US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, February 19:
Washington Inventor Develops Operating System Page Information Protection Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Scott A. Field of Redmond, Wash., has developed a system for protecting information in paging operating systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive methods and systems provide an approach to protecting unencrypted sensitive ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Safety Judgment Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Seigo Kotani of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a safety judgment method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security of an information processing apparatus is ensured by performing biological information authentication and collecting the ...
Texas Inventors Develop Device Identifier Prior Security Providing Apparatus
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Herbert Jackson Ice Jr. and Dennis Sposato, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a computing device, for controlling access to a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for ...
Washington Inventors Develop Namespace Management Delegated Administration Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Sachin Kukreja, Steven M. Cellini and Daniel Doubrovkine, all from Seattle, Barry I. Kelman of Woodinville, Wash., David R. Shutt of Bellevue, Wash., and RoyLeban of Redmond, Wash., have developed a method of delegated administration of namespace ...
British Inventors Develop Data Validation Apparatus
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Martin Sadler and Marco Casassa Mont, both of Bristol, Great Britain, and Keith Alexande Harrisonr of Woodcroft Chepstow, Great Britain, have developed an apparatus for data validation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates ...
California Inventors Develop Driver Injection Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Sanjay Madhav Pujare of San Jose, Calif., Benjamin Fang-Ping Shang of Fremont, Calif., and Saravanan Bellan of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method for injecting driver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for injecting ...
Science Applications International Wins $5.27 Million Contract
Feb 19, 2008 ... FORT MONMOUTH, N.J., Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $5.27 million contract to Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, for research and development work. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J. For more ...
Sauer Southeast Wins $8.65 Million Contract
Feb 19, 2008 ... MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $8.65 million contract to Sauer Inc., operating as Sauer Southeast, Jacksonville, Fla., for construction of structures and facilities. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Engineer District, Mobile, Ala. For more ...
German Inventors Develop Sound Reduction Roller Blinds Profile Element
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Christian Volkel of Marktleuthen, Germany, Stefan Brauer of Selb, Germany, and Klaus Griesshammer of Rehau, Germany, have developed a profile element for sound reduction roller blinds. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates ...
Colorado, Texas Inventors Develop Computer System Memory Utilization Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- John William Bockhaus of Fort Collins, Colo., and David Binford of Plano, Texas, have developed a memory utilization method in a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method of memory utilization in a computer system ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Virtual Address to Real Address Translation Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Gordon Taylor Davis of Chapel Hill, N.C., has developed an apparatus for translating a virtual address to a real address. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A page table mechanism translates virtual addresses to real addresses. In a first ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ophthalmic Apparatus
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Hiroyoshi Nakanishi of Hoi-gun, Japan, has developed an ophthalmic apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "ophthalmic apparatus capable of providing a printout of measurement results on a plurality of ...
Missouri, Illinois Inventors Develop Vehicle Wheel Balancer System
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Michael D. Gerdes and Michael W. Douglas, both of St. Peters, Mo., David M. Scribner of St. Charles, Mo., William B. Feero of St. Louis, and Joel Clasquin of Edwardsville, Ill., have developed a vehicle wheel balancer system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Digital Angular Velocity Detection Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Jong-hwa Won of Suwon, South Korea, and Tikhov Yuri of Yongin, South Korea, have developed a digital angular velocity detection device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "digital angular velocity detection device, ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Multi-Tiered Boot List
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Simon C. Chu and Eric R. Kern, both of Chapel Hill, N.C., Richard A. Dayan of Raleigh, N.C., and William J. Piazza of Holly Springs, N.C., have developed a multi-tiered boot list. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aggregated server blade ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage System Management Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Fumi Miyazaki of Kawasaki, Japan, Masayasu Asano of Yokohama, Japan, and Yasunori Kaneda of Sagamihara, Japan, have developed a storage system management method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server includes the user ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Electronic Device Free Fall Detection Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Young-bo Shim and Sang-min Suh, both of Seoul, South Korea, Woong Kwon and Kyung-shik Roh, both of Seongnam-si, South Korea, and Woo-sup Han of Yongin-si, South Korea, have developed a hand-held electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Texas Inventors Develop Loop Buffer Detection Logic
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Thang M. Tran and Muralidharan S. Chinnakonda, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a microprocessor with independent single instruction multiple data loop buffer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus ...
California Inventor Develops Eyeglass
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Gary M. Zelman of Simi Valley, Calif., has developed eyeglasses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "eyeglasses comprising a primary lens frame having a first pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion having ...
California Inventors Develop Memory System with Delayed Write Timing
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- David Nguyen, Craig E. Hampel and Paul G. Davis, all from San Jose, Calif., Frederick A. Ware of Los Altos Hills, Calif., Donald C. Stark of Los Altos, Calif., Abhijit M. Abhyankar of Sunnyvale, Calif., James A. Gasbarro of Mountain View, Calif., and Richard M. Barth ...
