US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, September 20:
Minnesota Inventors Develop Patient Intracranial Infusion Anchor System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Mary M. Morris of Moundsview, Minn., Duane Gerald Frion of Brooklyn Center, Minn., Jeff Novotny of Bethel, Minn., Douglas Hankner of Fridley, Minn., and Stuart Lahtinen of Cambridge, Minn., have developed a patient catheter anchor system. According to the ...
Florida Inventor Develops Autologous Material Delivery Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- George J. Haidukewych of Tampa, Fla., has developed an autologous material delivery apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for providing autologous medical treatment to a patient. The apparatus is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Interlabial Pad
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Satoshi Mizutani, Wataru Yoshimasa and Yuki Noda, all from Kagawa, Japan, have developed an interlabial pad. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide an interlabial pad with which the fitting ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Patient Material Delivering Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- John A. Griego of Blackstone, Mass., Marcia Buiser of Brighton, Mass., and Carla M. Wiese of Newton, Mass., have developed a patient material delivering device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery catheter for delivering ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Drug Delivery Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Farhad Kazemzadeh of Bloomington, Minn., has developed a patient drug infusion device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug to be infused into a patient is contained in a syringe or vial having a displaceable plunger for ejecting the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Energy Delivery Apparatuses
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Ashok Gowda and Marc Gelnett, both of Houston, Roger McNichols of Pearland, Texas, and Matthew Fox of Bellaire, Texas, have developed energy delivery apparatuses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the disclosure is ...
Florida Inventor Develops Intravenous Catheter Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Lisa M. Fitzgerald of Sarasota, Fla., has developed a fluid catheter appliance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter appliance having a catheter in fluid communication with a luer connector is releasably secured to a catheter ...
CIVILIAN PAY RAISES BECOME MORE PERFORMANCE-BASED
Sep 20, 2007 ... The U.S. Air Force issued the following press release: By Senior Master Sgt. Matt Proietti Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Department of Defense officials will use half of a January 2008 government-wide pay increase to adjust base salaries for eligible National ...
California Inventor Develops High Current Long Life Inductor
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Andrew Hugh Bushnell of San Diego has developed a high current long life inductor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor for high current applications includes a nonconductive, tubular form which defines a tube axis and has a ...
French Inventors Develop Limb Compression Applying Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Amina Ouchene of Maisons-Alfort, France, and Jean-Louis Counord of Rueil-Malmaison, France, have developed a limb compression applying device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tubular sleeve comprises an anterior portion of inextensible ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Blood Component Production Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Robert Warner Langley of Westminster, Colo., and Larry Joe Dumont of Arvada, Colo., have developed a blood component production apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for producing ...
California Inventor Develops Heap Memory Management Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Jack M. Bayt of Clovis, Calif., has developed a heap memory management method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to efficiently and effectively manage memory. A file is ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Body Fluid Draining Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- John Karpowicz of Chester Springs, Pa., and Kevin P Klocek of Ardmore, Pa., have developed a liquid administer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to administer a liquid agent into a body cavity of a patient is ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Skin Care Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Dov Z. Glucksman of Danvers, Mass., Gary P. McGonagle of Lynn, Mass., and Laura J. Nickerson of Fitchburg, Mass., have developed a skin care apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus for abrading ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Transformer Coil Winding Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Jung-Taeck Yer and Hyung Geun Kim, both of Gumi-si, South Korea, and Seung Man Gu of Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a method of winding transformer coil. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of winding ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Very Long Instruction Word Instruction Mechanism
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Gerald George Pechanek of Cary, N.C., and Edwin Franklin Barry of Vilas, N.C., have developed a very long instruction word (VLIW) instruction mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An VLIW instruction mechanism is described which ...
California Inventor Develops Massage Therapeutic System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Mark A. Boys of Aromas, Calif., has developed a massage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic system for massage comprises a massage device having an activation cell comprising a hollow pocket at least partially filled ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Human Nasal Airflow Diagnosis Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Jon Lundberg of Danderyd, Sweden, and Eddie Weitzberg of Stockholm, Sweden, have developed a human nasal airflow diagnosis device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It has surprisingly been found that nasal nitric oxide release is greatly ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Upper Limb Supporting Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Ari Pellinen of Heinola, Finland, has developed an upper limb supporting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for exercising and supporting an upper limb includes two support modules connected on the first side by a ...
Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors Develop Virtual Mass Storage Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Dean A. Klein of Lake City, Minn., and Eric D. Anderson of Hudson, Wis., have developed a method for managing data stored in a multi-drive storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual mass storage device implements a data ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ultrasonic Operation Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Tomohisa Sakurai and Kazue Tanaka, both of Sagamihara, Japan, Yoshitaka Honda of Tokorozawa, Japan, Hiroo Ono of Hino, Japan, and Hiroyuki Takahashi of Akishima, Japan, have developed an ultrasonic operation system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Icelandic Inventor Develops Orthotic Footplate
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Arni Thor Ingimundarson of Reykjavik, Iceland, has developed an orthotic footplate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "ankle-foot orthosis including a footplate having a line of progression that extends from a ...
