US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, June 22:
Utah Inventor Develops Memory Lookup Table
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- James M. Simkins of Park City, Utah, has developed a method of setting and resetting lookup table memory cells. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "methods of setting and/or resetting a lookup table (LUT) ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Shielded Electrical Connector
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Ming-Ching Chen of TuCheng, Taiwan, has developed a shielded electrical connector for electrically connecting a module to a printed circuit board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shielded electrical connector for receiving a module ...
German Inventors Develop Sheath Wave Barrier Unit
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Martin Hergt of Dortmund, Germany, and Arne Reykowski of Erlangen, Germany, have developed a sheath wave barrier unit for an outer shielding of a coaxial cable. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "sheath wave ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Electronic Component Test Apparatus
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Joseph Peter Allgeyer of Gibsonville, N.C. has developed an ergonomic, rotatable testing apparatus for testing of electronic components such as printed circuit boards. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for testing ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Energy Management System with Refrigeration Apparatus
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Wayne Dilk of Sherwood Park, Canada, and Harold E. Martin of Mississauga, Canada, have developed an energy management system, a method, and an apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy management system may include a ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Personal Care Pouch
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Edwin George Zawacki of Sacramento, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for personal care pouch, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,705 on June 19. The original application was filed ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Key Chain
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Avner Rimon of Upper Galelee, Israel, has developed an ornamental design for a key chain, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,706 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to On Track ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Alpha 1,4-Galactosyltransferase Production Process
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Tetsuo Endo of Palo Alto, Calif., and Satoshi Koizumi of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a process for producing alpha 1,4-galactosyltransferase and galactose-containing complex sugar. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Compact Disc Wallet
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Cache Mundy of Boulder, Colo., and Eric S. Hassett of Golden, Colo., have developed an ornamental design for a compact disc wallet with exterior storage, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,711 on ...
California Inventors Develop Portable Personal Cooling Device
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Henry Arnold and Virginia Arnold, both of Los Angeles, have developed a portable personal cooling device substantially utilizing components typical in gas refrigerant air conditioning. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device is worn as ...
Italian Inventor Develops Padlock-type Lock for Suitcases
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Massimo Tonelli of Casalecchio di Reno, Italy, has developed a padlock-type lock for suitcases, trunks and the like. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "padlock-type lock for suitcases and us of the type constituted ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electrical Connector
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kenji Ookura of Hisai, Japan, has developed an electrical connector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protruding table which was conventionally provided in a center portion of a socket body is eliminated, so that a dimension of a socket ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bag
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Robert Marshall Barker of Atlanta has developed an ornamental design for a bag, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,708 on June 19. The original application was filed on May 23, 2006, and is ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Powdered Substances Travel Container
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Gregory J. Kenny of Wakefield, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a travel container for powdered substances, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,704 on June 19. The patent has been ...
U.S., Luxembourg Inventors Develop Glass Bending and Tempering Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- George Neuman of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Andre Heyen of Bertrange, Luxembourg, have developed an apparatus and a method for bending and/or tempering glass substrate(s). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amount of near-infrared (IR) ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Laboratory, Clinical Accessories Carrier
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Peter T. Hadjis of Vernon Hills, Ill., and Christopher J. Stvartak of Skokie, Ill., have developed an ornamental design for a carrier for laboratory and clinical accessories, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Accessory Holder
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Ross Labelson of Westbury, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for an accessory holder, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,707 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Buckle-Down ...
German Inventors Develop Packet-oriented Data Transmission Error Correction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Marcel Wagner and Wenrong Weng, both of Munchen, Germany, Gu Liebl of Freising, Germany, and Ju Pandel of Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany, have developed a method for error correction in packet-oriented data transmission with transmission blocks that are better ...
