US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, June 20:
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Correction Tape Dispenser
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Cheng-Loung Wu of Chang Hua, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a correction tape dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,544 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to SDI ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pocket Chart
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Patricia L. Carson of Greensboro, N.C., has developed an ornamental design for a pocket chart, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,542 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Carson-Dellosa ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Photosensitive Article
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Michael C. Cole and Timothy J. Trentler, both of Longmont, Colo., have developed mesophasic optical articles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are mesophasic optical articles, methods of making mesophasic articles and methods of ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Audio Station
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kurt Solland of Westlake Village, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for an audio and docking station for a handheld electronic device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,547 on June ...
BARKSDALE BOMBERS TO FLY IN KOA LIGHTNING
Jun 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release: Four B-52 Stratofortress aircraft and aircrew from the 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron deployed here from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., are scheduled to fly to Hawaii and back this week to participate in the latest Koa Lightning exercise ....
Canadian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Exercise Tube
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Larry Brun of Ontario, Canada, has developed an ornamental design for exercise tube, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,554 on June 12. The original application was filed on Aug. 18, 2004, and ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Arch-Shaped Toy Block
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Beth A. Hageman of Orchard, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for an arch-shaped toy block, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,550 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Mattel ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Block
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Minoru Morimura of Osaka-fu, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a block, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,551 on June 12. The original application was filed on July 6, 2005, and ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Mobile Communication Device Updating Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou and Huijie Deng, all from Singapore, have developed a method of generating an authentication for updating a mobile communications device's location. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Game Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- John T. Miller of West Lafayette, Ind., have developed an ornamental design for a game apparatus, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,548 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Hasbro Inc, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Plastic Product Recycling Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kazuyoshi Suehara of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a method for recycling used-up plastic products and a washing process of crushed plastic and an apparatus therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Jet Airplane Toy
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Joseph E. Glatz of Plano, Texas, has developed an ornamental design for a jet airplane toy, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,549 on June 12. The original application was filed on May 18, ...
California Inventors Develop Dry Eye Condition Treatment Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Suzanne Davison of Murrieta, Calif., and Roy Paulson of Temecula, Calif., have developed an eyewear apparatus for treating dry eye conditions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "eyewear apparatus for treating dry ...
California Inventor Develops Handheld Hair Pick Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Albert Wall of Lodi, Calif., has developed a hair pick comprising an elongated base member made from a material which is both flexible and resilient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of teeth project from an upper side of the ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Household Dishwasher with Wash Aid Dispenser
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Geoffrey L. Dingler, Brent A. DeWeerd and Michael L. Huie, all from St. Joseph, Mich., and Christopher J. Carlson of Watervliet, Mich., have developed a household dishwasher with a bulk wash aid dispenser for metering individual charges of wash aid from a bulk wash ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Communication System with Mobile Radio
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- David M. Bicksler of Webster, N.Y., and Robert Williamson of Earby, Great Britain, have developed communications system using separate receive and a transmit frequency hopping hopsets. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system communicates ...
Georgia, North Carolina Inventors Develop Smoking Article with Catalytic Smoke Reformer
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kayyani C. Adiga of Macon, Ga., and Rufus H. Honeycutt of China Grove, N.C., have developed a smoking article which includes a catalyst bed therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoking article includes a tobacco rod in axial ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Mascara Brush
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Yoon-Hoi Kim of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a mascara brush. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention relates to a mascara brush. The present invention provides a mascara brush, ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Building Block
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Fu-Chi Lin of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a building block, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,552 on June 12. The patent has been assigned to Youth Toy ...
Florida Inventors Develop Cigarette Butt Container Deodorizer
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Mark D. Shaw of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., J. Tad Heyman of Atlantic Beach, Fla., and Laurence M. Bierce of Macclenny, Fla., have developed a deodorizing apparatus for suppressing odor emanating from a cigarette butt containment vessel. According to the U.S ....
Michigan Inventors Develop Automatic Dishwasher and Adjustable Rack
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Jay C. Landsiedel of St. Joseph, Mich., and Chad T. VanderRoest of Watervliet, Mich., have developed an adjustable utensil carrier for holding a utensil such that it can be sprayed by multiple wash liquid sources. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Insulated Container
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Andrew L. Jones and Mitchell L. Wilgus, both of, Andover, Kan., Michael D. Brockel of Wichita, Kan., and Timothy M. Holub of Cheney, Kan., have developed an ornamental design for an insulated container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
German Inventor Develops Poultry Feeding Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Roland Busse of Cloppenburg, Germany, has developed a device for the feeding of free-range poultry kept in a coop. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A device for feeding poultry kept in a barn, comprises ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ball Throwing-pitching Machine Feeder Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Orville Wilson of Katy, Texas, has developed a ball pitching apparatus for pitching to a receiver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "ball pitching device that, prior to release and delivery of the ball to a ...
