US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Sunday, March 23:
Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Coat Hook
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Zhukai Zhang of Chicago has developed an ornamental design for a coat hook, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,243 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp., ...
Texas, New York Inventors Develop Circuit Energy Models Generation Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Rajat Chaudhry and Daniel Lawrence Stasiak, both of Austin, Texas, and James Scott Neely of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., have developed circuit energy models generating apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program, ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Clothing Hanger
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Gary Barker of Oakland, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a clothing hanger, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,242 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to GreenHeart Global ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Data Storage Security Providing Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Satyendra Yadav of Portland, Ore., has developed data storage security providing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a system to secure data. The data security system includes data, a data security system ...
California Inventor Develops ExpressCard Power Switch Device
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Neil Morrow of San Jose, Calif., has developed an expressCard power switch device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment includes receiving at least one ExpressCard module power management signal and ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Rocking Stool
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Anniina Emilia Ikaheimo of Kuopio, Finland, has developed an ornamental design for a rocking stool, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,244 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to ...
Finnish, Spanish, Swedish Inventors Develop Networks Communication Security Mechanism
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Jari Arkko of Kauniainen, Finland, David Castellanos-Zamora of Madrid, Spain, and Krister Boman of Molndal, Sweden, have developed networks communication security mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bench
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Robert G. Chipman of Austin, Texas, has developed an ornamental design for a bench, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,247 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to Landscape Forms Inc., ...
Spanish Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Clothes Hanger
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Jose Maria Ferrer Beltran of Valencia, Spain, have developed an ornamental design for clothes hanger, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,246 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to Sonia ...
Italian, Spanish Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Chair
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Rodolfo Dordoni of Milan, Italy, Claudio Feltrin of Treviso, Italy, and Lievore Alter Molina of Barcelona, Spain, have developed an ornamental design for a chair, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
California Inventors Develop Processor with Finite Field Arithmetic Unit
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Joshua Porten of Palo Alto, Calif., Won Kim of Union City, Calif., Scott D. Johnson of Mountain View, Calif., and John R. Nickolls of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a processor with a finite field arithmetic unit. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Utah Inventors Develop Seamless User Interface Providing System
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Scott F. McCarty of Salt Lake City, and Jeanette L. Hammock of Sandy, Utah, have developed a seamless user interface providing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention extends to methods and systems for providing a ...
California Inventors Develop Protocol Status Information Maintaining Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Dehua Huang of Fremont, Calif., Adam J. Sweeney of Sunnyvale, Calif., Richard A. Johnson of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Silviu Dobrota of San Jose, Calif., have developed a protocol status information maintaining method. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Remapping Input-Output Device Addresses
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Zohar Bogin of Folsom, Calif., and Jeffrey L. Rabe of Gold River, Calif., have developed an address translation apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An address translation apparatus and method that can convert a limited-range ...
California Inventors Develop Data Transfer Technique
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Juju Joyce of Milpitas, Calif., Dan Mansur of Redwood City, Calif., David Jefferson of Morgan Hill, Calif., Changsong Zhang of Santa Clara, Calif., and Yi-Wen Lin of San Jose, Calif., have developed data transfer technique. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Processor with Two Architectures Implementation Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Patrick Knebel, Kevin David Safford, Donald Charles Soltis Jr., Joel D Lamb, Stephen R. Undy and Russell C Brockmann, all from Fort Collins, Colo., have developed a method for implementing two architectures on a single chip. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Efficient Read After Write Bypass
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Krishna Thatipelli of Fremont, Calif., and Balakrishna Venkatrao of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed an efficient read after write bypass. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting address matches between a read type operation and a ...
Texas Inventors Develop Processor Hang Condition Detection Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Michael Stephen Floyd and Larry Scott Leitner, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a processor hang condition detecting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring is performed to detect a hang condition. A timer is set to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Processor Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Takashi Miyamori of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a processor apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor including an integer processing unit and a data processing unit. The processor can be operated by a first instruction ...
British Inventors Develop Processors with Compressed Instructions
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Nigel Peter Topham of Wokingham, Great Britain, has developed processors having compressed instructions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instructions of a program are stored in compressed form in a program memory. In a processor which ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Single Cycle Context Switching Mechanism
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- David Arnold Luick of Rochester, Minn., has developed a context switch mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A register file bit includes a primary latch and a secondary latch with a feedback path and a context switch mechanism that ...