British Inventors Develop Signal Synchronization Timing Detection Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Paul Febvre of Suffolk, Great Britain, and Panagiotis Fines of London, have developed a method of detecting the synchronization timing of a signal including a systematic forward error corrected synchronisation pattern. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Voltage Converter Multi-Function Pin
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Pao-Chuan Lin of Yunlin County, Taiwan, Chin-Hui Wang of Banchiau, Taiwan, and Liang-Pin Tai of Tainan, Taiwan, have developed a circuit for implementing a multi-function pin on a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller chip in a voltage converter to switch a pair of ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Two-Step Direct Current Converter
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Liang-Pin Tai of Tainan, Taiwan, and Jiun-Chiang Chen of Taichung County, Taiwan, have developed a two-step direct current (DC)-to-DC converter with a higher efficiency. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-step DC-to-DC converter ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Voltage Regulator
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Yan Dong, Ming Xu and Fred C. Lee, all from Blacksburg, Va., have developed a voltage regulator with multiple coupled output inductors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Voltage regulators often have coupled output inductors because coupled ...
California Inventors Develop Window Guard Banding Inspection Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Douglas W. Raymond of Orinda, Calif., Richard D. Fleming of Walnut Creek, Calif., John Haddon of Berkeley, Calif., and Dominic F. Haigh of San Francisco, have developed a method of developing an inspection program to be run on an automatic optical inspection ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kenneth Link of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,700 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Andrew Caine of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,693 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
British Inventors Develop Electrical Machine Rotor Position Detection Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Peter Mark Moriarty of Knaresborough, Great Britain, and Michael Paul Tankard of Harrogate, Great Britain, have developed an electrical machine that has a rotor position transducer which provides output signals to a control system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Nicole Mueller of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,691 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Adaptive Power Supply Providing Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Wenzhe Luo, Paul Ouyang and Feng Chen, all from Shanghai, China, have developed a system and a method for adaptively providing a power supply voltage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes an input/output subsystem ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Tate E. Kuerbis of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,692 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Fabrication Monitoring Apparatus
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Jun Ye and Xun Chen, both of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for monitoring integrated circuit fabrication. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present invention is a sensor unit for sensing ...
California Inventors Develop Wind Powered Turbine
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- William Erdman of Orinda, Calif., Kevin L. Cousineau of Lompoc, Calif., and Amir S. Mikhail of Santa Barbara, Calif., have developed a wind powered turbine with low voltage ride-through capability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Jeff Rasmussen of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,695 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to NIKE ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Midsole Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Eddie Chen of Taichung, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for portion of a shoe midsole, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,701 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to C2 Corp., ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kenneth Link of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,689 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Multi-rate Viterbi Decoder
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Mohit K. Prasad and Nitin Vig, both of Austin, Texas, Gaurav Davra and Arnab K. Mitra, both of Uttar Pradish, India, and Amrit P. Singh of Punjab, India, have developed a method for decoding a data symbol sequence. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kimberly L. Glover of Beaverton, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,694 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Power Supply Reduction Switch
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Michael R. Kay of Summerfield, N.C. has developed a system for actively reducing a ripple in the output of a switched mode power supply. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for actively reducing ripple in a ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kenneth Link of Beaverton, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,702 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Kathleen Huthmaker of East Aurora, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,697 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Input Signal Processing Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Pavel Novotny and Lowell L. Winger, both of Waterloo, Canada, and Guy Cote of Elora, Canada, have developed a method for processing an input signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method generally includes the steps of extracting a ...
California Inventors Develop Flash Memory Error Correction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Leonardo Vainsencher of San Jose, Calif., and Cahide Kiris of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a system to detect and correct errors in a flash memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to detect and ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Sebastien Mermet of Creteil, France, has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,690 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike ...
Texas Inventor Develops Parity Generation Circuit
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- James Leon Worley of Denton, Texas, has developed a method and a system to encode and decode wide data words. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parity generation circuit includes a plurality of bit-generation circuits. Each bit-generation ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Leo S. Chang of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,698 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
MILITARY FAMILIES RECEIVE FREE PCS
Jun 22, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Ten military families received free computers Tuesday in an event sponsored by the Armed Services YMCA, KUSI -a San Diego news station -and Computers to San Diego Kids, Inc. at the Armed Services YMCA in Murphy ...
