US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, April 14:
Japanese Inventor Develops Low Current Consumption Circuit
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Hiroshi Shirota of Tokyo has developed a consumption circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first in first out (FIFO) circuit includes a write counter circuit, a memory circuit, a read counter circuit and a selector circuit. The ...
California Inventors Develop Patchable, Programmable Decode
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Shailender Chaudhry of San Francisco, Paul Caprioli of Mountain View, Calif., Quinn A. Jacobson of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Marc Tremblay of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a programmable decode. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
New York Inventors Develop Multiprocessor Subsystem
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Christos J. Georgiou of Scarsdale, N.Y., Victor L. Gregurick of Hyde Park, N.Y., and Valentina Salapura of Chappaqua, N.Y., have developed a multiprocessor subsystem. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system-on-chip (SoC) component ...
South Carolina, California Inventors Develop Micro Metal Structures Printing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Paul A. Farrar of Bluffton, S.C., and Jerome M. Eldridge of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a method for printing liquid material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for printing liquid material such as liquid solder ...
California, Virginia Inventors Develop Pipelined Memory Operations Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Richard M. Barth and John B. Dillon, both of Palo Alto, Calif., Ely K. Tsern and Donald C. Stark, both of Los Altos, Calif., Mark A. Horowitz of Menlo Park, Calif., Craig E. Hampel of San Jose, Calif., Frederick A. Ware of Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Nancy David ...
Texas Inventors Develop Functional Unit Sharing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Jike Chong, Christopher Olson and Gregory F. Grohoski, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a functional unit sharing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for sharing a functional unit. In one embodiment, a ...
Texas Inventors Develop Page Replacement Policy
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- David Alan Hepkin and Thomas Stanley Mathews, both of Austin, Texas, have developed a page replacement policy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data processing system utilizing multiple page sizes for virtual memory paging, a system, ...
New York Inventors Develop Matrix Columns Partitioning Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Kerim Kalafala of Rhinebeck, N.Y., Vasant Rao of Fishkill, N.Y., and Chandramouli Visweswariah of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., have developed a vectors clustering product. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program product ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Storage Utilization Reporting Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Serge Marokhovsky of Upton, Mass., has developed a storage utilization reporting system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage arrays are subdivided into a plurality of physical and logical entities to provide a framework of the ...
California Inventors Develop Page Locality Maximization Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Shimon Muller of Sunnyvale, Calif., Rahoul Puri of Los Altos, Calif., and Michael Wong of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a page locality maximizing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for maximizing page locality within a ...
Illinois, California Inventors Develop Network Marketing Clearance System
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Peter A. Alsberg of Lake Forest, Ill., and Andrew J. Wise of Los Altos Hills, Calif., have developed a network market biding clearance system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a marketplace, offers are processed that are intended to be ...
California Inventors Develop Application-Based Commit for Local Storage Subsystems
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Amir A. Jafri and Mark J. Seaman, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed a commit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to protect data including a processor and a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions executable by ...
U.S., Russian Inventors Develop Server Rapid Restoration Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Alexander G. Tormasov, Maxim V. Tsypliaev and Maxim V. Lyadvinsky, all from Moscow, Russia, and Serguei M. Beloussov of Herndon, Va., have developed a server restoring system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server is restored by ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Data Management Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Michael D. Haynes and Dennis Duprey, both of Raleigh, N.C., David Haase of Fuquay Varina, N.C., and Somnath Gulve of Morrisville, N.C., have developed a data managing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is a system and ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Data Store Management Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Gerhard D. Klassen and Robbie J. Maurice of Waterloo, Canada, have developed a data store management system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the teaching described herein, systems and methods are provided for managing ...
New Jersey, California Inventors Develop Processor Access Module
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Peter Zenon Onufryk of Flanders, N.J., and Cesar Talledo of San Jose, Calif., have developed an external observation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor access module receives a data command from an agent located ...
Texas Inventors Develop Reconfigurable State Machine
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Fuk Ho Pius Ng of Plano, Texas, and Y. Paul Chiang of Richardson, Texas, have developed a state machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable state machine is provided. The state machine includes a current state register, for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Nonvolatile Memory
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Tsutomu Baba of Nagano, Japan, has developed a nonvolatile memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory may include a plurality of blocks as a unit for performing writing and erasing of data which is stored in the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Backup Technique for Recording Devices
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Tetsuroh Nishimura of Yokosuka, Japan, Kyohsuke Mukuda of Yokohama, Japan, Ayako Yamamoto of Kawasaki, Japan, and Kaori Takizawa of Tokyo, have developed a backup technique. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the invention is ...
Colorado Inventors Develop File Security Management Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- James E. Pherson, Diana Shen, Paul D. Guttormson and Michael Dean Walker, all from Colorado Springs, Colo., have developed a file security management method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing security management ...
California Inventors Develop Memory Request Reordering Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Jonathan B. Sadowsky and Aditya Navale, both of El Dorado Hills, Calif., have developed a memory requests reordering apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for reordering memory requests for page coherency ....