Phoenix Architectural Products Wins Contract Valued At Up To $250,000
Feb 19, 2008 ... FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $250,000 to Phoenix Architectural Products Inc., Atlanta, for construction and building materials. The contract was awarded by GSA's Federal Supply Service, Fort Worth, ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Cache Memory with Reduced Power
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Richard P. Schubert of Medfield, Mass., has developed a cache memory with reduced power. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "digital processor with a cache that provides fast and low power operation. The cache ...
British Inventor Develops Spatialized Audio Visualization Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Robert Francis Squibbs of Bristol, Great Britain, has developed a visual indication providing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is provided for presenting a user with a visual indication of the likely ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Network Media Access Controller
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Nicholas McKay, Martin B. Rhodes, Stuart A. Nisbet, Gareth D. Edwards and Allan W. Fyfe, all from Edinburgh, Great Britian, Ting Yun Kao of Cupertino, Calif., Robert Yin of Castro Valley, Calif., Hamish T. Fallside of Los Gatos, Calif., and Richard P. Burnley of ...
Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors Develop On-Demand Communication Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Greg R. Black of Vernon Hills, Ill., Robert M. Johnson of Lake Zurich, Ill., Stephen L. Spear of Skokie, Ill., and Charles P. Binzel of Bristol, Wis., have developed a method for on-demand communication. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Television with Integrated Signal Switch
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Josep Zhangh and Victor C. Wang, both of Chino Hills, Calif., and Sampson Shih Shien Yang of Irvine, Calif., have developed a television with integrated signal switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "television ...
California Inventors Develop Pointer Manager Apparatus
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Rick Reeve of San Francisco, Richard L. Schober of Cupertino, Calif., and Ian Colloff of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a methodology for a pointer manager. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pointer manager is described. The pointer ...
French Inventors Develop Stack-Based Memory Management Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Salam Majoul and Free Parain, both of Rennes, France, Gerard Chauvel of Antibes, France, Serge Lasserre of Frejus, France, Dominique D'Inverno of Villeneuve Loubet, France, Maija Kuusela of Mouans Sartoux, France, Gilbert Cabillic of Brece, France, Jean-Philippe Lesot ...
Australian Inventor Develops Print Engine Assembly with Slotted Chassis
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Kia Silverbrook of Balmain, Australia, has developed a print engine assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print engine assembly includes an elongate chassis that defines a channel and a slot. A printhead assembly is fast with ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Communication Control Circuit
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Suehir Kawanishio of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a communication control circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "communication control circuit that performs the process of receiving a response to send data ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Electrical Power Supplying Technique
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Steve Crump of Wayland, Mass., Daniel M. Gauger Jr. of Cambridge, Mass., and Robert Belanger of Franklin, Mass., have developed an electrical power supplying technique. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply includes a battery ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Electronic Data Processing System
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Darl Andrew Crick of Keswick, Canada, has developed an electronic data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention reduces the system processing and user response time spikes normally associated with cache flushes and ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ink-Jet Ink Set with Ink-Jet Ink
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Taiga Iinuma of Ebina, Japan, has developed an ink-jet ink set. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ink-jet ink set including an ink-jet ink containing a colorant and a surfactant, and a treatment liquid, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Reproduction Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Shinji Yoshida of Osaka, Japan, has developed a data reproducing device. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a data reproducing device, a hard disk and a data ...
Utah Inventors Develop Enclosure Noise Reduction Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Scott David Sommerfeldt of Mapleton, Utah, and Benjamin Mahonri Faber of Spanish Fork, Utah, have developed an energy density control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of reducing noise in an enclosure is ...
California Inventors Develop Input Device Operation Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- John S. Wenstrand of Menlo Park, Calif., George Panotopoulos of Palo Alto, Calif., and Akihiro Machida of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a method of operating input device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input devices and methods of ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Liquid Droplet Discharge Head
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Tsutomu Kusakari of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a liquid droplet discharge head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The liquid droplet discharge head comprises: a liquid chamber flow channel which is filled with a liquid including an ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Auxiliary Data Accessing Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Jeffrey Cousins and Aloke Guha, both of Louisville, Colo., and Kim B. Le of Broomfield, Colo., have developed a system for accessing auxiliary data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing data units for access in a data ...
Australian Inventor Develops Inkjet Printer Cartridge Refill Dispenser with Security Mechanism
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Kia Silverbrook of Balmain, Australia, has developed an inkjet printer cartridge refill dispenser. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "printing fluid dispenser including: a deformable container containing a full ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Cartridge
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Naoki Katayama of Kariya, Japan, and Shota Iijima of Nagoya, Japan, have developed an ink cartridge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink cartridge has a cartridge body to which an ink supply pipe extending from an inkjet printer is ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Surface Mount Parallelepiped Condenser Microphone
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Chung Dam Song of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a parallelepiped condenser microphone. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a surface mount parallelepiped condenser microphone. In the surface mount parallelepiped ...
Washington Inventor Develops Encrypted Messages Transmission Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- David E. Orr of Vancouver, Wash., has developed an encrypted messages transmission method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method is disclosed for establishing a one-time cryptographic pad between a communicating pair, a ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Network-Enabled User Interface Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Bryan C. Turner of Apex, N.C., John Toebes of Cary, N.C., and Gregory Dean Pelton of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a user interface device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-enabled user interface device, for example a voice over ...
