US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, March 24:
California Inventor Develops Automatic Shut Off Valve
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Houston Brown of Poway, Calif., has developed an automatic shut off valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic stop valve formed in a container of a medical fluid administration system includes an electrical field that attracts ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Fluid Delivering Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Toby Freyman of Watertown, Mass., has developed a device for delivering fluid. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device and method for endoluminal delivery of fluid, such as therapeutic fluid, into the ...
German Inventor Develops Intravascular Aortic Valve Extraction Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Georg Lutter of Kiel, Germany, has developed an intravascular aortic valve extraction device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perfusion catheter includes at least one perfusion channel and at least two dilation units disposed at a ...
Ohio Inventors Develop Air-Bubble-Monitoring Medication Assembly
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hal H. Katz of West Chester, Ohio, Paul J. Niklewski of Cincinnati, and Gregory D. Bishop of Hamilton, Ohio, have developed an air-bubble-monitoring medication assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-bubble-monitoring medication ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Hierarchical Storage Management Architecture
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- 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., Jeremy Schwartz of Red Bank, ...
Ohio, Kentucky, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Pneumoseal Trocar Arrangement
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- George A. J. Hartman and Jack B. Stubbs, both of Waynesville, Ohio, Ken Parker of Centerville, Ohio, Michael J. Campbell of Louisville, Ky., Ronald J. Thompson of Ft Thomas, Ky., and Donald N. Halgren of Manchester, Mass., have developed a pneumoseal trocar ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Needle Head Assembly
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kevin F. Kirk of Walled Lake, Mich., has developed a needle head assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The needle head assembly is used with an ISO luer lock or luer slip syringe having a single thread or multiple threads. The ...
British Inventor Develops Directly Engaged Syringe Driver System
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- James G. J. Shearn of Basingstoke, Great Britain, has developed a directly engaged syringe driver system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe driver system comprises a rotatable threaded lead screw shaft and a plunger which ...
German Inventor Develops Osteospermum Plant Named 'KLEOE05116'
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Nils Klemm of Stuttgart, Germany, has developed an Osteospermum plant named 'KLEOE05116'. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named 'KLEOE05116', characterized by its ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Luminescent Intensity Analysis Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Junta Yamamichi of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, has developed an intensity analysis apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image including a signal component and a background component is digitized into a brightness distribution and is ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Image Contrast Adjustment Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Albert Lin of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an image contrast adjusting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting image contrast has the steps of constructing a luminance histogram of an original image; acquiring an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Card System
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Saori Nishimura of Tokyo has developed an integrated circuit (IC) card for storing data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC card has a memory for storing data having a nest structure in which lower hierarchy data expressed in a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Disk Array Device, Remote Copying Control Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hidenori Suzuki of Atami, Japan, Keiichi Kaiya of Hadano, Japan, and Yusuke Hirakawa of Odawara, Japan, have developed a disk array device and remote copying control method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage Subsystem, Storage System
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Koji Arai and Koji Nagata, both of Odawara, Japan, have developed a storage subsystem and storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first storage subsystem, when new data is written in a first memory device beyond a certain ...
California Inventors Develop Strawberry Plant Named 'Driscoll Ojai'
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Amado Amorao of Camarillo, Calif., and Michael Ferguson of Moorpark, Calif., have developed a Strawberry plant named 'Driscoll Ojai'. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "new and distinct variety of strawberry ...
Australian Inventor Develops Poinsettia Plant Named 'Bonpoiakaichi'
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Andrew Bernuetz of Silverdale, Australia, has developed a Poinsettia plant named 'Bonpoiakaichi'. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "new and distinct cultivar of Poinsettia plant named 'Bonpoiakaichi', ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Storage System with Decentralized Cache Control Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Takashi Watanabe and Kazuichi Ooe, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a storage system with decentralized cache controlling device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a cache device that has a cache memory as ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yoshinori Tanaka and Yoko Fujiwara, both of Tokyo, Tsutomu Yamazaki of Odawara, Japan, and Masahiro Ozawa of Machida, Japan, have developed an image processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device extracts graphic ...
Virginia, Maryland Inventors Develop Image Segmentation Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Christopher A. Mayhew of Oakton, Va., and Michael B. Martin of Germantown, Md., have developed an image segmentation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image compositing and compression method based on the creation and processing ...
Texas, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Geometric Pattern Matching Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Dinesh Nair, Matthew S. Fisher, Satish V. Kumar and Subramanian Ramamoorthy, all from Austin, Texas, and Bruce Smyth of Hollis, N.H., have developed a geometric pattern matching method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Mandevilla Plant Named 'Sunmandecripi'
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Theo Ruys of Leimuiderbrug, Netherlands, has developed a Mandevilla plant named 'Sunmandecripi'. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "new and distinct cultivar of Mandevilla plant named 'Sunmandecripi', ...
