US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Friday, April 25:
Minnesota Inventors Develop Memory System Calibrations Deferring Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Mark David Bellows and Ryan Abel Heckendorf, both of Rochester, Minn., have developed deferring refreshes. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided to control refreshes in an extreme ...
Washington, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Register Value Attestation Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- John D. DeTreville of Seattle, Wash., and Paul England of Bellevue, Wash., and Butler W. Lampson of Cambridge, Mass., have developed a register attesting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one aspect of attesting ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Plasma Display Panel Driving Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Sohei Okamoto, Takatoshi Shoji and Hiroshi Shirasawa, all from Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, have developed a plasma display panel driving method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "driving method and a driver ...
Swedish Inventors Develop Information Loading Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Peter Aulin and Niclas Bauer, both of Malmo, Sweden, Mats Svensson of Lund, Sweden, and Michael Rosenberg Sodra of Sandby, Sweden, have developed an information loading method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conventional bootloader ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Card Portable Terminal
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Shinichiro Fukushima and Yutaka Takami, both of Yokohama, Japan, Kazunori Hashimoto of Fujisawa, Japan, Makoto Aikawa of Sagamihara, Japan, and Hidenori Nanami of Ichikawa, Japan, have developed a portable terminal. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Norwegian Inventors Develop Virtualized Peripheral Component Interconnect Switch
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Ola Torudbakken and Bjorn Dag Johnsen, both of Oslo, Norway, have developed a switch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral component interconnect-express interconnect device is provided. The device comprises: first and second ...
Texas Inventors Develop Storage Server Management System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Brett M. Allison of Fort Worth, Texas, and Elise Bobitt of Lewisville, Texas, have developed a storage manager. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method and program for managing a storage server comprising first and second clusters ...
U.S., Indian Inventors Develop Computer Image Capturing Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Bich C. Le and Dilip Khandekar, both of San Jose, Calif., and Sirishkumar Raghuram of Maharashtra, India, have developed an image capturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source image of the hardware and software configuration ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Out-Of-Band Signaling Method Utilization System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Shah Mohammad Rezaul Islam and Greg S. Lucas, both of Tucson, Ariz., William G. Holland of Cary, N.C., and Yoshihiko Terashita of Kanagawa-ken, Japan, have developed a signaling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Plasma Display Panel Driving Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Hajime Homma of Tokyo has developed a driving circuit for plasma display panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A length of an addressing period in a first sub-field is made shorter as time from an end of a second sub-field which ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Virtual Integrated Drive Electronics Storage Device
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Boon-Kuew Tee and Wee-Kuan Gan, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a storage device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a virtual integrated drive electronics (IDE) storage device with a peripheral ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Read/Write Data Processing Storage System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Masanori Araki, Masatoshi Baba, Yuji Sueoka, Isamu Kurokawa and Hisaharu Takeuchi, all from Odawara, Japan, have developed a storage system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For using a plurality of files contained in one logical device ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Data Processing Systems
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Frank Ahern of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed a device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge accessible by a host processor can expand access over a first bus to a second bus. The first bus and the second bus are each adapted to ...
Idaho, California Inventors Develop Universal Serial Bus Device Report Descriptor
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Ryan Winfield Woodings of Boise, Idaho, and Paul Beard of Milpitas, Calif., have developed report descriptors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for creating universal serial bus (USB) peripheral device report ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Memory Management Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- David F. Craddock of New Paltz, N.Y., Thomas A. Gregg of Highland, N.Y., Richard L. Arndt of Austin, Texas, Ronald E. Fuhs of Rochester, Minn., and Thomas Schlipf of Holzgerlingen, Germany, have developed a memory manager. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
French Inventor Develops Material Disinfection/Sterilisation Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Bruno Aubert of Connaux, France, has developed a material disinfection or sterilisation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a disinfection or sterilisation method. The material to be disinfected is introduced ...
California Inventors Develop Active Document Workflow Processing Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- David G. Stork and Robert Jan van Glabbeek, both of Portola Valley, Calif., and Stephen Savitzky of San Jose, Calif., have developed a document workflow apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for designing and processing a ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Volumetric Image Rendering Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Lining Yang of East Windsor, N.J., and Min Xie of Plainsboro, N.J., have developed volume rendering techniques. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rendering a volumetric image includes providing a digitized volumetric image ...
California Inventors Develop Composing On-Chip Interconnects with Configurable Interfaces
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Thomas Wayne O'Connell and Jay Scott Tomlinson, all from San Jose, Calif., Nabil N. Masri and Kamil Synek, both of Sunnyvale, Calif., Michael Meyer Jude of Palo Alto, Calif., and Drew Eric Wingard of San Carlos, Calif., have ...
Swedish Inventor Develops Signal Protection Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Risto Paavilainen of Ang kersberga, Sweden, has developed a signal protector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for decreasing the existence of externally detectable revealing signals, so-called over, from keyboards, e.g. for ...
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors Develop Web Application Tracking Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Andrew S. Wilson of Manchester, N.H., Brian J. Shin of Boston, and David J. Angel of Mechanicsville, Va., have developed an information capturer. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A web-based hosted ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Stereoscopic Image Displaying Apparatus
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Takuya Hata, Takashi Chuman, Yoshihiko Uchida, Hideo Satoh and Atsushi Yoshizawa, all from Saitama, Japan, have developed a stereoscopic image displaying apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "display ...
