US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, July 13:
REP.ELLSWORTH ISSUES STATEMENT ON IRAQ TROOP REDEPLOYMENT BILL
Jul 13, 2007 ... Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind. (8th CD) has issued the following statement: In response to the House's consideration of a bill to require the redeployment of U.S. troops from Iraq by April 2008, Rep. Brad Ellsworth today issued the following statement regarding his vote opposing ...
Australian Inventor Develops Weapon Barrel Assembly
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- James Michael O'Dwyer of Sinnamon Park, Australia, has developed a projectile for a barrel assembly having a barrel with a bore and a muzzle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "barrel assembly for a weapon, said ...
French Inventors Develop Pneumatic Brake Booster
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Jean-Charles Maligne of Aubervilliers, France, Ulysse Verbo of Sant-Cugat-Espagne, France, and Philippe Richard of Chelles, France, have developed a booster and to a brake control device fitted with this booster. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventors Develop Memory Addressing Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Andre Dehon and Helia Naeimi, both of Pasadena, Calif., have developed a method for deterministic addressing of nanoscale devices assembled at sublithographic pitches. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for ...
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Package
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Joseph Micheal Freund of Fogelsville, Pa., Ralph S. Moyer of Robesonia, Pa., John William Osenbach of Kutztown, Pa., Thomas Herbert Shilling of Macungie, Pa., John M. Brennan of Pittsford, N.Y., and Hugo Fernando Safar of Westfield, N.J., have developed integrated ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Silicon Condenser Microphone Package
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Anthony D. Minervini of Palos Hills, Ill., has developed a surface mountable package for containing a transducer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silicon condenser microphone package includes a transducer unit, a substrate, and a cover ....
U.S., Singapore Inventors Develop Stacked Semiconductor Package
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Il Kwon Shim and Seng Guan Chow, both of Singapore, and Kambhampati Ramakrishna of Chandler, Ariz., have developed stacked semiconductor packages and method therefor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stackable semiconductor package and ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Substrate Assembly
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Shih-Ping Hsu of Hsin-chu, Taiwan, has developed a substrate assembly with direct electrical connection as a semiconductor package. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate assembly with direct electrical connection as a semiconductor ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Yoshitaka Ueda of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a large scale integrated circuit which is capable of coping with the problems associated with the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Circular Saw
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Hisao Sakai and Yusuke Miyachi, both of Fukuroi, Japan, have developed a circular saw with wiper tips. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "circular saw including an annular disk-shaped base adapted to be driven ...
Missouri Inventor Develops Rifle Charging Handle
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Martin J. Bordson of Kansas City, Mo., has developed a charging handle for a rifle with a housing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The handle has a body with an elongated bar having a forward end and a rear end. The bar has a bolt ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Chip Size Package Semiconductor Device
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Futoshi Hosoya of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip size package semiconductor device can have reliable solder mounting and improved mounting reliability. A semiconductor device ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Pistol Grip Electrosurgical Pencil
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Arlan James Reschke of Boulder, Colo., has developed a pistol grip electrosurgical pencil with manual aspirator/irrigator and methods of using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrosurgical pencil is provided and includes an ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Skin Treatment System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Michael Kreindel and Simon Eckhouse, both of Haifa, Israel, have developed a system and a method for the treatment of a skin. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises an applicator having a cavity and one or more light sources ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Vascular Tissue Sealing Bipolar Electrosurgical Instrument
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Steven P. Buysse, Gary M. Couture and Lap P. Nguyen, all from Longmont, Colo., Dale F. Schmaltz of Fort Collins, Colo., and Kristin D. Johnson of Louisville, Colo., have developed a bipolar electrosurgical instrument that seals vessels and vascular tissue by applying ...
Washington Inventor Develops Large Index Building System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Yevgeniy A. Samsonov of Redmond, Wash., has developed an improved system and a method for building a large index. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method may be used by many applications to build a large index, including a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Flexible Printed Circuit Board
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Akira Nakano and Yoshiomi Tsuji, both of Miyagi-ken, Japan, and Yoshinari Higa of Tokyo, have developed a flexible printed circuit board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit board includes a substrate layer composed ...