Australian Inventor Develops Direct Access Storage Volumes Synchronization System
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Simon David Stewart of Ross Creek, Australia, has developed a direct access storage volume synchronizing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for synchronizing direct access storage volumes designated as managed by ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Subject Estimation Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kiyotaka Kaneko of Kaisei-machi, Japan, and Kazuo Shiota of Tokyo, have developed a subject estimating device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal computer issues an instruction to estimate a subject included in an image ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Disk Recording Apparatus
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Masahiko Arashi and Katsuo Tokuhara, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed an optical disk recording apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical disk apparatus includes a data conversion unit that converts input video data into ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Heat Sink Device for Conventional Memory Modules
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Vinod Kamath and Beth F. Loebach, both of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a heat sink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat sink device for conventional memory modules, such as dual in-line memory modules, that is configured to be ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Medium Flow Rate Determination Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Thomas Budmiger of Ettingen, Switzerland, has developed a magneto-inductive method for determining medium flow rate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a magneto-inductive method for determining the flow rate of a ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Heat Sink Fastening Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Cheng Sheng-Hsiung of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a heat sink fastening device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central processing unit (CPU) assembly is disclosed having: a CPU; a socket removably receiving the CPU; a heat ...
German Inventors Develop Device Measuring Module
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Torsten Mueller of Zirndorf, Germany, Birgit Seitz of Munich, Germany, Reiner Hausdorf of Ottobrunn, Germany, and Rudolf Reckziegel of Dresden, Germany, have developed a module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Storage Device Mounting Apparatus
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ding-Fang Li and Yang-Ming Lin, both of Shenzhen, China, have developed a storage device mounting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting apparatus includes a bracket, and a retainer slidably attached to the bracket. The ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Locking Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Siu-Ming Lam and Jui-Ting Tsai, both of Tao Yuan Shien, Taiwan, have developed a locking device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device for locking a removable module on an electronic device is provided. The locking device has ...
Delaware Inventor Develops Captive Shoulder Nut Assembly
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Thomas V. Aukzemas of Wilmington, Del., has developed a nut assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captive shoulder nut assembly, to hold a heat sink onto a PC board, has a nut member with a threaded portion and a tubular portion ...
Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors Develop Motherboard Mounting Apparatus
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yun-Lung Chen of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, and Yong-Chao Zou of Shenzhen, China, have developed a . According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting apparatus for securing a motherboard defining several locking holes includes a chassis, a lever and a ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Tongue Implant
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Charles Vassallo of Oxford, Conn., has developed an implant for tongue. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for treating a condition of a patient's airway includes identifying a patient with obstructive sleep apnea and ...
Florida Inventors Develop Structural Printed Wiring Board
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Anders P. Pedersen and Walter M. Whybrew, both of Palm Bay, Fla., Gregory M. Jandzio and Gary A. Rief, both of Melbourne, Fla., have developed a wiring board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural printed wiring board panel ...
British Inventors Develop Data Storage Device Carrier
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Mark Scicluna of Long Sutton, Great Britain, Paul Alan Bushby of Lancing, Great Britain, and Adam Wade of Rowlands Castle, Great Britain, have developed a device carrier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a carrier for a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Conversion Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hideto Motomura and Katsuhiro Kanamori, both of Nara, Japan, and Hiroyoshi Komobuchi of Kyoto, Japan, have developed an image converting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image feature analyzing section performs an image ...
Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors Develop Heat Sink Locking Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Cui-Jun Lu and Ling-Bo Cao, both of Shenzhen, China, and Hsieh-Kun Lee of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, have developed a heat sink device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device for securing a heat sink to a heat generating electronic ...
New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Heat Sink with Integral Card Guide
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Keith D. Mease of Gibbstown, N.J., and Sean M. McClain of Havertown, Pa., have developed a heat sink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat sink is configured to support an edge of a circuit card. The heat sink comprises a thermally ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Test Surface Measuring Instrument Holder
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Nobuaki Ueki of Saitama, Japan, has developed a method for holding measuring instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subject having a test surface is held by a holder so that an axis line of the test surface intersects the ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Portable Electronic Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kurt M. Hickey of Durham, N.C., has developed an electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device has a main body, a flip attached to the main body and multiple input interfaces. A first input interface is disposed ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Power Converter, Microsurge Suppressor
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Nobuyoshi Mutoh of Tokyo has developed a power converter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driving system includes an alternating current (AC) power supply, an AC reactor, a power converter and a motor. A microsurge suppressor is ...
Danish Inventor Develops Coriolis Principle Based Mass Flow Meter
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jan Zangenberg of Nordborg, Denmark, has developed a Coriolis principle based mass flow meter.According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "Coriolis mass meter with two tube sections connected by a coupling extending ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Specimen Elongation Measurement Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Cedo Nedic of Ann Arbor, Mich., has developed a fixture for measuring specimen elongation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture for measuring the elongation of a specimen includes a base. The base carries a fixture portion, and the ...