Texas Inventors Develop Power Efficient Memory Caching Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Thang M. Tran, Muralidharan S. Chinnakonda and Rajinder P. Singh, all from Austin, Texas, have developed a method for power efficient memory caching. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A system and method ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Interruption Control System
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Tony Ho of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an interruption control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interruption control system includes a programmable interrupt controller (PIC), an advanced programmable interrupt controller ...
Nevada Inventor Develops Inkjet Printer Ink Cartridge
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Alex Kuo-Shen Wang of Las Vegas has developed an ink cartridge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "inkjet printer ink cartridge, which improves upon the ink cartridge of a conventional inkjet ink cartridge, ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Ink-Jet Print-Head Assembly
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Alex M. Walling of Enskede Gard, Sweden, has developed an ink-jet print-head assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensor and ink-jet print-head assembly comprised in a housing for a hand-held and ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Printer with Printhead
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Hendrikus J. J. Van Soest of Helden, Netherlands, and Jeroen J. G. Coenen of Venray, Netherlands, have developed a printer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer including a printhead which is displaceable at the level of a print surface in a ...
Vermont Inventors Develop Transaction Flow Control Mechanism
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Clarence Rosse Ogilvier of Huntington, Vt., and Charles S. Woodruff of Charlotte, Vt., have developed a transaction flow control mechanism for a bus bridge. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction flow control mechanism is disclosed ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Disk Array with Spare Logic Drive
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Masanobu Yamamoto of Odawara, Japan, has developed a disk array with spare logic drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a disk array system having a plurality of spare drives, the storage areas of which are not wasted without being ...
Delaware, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Vision-Restricting Eyewear
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Vincent J. Russomagno of Centerville, Del., and David S. Foulke of North Wales, Pa., have developed a training aid using vision restriction. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Opaque films adhering electrostatically to lenses of eyewear, are ...
California Inventor Develops Cryptographic Keys Exchanging Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Chung Nan Chang of Los Altos, Calif., has developed a cryptographic keys exchanging method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to cryptography and, more ...
Washington, California Inventors Develop Fixed-Length Queue Managing Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Glenn R Engel of Snohomish, Wash., and Bruce Hamilton of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a method of managing a fixed-length queue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decimation of data from a fixed length queue retaining a representative ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Buffer Memory Management Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Hiroaki Yamamoto and Seiji Miyahara, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a buffer memory management method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet buffer management method and system are provided which enable maximum utilization of ...
California Inventors Develop Frame Buffer Management
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Michael James Paquette of Benicia, Calif., and Simon Douglas of Cupertino, Calif., have developed an apparatus for frame buffer management. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "methods and apparatuses for dynamic ...
California Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Alon Regev of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Zvi Regev of West Hills, Calif., have developed a content addressable memory (CAM) device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CAM device includes a plurality of entries each having an associated ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Atsush Obinatai of Hachioji, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "semiconductor device including: a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) which is a volatile memory; a phase ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Ink Composition for Spacer Element
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Joon-Hyung Kim and Kyung-Jun Kim, both of Daejeon, South Korea, and Young-Sun Kong of Seoul, South Korea, have developed an ink composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ink composition for spacer ...
California Inventor Develops Balanced Disk Access Load Distribution Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Madhures Nagshainh of Milpitas, Calif., has developed an apparatus for balanced disk access load distribution. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking a method and an apparatus is provided for distributing commands to a digital ...
National Council for Science & the Environment Wins Contract Valued At Up To $500,000
Feb 19, 2008 ... AUBURN, Wash., Feb. 19 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $500,000 to National Council for Science & the Environment, Washington, for environmental services. The contract was awarded by GSA's ...
Australian Inventor Develops Micro-Electromechanical Fluid Ejection Device
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Kia Silverbrook of Balmain, Australia, has developed a fluid ejection device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-electromechanical fluid ejection device includes a substrate. Drive circuitry is positioned on the substrate. A ...
Australian Inventor Develops Inkjet Drop Ejection Apparatus
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Kia Silverbrook of Balmain, Australia, has developed an injet printhead. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "inkjet drop ejection apparatus having: a chamber with a nozzle; and an actuator with a thermal bend arm ....
U.S., Turkish Inventors Develop Expanded Nanoclays Production Method
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Gokhan Andi of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Kivanc Isik of Aydin, Turkey, have developed an expanded nanoclay composite material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of producing nanoclays comprising the steps of ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Thermal Print Head Temperature Estimation System
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Suhail S. Saquib of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Brian Busch of Sudbury, Mass., have developed a thermal print head temperature estimation system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method estimates the temperature of a thermal print head element ...
Dutch, French Inventors Develop Fluid Body Manipulation System
Feb 19, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- Michel Marcel Jose Decre and Stein Kuiper, both of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Thomas Pierre Cornil Duriez of Paris, have developed a fluid droplet. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for manipulation of a body of fluid, in ...