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Japanese Inventors Develop Brake Fluid Pressure Control Device

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Akihiro Otomo and Masanori Hirose, both of Toyota, Japan, and Eiji Nakamura of Nishikamo-gun, Japan, have developed a brake fluid pressure control device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake fluid pressure control device controls ...

Michigan Inventors Develop Brake-Steer Assisted Parking Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Jianbo Lu of Livonia, Mich., Timothy G. Offerle of Whittaker, Mich., Hongtei E. Tseng of Canton, Mich., Douglas S. Rhode of Farmington Hills, Mich., and Gregory P. Brown of Dearborn, Mich., have developed a method of controlling an automotive vehicle having a turning ...

California Inventors Develop Quality Spectra Automatic Detection

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- David Goldberg of Palo Alto, Calif., Marshall W. Bern of San Carlos, Calif., and John R. Yates III of San Diego, have developed an automatic detection of quality spectra. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides ...

British, Indian Inventors Develop Axle Torque Plate

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Paul Roberts, Royston Leonard Morris, and Michael Gaywood, all from Newport, Great Britain, and Nagaraja Gargeshwari of Bangalore, India, have developed a method and an apparatus for locating an axle torque plate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Computer

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Hiroyuki Tsuzuki and Tetsuya Nagata, both of Tokyo, and Junya Ohno of Yamanashi, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for computer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,477 on June ...

Illinois Inventor Develops Rotatable Tool Assembly

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Phillip A. Sollami of Herrin, Ill., has developed a non-rotatable wear ring and retainer sleeve for a rotatable tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sleeve is compressed to a diameter less than the inner diameter of the bore of a ...

California Inventor Develops Two-Dimensions Elliptic Grid Generation Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Upender K. Kaul of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method for generating an elliptic grid of coordinates in two dimensions or in three dimensions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and system for ...

California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cordless Telephone

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Jay Wilson of Portola Valley, Calif., and Claude Zellweger of San Francisco, have developed an ornamental design for a battery charger and stand for a cordless telephone and associated wireless communications headset, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...

Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Computer System Unit

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Vincent Lai of Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for computer system unit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,478 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to In Win ...

California, Michigan Inventors Develop Buckle Assembly

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- John Hyatt of Windsor, Calif., and Ashok Kalwad of Pontiac, Mich., have developed a buckle assembly for a motor vehicle belt restraint system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The buckle assembly includes a mounting plate and a buckle ...

Michigan Inventors Develop Lead Vehicle Distance Determination System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Anatoli S. Koulinitch of Farmington Hills, Mich., has developed an image-processing system implemented in a vehicle to determine the distance between the vehicle and a lead vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system implemented in ...

California Inventors Develop Motor Position Feedback Hall States Counting System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- William K. Morita Jr. of North Hollywood, Calif., Raymond Y. Liu of Monterey Park, Calif., and Estella C. Chung of West Hills, Calif., have developed systems, methods, and a computer-readable media for error-compensated counting of Hall states for motor position ...

Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Handheld Computer

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Chun-Hsien Chen and Ming-Che Chan, both of Hsin-Tien, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a handheld computer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,485 on June 12. The patent has ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Seat Apparatus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Sadao Ito of Anjo, Japan, has developed a seat apparatus for a vehicle that includes a supporting member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes supporting member and a moving member whose position is ...

Maryland Inventor Develops Neutral Sphingomyelinase Antisense Ribozyme Utilization Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Subroto B. Chatterjee of Columbia, Md., has developed a neutral sphingomyelinase antisense ribozyme and uses thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel antisense ribozymes useful for inhibiting the ...

Florida Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Frequency Modulation Transmitter Cradle

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Saied Hussaini and Marc Iacovelli, both of Miami, have developed an ornamental design for a frequency modulation transmitter cradle for portable audio player, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,486 ...

Swedish Inventors Develop Galectin Disorder Treatment Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Ulf Nilsson, Hakon Leffler and Pernilla Sorme, all from Lund, Sweden, have developed a medicament for the treatment of any disorder relating to the binding of a galectin to receptors in a mammal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...

Washington Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Electronic Mouse

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Steven W. Fisher of Kirkland, Wash., and Robert M. Freed of Kenmore, Wash., have developed an ornamental design for an electronic mouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,483 on June ...

Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Flash Memory Device

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- I-Ming Chen of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a flash memory device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,479 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Singim ...

German Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Control Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Jens Damitz of Illingen, Germany, Joachim Palmer of Korntal-Muenchingen, Germany, Horst Wagner of Stuttgart, Germany, and Michael Kessler of Leonberg-Warmbronn, Germany, have developed a device and a method for controlling an internal combustion ...

U.S., British Inventors Develop Vehicle Seat Adjustment System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Michael G. Maddelein of Northville, Mich., and Hugh H. Christopher of West Bridgford, Great Britain, have developed a vehicle seat adjustment system for adjusting the position of a portion of a vehicle seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...

Washington Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Electronic Mouse Portion

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Monique Chatterjee of Seattle has developed an ornamental design for a portion of an electronic mouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,482 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to ...

New York Inventor Develops Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Terry Morrone of Greenlawn, N.Y., has developed a method of decreasing scan time in a magnetic resonance imaging scan. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Through advancing the phase of radio frequency (RF) excitation with each phase-encoding ...

German Inventors Develop Shaped Compacts Manufacturing Pressing Device

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Michael Thomas Silbermann of Bichl, Germany, Walter Rau of Grossweil, Germany, and Johann Meyer of Konigsdorf, Germany, have developed a pressing device for manufacturing of shaped compacts from pulverized material. An abstract of the invention, released by ...

German Inventor Develops Nuclear Spin Tomography Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Michael Deimling of Moehrendorf, Germany, has developed a method for improving the image homogeneity of image data from phase-cycled steady state sequences. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nuclear spin tomography (synonym: magnetic ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Wireless Mouse Receiver

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Tomonari Murakami of Tokyo has developed an ornamental design for a receiver for wireless mouse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,480 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Sony Corp., ...

Vermont, New York Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Design

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Jerry D. Hayes of Milton, Vt., Amol Anil Joshi of Essex Junction, Vt., Natesan, William John Wright of Colchester, Vt., and Natesan Venkateswaran of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., have developed a method for performing input/output (I/O) floor planning on an integrated ...

Florida Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Finger Tip Stylus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Saied Hussaini and Marc Iacovelli, both of Miami, have developed an ornamental design for a finger tip stylus, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,484 on June 12. The patent has been assigned ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Water Heating System Scroll Compressor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Takashi Morimoto and Akira Hiwata, both of Kyoto, Japan, and Yoshiyuki Futagami and Tsutomu Tsujimoto, both of Shiga, Japan, have developed a scroll compressor that is used for a business type, domestic type or vehicular freezer air conditioner or for a heat pump type ...

Belgian, British Inventors Develop Malondialdehyde-Modified Low Density Lipoprotein Quantification Assay

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Paul Noel Holvoet of Kessel-Lo, Belgium, and Deee Collen of London, have developed an immunological assay for the detection and/or quantification of an analyte of human MDA-modified LDL (malondialdehyde-modified low density lipoprotein). According to the U.S ....

U.S., Mexican Inventors Develop Rotary Position Sensor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Arquimedes Godoy, Juan C. Lozano and Jose L Almaraz, all from Chihuahua, Mexico, Ruben Garcia Jr. and Daniel A. Martinez, both of El Paso, Texas, have developed non-contact sensors for measuring the relative angular position between relatively rotatable ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Data Recording Apparatus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Kiyoshige Noguchi of Tokyo has developed an approach method for recording vehicle data including control parameters in a control unit equipped in a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data recording apparatus acquires vehicle data ...

South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Test System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Ae-Yong Chung, Eun-Seok Lee and Sung-Ok Kim, all from Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, and Jeong-Ho Bang, Kyeong-Seon Shin and Dae-Gab Chi, all from Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, have developed a test system of semiconductor device with a handler remote control and a ...

California Inventors Develop Magnetoresistive Element Lifecycle Tester

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Henry Patland of Los Gatos, Calif., and Wade A. Ogle of San Jose, Calif., have developed an apparatus for stressing and testing a plurality of magnetoresistive (MR) elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifecycle analyzer includes a ...