California Inventor Develops Voltage Converters
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Laszlo Lipcsei of Campbell, Calif., has developed a direct-current (DC) to direct-current (DC) converter that exhibits improved transient response. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC to DC converter includes a comparator, a driver, and ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Electric Rope
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Bruce Nolan of Aston, Canada, has developed a rope that can be electrified. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The rope is comprised of an outer sheath and an inner core. The outer sheath includes ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Switching Power Supply Circuit
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Masayuki Yasumura of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a switching power supply circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a switching power supply circuit including a primary side rectifying and smoothing circuit, a switching element, a converter ...
California Inventors Develop Intervertebral Disk Accessing Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Samuel M. Shaolian and George P. Teitelbaum, both of Newport Beach, Calif., Thanh Van Nguyen of Irvine, Calif., Frank Nguyen of Pomona, Calif., To V. Pham of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., Vincent Divino Jr. of Mission Viejo, Calif., and Michael R. Henson of Coto de Caza, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Power Supply Circuit Switching Control Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Kenji Fujita and Yukihiro Nishikawa, both of Tokyo, have developed a control method for controlling a switching power supply circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for controlling a switching power supply circuit has a ...
California Inventor Develops Self-analyzing Memory Word
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- John Robert Burger of Chatsworth, Calif., has developed a content addressable memory comprising a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content-addressable memory stores a plurality of words, ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Distributed Tooling Dynamic Generic Framework
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- David K. McKnight of Aurora, Canada, Robert S. Cecco of Richmond Hill, Canada, and Jeffrey C. Turnham of Markham, Canada, have developed a method for object creation and manipulation in both distributed and non-distributed environments. According to the U.S ....
New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Printed Circuit Board
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Jason J. Payne and Huilin Ren, both of Nashua, N.H., Leon M. Khilchenko of Manchester, N.H., and Mark W. Gailus of Somerville, Mass., have developed an electrical connector assembly for interconnecting printed circuit boards. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Power Transmission Structure
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Chun-Hsiang Wang of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a power transmission structure with dual blade shaft of a circular saw. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "power transmission structure with a dual blade shaft of ...
California Inventor Develops Data Extraction Methodology
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Michael Timmons of San Jose, Calif., has developed a system and a methodology for extraction and aggregation of data from dynamic content. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Communication Measuring Apparatus Inspection Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Chie Sato, Yusuke Kishine, Tetsuya Ohtani, Minoru Akutsu, Hiroshi Sugawara, Akira Toyama, Hirotoshi Kodaka, Katsuya Ikezawa, Shinji Kobayashi and Akira Miura, all from Tokyo, have developed an inspection apparatus that inspects an inspected object based on a waveform ...
U.S., Malaysia Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Package
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Sudipto Neogi and Biswajit Sur, both of San Jose, Calif., Chris Rumer of Chandler, Ariz., and Boon Seng Tan of Penang, Malaysia, have developed an apparatus and method for increasing the reliability and performance of an electronic device enclosed within a flip-chip ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Workbench Holder System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Stuart M. Campbell and Jacqueline M. Campbell, both of Port Elgin, Canada, have developed a workbench holder system for the cross cut of lumber with an electric hand circular saw and portable workbench. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Sensor Device
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Masahiro Fujita and Yoji Shibata, both of Aichi, Japan, have developed a sensor device that operates based upon predetermined conditions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device according to the present invention has a detection ...
Washington Inventors Develop Unicode Transitional Code Point Database
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Ian Charles Jose and Jonathan Liem, both of Redmond, Wash., and Laurion Burchall of Seattle, have developed a system and a method for determining previously undefined code points. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, a data structure ...
Texas Inventors Develop Circuit Boards Testing Apparatus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- David A. Dowland of Sachse, Texas, and J. Brent Nolan of Heath, Texas, have developed a method and an apparatus for testing circuit boards. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A system and method for ...
