US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, April 17:
Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Carton Closure
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- George Solowiejko and Gordon E. VerWeyst, both of Rockford, Ill., and Edward P. Cronin of Brodhead, Wis., have developed an ornamental design for a closure for a carton, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tie-Down Bracket
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ricky W. Selby of Moosup, Conn., has developed an ornamental design for a tie-down bracket, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,935 on April 8. The patent has been assigned to Keeper Corp., ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Cask
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Haruo Morishige of Kobe, Japan, has developed a concrete cask. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of this invention is to provide a fiber-reinforced concrete cask that ensures easy working, enables reducing working cost, excels ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Moving Strap Extender
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Michael F. Richey of Stafford Springs, Conn., has developed an ornamental design for a moving strap extender, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,942 on April 8. The original application was ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Hook Coupling
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Eric Henricus Werner Peters and Pascal Peter Andre Van Kempen, both of Boxmeer, Netherlands, Adrianus Josephes Van De Nieuwelaar of Gemert, Netherlands, Jan Willem Bos of Haps, Netherlands, and Jenneke Antonia Christina Lankhaar of Zaltbommel, Netherlands, have ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Analyzer Magnet Chamber Liner
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Wei Zhong Cao, Wai Leong Yip, Wen Jen Ronald Yeu and Hong Kiat Chia, all from Singapore, have developed a chamber liner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waveguide liner for an analyzer magnet chamber having three interlocking pieces of ...
German Inventors Develop Beam Allocation Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jakob Naumann and Klaus Poppensieker, both of Darmstadt, Germany, have developed a beam allocation apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a beam allocation apparatus for medical particle accelerators and also ...
British Inventor Develops Wafer Support for Ion Implanter
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Adrian Murrell of Horsham, Great Britain, has developed a contamination reducer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer support for an ion implanter includes a wafer holder and a support arm for the holder in the implant chamber. A ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Guy Considine of Libertyville, Ill., Scott Jost of Naperville, Ill., and Liam Hawry of Chicago, have developed an ornamental design for a container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,958 on April ...
Belarusian Inventor Develops Portable Watch with Radiation Monitor
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Aliaksandr Alexeevich Antanouski of Minsk, Belarus, has developed a hand-held watch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist-wearable device combines timekeeping functions with monitoring of the radiation dosage to which the user is ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Butterfly Clip
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- David E Pitcher of Cambridge, Mass., has developed an ornamental design for a butterfly clip, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,944 on April 8. The patent has been assigned to Rose Displays ...
Washington Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Push/Pull Slam Latch
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Patrick C. Moran, Ximena Rozo and Juliane B. Trummer, all from Seattle, Christopher Samhammer and Richard K. Simms, both of Redmond, Wash., and Linsey K. Mallory of Montesano, Wash., have developed an ornamental design for a push/pull slam latch, the U.S. Patent ...
South Carolina, New York Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Aerosol Dispenser
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Michael Paul Downey of Greenville, S.C., and Timothy O'Toole of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have developed an ornamental design for aerosol dispenser for a pressurized container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
Canadian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Slotted Disk
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Peter E. Sandford of London, Canada, has developed an ornamental design for a slotted disk, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,951 on April 8. The patent has been assigned to Die-X-Ltd., ...
Massachusetts, Florida Inventors Develop Semiconductor Device Manufacturing Process
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Kenneth H. Purser of Lexington, Mass., Harald A. Enge of Sherborn, Mass., and Norman L. Turner of Vero Beach, Fla., have developed an ion-beam controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus satisfying growing demands ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ion Beam Irradiation System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Mitsuaki Kabasawa, Mitsukuni Tsukihara and Hiroshi Sogabe, all from Ehime, Japan, have developed an irradiation system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irradiation system comprises a beam generation source, a mass analysis device, a ...
California Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Mount
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Reza Massoumi and Sam Gharemanpour, both of Culver City, Calif., have developed an ornamental design for a mount, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,938 on April 8. The original application ...
Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container Element
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Gary Robert Mitchell of Stewartstown, Pa., and Stacy Alycia Thomas of Chicago, have developed an ornamental design for an element of a container for personal use, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Italian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Adhesively Mountable Hook
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Peter J. Newbould, Pasquale Cirulli, Sigurdur Thorsteinsson and Michele Cestone, all from Milan, Italy, have developed an ornamental design for an adhesively mountable hook, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S ....
Maryland Inventors Develop Mitochondrial Membranes Permeability Assessing Assay
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Tibor Kristian of Severna Park, Md., and Gary Fiskum of Upper Falls, Md., have developed mitochondrial membranes permeability assessing assay. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assay for assessing the permeability of mitochondrial ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Focused Ion Beam System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Kiyoshi Sakaguchi of Tokyo has developed an ion beam system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focused ion beam system has an ion beam from an ion source, a condenser lens, a current-limiting aperture, an electrostatic angular aperture ...
