US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, August 27:
Florida Inventors Develop Fluorobutene Derivatives
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Richard A. Du Boisson and Adam C. Alty, both of Gainesville, Fla., have developed fluorobutene derivatives. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel compounds 2,4,4,4-tetrafluoro-1-butene and (E)- and ...
Texas Inventors Develop Ethyl Benzene Production Process
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Kevin P. Kelly of Friendswood, Texas, and James R. Butler of Houston, have developed an ethyl benzene production process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process for the regeneration of a deactivated zeolite ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Ethylbenzene Production Process
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- James M. Hildreth of Wyckoff, N.J., Kerman Nariman Dukandar of Edison, N.J., and Ronald M. Venner of Franklin Lanes, N.J., have developed a ethylbenzene production process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improvement in a process for ...
OYSTER REEFS ENHANCED WITH ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS
Aug 27, 2007 ... The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issued the following press release: An oyster reef restoration project comparing alternative materials to different types of commonly used natural shell recently concluded planting efforts at two sites in Awendaw, near Bull's Bay and the ...
SHELLFISH SEASON TO OPEN SEPT. 17
Aug 27, 2007 ... The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issued the following press release: The 2007-2008 season for harvesting oysters and clams will open Monday, Sept. 17. Oyster and clam seasons will remain open through May 15, 2008, unless conditions warrant extending or ...
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES BREAKS GROUND FOR NEW FACILITY AT FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY
Aug 27, 2007 ... The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issued the following press release: The S.C. Department of Natural Resources and Senator Hugh Leatherman (R-Dist. 31) announced plans for a new public office facility in Florence during a groundbreaking ceremony Friday, August 24, 2007, ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lithographic Apparatus Calibration Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Erik Roelof Loopstra of Heeze, Netherlands, Leon Martin Levasier of Hedel, Netherlands, and Rene Oesterholt of 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, have developed a lithographic apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lithographic apparatus ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Book Case
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Randy D. Domack of Trempealeau, Wis., and Terry A. Everson of Blair, Wis., have developed an ornamental design for book case, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D549,000 on Aug. 21. The patent ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Displaying Sample Stand
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- John Rief of Newport Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for stand for displaying samples, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D549,004 on Aug. 21. The original application was filed ...
British Inventors Develop Continuous Wave Ranging System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- George Edward Matich of Basildon, Great Britain, David Henry Ramsey of Pitsea, Great Britain, and Raymond John Walls of Chelmsford, Great Britain, have developed a continuous wave ranging system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
U.S., Chinese Inventors Develop Keywords, Web Site Content Relevance Verification Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Benyu Zhang, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen and Wei-Ying Ma, all from Beijing, China, Li Li and Tarek Najm, both of Kirkland, Wash., and Ying Li of Bellevue, Wash., have developed methods for verifying relevance between terms and Web site contents. According to the ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Extensible Markup Language Query Processing Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Kyuseok Shim and Chin-Wan Chung, both of Seoul, South Korea, and Jun-Ki Min of Daejeon, South Korea, have developed a method of processing extensible markup language (XML) data query. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
California Inventors Develop Data Processing System Data Sharing Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Gerard MacLean Dearing and Kenneth Michael Kapulka, both of San Jose, Calif., and Jimmy Paul Strickland of Saratoga, Calif., have developed a method for data sharing across batch sequential processes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Stored Procedure Expression Evaluation Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Rolf Gu Stegelmann of Valencia, Calif., and Jeetendra Chaware of Andhra Pradesh, India, have developed an apparatus for evaluating certain types of expressions in stored procedures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system ...
German Inventors Develop Aldehyde Preparation Process
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Dietmar Thiel of Oberhausen, Germany, and Carl Dieter Frohning of Wesel, Germany, have developed an aldehyde preparation process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for the hydroformylation of olefins by linkage of the input ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Lithographic Apparatus Manufacturing Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Bernardus Antonius Johannes Luttikhuis of Nuenen, Netherlands, Harmen Klaas Van Der Schoot of Vught, Netherlands, Petrus Matthijs Henricus Vosters of Bladel, Netherlands, have developed a lithographic apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Transmitted Light Intensity Measurement Instrument
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Shinya Nakajima of Kyoto, Japan, has developed a transmitted light intensity measuring instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "measuring instrument that comprises a light source unit capable of emitting ...