South Korean Inventors Develop New 9-Aminoacridine Derivative

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Sun-Hwan Lee, Ho-Seok Kwon, Dong-Wook Kang, and Sun-Gan Chung, all from Kyungki-do, South Korea, and Eui-Hwan Cho of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a new 9-aminoacridine derivative which exhibits prominent antitumor activity and low toxicity, the U.S. Patent & ...

Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Displays Inspection Apparatus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Chung-Sung Huang and Eadle Chen, both of Miao-Li, Taiwan, and Xiao-Li Jin of ShenZhen, China, have developed inspecting apparatuses for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspecting apparatus for LCDs ...

Canadian Inventor Develops Fluids Rotary Piston Pump

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Albert W. Patterson of West Lorne, Canada, has developed a rotary piston pump end pressure regulation system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary piston pump for fluids, wherein the ends of the housing are configured so as to provide ...

South Korean Inventor Develops Engine Torque Reduction Control Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Byeong Wook Jeon of Seoul, South Korea, has developed an engine torque reduction control method for improving an engine idle control performance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, an ...

Illinois Inventor Develops Vehicle Electronic Tachometer Flutter Reduction Apparatus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Thomas A. Schubert of Sycamore, Ill., has developed an apparatus and a method for reducing flutter in an electronic tachometer for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tachometer circuit includes a flutter reduction circuit and a ...

California Inventors Develop Hairpin Peptide

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Andrea G. Cochran and Melissa A. Starovasnik, both of San Francisco, and Nicholas Skelton of San Mateo, Calif., have developed hairpin peptides with a novel structural motif and methods relating thereto. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...

Massachusetts, New York, California Inventors Develop Damage Standard Fabrication Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Neil J. Goldfine of Newton, Mass., Darrell E. Schlicker of Watertown, Mass., Vladimir A. Zilberstein of Chestnut Hill, Mass., Karen E. Walrath of Arlington, Mass., Volker Weiss of Syracuse, N.Y., and Andrew P. Washabaugh of Chula Vista, Calif., have developed a method ...

U.S., Canadian, Japanese Inventors Develop Quantum Junction Device

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Claudio Chamon of Lexington, Mass., Ian Affleck of Vancouver, Canada, and Masaki Oshikawa of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a quantum junction device which has small size, rapid response times and relatively high sensitivity. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

German Inventors Develop Clutch Control Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Markus Baehr of Achern, Germany, has developed a method for controlling a clutch, especially a double clutch, an interruption-free manually controlled gearbox, especially a parallel gearbox. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A common torque ...

Michigan Inventors Develop Prostate Tumor Tissue Characterization Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Mark A. Rubin and Arun Sreekumar, both of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Arul M. Chinnaiyan of Plymouth, Mich., have developed a method for characterizing prostate tumor tissue in a subject. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...

California Inventors Develop Hydraulic Pumps Oilless Air Motor Assembly

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Oai Tuan Mach of La Puente, Calid., and Hung Dan Chan Mach of Diamond Bar, Calif., have developed an oilless air motor assembly and a method that is useable for driving hydraulic pumps and the like. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent ...

South Korean Inventors Develop Horizontal Type Compressor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Hyun-Jun Ko and Youn-Bong Han, both of Gyungsangsam-Do, South Korea, have developed a horizontal type compressor which can minimize an amount of refrigerant oil discharged outside a compressor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...

California Inventors Develop Power Supply System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- John Arthur Stineman Jr. of Carpinteria, Calif., and Jeffrey Lynn Heath of Santa Barbara, Calif., have developed a novel system and methodology for distinguishing a network interface card (NIC) from a short circuit condition in a Power over Ethernet (PoE) ...

Ohio Inventor Develops Loose Wood-Based Material Pressing Press

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Wayne Crooks of Madison, Ohio, has developed a platen for pressing material such as wood chips or the like into rigid boards. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platen press for pressing loose wood-based material into structural panels at ...

California Inventors Develop Pulse Frequency Modulated Voltage Regulator

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Charles L. Vinn of Milpitas, Calif., and Raymond D. Zinn of Atherton, Calif., have developed pulse-frequency-modulated (PFM) switching-type voltage regulators. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PFM-type voltage regulator circuit converts ...

