US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, April 10:
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink-Repellent Film Head Member
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Takuya Miyakawa, Yoshiyuki Isobe and Takeshi Yasoshima, all from Nagano-ken, Japan, have developed a head member. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a head member having an ink-repellent film high in ink repellency, a method ...
Texas Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Testing Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Gerald D. Zuraski Jr. and Scott A. White, both of Austin, Texas, have developed an integrated circuit testing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "hierarchical encoding format for coding repairs to devices ...
Florida Inventor Develops Hose/Clamp Assembly
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Craig W. Martus of Marion County, Fla., has developed a hose clamp, and a retaining device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hose/clamp assembly is provided that has a hose, a hose clamp, and a retaining device. The hose clamp is ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink Jet Printing Apparatus
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Atsushi Sakamoto, Norihiro Kawatoko, Yuji Hamasaki, Toshiyuki Chikuma and Jiro Moriyama, all from Kawasaki, Japan, Hidehiko Kanda of Yokohama, Japan, Aya Hayashi of Sendai, Japan, Masashi Hayashi of Sagamihara, Japan, and Hirokazu Tanaka of Tokyo, have developed an ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Device Diagnostic System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Tisson K. Mathew of Hillsboro, Ore., and Sivakumar Sathappan of Beaverton, Ore., have developed a dDevice diagnostic system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device management system includes a backplane, a device that communicates via ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Buffered Memory Module
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jeong-Hyeon Cho of Seoul, South Korea, Byung-Se So of Seongnam, South Korea, and Jae-Jun Lee of Yongin, South Korea, have developed a buffered memory module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffered memory module includes a buffer ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Exhaust Gas Catalytic Converter
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Seiji Miyoshi, Hiroshi Yamada and Akihide Takami, all from Hiroshima, Japan, have developed an exhaust gas catalytic converter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is intended to ensure the improvement in catalytic ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Hard Disk Drive Actuator Assembly
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Dong-ho Oh of Seoul, South Korea, Yong-kyu Byun of Yongin-si, South Korea, Cheol-soon Kim of Anyang-si, South Korea, and Haeng-soo Lee of Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a hard disk drive actuator. assembly. According to a description of the invention, ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Telecommunications Device Fault Protection System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Brent K. Parrish of Hollis, N.H., has developed a fault protection for a telecommunications device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a telecommunications device includes a bus and a controller coupled to the ...
California Inventor Develops Disk Drive Suspension
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- A. David Erpelding of San Jose, Calif., has developed a disk drive suspension. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference plane is added to the freestanding conductors of a wireless suspension to maintain a continuous reference plane ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Information Recording Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Koubun Sakagami of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a method for recording information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of recording data as presence/absence of marks on an information recording medium includes a step of obtaining ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Microcode Lock Management Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Enrique Garcia of Tucson, Ariz., has developed a method for managing a microcode lock. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a power controller or other computing resource shared by multiple processors, an identity (ID) is written to the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Internal Combustion Engine Exhaust Emission Purification Catalyst Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Kinichi Iwachido and Hiroaki Ohhara, both of Aichi, Japan, and Seiji Kikuchi of Okazaki, Japan, have developed an engine exhaust emission control apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an exhaust emission purifying ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Ink Jet Printing Apparatus
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Edward R. Moynihan of Plainfield, N.H., has developed an ink jet printer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet printing system comprises an ink jet print head including one or more nozzles for ejecting ink drops. A substrate is ...
California Inventor Develops Three Terminal Magnetic Sensor
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jeffrey S. Lille of Sunnyvale, Calif., has developed a three terminal magnetic (TTM) sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The TTM sensor includes a semiconductor structure and a spin valve structure, where the semiconductor structure ...
British Inventor Develops Tunnel Magneto-Resistance Head
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Kenchi Ito of Cambridge, Great Britain, has developed a magnetic read head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunnel magneto-resistance head capable of reconciling high output with high band width is implemented. To that end, two ...
