US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, February 29:
California Inventors Develop Programmable Device
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Joseph Huang and Yan Chong, both of San Jose, Calif., Chiakang Sung of Milpitas, Calif., and Michael H. M. Chu of Fremont, Calif., have developed programmable devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amount of simultaneous switching ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Semiconductor Wafer Structure
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kyle K. Kirby of Boise, Idaho, has developed a semiconductor wafer formation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming semiconductor devices include thinning a region of a semiconductor wafer and forming at least one ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Area Efficient Fractureable Logic Element
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Sinan Kaptanoglu of Belmont, Calif., Bruce B. Pedersen of Sunnyvale, Calif., James G. Schleicher of Los Gatos, Calif., Jinyong Yuan of Cupertino, Calif., Michael D. Hutton of Mountain View, Calif., and David Lewis of Toronto, have developed a fracturable logic ...
German Inventor Develops Off-Chip Driver Prestage
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Paul Brucke of Munich, Germany, and Helmut Fischer of Oberhaching, Germany, have developed a control signal generating prestage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "prestage for generating a control signal for an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Silicon Wafer Division Apparatus
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Yusuke Nagai, Satoshi Kobayashi and Yukio Morishige, all from Tokyo have developed a semiconductor silicon wafer division method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of dividing a silicon wafer along ...
California Inventor Develops Configurable Integrated Circuit
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Jason Redgrave of Mountain View, Calif., has developed data storage elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a circuit for accessing stored data in a configurable integrated circuit (IC) that includes several ...
California Inventors Develop Magnetoresistive Device
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Wipul Pemsiri Jayasekara and Howard Gordon Zolla, both of San Jose, Calif., and Mark A. Church of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a magnetoresistive device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for reducing ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Head Supporting Mechanism
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Yoshimitsu Wada, Takeshi Wada, Takashi Honda and Yoshihisa Higuchi, all from Tokyo, have developed a head supporting mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension is provided, which comprises: a flexure with elasticity for ...
Florida, Georgia Inventors Develop Health Care Financing Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Phillip Dolamore of Plantation, Fla., Thomas Mahaney of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Byron S. Baldwin Jr. of Lincolnton, Ga., have developed a health care financing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "computer ...
New York Inventor Develops Hotel Revenue Optimizing Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Sunmee Choi of Dryden, N.Y., has developed a method for optimizing hotel revenue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for optimizing hotel revenues for a predetermined sale margin, optimizing room nights for a predetermined amount of ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Bar Code Synchronization Process
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Michael Jon Holoubek of Annapolis, Md., has developed a bar code synchronization process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and system for enabling the high speed processing of physical mail articles to convert the ...
New York Inventors Develop Compact Disc Recognition Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Christopher M. Tobin of Central Valley, N.Y., and Adrienne Lalla of College Pt., N.Y., have developed an apparatus for recognizing compact disc. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For possible use in an electronic content distribution ...
California Inventors Develop Magnetic Head
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Yoshitaka Sasaki, Hironori Araki, Shigeki Tanemura and Takehiro Horinaka, all from Milpitas, Calif., have developed a magnetic head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pole layer is disposed in a groove of a pole-layer-encasing layer made ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Chemical Die Singulation Technique
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Brian W. Condie of Mesa, Ariz., David J. Dougherty of Tempe, Ariz., and Mahesh K. Shah of Scottsdale, Ariz., have developed a semiconductor dice singulation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for manufacturing a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Trench Isolation Layers Formation Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kyu-Tae Na and Yong-Soon Choi, both of Seoul, South Korea, Eunkee Hong and Ju-Seon Goo, both of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Yong-Won Cha of Gyeonggi, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor trench layer formation method. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Wafers Bonding System
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Chien-Hua Chen and John Liebeskind, both of Corvallis, Ore., James McKinnell of Salem, Ore., and Ronald A Hellekson of Eugene, Ore., have developed a wafers bonding method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system ...
Utah Inventor Develops Insurance Risk Reinsurance Negotiation Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Igor Best-Devereux of Salt Lake City has developed a method of negotiating and binding reinsurance of insurance risks. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and computer program products for facilitating negotiations for ...
California Inventor Develops Pre-Processing Individual Audio Item
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kenneth M. Carson of Mill Valley, Calif., has developed a pre-processing individual audio item. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of processing audio data while creating a media ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetic Recording Head
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kazue Kudo, Ichiro Oodake, Kimitoshi Etoh and Nobuo Yoshida, all from Odawara, Japan, Moriaki Fuyama of Hitachi, Japan, Makoto Morijiri of Ninomiya, Japan, Kenichi Meguro of Matsuda, Japan, Yohji Maruyama of Iruma, Japan, and Katsuro Watanabe of Kanasagou, Japan, have ...