German, Austrian Inventors Develop Signal Processing Device
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Thorsten Tracht of Munchen, Germany, Timo Gossmann of Neubiberg, Germany, and Gu Marzinger of Ulrichsberg, Austria, have developed a signal processing device, and a method for signal processing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal ...
California Inventor Develops Circumferential Ablation Device Assembly
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Mark A. Maguire of San Mateo, Calif., has developed a medical balloon catheter assembly that includes a balloon with a permeable region and a non-permeable region. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The balloon is constructed at least in ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Full Bridge Inverter with Push/Pull Control Chip
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Chun-Kong Chan of Hsi Chih, Taiwan, and Jeng-Shong Wang of Hsin Chuang, Taiwan, have developed a push/pull control chip controlling the full bridge switch assembly for driving the load. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A full bridge ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Thermally Efficient Motor Housing Assembly
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- David Coutu of East Hampton, Conn., has developed a thermally efficient motor housing assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "thermally efficient motor housing assembly including a plurality of transistors and ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Microchip Location Determining Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Hitesh Suri of San Jose, Calif., and Gary Woods of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a system and a method for determining probing locations on integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying an area of a chip ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Rectifier Circuit
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Kenzo Shodo of Kyoto, Japan, has developed a rectifier circuit and a vision regeneration assisting apparatus with the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rectifier circuit for converting an alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Tree System Diagram Output Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Hiroyuki Okamoto of Kanagawa, Japan, and Yasushi Nakazato of Tokyo, have developed a method and a program for representing the correlation of a plurality of correlated objects by a tree system diagram on a computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Tissue Ablating Electrosurgical Apparatus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Terry S. Davison of Redwood City, Calif., has developed electrosurgical methods and an apparatus for the controlled ablation of tissue from a target site of a patient. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instrument includes a shaft having ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory Subdividing Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Michael ThaiThanh Phan and Jeffrey Herbert Fischer, both of Cary, N.C., Chiaming Chai of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Jeffrey Todd Bridges of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a circuit and a method for subdividing a content addressable memory (CAM) random access memory bank ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Transmural Ablation Apparatus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Michael D. Hooven of Cincinnati has developed a method and an apparatus for transmural ablation by using an instrument containing two electrodes or cryogenic probes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping force is exerted on the two ...
California Inventors Develop User Interface Components Dynamic Generation System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Kit Man Cheng of Oakland, Calif., Issac Stephen Levin of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Wei-De Ju of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a system and a method for enabling the dynamic generation of user interface components. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventors Develop Surgical Tool Kit
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Mark C. Doyle of San Diego, and Jimmy C. Caputo of Carlsbad, Calif., have developed a tool kit for interchanging tools within an at least partially closed area. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tool kit includes at least one tool, each ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Flush Catheter with Flow Directing Sheath
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Michael Atlas of Arlington, Mass., has developed a flush catheter which is configured to be introduced into an orifice to create a flush zone therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The flush catheter includes a catheter body having an ...
Italian Inventors Develop Soluble Endoproteases
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Paolo Tortora, Giancarlo Tonon and Geoffrey Taylor, all from Milan, Italy, Marco Vanoni of Monza, Italy, and Gaetano Orsini of Varese, Italy, have developed soluble endoproteases for the in vitro processing of recombinant proteins. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Florida Inventors Develop Bulkhead Mountable Optoelectronic Device
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- John Bohlin of Palm Bay, Fla., and Robert Scharf of Melbourne, Fla., have developed an optoelectronic device that is mountable to a bulkhead. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The optoelectronic device includes a sleeve, an insert body, a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Adjustable Spanner
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Chih-Ching Hsien of Taichung, Taiwan, has developed an adjustable spanner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A adjustable spanner includes a main body formed with a fixed jaw and a slideway, an adjustment screw rotatably mounted in the main ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electronic Device Heat-generating Component
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Yohei Fukuma of Tokyo, Ryo Yamamoto of Saitama, Japan, and Toru Karashima of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an electronic device that is thin and includes heat-generating components that are cooled efficiently. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Malaysian Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Package
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Chee Wai Wong of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Cheng Siew Tay of Tanjung Bungah, Malaysia, have developed apparatuses and associated methods for improved solder joint reliability. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and associated ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Cat Kidney Disease Marker
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Tetsuro Yamashita and Masao Miyazaki, both of Morioka, Japan, have developed a cat kidney disease marker. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In view of the increase in the number of cases with nephropathy in aged animals of the cat family, ...