German, French Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Application Aid
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Audrey Bohmer, Carsten Bohmer, Frank Kolmorgen, Ute Lipprandt and Silke Zweibarth, all from Hamburg, Germany, Matthias von Samson-Himmelstjerna of Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany, Patrick Gehringer of Bois le Roi, France, have developed an ornamental design for an ...
French Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Valerie Zoe Alice Bernard and Marie Cecile Paula Fontaine, both of Paris, have developed an ornamental design for a container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,955 on April 8. The patent ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Spray Dispenser
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Wilhelmus Johannes Maas and Petrus Lambertus Hurkmans, all from Someren, Netherlands, have developed an ornamental design for a spray dispenser, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,949 on April ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Head Rail
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ronald Holt of Westminster, Colo., Daniel Fluckey of Englewood, Colo., and Marek Jarosinski of Brighton, Colo., have developed an ornamental design for a head rail for retractable covering for architectural openings, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office ...
German Inventors Develop Planar Image Detector
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Hagen Klausmann of Germering, Germany, and Georg Wittmann of Herzogenaurach, Germany, have developed an image detector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a planar radiation image detector with a number of photosensor elements arranged ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Monitoring System with Infrared Thermopile Detector
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jose I. Arno of Brookfield, Conn., has developed a thermopile detector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a semiconductor processing system that employs infrared-based thermopile detector for process ...
U.S., Australian Inventors Develop Data Processing Security System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Philip Hawkes and Gregory G. Rose, both of New South Wales, Australia, and Nikolai K. N. Leung of Takoma Park, Md., have developed a secure transmission apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each user is provided a registration key ....
German Inventors Develop Powder Press
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jurgen Hinzpeter, Ingo Schmidt, Andreas Groth, Andreas Teetzen and Thomas Pannewitz all from of Schwarzenbek, Germany, and Holger Behns of Barsbuttel, Germany, have developed a powder-shaped pressing material. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Vibratory Noise Control Apparatus
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Toshio Inoue and Akira Takahashi, both of Tochigi-ken, Japan, Yoshio Nakamura of Neyagawa, Japan, and Masahide Onishi of Osaka, Japan, have developed a vehicle with active vibratory noise control apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pneumatic Tool
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Po Chien Chen of Taichung, Taiwan, has developed an ornamental design for a pneumatic tool, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,916 on April 8. The patent has been assigned to Basso Industry ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Information Recording Medium
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Shinnichi Morishima and Michihiro Shibata, both of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an optical information recording method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Hobby Knife
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Javier Verdura and Jonathan A. Lee, both of Milford, Conn., and Michael E. Peterson of Fairfield, Conn., have developed an ornamental design for the hobby knife, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No ....
Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Knob
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Geraint Krumpe of Chicago has developed an ornamental design for a knob, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,927 on April 8. The patent has been assigned to Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp., ...
California Inventors Develop Human Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Assembly-Associated Composition
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jaisri R. Lingappa and Vishwanath R. Lingappa, both of San Francisco, have developed a retroviral translation and assembly method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell-free method for translation and assembly of retroviral, ...
California Inventors Develop Infrared Radiation Image with Sub-Pixelization
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Arvind I D'Souza of Anaheim, Calif., Maryn G. Stapelbroek of Santa Ana, Calif., Larry C. Dawson of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Dale E. Molyneux of La Habra, Calif., have developed an infrared radiation image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
California Inventor Develops Multi-Pixel Electron Emission Inspection Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- David L. Adler of San Jose, Calif., has developed a defects detecting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment disclosed is a method of detecting defects in objects. A selected surface area of an object is inspected with a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Display Device with Nonvolatile Memory
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Naoki Kaise of Higashiosaka, Japan, has developed a digital mirror device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A display device comprises a nonvolatile memory for storing an amount of adjustment obtained in ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Toggle Mechanism
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jui-Hsiang Wang of Yung Kang, Taiwan, has developed a circulating lubrication oil passage structure of a toggle mechanism. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A toggle mechanism of an injection molding ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Multiple Source Movements Tracking Sensor System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- David J. Brady, Steve Feller, Mohan Shankar and Jian-Shuen Fang, all from Durham, N.C., Bobby D. Guenther of Cary, N.C., and Qi Hao of Chapel Hill, N.C., have developed a sensor system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system identifies ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Polyvinyl Acetate-Based Photosensitive Resin
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Masahiro Takano and Mitsuharu Miyazaki, both of Inba-gun, Japan, Seigo Yamada of Ichikawa, Japan, and Shin Utsunomiya of Miyako, Japan, have developed a polyvinyl acetate-based photosensitive resin. According to a description of the invention, released by ...
New York Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Striker Bar Assembly with Handle
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Edward Taglianetti of Staten Island, N.Y., has developed an ornamental design for a striker bar assembly with handle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D565,929 on April 8. The original ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Flexographic Printing Plate Preparing Process
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Mark A Hackler of Ocean, N.J., Anandkumar Ramakrishnan Kannurpatti of East Windsor, N.J., Christoph Mengel of Mainz, Germany, and Dietmar Dudek of Langen, Germany, have developed a flexographic printing plate producing process. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Photonic Sensing, Imaging Systems
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- John R. Troxell of Sterling Heights, Mich., has developed a thermal conductance provider. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to a photonic sensor and method of operation, in one ...
