US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, November 19:
U.S., British Inventors Develop Latching Micro Regulator
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- John R. Gilbert of Brookline, Mass., Bernard Bunner of Watertown, Mass., Manish Deshpande of Canton, Mass., and Sebastian Bohm of Inverness, Great Britain, have developed a latching micro-regulator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Washington Inventors Develop Microcontroller Integrated Circuit
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Melany Ann Richmond of Shoreline, Wash., and Robert Walter Metzler Jr. of Kirkland, Wash., have developed a clock controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microcontroller integrated circuit with a clock controller and a processor ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Mixing Valve Backflow Precluding Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Jerome C. Klopp of Arlington Heights, Ill., and Philip C. Hawken of Darien, Ill., have developed a manifold for a mixing valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for precluding backflow of fluid in a ...
Illinois, Kansas Inventors Develop Poppet Valve Arrangement
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- James A. Aardema of Plainfield, Ill., David P. Smith of Joliet, Ill. and Rudy V. Mills of Manhattan, Kan., have developed poppet valve arrangements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poppet valve arrangement is provided and has a poppet ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Toilet Tank Plumbing Fixture Assembly
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Robert P. Morrison of Livonia, Mich., has developed a plumbing fixture for a toilet tank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a plumbing fixture assembly for a toilet tank comprising an upper portion that connects with a valve, a ...
Missouri Inventor Develops Fire Sprinkler System Single Piece Manifold
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- David L. Royse of Wildwood, Mo., has developed sprinkler systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-piece manifold comprising a body having an inlet in communication with a water supply and an outlet that communicates with a ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Hydraulic Equipment Valve
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Jeffrey A. Veltri of Burlington, Canada, has developed a valve for pneumatic and hydraulic equipments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The valve includes a body having five surfaces and a plurality of blind holes, grooves and channels ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Bulk Bag Unloading Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- William J. Mahoney of Williamsport, Pa., has developed a material unloading apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus for unloading a comminuted material contained in a bag having means disposed at ...
California Inventor Develops Different Clocks Domain Interfacing Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- James D. Kelly of Scotts Valley, Calif., has developed timing circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox is placed between two clock domains to allow data to be transferred from one domain to the other. Although the two domains ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Water Supply Control Device
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- John Henry Arigoni of Clarksburg, Mass., has developed a water limiting countdown timer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "electronically controlled electro-mechanical device designed to limit a finite amount of ...
Washington Inventors Develop Power State Selection Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Christopher M. Hahn of Bellevue, Wash., and Jonathan Moishe Lettvin of Carnation, Wash., have developed an electronic devices power management method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An algorithm automatically selects a power state based ...
Texas Inventors Develop Enclosed Tank Gauge Assembly
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Danny E. Swindler of Prosper, Texas and Herbert G. Ross Jr. of Argyle, Texas, have developed a gauge assembly for an enclosed tank. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gauge assembly includes an indicator for providing an indication of an ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Power Control Management Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Judy Hsu, Yu-Hua Hsu and Chun-Liang Lee, all from Taipei, Taiwan, have developed uninterruptible power system and servers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power control and management method for servers connected to an uninterruptible ...
California Inventor Develops Acceleration Image-Based Sensing Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Akihiro Machida of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed acceleration image-based sensing devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a support, a pendular element, an elastic restraint, an image sensor, and a processing system ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Array System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Yasuhiro Sakakibara of Odawara, Japan, Hiroshi Suzuki of Sagamihara, Japan, Hiromi Matsushige of Hiratsuka, Japan, and Masato Ogawa of Chigasaki, Japan, have developed an information processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Gas Cylinder Regulator
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Mary K. Schwartz of Delano, Minn. and Keith Monson of Ramsey, Minn., has developed a pressure reducing regulator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pressure regulator is threadable onto the neck of a tank of gas under pressure that has ...
California Inventor Develops Chip Multiprocessor
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- William A. Hughes of San Jose, Calif., has developed multiple processor cores. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a node comprises, integrated onto a single integrated circuit chip (in some embodiments), a plurality of ...
Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia Inventors Develop Power Down Interrupt Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Gregory N. Smith and Barry P. Weinberger, both of Herndon, Va., Robert A. Woodward of Clifton, Va., Troy Smith of Ashburn, Va., Shawn M. Long of Fairfax, Va., Andy A. Feldstein of Potomac, Md., and Michael M. Wexler of Washington, have developed a data ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Electrically Heated Cigarette Smoking System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- William T. Griffin of Chesterfield, Va., John M. Adams of Mechanicsville, Va., and Charles T. Higgins of Richmond, Va., have developed an electrically heated cigarette smoking system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stand for an ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Paper Machine Cleaning Equipment
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Tomi Honkala and Jari Laine, both of Jyska, Finland, and Petteri Venetjoki of Helsinki, Finland, have developed a method of cleaning a paper machine moving surfaces. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cleaning equipment for cleaning a moving ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Fluid Flow Rate Measuring Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Hiroyuki Uramachi and Ryouichi Sasahara, both of Tokyo, have developed a fluid flow rate measuring apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal plate is supported by a base, and is disposed inside a main passage so as to be ...
New York, Texas Inventors Develop Silicon Metal Aqueous Solution Making Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Glen Davies of Dewitt, N.Y., Richard Okun of Fayetteville, N.Y., Robert Kulperger of New York, and Ben Elledge of Sugar Land, Texas, have developed a method of recovering oil from an oil bearing material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Sensor Device for Tire
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Kazuhiro Shimura of Hiratsuka, Japan, has developed a tire sensor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "sensor device for a tire, having enhanced transmission capability without disturbing the assembly of a ...
California Inventors Develop Substrate Proximity Processing Housing
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Carl Woods of Aptos, Calif., Michael G. R. Smith of Dublin, Calif. and John Parks of Hercules, Calif., have developed a semiconductor wafer processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a fluid meniscus ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Pry Bar Handle
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- John C. Lawless of Charlemont, Mass., has developed a pry bar handle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pry bar has generally octagonal cross-section handle with a grip portion having four rounded surfaces formed of a soft elastomeric ...
German Inventors Develop Tubular Handle for Manually Guided Implement
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Andreas Guip of Waiblingen, Germany, Johannes Menzel of Wernau, Germany, Helmut Schlessmann of Prum, Germany, Ralf-Rainer Kemmler of Schwaikheim, Germany, Harald Decker of Korb, Germany, and Gu Wolf of Oppenweiler, Germany, have developed a tubular handle for a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Valve Actuator Mechanical Override
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- David Lymberopoulos of Houston has developed a valve actuator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for manual operation of an actuator is disclosed. A mechanical override includes a housing coupled to the actuator, a ...
U.S., French Inventors Develop Semiconductor Fabrication System Cleaning Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Ravi Laxman of San Jose, Calif., Ashutosh Misra of Plano, Texas, and Jean-Marc Girard of Paris, have developed a method of thin film deposition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for cleaning deposition systems ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Front-Side Bus Frequency Adjustment Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Chih-Chuan Cheng, Ching-Bin Huang and Ming-Chieh Chien, all from Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a power saving technology. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for dynamically adjusting central processing unit ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Exhaust Flow Measurement System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- William Martin Silvis, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Norbert Kreft of Meerbusch, Germany, have developed an exhaust flow measurement system that uses a noise attenuation device to cancel exhaust gas pulsations at the harmonic frequency of a flow rate measurement ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Aircraft Beverage Brewing Electro-Optic Liquid Level Sensing System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Sebastien A. Ramus and Joseph C. Dettmer, both of Overland Park, Kan., Keith R. DeBald of Gardner, Kan., and Winston S. Fliess of Olathe, Kan., have developed liquid level detection systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
French Inventors Develop Turbocharged Engine Ambient Pressure Measurement Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Patrick Vibert of Revel, France, and Roger Rouphael, both of L'Union, France, have developed a turbocharged engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the ambient pressure which is performed in a turbocharged engine ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Hair Accessory
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Barbara Ward Thall of Montclair, N.J., has developed a hair bun holding hair accessory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hair accessory includes a pouch formed from an elastic material and having an opening edge. An elastic loop is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Misfire Detection System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Toshihiro Aono of Abiko, Japan, and Eisaku Fukuchi of Ishioka, Japan, have developed an internal combustion engine misfire detection system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a fuel cut command is issued, a time required for a ...
