US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, July 19:
Virginia Inventor Develops Cured Molded Fluoroelastomer Composition
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Ray Hetherington of Virginia Beach, Va., has developed a cured molded fluoroelastomer composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curable fluoroelastomer composition comprising at least one fluoroelastomer, a bisphenol curative, and a ...
Louisiana Inventors Develop Infectious Disease Modeling Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Timothy Grant Hammond of New Orleans, La., and Cheryl Anne Nickerson of River Ridge, La., have developed methods for modeling infectious disease and chemosensitivity in cultured cells and tissues. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
U.S., Italian Inventors Develop Unstable Angina Diagnosing Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Jorg J. Goronzy and Cornelia M. Weyand, both of Rochester, Minn., and Giovanna Liuzzo of Rome, have developed methods and materials for diagnosing unstable angina. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides methods and ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Signal Decoding Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Ki-bo Kim of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a device for decoding a signal which has undergone both an Reed Solomon (RS) encoding and a turbo encoding, and a decoding method thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
California, Vermont Inventors Develop Polypeptide Identification Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Laurel J. Gershwin of Davis, Calif., Warren V. Kalina of Woodland, Calif., and Howard David Pettigrew of Burlington, Vt., have developed a method for identification of polypeptides useful for generating antibodies specific for non-human immunoglobulin E ...
California Inventor Develops Low-Density Parity Check Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- William Ching-Chit Hung of Irvine, Calif., has developed an apparatus for processing a magnetic medium having digital data residing thereon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-density parity check device can process data using a ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Immobilized Carbohydrate Biosensor
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Kurt Nilsson of Lund, Sweden, and Carl-Fredrik Mandenius of Huddinge, Sweden, have developed an immobilized carbohydrate biosensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "biosensor in which a carbohydrate or a ...
Indian Inventors Develop Soft Output Viterbi Algorithm for Truncated Trellis
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Gottimukkala Narendra Varma, Garapati Prabhu Charan and Usha Sahu, all from Andhra Pradesh, India, have developed a soft output Viterbi algorithm for use in wireless communication systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
REP. MURPHY ANNOUNCES FEDERAL FUNDS FOR LOCAL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PROJECT
Jul 19, 2007 ... Rep. Tim Murphy, D-Pa. (18th CD), issued the following news release: As the nation searches for new, alternative sources of energy, Southwestern Pennsylvania will be a leader in developing technologies. To assist in the effort, Congressman Tim Murphy (PA-18) secured $300,000 in federal ...
District of Columbia, California, Maryland Inventors Discover Taste Transduction G-Protein Coupled Receptor
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Charles S. Zuker and Ken Mueller, both of San Diego, Jon E. Adler of Washington, and Nick Ryba of Bethesda, Md., have discovered an isolated nucleic acid encoding a taste transduction G-protein coupled receptor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Non-spill Container
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Douglas Thai of Walnut, Calif., has developed a container that effectively prevents the liquid stored therein from being spilled. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container has a cup-like lower body that receives liquid therein, the ...
North Carolina, New York Inventors Develop Dental Floss Dispenser Cap
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- John William Colby of Oak Ridge, N.C., Thomas A. Lockwood of Clemmons, N.C., and J. Lyle Einstein Jr. of Brooklyn, N.Y., have developed a dental floss dispenser cap for attachment to a toothpaste tube. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
U.S., Hong Kong Inventors Develop Hair Styling Appliance
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Michael Cafaro of El Paso, Texas, and Herbert Lun of Hong Kong, have developed a hair styling appliance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair styling device includes two blades that are hinged together at one end thereof and provide ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Device Bonding Apparatus
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Sang Seok Lee of Taegu-kwangyokshi, South Korea, and Sang Ho Park of Pusan-kwangyokshi, South Korea, have developed a liquid crystal display device bonding apparatus and a method of using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ...
