US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, July 20:
Texas Inventors Develop Semiconductor Component Manufacturing Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kelley Kyle Higgins Sr. and Joseph William Wiseman, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a method for manufacturing a semiconductor component using a sacrificial masking structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device ...
Norwegian Inventor Develop Hydraulic Cylinder Oil Leak Draining Device
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Magne Mathias Moe of Harstad, Norway, has developed a device for draining an oil leakage between a piston and a cylinder wall in a hydraulic cylinder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for a single-acting ...
California Inventors Develop Routes Management Apparatus
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Tao Guan and Michael Yip, both Sunnyvale, Calif., and Leo Huber of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method and an apparatus for managing routes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route manager receives a route to a destination, the ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Multi-Gate Transistor
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- You-Seung Jin of Seoul, South Korea, has developed multi-gate transistor formed with active patterns of uniform critical dimension. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For fabricating a multi-gate transistor, at least one active pattern ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Router Configuration Automatically Setting Communication Device
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Yuji Ito and Noritake Izaiku, both of Fukuoka, Japan, have developed a communication device for automatically setting a router configuration and method of controlling the device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device ...
California Inventor Develops Miter Bar
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Paul J. Reilly of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has developed a magnetic miter slot bar having first and second ends. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The saw table guide bar has magnets thereon so that when it is inserted into the slot in an ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Chip Metallization Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- J. Daniels Mis of Cary, N.C., and Dean Zehnder of Hillsborough, N.C., have developed methods of forming conductive structures including titanium-tungsten base layers and related structures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods may be ...
California Inventor Develops Memory Packets Queuing System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Yukihiro Nakagawa of Cupertino, Calif., has developed a system for queuing packets written to memory for switching that includes a data memory logically divided into multiple blocks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system also ...
U.S., Israeli Inventors Develop Packet Processing Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Nathan Elnathan of Ranana, Israel, Ilan Pardo of Ramat Hasharon, Israel, and Alexander Joffe of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a method for dynamic allocation of packets to tasks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tasks are dynamically ...
British Inventors Develop Electrical Device Substrate Formation Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Henning Sirringhaus of Cambridge, Great Britain, and Paul Alan Cain of Hertford, Great Britain, have developed patterning of devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for forming an organic or partly ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Door Unlocking Controller
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Tohru Inoguchi of Aichi, Japan, has developed a door unlocking controller for controlling unlocking of a door of a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a request to unlock a door of one side portion of a vehicle is input, an ...
California Inventors Develop Serial Transfer Double Buffering Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Theodore D. Rees and Miguel Gabino Perez, both of Mountain View, Calif., and D. Stuart Smith of San Jose, Calif., have developed a laser driver for driving a laser diode of an optical storage device that includes an optical disk. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Variable Volume Chamber Cannon
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Jeff Ireland of Rosemount, Minn., Dave Burger of Minneapolis, and Lonnie Hannah of Monticello, Minn., have developed a variable volume chamber cannon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "assembly for effecting a ...
California Inventors Develop Damascene Structure Fabrication Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Huong Thanh Nguyen and Michael Scott Barnes, both of San Ramon, Calif., Li-Qun Xia and Mehul Naik, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed a method of selectively etching organosilicate layers in integrated circuit fabrication processes. According to the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Quickly Accessing User Permission System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Cheng-Meng Wu of Tu-chen, Taiwan, has developed a system and a method for quickly accessing user permissions in an access control list. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for quickly accessing user permissions in an access control ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Vehicle with Window Panes Transparency Control
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Sven Strohband of Mountain View, Calif., Arne Stoschek of Palo Alto, Calif., and Annegret Matthai of Ingolstadt, Germany, have developed a vehicle with control for the automatic adjustment of the transparency of vehicle window panes. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Takayuki Kondo of Suwa, Japan, has developed a method for manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit includes steps of forming a ...