British Inventors Develop Medicament Dispenser
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Stephen James Harvey and Paul Kenneth Rand, both of Ware, Great Britain, have developed a device for use in dispensing medicament in powder or tablet form. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention there is provided a ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Composite Flexible Graphite Material Preparation Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Robert Angelo Mercuri of Seven Hills, Ohio, Jeremy Klug of Brunswick, Ohio, Matthew George Getz of Medina, Ohio, and Thomas William Weber of Cleveland, have developed a method for preparing composite flexible graphite material. According to the U.S. Patent ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Air Tank Valve
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Simon Benjamin Stevens of Sewell, N.J., has developed a valve for a paintball marker. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve, possibly for use in a paintball marker, has a longer threaded portion that insures a canister that engages the ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Animal Related Action Performance Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Martinus Petrus Kortekaas of Lisse, Netherlands, and Karel van den Berg of Bleskensgraaf, Netherlands, have developed a method of performing an animal related action on an animal by means of a robot arm. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
German Inventors Develop Cancer Cell Isolation Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Frank Austrup and Michael Giesing, both of Recklinghausen, Germany, have developed a method for isolating cancer cells from cell-containing body fluids. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Juice, Milk Cartons
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Mike Croteau of Woodbridge, Canada, and Ajaib Hayer of Ajax, Canada, have developed an ornamental design for juice and milk cartons, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,760 on June 19. The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Color Image Forming Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Yoshiaki Okano of Mishima, Japan, and Masatsugu Hirayama of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a color image forming apparatus and a color image forming method with overlapping toners. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a digital copying ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Photothermographic Material
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kouta Fukui of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a photothermographic material and image forming method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photothermographic material including, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Forming Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kenichiro Kitajima of Ibaraki, Japan, has developed an image forming apparatus with control of transfer charge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic latent image transferring apparatus applies a transferring bias to a transfer ...
German Inventor Develops Fuel Pump Unit Feed Rate Setting Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Gunter Wagner of Wolfhagen, Germany, has developed a method for setting the feed rate of a fuel pump unit, which sucks up fuel from a fuel tank, and a fuel pump unit for the method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to ...
Florida Inventor Develops Pneumatic Projectile Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Forest A Hatcher of Fiagier Beach, Fla., has developed a feed port for pneumatic projectile device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "improved feed port for a pneumatic projectile device comprising a moveable ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Forming Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Ken Yoshizuka, Keiichi Taguchi and Hiroshi Tanaka, all from Nagano-ken, Japan, have developed an image forming device for performing calibration by patch pattern. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device, has an image ...
Texas Inventor Develops Flag Storage, Support Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Brian F. Williams Sr. of North Richland Hills, Texas, has developed a new flag holding device for storing a flag on a dwelling wall when not in use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flag storage and support apparatus includes a housing ...
Maryland Inventors Develop Automatic Animal Feeding Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Robert Michael Turner of Boyds, Md., and Mark David Olcott of Germantown, Md., have developed an automatic device and method for identifying specific pets for the purposes of allowing or disallowing feedings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Nasal Oral Respiratory Interface
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Charles Palmer of Hummelston, Pa., has developed an apparatus for stabilizing, supporting, or securing items on a patient's head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for stabilizing at ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Food Fryer
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Tadayoshi Sato of Tokyo has developed a food fryer having a frying food tank of a water layer area and an oil layer area therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "food fryer allowing a fried food tank to be ...
Florida Inventor Develops Assisted Trigger Mechanism
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Forest A. Hatcher of Flagler Beach, Fla., has developed a method of assisting the cocking and firing of a paintball gun to increase the rate at which paintballs are fired. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical, pneumatic, magnetic ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Bow String Double Serving Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Mathew A. McPherson of Norwalk, Wis., has developed a method of serving a cable of an archery bow. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bowstrings and power cables for archery bows have end servings with improved durability and longer life ....
Danish Inventor Develops Gas-fired Cooking Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Niels Frederiksen of Herlev, Denmark, has developed a gas-fired cooking apparatus with accurate control of the cooking temperature. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "gas-fired cooking apparatus, comprising a ...
Washington Inventor Develops Particle Dispersion Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Marc Giroux of Lynnwood, Wash., has developed a particle dispersion device for nasal delivery. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nebulizer and a method of breathing using the nebulizer is described. The nebulizer and breathing techniques ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Air Intake Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engine
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Shogo Hattori of Kawachi-gun, Japan, has developed an air intake apparatus and a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an air intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine providing a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Wafers Patterned Feature Critical Dimension Uniformity Improvement Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Tsai-Sheng Gau, Jaw-Jung Shin and Burn-Jeng Lin, all from Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, and Jan-Wen You of Jhongli, Taiwan, have developed a method for improving the critical dimension uniformity of a patterned feature on a wafer in semiconductor and mask ...
New York, Vermont Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Chip Power Routing Performing Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Bing Chen of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Mark Kwang-Jen Hsu of Fishkill, N.Y., Erich C. Schanzenbach of Dover Plains, N.Y., Patrick M. Ryan of Essex Junction, Vt., and Scott W. Gould of South Burlington, Vt., have developed a method for performing power routing on a ...