California Inventor Develops Wheeled Toy Vehicle
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Max Benassi of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., has developed a toy car kit which children can assemble from parts including a wooden block having axels, wheels, an electric motor, and a drive means to drive the rear wheels. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
South African Inventors Develop Nuclear Reactor Plant Cooling System
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- David Richard Nicholls of Halfway House, South Africa, and Ivan Drodskie of Lonehill, South Africa, have developed a nuclear reactor plant which includes a nuclear heat source, and a cooling system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
New York Inventor Develops Toy with Customization Feature
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Barbara L.Isenberg of New York has developed a toy with a dressing and/or animation feature. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toy is provided comprising a figure with a hole disposed therein and having at least one ferrous portion; a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Electromagnetic-shielding Transparent Window Member
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hidefumi Kotsubo of Kodaira, Japan, has developed an electromagnetic-shielding transparent window member and a method for producing the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an electromagnetic-shielding transparent ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Digital Phase-Locked Loop Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) device for synchronizing signal and a method for generating stable synchronous signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The PLL device includes an interpolator receiving and ...
California Inventor Develops Hair Fastening Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Gregg Giovanni Girard of Los Angeles has developed a hair fastening device with the ability to be rolled into a person's hair and then secured within the hair by sliding the device together. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device can ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Drosophila Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Protein
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Doris F. Cully of Scotch Plains, N.J., Birgit Priest of Long Valley, N.J., Jeffrey Yuan of Plainsboro, N.J., and Yingcong Zheng of Colonia, N.J., have developed a purified nucleic acid molecule encoding a Drosophila ligand-gated ion channel protein. According ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Signal Processing Apparatus
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Rami Weiss of Zoran, Israel, Baruch Bublil of Netanya, Israel, and Israel Greiss of Raanana, Israel, have developed a data receiver for receiving communication signals from a transmitter over multiple parallel channels. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Automatic Dishwashing Composition
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Patricia Sara Berger and Patti Jean Kellett, both of Cincinnati, have developed a method of preventing corrosion of metals such as stainless steel, carbon steel and chrome plated flatware in automatic dishwashers through the use of a corrosion inhibitor in an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electro-optical Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hideyuki Kimura and Shunichi Seki, both of Suwa, Japan, and Naoki Yamamoto of Chino, Japan, have developed an electro-optical device, which is capable of improving film thickness uniformity and flatness of electro-optical layers to be formed. According to the U.S ....
Washington Inventors Develop Data Encoding Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Philip Andrew Chou and Venkata N. Padmanabhan, both of Bellevue, Wash., and Helen Wang of Issaquah, Wash., have developed a method of data encoding for heterogeneous unreliable communication connections. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
British Inventor Discover Nucleotide Sequences Encoding Bacteriophage Signal Peptide
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- David Paul Humphreys of Maidenhead, Great Britain, has discovered a method of producing an antibody chain or an antigen binding fragment thereof. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expression vectors encoding bacteriophage signal peptides ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Spray-Type Automotive Wheel Washer
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Barry S. Turner of Novi, Mich., David L. Tognetti of Howell, Mich., and Mark D. Morin of Plymouth, Mich., have developed a wheel washer using a circular array of spray nozzles to apply cleaning fluids to automotive wheels during a vehicle washing ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Bacterial Contamination Detection Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Mitchell C. Sanders of West Boylston, Mass., has developed a device for detecting bacterial contamination and method of use. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for detecting the presence or absence of a prokaryotic ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Model Aircraft Stick Fuselage
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Yu-Chi Tsai and Ming-Hung Hsieh, both of Chang-Hua City, Taiwan, have developed a stick fuselage of a model aircraft that also combines an aircraft nose and a main wing brace. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The stick fuselage adopts a ...
GEORGIA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE INCREASES IN JUNE
Jul 19, 2007 ... The Georgia Department of Labor issued the following news release: The Georgia Department of Labor reported today that the state's unemployment rate increased to 4.7 percent in June, up six-tenths of one percent from 4.1 percent in May. The state's rate also matched the U.S. unadjusted ...