Washington Inventors Develop String Characters Mapping System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- John McConnell of Kirkland, Wash., Julie Bennett of Medina, Wash., and Yung-Shin Lin of Sammamish, Wash., have developed a system for mapping and comparing text strings. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Computer Desk
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Yung-Hsiang Lin of Hsiu Shui Hsiang, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a computer desk, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D549,009 on Aug. 21. The patent has been assigned to Hae Ing ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Antenna with Microwave-Based Level Measurement System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- John McKeen of Bridgenorth, Canada, and Gabriel M. Serban of North York, Canada, have developed an antenna with integral sealing member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "antenna assembly suitable for use with a ...
U.S., Israeli Inventors Develop Computerized Information Extraction System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Niblack Wayne of San Jose, Calif., and David C Smith of Saratoga, Calif., Rani Nelken of Cambridge, Mass., Einat Amitay of Kibbutz Shaar HaGolan, Israel, and Aya Soffer of Haifa, Israel, have developed a method of computerized information extraction. According ...
California Inventors Develop Distributed File System Implementation System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Shankar Pasupathy of Sunnyvale, Calif., Amod K. Dani of Santa Clara, Calif., Sushil Thomas of San Francisco, and Siamak Nazari of Mountain View, have developed a method for implementing a distributed file system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventor Develops Buoyancy Pump Power System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Kenneth W. Welch Jr. of Willis, Texas, has developed a buoyancy pump power system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating electricity includes a buoyancy pump operable to convert wave motion from a body of water into ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Dresser
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Randy D. Domack of Trempealeau, Wis., and Terry A. Everson of Blair, Wis., have developed an ornamental design for dresser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D549,002 on Aug. 21. The patent has ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Control Apparatus
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Fumihiko Okai of Hitachinaka, Japan, and Hiroshi Kuroda of Hitachi, Japan, have developed a vehicle control apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes an obstruction detection unit for measuring a ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Cabinet
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- John Bradford Brandon of Attica, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for cabinet, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D549,001 on Aug. 21. The patent has been assigned to Artone Manufacturing ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Simultaneous Phase Measurements Spherical Scattering-light Device
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Raymond J. Castonguay of Tucson, Ariz., has developed a spherical scattering-light device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A far-field measurement instrument has multiple imaging lenses cut into a pentagon shape and arranged in geodesic ...
New York Inventor Develops Unique Space Time Adaptive System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Thomas J. Cataldo of Commack, N.Y., has developed an unique space time adaptive system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of detecting radar returns and measuring their parameters with or without clutter ...
New York, Connecticut, Georgia Inventors Develop Database Search Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 --Yurdaer Nezihi Doganata of Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., Youssef Drissi of Ossining, N.Y., Tong-Haing Fin of Harrison, N.Y., Noon Ju Kim of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Lev Kozakov of Stamford, Conn., Juan Leon-Rodriquez of Danbury, Conn., and Gregory T. Brown of Rockhart, Ga., ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Alkenyl Alcohol Production Process
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Andrew P. Kahn of Eagleville, Pa., and Stephen H. Harris of Kennett Square, Pa., have developed an alkenyl alcohol production process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing an alkenyl alcohol from a diol is disclosed. The ...
California Inventors Develop Computer Network System Search Engines
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Glen Jeh of San Francisco, Taher H. Haveliwala of Mountain View, Calif., and Sepandar D. Kamvar of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed search engines for locating documents in a computer network system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Bookcase
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Terry A. Everson of Blair, Wis., and Randy D. Domack of Trempealeau, Wis., have developed an ornamental design for bookcase, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D549,007 on Aug. 21. The patent has ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Scanning Exposure Apparatus
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Kenji Nishi of Yokohama, Japan, has developed a scanning exposure apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning exposure apparatus includes a projection system, a stage system, a first detector and a control system. The stage ...