California Inventor Develops Financial Processing System
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- George Robert Hood of Poway, Calif., has developed a financial processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A financial processing system that accesses account, event and organization attributes from a relational database ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Storage Device
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Jun Tsuiki of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a storage device which receives input of data of arbitrary data length, stores the data, and outputs the ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Bus Controller, Virtual Bridge
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Lin-Hung Chen and Jui-Ming Wei, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a bus controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus controller and a control method are used in a computer system. In a bus controller, a bus controller main ...
Arizona, Texas Inventors Develop Heterogeneous Interconnects Implementation Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Samantha J. Edirisooriya, Gregory W. Tse, R. Frank O'Bleness and Hang T.Nguyen, all from Tempe, Ariz., Steven J. Tu of Phoenix, David E. Miner of Chandler, Ariz., and Sujat Jamil of Austin, Texas, have developed interconnects. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Minnesota Inventor Develops Signal Re-Routing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Michael Erdmann of Apple Valley, Minn., has developed signals re-routing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "plurality of memory modules used in a computer system each include a memory hub that is connected ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Credit Mechanism for Multiple Banks
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Yen-Cheng Liu and Ganapati Srinivasa, both of Portland, Ore., Krishnakanth Sistla and Geeyarpuram Santhanakrishnan, both of Hillsboro, Ore., and George Cai of Lake Oswego, Ore., have developed a credit mechanism. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Content Addressable Memory Search Performing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Richard Waterhouse and Robert N. McKenzie, both of Ottawa, and Lawrence King of Carp, Canada, have developed a method for content addressable memories searching. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing the number of cycles ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Radial Tilt Detecting Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Byung-in Ma, Kwan-joon Kim, In-sik Park and Byoung-ho Choi, all from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a radial tilt detecting apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of, and an apparatus for detecting a radial tilt of ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Adaptive Caching
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Eshwari P. Komarla of Karnataka, India, and Vincent J. Zimmer of Federal Way, Wash., have developed an adaptive caching. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for cache management. An incoming request to access a first ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Optical Storage Disc Blank Detection Performing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Chin-Huo Chu of Kao-Hsiung Hsien, Taiwan, and Chun-Ying Chiang of Chia-I, Taiwan, have developed an optical storage disc blank detection performing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing blank detection on an ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Processor Blockage Detection Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Ray Wei and Wayne Huang, both of Hsin-Tien, Taiwan, have developed a condition detector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining blocking signals is used to judge whether to block a return signal transmitted to a central ...
Oregon, Washington, California Inventors Develop Input, Output Communication Architecture
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Jasmin Ajanovic, David Harriman and David M. Lee, all from Portland, Ore., Wayne Moore of Hillsboro, Ore., Eric R. Wehage of Tenino, Wash., Buck Gremel of Olympia, Wash., Ken Creta of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Blaise Fanning of El Dorado Hills, Calif., have developed an ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Re-Writable Optical Disk Drive
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Shih-Fang Chen and Chin-Yin Tsai, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a re-writable optical disk drive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical disk drive of recording a re-writable optical disk and the method thereof. First, an ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical-Disk Drive Device
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Makoto Takashima of Ikoma, Japan, and Hideki Aikoh of Higashiosaka, Japan, have developed an optical disk. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An optical-disk drive device is provided which is capable of ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Memory Management System
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Chu-Ching Yang of Yongkang, Taiwan, has developed a memory management system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management system and method. The system includes a first storage device and a processing unit. The first storage ...
California Inventors Develop String Match Implementing Circuit
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Michael J. Miller of Saratoga, Calif., and Vladan Djakovic of San Francisco, have developed a switching circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content matching engine (CME) uses a content addressable memory (CAM) array that stores a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Time-Out Control Apparatus
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Taisaku Suzuki, Yoichi Yamamoto and Mami Takahashi, all from Hiroshima-ken, Japan, and Yasuo Hamamoto of Osaka-fu, Japan, have developed a time-out controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is built on a time out ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Clamper Magnetism Testing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Chen-Jung Hsu of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a method of clamper magnetism testing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetism test method for a tray-type optical drive is disclosed. A preliminary input voltage is provided to a direct ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Recording Apparatus
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Akira Shirota, Kunihiko Horikawa, Eiji Muramatsu and Shoji Taniguchi, all from Tokorozawa, Japan, have developed an information recording method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information recording apparatus irradiates a laser beam ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Information Recording Medium
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Shinya Narumi and Hiroshi Deguchi, both of Yokohama, Japan, Katsuyuki Yamada of Zama, Japan, Masaki Kato of Sagamihara, Japan, and Hajime Yuzurihara of Odawara, Japan, have developed an information recording device. According to a description of the ...
California Inventors Develop Multiple Independent Coherence Planes for Maintaining Coherency
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Ricky C. Hetherington of Pleasanton, Calif., and Stephen E. Phillips of Los Gatos, Calif., have developed a independent coherence plane. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a node comprises at least one processor core and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Disk Device Recording Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Hiroyuki Minemura of Kokubunji, Japan, and Koichi Watanabe of Hachioji, Japan, have developed an information recording method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order that it is realized to put 16.times. speed Digital Versatile ...