HUNTSVILLE POLICE MAKE ARREST IN MASON COURT HOMICIDE
Jul 19, 2007 ... The Huntsville Police Department issued the following news release: Investigators with the Huntsville Police Department's Major Crimes Unit have charged a 19-year-old man with Murder. Investigator Charlie Gray said Demarcus Kent of 122 A Mason Court is accused of killing 29-year-old ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Multi-Function Portable Ashtray
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Chen-Lung Ho of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a multi-function portable ashtray which is used particularly to be carried on in a user's hand. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ashtray structure of this invention is used for collecting ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Microbial Transformation Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Wenying Li of Middletown, Conn., James A. Matson of Cheshire, Conn., Xiaohua Huang of Wallingford, Conn., Kin Sing Lam of North Haven, Conn., and Grace A. McClure of Northford, Conn., have developed a microbial transformation method for the preparation of an ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Pixel Device Operating Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Bao-Sung Bruce Yeh and Michael John Regan, both of Corvallis, Ore., and James Richard Przybyla of Philomath, Ore., have developed a method for operating a pixel device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "pixel ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Hangul Character Input Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Jin Sugano of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a hangul character input device, a hangul character input program and a computer media with hangul character input program. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller assigns initial sound ...
California Inventors Develop Optimal Sampling Clock Determination Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Jen-Tai Hsu of El Dorado Hills, Calif., Hing-Yan To of Cupertino, Calif., and Andrew M. Volk of Granite Bay, Calif., have developed a phase detector that receives a set of sampling clock signals and a data signal and compares each of the clock signals to the data ...
California Inventor Develops Water Sports Board Fin
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Douglas James Simpson of Coronado, Calif., has developed a high-lift, low drag fin for surfboard and other watercraft. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a fin, for use on a surfboard and other watercraft, of a ...
Washington Inventors Develop Computer Input Apparatus Pad
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Kenneth P. Hinckley and Michael J. Sinclair, both of Kirkland, Wash., Richard S. Szeliski of Bellevue, Wash., Matthew J. Conway of Seattle, Wash., and Erik J. Hanson of Woodinville, Wash., have developed a method and an apparatus for computer input using six degrees ...
California Inventor Develops Propeller Cover
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Stephen B. Lobrovich of Fremont, Calif., has developed an inexpensive easy to use and reusable propeller blade cover. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The blade cover of the invention may be used on many kinds and sizes of propeller blades, but ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Hair Coloring Apparatus
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Michael Capristo of Wilmington, N.C., has developed a hair coloring apparatus, kit, and related methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus includes a container having a medial body portion and an inner container chamber ...
New York, Washington Inventors Develop Oceanographic Buoy System Mooring Line
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Richard E. Nye of Tully, N.Y., and Hugh B. Milburn of Lake Forest Park, Wash., have developed a mooring line for an oceanographic buoy system with a buoy and an anchor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mooring line for an oceanographic ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Outboard Motor Support System
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Darin C. Uppgard of Oshkosh, Wis., has developed a support system for an outboard motor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter system is provided as a transition structure which allows a relatively conventional outboard motor to be ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Pointing Device Set Up Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Michihito Ootsuki of Tokyo has developed a method of setting up pointing device on portable terminal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of setting up a pointing device on a portable terminal according to the present invention has a ...
Vermont Inventors Develop Lightweight Marine Buoy
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- R. William Hazelett and Jeffrey P. Lefebvre, both of Colchester, Vt., have developed marine buoys as aids to navigation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight constructed navigation buoy, and method for handling the same, is provided with ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Code Division Multiple Access System Receiving Terminal
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Motoyasu Taguchi of Tokyo have developed a receiving terminal for code division multiple access system for receiving received signals from a plurality of signal propagation channels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric field ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Rod-Shaped Articles Manufacturing Machine
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Shigenobu Kushihashi, Susumu Shimizu, Susumu Shimada, Hiroshi Okamoto, Toru Kano and Takashi Sato, all from Tokyo, have developed a manufacturing machine for rod-shaped articles that comprise a wrapping section for forming a rod-shaped article by wrapping a filler ...
