Rui M. Bastos of Porto Alegre, Brazil, have developed a method for determining at least one value for each pixel fragment of a stream of fragments. According to the U.S. Patent ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Chair Back Rest
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Scott Johnson of West Hills, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a seat and back rest for a chair, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,399 on May 29. The patent has been assigned to ...
German Inventor Develops Antenna Device
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Harald Humpfer and Rainer Wansch, both of Erlangen, Germany, have developed an antenna device suitable for multi-band operation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna device includes a first radiation electrode having an open end and ...
California Inventors Develop Spindle Motor High-speed Capillary Seal
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Troy M. Herndon of San Jose, Calif., Jeffry A. LeBlanc of Aptos, Calif., and Robert A. Nottingham of Santa Cruz, Calif., have developed a high-speed centrifugal seal for a spindle motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robust spindle ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Data Storage Device Positioning Apparatus
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- John D. Willems Jr. of Arvada, Colo., and Timothy C. Ostwald of Louisville, Colo., have developed an apparatus for positioning a data storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes a shuttle, a frame, and a lift ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Chair Backrest
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Tung-Hua of Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a chair backrest, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,398 on May 29. The original application was filed on June 19, 2006, and is ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Seat Arrangement
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Kurt R. Heidmann of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Glen Oliver Loew of Hamburg, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a seat and back arrangement, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,385 on May ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Disk Drive Head-Disk Contact Detection Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Bruce Emo of Longmont, Colo., has developed a method of contact write current determination in disk drive using position error signal (PES) variance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a disk drive, a contact write current that causes ...
District of Columbia, California Inventors Develop Pillow Sealing Method
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Andrew Perkins and Oliver M. Reyes, both of Berkeley, Calif., Philipp Borchard of San Francisco, and Nicholas P. De Luca of Washington, have developed methods and apparatus for inflating and sealing pillows in packaging. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Hand-Held Lighting Apparatus
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Huo-Chiuan Chen of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a hand-held lighting apparatus, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,301 on May 22. The original application was ...
German Inventors Develop Private Car Door Lining
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Stefan Riesinger of Wolfratshausen, Germany, and Dirk Dyckerhoff of Penzberg, Germany, have developed a door lining for a private car that comprises an integrated lateral airbag module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
Utah Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bathtub Mat
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Doug Fowkes of Provo, Utah, has developed an ornamental design for a bathtub mat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,405 on May 29. The original application was filed on Sept. 8, 2005, and is ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Self-Powered Flashlight
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Yikhong Lee of Zhual, China, has developed an ornamental design for a self-powered flashlight, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,300 on May 22. The patent has been assigned to Zhuhai Dejia ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Ceiling Fan Light Kit
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Mark L. Shurtleff of Long Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a ceiling fan light kit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,303 on May 22. The patent has been assigned to ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Field Towel Container
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Jack Coonan of St. Paul, Minn., has developed an ornamental design for a field towel container and dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,401 on May 29. The patent has been assigned to ...
California Inventors Develop Disk Drive with Reducing Disk Flutter
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Jin Hui Ou-Yang and Lin Yang, both of San Jose, Calif., and Chiao-Ping Ku of Fremont, Calif., have developed a disk drive with apertures aligned near the inner diameter of a disk stack for allowing airflow to pass through the apertures to reduce disk ...
British Inventor Develops Fiber Reinforced Resin Assembly
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Kilian O'Byrne of Cambridge, Great Britain, has developed an uncured fiber reinforced assembly that includes a reinforcement layer containing a fibrous material and at least one highly reactive curing agent. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Chair Arm
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Ray G. Smith of Los Angeles has developed an ornamental design for a chair arm, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,395 on May 29. The patent has been assigned to True Seatings Concepts LLC, ...
New York Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Headrail Endcap Set
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Richard D. Watkins of Lake Luzerne, N.Y., and Don Nicoll of Clifton Park, N.Y., have developed an ornamental design fora headrail endcap set, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,404 on May ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Radiating Antenna Element
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Petteri Annamaa and Ilkka Niemela, both of Oulunsalo, Finland, Matti Niemi of Arkkukari, Finland, and Kimmo Antila of Kiviniemi, Finland, have developed a radiating antenna element intended for small-sized radio devices and a method for manufacturing the ...
British Inventors Develop Particulate Metal Oxide
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Graham Paul Dransfield and Phillip Lawrence Lyth, both of Stockton on Tees, Great Britain, and Susan Cutter of Middlesbrough, Great Britain, have developed a particulate metal oxide, a metal oxide dispersion and in particular to the use thereof in a sunscreen ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Soap Basket
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Michael Scott Tau of Charlotte, N.C., has developed an ornamental design for a soap basket, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,403 on May 29. The patent has been assigned to Brasstech Inc., ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Antenna Unit
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Toshiaki Aizawa, Junichi Noro, Kyuichi Sato and Yuichi Saito, all from Akita, Japan, have developed an attachment structure of an antenna unit that receives radio waves sent from, for example, a satellite onto a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Biaxially Oriented Polyester Film
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Kazuhiro Kunugihara of Maihara, Japan, has developed a biaxially oriented polyester film suited for window application. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "biaxially oriented laminated polyester film which is a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Medical Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Sheet
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Yuko Yamamoto, Kenji Furumori and Katsuhiro Okada, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed medical pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets and a method for producing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "medical ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Can Dispenser
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Yeong Ho of Cupertino, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for the can dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,400 on May 29. The patent has been assigned to Connetics Corp., Palo ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Aquarium Lamp
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Yu-Chin Wang of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a lamp for an aquarium, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,305 on May 22. The patent has been assigned to Eiko Electric ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Disposable Shower Mat
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Robert M. Asack and Denise A. Asack, both of East Bridgewater, Mass., have developed an ornamental design for a disposable shower mat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,406 on May 29. The ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Back Construction
May 31, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 31 -- Kurt R. Heidmann of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Glen Oliver Loew of Hamburg, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a back construction, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,397 on May ...