US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, June 11:
Michigan Inventors Develop Clocking Signal Generation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Michael Shannon McCorquodale of Detroit, and Scott Michael Pernia of Pinckney, Mich., have developed a frequency controller and a temperature compensator for frequency control and selection in a clock generator and/or a timing and frequency ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Baby Scale
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Hajime Matsumoto and Rie Kousuge, both of Tokyo, have developed an ornamental design for a baby scale, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,880 on June 5. The patent has been assigned to ...
Texas Inventors Develop Butadiene Removal Process
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Michael A Risch of Seabrook, Texas, John Di-Yi Ou of Houston, and Cor F. Van Egmond of Pasadena, Texas, have developed a butadiene and isobutylene removal from olefinic streams. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is disclosed for ...
Texas Inventors Develop Multiple-Mapped Memory Managing Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Tayib Sheriff of Cedar Park, Texas, and Moinul H. Khan of Austin, Texas, have developed a method and an apparatus for controlling multiple-mapped memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "technique to manage ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Dual-Band Voltage Controlled Oscillator
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Sheng-Lyang Jang of Taipei, Taiwan, and Shao-Hua Lee of Taipei County, Taiwan, have developed a dual-band inductor-capacitor circuit (LC) voltage controlled oscillator, which utilizes a substantial amount of feedback loop paths in the circuit. According to the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Olefin Product Making Process
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Paul N. Chisholm, Nicolas P. Coute and Teng Xu, all from Houston, Jeffrey S. Smith and James R. Lattner, both of Seabrook, Texas, and Keith Holroyd Kuechler of Friendswood, Texas, have developed a process for making an olefin product from an oxygenate-containing ...
California Inventor Develops Alkane Dehydrogenation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Yumin Liu of San Jose, Calif., has developed ni catalysts and methods for alkane dehydrogenation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catalysts The catalysts of the invention generally comprise nickel or a nickel-containing compound and at ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Scale
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Dustin P. Barmes and Nathan L. Barmes, both of Vincennes, Ind., have developed an ornamental design for a scale, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,879 on June 5. The original application ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Nucleic Acid Purification Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Toshiaki Yokobayashi and Hiroshi Umetsu, both of Hitachinaka, Japan, and Yoshiyuki Shoji of Mito, Japan, have developed a nucleic acid purification method and purification apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the ...
British Inventors Develop Data Processing System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Andrew M. Jones and John Carrey, both of Bristol, Great Britain, have developed a data processing system with shared memory that is accessible through a transaction-based bus mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of ...
California Inventor Develops Temperature Compensated Resistor-Capacitor Oscillator
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- John M. Yarborough Jr. of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a temperature compensated resistor-capacitor (R-C) oscillator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An R-C oscillator is configured to vary the two voltage levels that are used to ...
Kansas, Missouri Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Navigation Device
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Warren R. Stevens and David F. Lammers-Meis, both of Olathe, Kan., Robert M. Kalis of Overland Park, Kan., Paul E. Skelton of Lenexa, Kan., and Stephen P. Waite of Blue Springs, Mo., have developed an ornamental design for a navigation device, the U.S. Patent & ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Oligomeric Compound Synthesis Process
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Vasulinga T. Ravikumar and Daniel C. Capaldi, both of Carlsbad, Calif., Achim Krotz of San Diego, Douglas L. Cole of Half Moon Bay, Calif., Andrei Guzaev of Vista, Calif., and Muthiah Manoharan of Weston, Mass., have developed a process for the synthesis of oligomeric ...
British Inventor Develops Multi-Threaded Data Processing System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Charles G Baylis of Cambridge, Great Britain, has developed a technique for reaching consistent state in a multi-threaded data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is arranged to execute multiple ...
