US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, July 16:
French Inventors Develop Vehicle Retractable Roof
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jean-Marc Guillez of Cirieres, France, Ge Queveau of Le Pin, France, and Paul Queveau of Montravers, France, have developed a retractable roof for a vehicle that comprises rigid roof elements having locking means for locking the elements together. According to ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Fabrication Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Lawrence S. Melvin III and Qiliang Yan, both of Hillsboro, Ore., and James P. Shiely of Aloha, Ore., have developed a method for identifying a potentially problematic area in a mask layout. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Watch
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Severin Wunderman of Los Angeles has developed an ornamental design for a watch, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,204 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Montres Corum Sarl, ...
California, Indiana Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Design System
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Satish R. Ganesan of Mountain View, Calif., Amit Kasat of Cupertino, Calif., Sathyanarayanan Thammanur of San Jose, Calif., Sundararajarao Mohan of Sunnyvale, Calif., Ralph D. Wittig of Menlo Park, Calif., and Usha Prabhu of West Lafayette, Ind., have developed a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Rolling Motion Stability Control Apparatus
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Yoshiyuki Yasui of Nagoya, Japan, Toshihisa Kato of Handa, Japan, Hiroshi Matsuoka of Toyota, Japan, and Junya Nagaya of Kariya, Japan, have developed a rolling motion stability control apparatus for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Software Code Generation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Kenneth A. Berger of Garland, Texas, Larry J. Turner of Carrollton, Texas, and Andrew E. Wilcox of Dallas, have developed a system for generating user interface code. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a user interface ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Inbred Maize Line PHJ8R
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Charles Thomas Cunnyngham of Tipton, Ind., has developed an inbred maize line designated PHJ8R. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inbred maize line, designated PHJ8R, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PHJ8R, methods for ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Watch
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Andrea Campos of Paris has developed an ornamental design for a watch, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,203 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Cartier Creation Studio SA, ...
New York Inventors Develop Distributed Computing System Code Compilation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Michael Karl Gschwind and Valentina Salapura, both of Chappaqua, N.Y., and Kathryn M. O'Brien and John Kevin O'Brien, both of South Salem, N.Y., have developed a method and an apparatus for creating and executing integrated executables in a heterogeneous ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Measuring Spoon
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jo Bodum of St. Niklausen, Switzerland, has developed an ornamental design for a measuring spoon with clip, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,210 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Wristwatch
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Vartan Sirmakes of Genthod, Switzerland, has developed an ornamental design for a wristwatch, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,208 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Frank Muller ...
Hong Kong Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Travel Alarm Clock
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Eddie Chang of Kowloon, Hong Kong, has developed an ornamental design for a travel alarm clock, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,202 on July 10. The original application was filed on March ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Watch Case
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Dan Vettera and Tony Chong Weng Toh, both of El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Rick Dodd of Manteca, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a watch case, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D546,205 ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Reticle Inspection System
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Avishay Bartov of Hod-Hasharon, Israel, has developed a method and a system for use in controlling the quality of a reticle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes processing and analyzing reference data and test data, and ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Inch, Metric Fastener Thread Pitch Gage
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Sonia Sorrell of Woodland Hills, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a combination U.S. inch and metric fastener thread pitch gage, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,211 on July ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tapping Guide
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Bruce P. Rooney of Louisburg, Kan., has developed an ornamental design for a tapping guide, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,212 on July 10. The original application was filed on March 28, ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Watch Portion
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Maximillian Philip Burton of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a watch, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,206 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to ...
Kentucky Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Umpire's Indicator
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jack O. Kelley of Louisville, Ky., has developed an ornamental design for an umpire's indicator, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,209 on July 10. The original application was filed on Sept ....
NATIONWIDE SURVEY SHOWS MOST ILLICIT DRUG USERS, HEAVY ALCOHOL USERS ARE IN WORKPLACE, MAY POSE SPECIAL PROBLEMS
Jul 16, 2007 ... The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration issued the following press release: Most of the nation's approximately 16.4 million current illicit drug users and approximately 15 million heavy alcohol users hold full-time ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Telecommunication Network Connection Establishing System
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Juha Rasanen of Espoo, Finland, has developed a method and a system for establishing a connection in a telecommunication network having different protocols. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and system for ...
British Inventor Develops Subsea Wellhead Assembly
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Alistair D. Crozier of Aberdeen, Great Britain, has developed a subsea wellhead that includes a wellhead housing having a bore with a grooved profile. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper portion of the bore has a greater diameter ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Design Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Aiguo Lu of Pleasanton, Calif., Ivan Pavisic of San Jose, Calif., and Nikola Radovanovic of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a method of selecting buffer delays for a clock tree in an integrated circuit design. An abstract of the invention, released by the ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Compatibilized Polymer Blend Forming Process
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- James A. Krom of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Xiaorong Wang of Akron, Ohio, have developed a process for forming a compatibilized blend. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reaction product is prepared by reacting a first polymer having ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Call Processing Resource Allocation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Manish Mangal of Overland Park, Kan., and Fred Rogers of Olathe, Kan., have developed a method and a system for dynamically re-homing a base transceiver station. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and system provides for receiving ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Clock
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Raymond Chan of Hong Kong has developed an ornamental design for a clock, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,200 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to IDT Technology Ltd., Hong ...
German Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Arrangement Producing System
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Andreas Kirschbaum of Griesheim, Germany, has developed a client-specific circuit board with isolated redundant systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated method for producing integrated circuit arrangements for automotive ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Chip Design Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Ted E. Williams and DeForest Tovey, both of Los Gatos, Calif., Jonathan Ferro of Cupertino, Calif., and Louis Tseng of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method of adjusting timing of a clock signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Wafer Map Generation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Thomas J. McIntyre of Nokesville, Va., and Scott K. Arnold of Gainesville, Va., have developed an automatic design system for replicating circuits across a wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided to aid in laying out ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Design Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Alex Tain of Milpitas, Calif., and Eric Tosaya of Fremont, Calif., have developed a method of routing connections of an integrated circuit package that have a set of top side conductors and bottom side conductors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Subsea Well Conduit Separation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Harold W. Nivens of Runaway Bay, Texas, and Curtis E. Wendler of Carrollton, Texas, have developed a system and a method for controllably separating a conduit into an upper portion and a lower portion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
British Inventor Develops Radioactive Waste Encapsulation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Ewan Robert Maddrell of Cumbria, Great Britain, has developed an immobilising medium for the encapsulation of radioactive waste. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an immobilizing medium for the encapsulation ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Halogen-Substituted Aromatic Aldehyde Production Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Kinji Kato, Junya Nishiuchi and Mitsuharu Kitamura, both of Okayama, Japan, have developed a method for producing halogen-substituted aromatic aldehyde. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the production method of the invention, a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Communication System
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Takushi Kunihiro of Tokyo has developed a communication system, apparatus and a method for delivering user data from a mobile terminal without the mediation of base station control stations. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each base ...
California, North Carolina Inventors Develop Design Layout Item Representation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Etienne Jacques of Palo Alto, Calif., and Tom Kronmiller of Chapel Hill, N.C., have developed a method and an apparatus for representing items in a design layout. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop Aliphatic-Aromatic Copolyester Blend
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Marcus David Shelby, Andrew Joseph Matosky and Candace Michele Tanner, all from Kingsport, Tenn., and Michael Eugene Donelson of Gray, Tenn., have developed blends of aliphatic-aromatic copolyesters with ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers. According to the U.S ....
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Multi-Piece Desk Clock
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Dilip Bhavnani of Beverly Hills, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a multi-piece desk clock, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,201 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Sun ...
U.S., Malaysian Inventors Develop Application-specific Integrated Circuit Designing Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Sammy Cheung of South San Francisco, Calif., and Kar Keng Chua of Penang, Malaysia, have developed a circuitry for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that can be used as equivalents of or substitutes for programmable logic circuitry. According to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Outboard Motor with Engine Enclosing Cowling
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Yu Ito, Mitsuru Nagashima, Noriyoshi Hiraoka and Masanori Takahashi, all from Shizuoka-ken, Japan, have developed an outboard motor which has a cowling for enclosing an engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Air inlet openings are ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Parameter Checking Method for Circuit Physical Design Layout Verification
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Albert Zihui Wang of Wilmette, Ill., and Rouying Zhan of Chicago, have developed a parameter checking method for on-chip electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit physical design layout verification. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Razor Tray
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Michael J. Gray of Duxbury, Mass., and Evan K. Pennell of Hingham, Mass., have developed an ornamental design for a tray for a razor, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D546,199 on July 10. The ...
California Inventor Develops Path Condition Check Method for Circuit Design
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Pei Ouyang of San Jose, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for improved race detection and an expression. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The race detection method and apparatus disclosed herein detects races statically by ...
California Inventor Develops Watercraft Water Jet Propulsion Device
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Brian J. O'Connor of Encinitas, Calif., has developed devices a water jet propulsion device for a watercraft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly efficient watercraft propulsion system that operates continually submerged and relies ...
North Carolina, California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Layout Physical Verification Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Xiaojun Wang of Cary, N.C., and Kenneth Mednick of San Jose, Calif., have developed an integrated circuit (IC) layout physical verification method for detecting connectivity and uniformity violations in an on-chip drawn inductor. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Golf Tee Assembly with Hanging Hook
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Robert D. Williams of Littleton, Colo., has developed an ornamental design for an assembly of golf tees with hanging hook, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,197 on July 10. The original ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Envelope Opener Container
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Thomas John Scimone of Campbell, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a container for envelope opener, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,193 on July 10. The original application was ...