Canadian Inventors Discover Chimeric Immunogen
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Run-Pan Du and Mary Elizabeth Ewasyshyn, both of Thornhill, Canada, and Michel Henri Klein of Toronto, have discovered a multimeric hybrid gene encoding a chimeric protein including a protein from parainfluenza virus. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Dutch, German Inventors Develop Natural Protein
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Henricus Renerus Jacobus Mattheus Hoogenboom of Maastricht, Netherlands, Jurgen Mullberg of Aachen, Germany, and Robert C. Ladner of Ijamsville, Md., have developed artificial and natural proteins that have broad applications in the development of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Cold-Induced Expression Vector
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Jun Tomono, Hiroaki Sagawa and Harumi Ueno, al from Kusatsu, Japan, Masayuni Kishimoto of Otsu, Japan, and Ikunoshin Kato of Koka-gun, Japan, have developed a vector having a portion encoding a 5'-untranslated region from an messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for a ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Cigarettes Making Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Sarojini Deevi of Midlothian, Va., and Kent B. Koller of Chesterfield, Va., have developed nanoscale composite catalyst to reduce carbon monoxide in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cut filler ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Cellular Telephone with Pointing Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Hideaki Nagata of Tokyo has developed a cellular telephone provided with a pointing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "cellular telephone with a pointing device that facilitates operations for line ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Force-applying Input Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Ken Matsumoto of Iwate-ken, Japan, and Satoshi Hayasaka of Miyagi-ken, Japan, have developed a force-applying input device for applying a force which is electrically controlled by a manually operated operation section. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Florida Inventor Develops Multi-engine Marine Vessels Drive System
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Calvin C. Connell of North Palm Beach, Fla., has developed a single and multi-engine drive system for a twin screw vessel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a twin screw marine vessel that has two engines arranged in tandem along the ...
California Inventor Develops Non-Return-to-Zero Data Clock Recovery System
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Richard K. Karlquist of Cupertino, Calif., has developed a system for recovering a clock from non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substantially passive implementation of a clock recovery circuit may be ...
Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors Develop Microorganism Production Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- R. Roger Yocum and Janice G. Pero, both of Lexington, Mass., Thomas A. Patterson of North Attleboro, Mass., and Theron Hermann of Kinnelon, N.J., have developed microorganisms and processes for enhanced production of pantothenate. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Liquid Crystal Display Panel Driving Apparatus
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Eiji Iwasaki of Osaka, Japan, has developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel driving apparatus, and a LCD apparatus to be driven by the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an LCD panel driving ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Signal Modulation Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Jeffrey William Dimsdle of Overland Park, Kan., has developed methods of quadrature amplitude modulation, for facilitating data transmission and other communication applications. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Recess Filter
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Etienne Lecoultre of Cortaillod, Switzerland, and Thomas Badertscher of Cernier, Switzerland, have developed a recess filter and smokeable article containing recess filter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a ...
WEALTHIER NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS MORE LIKELY TO START BUSINESSES
Jul 19, 2007 ... The Small Business Administration issued the following statement: The wealthiest nascent entrepreneurs are more likely to start a business than are their less wealthy counterparts, concludes a study released today by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration ....
California Inventors Develop Signals Receiving Modem Receiver
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Thomas Edward Pare Jr. of Mountain View, Calif., has developed a method and an apparatus for detecting carrier frequency and timing offsets to enhance the receiver performance under the effects of multi-path channel. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Source Driving Circuit
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Do-Kyung Kim and Yong-Weon Jeon, both of Suwon, South Korea, have developed a source driving circuit for a liquid crystal display (LCD) for driving an LCD panel in response to digital image signals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Endotracheal Intubation Performing Device
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Lindsey A. Nelson of Cincinnati has developed a device and a method of performing endotracheal intubation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the intubation device comprises an endotracheal tube ...
Florida Inventor Develops Window Covering System
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Mayra J. Lucero of Hialeah, Fla., has developed a device for protecting windows. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This is a storm window protection device which will fit over the window fame of a building and lock into position to prevent ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lactic Acid Preparation Method
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Peter Johannes Marie Baets of Gorinchem, Netherlands, and Rob Coldenhoff of Arkel, Netherlands, have developed a preparation of lactic acid by means of fermentation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is in the field of ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Respirator Mask
Jul 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 19 -- Eric Chang of Taichung Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a respirator mask that includes an inflatable cuff, a gas-guiding member, and an inflating valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inflatable cuff has an inner wall surface confining ...