California Inventors Develop Multiprocessing Computer Input/Output System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Martin Eberhard and Van Jacobson, both of Woodside, Calif., and Bob Felderman of Portola Valley, Calif., have developed a method of providing a communication to one of a plurality of processes under control of an operating system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
British Inventors Develop Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotide Preparation Process
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Donald Alfred Wellings and Mark Edward Douglas, both of Blackley, Great Britain, and Ben James Mellor of Grangemouth, Great Britain, have developed a process for the preparation of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Monolithic Clock Generator
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Michael Shannon McCorquodale of Detroit, Scott Michael Pernia of Pinckney, Mich., and Amar Sarbbasesh Basu of Troy, Mich., have developed a clock generator and/or a timing and frequency reference, with multiple operating modes, such power conservation, clock, ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Analyte Test Meter
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Brad Castillo of San Ramon, Calif., and Marjan Daghigh of San Jose, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for an analyte test meter, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D543,878 on June 5 ....
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pedometer
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Dilip Bhavnani of Beverly Hills, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a pedometer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D543,877 on June 5. The patent has been assigned to Sun Coast ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Adaptive Multiple Line Prefetching Apparatus
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- William G. Auld and Jeffrey D. Gilbert, both of Portland, Ore., and Zhong-Ning Cai of Lake Oswego, Ore., have developed a method and an apparatus for adaptive multiple line prefetching. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Periodic Single-execution Task Management Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Edgar I. Circenis of Loveland, Colo., and Bradley A. Klein of Windsor, Colo., have developed methods and an apparatus for managing the execution of a task among a plurality of autonomous processes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method ...
California Inventors Develop Cache Portion Disabling Mechanism
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Joseph B.Rowlands of Santa Clara, Calif., and James B. Keller of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed mechanisms for disabling a portion of a cache. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cache may be programmed to disable one or more entries ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Crystal Oscillator Circuit
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Hideo Hashimoto of Saitama, Japan, has developed a crystal oscillator circuit, wherein design that is simplified and changes in frequency are prevented. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to provide an ...
Texas Inventors Develop Application System Installer Creation System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Kyle P. Gupton, David W Fuller III and Brian H. Sierer, all from Austin, Texas, have developed a computer-implemented method for creating an application system installer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "system and ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Compound Atomic Operations Lock Caching System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Raul Esteban Silvera of Woodbridge, Canada, and Robert James Blainey of Newmarket, Canada, have developed a system and a method for lock caching and compound atomic operations (i.e. a read or write operation to more than one 4-byte word) on shared memory ....
California, New York Inventors Develop Computer Program Product Installation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Daryl Keith Bryant and Frederick M. Fusilero, both of San Jose, Calif., Terence Walters of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Humberto Gutierrez-Rivas of Rochester, N.Y., have developed a processor-implemented method for dynamically creating a customized multi-product software ...
New York Inventors Develop Computer System Cache Bypass Disabling, Enabling Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Zhigang Hu of Ossinging, N.Y., John T. Robinson of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Xiaowei Shen of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., Balaram Sinharoy of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., have developed arrangements and a method for enabling and disabling cache bypass in a computer system with a ...
German Inventor Develops Transimpedance Amplifier
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Markus Schimper of Moosinning, Germany, has developed a transimpedance amplifier with a high gain/bandwidth product for conversion of a digital/analog converter (DAC) output current. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The two output currents ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage System Job Processing Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Masanori Honda of Sagamihara, Japan, Takaki Kuroda of Machida, Japan, Masaaki Oya of Yokohama, Japan, and Masao Menjo of Oiso, Japan, have developed a job processing method for executing a plurality of jobs defined as a job net in a storage system. According ...
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT MONTIECELLO DEAN PUBLISHES SHORT STORIES
Jun 11, 2007 ... The University of Arkansas at Montiecello issued the following news release: A shocking discovery in the Ohio River, an 80-year-oild widow whose past is becoming more real than the present, and the same widow trying to learn to drive for the first time are the storylines for three short ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Service Providing System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Tadashi Yamauchi of Tokyo has developed a service providing system with an automatic transaction apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, service contents are dynamically selected and provided from an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vending Machine Control Program Rewrite System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Naoto Matsumoto of Maebashi, Japan, has developed a system for rewriting control program in vending machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a vending machine control program rewriting system that ...