Malaysian Inventors Develop Electronic Test Instruments
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Boon Leong Yeap, Shiew Foe Foo, Cheo Bong Lim and Eng Su Tay, all from Penang, Malaysia, have developed an electronic instrument system with multiple-configuration instrument modules. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic ...
New York Inventor Develops Multifunction Modular Electronic Apparatus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Sotirios Constantine Kitsopoulos of New York has developed a multifunction modular electronic apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction modular electronic apparatus for performing information technology and ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Fluid Passage Medical Site Connector
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- W. Cary Dikeman of Leawood, Kan., has developed a medical site connector for connecting a fluid passage and a needleless injection site. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "connector for connecting a fluid passage ...
German Inventor Develops Surgical Instrument
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Marcus Braun of Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany, has developed a surgical instrument for minimally invasive surgery. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument comprising an instrument handle which is linked to a proximal end ...
Utah, Idaho, Washington Inventors Develop Scanned Document Searchable Word Index Creation Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Frederick A. Zarndt of Springville, Utah, Robert B. Wille of Mapleton, Utah, Michael E. Rimer of Provo, Utah, Michael U. Bailey of Richfield, Utah, G. Bret Millar of Highland, Utah, Timothy L. Andersen of Boise, Idaho, and E. Derek Rowley of Aberdeen, Wash., have ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Component Built-in Wiring Board
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Tatsuro Imamura, Yuji Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Shinozaki, Satoshi Shibazaki and Yoshitaka Fukuoka, all from Tokyo, Hiroyuki Hirai, Osamu Shimada, Kenji Sasaoka and Kenichi Matsumura, all from Fuchu, Japan, have developed a component built-in wiring board and a ...
California Inventor Develops Restenosis Inhibition Method
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Harvinder Sahota of Seal Beach, Calif., has developed a method of inhibiting restenosis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes reducing contaminants during manufacturing of angioplasty devices and during angioplasty ...
California Inventors Develop Blood Component Separation Apparatus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Philip H. Coelho and Eric Sommer, both of Rancho Cordova, Calif., and Richard Klosinski and Jim Hobbs, both of Carmichael, Calif., have developed an apparatus and a method for collecting whole blood and then separating it into components for subsequent use or ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Stackable Modular Computer Housing
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Sheng-Hsiung Cheng, Te-An Lin, Chij-Hsiung Chen and Wu-Nan Wang, all from Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a stackable modular computer housing, and a computer device including the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stackable ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Conversion Rule Deriving System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Kazuyuki Aoyama of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a system for deriving a data conversion rule for transferring data from a first system to a second system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual intermediate data is prepared between ...
German Inventor Develops Power Semiconductor Modules Housing
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Christian Kroneder of Schwanstetten, Germany, has developed a housing for power semiconductor modules with a base plate or for direct mounting on a heat sink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "housing for power ...
French Inventors Develop Glutathione Peroxidase Encoding Adenovirus
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Martine Barkats and Jacques Mallet, both of Paris, and Free Revah of Antony, France, have developed an adenovirus comprising a gene coding for glutathione peroxidase. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Environmental Impact Information Collection System
Jul 13, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Masamitsu Sakurai of Yokohama, Japan, Tatsuo Tani of Urayasu, Japan, Hiroshi Uramoto of Hadano, Japan, and Hiromitsu Hatano of Tachikawa, Japan, have developed a system and a method for providing environmental impact information. According to the U.S. Patent ...