US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, June 14:
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Nobuo Hironaga, Toshiyuki Takewaki, Hiroyuki Kunishima and Yoshiaki Yamamoto, all from Tokyo, have developed a semiconductor device and manufacturing method for the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of manufacturing a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Metal Silicide Layer Fabrication Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yi-Wei Chen and Tzung-Yu Hung, both of Tainan County, Taiwan, Yi-Yiing Chiang of Taipei, Taiwan, Chao-Ching Hsieh of Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan, and Yu-Lan Chang of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, have developed a method of fabricating metal silicide layer. According to the ...
EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOURTH ANNUAL ALUMNI REUNION AT PGE PARK
Jun 14, 2007 ... Eastern Oregon University issued the following news release: The Eastern Oregon University Alumni Association will host its fourth annual reunion at PGE Park in August. Come have a great time with fellow alumni and friends, reminisce about the good 'ol days at Eastern and watch the ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Making Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Valery M. Dubin of Portland, Ore., and Ramanan V. Chebiam of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a method for making a semiconductor device having increased conductive material reliability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Pattern Formation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- In Su Kim of Suwon, South Korea, has developed methods of forming a pattern for a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a pattern for a semiconductor device are disclosed, wherein a critical dimension of ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Signal Processing Device
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Noboru Oki of Saitama, Japan, has developed a signal processing device and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The signal processing device and method perform maximum-likelihood decoding of data transmitted at an arbitrary data rate ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Structured Document Editing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Shinichiro Hamada of Yokohama, Japan, has developed a document editing method in a document editing system for editing a plurality of structured documents. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partial document defined in advance as an ...
German Inventor Develops Layered Stack Processing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Ulrich Baier of Dresden, Germany, has developed a method for processing a layered stack in the production of a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resist layer is deposited a resist layer on a first layer of a layered ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Web Page Linked Sites Index Providing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Ravi Shankarnarayan Adapathya, David Frederick Champion and Brad Michael Lawrence, all from Durham, N.C., Alan Joseph Happ and Kevin Laverne Schultz, both of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a method and a system for providing an index to linked sites on a web page for ...
Washington Inventor Develops Data Format Transformation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Richard Eric Lander of Redmond, Wash., has developed a system and a method for automated generation of extensible markup language (XML) transforms. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "XML transforms may be automatically generated by ...
California Inventors Develop Robust Copper Structure Formation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Wilbur G. Catabay of Saratoga, Calif., Zhihai Wang of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Ping Li of San Jose, Calif., have developed a multi-step process for forming a barrier film for use in copper layer formation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Web Page Content Scanning Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Donald M. Kosak of Sudbury, Mass., and Michael J. Witbrock of Newton, Mass., have developed a method that includes scanning content of a web page in which a web component is to be inserted, inferring a profile from the scanned content and serving the web component in ...
Indian Inventors Develop Application Navigation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Sanjay Kapoor of Punjab, India, and Sriram Sridharan of Karnataka, India, have developed methods and systems for providing navigation within an application. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing navigation in ...
Alliant Techsystems Wins $9.46 Million Contract
Jun 14, 2007 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., June 14 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $9.46 million contract to Alliant Techsystems Inc., Mesa, Ariz., for light-weight 30mm M789 high explosive dual purpose cartridges. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Sustainment Command, Rock Island, Ill. For ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Burst Error Randomization Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Ahmad Khalid Aman of Ocean, N.J., Masoud Sajadieh of Morganville, N.J., Mohsen Sarraf of Rumson, N.J., and Masood Yousefi of Marlboro, N.J., have developed methods and devices for randomizing burst errors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Redundancy Enhanced Differential Signal Interface
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- William Hugh Cochran, William Paul Hovis and Randall Scott Jensen, all from Rochester, Minn., have developed a method and an apparatus for implementing a redundancy enhanced differential signal interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: " ...
California Inventor Develops Electronically Stored Document Display Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Jamey Graham of Los Altos, Calif., has developed a method and a system for providing interest profiles for electronic documents with features to enhance the experience of reading or using the electronic document. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
French, German Inventors Develop Viewing Direction Detection Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Florent Paviot of Tevoux, France, and Siegfried Rothe of Denkendorf, Germany, have developed a method of detection of viewing direction by microphone. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for detecting of a ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Communication Network
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Jaakko Rajaniemi, Tony Hulkkonen and Juha Back, all from Helsinki, Finland, and Heikki Einola of Espoo, Finland, have developed a method for controlling connections to a mobile station. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
California Inventors Develop Cryptographic Communication Establishing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Susan Langford and Michael Sabin, both of Sunnyvale, Calif., Thomas Collins of Saratoga, Calif., and Dale Hopkins of Gilroy, Calif., have developed a processor-implemented method for establishing cryptographic communications. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., New Zealand Inventors Develop Packet-based Network Communication System
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- John Grass of Fremont, Calif., Terry Hardie of Union City, Calif., and Tony Hardie of Ellerslie, New Zealand, have developed a system that is capable of supporting secure communication over a packet-based network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Data Error Correction Decoder
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Matt Ball of Boulder, Colo., and Justin Koller of Wheat Ridge, Colo., have developed an error correction decoder that uses cells with partial syndrome generation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder to correct errors in data ...
