US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, September 11:
Swiss Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Drinking Glass
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Jo Bodum of St. Niklausen, Switzerland, has developed an ornamental design for a drinking glass, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,034 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Pi-Design ...
Washington Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Universal Lid
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Sarah S. Peterson of Seattle has developed an ornamental design for a universal lid, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,030 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Progressive ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Smoothie Maker Blender
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Ali Nikkhah of Mission Viejo, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for the smoothie maker blender, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,029 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to ...
Washington Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Collapsible Cup
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- David A. Holcomb and Joshua R. Stewart, both of Seattle, have developed an ornamental design for a collapsible cup, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D550,036 on Sept. 4. The patent has been ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Mug
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Kuang-Hsia Tien of Monrovia, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a mug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,035 on Sept. 4. The original application was filed on June 14, 2006, and ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Mug
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Kuang-Hsia Tien of Pasadena, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a mug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,032 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Sweda Co. LLC, Monrovia, ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Barbecue Grill
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Kiosky Chung of Taichung City, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a barbecue grill, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,023 on Sept. 4. The original application was filed on June ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Combination Fryer, Roaster
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Lingchin Chao of Taichung County, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a combination fryer and roaster, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,026 on Sept. 4. The patent has been ...
Danish Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Pitcher
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Jakob Heiberg of Charlottenlund, Denmark, and Dorte Sondergaard of Frederiksberg, Denmark, have developed an ornamental design for a pitcher, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D550,021 on Sept ....
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Cushion
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Christelle Boutin of Bressuire, France, has developed an ornamental design for cushion, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,018 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Wesco Co. SA, ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Sake Warmer
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Tark Abed, Martin Leugers, Feng Hao Yu, Craig Lauchner and Rose Hu, all from Palo Alto, Calif., have developed an ornamental design of a sake warmer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D550,028 on Sept ....
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Interested Party Contacting System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Malcom B. Strandberg of Cambridge, Mass., has developed telemarketing techniques utilizing a computer network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for contacting an interested party utilizing a computer network includes an ...
California, Illinois Inventors Develop Rapid Tax Collection System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Richard Agee and Clark L. Ballantyne, both of San Diego, Arthur D. Starbuck of Murrieta, Calif., and Carolyn M. Ponder of Antioch, Ill., have developed a method for debit-type transactions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Preferred ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Electronic Oven
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Sei-Il Jeon of Seoul, South Korea, has developed an ornamental design for an electronic oven, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,024 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Samsung ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Internet Printing Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Shane R. Konsella, Kwesi E. Abraham and Jessop T. Dennis, all from Boise, Idaho, Arti Shukla and Steven C. Johnson, both of Eagle, Idaho, and Michael L. Rishel of Star, Idaho, have developed a method for installing print device fonts. According to the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Combination Fryer
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Lingchin Chao of Dadu Shiang, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a combination fryer and roaster, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,025 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned ...
Thai Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Jug
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Touchapol Pettaweebuncha of Bangkok, Thailand, has developed an ornamental design for a jug, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,020 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Pastina Co ....
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Carafe
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Walter M. Lincer of Winter Haven, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a carafe, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,019 on Sept. 4. The patent has been assigned to Citrus World Inc., ...
Florida Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Combined Charcoal Smoker
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Baami Amajuwon and Marsee Amajuwon, both of Miami, have developed an ornamental design for a combined charcoal smoker and cooker, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D550,022 on Sept. 4. The ...
French Inventors Develop Fluid Transport Pipe Deposit Detection Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Thierry Romanet of La Penne s/Huveaume, France, Jean-Luc Volle of Eaunes, France, and Jean Daniel Reber of Pertuis, France, have developed a device for detecting deposit in a conduit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates ...
Minnesota, Ohio Inventors Develop Engine Control Diagnostic System Model
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Thomas L. Ting of Plymouth, Minn., and Bruce K. Walker of Cincinnati, have developed an adaptive model for an engine control diagnostic system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to optimize values of a plurality of ...
California Inventors Develop Speech Recognition System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Luca Rigazio and Rathinavelu Chengalvarayan, both of Santa Barbara, Calif., Robert Boman of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and Brian Hanson of Goleta, Calif., have developed a speech recognition method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Vehicle Telematics Device Wireless Operation Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Edward P. Chrumka and Chester A. Huber, both of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Mingheng Wang of Rochester Hills, Mich., and Christopher L. Oesterling of Troy, Mich., have developed a method of wireless operation of a vehicle telematics device. According to the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Vehicle Data Recording Apparatus
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Tetsuya Ozawa of Tokyo has developed a data recording apparatus for vehicle. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A data recording apparatus for a vehicle includes a vehicle state detecting sensor ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Voice Signal Quality Improvement Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Masato Tanaka, Meizhong Wang and Kazuhiko Seki, all from Tokyo, have developed a device for improving voice signal quality. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a code correction circuit for presuming an error pattern of the ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Voice Activity Detection Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Shude Zhang of Kanata, Canada, has developed a voice activity detection (VAD) apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for detecting and transmitting voice signals in a packet voice ...
