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California, Texas Inventors Develop Metastability Effects Simulation for Circuit Description

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Vijaya Vardhan Gupta and Lawrence Curtis Widdoes Jr., both of San Jose, Calif., Ka Kei Kwok of Milpitas, Calif., and Tai An Ly of Austin, Texas, have developed a metastability effects simulation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Indwelling Catheter

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Katsuhiro Hiejima of Osaka, Japan, has developed an indwelling catheter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indwelling catheter comprises a tube, a female connector and an elastically deformable hemostasis valve which can be pressed by a ...

Arizona Inventors Develop Improved Power Signal Integrated Circuit Package

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Dustin P. Wood and Kaladhar Radhakrishnan, both of Chandler, Ariz., have developed an integrated circuit (IC) package with improved power signal connection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC package includes a substrate and an IC die ...

Texas Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit with Parallel Scan Paths

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Lee D. Whetsel of Parker, Texas, has developed an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scan test architecture facilitates low power testing of semiconductor circuits by selectively dividing the serial scan paths into ...

Oregon Inventors Develop Electronic Device Interfacing Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Mauro J. Kobrinsky of Hillsboro, Ore., R. Scott List of Beaverton, Ore., Sarah E. Kim of Portland, Ore., and Michael C. Harmes of North Plains, Ore., have developed a method for interfacing electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...

Israeli Inventors Develop Medicine Assembly

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Yisrael Elhadad of Jerusalem, and Yisrael Gottlieb of Rehovot, Israel, have developed a protector for a medicine assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "medicine assembly, and a protector that fits over at ...

Singapore Inventor Develops Flip Chip Semiconductor Device Assembling Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Teck Kheng Lee of Singapore has developed a method of assembling a flip chip semiconductor device assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for assembly and packaging of one or more flip chip-configured ...

New York Inventor Develops Needle Tip Protector

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- John C Kulli of Hamlin, N.Y., has developed a needle tip protector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "needle tip protector including a pair of apertured members with spring arms urging the apertured members out ...

Italian Inventor Develops Syringes Infusion Pump

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Graziano Azzolini of Cavezzo, Italy, has developed an infusion pump for syringes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion pump has a base and a holder for a syringe extending along a longitudinal axis and having an axially shiftable ...

New York, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Universal Multi-Variant Detection System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Linda Andrus of New York, and Carmen Nicola Nichols of Philadelphia, have developed genetic variants. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method to diagnostically detect the variants of a given pathogen, ...

Taiwanese Inventor Develops Fault Tolerance System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Mien-Chih Chen of Tu-Cheng, Taiwan, has developed a fault tolerance system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fault tolerance system for one or two failed disks in a disk array includes a central processing unit (CPU), a disk array, and ...

Taiwanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Package Manufacturing Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Ching-Yu Ni of Shinchu, Taiwan, Tsorng-Dih Yuan of Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Hsin-Yu Pan of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are semiconductor package ...

Utah Inventors Develop Needle Safety Apparatus

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- David L. Thorne of Kaysville, Utah, F. Mark Ferguson of Salt Lake City, and Donald D. Solomon of North Salt Lake, Utah, have developed a needle safety apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle safety apparatus is disclosed ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Substrate Manufacturing Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Ryuji Komatsu of Okaya, Japan, has developed a method of manufacturing a substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides to a substrate for a semiconductor device, in which electric characteristics to high-speed ...

Canadian Inventors Develop Intraosseous Infusion Site Locating Apparatus

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Judith M. Findlay and Misha Krasnich, both of Richmond, Canada, David L. Johnson of Burnaby, Canada, and Michael W. Jacobs of Surrey, Canada, have developed a patch for locating a target zone. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Menu Driven Reprogrammable Drug Pump

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Thomas L. Peterson of Shoreview, Minn., and Michael L. Blomquist of Coon Rapids, Minn., have developed a drug pump system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A menu driven reprogrammable drug pump is provided with a memory, such as flash ...

U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Removing Residual Ultra Violet Adhesive

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Steven R. Codding of Underhill Center, Vt., Timothy C. Krywanczyk of Essex Junction, Vt., Edmund J. Sprogis of Underhill, Vt., Matthew R. Whalen of Chelsea, Vt., and Jocelyn Sylvestre of Granby, Canada, have developed a method for removing residual ultra violet (UV) ...