California Inventors Develop Giant Magnetoresistance Sensor
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Thomas E. Shatz and Dulip Ajantha Welipitiya, both of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Brian R. York and Wen-yaung Lee, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed a giant magnetoresistance sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetic Head Actuator
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Hajime Nakamura and Takehisa Minowa, both of Takefu, Japan, have developed a magnetic head actuator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In conjunction with a magnetic disk drive unit comprising a voice coil motor, an arm extending from the ...
California Inventor Develops Hard Disk Drive Slider
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Ki-Ook Park of Dublin, Calif., has developed a slider for hard disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "air bearing surface, with multiple deflection rails in a negative pressure pocket, between a leading ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Memory Device Isolation Trench Apparatus
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Michael Violette of Boise, Idaho, has developed an isolation trenche for memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided. A first dielectric plug is formed in a portion of a trench that extends into a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Silicon on Insulator Structure
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Young-soo Park, Wenxu Xianyu and Takashi Noguchi, all from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a silicon on insulator (SOI) manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a strained SOI structure and a method of ...
Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Web-Based Graphical User Interface
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Mark J. Stender of Avon, Conn., and Marcia Hendrick of South Hampton, Mass., have developed a web-based graphical user interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Injection Mixing Work Support Apparatus
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Hiroyuki Yuyama and Keita Yasuoka, both of Toyonaka, Japan, have developed an apparatus for supporting injection mixing work. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for supporting injection mixing work comprises a memory for storing ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Disc Drive Head
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Shaoping Li and Wenzhong Zhu, both of Richfield, Minn., Dean C. Palmer and Rick Michel, both of Minneapolis, David Kaiser and Lei Wang, both of Apple Valley, Minn., Taras G. Pokhil of Arden Hills, Minn., and Ned Tabat of Chanhassen, Minn., have developed a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Pipe's Thickness Deviation Information Derivation Apparatus
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Akihito Yamane of Osaka, Japan, has developed a pipe's thickness deviation information derivation apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A complex Fourier transform is performed on measured values of wall thickness at points in a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Testing System
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Koji Ishizuka of Tokyo has developed a semiconductor testing system control method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "semiconductor testing system including: an input; a display; multiple testing units; a memory ...
Texas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Produce Container
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- David Shaver of Kingsbury, Texas, and Bryant P. Ambelang of San Antonio, have developed an ornamental design for a produce container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D562,678 on Feb. 26. The ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Nailer
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- John E. Buck of Cockeysville, Md., has developed an ornamental design for a nailer, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,664 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to Black & Decker Inc., ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Digital Audio Perceptual Coding Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Frank Baumgarte of Berkeley Heights, N.J., has developed a method of perceptual coding of digital audio. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an apparatus, method and tangible medium storing instructions for ...
Belgian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Reel
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Livin Fernand Georges Dethier of Alken, Belgium, has developed an ornamental design for a reel, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,671 on Feb. 26. The original application was filed on Feb. 2, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Clinch Bolt
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Katsumi Shinjo of Osaka, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a clinch bolt, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,674 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to Pias Sales Co. Ltd, ...
California Inventor Develops Adjustable Transistor Body Bias Generation Circuitry
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Srinivas Perisetty of Santa Clara, Calif., has developed an adjustable transistor body bias generation circuitry. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is provided with body bias generation circuitry. The body bias ...
Vermont Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Modeling Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Raymond W. M. Schuppe of South Burlington, Vt., has developed an integrated circuit modeling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating combinatorial logic ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Test Circuitry Wafer
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- David Suitwai Ma of Cary, N.C., has developed a device wafer testing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for testing a plurality of devices on a device wafer. One embodiment provides ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Adjustable Furniture Hinge
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Nathan Kipperman of Tenafly, N.J., has developed an ornamental design for a hinge for adjustable furniture, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,669 on Feb. 26. The original application was ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Testing Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Igor Y. Khandros of Orinda, Calif., Gaetan L. Mathieu of Livermore, Calif., and Carl V. Reynolds of Pleasanton, Calif., have developed an integrated circuit exercising system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect structure is ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Error-Tolerant Language Understanding System
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Huei-Ming Wang of Taipei, Taiwan, and Yi-Chung Lin of Keelung, Taiwan, have developed an error-tolerant language understanding system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an error-tolerant language ...