California Inventors Develop Mammalian Taste-Cell-Specific G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jon Elliot Adler, Xiaodong Li, Lena Staszewski and Sergey Zozulya, all from San Diego, and Shawn O'Connell of Encinitas, Calif., have developed T1R taste receptors and genes encoding same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Newly identified ...
California, Arizona Inventors Develop Stochastic Analysis Process Optimization Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Hsien-Yen Chiu and Jun Li, both of San Jose, Calif., and Meiling Wang of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a method of designing and fabricating integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit design tool ...
British Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Blister Pack Holding Device
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- John Currie and Derek Shaw, both of Macclesfield, Great Britain, and Christopher Harris of Oakham Rutland, Great Britain, have developed an ornamental design for a device for holding a blister pack, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
Massachusetts, California Inventors Develop Lithography Mask Creation Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- David White of Cambridge, Mass., and Taber H. Smith of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method of lithography mask creation for integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask design is generated for patterning a test wafer ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Adsorptive Separation Process
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Santi Kulprathipanja of Inverness, Ill., has developed an adsorptive separation process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Citric acid is separated from a fermentation broth containing gluconic acid by using an adsorbent comprising a ...
California Inventors Develop Circuit Design Verification Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Tai An Ly, Vijaya Vardhan Gupta, Ping Fai Yeung and Lawrence Curtis Widdoes Jr., all from San Jose, Calif., Ka Kei Kwok of Milpitas, Calif., Ross Andrew Ander of Los Altos, Calif., and Neil Patrick Hand of Menlo Park, Calif., and have developed a method of verifying a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Polymerizable Compound Storage Tank
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Shuhei Yada, Yasushi Ogawa, Yoshiro Suzuki, Kimikatsu Jinno, Hirochika Hosaka and Masayasu Goriki, all from Mie, Japan, have developed a storage tank for easily polymerizable compound and method of storage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Diphenyl Sulfone Compound Production Process
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Syuichiro Sanpei, Yasuyuki Suzuki and Masayuki Hanzawa, all from Fukushima, Japan, Minoru Kaeriyama of Kanagawa, Japan, Tomoya Hidaka of Chiba, Japan, and Toru Kawabe of Niigata, Japan, have developed an industrial process for the production of diphenyl sulfone ...
Kansas, Missouri Inventors Develop System On Chip Integrated Test Processor
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Nasir M. Mirza and Tamrat Asfaw, both of Overland Park, Kan., and Naveed Ahmed of Kansas City, Mo., have developed a method of testing a system on chip (SOC) that includes a network on chip (NOC). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A SOC is ...
Malaysian Inventors Develop Structured Application-specific Integrated Circuit
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Kim Pin Tan and Kar Keng Chua, both of Penang, Malaysia, have developed a physical layout for a structured application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of a process for producing a structured ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Fluid Dispensing Package
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Shimon Silberfenig and Lori L. Klein, both of Calabasas, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a 'packaging for dispensing a fluid,' the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D546,194 on July ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Perfume Flask
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jeo Faillant-Dumas of Paris has developed an ornamental design for a flask of perfume, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,195 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Parfums Nina Ricci, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Boat with Outboard Motor
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Mitsuru Nagashima and Yu Ito, both of Shizuoka-ken, Japan, have developed a boat that includes an outboard motor with an internal combustion engine enclosed within a cowling. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The cowling has a rear inlet ...
CITY OF LAFAYETTE ISSUES AGENDA FOR JULY 16 PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE MEETING
Jul 16, 2007 ... The city of LaFayette issued the following Public Art Committee meeting agenda: Lafayette Public Library 2nd Floor Conference Room 1. Public Participation 2. Review/approve minutes from June 6 2007 meeting 3. Update on Wal-Mart Project 4. Protocol for ...
British Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Jar
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Christopher Michael Penfold of Nottingham, Great Britain, and Martin Christopher Bunce of Pewsey, Great Britain, have developed an ornamental design for a jar, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D546,188 ...
Kentucky Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bottle
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Iain Stafford Jones of Covington, Ky., has developed an ornamental design for a bottle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,190 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Procter & Gamble ...
Florida Inventors Develop Polystyrene Foam Reduction Agent
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Harvey Katz and Claudia Iovino, both of Boca Raton, Fla., have developed a process of reduction in polystyrene foams with dibasic esters. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam reduction agent consisting of dibasic esters is shown and a ...
German Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bottle
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Jo Ratzlaff of Hamburg, Germany, has developed an ornamental design for a bottle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,187 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Unilever Home & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Allyl Compound Production Method
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Masaki Takai and Yoshiyuki Tanaka, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a method for producing allyl compound, and ether or ester compound produced thereby. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Flat Blister Package
Jul 16, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- Seigo Hanji of Nagoya, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a flat blister package, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D546,182 on July 10. The patent has been assigned to Daido Metal Co ....