US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, July 6:
Minnesota Inventors Develop Agricultural Applicator Drive Accessing Device
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Rex L. Ruppert of Benson, Minn., and Stephen H. Stuhr of Blomkest, Minn., have developed a drive access and a storage device for an agricultural applicator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side mounted storage device is provided for an ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Rappelling Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Ivars Avots and Herbert H. Loeffler, both of Arlington, Mass., and Richard Barton of Scituate, Mass., have developed an apparatus for moving an object from an elevated to a lower position at a controlled rate of speed. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Texas Inventors Develop Transmission System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Ryuichi Moriya, Nobuhiro Rikitake and Hirotaka Morita, all from Kawasaki, Japan, Koji Takeguchi and Hideki Matsui, both of Richardson, Texas, have developed a transmission system for controlling the transmission of a concatenation signal. According to the U.S ....
Texas Inventor Develops Stable Synchronization State Maintaining System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Richard W. Adkisson of Dallas has developed a system and a method for maintaining a stable synchronization state in a programmable clock synchronizer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for maintaining a stable ...
California Inventor Develops Multiplexer Loop Pipelining Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Keshab K Parhi of Irvine, Calif., has developed a pipelining of multiplexer loops in a digital circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An n-level look-ahead network converts input values to intermediate values that are provided to a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Universal Golf Cart Powered Mechanism
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Gordon Liao of Yung Kang, Taiwan, has developed a powered mechanism for a universal golf cart that includes a transmission device and a fixing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transmission device includes a housing assembly for ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Automobile Air Intake System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Raymond Khouw and Takeshi Hagiwara, both of Dublin, Ohio, and Ryan Chapman of Powell, Ohio, have developed an automobile air intake system that channels air from outside the automobile engine compartment to the engine. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Multi-Thread Graphic Processing System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Andrew Gruber of Arlington, Mass., Stephen Morein of Cambridge, Mass., and Laurent Lefebvre of Lachenaie, Canada, have developed a multi-thread graphics processing system and a method that includes a reservation station with a plurality of command threads stored ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Lawn Tractor Controlling Circuit
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- David A. Straka of Hudson, Ohio, Arthur James Harvey of Mantua, Ohio, and Ted Wetzel of Mayfield, Ohio, have developed a control circuit for a lawn tractor with an engine and a power take off driven implement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New York Inventor Develops Three-Dimensional Facial Animation System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Michael A. Berger of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has developed a method of building deformable three-dimensional (3-D) models of human faces by reconstructing both the shape and motion patterns of a subject's face. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Narrow Line Width Optical Parametric Oscillator
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Scott D. Setzler of Manchester, N.H., has developed a method for generating mid and long wavelength infrared radiation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A narrow line width optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is used a pump for a tunable ...
California Inventors Develop Upstream Data Transmission Receiving Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Selim Shlom Rakibo and Yehuda Azenkot, both of Cupertino, Calif., have developed an apparatus and a method for receiving upstream data transmissions from multiple remote transmitters. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for ...
District of Columbia, Michigan Inventors Develop Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Alex J. Severinsky of Washington, and Theodore Louckes of Holly, Mich., have developed a hybrid electric vehicle that is fully competitive with presently conventional vehicles as regards performance, operating convenience and cost. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Interactive Data Transmission Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Thomas B. Hall and Walter Burt, both of Madison, Wis., have developed a method and a system for compact representation of interactive data and transmitting the data via a computer network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Zero-turn Radius Vehicle
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Mark Charles Bland and Jeffrey A. Huncilman, both of New Albany, Ind., have developed a zero-turn radius vehicle with steerable front wheels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a zero turning radius vehicle ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Media Data Processing Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- TsutomuAndo of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a media data processing apparatus and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media data processing apparatus includes an input unit that inputs media data and intellectual property ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Track Type Work Machine
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Richard E. Livesay of Peoria, Ill., and Glen A. Spindel of Divernon, Ill., have developed a vertical idler adjuster for track type work machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine, and a work machine idler mounting assembly is ...
Texas Inventors Develop Fixed Cutter Drill Bit
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Neerali Janubhai Desai of Houston, Texas, and Jiinjen Albert Sue of The Woodlands, Texas, have developed a drill bit with non-cutting erosion resistant inserts. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one illustrative embodiment, the apparatus ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Capture, Transmission System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Kengo Tsuzuki of Machida, Japan, and Toshiaki Shinohara of Omiya, Japan, have developed an image capture and a transmission system which includes first and second imaging devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timing signal generator ...
Washington Inventor Develops Graphics Generation Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Charles Loop of Bellevue, Wash., has developed a method for computer generation of fonts, typefaces and graphics. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "rendering an outline font. Rendering an outline font by adding ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Work Machine Steering Arrangement
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Kenneth G. Jones of Buffalo, Minn., has developed a steering device with a spring return and position locking arrangement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering arrangement is provided for a work machine that includes a braking ...
Texas Inventors Develop method Video Error Concealment Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Michael Horowitz and Rick Flott, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a system and a method for concealing video errors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a system and method for concealing ...