German Inventor Develops Speech Synthesis Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Horst-Udo Hain of Munich, Germany, has developed a method for speech synthesis. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an arrangement and a computer program synthesize speech by grapheme/phoneme conversion. In this case, a search is ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Weightlifting System Lock
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Orley David Rogers of Sanford, Mich., and Timothy John Hockemeyer of Midland, Mich., have developed an ornamental design for weightlifting system lock and load bar support hook, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Test Apparatus
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Hideyuki Oshima of Tokyo has developed a semiconductor test apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Output data of a device under test (DUT) is obtained at timing of both rising and falling edges of a clock output from the DUT, and ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Container Vented Lid
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Robert Brashear of Perkasie, Pa., has developed an ornamental design for a vented lid for a container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,684 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to Ball ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Similar Sentence Retrieving Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Ki-Young Lee, Yoon-Hyung Roh, Sung Kwon Choi, Young Kil Kim, Young-Ae Seo, Seung Il Yang, Cheol Ryu and Mun-Pyo Hong, all from Daejeon, South Korea, and Chang Hyun Kim of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a method for retrieving a similar sentence. According ...
German Inventor Develops Power Conversion Circuit
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Thomas Durbaum of Baiersdorf, Germany, has developed an electronic circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power conversion circuits often consist of several metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) operating in ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Utility Knife
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Yuewei Wu of Zhejiang Province, China, has developed an ornamental design for utility knife, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,667 on Feb. 26. The original application was filed on July 3, ...
Oregon, Florida Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Circular Saw
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Wade Andrew Farris Maple of Portland, Ore., and Alan Benjamin Christopher Dixon of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., have developed an ornamental design for circular saw, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Outlier Calculation Device's Degree
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kenji Yamanishi and Jun-ichi Takeuchi, both of Tokyo, have developed a degree of outlier calculation device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Degree of outlier of one input data is calculated by an amount of change in a learned probability ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Electric Drill
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Min-Hsieng Wang of Tainan City, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for an electric drill, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,663 on Feb. 26. The original application was filed on March ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Wet Tissue Dispenser
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Victoria Landis of Granite Bay, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a wet tissue dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,682 on Feb. 26. The original application was filed on ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Closet Rod Clamp
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Robert Farber and Jason Farber, both of Montreal, have developed an ornamental design for a closet rod clamp, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D562,677 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned ...
French, Belgian Inventors Develop Resonance Frequency Estimation Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Christophe D'Alessandro and Boris Doval, both of Paris, Baris Bozkurt of Mons, Belgium, and Thierry Dutoit of Sirault, Belgium, have developed a method for estimating resonance frequency. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
German Inventor Develops Receiver Circuit Arrangement
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Michael Bernhard Sommer of Raubling, Germany, has developed an input signal receiving method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver circuit arrangement includes a receiver circuit an input for receiving an input signal an output for ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Performance Measuring Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Bruce McFadden of Hillsboro, Ore., has developed an integrated circuits performance measuring method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "wafers or other structures comprising a plurality of dies or devices are ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Substrate Inspection System
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Kazuhiko Fukazawa of Misato, Japan, and Yasuto Kawashima of Fujisawa, Japan, have developed semiconductor circuit elements manufacturing process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a ...
California Inventor Develops Probe Card Testing Method
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Omar S. Leung of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed an integrated circuit testing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a probe card includes a substrate and a plurality of probes. Each of the probes may have a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Toner Cartridge Package
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Goro Katsuyama of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for a package for a toner cartridge, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,679 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Container
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Stacy Kaufman of Sunrise, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,687 on Feb. 26. The original application was filed on June 23, 2006, and ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Ratcheting Screwdriver Assembly
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Hua Gao of Fox Point, Wis., has developed an ornamental design for a ratcheting screwdriver assembly, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,665 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to ...
U.S., Russian, Canadian Inventors Develop Modular Scalable Compressed Audio Data Stream
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Darrell P. Klotzbach of San Jose, Calif., Paul R. Goldberg of Palo Alto, Calif., Dmitri V. Chmounk of Novosibirsk, Russia, and Richard J. Beaton of Burnaby, B.C., Canada, have developed a modular scalable compressed audio data stream. According to the U.S ....
Indian Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Circuit
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Tathagato Rai Dastidar and Partha Ray, both of Bangalore, India, have developed a semiconductor memory circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for device level simulation of a circuit modeled by a set of ...
California Inventors Develop Magnetic Recording Head
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- Mohamad T. Krounbi and Thomas E. Dinan, both of San Jose, Calif., Tiffany Yun Wen Jiang of San Francisco, and Jose A. Medina of Pleasanton, Calif., have developed a magnetic recording head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and ...
Australian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Backing Plate
Feb 29, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 29 -- David Martin Stuckey of Eltham, Australia, has developed an ornamental design for a backing plate, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D562,668 on Feb. 26. The patent has been assigned to Burgundy ...
Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority Wins $251.49 Million Contract
Feb 29, 2008 ... JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 29 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract valued at up to $251.49 million to Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority, Okatie, S.C., for the operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater utility system of Marine and Naval activities in the Beaufort, ...