California Inventor Develops Programmable Embedded Logic Analyzer
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- John Lock Creigh of Rancho Santa Margari, Calif., has developed a programmable embedded logic analyzer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logic analyzer having internal access to the test buses, clocks and events of a chip is used to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Droplet Ejection Head Wiping Unit
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Shinichi Nakamura of Okaya, Japan, has developed a wiping unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wipe-off unit is provided with a cleaning liquid ejection member in a manner to be positioned below a horizontal surface coincident with a ...
California Inventors Develop Composite Sensor Membrane
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Arun Majumdar of Orinda, Calif., Srinath Satyanarayana of Berkeley, Calif., and Min Yue of Albany, Calif., have developed a biological sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor may include a membrane to deflect in response to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ink-Jet Recovery Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Kan Ishikawa of Toyoake, Japan, and Takaichiro Umeda of Nagoya, Japan, have developed an ink-jet recovery apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink-jet recovery device includes a rotation member, an ink absorbing member, a moving ...
California Inventor Develops Sealed Multi-Chambered Bag
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- James F. McNulty of Calimesa, Calif., has developed an ozonizer apparatus for sterilizing items. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed multi-chambered bag, that is a flexible container, is made of dielectric material and contains two ...
Texas Inventors Develop Fiber Optic Local Convergence Points for Multiple Dwelling Units
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Terry Dean Cox and Thomas Shaw Liggett, both of Keller, Texas, Guy Castonguay of Fort Worth, Texas, and Selena Strickland of Haltom City, Texas, have developed a fiber optic hardware. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided ...
New York Inventors Develop System Control Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Daniel J. Kearney of Ulster Park, N.Y., William P. Kostenko of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Robert Philip Makowicki of Staatsburg, N.Y., have developed a system controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a ...
California Inventors Develop Magnetic Write Head
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Qing He and Loi Dac Pham, both of Fremont, Calif., David John Seagle of Morgan Hill, Calif., and Marcos Moises Lederman of San Francisco, have developed a magnetic write head. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic write head ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Test Apparatus, Cable Guide Unit
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Masashi Shibata, Toshiyuki Okayasu and Tsutomu Akiyama, all from Tokyo, have developed a test apparatus and a cable guide unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test apparatus includes a test head including a plurality of test boards ...
Texas Inventors Develop Computer Systems Fibre Channel Error Recovery Mechanism
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- William H. Moody II and John F. Tyndall, both of Austin, Texas, have developed computer systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "systems and methods for performing error recovery in a system utilizing redundant ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Data Processing System Diagnostic Service Providing Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Thomas James Fox of Apex, N.C., Eric R. Kern of Durham, N.C., Charles Christian Queen of Cary, N.C., and Celia Anne Schreiber of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ...
Danish Inventors Develop Mircrostructured Optical Fiber
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jes Broeng of Birkerod, Denmark, Stig Eigil Barkou Libori of Soborg, Denmark, and Anders Bjarklev of Roskilde, Denmark, have developed a photonic bandgap fibre. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "mircrostructured ...
Washington Inventors Develop Network Diagnostic System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- David G. Thaler and Alexandru Gavrilescu, both of Redmond, Wash., and Tin Qian of Bellevue, Wash., have developed a method for performing network diagnostics. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network diagnostics system allows ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Circuit with Optical Element
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Junji Nishii and Tatsuhiro Nakazawa, both of Ikeda, Japan, Shigeo Kittaka and Keiji Tsunetomo, both of Osaka, Japan, have developed an optical element producing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical element of the present ...
French Inventors Develop Alkali Metals Treatment Process
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Olivier Carra of Peyrins, France, and Yves Demoisy of Jouques, France, have developed an alkali metals treatment process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for treating alkali metals such as sodium ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Fuels Desulfurization Apparatus
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Joseph C. Poshusta of Broomfield, Colo., and Jerry L. Martin of Superior, Colo., have developed a fuels desulfurization process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fuel is desulfurized with a rapid cycle desulfurization-regeneration method ...