U.S., German, Dutch Inventors Develop Cache Effects Reduction Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Rogier Wester of Waalre, Netherlands, Jan-Willem Van De Waerdt of Hamburg, Germany, and Gert Slavenburg of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a cache effects reducing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cache memory interrupt service ...
Indian Inventor Develops Hole-Filling Content Addressable Memory
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Udaya Shankara of Bangalore, India, has developed an addressable memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device comprising a content addressable memory (CAM), based on partitioning and the hole-filling technique, may utilize ...
California Inventors Develop Laser Driver
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Theodore D. Rees and Miguel Gabino Perez, both of Mountain View, Calif., and D. Stuar Smitht of San Jose, Calif., have developed laser drivers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Double buffering of serial transfers is provided in order to ...
Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Shared Lease Instruction Support for Transient Blocking Synchronization
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Daniel S. Nussbaum and Nir N. Shavit, both of Cambridge, Mass., Guy L. Steele of Lexington, Mass., and Mark S. Moir of Hampton, N.H., have developed an instruction support. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system implementing ...
COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT SHUT DOWN
Apr 14, 2008 ... Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala. (1st CD), issued the following column: At a time when our national economy is struggling with sky-rocketing gas prices and a slowing job market, the House Democratic majority chose to indefinitely delay the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a bill that would ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Transfer Processing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Kazumi Hayasaka of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a data transfer processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing which, in conventional data transfer processing, entails the use of the common bus when performing processing ...
Austrian Inventor Develops Connection Features Availability Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Walter Hipfinger of Vienna, Austria, has developed a method for creating connections. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for creating alternative routes to primary connections, particularly to voice-over ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Optimal Writing Power Maintaining Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Joung Woo Kim and Cheul Kyung Han, both of Kyunggi-do, South Korea, have developed an optimal writing power maintaining system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of maintaining an optimal writing ...
California Inventors Develop Storage Shelf Router Integrated Circuit Implementation Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Joseph Harold Steinmetz, Murthy Kompella, Matthew Paul Wakeley and Jeffrey Douglas Scotten, all from Roseville, Calif., have developed a storage-shelf implementation method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optimum Recording Power Determining Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Kenji Koishi and Shuichi Tasaka, both of Hyogo, Japan, Mamoru Shoji of Osaka, Japan, and Eiichi Igami of Kyoto, Japan, have developed an optimum recording power determining system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Storage Medium Evaluation Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Akihito Ogawa of Yokohama, Japan, and Yuji Nagai of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed an information reproduction apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information storage medium according to an aspect of this invention has an ...
California Inventors Develop Bi-Directional Reflective Memory Channel
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Roger T. Thorpe, Erasmo Brenes and Alec Shen, all from Irvine, Calif., and Stephen O'Neil of Coronoa, Calif., have developed a memory channel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bi-directional reflective memory channel between a pair of ...
California Inventor Develops Hierarchical Memory Access Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Jens A. Roever of Los Gatos, Calif., has developed a memory accessing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit arrangement and method utilize a hierarchical pipelined memory-access structure incorporating deferred arbitration ...
California Inventors Develop Traffic Matrix Assessment Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Antonio Nucci of Burlingame, Calif., and Nina Taft of San Francisco, have developed a matrix estimating method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises methods for increasing the rank of the routing matrix of an ...
Texas, Tennessee Inventors Develop Information Accessing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Brett W. Murdock of Round Rock, Texas, William C. Moyer of Dripping Springs, Texas, and Michael D. Fitzsimmons of Crossville, Tenn., have developed an information accessing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed ...
Texas Inventors Develop Memory Testing Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- John MacLaren of Cypress, Texas, Thomas J. Bonola of Magnolia, Texas, and Jerry Johnson of Spring, Texas, have developed a memory test. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory subsystem may be usable in an electronic system. The memory ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Erase Pattern Information Recording Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Seong-sue Kim and Yong-jin Ahn, both of Seoul, South Korea, In-sik Park and Du-seop Yoon, both of Suwon-si, South Korea, and Kyung-geun Lee of Seongnam-si, South Korea, have developed an erase pattern information recording system. According to the U.S. Patent ...
California Inventors Develop Data Virtualization Method
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Gururaj Pangal and Edward D. McClanahan , both of Pleasanton, Calif., Michael B. Schmitz of Oakland, Calif., and Vinodh Ravindran of San Jose, Calif., have developed a data virtualization apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Sync Frames Sequence Information Recording Apparatus
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Naruhiro Masui of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a sync frames sequence information recording method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an information recording method and apparatus, a sequence of sync frames indicative of data is ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Storage Control Method for Database Recovery
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Nobuo Kawamura of Atsugi, Japan, has developed a storage control method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a storage control method in a storage system having a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Digital Signal Recordable Optical Disc
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Yutaka Nagai and Takehiko Sekine, both of Yokohama, Japan, have developed an optical disk recording apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For protecting the recording from shifting in the position, by conducting sync detection, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Write-Once Media
Apr 14, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 14 -- Mitsutoshi Terada and Shoei Kobayashi, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a write-once media including an optical disk. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording medium that is a write-once recording medium with data ...