California Inventor Develops Java Macro Instructions Generation Technique
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Stepan Sokolov of Fremont, Calif., has developed frameworks for generation of Java macro instructions in Java computing environments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generation of Java macro instructions suitable for use ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Mail Sensor System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- John M. Cherry of Mooresville, N.C., has developed a ground mail notification system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "mail sensor system that includes a sensor located in a mailbox that is sensitive to weight ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Storage System Firmware Updating Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- David Alan Burton of Vail, Ariz., and Robert Louis Morton of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a method, a system, and a program for updating firmware to a storage system comprised of multiple controllers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Remote Monitoring, Control System Setting Apparatus
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Mototsugu Kawamata of Kadoma, Japan, has developed a setting apparatus for remote monitoring and control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "setting apparatus for a remote monitoring and control system, ...
Russian Inventors Develop Software Code Optimization Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Victor L. Eruhimov and Igor V. Chikalov, both of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, have developed a method of optimizing performance of a program or a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function may be a portion of software code. A ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Self-Locking Container
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Nicholas A. Philips of Sugar Grove, Ill., has developed a self-locking container and container blank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present invention provide a blank of foldable material that configured to form a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Automatic Transmission Piston
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Tatsuo Kirai and Kouji Oomae, both of Naruto, Japan, Hirofumi Onishi of Aichi-gun, Japan, Yuji Yasuda of Nishikamo-gun, Japan, and Masafumi Masuda of Tokushima, Japan, have developed a piston for automatic transmission. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Multimedia Stream Scheduling Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Zhen Liu of Tarrytown, N.Y., Olivier Verscheure of Harrison, N.Y., and Pascal Frossard of Bulle, Switzerland, have developed techniques for computing a multimedia stream that is schedule in a resource-constrained environment. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
New York Inventor Develops Application Configuration Interface
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Douglas G. Murray of Johnson City, N.Y., has developed a system and a method for configuring an application. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for configuring an application is provided. Specifically, calls are made from ...
British Inventors Develop Self-Service Terminal
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Robert McInally of Edinburgh, Great Britain, and Sean P. McCarthy of West Lothian, Great Britain, have developed a self-service terminal that comprises a user interface including a display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The display has ...
California Inventors Develop Virtual Machine Code Verification, Garbage Collection System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Nicholas Shaylor of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Douglas N. Simon of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus to facilitate code verification and garbage collection in a platform-independent virtual machine. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Motion Vector Detector
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Kazuhiko Nishibori, Makoto Kondo and Yukihiko Mogi, all from Kanagawa, Japan, Koji Aoyama and Takaya Hoshino, both of Saitama, Japan, have developed a motion vector detector for detecting a motion vector of a reference pixel in a current input frame with a block ...
California Inventors Develop Oligonucleotide Sulfurized Synthesis
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Douglas L. Cole and Zacharia S. Cheruvallath, both of San Diego, and Vasulinga T. Ravikumar of Carlsbad, Calif., have developed Synthesis of sulfurized oligonucleotides. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for the formation of ...
Washington Inventors Develop Software on Demand System Preparation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Hon Keat W. Chan, Andrew J. Edwards, David Gillies, Mark L. Roberts and Hoi Vo, all from Bellevue, Wash., and Carlos P. Gomes of Redmond, Wash., Jiyang Liu of Sammamish, Wash., and Patrick L. McDonald of Seattle, have developed a software system for loading software ...
California Inventors Develop Apolipoprotein Expression Modulation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Rosanne M. Crooke of Carlsbad, Calif., and Mark J. Graham of San Clemente, Calif., have developed compositions and methods for modulating the expression of apolipoprotein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antisense compounds, compositions ...