Minnesota, Illinois Inventors Develop Cancer Detection Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Kevin C. Halling and Robert B. Jenkins of Rochester, Minn., Walter King of Wheaton, Ill., Irina A. Sokolova of Lombard, Ill., and Steven A. Seelig of Naperville, Ill., have developed a method and a probe set for detecting cancer. According to the U.S. Patent ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Circuit Package Miniaturization Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Nobuyasu Kanekawa of Los Angeles, Hirokazu Ihara of Machida, Japan, Masatsugu Akiyama of Yokohama, Japan, Kiyoshi Kawabata of Abiko, Japan, Hisayoshi Yamanaka of Hitachi, Japan, and Tetsuya Okishima of Katsuta, Japan, have developed an extra-small computer for use in ...
Oregon, Washington Inventors Develop Optical Proximity Correction Process
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Dan Beale of Portland, Ore., Jim Shiely of Aloha, Ore., and John Stirniman of Vancouver, Wash., have developed a system for calculating etch proximity-correction using object-precision techniques. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One ...
U.S., French Inventors Develop Heliothis Glutamate Receptor
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Xiao-Zhuo Michelle Wang and Vincent Paul Mary Wingate, both of Chapel Hill, N.C., Michael David Tomalski of Raleigh, N.C., and Xavier Georges Sarda of Sainte Genevieve des Bois, France, have developed a method of identifying an agent that modulates the activity of a ...
Oklahoma, New Jersey, Florida Inventors Develop Finished Edge Undergarment
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Anthony Angelino of Edmond, Okla., David Welsch of Livingston, N.J., and Ronald Boser of Port St. Lucie, Fla., have developed a method of making a fabric with a finished edge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a fabric ...
Belgian, Greek Inventors Develop Digital System Designing System
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Peng Yang and Chun Wong, both of Leuven, Belgium, Francky Catthoor of Temse, Belgium, Paul Marchal of Blanden, Belgium, Nathalie Cossement of Rekkem, Belgium, Rudy Lauwereins of Winksele, Belgium, and Aggeliki Prayati of Athens, Greece, have developed a system and a ...
Flarida Inventor Develops Powerboat Tunnel
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Ralph Brown of Spring Hill, Fla., has developed a powerboat with disappearing tunnel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shallow draft boat has a hull that protects a propulsion propeller within a tunnel that passes only partially through ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disc-shaped Recording Medium
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Yoshiyuki Teraoka of Kanagawa, Japan, and Makoto Watanabe of Miyagi, Japan, have developed a disc-shaped recording medium, a manufacturing method thereof, and a disc drive device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magneto-optical disk ...
British Inventors Develop Genome Wide Variation Analyzing Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Shankar Balasubramanian, David Klenerman, Colin Barnes and Mark Allen Osborne, all from Waldon, Great Britain, have developed a method for analysing genome wide variation in an individual. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is ...
British Inventors Develop Mask-Programmable Logic Device Programming Software
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Alasdair Scott of High Wycombe, Great Britain, and Gregor Nixon of Bicester, Great Britain, have developed a method of programming a mask-programmable logic device to create a mask-programmed logic device that performs one or more desired functions. According ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Variable Memory Refresh Rate Control Method
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Chung-Hsiao R. Wu of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Robert C. Zak Jr. of Bolton, Mass., have developed a method and an apparatus for controlling a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) refresh rate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one ...
New Mexico Inventors Develop G-Protein Coupled Receptor Detection Assay
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Larry A. Sklar, Eric R. Prossnitz, Peter Simons, Anna Waller and Sean Biggs, all form Albuquerque, N.M., and Daniel Cimino of Tijeras, N.M., have developed a method comprising evaluating the relative G protein receptor agonism. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Thin Film Magnetic Memory Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Hiroaki Tanizaki, Hideto Hidaka, Takaharu Tsuji and Tsukasa Ooishi, all from Hyogo, Japan, have developed a thin film magnetic memory device that is provided with memory cells with magnetic tunnel junctions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Brazilian Inventors Develop Non-volatile Memory Cell
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Andre Luis Vilas Boas and Alfredo Olmos, both of Campinas, Brazil, have developed non-volatile memory cells. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory cell includes a static latch having a first terminal and a second ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Ryu Ogiwara and Daisaburo Takashima, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a semiconductor memory device with memory cells to store cell data and reference data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Designing Support Apparatus
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Keisuke Kanamaru of Tokyo has developed an integrated circuit designing support apparatus that includes a storage unit and a processing unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The storage unit stores an register transfer level (RTL) ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory Device
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Yasushi Matsubara of Tokyo has developed a semiconductor memory device having a redundancy circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundancy replacement judging circuit includes a redundancy replacement judging circuit chain and a ...
Canadian, British Inventors Develop Transit Vehicle Door System
Jun 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Andre Stojc of L'ile Bizard, Canada, and Simon Evans of Hilton, Great Britain, have developed a door system for transit vehicle that utilizes compression lock arrangement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking arrangement for a door ...