California, Georgia Inventors Develop Vehicle Navigating System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- James M. Janky of Los Altos, Calif., and Kurtis L. Maynard of Gainesville, Ga., have developed a system for navigating a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and a system for navigating a vehicle ...
Texas Inventor Develops Double-Walled Containment Enclosure
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- William A. Schneider of Conroe, Texas, has developed a containment enclosure system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "containment enclosure system at least a portion of which is double-walled. An exemplary ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Air-Fuel Ratio Control System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Noriaki Ikemoto of Oobu, Japan, and Hisashi Iida of Kariya, Japan, have developed an air-fuel ratio control system for automotive vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An simplified structure of an air-fuel ratio control system for an ...
Alabama, Florida Inventors Develop Single Ball Bearings Lubricant Testing Apparatus
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Philip B. Hall of Huntsville, Ala., and Howard L. Novak of Indialantic, Fla., have developed lubricant and material test apparatuses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test apparatus provides an applied load to a monoball through a ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Temperature Dependent Trigger Control System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Peter Lazarevski and Michael Fodor, both of Dearborn, Mich., Davor Hrovat of Ann Arbor, Mich., Ralph Cunningham of Milan, Mich., Eric Tseng of Canton, Mich., and Charles Bannon of Northville, Mich., have developed a temperature dependent trigger control system ....
South Korean Inventor Develops Portable Computer
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Hyuk-soo Jin of Suwon, South Korea, has developed a portable computer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable computer comprises a main body including a main board, a keyboard assembly to be slidingly inserted into the main body from ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Test Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Jun Gi Choi and Kang Seol Lee, both of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory test device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "semiconductor memory test device configured to reduce level ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vehicle Lane-Keep Control System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Ryota Shirato and Hiroshi Mouri, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a lane-keep control system for a vehicle. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A lane-keep control system includes a traveling ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Driver Load Measuring Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Mutsumi Katayama and Yutaka Kamata, both of Saitama, Japan, have developed a driver load measuring method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a driver load ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Workpiece Roughness Measurement Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Shigefumi Kume of Mitaka, Japan, has developed a workpiece surface roughness measuring apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the roughness measuring apparatus, a parameter to be evaluated and its maximum value are set by using a ...
California Inventor Develops Surface Probing Device Fabrication Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Stephen C. Minne of Santa Barbara, Calif., has developed a probing device production method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a probe having a cantilever and a tip include providing a substrate having a surface and ...
German Inventors Develop Automation System Operating Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Wolfgang Wohlgemuth and Xin Ye, both of Erlangen, Germany, and Wolfgang Friedrich of Bubenreuth, Germany, has developed an automation system operating and monitoring method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Texas Inventors Develop Redundant Metal-Metal Seal
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Harjit S. Kohli of Sugar Land, Texas, Hebah Ahmed of Houston, and Anthony F. Veneruso of Missouri City, Texas, have developed downhole communication lines protection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Information Processing Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Koji Hirose of Tokyo has developed a device for processing statistic traffic information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage section stores a traffic jam prediction table containing a plurality of date classification ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Vehicle Driver Assistance Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Carroll C. Kellum of Rochester Hills, Mich., Donald K. Grimm of Utica, Mich., Varsha Sadekar of Sterling Heights, Mich., and Sarmad Y. Hermiz of Troy, Mich., have developed a method of assisting driver to negotiate a roadway. According to the U.S. Patent ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Hybrid Electric Vehicle Idling Stop Control Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Dong-Soo Shim of Cheonan-si, South Korea, has developed a method for controlling idling stop of hybrid electric vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "hybrid electric vehicle having a brake operated by ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Formation Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Tomoaki Hattori and Masashi Suzuki, both of Nagoya, Japan, and Katsuyuki Yokoi of Iwakura, Japan, have developed an image forming device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of printers uses replicable toner boxes, which each has a ...
PUBLIC HEARING SET FOR SEPT. 12 ON APPLICATION FOR PERMIT TO PROVIDE POST-CLOSURE CARE OF PIGEON POINT LANDFILL
Sep 11, 2007 ... Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control issued the following news release: DNREC's Division of Air and Waste Management will hold a public hearing Wed., Sept. 12, 2007 on the application by the City of Wilmington and the Delaware Solid Waste Authority (DSWA) ...
