US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Wednesday, September 19:
Japanese Inventor Develops Preamplifier
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Masaki Noda of Tokyo has developed a optical communication system preamplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preamplifier includes a negative-feedback amplifier circuit that converts a current signal from a photodetector into a ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Voltage Controlled Oscillator Circuit
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Herschel A. Ainspan of New Hempstead, N.Y., and Daniel Friedman of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., and Woogeun Rhee of Norwood, N.J., have developed a voltage controlled oscillator circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved voltage ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tumbler
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Kuang-Hsia Tien of Pasadena, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a tumbler, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,508 on Sept. 11. The patent has been assigned to Sweda Co. LLC, ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Phase Locked Loop with Scaled Damping Capacitor
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- William B. Wilson of Macungie, Pa., has developed a phase locked loop with scaled damping capacitor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce the area of a charge pump phase locked loop (PLL), one may separate proportional ...
California, North Carolina Inventors Develop Metadata with Digital Image Merging Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Eric C. Anderson and John Bernstein, both of San Jose, Calif., and Robert Paul Morris of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a system for merging of metadata with images. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for merging metadata ...
Vermont, North Carolina Inventors Develop Phase-Locked-Loop Loop Filter
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Anthony R. Bonaccio of Shelburne, Vt., Joseph A. Iadanza of Hinesburg, Vt., Stephen D. Wyatt of Jericho, Vt., and Hayden C. Cranford Jr. of Cary, N.C., have developed a loop filter for a phase-locked-loop. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Australian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Cup
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- John Roger Christopher Morton of Indooroopilly, Australia, and Wee Leck Loh of Bella Vista, Australia, have developed an ornamental design for a cup, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D550,510 on Sept ....
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Spoon
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Yukiko Ito of Oneida, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for spoon, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,519 on Sept. 11. The patent has been assigned to Oneida Ltd., Oneida. The ...
California Inventors Develop Equivalent Waveform Generation Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Li Ding and Alireza Kasnavi, both of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Peivand Fallah Tehrani of Camarillo, Calif., have developed a method of determining equivalent waveforms for distorted waveforms. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & ...
Greek Inventor Develops Push-Pull Power Transistor
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Apostolos Samelis of Athens-Vrilissia, Greece, has developed a distributed power transistor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "pre-matching of distributed push-pull and power transistors enabling the effective use ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Manifolded Fluid Delivery System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- George K. Porter of Maple Glen, Pa., Seth B. Wolf of Warminster, Pa., and Charles W. Albrecht of Furlong, Pa., have developed a fluid delivery system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated fluid delivery system is provided for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Web-Compatible Electronic Device
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Masayuki Nakamura and Tetsuo Yutani, both of Kanagawa, Japan, Kazutoshi Nagatome and Shintaro Yamanaka, both of Tokyo, have developed a web page processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Web page having display elements such ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tumbler
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Philip C. Dretzka of Mariemont, Ohio, has developed an ornamental design for a tumbler, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D550,509 on Sept. 11. The patent has been assigned to InterDesign Inc., ...
Texas Inventor Develops Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Lock Detection Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Satoru Takase of Round Rock, Texas, has developed a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit lock detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "systems and methods for detecting phase-locked loop circuit lock. In ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Digital Amplifier
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Masaya Kanoh and Masao Noro, both of Shizuoka-ken, Japan, have developed a digital amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threshold value adjustment circuit for adjusting a predetermined threshold value is provided in a stage ...
Washington Inventors Develop Media Player for Rendering Different Media Type
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Tedd Dideriksen of Woodinville, Wash., Chris Feller of Bellevue, Wash., Geoffrey Harris of Seattle, Michael J. Novak of Redmond, Wash., and Kipley J. Olson of Mercer Island, Wash., have developed a media player for rendering different media type. According to ...
California Inventors Develop Media Stream Indexing Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Paul Close and Kevin P. Smith, both of Mountain View, Calif., and Michael J. Abbott of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a method for media stream indexing and synchronization. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indexing method for ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Load Driving Semiconductor Device
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Kingo Ota and Shoichi Okuda, both of Nukata-gun, Japan, and Hirofumi Abe of Gamagori, Japan, have developed a load driving semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device for driving a load includes a first ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Periodic Signal Distortion Reducing Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Timothy B. Cowles of Boise, Idaho, and R. Jacob Baker of Meridian, Idaho, have developed a periodic signal duty cycle distortion reducing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for ...
South African Inventors Develop Self Closing Coupling
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Paul Fran cedilla ois Roos and David William Connelly, both of Epping, South Africa, have developed a valve arrangement for dispensing liquid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "valve arrangement for dispensing ...
California Inventors Develop Delay Circuit Operating Technique
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Wayne Fang of Pleasanton, Calif., Wayne S. Richardson of Saratoga, Calif., and Anthony Wong of Daly City, Calif., have developed a delay circuit operating technique. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for operating a delay ...