SEPT. 1 YOUTH/ADULT DOVE HUNT SPONSORED BY CLEMSON, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Aug 27, 2007 ... The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issued the following press release: The S.C. Department of Natural Resources and Clemson University's Research Farm Services will sponsor a youth/adult dove hunt on the opening day of mourning dove season Saturday, Sept. 1. This is a ...
INDIANA UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION ISSUES WEEKLY HEARING SCHEDULE, AUG. 27-31
Aug 27, 2007 ... The Indiana Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following weekly hearing schedule: For The Period: 08/27/07 To: 08/31/07 DOCKET NO: 43298-NONE ALJ: AARON SCHMOLL TIME: 9:30 AM ROOM: Judicial Courtroom 222 REMARKS: Petitioner's ...
GOV. SPITZER PROCLAIMS AUG. 27
Aug 27, 2007 ... Gov. Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., has issued the following proclamation: Whereas, New York State's dairy industry is the oldest agricultural enterprise and continues to make major contributions to our State's economy, and as the largest sector of our State's agricultural base, our successful ...
BANDED MOURNING DOVES PROVIDE VITAL INFORMATION TO BIOLOGISTS
Aug 27, 2007 ... The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources issued the following press release: Since 2003, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Section and other partners have taken part in a long-term, multi-state banding study of mourning doves to improve information on dove life ...
Washington Inventor Develops Low-Profile Multi-Turn Encoder System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Nils Ingvar Andermo of Kirkland, Wash., has developed low-profile multi-turn encoder systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various alternative embodiments of a multi-turn capacitive encoder device are disclosed. The device includes two ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Engine Emission Treatment Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Julian A. Imes and Robert Allen Dushek, both of Bloomington, Minn., Steve D. Schmeichel of Wayzata, Minn., and Fred W. Schmidt of Eagan, Minn., have developed an engine emission treating method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Alabama Inventors Develop Sliding-Action Magneto-Mechanical Injector Throttling Device
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Robert S. Michaels of Scottsboro, Ala., and Jerrold H. Arszman of Huntsville, Ala., have developed a sliding-action magneto-mechanical injector throttling (SLAMMIT) device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sliding-action magneto-mechanical ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Sigma Delta Circuit Error Compensation Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Andrew Martin Mallinson and Simon Jacques Damphousse, both of Kelowna, Canada, have developed a method for compensating for error in a sigma delta circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for compensating ...
California, Texas Inventors Develop Interactive Web-Based Codeset Selection Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Jonathan Lee of Santa Clara, Calif., and Oscar C Miramontes of El Paso, Texas, have developed an interactive web-based codeset selection method According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive, web-based codeset selection and development ...
California Inventors Develop High Speed Table Search System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Michael Veng-Chong Lau, Pei-Feng Adrian Wang and Chuen-Shen Bernard Shung, all from San Jose, Calif., and Dennis Sungik Lee of Saratoga, Calif., have developed an apparatus for searching an electronically stored table of information. An abstract of the ...
German Inventors Develop Vehicle Heating System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Patric Schlecht of Ostfildern, Germany, Uwe Kohle of Deizisau, Germany, and Oliver Sauter of Denkendorf, Germany, have developed a vehicle heating system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system for a vehicle has a heating air ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device with Analog/Digital Converter
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Keiko Kobayashi, Yoichi Takahashi, Tomotake Ooba, Fujio Higuchi, Keiichi Iwazumi and Akira Saitou, all from Yamagata, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device with analog/digital (AD) converter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Memory Device with Serial-Parallel Conversion Section
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Toshiki Rai of Ogaki, Japan, and Sadao Yoshikawa of Gifu, Japan, have developed a memory device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention provides a memory device including a serial-parallel ...
Florida, Connecticut Inventors Develop Mattress Lifter
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Louis J. Drakos of Naples, Fla., and John P. Drakos of Branford, Conn., have developed a mattress lifter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "mattress lifter having a base member and tubular lifting elements ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Digital to Analog Converter
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Paul Ferguson Jr. of North Andover, Mass., and Xavier Haurie of Calgary, Canada, have developed a digital to analog converter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital to analog converter system is disclosed for receiving an input signal ...