Ohio Inventors Develop Foldable Booster Car Seat

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Paul Meeker of Hiram, Ohio, and William R. Gibson of Kent, Ohio, have developed a foldable or collapsible juvenile car seat, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,229,132 on June 12. The patent ...

Georgia Inventors Develop Flexible Current Sensor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Bin Zhang of Alpharetta, Ga., and Mario Bilac of Lawrenceville, Ga., have developed a method and a current sensor for measuring a current in a conductor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sensor comprises a non-magnetic, flexible core ...

Illinois Inventors Develop Voltage Sensor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Timothy J. Mulligan of Glenview, Ill., and James W. Barker Jr. of Niles, Ill., have developed a voltage sensing apparatus for medium-voltage electrical power distribution systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molded voltage sensor is ...

Texas Inventor Develops Electronic Devices with Current Limiting System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Stanley Earl Cox of Farmers Branch, Texas, has developed a method and a system for current limiting using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes sensing a load current to produce a ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Ignition Coil Apparatus

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Masahiro Iwa and Nobuyuki Sawazaki, both of Tokyo, have developed an ignition coil apparatus for an internal combustion engine that is arranged in a plug hole of the internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ignition ...

South African Inventors Develop Monoclonal Antibody Designated Sm047

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Hannelore F. U. Veenstra of Panorama, South Africa, and Catharina E. Fick of Camps Bay, South Africa, have developed a monoclonal antibody designated SM047. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a monoclonal ...

California Inventors Develop Ceiling Fan with Driving Gear

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Mark Gajewski of Avila Beach, Calif., and Kurt A. Schulzman of Long Beach, Calif., have developed a ceiling fan that can be suspended from a mounting rod and comprises a transverse support. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pair of ...

Virginia, Utah, California Inventors Develop One-Pass Axial-Flow Blood Pump

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Paul E. Allaire, Alex Untaroiu and Amy Throckmorton, all from Charlottesville, Va., Houston G. Wood and Don B. Olsen, both of Salt Lake City, Steven W. Day of Davis, Calif., and Xinwei Song of Richmond, Va., have developed axial-flow blood pumps suitable for permanent ...

Nevada, California Inventors Develop Vehicle Hitch Adaptor

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Alan Conrad Holly of Minden, Nev., and Wesley Gene Wegner of Thousand Oaks, Calif., have developed to vehicle hitch tow adaptors and storable seating assemblies attachable via vehicle hitch adaptors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...

North Carolina Inventor Develops Accurate High-Speed Current Sources

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Edward Perry Jordan of Kernersville, N.C., has developed a current source that generates an output current pulse in response to a command signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current source embodiments are provided which generate an ...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Medical Tubing

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Douglas A. Devens Jr. and Edward Parsonage both of St. Paul, Minn., John Jianhua Chen of Plymouth, Minn., and Paul James Miller of Vadnais Heights, Minn., have developed a catheter tubing with improved stress-strain characteristics. According to the U.S ....

German Inventors Develop Field Devices Power Supply Regulation Method

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Stefan Maier of Rheinfelden, Germany, has developed a method for regulating the power supply of a plurality of field devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for regulating the power supply of a plurality of field devices, ...

Connecticut Inventor Develops Compressor Motor-End Bearing

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Jeffrey J. Nieter of Coventry, Conn., has developed a compressor motor-end bearing with an oil leakage path. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes a motor having a rotor for driving a shaft, to drive compressor pistons. A ...

German Inventors Develop Turbine Blade

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Ulrich Bast of Munich, Germany, and Wolfgang Hermann of Mulheim, Germany, have developed a turbine blade with a reduced mass. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a turbine comprising at least four stages and to the ...

Taiwanese Inventor Develops Folding Chair with Stereo System

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Te Lung Chen of Tainan County, Taiwan, has developed a folding chair with portable stereo system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes foldable supporting frame, chair seat, chair back, primary armrest, secondary ...

Michigan Inventors Develop Ventilated Seat

Jun 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- Brennon L. White of Commerce, Mich., Mary J. Lumbard of Dexter, Mich., Anne P. Liss of Livonia, Mich., William G. Reed of Walled Lake, Mich., have developed a ventilated seat assembly including a trim cover, an enclosed chamber, a spacer, and a ...