New York Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Fabrication Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Tansel Karabacak of Troy, N.Y., Toh-Ming Lu of Loudonville, N.Y., and John Robert Barthel of East Nassau, N.Y., have developed a method for fabricating an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Indicator Apparatus for Vehicle
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Newel Lloyd Stephens of Madison, Ind., and Kevin Scott Williams of Hanover, Ind., have developed an indicator apparatus and a method for a vehicle using side-emitting light-emitting diode. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indicator is ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Ballistic Weapons Stand
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Dale A. McClellan and Alfred R. Clark, both of Virginia Beach, Va., have developed a ballistic weapon stand that has a base plate for mounting armor panels with front and rear faces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The armor panels are ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Wafer Edge Ring Structure
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Peter A. Benson of Boise, Idaho, has developed wafer edge ring structures and methods of formation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevated containment structure in the shape of a wafer edge ring surrounding a surface of a semiconductor wafer ...
Texas Inventors Develop Semiconductor Wafer Dicing Process
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- David B. Blair of Blue Ridge, Texas, and Leon Stiborek of Dallas, have developed a method for dicing and singulating substrates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a semiconductor wafer ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Method
Jul 20, 2007 ...ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Duk Soo Kim of Gwangju, South Korea, has developed methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one example, the semiconductor device ...
California Inventors Develop Computer Accessible Storage Medium
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Mahesh P. Saptarshi and Craig W. Hobbs, both of Mountain View, Calif., and Hans F. van Rietschote of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a field of provisioning computer systems to execute a set of software resources. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Networked Haptic Devices Systems
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Michael D. Levin of Mountain View, Calif., has developed systems and methods for networked haptic devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One described method comprises receiving a first input signal from a first control node and ...
California Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Bindiganavale S. Nataraj, Hok F. Wong and Jose P. Pereira, all from Cupertino, Calif., Rupesh R. Roy and Sandeep Khanna, both of Santa Clara, Calif., Nilesh A. Gharia of San Jose, Calif., and Varadarajan Srinivasan of Los Altos Hills, Calif., have developed a content ...
California Inventor Develops Railway Track Intrusions Hazard Mitigation System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- John C. Tsai of Saratoga, Calif., has developed a hazard mitigation system to detect intrusion by an object into a track zone at a train station platform. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure is provided that includes a fixed ...
Danish Inventors Develop Hydraulic Valve Arrangement
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Carl Christian Dixen of Sydals, Denmark, and Brian Nielsen of Soenderborg, Denmark, have developed a hydraulic valve arrangement. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The invention concerns a hydraulic valve ...
Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA Wins $41,790 Contract
Jul 20, 2007 ... FORT CARSON, Colo., July 20 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $41,790 contract to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA Inc., Windsor, Conn., for the lease or rental of equipment. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, Fort Carson, Colo. For more ...
REP. MCHUGH BILL TO CREATE WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION PASSES COMMITTEE
Jul 20, 2007 ... Rep. John M. McHugh, R-N.Y. (23rd CD), issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman John M. McHugh (R-NY), a sponsor of bipartisan legislation, H.R. 1389, to create a Star Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission to plan and execute the national observance. This ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Shallow Trench Isolation Structure Fabrication Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Hsu-Sheng Yu of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has developed a method of simultaneously fabricating isolation structures having rounded and unrounded corners. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method facilitates generally simultaneously fabricating a ...
Montana Inventors Develop Recessed Micro-Structure Production Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Thomas L. Ritzdorf of Bigfork, Mont., and Lyndon W. Graham of Kalispell, Mont., have developed a method for filling recessed micro-structures with metallization in the production of a microelectronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Process Control System Interface Module
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Marcos A. V. Peluso of Chanhassen, Minn., Robert J. Karschnia of Chaska, Minn., Eric D. Rotvold of Inner Grove Heights, Minn., and Robert Train of Bognor Regis, Great Britain, have developed an interface module for use with a fieldbus device network with Internet and ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Process Control System Interface Module
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Donald R. Lattimer and Robert J. Karschnia, both of Chaska, Minn., Michael J. Green of Plymouth, Minn., Eric D. Rotvold of Inner Grove Heights, Minn., and Marcos A. V. Peluso of Chanhassen, Minn., have developed an interface module for use with a Modbus device network ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop Saw Pivoting Blade Guard
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Craig A. Carroll of Milan, Tenn., Chad Hollis of Huron, Tenn., and Vance Roe of Jackson, Tenn., have developed a blade guard assembly capable of allowing increased capacity for saws, such as radial arm saw, miter saws, and the like. According to the U.S ....
