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Japanese Inventors Develop Light Output Device

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Takumi Ikeda of Kobe, Japan, Naoaki Yamamoto of Ota-ku, Japan, Kazuhisa Watanabe of Yokohama, Japan, Hiroshi Takase of Matsudo, Japan, Tatsuo Yamamoto of Fujisawa, Japan, and Keiichi Koshiba of Miura-gun, Japan, have developed a light output device. According ...

Swiss Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Transponder

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Sileno Oggian of Bedano, Switzerland, Roberto Malfanti of Sonvico, Switzerland, and Takamasa Ishii of Ponte Capriasca, Switzerland, have developed a radio frequency (RF) transponder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RF air coil ...

California, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Nested Container Multi-Layer Visibility System

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Ravindra U. Rajapakse and Stephen J. Lambright, both of San Francisco, Roderick E. Thorne of Palo Alto, Calif., Blair B. LaCorte of Belvedere, Calif., Leo S. Chang of San Carlos, Calif., Steven J. Farrell of Sunnyvale, Calif., and David L. Shannon of State College, ...

Texas Inventor Develops Enzymatic Activity Homogenous Assay

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- M. D. Savage of Conroe, Texas, has developed an enzymatic activity assay. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assay is disclosed for measuring activity of enzymes, such as kinases, phosphatases, and proteases. Measurements of enzymatic ...

Illinois Inventor Develops Pump Connector System

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- John R. Kochan Jr. of Naperville, Ill., has developed a pump connector system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single pump control unit can be coupled to first and second float switches and a pump for purposes of removing fluid from a ...

Russian, German Inventors Develop Enzymatic Reaction Components Release Control Process

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Konstantin Ignatov and Vladimir Kramarov, both of Moscow, Russia, and Dimitrij Plachov of Ludinghausen, Germany, have developed a method for activating an enzymatic process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and reaction kits ...

German Inventors Develop Carcinoma Detection Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Magnus Von Knebel Doeberitz of Ziegelhausen, Germany, Ru Ridder of Schriesheim, Germany, Matthias Herkert of Heidelberg, Germany, and Anja Reichert of Nu beta loch, Germany, have developed a method for detecting carcinomas. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

Norwegian Inventors Develop Object Identification Tag

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Ralph William Bernstein and Lars Hoff, both of Bekkestua, Norway, Sverre Holm of Acker, Norway, Arne Ronnekleiv of Trondhelm, Norway, Dag Thorstein Wang of Oslo, Norway, and John Brungot of Fagerstrand, Norway, have developed an object identification ...

Arkansas Inventor Develops Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Timothy I. O'Brien of Little Rock, Ark., has developed a method of ovarian cancer diagnosis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed nucleic acid primer sets, used in combination with quantitative amplification of tissue ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Gas Barrier Film

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Minoru Komada of Tokyo has developed a gas barrier film. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a gas barrier film improved in gas barrier characteristics by decreasing the adsorbent of the ...

Tennessee Inventors Develop Phage-Displayed Antibodies Screening Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Dennis E. Hallahan and Raymond Mernaugh, both of Nashville, Tenn., have developed a method for screening phage-displayed antibodies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for identifying a molecule that binds ...

British Inventor Develops Optical Amplifier

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Peter Wilson McCaig of Devon, Great Britain, has developed an optical amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical amplifier comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having at least one support layer of electrically non-conducting ...

Danish Inventors Develop Chromosome Aberration Detection Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Tim Svenstrup Poulsen and Susan Medom Poulsen, both of Horsholm, Denmark, and Kenneth Heesche Petersen of Smorum, Denmark, have developed a method for detecting chromosome aberrations. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Manufacturing Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Hikaru Hoshi and Kiyokatsu Ikemoto, both of Yokohama, Japan, Akinari Takagi of Yokosuka, Japan, and Kazuya Nobayashi of Edogawa-ku, Japan, have developed a method for manufacturing three-dimensional photonic crystal. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

British Inventors Develop Hydrous Kaolin Pigment

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Graham Pring of Lostwithiel, Great Britain, and Christopher R. L. Golley of St. Austell, Great Britain, have developed brightness kaolin pigment compositions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides high brightness ...

German Inventor Develops Domestic Appliance

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Wolfgang Kaczmarek of Schwindegg, Germany, has developed a domestic appliance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A domestic appliance includes a cover element, an optical operation indicator that can be covered by the cover element, and a ...

Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Capstock Layer Preparation Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Paul Ralph Van Rheenen of Warminster, Pa., has developed a capstock layer preparing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a method of preparing a capstock layer that includes a comb copolymer; a method ...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Slide Arrangement for Cable Drawer

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Kathleen M. Barnes of Golden Valley, Minn., Justin R. Horton of St. Louis Park, Minn., Thomas C. Tinucci of Chaska, Minn., and Thomas L. Barnes of Eden Prairie, Minn., have developed a slide arrangement for cable drawer. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

Maryland Inventors Develop Cancer Diagnostic, Monitoring Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Marja T. Nevalainen and Hallgeir Rui, both of Rockville, Md., have developed cancer diagnostic and monitoring methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to diagnostic and monitoring methods (assays) for cancer and ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Waveguide Manufacturing Process

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Akira Fujii, Toshihiko Suzuki, Keishi Shimizu, Kazutoshi Yatsuda, Shigemi Ohtsu and Eiichi Akutsu, all from Ashigarakami-gun, Japan, have developed an optical waveguide manufacturing process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Fiber Access Terminal

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Scott Kowalczyk of Savage, Minn., and Ray Hagen of Apple Valley, Minn., have developed a fiber access terminal with moisture barrier plate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber access terminal includes a drop cable side and a ...

Bulgarian Inventors Develop Degenerative, Inflammatory Diseases Treatment Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Reginald Brys of Korbeek-Dijle, Bulgaria, Nick Vandeghinste of Duffel, Bulgaria, and Peter Herwig Maria Tomme of Gent, Bulgaria, have developed a method of treating inflammatory diseases. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...

British Inventors Develop Isolated and Purified Polynucleotide Molecule

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Kevin Anthony Hart and Carl Thomas Montague, both of Cheshire, Great Britain, and Antonio Vidal-Puig of Cambridge, Great Britain, have developed an isolated and purified polynucleotide molecule. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Stream Data Recording Medium

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Hide Andoo of Hino, Japan, Kazuyuki Uyama of Kumagaya, Japan, Yuuji Ito of Ota-ku, Japan, and Shinichi Kikuchi of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a recording medium of stream data. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...

Connecticut Inventor Develops Ultra-Thin High-Precision Glass Optic

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Nicholas A. DeLuca of Stratford, Conn., has developed an ultra-thin high-precision glass optic. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ultra-thin high-precision glass optic and method of manufacturing the same ....

Washington Inventor Develops Natural Red Pigment Isolation Process

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Yushi Zhang of Newcastle, Wash., has developed a natural red pigment isolating process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A species of marine microalgae (Tetraselmis sp. MACC/P66) was found to secrete an unknown red pigment to the culture ...

Wisconsin Inventors Develop Nucleic Acids Sequences Characterization Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- James R. Prudent, Jeff G. Hall, Victor L. Lyamichev, Mary Ann D. Brow, and James E. Dahlberg, all from Madison, Wis., have developed a method of characterization of nucleic acid sequences. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...

Tennessee Inventor Develops Antigen-Antibody Cancer Recognition System

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Jerry T. Thornthwaite of Henderson, Tenn., has developed a cancer recognition system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for the isolation and purification of a cancer recognition (CARE) antigen about 66,000 ...

Lithuanian Inventors Develop Electroless Copper Plating Solution

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Algirdas Vaskelis, Eugenijus Norkus, Jane Jaciauskiene and Aldona Jagminiene, all from Vilnius, Lithuania, have developed an electroless copper plate deposition solution. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroless copper plating ...

U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Protein Fragment Complementation Assay

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Marnie MacDonald of Pleasanton, Calif., John K. Westwick of San Ramon, Calif., and Stephen William Watson Michnick of Montreal, have developed protein fragment complementation assays. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant invention ...

New York, California Inventors Develop Ultra-Large Scale Integrated Interconnect Structure

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Qinghuang Lin of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Ratnam Sooriyakumaran of San Jose, Calif., have developed ultra-large scale integrated (ULSI) interconnect structures. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to ULSI ...

New Jersey Inventors Develop Tandem Repeat Nucleotides Number Determination Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Ghazala Hashmi of Holmdel, N.J., Michael Seul of Fanwood, N.J., and Joachim Messing of Somerset, N.J., have developed a method of determination of the number of tandem repeat nucleotides. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention ...