California Inventors Develop Digital Data Error Correction Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Zining Wu of Los Altos, Calif., and Gregory Burd of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method of error correction that uses error detection codes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media comprises ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Soft Viterbi Reed-solomon Decoder
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Keith Gary Boyer of Broomfield, Colo., has developed a viterbi decoder to provide erasure information to a symbol based decoder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a preferred embodiment, a Viterbi decoder is used to provide either ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Sound Isolating System
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Hideki Matsuoka and Toshio Inoue, both of Wako, Japan, have developed an engine which is supported on a vehicle body frame through an active vibration-isolating device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vibration of the engine is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Signal Transmission Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Teruhiko Kori of Kanagawa, Japan, and Noriko Ninoseki of Tokyo, have developed a signal transmission apparatus and a signal transmission method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Copyright of contents to be transmitted may be protected for ...
Florida Inventor Develops Real-Time Digital Certification Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Roger R. Dube of Boca Raton, Fla., has developed a method and an apparatus for real-time digital certification of electronic files and transactions using entropy factors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An invention for digital ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Mailing System
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Richard Eason of Orono, Maine, and Eiji Kawaguchi of Fukuoka, Japan, have developed a computer readable medium that comprises a computer program product stored on said computer readable medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Secure Remote Keyless Entry System
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Thomas M. Forest of Macomb Township, Mich., and Thomas E. Utter of Royal Oak, Mich., have developed a method, device, and a system for secure motor vehicle remote keyless entry. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Processing Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Mitsuru Maeda of Tokyo has developed a computer-readable storage medium on which program for executing data processing is stored. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input material data is encoded to form contents data. Intellectual property ...
COMMANDANT SAYS NEW TRUCKS WILL SAVE LIVES; TEST-DRIVES PROTOTYPE
Jun 14, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: The commandant of the Marine Corps met with assembly-line workers June 9 to observe production of the new troop-carrying trucks designed to withstand Long War punishment. The production plant, owned by Force ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Silicon Nitride Layer Formation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Ching-Tang Wang, Chin-Tung Niao, Keng-Hui Su, Huang-Sheng Chiu and Min-Hsin Wang, all from Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a method of forming a silicon nitride layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deposition furnace having an outer ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Operating Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Osamu Miyazawa of Shimasuwa-machi, Japan, has developed an operating apparatus and an electric instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating apparatus of the present invention has a driven element, a frame having a contacted ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Testing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Shivakumar Swaminathan of Morrisville, N.C., has developed a built-in self-test (BIST) macro or sub-system for testing high performance circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Test patterns for testing electrical circuits are generated ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Nanocrystals Preparation Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Moungi G. Bawendi and Brian K. H. Yen, both of Boston, Nathan E. Stott of Cambridge, Mass., and Klavs F. Jensen of Lincoln, Mass., have developed a population of nanocrystals with a narrow and controllable size distribution and can be prepared by a continuous flow ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Silicon Single Crystal Layer Production Process
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yoshio Murakami and Takayuki Shingyoji, both of Saitama, Japan, and Takashi Shibayama of Kishima-gun, Japan, have developed a process for producing silicon single crystal layer and a silicon single crystal layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Tennessee Inventor Develops Eyeglasses with Wireless Communication Feature
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Peter Warren of Chattanooga, Tenn., has developed eyeglasses with wireless communication features. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone, transmitter, speaker, receiver, and power source, all mounted to an eyeglasses frame, for ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Low Dielectric Constant Dielectric Layer Etching Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Alok Jain and Phui Fah Chong, all from Singapore, have developed a method of selectively etching a low dielectric constant (low-k) dielectric layer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a low-k dielectric etching ...
California Inventors Develop Scrubber Brush Pressure Determination Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Michael N. Sugarman of San Francisco, and Vladimir Galburt of Campbell, Calif., have developed methods and an apparatus for determining scrubber brush pressure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a scrubber adapted to clean a ...
California Inventors Develop Protein Crystallization Conditions Determination Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Robert C. Haushalter of Los Gatos, Calif., and Xiao-Dong Sun of Fremont, Calif., have developed crystallization apparatus and methods for the nucleation and crystal growth of molecules and in particular, proteins. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Telephone Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Pertti Savolainen and Jari Suutari, both of Halikko, Finland, Mika Juhani Gronroos of Kaarina, Finland, Aulis Perttula of Salo, Finland, Ilpo Kauhaniemi of Vantaa, Finland, and Antti Ronkko of Espoo, Finland, have developed a telescopic structure for a telephone ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Silicon Single Crystal Production Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Hyon-Jong Cho, Cheol-Woo Lee and Hong-Woo Lee, all from Gumi-si, South Korea, and Jin Soo Cheong and Sunmi Kim, both of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a silicon wafer and a method for producing silicon single crystal. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Analog Circuit Under Test Testing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Chauchin Su and Shyh-Horng Lin, both of Taipei, Taiwan, and Laung-Terng Wang of L-T, Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed an Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Std. 1149.4 compatible analog built-in self-test (BIST) methodology. According ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Masahiro Ishida of Hirakata, Japan, has developed a manufacturing method for semiconductor device, a semiconductor device and a semiconductor wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "manufacturing method for a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Silicon Epitaxial Wafer
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Hiroshi Takeno of Annaka, Japan, has developed a silicon epitaxial wafer and a process for manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a silicon epitaxial wafer having an excellent internal ...