South Korean Inventor Develops Silicon Quantum Dot Formation Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kwan-Ju Koh of Bucheon, South Korea, has developed methods of forming silicon quantum dots and methods of fabricating semiconductor memory devices using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techiques for forming a silicon quantum ...
Utah, California Inventors Develop Data Storage Management
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Dale Craig Barfuss of Pleasant Grove, Utah, and Suresh Nagarajan of Mather, Calif., have developed a data storage management for flash memory devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Logical units of allocation may be designated as ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Refractory Metal Removing Process
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Renee Zahorik, Guy F. Hudson, Hugh E. Stroupe, Brian F. Gordon and Russell C. Zahorik, all from Boise, Idaho, and Todd A. Dobson of Meridian, Idaho, have developed methods for selective removal of material from wafer alignment marks. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Resonator and Dielectric Filter
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Akira Muto of Tokyo has developed a resonator comprising a stack substrate obtained by stacking dielectric layers and conductor layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One pair of resonant electrodes is formed in a loop shape or a spiral ...
Tennessee Inventor Develops Ammunition Projectile Power-Based Core
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Harold F. Beal of Rockford, Tenn., has developed a power-based core for ammunition projectile. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "powder-based core having an outboard end, for a gun ammunition projectile, ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Metal-Containing Materials Removal Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kevin R. Shea and Niraj B. Rana, both of Boise, Idaho, have developed methods of removing metal-containing materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods for selectively etching metal-containing materials (such as, for ...
German Inventors Develop Motor Vehicle Wheels Assigning Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Ralph Gronau of Wetter, Germany, Peter Sager of Friedrichsdorf, Germany, and Dirk Leise of Russelsheim, Germany, have developed a method for assigning wheels of a motor vehicle to the respective vehicle axle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Software Controlled Content Addressable Memory
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Mark B. Rosenbluth of Uxbridge, Mass., Gilbert Wolrich of Framingham, Mass., and Debra Bernstein of Sudbury, Mass., have developed a software controlled content addressable memory in a general purpose execution datapath. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Networked Objects Signaling Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Anand Narasimhan of Berkeley, Calif., and Leo D'Angelo of Santa Clarita, Calif., have developed a method and a process for signaling, communication and administration of networked objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and ...
Texas Inventors Develop Channel Adapter Arrangement
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Joseph Winkles and Joseph A. Bailey, both of Austin, Texas, have developed arrangement in a channel adapter for validating headers concurrently during reception of a packet for minimal validation latency. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Electronic Key System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Takeshi Konno of Saitama, Japan, has developed an electronic key system for a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle electronic key system includes a control device mounted on a vehicle and an electronic key for transmitting a ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Liquid-cooled Choke
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Juhani Helosvuori of Vantaa, Finland, and Markku Talja of Jarvenpaa, Finland, have developed a liquid-cooled choke comprising a choke core, a choke coil and a path for a cooling liquid to cool the choke. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Processor Assist Function Reassembling Technique
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kenneth H. Potter, Michael L. Wright and Hong-Man Wu, all from Raleigh, N.C., have developed a technique for performing a reassembly assist function that enables a processor to perform packet reassembly in a deterministic manner. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Wheel Lathe Chuck Mask
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Geoffrey L. Gatton of Farmington, Mich., has developed a mask for a wheel lathe chuck that prevents whip chip. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective cover that is shaped as a mirror image of a portion of a wheel surface is ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Inter-Level Dielectric Layer Manufacturing Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Tai-Chun Huang, Chih-Hsiang Yao, Tien-I Bao and Bi-Trong Chen, all from Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, Yih-Hsiung Lin of Sanchung, Taiwan, and Yung-Cheng Lu of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a method of manufacturing an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer of a semiconductor device ....