REP. BOOZMAN: FAIR, FACTUAL ASSESSMENT
Sep 11, 2007 ... Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark. (3rd CD), issued the following statement: U.S. Representative John Boozman (R-AR) today issued the following statement after hearing the report of General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq and The Honorable Ryan C. Crocker United ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Automated Palletizing Case
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Donald DeMotte of Lake Orion, Mich., Mike Poma of Leonard, Mich., and Andrew Monique of Farmington, Mich., have developed a method for stacking cases on a pallet. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A ...
Texas Inventors Develop Database Status Event Detection Monitor
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Laura A. Weber, Jean Anne Booth, Jeffrey S. Leonard, Shawn D. Strawbridge and Douglas N. Good, all from Austin, Texas, and Fritz A. Boehm of Dripping Springs, Texas, have developed a digital computing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Automotive Vehicle Diagnostic System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Mary T. Hedges of Greentown, Ind., has developed a method of diagnosing an electronic control unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit and a method of diagnosing an electronic control unit on a vehicle are ...
California Inventors Develop Storage Tank Fueling System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- M. Daniel McGill and Thompson W. Wyper, both of Buena Park, Calif., have developed storage tank leaks detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A penetration fitting for forming a sealed connection between a conduit and a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Walking Robot Control Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Yong-Kwun Lee of Suwon, South Korea, and Yeon-Taek Oh of Yongin, South Korea, have developed a method of controlling a walking robot. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "walking robot using simple ground reaction ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Helmet Mounted Tracking System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Michael J. Pelosi of Kingman, Ariz., has developed a helmet mounted tracking system for target designation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A helmet mounted tracking system for target designation includes an airplane azimuth sensor, a ...
California Inventor Develops Nonvolatile Memory Read Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Bo Li of Folsom, Calif., has developed a method to read a nonvolatile memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a single charge pump is discussed that may provide a read voltage ...
Montana Inventor Develops All Terrain Vehicle
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Stephen L. Jackson of Libby, Mont., has developed an all terrain vehicle (ATV) cautionary light assemblies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "All terrain vehicles and all terrain vehicle cautionary light assemblies are described according ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Automation Manufacturing Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Yuan-Li Liao of Taichung County, Taiwan, has developed a method for semiconductor manufacturing automation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for semiconductor manufacturing automation ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Memory Device Information Erasing Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Jun Ohtani of Hyogo, Japan, has developed a memory device information erasing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A potential of -3 volt (V) is applied to a control gate electrode, a potential of 5V is applied to a pair of impurity ...
German Inventors Develop Buffer Memory Device
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Jens Barrenscheen of Munchen, Germany, and Dietmar Messner of Vilsbiburg, Germany, have developed a buffer memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer memory device buffer-stores data that are to be forwarded. The assembly ...
Japanese Inventors Develop History Information Recording System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Youichi Nakayama and Daisuke Morisawa, both of Nirasaki, Japan, have developed a history information recording system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate processing apparatus, which includes a plurality of process chambers for ...
French Inventors Develop Equipment Lifting Control Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Michel Blayrac of Villenueve le Avignon, France, Gilles Polydor of Roqueuaune, France, Andre Sault of Saint-Nazaire, France, and Michel Martin of Bagnols fu Ceje, France, have developed a control system for remote manipulation equipment. According to the ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Valve Controller System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Peter Daniel Hansen of Wellesley, Mass., and Bulent Goksel of Quincy, Mass., have developed a valve flow linearization method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feed-forward flow controller is designed to calculate a target valve ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Fluid Distribution System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Francisco Paul Maturana of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Kenwood Henry Hall of Hudson, Ohio, and Raymond John Staron of Richmond Heights, Ohio, have developed a method for controlling fluid distribution in a dynamic distribution network. According to the U.S ....
Michigan Inventor Develops Broken Tool Automatic Detection System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Gerald Walter Budd of Farmington, Mich., has developed an automatic detection system for broken tools. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a method for the inspection of machining tools used in computational numerical ...
German Inventor Develops Working Machines Operating Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Werner Fitzner of Sassenberg, Germany, has developed an apparatus for operating working machines. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operation of a working machine with at least one adjustable operating parameter of at least ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Speech Bandwidth Extension Method
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Harald Gustafsson of Lund, Sweden, has developed a wide-band speech signal generation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A common narrow-band speech signal is expanded into a wide-band speech signal. The expanded speech signal ...
California, Virginia, Maryland Inventors Develop Remotely Controllable Device Monitoring System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Larry Williams of Los Angeles, Michael F. Young of Falls Church, Va., and Hunter V. Jones of Silver Spring, Md., have developed a method of street lamp monitoring and a control unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
New York Inventors Develop Vehicle Control System
Sep 11, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11 -- Sara H. Basson of White Plains, N.Y., Peter G. Fairweather of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Dimitri Kanevsky of Ossining, N.Y., have developed a method for facilitating operation of a vehicle by a driver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...