Florida Inventor Develops Umbrella Frame Assembly
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Dougan H. Clarke of Miami Beach, Florida, has developed a durable umbrella frame assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved, durable and versatile umbrella frame assembly is provided to more readily endure abusive weather ...
Florida, California Inventors Develop Screen Printing Process Improving Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Allen David Hertz of Boca Raton, Florida, Eric Lee Hertz of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, and Dennis D. Epp of Aliso Viejo, Calif., have developed an apparatus for screen printing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus ...
California Inventor Develops Carbon Dioxide Snow Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- David P. Jackson of Saugus, Calif., has developed a carbon dioxide snow apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon dioxide snow apparatus of the present invention includes a carbon dioxide snow generation system and a propellant ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Nautical Instrument with Slidable Mounting
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Peter Trogdon of Arnold, Md., has developed nautical instruments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nautical instrument that can be repetitively mounted to and removed from a surface within a ship without the use of tools or other ...
TEAC Aerospace Technology Wins $130,900 Contract
Nov 19, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a $130,900 contract to TEAC Aerospace Technology Inc., Monterey Park, Calif., for the repair and modification of video recorders. The contract was awarded by the Naval Inventory Control Point, Philadelphia. For more ...
INDIANA UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION ISSUES WEEKLY HEARING SCHEDULE, NOV. 19-23
Nov 19, 2007 ... The Indiana Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following weekly hearing schedule: For The Period: 11/19/07 To: 11/23/07 Monday, November 19, 2007 DOCKET NO: 43374-NONE ALJ: LORAINE SEYFRIED TIME: 9:30 AM ROOM: Judicial Courtroom ...
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors Develop Oil Quality Sensor System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- James Z T Liu of Hudson, N.H., Aziz Rahman of Sharon, Mass., and Michael L. Rhodes of Richfield, Minn., have developed a system for oil quality sensing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil quality sensor system comprise an acoustic ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Vacuum Cleaner Alignment Bracket
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Thomas W. Hawkins of Normal, Ill., Gregory W. Luebbering of Heyworth, Ill., and Richard J. Eisenmenger of Champaign, Ill., have developed a vacuum cleaner alignment bracket. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "motor ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Plastically Deformed Sheets Production Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Leonid C. Lev of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Ravi Verma of Shelby Township, Mich., have developed a sheet processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus for plastically deforming a work piece ....
New Zealand Inventor Develops Blade Sharpness Tester
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Peter Christopher Dowd of Hamilton, New Zealand, has developed a blade sharpness tester. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "sharpness tester for testing the sharpness of a blade. The tester has a blade holder and a ...
German Inventors Develop Respirator Mask Supplementary Panels
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Klaus-Dieter Dahrendorf, Michael Horn, Detlef Kielow and Wolfgang Weber, all from Berlin, have developed respirator mask with supplementary panels. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a respirator mask in which the visor panels can be ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Monkey Peeler
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Christopher Raia of Newton, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a monkey peeler, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D554,955 on Nov. 13. The patent has been assigned to Boston Warehouse ...
Oklahoma Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Leaf Rake
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Joseph Adam Kelley of Chandler, Okla., and Richard Joseph Kelley of Tulsa, Okla., have developed an ornamental design for a leaf rake, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D554,958 on Nov. 13. The ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Seamless Pipes Manufacturing Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Chihiro Hayashi of Sendai, Japan, has developed a seamless pipes manufacturing method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A method for manufacturing a seamless pipe, capable of preventing the carburization ...