Oklahoma, Texas Inventors Develop Safety Relief Valve
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Michael J. Easton of Edmond, Okla., Wesley L. Taylor of Bethany, Okla., and Jeremy R. Choate of Stafford, Texas, have developed a safety relief valves manufacturing system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Multi-Site Remote Copy Storage System
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Noboru Morishita of Yokohama, Japan, Toshio Nakano of Chigasaki, Japan, and Seiichi Higaki of Odawara, Japan, have developed a remote copy storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information about remote copy target volumes of ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Memory Channel with Unidirectional Links
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Pete D. Vogt of Boulder, Colo., has developed a memory channel with unidirectional links. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory interface apparatus and methods utilize unidirectional links. An embodiment of a memory apparatus may ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Fiber Optic Module
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Shin Ishibashi and Tomiya Miyazaki, both of Fukuoka, Japan, and Hideyuki Nagao of Dazaifu, Japan, have developed a data transferring fiber optic module. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A fiber optic ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Parallel Data Migration Providing Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Michael F. Brown of Brighton, Mass., Kiran P. Madnani of Framingham, Mass., and David W. DesRoches of Methuen, Mass., have developed a parallel data migration providing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clustered storage array ...
Israeli Inventor Develops Radio Frequency Common-Mode Noise Rejection System
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Roman Vitenberg of Petach-Tikwa, Israel, has developed a high-speed data communication receiver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "receiver for high-speed data communications, which receives a differential ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Storage Risks Detection, Mitigation Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Anand Prahlad of East Brunswick, N.J., Srinivas Kavuri of South Plainfield, N.J., Andre Duque Madeira of Laurence Harbor, N.J., Norman R. Lunde of Middletown, N.J., Alan G. Bunte of Monmouth Beach, N.J., Andreas May of Marlboro, N.J., and Jeremy Schwartz of Red Bank, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Hardware Resources Reduction Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Ryuji Kan, Hideo Yamashita and Toshio Yoshida, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a hardware resources reduction apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present apparatus reduces hardware resources and improves data read ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Dual Active Bank Memory Controller
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Joseph H. End III of Malvern, Pa., has developed a dual active bank memory controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller for managing memory requests from a plurality of requesters to a plurality of memory banks is ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Travel Kit
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Kenneth Allen Bagus of Denver has developed an ornamental design for a travel kit, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,219 on March 18. The original application was filed on Aug. 1, 2007, and ...
German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Mascara Brush
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Norbert Dumler of Ansbach, Germany, and Daniela Kulik of Feuchtwangen, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for a mascara brush, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,234 on March ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Light Source Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Toshiaki Okuno of Yokohama, Japan, has developed a light source apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a light source apparatus having a structure for stably supplying broadband pulsed light having a ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Flame Retardant Fiber Optic Cables
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- H. Edward Hudson II of Conover, N.C., and Samuel Don Nave of Newton, N.C., have developed optic cables. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fiber optic cables are disclosed that include at least one optical fiber and a flame-retardant cable ...
New York Inventor Develops Triangle Ordering Mechanism
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Xiaowei Shen of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., has developed a system for ensuring triangle ordering of messages. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We present a triangle ordering mechanism that maintains triangle ordering of coherence messages ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Memory Card Device for Electronic Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Hideo Aizawa of Hamura, Japan, has developed a memory card device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a card having a controller and a clock control circuit. The controller incorporates core logic, and the clock control ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Weather Shield Solar Heat Collector Per Reflector
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Karl Vernon Lee Barnett of Asheville, N.C., has developed an air condition system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A weather shield is a cover of rigid material of sufficient size and shape, to ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Substrate with Printed Pattern
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Ada Ko and Gregory Churchill Ames, both of Cincinnati, have developed an ornamental design for a substrate with printed pattern, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,236 on March 18. The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Surface Light Source Device Tapered Light Guide Plate
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Tsuyoshi Ishikawa of Tokyo, and Hiroshi Yamazaki of Shiraoka, Japan, have developed a surface light source device guide plate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a very thin light guide plate for a surface light ...
Illinois, South Carolina Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Fuel Injection Control Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Kevin P. Duffy and Matthew R. Roth, both of Metamora, Ill., Eric C. Fluga of Dunlap, Ill., Brian G. McGee of Chillicothe, Ill., and Gregory G. Hafner of Columbia, S.C., have developed an engine fuel injection control method. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Imitation Rattan Strip
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Hao-Wei Poo of Taipei City, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for imitation rattan strip, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,240 on March 18. The original application was filed on ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Multi-Wavelength Optical Fiber
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Hong Po of Sherborn, Mass., and Andrey A. Demidov of Duxbury, Mass., have developed an optical fiber. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention features a fiber that includes an optical fiber containing a gain medium having a Raman ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Digital Network Faults Diagnosis Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Jonathan L. Bosloy and David Watkinson, both of Kanata, Canada, Stephen C. Bews of Stittsville, Canada, and John C. Burns of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a digital network faults detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Texas Inventors Develop Memory Data Caching Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Robert H. Bell Jr. and Guy Lynn Guthrie, both of Austin, Texas, and William John Starke of Round Rock, Texas, have developed a memory data caching apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer for ...