Australian Inventors Develop Energy Balance Regulation Gene

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Paul Zev Zimmet of Toorak, Australia, and Gregory Collier of Ocean Grove, Australia, have developed a gene associated with regulation of energy balance and obesity. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally ...

Indiana Inventors Develop Viable Microorganism Detection Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Rafael Gomez, Rashid Bashir, Arun K. Bhunia, Michael R. Ladisch and J. Paul Robinson, all from West Lafayette, Ind., have developed an integrated-chip-type biosensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for collecting a ...

New Jersey, Maryland Inventors Develop Rare Earth Metal Compounds

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Robert D. Finnegan and William C. Drach, both of West Long Branch, N.J., William D. Wilber of Neptune, N.J., Arthur Tauber of Elberon, N.J., Donald W. Eckart of Wall, N.J., and Steven C. Tidrow of Silver Springs, Md., have developed rare earth metal ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Bar-Shaped Light Guide

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Tomihisa Saito, Hiroyuki Nemoto and Makoto Ikeda, all from Tokyo, have developed a bar-shaped light guide. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bar-shaped light guide is provided to allow its emitting surface to be exposed from a white ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Target Substance Detection Probe Set

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Motonari Daito, Koichi Yamagata and Yasuyuki Imura, all from Kobe, Japan, have developed a reagent for detection of a target substance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe set is described that includes a first probe having a ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Substrate Manufacturing Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Masaaki Yuri of Ibaraki, Japan, has developed a semiconductor substrate manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate of the present invention includes the steps of: providing ...

Brazilian Inventors Develop Lecithinated Sugar Composition

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Rafael A. Klein of Esteio, Brazil, Eduardo Wongtschowski of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Paulo Roberto Bernardes of Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, have developed a sugar refining process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a lecithinated sugar ...

British Inventors Develop Antibody Making Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Gregory Paul Winter, Elizabeth Sally Ward and Detlef Gussow, all from Cambridge, Great Britain, have developed a method for making an antibody to a target antigen. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to single ...

California Inventors Develop Testing Device Probe Cleaning System

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Christopher C. Buckholtz of Livermore, Calif., and Eric T. Watje of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed non-abrasive cleaning devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe cleaning system automatically detects a surface of a probe ...

Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Flexible Optical Fiber Bundle

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Scott A. Raszka of Woodstock, Conn., and Gerald P. Senecal of Palmer, Mass., have developed a partially flexible optical fiber bundle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A of fabricating a partially flexible optical fiber bundle includes ...

Ohio Inventors Develop Display Device Heat Spreader

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Joseph P. Capp of Strongsville, Ohio, Timothy Clovesko of North Olmsted, Ohio, Julian Norley of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Martin David Smalc of Parma, Ohio, and Bradley E. Reis of Westlake, Ohio, have developed a heat spreader. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

Illinois, Missouri Inventors Develop Deoxyribonucleic Acid Molecule Isolated Primer Pair

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Rachel Krieb of Wood River, Ill., and Qingyi Zeng of St. Louis, have developed an isolated primer pair of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides assays for detecting the ...

Massachusetts Inventor Develops Coating Stents Clamping Fixture

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Todd Robida of Southbridge, Mass., has developed a coating stents clamp fixture. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided for holding an appliance from an interior that may include a center support shaft, two arbors arranged ...

New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Coupler

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Victor Il'ich Kopp of Flushing, N.Y., Victor Tchourikov of West Patterson, N.Y., Daniel Neugroschl of Suffern, N.Y., and Jonathan Singer of Summit, N.J., have developed an optical fiber coupler. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical ...

Georgia Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Cable

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Luis M Bocanegra of Alpharetta, Ga., Harold P. Debban of Snellville, Ga., and Peter A. Weimann of Atlanta, have developed an optical fiber cable. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The specification describes an optical fiber drop cable with ...

California Inventors Develop Microfluidic Free Interface Diffusion Technique

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Carl L. Hansen of Pasadena, Calif., Stephen R. Quake of San Marino, Calif., and James M. Berger of Kensington, Calif., have developed a method of mixing two fluids. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static fluid and a second fluid are ...

California Inventor Develops Breast Cancer Prognosis Providing Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Yixin Wang of San Diego, has developed a method of predicting breast cancer recurrence. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a prognosis of breast cancer is conducted by analyzing the expression of a group of genes. Gene ...