U.S., French Inventors Develop Injectible Calcium Phosphate-Based Cement for Bone Repair

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Ibrahim Khairoun, Jean-Michael Bouler and Jerome Guicheux, all from Nantes, France, Guy Daculsi of Bretagne, France, Olivier Gauthier of Suce-sur-Erdre, France, and Racquel Z. LeGeros of New York, have developed a self-setting calcium phosphate ...

Oklahoma Inventor Develops Well Bore Cement Composition

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Lance E. Brothers of Chickasha, Okla., has developed a subterranean well formation cement composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cement compositions with improved mechanical properties and associated methods are provided, which are ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Solar Cell Manufacturing Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Sataro Yamaguchi of Aichi, Japan, has developed an ingot cutting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cutting method of ingot into wafers along cleavage plane. Onto surface of single crystal ingot is implanted ion beam to generate ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Highly Reliable Distributed System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Wataru Nagaura, Takanori Yokoyama, Shoji Suzuki and Satoru Kuragaki, all from Hitachi, Japan, and Takaaki Imai of Higashimurayama, Japan, have developed a processing system controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The highly reliable ...

Delaware Inventor Develops Additive for High Optical Density Inkjet Ink

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Christian Jackson of Wilmington, Del., has developed an aqueous inkjet printing ink additive. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention pertains to an aqueous inkjet ink with a certain chelator additive, inkjet ink sets based on ...

German Inventor Develops Dust Constituents Separation Apparatus

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Siegfried Handte of Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany, has developed a dust-air mixture separation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for separating dust constituents out of an explosive dust-air mixture which ...

Texas Inventors Develop Air Filtration System for Air Conditioning Unit

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Robert W. Helt, Stephen J. Vendt, Roger L. Boydstun and J. Mark Hagan, all from Tyler, Texas, have developed a room air filtration system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intense field dielectric air filtration system associated with ...

British Inventor Develops Carbon Monoxide Production Process

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Graeme John Dunn of Onslow Village, Great Britain, has developed a carbon monoxide production process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides for a process for producing carbon monoxide. A feed gas stream of ...

Delaware Inventor Develops Infrared Transparent Cyan Inkjet Ink

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Christian Jackson of Wilmington, Del., has developed an infrared (IR) transparent cyan inkjet ink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to a cyan dye-based inkjet ink having substantially no absorption in the ...

Norwegian Inventor Develops Computer Virus Detection, Prevention Software

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Kurt Natvig of Royken, Norway, has developed a computer system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system S is defined which is capable of simulating a computer (virtual computer, VC) for the purpose of software performance monitoring ....

Indiana Inventors Develop School Bus Passenger Seat with Integrated Restraints

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Erik K. Nelson of Woodburn, Ind., Patrick J. Mattes of Yoder, Ind., Thomas R. Graham of Fort Wayne, Ind., have developed a school bus passenger seat. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a seat for a bus that has a ...

New York Inventors Develop Robotic Pen

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Canan Uslu Hardwicke and Melvin Robert Jackson, both of Niskayuna, N.Y., Stephen Francis Rutkowski of Duanesburg, N.Y., and Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti of Scotia, N.Y., have developed a robotic pen. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...

California Inventor Develops Shock Absorbation Fluidic Actuator

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Andrew P. Nguyen of San Jose, Calif., has developed a fluidic actuator control system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the invention, a fluidic actuator and a control system for the fluidic actuator may be ...

Dutch Inventors Develop Chemical Vapor Deposition Substrates Processing Assembly

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Peter Brier and Leonardus P M Clijsen, both of Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Marinus F. J. Evers of Heeze, Netherlands, have developed a substrate processing assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for processing substrates, ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Processing System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Seishi Murakami of Nirasaki, Japan, has developed a semiconductor pressure-adjustable processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor processing system includes a load lock chamber and first to third process chambers ...

British Inventors Develop Photocatalytic Surface Cleaner

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Barry Anthony Murrer of Berkshire, Great Britain, Robert J. Potter of Reading, Great Britain, and Virginie Ogrodnik of Henley on Thames, Great Britain, have developed a photocatalytic surface cleaner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...

New York Inventor Develops Variable Thickness Seed Layer Formation System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Tsukasa Matsuda of Delmar, N.Y., has developed a seed layer formation system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A method and system for forming a variable thickness seed layer on a substrate for a ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Substrate Placing Stage Fabrication Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Tomoyuki Fujii, Yasuyoshi Imai and Tetsuya Kawajiri, all from Nagoya, Japan, have developed a substrate placing stage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a substrate placing stage includes the step of providing a ...

Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Rusted Iron-Containing Surfaces Cleaning, Polishing Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Michael J. Pawlik of Glenshaw, Pa., and Robin M. Peffer of Valencia, Pa., have developed a metal rusted surface polishing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning and polishing a rusted iron-containing metal surface ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Fullerene Crystal Production Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Tetsuro Yoshii of Minato-Ku, Japan, has developed a fullerene crystal production method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method of the present invention includes: a process of bringing a solution and a second solvent into ...

Swedish Inventors Develop Chemically Bonded Ceramic Material

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Lars Kraft, Irmeli Hermansson, Nils-Otto Ahnfelt and Gunilla Gomez-Ortega, all from Uppsala, Sweden, Leif Hermansson of Lanna, Sweden, and H Engqvist kan of Knivsta, Sweden, have developed a chemical bonded ceramic material. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Substrate Particulate Material Application Apparatus

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Paul Y. Fung of South River, N.J., and Denis Tremblay of Quebec, have developed a substrate particulate material application method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of applying a particulate material to a substrate ...

Vermont Inventor Develops Crystalline Thin Structure Fabrication System

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Randall L. Headrick of Burlington, Vt., has developed a crystalline thin structure fabrication method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystalline thin structure is grown on a surface of a substrate by depositing molecules from a ...

North Carolina Inventors Develop One Hundred Millimeter Single Crystal Silicon Carbide Wafer

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Stephan Georg Mueller and Valeri F. Tsvetkov, both of Durham, N.C., Robert Tyler Leonard of Raleigh, N.C., and Adrian Powell of Apex, N.C., have developed a single crystal silicon carbide wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method ...

German Inventors Develop Pasty Liquid Application Device

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Martin Kustermann, Stefan Reich and Eckard Wozny, all from Heidenheim, Germany, and Joachim Grabscheid and Manfred Ueberschaer, both of Gerstetten, Germany, have developed a pasty liquid application device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...

California Inventor Develops Human Body Massaging Apparatus

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Hakjin Kim of Diamond Bar, Calif., has developed a method for massaging a human body. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for massaging a body lying on a horizontally leveled upper surface portion of a lie-down massager which ...

Indiana Inventors Develop Invasive Surgical Instruments

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Joseph L. Mark and Timothy A. Goedde, both of Indianapolis, and Michael E. Miller of Trafalgar, Ind., have developed a minimally invasive biopsy device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system is disclosed that includes a ...

Vermont Inventors Develop Soft Error Protection Post Bump Passivation Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Timothy H. Daubenspeck of Colchester, Vt., Jeffrey Peter Gambino, of Westford, Vt., Christopher David Muzzy of Burlington, Vt., Wolfgang Sauter of Richmond, Vt., and Edmund Juris Sprogis of Underhill, Vt., have developed flip-chip technologies. According to ...

California Inventors Develop Lightweight Electro-Mechanical Chest Compression Device

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- James O. Jensen, Paul Q. Escudero and Charles E. Swinehart, all from Sunnyvale, Calif., and Reynaldo J. Quintana of Redwood City, Calif., have developed an automatic chest compression device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightweight ...

Israeli Inventors Develop Dental Tooth Apex Location Measurement Methods

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Arie Becker of Kibbutz Afikim, Israel, Gabriel Savin of Rishon LeZion, Israel, Nachman Berger of Ramat Gan, Israel, and Shai Gal of Jordan Valley, Israel, have developed a device for determining the root canal apex. According to the U.S. Patent & ...

U.S., Luxembourg Inventors Develop Waterproof Stretchable Flashing Material

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- James Ross Waggoner of Midlothian, Va., Theresa Ann Weston of Richmond, Va., James S. Herrin Jr. of Newark, Del., and Mieczyslaw (Michel) Stachnik of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, have developed a waterproof stretchable flashing material. According to the U.S ....

Florida, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Suction Adapter for Medical Instrument

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Jose L. Francese of Miami Springs, Fla., and Vincent Turturro of Marlboro, Mass., have developed an endoscopic biopsy forceps instrument. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction adapter for use with first and second medical devices ...

California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Light Emitting Devices Interconnect

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Paul S. Martin and Stefano Schiaffino, both of Pleasanton, Calif., Ashim Shatil Haque of San Jose, Calif., Daniel A. Steigerwald of Cupertino, Calif., and Decai Sun of Los Altos, Calif., have developed interconnects for semiconductor light emitting ...