Utah Inventor Develops Household Water Supply Control System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Michael Brent Ford of St. George, Utah, has developed a household water supply controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling a household water supply incorporating motion-sensing for determining ...
Texas Inventors Develop Memory Subsystem System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Jan-Michael Huber of Austin, Texas, and Michael K. Ciraula of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a memory subsystem system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "memory subsystem and a method of operating therefor ....
Colorado Inventor Develops Self-Initializing Frequency Divider
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Robert H Miller Jr. of Loveland, Colo., has developed a self-initializing frequency divider. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency divider apparatus is a closed loop system of a recirculating memory element, at least one feedback ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Data Recording Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Yuji Takagi, Makoto Usui and Hiroyuki Yabuno, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a data recording method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording medium is provided for storing a data stream containing first error correcting codes ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Non-Linear Device Pre-Distortion Optimization Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Thorsten Nygren of Taby, Sweden, and Leonard Rexberg of Hasselby, Sweden, have developed a pre-distortion of non-linear devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New technology is described to calculate and optimize a pre-distorter ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Check Matrix Generation Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Wataru Matsumoto of Tokyo has developed an apparatus for generating check matrix. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A method of generating a check matrix for an low-density parity-check code includes ...
Texas Inventors Develop Cache Directory Array Recovery Mechanism
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Robert Alan Cargnoni, Guy Lynn Guthrie and Kirk Samuel Livingston, all from Austin, Texas, and William John Starke of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a cache directory array recovery mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
French Inventors Develop Memory Circuit with Error Correction Code
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Francois Jacquet of Froges, France, and Jean-Pierre Schoellkopf of Grenoble, France, have developed a memory circuit comprising an error correcting code. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "memory circuit with an ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Output Current Providing Circuit
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- James Thomas Doyle of Nederland, Colo., and Dae Woon Kang of Boulder, Colo., have developed an output current providing circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for providing an output current is provided. The circuit includes ...
California Inventors Develop Signals Delay Variations Accommodating Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- David Nguyen and Suresh Rajan, both of San Jose, have developed signals delay variations accommodating apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for accommodating delay variations among multiple signals are ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Modular Greenhouse System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Sheila Mary Armstrong and Ronald B. Armstrong, both from Abbotsford, Canada, have developed a modular greenhouse system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "portable, modular greenhouse system that can be used to ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Offline Web Application Providing Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Iftah Sneh of Givatiim, Israel, has developed a method for providing offline web application. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and a method for providing offline web application, page, and form access in ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Power Amplifiers
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Per-Olof Brandt of Lomma, Sweden, has developed a power amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of controlling output power in a power amplifier having a driver stage and an output stage. The driver ...
French Inventors Develop Information Processing Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Daniel Mauduit and Albert Harari, both of Nice, France, and Frederic Bauchot of St Jeannet, France, have developed system for managing and handling user-defined options. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic spreadsheet, an ...
Texas Inventor Develops Data Processing System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Sean M. McCullough of Austin, Texas, has developed a data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method or data processing system readable medium can be used for modifying a target document. The data processing system ...
Washington Inventors Develop Data Processing System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Cordell; John P and Christopher R Brown, both of Seattle, and Joseph Paul-Emile Pierre Cote of Issaquah, Wash., have developed a data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user may discover and navigate among hyperlinks ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Input, Output Buffer
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Hideaki Tanishima of Kasugai, Japan, has developed an input/output buffer for protecting a circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "input/output buffer that protects a circuit from voltage signals provided ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Noise Quality Detector
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Esko Nieminen of Oulu, Finland, has developed a noise and quality detector for use with turbo coded signals. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect this invention provides a method to operate a decoder, and a decoder that operates ...
Indiana Inventor Develops Building Protection System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Mark Sanders of Zionsville, Ind., has developed a building protecting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building protection system includes a switch, a transmitter, a receiver and a controllable shut-off valve disposed within the ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Conduits Joining Structure
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Dave Robison of Ashtabula, Ohio, Steven J. Passerell of Rock Creek, Ohio, and Jason Knaus of Euclid, Ohio have developed converter for converting a mechanical joint to a socket fusion joint. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The converter ...
British Inventor Develops Amplifier Pre-Distorter Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- John Domokos of Salisbury, Great Brirain, has developed an amplifier pre-distorter method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amplifier pre-distorter method and apparatus squares an input signal and splits the signal into inphase and ...
New York, South Carolina Inventors Develop Workpiece Cleaning Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Wayne Martin Moreau, John Patrick Simons, and Charles Jesse Taft, all from Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Kenneth J. McCullough of Fishkill, N.Y., and Jesse Stephen Jur of Cayce, S.C., have developed an apparatus for cleaning a workpiece. According to the U.S ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Form Processing Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Kinya Honda of Tokyo has developed a form processing program. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "form processing method edits at least one target field in a form. The form processing method determines the type of ...