California Inventors Develop Electro-Mechanical Chest Compression Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- James O. Jensen, Vladimir Rappoport and Robert Mastromattei, all from Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed an electro-mechanical chest compression device According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "devices and methods for ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Blood Flow Measurement Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Sang-hoon Shin of Seongnam-si, South Korea, has developed a blood flow measurement device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for and a method of measuring a blood flow of a living body having blood ...
REP. GILLIBRAND VOTES TO HELP FIRST TIME HOMEBUYERS BILL WILL HELP PREVENT ANOTHER SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS
Sep 20, 2007 ... Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. (20th CD), has issued the following news release: Today, Local Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand voted for HR 1852, the Expanding American Homeownership Act of 2007, legislation that will bring much needed reform to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) ...
German Inventors Develop Drive Arrangement
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Harald Ment of Mittelstreu, Germany, and Markus Peschel of Muennerstadt, Germany, have developed a control for servo motors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive arrangement for positioning a positioning element is disclosed that ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Pulse Detection Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Kang-Ping Lin of Jhongli, Taiwan, Hong-Dun Lin of Taipei, Taiwan, Bor-Iuan Jan of Pingtung, Taiwan, and Mei-Feng Chen of Guantian Township, Taiwan, have developed a pulse detection apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus ...
Texas Inventor Develops Cache State Information Providing Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- David B. Glasco of Austin, Texas, has developed an apparatus for providing cache state information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided for increasing the efficiency of ...
California, Pennsylvania, Oregon Inventors Develop Resource Assigning System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- David W. Groves, Raymond M. Swank and Michael L. Lamb, all from San Jose, Calif., Douglas S. Noddings of Export, Pa., and Kevin J. Webster of Tigard, Ore., have developed a system for assigning a resource. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Gate Bracket Systems
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Richard Boroviak of Ontario, Canada, has developed gate bracket systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "bracket system for forming gate assemblies. Four separate brace members are provided, and two of the ...
Italian Inventors Develop Doppler Digital Data Evaluation Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Gianni Pedrizzetti of Prato, Italy, Emidio Marchese of Popoli, Italy, and Giovanni Tonti of Sulmona, Italy, have developed a Doppler digital data evaluation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new method is introduced to evaluate ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Surface Acoustic Wave Filter
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Nobunari Tanaka of Hakusan, Japan, has developed a surface acoustic wave filter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transversal surface acoustic wave filter includes an input-side interdigital electrode, an output-side interdigital ...
Italian Inventors Develop Chip Protection Register Lock Circuit
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Luca De Santis of Avezzano, Italy, and Tommaso Vali of Sezze, Italy, have developed a chip protection register lock circuit in a flash memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip protection register lock circuit uses a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit with Associated Memory Function
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Kazunari Inoue of Tokyo has developed an integrated circuit with associated memory function. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search payload data shift part has n latch parts LT1 to LTn (n gtoreq 2), each of which can store 1-byte latch ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Ultrasonic Surgical Guidance System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Ivan Salgo and Bernard Savord, both of Andover, Mass., Steven Scampini of Bedford, Mass., and Michael Peszynski of Newburyport, Mass., have developed an ultrasonic surgical guidance imagination system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Dielectric Resonator
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Piotr Jedrzejewski of Solna, Sweden, Christer Ahlberg of Kolback, Sweden, and Uno Henningsson of Haninge, Sweden, have developed a dielectric resonator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an improved tuning ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Garment Side Panels Tucking Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Kent Allan Franklin, David Michael Lehner and Rodney Steele Gardinier, all from Appleton, Wis., Jesse Paul Sorenson of Little Chute, Wis., have developed a garment side panels tucking method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Filter Element with Piezoelectric Thin-Film Resonator
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Tokihiro Nishihara, Tsuyoshi Yokoyama, Takeshi Sakashita and Tsutomu Miyashita, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a filter element with a piezoelectric thin-film resonator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter element includes ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Control Method for Storage System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Ikuya Yagisawa of Tokyo, Naoto Matsunami of Hayama, Japan, Akihiro Mannen of Yokohama, Japan, and Masayuki Yamamoto of Sagamihara, Japan, have developed a control method for storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disk array ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Power Window Apparatus Control Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Motoya Yamamoto of Hamamatsu, Japan, has developed a power window apparatus control method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller writes position information (count value) of the window glass into an electrically Erasable ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Data Processing Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Malcolm Stewart of Nepean, Canada, Eric Giernalcyzk of Ottawa, Canada, and Richard Beriault of Hull, Canada, have developed a method of control in a single instruction multiple data processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Arbitration Scheme for Memory Command Selector
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Kent Harold Haselhorst and Lonny Lambrecht, both of Byron, Minn., and Melissa Ann Barnum of Kasson, Minn., have developed an arbitration scheme for memory command selector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arbitration structure, a ...
Ohio Inventor Develops Surgical Retractor
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Albert N. Santilli of Pepper Pike, Ohio, has developed a surgical retractor with lifting mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical retractor includes a pair of small grips that are disposed at the ends of arms that can be ...