California, Oregon Inventors Develop Constraint Satisfaction Problem Solution Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Greg Czajkowski of San Francisco, and Mike F. Miller of Hillsboro, Ore., have developed a method of solutions for constraint satisfaction problems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the invention includes sorting a set of ...
California Inventors Develop Inclusion Merge Join Efficient Costing System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Bibhu Ranjan Priyadarshi of El Segundo, Calif., Grace Kwan-On Au of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., and Kuorong Chiang of Cerritos, Calif., have developed a system of efficient costing for inclusion merge join. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Inflatable Seat Cushion
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Yolain Frechette of Victoriaville, Canada, has developed an inflatable seat cushion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "inflatable seat cushion having separate compartment that can either exchange air between them ...
New York, California Inventors Develop Hierarchical Structured Transaction Processing System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Prashant Parikh of New York, and Stanley Peters of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a computer based transaction processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed in a system having multiple navigable nodes ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Exhaust Line Fuel Injection System Fault Detection Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Johannes Walter Reuter of Ypsilanti, Mich., has developed a fault detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to systems and methods of detecting faults in an exhaust line fuel injection system. An expected ...
California Inventors Develop Character-Based Data Stream Performing Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Anshul Dawra of San Jose, Calif., Bilung Lee of Fremont, Calif., and Paul Arnold Ostler of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a method for performing streaming of character-based data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system ...
Australian Inventor Develops User Input Device
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Andrew Kisliakov of Burwood, Australia, has developed a user input device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user input device configured with a communication protocol for communicating transmission data with predetermined apparatus is ...
Florida, California Inventors Develop Multiple Position Air Mattress System
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Victor M. Kasatshko of Tarpon Springs, Fla., and Nicholas J. Webb of Redding, Calif., have developed multiple position air mattress system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiple position air mattress system for achieving various ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Sheet-Processing Apparatus
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Masayuki Nakagiri and Yasuhisa Watanabe, both of Shizuoka-ken, Japan, have developed a sheet-processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "processing system which enables automation of processing of ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Cyclic Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Woody Lu of Shindian, Taiwan, has developed a cyclic pipeline analog to digital converter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cyclic pipeline analog to digital converter includes a sample/hold module, a sub-analog/digital converting ...
California Inventors Develop Structured Query language Query Horizontal View Generating Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Rakesh Agrawal and Amit Somani, both of San Jose, Calif., and Yirong Xu of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a method for generating horizontal view for structured query language (SQL) queries. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Digital Signal Sampling Frequency Conversion Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Thierry Heeb of Fey, Switzerland, has developed a method of converting sampling frequency of digital signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of converting sampling conversion with a predetermined ratio ...
California Inventors Develop Network Video Guide
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Richard Humphrey and Dale Thoms, both of San Mateo, Calif., and Owen Lynn of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a computer system for video spidering. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and method that ...
British Inventors Develop Virtual Reality Environment Motion Control Method
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Ralf Herbrich and Michael E. Tipping, both of Cambridge, Great Britain, and Mark Hatton of Suffolk, Great Britain, have developed a method of modified motion control for a virtual reality environment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a ...
Texas Inventors Develop Laser Trim Progress Recording Device
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Guy J. Shovlin of Allen, Texas, Melese Teklu of Dallas, and Pramodchandran N. Variyam of Plano, Texas, have developed a device for recording laser trim progress. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device for detecting and tracking a ...
German Inventor Develops Opening Roller Assembly
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Heinz-Georg Wassenhoven of Monchengladbach, Germany, has developed an opening roller assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "opening roller assembly for an open-end spinning device of a textile machine, ...
French Inventor Develops Immersed Surface Cleaning Apparatus
Aug 27, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 27 -- Philippe Pichon of Villeneuve de Riviere, France, has developed a submerged surface cleaning apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a self-propelled running apparatus for cleaning an immersed surface, ...