Texas Inventors Develop Fiber Optic Housing Assembly
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Mark D. Appenzeller and Danny McGranahan, both of Fort Worth, Texas, Brent M. Frazier of Haslet, Texas, Raymond G. Jay of Arlington, Texas, and Craig A. Strause of Springtown, Texas, have developed a fiber optic splice portion. An abstract of the invention, ...
Singapore Inventor Develops Optical, Electronic Chips Integration Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- My The Doan of Singapore has developed a method for an integration of optical and electronic chips. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new method to form a very large-scale integration-photonic heterogeneous system device is achieved. The ...
Texas Inventor Develops Photonic Crystal Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Shih-Yuan Wang of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a photonic crystal device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a photonic crystal having a plurality of voids disposed in a periodic lattice throughout a dielectric ...
Tennessee, Georgia Inventors Develop Coin Display Book
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Richard Hilicki of Brentwood, Tenn., and Harold Anderson of Atlanta, Ga., have developed a book displaying one or more coins related to its theme. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "book that is capable of ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Computer Error Correction Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Chih-Wei Chen of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a computer error correcting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of providing a real time solution to an error occurred when a computer is turned ...
Vermont Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Testing System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Alvar A. Dean of Essex Junction, Vt., and Sebastian T. Ventrone of South Burlington, Vt., have developed a test system for integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test board includes a plurality of sockets for connection to ...
Texas, North Carolina Inventors Develop Sulfuric Acid Regeneration Process
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Lawrence A. Smith Jr. of Pasadena, Texas, and Abraham P. Gelbein of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a sulfuric acid regeneration process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the regeneration of sulfuric acid contaminated with ...
Missouri, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Nanoparticle-Based Non-Antibody Emulsion
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Gregory M. Lanza and Samuel A. Wickline, both of St. Louis, and Tom Harris of Salem, N.H., have developed nanoparticle-based emulsions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emulsions preferably of nanoparticles formed from high boiling liquid ...
Texas Inventors Develop Improved Data Processing System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Riaz Y. Hussain and Frank Eliot Levine, both of Austin, Texas, and Jimmie Earl DeWitt Jr. of Georgetown, Texas, have developed an improved data processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, apparatus, and computer ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Access Log Storage System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Akihiko Oda of Hino, Japan, has developed a digital multi-function apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "access log storing system to save access history from outside the system as log data having a first ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Fiber Coiled Cord
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Kazumasa Ohsono, Masao Tachikura, Yoshinori Kurosawa, Yoshikazu Namekawa, Kenji Kawase, Toshio Kurashima, Eiji Araki and Katumi Hiramatu, all from Tokyo, have developed a transmission line with an optical fiber cord. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Media Cartridge Storage Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Michael Philip McIntosh and Shawn Michael Nave, both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a cartridge storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge storage device includes a housing having a front and a back. A plurality of ...
Nevada Inventor Develops Three Color Digital Gobo System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jeremiah J. Harris of Las Vegas has developed an electronic gobo controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system of digitally controlling light output by producing separate control signals for ...
Illinois, Arizona Inventors Develop Oxidation Process for Desulphurization Process
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Gary J. Nagl of Deer Park, Ill., Myron Reicher of Arlington Heights, Ill., and Derek McManus of Goodyear, Ariz., have developed a liquid redox catalyst solution oxidizer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved oxidizer for liquid ...
French Inventor Develops System Failure Location Aiding Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jean-Yves Longere of Gardanne, France, has developed a device for aiding in locating system failure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for aiding the location of a failure within a complex system may include a database that stores ...
California Inventor Develops Independent Disk Redundant Array Technology
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Steven M. Keller of Los Gatos, Calif., has developed a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) technology. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of ...
Minnesota, Colorado Inventors Develop Data Storage System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Srinivas Tadepalli of Eden Prairie, Minn., and David Olivero of Longmont, Colo., have developed a data storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The data storage system has an enclosure with at least one disc rotating about a ...
Florida Inventor Develops Stationery Product Incorporating Fiber Optic
Apr 10, 2008 ... ZALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Barry Silberman of Boca Raton, Fla., has developed a stationery product. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive subject matter is directed toward a stationery item having bundles of fiber optics that extend through an outside ...