New York Inventors Develop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging Structure
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Gordon Danby of Wading River, N.Y., John Jackson of Shoreham, N.Y., Raymond Damadian of Woodbury, N.Y., William H. Wahl of Smithtown, N.Y., and Anthony Tenore of Yonkers, N.Y., have developed a magnet structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Superconducting Quantum Interference Device
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Frederick C. Wellstood of Fairfax, Va., John Matthews of Greenbelt, Md., and Su-Young Lee of Berlin, have developed a scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Dielectric Filter, Wireless Communication System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Hiromichi Yoshikawa of Kokubu, Japan, and Akira Nakayama of Kagoshima, Japan, have developed a dielectric filter for a wireless communication system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric resonator is arranged such that an upper ...
British Inventors Develop Electromagnetic Switch Element
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- David Hayes of Winchester, Great Britain, and Richard Brooke Keeton of Beaulieu, Great Britain, have developed an electromagnetic switch element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "electromagnetic switch element ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Variable Write Back Delay Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Todd A. Anderson of Beaverton, Ore., has developed a variable write back delay apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variable write back delay apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed. The disclosed variable ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Back-Up Method for Storage System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Takuma Ushijima of Atsugi, Japan, Masato Kumagai of Hadano, Japan, Eiichi Sato of Hiratsuka, Japan, and Toshio Komaki of Odawara, Japan, have developed a back-up method for storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
California Inventor Develops Circuit Voltage Variations Compensation Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Janardhanan S. Ajit of Irvine, Calif., has developed a circuit voltage variations compensating method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variations in a circuit is ...
Kansas Inventor Develops Redundant Array of Independent Disk Data Storage System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Sridhar Balasubramanian of Wichita, Kan., has developed a method for cache redundancy for large-scale integration raid controllers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a 2-level cache system for a Redundant Array of Independent ...
California Inventors Develop Three-Stage Liquid Metal Switch
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Timothy Beerling of San Francisco, and Steven A. Rosenau of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a three-stage liquid metal switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "three-stage liquid metal switch employing ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Muscle Exercise Rowing Machine
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Paul Patterson of Quebec has developed a rowing machine-type exercise apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Novel apparatus and methods enhance the ability of a rowing machine to provide a full ...
German Inventor Develops Medical Equipment Support
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Peter Kuhn of Munich, Germany, has developed a support for medical equipment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "support for bearing at least one piece of equipment, in particular video display units and other medical ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Improved Power, Telemetry System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Philip Richard Troyk of Morton Grove, Ill., and Glenn Anthony DeMichele of Lincolnshire, Ill., have developed an improved power and telemetry system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system providing an inductive power and data link ...
Portuguese Inventor Develops Evaporative Container
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Pedro Queiroz Vieira of Parede, Portugal, has developed a evaporative container. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for volatile substances which can be evaporated by an evaporation device is disclosed having a container body in ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Diaphragmed Air Valve System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Heru Prasanta Wijaya of Surabaya, Idaho, has developed a diaphragmed air valve system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diaphragmed air valve system for an automotive engine is provided which is designed for the purpose of keeping ...
New York Inventors Discover Bladder Carcinoma Expression Gene
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Elizabeth E. Evans and Melinda A. Borrello, both of Rochester, N.Y., and Maurice Zauderer of Pittsford, N.Y., have discovered a bladder carcinoma expression gene. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Abrasive Blasting Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Michel Parnia of Mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland, and Pierre Rochat of Geneva, have developed an abrasive blasting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "abrasive blasting system having provision for its ...
Oregon, California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Parallel Plate Mode Radial Pattern Signaling System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Howard Heck of Hillsboro, Ore., Bryce Horine of Aloha, Ore., Gary Brist of Yamhill, Ore., Stephen Hall of Hillsborough, Calif., and Tao Liang of Westford, Mass., have developed a method, system, and apparatus for high data rate parallel plate mode signaling, the U.S ....
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Electromagnetic Energy Concentrating Apparatus
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- William Albert Challener of Sewickley, Pa., has developed an electromagnetic energy concentrating apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for concentrating electromagnetic energy comprises a metallic transducer including ...
California Inventors Develop Personal Sonar System
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Matthew Pope of Los Angeles has developed a personal sonar system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sonar device includes a sonar transducer, a noise filter, a microprocessor and an output device. The system warns the user when a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Tire Foamed Tube Molding Mold
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Nobuyoshi Shimazaki of Kodaira, Japan, has developed a mold for molding foamed tube for tire. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold for molding a foamed tube for a tire is formed from a first mold and a second mold. Each mold has an ...
New York Inventors Develop Impedance Control Method
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Warren D. Dyckman of Peekskill, N.Y., Gary LaFontant of Elmont, N.Y., and Edward R. Pillai of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., have developed a method for impedance control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Faucet with Discharge Spout
Sep 20, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Sung-Wu Chen of late of Nan-Tou Hsien, Taiwan, and Hui-Lin Chen of Nan-Tou Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a faucet with a discharge spout serving as a valve lever. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet includes a valve tube journalled ...