U.S., Singapore Inventors Develop Physical Assets Monitoring Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Andrew E. S. Alcock and Gregory Y. H. Lee, both of Singapore, Stephen J.Lambright and Ravindra U. Rajapakse, both of San Francisco, Leo S. Chang of San Carlos, Calif., Christopher A. Stephenson of Redwood City, Calif., Jeyappragash Jeyakeerthi of Santa Clara, Calif., ...

Utah Inventors Develop Cardiac Dysrythmia Risk Assessment Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Louis Ptacek and Ying-Hui Fu, both of Salt Lake City, have developed methods for assessing risk for cardiac dysrythmia. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for assessing the risk of a patient for ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Shunichi Shiozawa of Kobe, Japan, and Yoshitake Konishi of Shinjuku-ku, Japan, have developed a diagnosis method for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...

California Inventors Develop Coronary Stenosis Diagnosis Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- James J. Devlin of Foster City, Calif., and May M. Luke of San Francisco, have developed a method of diagnosis of coronary stenosis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is based on the discovery of genetic polymorphisms ...

British Inventor Develops Radio Frequency Identification Device Preparation System

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Ian J. Forster of Chelmsford, Great Britain, has developed a radio frequency identification (RFID) device preparation system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RFID device preparation system includes a printer combined with a short-range ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Automobile Tempered Glass Sheet

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Hiromasa Tominaga of Tokyo, and Kazushige Yoda of Aichi, Japan, have developed an automobile tempered glass sheet. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tempered glass sheet having in its front view a peripheral region including the ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Planographic Printing Plate Precursor

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Sumiaki Yamasaki, Koichi Kawamura and Naonori Makino, all from Haibara-gun, Japan, have developed a planographic printing plate precursor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planographic printing plate precursor comprises a substrate ...

Dutch Inventor Develops Lithographic Projection Apparatus

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Gert-Jan Heerens of Schoonhoven, Netherlands, has developed a lithographic mask surface cleaning method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithographic mask is placed in a chamber which is then sealed. The gas pressure in the chamber is ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Single Crystal Manufacturing Apparatus

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Wataru Sugimura, Toshiaki Ono and Masataka Hourai, all from Tokyo, have developed a semiconductor single crystal manufacturing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the "apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor single crystal ...

Icelandic Inventors Develop Non-Circular Nucleic Acids Separation Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Jon Johannes Jonsson, Hans Guttormur Thormar, Gudmundur H. Gunnarsson and Bjarki Gudmundsson, all from Reykjavik, Iceland, have developed a method for separating linear nucleic acid fragments. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are ...

German Inventors Develop Monocrystalline Structures Production Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Georg Bostanjoglo and Nigel-Philip Cox and Rolf Wilkenhoner, all from Berlin, and Thomas Beck of Zepernick, Germany, have developed a monocrystalline structures production method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case of the ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Array

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Masashi Fukuyama of Inuyama, Japan, Yasunori Iwasaki of Nishikasugai-Gun, Japan, and Akiyoshi Ide of Kasugai, Japan, have developed an optical device with a filter member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a surface of a filter member ...

U.S., French, Russian Inventors Develop Metal Fluoride Crystals Growing Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Jeffrey T. Kohli, Alexandre M. Mayolet and Pawan Saxena, all from Corning, N.Y., Nicholas LeBlond and Paul M. Schermerhorn, both of Painted Post, N.Y., Michelle M. L. Fredholm of Hericy, France, and Viktoria Pshenitsyna of St. Petersburg, Russia, have developed a ...

Chinese Inventors Develop Shape Memory Material Making Method

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Kenneth Man Chee Cheung, Kelvin Wai Kwok Yeung, William Weijia Lu and Chl Yuen Chung, all from Hong Kong, have developed a super-elastic material making method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to a ...

French Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Component

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Damie Larivieren of Douai, France, Sebastien Andre of Pignan, France, and Stephane Gauchard of Bourg la Reine, France, have developed an fiber optic component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of ...

French Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Amplifier

Dec 18, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- Ekaterina Bourova of Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Christian Simonneau of Antony, France, Catherin Martinellie of Palaiseau, France, and Lionel Provost of Marcoussis, France, have developed a doped-ring amplifying optical fiber. According to the U.S. Patent ...