Chinese Inventor Develops Fingerprint Verification Method
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Zhongqiu Liu of Hangzhou, China, has developed a fingerprint verification method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "This invention refers to a fingerprint verification method and apparatus based on global ...
New York Inventor Develops Colon Drainage Tubular Apparatus
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Arnold R. Leiboff of Stony Brook, N.Y., has developed a tubular apparatus for drainage of the colon. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for draining and decompressing a colon in which a drainage tube is ...
Italian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Paper Product Surface Pattern
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Ruggero Mecchi of Montuolo (LU), Italy, and Andrea Lapenna of Buggiano (PT), Italy, have developed an ornamental design for a surface pattern for a paper product, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Ohio Inventor Develops Ultra-Thin Flexible Durable Radio Frequency Identification Device
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Keith R. Leighton of Sheffield Lake, Ohio, has developed a radio frequency identification device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "ultra-thin flexible durable radio frequency plastic of other substrate ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Fiber, Module
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Takemi Hasegawa and Masaaki Hirano, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an optical module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber capable of effectively suppressing stimulated Brillouin scattering, and an optical module ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Electronic Device Holder
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Steven C. Dixon of Carlsbad, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a holder for an electronic device, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,220 on March 18. The patent has been assigned ...
Texas Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Medical Bag
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Martha Elizabeth Knox and Marian L. Upchurch, both of San Marcos, Texas, have developed an ornamental design for a medical bag, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,217 on March 18. The ...
New Jersey, New York Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Bottles Tote
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- John R. Swartz of Ridgewood, N.J., and Aaron Lown of Tuxedo, N.Y., have developed an ornamental design for a tote for bottles, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,215 on March 18. The patent ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Optical Fiber Devices
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Andrew D. Yablon of Livingston, N.J., has developed optical fiber devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupling waveguide is interconnected between a launching fiber and a receiving fiber to reduce coupling loss. The coupling ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Filter Device
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Kenichi Nakama and Naoko Hikichi, both of Tokyo, have developed a collimator filter device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is a collimator adapted to convert divergent light beams outputted from an optical fiber bundle to parallel ...
California Inventor Develops Multiprocessor System Synchronization Mechanism
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Joseph B. Rowlands of Santa Clara, Calif., has developed synchronization mechanisms. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node includes a processor coupled to an interconnect and a memory bridge coupled to the interconnect. The processor ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Computer Cleaning Brush
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Te-Ming Huang of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a computer cleaning brush, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,231 on March 18. The original application was filed ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Paper Tissue
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Sandra Enderby of New Franken, Wis., and Sherri Latchoo of Mississauga, Canada, have developed an ornamental design for paper tissue, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,235 on March 18. The ...
Italian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Handbag
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Giovanni Morelli of Milan, Italy, has developed an ornamental design for a handbag, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,228 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to Chloe, ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Snow Tool
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Pieter Schouten of Berkley, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a snow tool with telescoping handle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,230 on March 18. The patent has been ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shaving Brush
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Kristopher William Schulz of Framingham, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a shaving brush, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,232 on March 18. The patent has been assigned to ...
Florida Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Decorative Purse
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Elizabeth L. Messineo of Tampa, Fla., has developed an ornamental design for a decorative purse, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,223 on March 18. The original application was filed on June ...
French Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Protective Casing
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Francois Picot of Combloux, France, and Gerald Truffier-Blanc of La Terrasse, France, have developed an ornamental design for a protective casing, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D564,221 on March ...
New York, Texas, New Jersey Inventors Develop Configurable Dispersion Compensation Trimmer
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Bo Guo of Centereach, N.Y., Marvin R. Young of Richardson, Texas, and Michael H. Eiselt of Middletown, N.J., have developed a compensation trimmer. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Mirror Combination
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Harvey J. Draheim of Weyauwega, Wis., has developed an ornamental design for a mirror and drawer combination, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,241 on March 18. The patent has been assigned ...
Texas Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Wine Carrier
Mar 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 23 -- Tony Thai of Plano, Texas, has developed an ornamental design for a wine carrier, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D564,216 on March 18. The original application was filed on Aug. 21, 2007, and ...