Texas Inventors Develop Growth Differentiation Factor-9 Utilization Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Martin Matthew Matzuk of Pearland, Texas, and Julia Andrea Elvin of Houston, have developed growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF-9) regulatory sequences and uses therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Isolated GDF-9 regulatory ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Navigation Device
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Jonathan C. Burrell and Joshua C. Reeson, both of Olathe, Kan., Paul E. Skelton of Lenexa, Kan., and Dale R. Langner of Louisburg, Kan., have developed an ornamental design for a navigation device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Inter-server Communication Software Updating Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Ruihua Zhang and Hong Shao, both of Naperville, Ill., have developed a method for updating software in a multi-server network for processing data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for updating inter-server ...
French Inventor Develops Nitrogen Oxide Trap Sulfate Purging System
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Arnaud Audouin of Paris has developed a system for purging sulfate from a nitrogen oxide (NOx) trap located in an exhaust line of a motor vehicle diesel engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A NOx trap is associated with oxidation ...
California Inventors Develop Original Elementary Stream Segment Processing Series
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Jeyendran Balakrishnan of Los Gatos, Calif., Hemant Malhotra of Newark, Calif., and Thierry Foucu of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method of processing a series of original elementary stream segments within an original systems stream. An abstract of the ...
Brighton Cromwell Wins $32,238 Contract
Jun 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $32,238 contract to Brighton Cromwell LLC, Randolph, N.J., for vehicular equipment components. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For ...
Riverside Manufacturing Wins $41,730 Contract
Jun 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $41,730 contract to Riverside Manufacturing Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., for transmission control assemblies. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, ...
Kollsman Wins $43,750 Contract
Jun 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $43,750 contract to Kollsman Inc., Merrimack, N.H., for fire control covers. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio. For more ...
Hupp & Associates Wins $50,713 Contract
Jun 11, 2007 ... COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 11 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a $50,713 contract to Hupp & Associates Inc., New Haven, Ind., for vehicular maintenance kits. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center, Columbus, ...
California Inventors Develop Decoded Digital Video Image Data Generation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Jason Naxin Wang of San Jose, Calif., and Ikuo Tsukagoshi of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a system and a method for generating decoded digital video image data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for ...
U.S., Chinese Inventors Develop Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor 2 Polypeptide
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Jing-Shan Hu of Sunnyvale, Calif., Craig A. Rosen of Laytonsville, Md., and Liang Cao of Hong Kong, have developed newly identified polynucleotides, polypeptides. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are human vascular endothelial ...
Washington Inventors Develop Application Imaging Infrastructure
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Jason Cohen of Seatac, Wash., and Ryan Burkhardt of Redmond, Wash., have developed a system for imaging a software program by copying files or imaging blocks of data by a host computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
California Inventors Develop Video Detection Apparatus
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Narayan Srinivasa of Moorpark, Calif., Swarup S. Medasani of Thousand Oaks, Calif., Yuri Owechko of Newbury Park, Calif., and Deepak Khosla of Calabasas, Calif., have developed an application-specific object-based segmentation and a recognition ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Source Program Processing Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Takeo Imai of Tokyo has developed a source-program processing method for processing a source program on a computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Comparison indices each for two components incorporated in a source program are used for ...
Pennsylvania, Delaware Inventors Develop Software Requirement Analysis Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Bruce Lindley-Burr Bailey of Wallingford, Pa., Tomas Jan Stenstrom of Fort Washington, Pa., and William E. Coughenour Jr. of Wilmington, Del., have developed a method of logic testing a software requirement for a software capability. According to the U.S ....
British Inventor Develops Programmable Chips Processor Core Implementation Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Martin Langhammer of Salisbury, Great Britain, has developed methods and an apparatus for optimizing a processor core on a programmable chip. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for efficiently implementing ...
New Mexico Inventor Develops Welding Method
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Brent Christner of Albuquerque, N.M., has developed polymer fay surface sealants for friction stir welding (FSW) joints used in aircraft construction. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly, such as an aircraft component, is formed ...
Washington Inventor Develops Global Motion Estimation Apparatus
Jun 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Shijun Sun of Vancouver, Wash., has developed a method and an apparatus for global motion estimation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different combinations of global motion parameters are estimated for a current frame interpolated to ...