REP. DELAURO ISSUES STATEMENT ON EXPANSION OF SNACK FOOD RECALL BECAUSE OF SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION
Jul 06, 2007 ... Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn. (3rd CD), issued the following statement: Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn.-3) issued the following statement about the expansion of the salmonella recall to a second snack food, the Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks Snack Food sold across the United States ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Communication System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Mitsuhiro Suzuki of Chiba, Japan, and Makoto Natori of Saitama, Japan, have developed a communication system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "communication system that can satisfactorily communicate with a mobile ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Outline Fonts Processing Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Masatoshi Ito and Shunsuke Futakuchi, both of Miyagi, Japan, have developed a method and a computer software product for processing outline fonts to skeletonize character fonts based on their outline data. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S ....
Iowa Inventors Develop Frequency Hopped Waveform Demodulation Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Eric O. Zuber of South Amana, Iowa, and Terry J. Golubiewski of Marengo, Iowa, have developed a method of demodulating a frequency hopped waveform. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises receiving an analog radio frequency ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Interference Protection Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Staffan Gunnarsson of Sollentuna, Sweden, has developed an identification device and/or identification reader or write/read unit functioning in the microwave range. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus and ...
California Inventors Develop Wireless Local Area Network Signal Processing Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Weishi Feng of San Jose, Calif., and Peter Loc of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed an extension mode for wireless lans complying with short interframe space requirement. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus enables ...
Washington Inventors Develop Directional Drilling System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Albert W. Chau of Woodinville, Wash., and Honggi Tian of Bellevue, Wash., have developed an electronic roll indexing compensation in a drilling system and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is configured for sensing its ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Image Data Browsing Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Sang-kyun Kim, Chang-yeong Kim and Seong-deok Lee, all from Yongin, South Korea, and Du-sik Park of Suwon, South Korea, have developed an apparatus and a method of browsing image data that is based on color temperature and a computer readable medium. According ...
California Inventors Develop Closed-Loop Purging System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Yang Pang of San Jose, Calif., and Matthew Perry Philpott of Burlingame, Calif., have developed a method of minimizing contamination of optical components of a laser resonator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The resonator components are ...
California Inventors Develop Hierarchical Round Robin Arbiter
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Debashis Basu and Edwin Su, both of San Jose, Calif., and Pradeep Sindhu of Los Altos Hills, Calif., have developed a hierarchical round robin arbiter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hierarchical round robin arbiter includes a first set ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Directional Drilling Tool Module Connector
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Michael T Sutherland and Karim Kanji, both of Calgary, Canada, and Rishi Gurjar of Edmonton, Canada, have developed a tool module connector for use in directional drilling. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool module interconnect for ...
California Inventor Develops Two-Dimensional Image Lighting Approximation Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Scott F. Johnston of Los Angeles has developed a method for approximating the lighting of a two-dimensional (2-D) animated image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for approximating the lighting of a 2-D ...
Colorado, Illinois, California Inventors Develop Data Tables Manipulation Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Paul L. Richman of Boulder, Colo., Jose F. Velez of Denver, Robert C Steiner of Broomfield, Colo., Kenneth Charles Cox of Naperville, Ill., and Lichan Hong of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method and apparatus for graphically manipulating data ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Band Control System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Takemasa Takahashi of Tokyo has developed a band control system for a digital subscriber network and a band control method therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A band control system for a digital subscriber line network in which a ...
Maryland Inventor Develops pulse Code Modulation Upstream Transmission Data Rate Selection Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Cory Samuel Modlin of Chevy Chase, Md., has developed a method for selecting the data rate for pulse code modulation upstream transmission. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method selects the data rate for pulse code modulation upstream ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Hole Simultaneously Casing Device
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Ronald G. Minshull and Brian Richard Minshull, both of Alberta, Canada, have developed a driving device for installing a pipe or casing, without the use of hydraulic or pneumatic means, by capturing the rotational motion of the drill string. According to the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Packet Classification Rule Dynamically Construction Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Terry G. Ahnstedt, Alexander I. Tomlinson, Joseph Dempsey and Matthew C. Laswell, all from Austin, Texas, Scott Strentzsch of San Antonio, Texas, Stephen Egbert of McKinney, Texas, Brian C. Smith of Fort Worth, Texas, and Dennis J. Cox of Round Rock, Texas, have ...
Labatt Food Service Wins $25.13 Million Contract
Jul 06, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, July 6 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a contract valued at $25.13 million to Labatt Food Service Inc., San Antonio, for full line food distribution. The contract was awarded by the agency's ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Liner Motions Conversion Driving Device
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Chih-Ching Hsieh of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a driving device for converting liner motions of a pneumatic tool into circular motions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving unit comprises: a pneumatic head for being combined to a ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Curvature Diffusion Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Peter Liepa of Toronto has developed a system and a method for diffusing curvature. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system or method to distribute curvature in a set of target vertices by computing curvature at ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Pneumatic Tool with Pressure Release Device
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Yu Hui Liao of Taichung, Taiwan, has developed a pneumatic driving tool with a pressure releasing device for suitably releasing the air or the air pressure within the pneumatic driving tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tool ...