Texas, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Data Storage Device Data Recording Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- John McEwen and Peter McEwen, both of Porter, Texas, Ara Patapoutian of Westborough, Mass., and Bernie Rub of Sudbury, Mass., have developed a method of encoding data with additional timing information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: " A ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Optical Disk Data Recording Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Kyung-geun Lee and In-sik Park, both of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed an optical disk and a method of recording data to the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recording data to an area including a defective error ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Molded Piezoelectric Apparatus Manufacturing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Peter C. Varadi of Albany, Calif., and Bjoern Magnussen of Iserlohn, Germany, have developed a method for manufacturing a piezoelectric vibration device that is having a piezoelectric element held in compression by a carrier. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Anti-Howling Circuit
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Kazuyoshi Akie of Tokyo has developed an anti-howling circuit detecting howling from effect of predicted echo signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system in which echo transferred from a received signal to an outgoing signal is ...
Danish Inventors Develop Telephone Output Reduction System
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Niels Christian Steen Hansen and Ole N. Christensen, both of Solrod Strand, Denmark, have developed a method of an active audio compressing in telecommunication. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output reducing system for a telephone ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Communication Control Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yoshiyuki Nakajima and Takeshi Sekiya, both of Ibaraki, Japan, and Shigeru Sugita of Saitama, Japan, have developed a communication system that can quickly perform the processing of the data re-transmission when error occurs in the data. According to the U.S ....
Connecticut, New York Inventors Develop Caller Entertaining Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Michael D. Downs and James A. Jorasch, both of Stamford, Conn., Jay S. Walker of Ridgefield, Conn., and Thomas M. Sparico of New York, have developed a method and an apparatus for entertaining callers in a queue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Nanostructures Production Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Andrew G. Norman of Evergreen, Colo., and Jerry M. Olson of Lakewood, Colo., have developed nanostructures and methods for production thereof by phase separation during metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Turbo Decoding Device
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yuji Kuwahara of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a turbo decoding device for executing the decoding by means of a soft-input/soft-output decoding. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To shorten a time required for a decoding process of a turbo ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Fiber Structure
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yang Shao-Horn and Quinn C. Horn, both of Cambridge, Mass., and John Paul Kurpiewski of River Vale, N.J., have developed fiber structures including catalysts and methods associated with the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Portable Information Device
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Yoshinori Ito of Tokyo has developed a portable information device, a method for recovering data in portable information device, and a computer product. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A volatile memory stores data related to application ...
Oklahoma Inventors Develop Cement Compositions
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Jiten Chatterji and Bobby J. King, both of Duncan, Okla., Roger S. Cromwell of Walters, Okla., and D. Chad Brenneis of Marlow, Okla., have developed cement compositions that include improved lost circulation materials. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Highly-Dispersed Supported Catalyst
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Sang-hyuk Suh, Chan-ho Pak and Hae-kyoung Kim, all from Seoul, South Korea, have developed a supported catalyst and method for preparing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides and a highly-dispersed supported ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Dense Cordierite Based Sintered Body Manufacturing Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Naomi Teratani, Naohito Yamada and Hiroaki Sakai, both of Nagoya, Japan, have developed a dense cordierite based sintered body and method of manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dense cordierite based sintered body is ...
Texas Inventor Develops Steam Boilers Smoke Emissions Reduction Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Walter R. May of Houston has developed a method of reducing smoke and particulate emissions from steam boilers and heaters operating on solid fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of reducing ...
Austrian Inventor Develops Circuit Test Apparatus
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Erwin Thalmann of Villach, Austria, has developed an apparatus and a method for testing circuit units to be tested. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a test apparatus for testing circuit units to be tested, includes ...
California Inventor Develops Carbonaceous Materials Gasification Method
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Frederick Michael Lewis of El Segundo, Calif., has developed methods and apparatus for generating a highly reactive gasifying agent and uses thereof in thermal gasification processes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for gasifying ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Testing Circuit
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Syuichi Saito of Aichi, Japan, has developed a semiconductor testing circuit for performing a test of a semiconductor storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "semiconductor testing circuit being arranged ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Spinal Fusion Implant
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Robert S. Biscup of Vermilion, Ohio, has developed an improved prosthetic implant for forming a rigid structure between adjoining vertebrae in a spinal column. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The prosthetic implant includes a cage having ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Water-Color Ink Composition
Jun 14, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 14 -- Masahiro Yatake of Nagano-ken, Japan, has developed a water-color ink which provides high print quality on ordinary paper, a recycled paper and a coated paper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "water-color ink ...