British Inventor Develops Metal Housing Electronic Device
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Simon Knight of Near Porth, Great Britain, has developed an electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns an electronic device comprising a set of electronic components, a housing element for lodging ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Plasma Display Module Chassis Structure
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Guy-Seong Kim and Won-Kyu Bang, both of Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a plasma display structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chassis structure for a plasma display module, and a plasma display module including the chassis ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Electronic Component Cooling Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Keng-Wen Tseng of Jhonghe, Taiwan, has developed a electronic component cooling device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device for electronic components has a main body, a motor, an adaptor tube, a shaft, a valve assembly, a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hisakazu Shiraki, Hideo Nakaya and Yuji Okumura, all from Kanagawa, Japan, and Tetsujiro Kondo of Tokyo, have developed an image processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an object extracting unit, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Printed Circuit Board
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yasushi Inagaki, Motoo Asai, Dongdong Wang, Hideo Yabashi and Seiji Shirai, all from Gifu, Japan, have developed a circuit board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip capacitor is provided in a core substrate of a printed circuit ...
Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Aerogel Composite Insulating Material
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Cedomila Ristic-Lehmann and Brian Farnworth, both of Elkton, Md., Anit Dutta of Wilmington, Del., and Bradley E. Reis of Landenberg, Pa., have developed an insulating material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A material comprising ...
Washington Inventors Develop Data Objects Recalling Technique
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ravisankar Pudipeddi and Ran Kalach, both of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a method for restoring data objects. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for recalling data objects stored on media. A queue is created for each medium ...
Canadian Inventor Develops Image Fusion Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yun Zhang of Fredericton, Canada, has developed an image fusing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of fusing a low resolution multispectral image with a high resolution panchromatic image comprising ...
Taiwanese, Chinese Inventors Develop Heat Sink Assembly
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hsieh-Kun Lee and Chun-Chi Chen, both of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, Shi-Wen Zhou and Zhan Wu, both of Shenzhen, China, have developed a heat sink assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat sink assembly includes a heat spreader, a plurality ...
California Inventor Develops Radio Frequency Amplifier Assembly
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Nader Nikfar of Carlsbad, Calif., has developed an amplifier assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency (RF) amplifier assembly employing a finned heat sink and a heat pipe enhanced aluminum pallet is disclosed. The ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Aqueous Tobacco Extract Treatment Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Bruce T. Thompson of Macon, Ga., has developed an aqueous tobacco extract treating method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process is disclosed for removing proteins and other undesirable biomolecules from tobacco extract or slurry via ...
Chinese Inventor Develop Cooling Device with Boiling Chamber
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Tay-Jian Liu of Guangdong, China, has developed a cooling device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device incorporating a boiling chamber includes a heat sink, a fan and a fan duct covering the heat sink and the fan therein. The ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Multilayer Wiring Board
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Tomoo Iijima and Yoshitaka Fukuoka, both of Tokyo, have developed a wiring board. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a multilayer wiring board mainly used for an electronic device, in which a bump passing through an interlayer ...
California Inventor Develops Substrate Component Capacitor Plate
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Thane M. Larson of Roseville, Calif., has developed a capacitor plate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus to mount a capacitor plate to a substrate, under a component. One embodiment of the invention involves a method ...
Japanese Inventor Develops High Frequency Module
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Shuhji Matsuura of Nara, Japan, has developed a module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high frequency module that has a structure in which a frame-shaped shield case is attached to a circuit substrate, wherein an extending segment ...
Texas Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Cooling Method
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Rakesh Bhatia of Austin, Texas, has developed a circuit cooling apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, heat from a computer component may be absorbed into a medium, moved to a remote heat dispersal unit and ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Ball Grid Array Resistor Capacitor Network
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jason Langhorn of South Bend, Ind., and Craig Ernsberger of Granger, Ind., have developed a capacitor network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An resistor - capacitor network formed on a substrate. The capacitor includes a metal member ...
California Inventors Develop Air Duct with Airtight Seal
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Bryan Bolich and Victoria Tsang Tam, both of Davis, Calif., Christopher G. Malone of Loomis, Calif., and Glenn C. Simon of Auburn, Calif., have developed an air duct. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling apparatus comprises a ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Liquid Measurement Vessel
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- David Green of Toronto, and David Chan of Scarborough, Canada, have developed a liquid measuring vessel having a removable volume indicating clip, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,340,953 on March ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Fluted Anode
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Randy S. Hahn of Simpsonville, S.C., and Yongjian Qiu of Greenville, S.C., have developed a fluted anode. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anode with an anode body with a first side and a second side opposite to said first side, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electric Double-Layer Capacitor
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Takaya Sato, Gen Masuda, Mitsugu Kotani and Shunsuke Iizuka, all from Chiba, Japan, have developed a capacitor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electrical double-layer capacitor having a pair of polarizable electrodes, a separator ...
South Carolina Inventors Develop Aluminum Anode Foil Capacitor
Mar 24, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- John Tony Kinard and Brian John Melody, both of Greer, S.C., Albert Kennedy Harrington of Mauldin, S.C., David Alexander Wheeler of Williamston, S.C., and Duane Earl Stenzinger of Simpsonville, S.C., have developed a capacitor. According to the U.S. Patent ...