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT RECEIVES CULTURAL AWARD
Jun 22, 2007 ... The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story: Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., was presented Fightertown's first Marine Corps Cultural Resources Award June 7 at the United States Navy Memorial Theater in Washington, D.C. Accepting on behalf of Fightertown were ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Composite Coded Data Piece Reproduction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Hisae Tanaka, Yoshikazu Yamamoto and Motoshi Ito, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a reproduction method for reproducing a composite coded data piece from a recording medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reproduction method ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Hat-Face Shield Combination
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Izaltina Almeida of Deerfield Beach, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a hat/face shield combination, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,679 on June 19. The original application ...
California Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Parametric Test Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Iain R. Clark of San Jose, Calif., has developed a circuit for parametric testing of an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for parametric testing of an integrated circuit includes an integrated circuit having a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Printed Wiring Board Connection Structure
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Shinji Uchida, Junya Kajimoto and Akihito Funakoshi, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a connection structure for a printed wiring board which enables high density integration. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A elexible printed ...
British Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Sandra Choi of London has developed an ornamental design for a shoe, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,683 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to J. Choo Jersey Ltd., Jersey, Great ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Footwear Upper
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Tuan N. Le of Portland, Ore., and Manon Belley of Laval, Canada, have developed an ornamental design for footwear upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D544,682 on June 19. The patent has ...
California Inventors Develop Communications System Error Burst Correction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Howard Pines of El Cerrito, Calif., Wenfeng Huang of San Ramon, Calif., Daryl Kaiser of Los Gatos, Calif., and Ian Sayers of Redwood City, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for using fire decoder to correct burst errors in a real-time communications ...
New York Inventors Develop Computer System Communication Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Thomas A. Gregg of Highland, N.Y., and Kulwant M. Pandey of Lagrangeville, N.Y., have developed a hardware mechanism for receiving frames from a link. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and a system for ...
California Inventors Develop Data Bytes Burst Errors Correcting Technique
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Martin Hassner of Mountain View, Calif., and Vipul Srivastava of San Jose, Calif., have developed techniques for detecting and correcting errors that uses multiple interleave erasure pointers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Andrew Caine of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,687 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Storage Device
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Hiroyuki Goto and Kinji Mitani, both of Higashimurayama, Japan, Fumio Hara of Higashikurume, Japan, Shigemasa Shiota of Tachikawa, Japan, and Hirofumi Shibuya of Matsuda, Japan, have developed a nonvolatile memory apparatus and a data processing ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Larry Clark of Manhattan Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,681 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Skechers USA ...
German Inventors Develop Communication Error Correction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Michael Kauschke of Braunschweig, Germany, and Carsten Poppinga of Dortmund, Germany, have developed an apparatus for iterative hard-decision forward error correction decoding. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus comprises a ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Armi Shin of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,686 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Bo Lupo of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D544,684 on June 19. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Soft Input Value Scaling Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Tom Richardson of South Orange, N.J., Vladimir Novichkov of Towaco, N.J., and Hui Jin of Annendale, N.J., have developed methods and an apparatus for scaling soft values as part of an error correction decoding process. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Washington Inventors Develop Network Data Interaction Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- David F. Gainer of Redmond, Wash., and Jonathan M. Sigler of Medina, Wash., have developed a system and a method for interacting with data from a collaboration system over a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaboration data is ...
California Inventor Develops Molecular Weight Determination Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Ring-Ling Chien of San Jose, Calif., has developed a method for determining diffusivity and a molecular weight in a microfluidic device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention is directed ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Data Block Transmitting and Receiving Method
Jun 22, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 -- Pak-Lung Seto of Shrewsbury, Mass., has developed a method of communicating using a partial block in a frame. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment may include: at least one of transmitting and receiving a ...