British Inventor Develops Magnetic Tape Transfer Apparatus Guide System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Russell Ian Monk of Caldicot, Great Britain, has developed a magnetic tape transfer apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape guide system for supporting magnetic tape about a rotary scan drum of a data transfer apparatus is ...
Michigan, Illinois Inventors Develop Tension Sensing Assembly for Vehicle
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- James L. Webber and Michael T. Moury both of Shelby Township, Mich., David L. Maloney of Barrington, Ill., ; Guy A. Wojtanek of West Chicago, Ill., Gary R. Grieb of Lake Orion, Mich., and David G. Hlavaty of Northville, Mich., have developed a tension sensing ...
British Inventors Develop Magnetic Tape Cartridge Loading Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Philip Turner and Mark Dillon, both of Bristol, Great Britain, and Andrew Mark Fernihough of Bath, Great Britain, have developed magnetic tape cartridges. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge loading device for magnetic tape ...
California Inventors Develop Memory Testing Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Andrew H. Barr, Ken G. Pomaranski and Dale J. Shidla, all from Roseville, Calif., have developed a method for testing a memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system that includes a processor, a first bus coupled to the ...
British Inventors Develop Data Processing Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Ian J. Mitchell of Eastleigh, Great Britain, and Steven Powell of Winchester, Great Britain, have developed a data processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method, system, computer program ...
German Inventors Develop Optical Transmission Element
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Reiner Schneider of Ebersdorf, Germany, Edgar Heinz of Steinach, Germany, and Frank Koschwitz of Rodental, Germany, have developed an optical transmission element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Between an optical fiber and a ...
Germany Inventor Develops Hand-Held Power Tool with Angle Drive
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Josef Hunger of Fuchstal, Germany, has developed an electrically driven hand-held power tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held power tool includes an angle drive for connecting the motor-driven driving shaft and the driven ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Silicon Wafer Production Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Shigeru Umeno, Yasuhiro Oura and Koji Kato, all from Tokyo have developed a silicon wafer. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a silicon wafer which is suitably ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Disc Drive Shock Operating Sensor
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Qiang Bi, Xiong Liu, LeeLing Tan, Wen-Jun Cao and ChoonKiat Lim, all from Singapore, have developed disc drive servo control systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preventing a write operation to a disc in a disc drive ...
British, Australian Inventors Develop Anti-Cancer Drug Conjugation Method
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Terence Lappin of Hillsborough, Great Britain, John Mann of Hollywood, Great Britain, Perry Maxwell of Northern Ireland, Great Britain, and Michael McManus of Black Rock, Australia, have developed a cancer treatment medicament. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Steering Column Assembly
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Richard K Riefe and Ravindra Jwalapathy of Saginaw, Mich., Minoo J. Shah of Farmington Hills, Mich., Ray G. Armstrong of Bay City, Mich., have developed a steering column assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering column ...
Spanish Inventors Develop Microporous Crystalline Zeolite Materials
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Avelino Corma Canos, Maria Jose Sabater Picot and Susana Valencia Valencia, all from Valencia, Spain, have developed microporous crystalline zeolite materials. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Texas, California Inventors Develop Nanotubes Manipulation System
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Jian Chen of Richardson, Texas, and Mark J. Dyer of San Jose, Calif., have developed a nanotube manipulation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for manipulation of nanotubes using an organic material that is ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Fiber Breakout with Radio Frequency Identification Device
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Michael Noonan of Shrewsbury, Mass., Randy Reagan of Clinton, Mass., Yu Lu of Westborough, Mass., and Jeff Gniadek of Northbridge, Mass., have developed a radio frequency identification device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fiber ...
California Inventor Develops Hand Tool with Double Compound Leverage
Apr 10, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 10 -- Paul M. Janson of Northridge, Calif., has developed a double compound lever hand tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand tool for use by one hand provides double compound leverage of the force exerted on the handles to the jaws ....