German Inventor Develops Semiconductor Sample Inspection Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Quentin De Robillard of Dresden, Germany, has developed a semiconductor sample inspection system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and method of inspecting a semiconductor sample. A plurality of ...
California Inventor Develops All-Reflective Optical System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Steven R. Lange of Alamo, Calif., has developed an optical system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "All-reflective optical systems for broadband wafer inspection are provided. One system configured to inspect a wafer includes an optical ...
South Korean Inventors Develop High-Density Read Only Optical Disk
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- In-oh Hwang and In-sik Park, both of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a high-density read only optical disk. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-density readable only optical disk with a large storage capacity includes a ...
Florida Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Sensor
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Dale R. Setlak of Melbourne, Fla., has developed an infrared sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit sensor may include at least one infrared sensing element on a substrate. The sensing element may include at least ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Charged Particle Beam Instrument
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Yukihiro Tanaka of Saitama, Japan, and Manabu Saito of Tokyo, have developed a beam instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charged-particle beam instrument and method are offered which can inspect side and rear surfaces of the ...
Belgian Inventors Develop Negative Working, Heat-Sensitive, Lithographic Printing Plate Precursor
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Joan Vermeersch of Deinze, Belgium, and Marc Van Damme of Bonheiden, Belgium, have developed a negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A negative-working lithographic printing plate ...
California Inventor Develops Video Signal Copy Protection System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Ronald Quan of Cupertino, Calif., has developed a copy protection for video signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a method for "enhancements to a video anticopying process that causes an abnormally low amplitude ...
Connecticut, Illinois Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Taping Knife Offset Handle
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Robert Bruno of Avon, Conn., Frank Sterpka of West Hartford, Conn., and Matthew Earle Myers of Naperville, Ill., have developed an ornamental design for an offset handle for a taping knife, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Data Encryption Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Shigemi Kurashima and Norio Endo, both of Shinagawa, Japan, have developed a data input device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encryption method includes the steps of generating random data including a first part and a second part, ...
Texas Inventor Develops Gaseous Alkanes Liquidation Process
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- John J. Waycuilis of Cypress, Texas, has developed a process for converting gaseous alkanes to liquid hydrocarbons. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "process for converting gaseous alkanes to liquid hydrocarbons ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Printer Server, Print System
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Kazuhito Gassho, Toshihiro Shima and Teruhito Kojima, all from Nagano-Ken, Japan, have developed a data sending/receiving system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "From a printer, a print client previously acquires printer position ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electron Beam Processing Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Kazuyuki Mitsuoka, Minoru Honda, Song Yun Kang and Yusuke Saito, all from Nirasaki, Japan, have developed an organic material film reforming method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organic material film formed on a surface of an ...
Massachusetts Inventor Develops Laser Sensitive Lithographic Printing Plate
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Gary Ganghui Teng of Northborough, Mass., has developed a lithographic printing plate processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High speed violet or ultraviolet laser sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising on a ...
New Hampshire Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Elliptical Soft Grip Handle
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jean E. Bellerose of Hillsboro, N.H., and Valentine T. Faust III of Bow, N.H., have developed an ornamental design for an elliptical soft grip handle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,928 on ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Solid-State Image Sensing Device Manufacturing Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Isamu Tomizawa, Seiji Kai and Kouji Yagi, all from Gifu, Japan, have developed a solid-state image sensing device manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a manufacturing method of a solid-state image ...
German Inventor Develops Solid State Radiation Detector
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Martin Spahn of Erlangen, Germany, has developed a radiation detector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state radiation detector includes an active pixel matrix, which is arranged at one side with a scintillator layer, which emits ...
French Inventors Develop Digital Electronic Component
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Jean-Luc Dauvois of Le Mans, France, and Jerome Perrine of Versailles, France, have developed a digital electronic component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a digital electronic component which is protected ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Injection Molding Machine Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- James A. Vanderploeg of Loretto, Canada, Jacek Kalemba of Mississauga, Canada, and Nicholas Seston of Rosemont, Canada, have developed a servo side shuttle apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Servo side shuttle apparatus and ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Utility Knife
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Katsuyuki Kondo of Otsu, Japan, and Soichiro Nagashima of Oumihatiman, Japan, have developed an ornamental design for a utility knife, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D565,919 on April 8. The ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Photoresist Line Edge Roughness Reducing Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- Neil S. Wester of Tempe, Ariz., has developed a photoresist line edge roughness reducing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes a method including providing a substrate; forming a photoresist on the ...
California Inventor Develops Top Coat Material Forming Method
Apr 17, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 17 -- William Dinan Hinsberg III of Fremont, Calif., has developed a topcoat composition forming method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method of forming a top coat layer and a topcoat material for use in immersion ...