German Inventor Develops Data Packet Re-Routing Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Christian Prehofer of Munich, Germany, has developed a method for re-routing data packets onto an alternative network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data packets of a packet-switching network for which transmission of a requested quality ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ethernet Switch
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Bin Chi Chiou of Miaoli Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an Ethernet switch and a method of switch for selectively transporting or filtering network packets. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Said Ethernet switch comprises plural network ports, ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Frame Header Alteration Implementing Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Tolga Ozguner of Rochester, Minn., has developed a method and an apparatus for implementing alterations on multiple concurrent frames. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of a plurality of frame data alteration engines includes a pair of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Three-Dimensional Image Processing Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Shinya Urisaka of Kanagawa, Japan, and Yoshinobu Ochiai of Tochigi, Japan, have developed a method, an apparatus and a program for processing a three-dimensional image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus and an image ...
Kentucky Inventors Develop Electric Garden Tiller
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Jon M. T. Abenroth and David B. Fisher, both of Bowling Green, Ky., have developed an electric garden tiller which is lightweight, easy to use, quiet and pollution free. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tiller is light weight, compact ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Wide Area Wireless Network
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Asawaree Kalavade of Gillette, N.J., Hong Jiang of Westfield, N.J., and Penny Chen of Basking Ridge, N.J., have developed a method and an apparatus for converging local area and a wide area wireless data networks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Maryland, California, Texas Inventors Develop Global Visualization Process
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Walter P. Gatewood Jr., Donald Jackson and Christopher S. Allport, all from Lexington Park, Md., Richard S. Dunn of Hollywood, Md., Wayne Erchak of San Mateo, Calif., and Joseph A. Hamilton of Friendswood, Texas, have developed a global visualization process (GVP) and ...
British Inventors Develop Electro-Optic Display Driver Circuitry
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Euan C. Smith and Paul R. Routley, both of Cambridge, Great Britain, have developed a display driver circuitry for electro-optic displays (active matrix displays) by using organic light emitting diodes. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Image Sensor Fabrication Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- James Jang of Cheongju, South Korea, has developed a method for fabricating complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a CMOS image sensor is disclosed, to decrease a dark ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Figures Displaying Display Apparatus
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Nobuharu Iinuma of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a display apparatus that is equipped with a screen saver function in the computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a notebook type personal computer, the operation mode of this ...
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SEEKS COMMENT ON DRAFT PLAN TO IMPLEMENT IMPROVEMENTS TO NORTH FORK PAYETTE RIVER WATERSHED WATER QUALITY
Jul 06, 2007 ... The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is seeking public comment on a draft water quality implementation plan for the North Fork Payette River Watershed. The watershed consists of ...
Adams Brothers Produce Wins $10.8 Million Contract
Jul 06, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, July 6 -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a contract valued at $10.8 million to Adams Brothers Produce, Birmingham, Ala., for full line fresh fruit and vegetable support. The contract was awarded by the agency's Defense Supply ...
GenQuest Wins $120,676 Contract
Jul 06, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, July 6 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a contract valued at up to $120,676 to GenQuest Inc., Albuquerque, N.M., for education and training services. The contract was awarded by DOT's Federal Railroad Administration. For more information about US ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Processing System
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Ichiro Nakano of Tokyo, and Seiichi Ito of Nagaoaka, Japan, have developed an information processing system and a screen display method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method of and a system for displaying information in ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Combination Mug
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Dilip Bhavnani of Beverly Hills, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a combination mug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D545,132 on June 26. The patent has been assigned to Sun Coast ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Koki Ueno and Akira Shimizu, both of Yokohama, Japan, Norihisa Arai of Saitama, Japan, and Takeshi Nakano of Kamakura, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device having isolation region and method of manufacturing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Bowl
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Thomas J. Hayes of McHenry, Ill., Scott D. Brown of Winthrop Harbor, Ill., and H. Bernard Kirkland of Lindenhurst, Ill., have developed an ornamental design for a bowl, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Keyboard Structure
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Pin-Chien Liao of Taoyuan, Taiwan, and Chien-Shih Hsu of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a keyboard structure that provides uniform illumination of the keys. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The keyboard structure includes a base plate, a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops One-Transistor Memory Cell Formation Method
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Min-Hsiung Chiang of Banciao, Taiwan, has developed a method of forming one-transistor memory cell and structure formed thereby. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a one-transistor memory cell includes the steps of: ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Electronic Pen
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Christer Fahraeus, Johan Lindgren and Stefan Burstrom, all from Lund, Sweden, have developed an electronic pen which has a body, a cap and an actuation device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The actuation device comprises a sensor ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Quality Correction Technique
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Junichi Satoh, Fumio Haruna, Toshimitsu Watanabe and Yoshihisa Ooishi, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed a technique for correcting the image quality of an image display apparatus such as a field emission display. An abstract of the invention, released ...
Texas, Arizona Inventors Develop Semiconductor Fabrication Process
Jul 06, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Marius K. Orlowski and Vance H. Adams, both of Austin, Texas, Chun-Li Liu and Matthew W. Stoker, both of Mesa, Ariz., have developed a semiconductor fabrication process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor fabrication process ...