South Korean Inventors Develop Memory Device Mounting Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Do-Hyung Kim, Chang-Woo Koo and Jung-Joon Lee, all from Seoul, South Korea, and Ki-Hyun Ko of Yongin-si, South Korea, have developed a method of mounting memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory module and a method of ...

Japanese Inventors Develop Pad Base Production Process for Endermism

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Shinya Maenosono of Yokohama, Japan, Yasushi Suzuki of Nakamarucho, Japan, Hiroshi Akitomo of Hosoda, Japan, Hidetoshi Hamamoto of Kitajima-cho, Japan, and Masaki Ishibashi of Naruto, Japan, have developed a process for producing pad base for ...

Taiwanese Inventor Develops Shoe with Massaging, Warming Arrangements

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Hsao-Hsing Chiu of Taipei City, Taiwan, has developed a ventilated shoes with massaging and warming arrangements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilated shoe includes an outsole; an insole including projections; and a space defined ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Tape Cartridge Reel Welding Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Yasushi Hatano of Odawara, Japan, has developed a tape cartridge reel welding method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for welding tape cartridge reels, with ensuring a high level of parallelism between both their ...

Taiwanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Packages Fabrication Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Ying-Ren Lin, Ho-Yi Tsai and Cheng-Hsu Hsiao, all from Taichung Hsien, Taiwan, and Chien-Ping Huang of Hsinchu Hsien, Taiwan, have developed semiconductor packages. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A ...

Illinois, Indiana Inventors Develop Composite Elastic Web Material

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Jeffrey Alan Middlesworth of Wauconda, Ill., Tze Wan Pansy Chung of Fox River Grove, Ill., Stephen D. Bruce of Crystal Lake, Ill., and Andrew James Peacock of Terre Haute, Ind., have developed a fibrous material production method. According to the U.S ....

Spanish Inventors Develop Rubber Strip-Shaped Products Storing Device

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Fidel Aitor Bardaji Zuriarrain of Valladolid, Spain, and Tomas Saez De Ibarra Ortiz De Landaluce of Vitoria, Spain, have developed a rubber strip-shaped product transfer process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for storing and ...

U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Integrated Lead Suspension

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Satya Prakash Arya of San Jose, Calif., John Thomas Contreras of Palo Alto, Calif., Klaas Berend Klaassen of Santa Jose, Calif., and Nobumasa Nishiyama of Yokohama, Japan, have developed a hard disk drive integrated lead suspension. According to the U.S ....

California Inventors Develop Sensor Device Packaging Technique

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Annapurna Karicherla of Valencia, Calif., and John W. Poore of South Pasadena, Calif., have developed sensors packaging devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to this technique of packaging a sensor device implantable in a ...

British Inventors Develop Electronic Device Hermetic Packaging Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Tej Paul Kaushal, Paul Antony Manning and John Peter Gillham, all from Malvern, Great Britain, and Gary Stacey, David Martin Pooley and Peter Georg Laitenberger, all from Harston, Great Britain, have developed electronic devices hermetically sealed ...

South Korean Inventor Develops Pivot Shaft Fixing Structure

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Myung-Il Kim of Seongnam-si, South Korea, has developed a data storage device with a projection hole. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pivot shaft fixing structure of a data storage device includes a projection hole formed through a top ...

California Inventors Develop Small Pad Utilization Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Fu-Ying Huang and Qinghua Zeng, both of San Jose, Calif., have developed a small pad utilizing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus and method for utilizing a small pad to increase a head to a ...

U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Data Storage Device Head Suspension Assembly

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Shigeo Nakamura of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, and Victor Wing Chun Shum of San Jose, Calif., have developed a flexure leg optimization shapes for lateral stiffness. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention include a ...

Virginia Inventors Develop Asthma Diagnosis Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- John W. Vaughan, John F. Hunt, Benjamin M. Gaston and Timothy L. Macdonald, all from Charlottesville, Va., have developed a method for assessing asthma. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "device and method for ...

California, North Carolina, Ohio Inventors Develop Redox-Active Molecule Coupling Method

Apr 23, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- Zhiming Liu and David F. Bocian, both of Riverside, Calif., Werner G. Kuhr of Oak Hills, Calif., Jonathan S. Lindsey of Raleigh, N.C., and Rajeeve Balkrishna Dabke of Columbus, Ohio, have developed a method of coupling a redox-active molecule. According to ...