California Inventor Develops Data Interleaving Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Louis Jacobus Botha of San Diego has developed a method for interleaving data in a wireless transmitter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system and method for interleaving data in a wireless transmitter wherein ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Tent with Broad Top Space
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Ching-Hsuan Wang of Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a simple tent with broad top space. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tent has a framework having at least two flexible strips bent with an intersection at central points of the ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Comparator with Hysteresis
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Gye-Soo Koo of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, has developed a comparator with hysteresis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A comparator includes a differential amplifier, and a hysteresis circuit. The differential amplifier amplifies a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Doherty Microwave Amplifier
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Tooru Kijima of Tokyo has developed Doherty microwave amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Doherty microwave amplifier having a main amplifier and a peaking amplifier, distributing and inputting an input signal to the main ...
German Inventors Develop Master Data Quality Enhancing Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Wolfgang Kalthoff of Bad Schoenborn, Germany, and Frank Rohloff of Sandhausen, Germany, have developed a method of enhancing the quality of data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhancing the quality of data stored in a ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Edge Incremental Redundancy Memory Structure
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Li Fung Chang of Holmdel, N.J., and Yongqian Wang of Woodbridge, N.J., have developed an edge incremental redundancy memory structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for implementing incremental redundancy (IR) operations in a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Hot, Cold Water Inlet, Outlet structure
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Mei Li Chen of Taichung Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a hot/cold water inlet and outlet structure. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A hot/cold water inlet and outlet structure for a ceramic core shaft of ...
Washington Inventor Develops Synchronized Musical Slideshow Language
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Sachin Deshpande of Vancouver, Wash., has developed a synchronized musical slideshow language. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of defining a synchronized slideshow is disclosed. The method includes providing at least one body ...
California Inventor Develops Stored Data Accessing Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Jason Redgrave of Mountain View, Calif., has developed a stored data accessing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a first interconnect circuit for accessing stored data in a reconfigurable integrated ...
Texas Inventor Develops Intra Venous Sleeve
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Dessa O. Clinton of Cibolo, Texas, has developed a protective Intra Venous (I V) sleeve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nature of the invention is to thoroughly compress the entire length and circumference of a medical site, limb, ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Programmable Logic Device
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- David Cashman and David Lewis, both of Toronto, and Ketan Padalia of Thornhill, Canada, and Gregg W. Baeckler of San Jose, Calif., have developed a programmable logic device (PLD) with logic blocks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
British Inventors Develop Photographic Element
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Colin J. Gray of Wealdstone, Great Britain, and Martin T. Day of Colney Heath, Great Britain, have developed a photographic element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a photographic element, comprising a support, a ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Superconducting Qubit
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Mohammad H. S. Amin of Vancouver, Canada, have developed a superconducting qubit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first qubit having a superconducting loop interrupted by a plurality of Josephson junctions is provided. Each junction ...
California, Colorado Inventors Develop Programmable Logic Devices
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Tien Pham of San Jose, Calif., Manoj Chirania of Palo Alto, Calif., Venu M. Kondapalli of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Steven P. Young of Boulder, Colo., have developed a programmable logic device (PLD). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Wafers Cleaning Apparatus
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Mario E. Bran of Garden Grove, Calif., Michael B. Olesen of Yorba Linda, Calif., and Yi Wu of Irvine, Calif., have developed methods for cleaning semiconductor wafers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a ...
Florida Inventor Develops Tissue Simulating Analog Material Making Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Christopher Sakezles of St. Petersburg, Fla., has developed a method of making tissue simulating analog materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are synthetic anatomical models, and methods of making and using same, ...
California Inventors Develop Input, Output Circuitry
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Binh Ton of San Jose, Calif., Michael M Zheng of Fremont, Calif., and Chong H Lee of San Ramon, Calif., have developed an input/output (I/O) interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O interface for configuring hard intellectual ...
New York Inventor Develops Pneumocystis Carinii Infection Identification Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Salim Merali of Queens, N.Y., has developed a pneumocystis carinii infection identification method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Significantly low circulating S-adenosylmethionine levels were found to be diagnostic for human ...
Minnesota, Vermont, New York Inventors Develop Electronic Device Feature Operation System
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Karl R. Erickson and Phil C. Paone, both of Rochester, Minn., John A. Fifield of Underhill, Vt., and William R. Tonti of Essex Junction, Vt., and Chandrasekharan Kothandaraman of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., have developed an electronic device feature operation ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Negative Photosensitive Resin Composition
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Hideyuki Takahashi and Kenji Ishizeki, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a negative photosensitive resin composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Fabrication Method
Sep 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Takeshi Shibata of Ibaraki-ken, Japan, and Kyoichi Suguro of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, have developed a semiconductor device fabrication method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabricating a semiconductor device and an equipment ...