Mississippi Inventors Develop Vacuum Cleaner Base Plate Assembly
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Paul A. Moshenrose of Ocean Springs, Miss., and Charles W. Reynolds of Long Beach, Miss., have developed a vacuum cleaner base plate assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner base plate assembly is provided according to ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Air, Fuel Ratio Abnormality Detecting Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Kazunori Kato of Novi, Mich., and Takashi Nakamura of Aichi-ken, Japan, have developed a method of assessing an air/fuel ratio sensor abnormality. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abnormality detecting apparatus includes an air/fuel ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Tobacco Chemically Modifying Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Thomas Albert Perfetti, Watson Minyard Dufour, Stephen Keith Cole, William Monroe Coleman III, Marvin Glenn Riddick and Paul Andrew Brinkley, all from Winston-Salem, N.C., and Wennuan Liu of Clemmons, N.C., have developed methods for altering the chemical nature of ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Open-Ended Ratchet Wrench
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Joseph T. Barker of Atlanta has developed an ornamental design for an open-ended ratchet wrench, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D554,959 on Nov. 13. The original application was filed on Oct ....
German Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Control Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Christian Rehm, Martin Schonle and Andreas Kunz, all from Friedrichshafen, Germany, Johannes Baldauf of Wangen, Germany, Jo Remele of Hagnau, Germany, Michael Eckstein of Immenstaad, Germany and Johannes Kech of Ravensburg, Germany, have developed an internal ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Abrasion Resistance Testing Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Kimberly R. Treece of Kokomo, Ind., and Brock Gray of Ossian, Ind., have developed an abrasion resistance testing apparatus for materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An abrasion resistance testing apparatus tests the abrasion ...
California Inventors Develop Gastrointestinal Tract Disorder Treating Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- David Utley of San Carlos, Calif., John W Gaiser of Mountain View, Calif., and Rachel Croft of San Francisco, have developed a method of treating gastrointestinal tract disorders. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
German Inventors Develop Coil Box
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Barbara Ladda-Zunk and Bernhard Ehls, both of Hilchenbach, Germany, Waldemar Michel of Wenden, Germany, and Matthias Beuter of Bad Berleburg, Germany, have developed a coil box. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a ...
German Inventor Develops Door Closing Device
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Volker Endres of Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, has developed a device for closing a door. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device for closing a door, including a spring element, an attachment element for fixing ...
California Inventors Develop Anatomic Tissue Defect Treatment Method
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Dan Francis and Mark E. Deem, both of Mountain View, Calif., William Malecki of San Francisco, Calif., Kenneth Horne of Palo Alto, Calif., Hanson Gifford of Woodside, Calif., and Jose Alejandro of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed methods for treatment of anatomic ...
German Inventors Develop Rod-Shaped Workpieces Bending Apparatus
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Werner Maier and Patrik Schlund, both of Reutlingen, Germany, Frank Hacker of Riederich, Germany, Ju Wolf of Walddorfhaslach, Germany, and Dietmar Sautter of Lichtenstein, Germany, have developed a rod-shaped workpieces bending apparatus. An abstract of the ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Glue Gun
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Renee Deal of Boxford, Mass., and Peter Russo of Bedford, Mass., have developed an ornamental design for a glue gun, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D554,960 on Nov. 13. The patent has been ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Vacuum Cleaner
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Kam Lun Chui, Sai Kei Wong, Kam Hoi Ma and Simon P. Griffiths, all from Hong Kong, have developed a vacuum cleaner with level control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum cleaner has a housing that includes a separation chamber and ...
French Inventor Develops Lightweight Elements Launching System
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Francesco Ambrico of Saint Marcellin, France, has developed a system for projecting in the air light elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system for projecting light elements in the air, including: a casing ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Die Cushion Mechanism Control Device
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Yasusuke Iwashita and Tadashi Okita, both of Fujiyoshida, Japan, and Yukio Toyozawa and Naoto Sonoda, both of Kumamoto, Japan, have developed a die cushion mechanism control device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to ...
Iowa Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Flower Bed Edging Tree
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Frederick Harvey of Broussard, Iowa, has developed an ornamental design for a tree or flower bed edging, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D554,957 on Nov. 13. The original application was filed ...
Utah Inventors Develop Tracheal Tube Low profile Adapter
Nov 19, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 19 -- Edward B. Madsen of Riverton, Utah, and Scott M. Teixeira of Draper, Utah, have developed a tracheal tube low profile adapter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter for use on a suction lumen of a catheter is disclosed. The adapter ...