California Inventors Develop Internet Protocol Multicast Traffic Access Management System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kali P Mishra and Sunil K Chandrupatla, both of San Jose, Calif., Sunil Podar of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Sampath Kumar Sthothra Bhasham of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a system for managing access to Internet protocol multicast traffic that includes a join ...
Spanish Inventors Develop High Frequency Electromagnetic Circuits
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Edouard Jean Louis Rozan, Juan Manuel O'Callaghan Castella and Nuria Duffo Ubeda, all from Barcelona, Spain, Carles Puente Baliarda of Tiana, Spain, and Juan Carlos Collado Gomez of Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, have developed fractal and space-filling transmission ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Internet Call Waiting Service
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Douglas T. Petty, Michael W. Petras and David P. Dunlap, all from Nepean, Canada, and James J. Boland of Kanata, Canada, have developed an Internet call waiting (ICW) service that provides single-line subscribers connected to the Internet with incoming call ...
California Inventor Develops Motor Vehicles U-turn Indicator
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Joseph Douglas Sanicola of Glendora, Calif., has developed a U-turn indicator for motor vehicles having a light fixture housing and a plurality of light sources located therein. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The housing is divided into ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electrical Connection Material
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Nobuhiro Hanai and Masakazu Nakada, both of Aichi, Japan, and Noriyuki Honda of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed electrical connection materials and electrical connection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Surface Acoustic Wave Element
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Tsukasa Funasaka of Shiojiri, Japan, has developed a surface acoustic wave element and an electronic equipment provided with the element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface acoustic wave element includes a substrate, an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Coplanar Waveguide Filter
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Kei Satoh and Yasushi Yamao, both of Yokosuka, Japan, Shoichi Narahashi of Yokohama, Japan, and Tetsuo Hirota of Kanazawa, Japan, have developed a coplanar waveguide filter which is used in a selective separation of signals in a particular frequency band in the field ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device Fabrication Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Sung-Kwon Lee of Ichon-shi, South Korea, has developed a method for fabricating semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device capable of securing a ...
California Inventors Develop First Responder Communications System
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Raymond Burkley, Charles Mason, Gordon Taras, Chuck Curran, Ignacio Carreto and John Cronin, all from Cupertino, Calif., have developed wireless devices for automated individual communication, tracking and accountability. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Group VIII Metal Planarization Method
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Nishant Sinha and Rita J. Klein, both of Boise, Idaho, have developed methods for planarization of Group VIII metal-containing surfaces using complexing agents. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planarization method includes providing a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Data Recording Device
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Yoichi Fukami and Yoshimasa Ono, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed a data recording device and a method to continuously write data across memories without data omission. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Rotary Cutter
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Takashi Miyatake and Hideaki Miyauchi, both of Mitoyo-gun, Japan, have developed a rotary cutter and a method for manufacturing fibrous product using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a rotary cutter including a first ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Cushion-Like Packaging Material Cutting Apparatus
Jul 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 20 -- Reinhard Keller of Dattlikon, Switzerland, has developed an apparatus for cutting cushion-like packaging material from a web-like supply of material, consisting of at least two layers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus for ...
E. J. Office Furniture Wins $13,824 Contract
Jul 20, 2007 ... DRAPER, Utah, July 20 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $13,824 contract to E. J. Office Furniture, Phoenix, for miscellaneous office furniture. The contract was awarded by the Army's U.S. Property & Fiscal Office, Draper, Utah. For more information ...
E. J. Office Furniture Wins $4,244 Contract
Jul 20, 2007 ... DRAPER, Utah, July 20 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $4,244 contract to E. J. Office Furniture, Phoenix, for office chairs. The contract was awarded by the Army's U.S. Property & Fiscal Office, Draper, Utah. For more information about US Fed ...