U.S., Finnish, British Inventors Develop Data Handling Device
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Pekka Karppinen of Helsinki, Finland, Antti Latva-aho of Kangasala, Finland, Anssi Haverinen of San Diego, and Neil Webb of Farnham, Great Britain, have developed a device identification method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data ...
Washington Inventors Develop Structured Time Data Maintenance Method for Electronic Messages
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Christopher G. Kaler of Sammamish, Wash., Steven E. Lucco of Bellevue, Wash., and John P. Shewchuk of Redmond, Wash., have developed a time data maintaining method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message processor accesses an ...
North Carolina, New York, Minnesota Inventors Develop Routable Application Partitioning Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Gennaro A. Cuomo of Cary, N.C., Donald Francis Ferguson of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and William T. Newport of Rochester, Minn., have developed a partitioning method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, system, and ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Plasma Display Panel
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Kyoung-Ho Kang, Woo-Joon Chung, Jin-Sung Kim and Seung-Hun Chae, all from Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a plasma display panel driving method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "plasma display panel and ...
Washington Inventors Develop Network Exchanges Monitoring Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Roger A. Fleig of Redmond, Wash., and Denis L. Ruckebusch of Kirkland, Wash., have developed a network exchanges monitoring system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring exchanges between a client and a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Liquid Crystal Display Element
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Shoichi Hirota and Makoto Tsumura, both of Hitachi, Japan, Iwao Takemoto of Mobara, Japan, Hideki Nakagawa of Chiba, Japan, Satoshi Ouchi of Kamakura, Japan, and Taro Imahase of Fujisawa, Japan, have developed a liquid display unit. According to the U.S ....
Arizona Inventor Develops Data Storage, Retrieval Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Elliott H. Rachlin of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed a data retrieving apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided for storing and retrieving data relating to paths through a network having a plurality of linked ...
Arizona, California Inventors Develop Data Managing, Formatting Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Glen Hattrup and Howard Newton Martin, both of Tucson, Ariz., Jeou-Rong Lay of San Jose, Calif., and David Darden Chambliss of Morgan Hill, Calif., have developed a data formatting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, ...
Oklahoma, Texas Inventors Develop Cylindrical Passageway Closing High Temperature Completion Plug
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Charles D. Calkins of Tulsa, Okla., Jack E. Miller of Houston, have developed a rotation-free completion plug. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For use in closing a cylindrical passageway through a working member in which the passageway ...
U.S., Chinese Inventors Develop Pluggable Service Delivery Platform
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Hong Cai and Dong Liu, both of Beijing, and Leo Y. Liu of Cary, N.C., have developed a service delivery platform. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a service delivery ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Operating Gas Relative Pressure Control System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Hideki Nagaoka, Keiki Ito, Hiroki Endo, Tsuyoshi Shimazu, Jun Hirose, Osamu Katsumata, Kazuyuki Miura and Takashi Kitazawa, all from Nirasaki, Japan, and Tetsujiro Kono, Hiroki Doi and Minoru Ito, all from Komaki, Japan, have developed a relative gas flow control ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Display Panel Driving Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Jin-Sung Kim, Woo-Joon Chung, Seung-Hun Chae, Kyoung-Ho Kang and Tae-Seong Kim, all from Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a plasma display panel driving method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Interface Between Clock Rate Components
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Mandy Mei-Feng Tsai of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for interfacing between a first component operating at a first clock rate and a second component operating at a second clock ...
Australian Inventors Develop Electronic Interlocking Graphics Panel
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Thomas Schubert and James Brownlie, both of Melbourne, Australia, have developed an electronic interlocking graphics panel. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular display panel is formed of a segmented symmetrical graphics panel ...
Skurka Aerospace Wins $1.89 Million Contract
Apr 25, 2008 ... ROCK ISLAND, Ill., April 25 -- The U.S. Army has awarded a $1.89 million contract to Skurka Aerospace Inc., Camarillo, Calif., for electrical motors. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, Rock Island, Ill. For more information ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Continuous Filament Preparation Process
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Hag-Yong Kim, Myung-Seop Gil, Yoon-Ho Jung, Hyung-Jun Kim and Bong-Seok Lee, all from Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, have developed a process of preparing a continuous filament. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Satellite Signal Receiving Antenna Unit
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Junichi Noro, Kyuichi Sato, Nobuaki Monma, Shozo Miyamoto and Takumi Suzuki, all from Akita, Japan, have developed an antenna unit and a feeding component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding component has a wire (or a feeding ...
Austria Inventor Develops Circuit Arrangement for Generating Switch-on Signals
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Dieter Draxelmayr of Villach, Austria, has developed a circuit arrangement for generating switch-on signals for driving track-and-hold elements. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "circuit arrangement for ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Top Mounted Faucet Assembly with Air Gap
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Craig Schmitt of Phoenix, Ariz., and Mark D. Henss of Glendale, Ariz., have developed a top mounted faucet assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faucet assembly includes a base having first and second ends, a sidewall extending ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Direct Current Correction Device
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Takeshi Ohba, Yasuhito Funyu, and Hideharu Shako, all from Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a direct current (DC) correction device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide a DC offset ...
California Inventor Develops Hardmetal Composition
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Shaiw-Rong Scott Liu of Arcadia, Calif., has developed a hardmetal composition. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "hardmetal compositions each including hard particles having a first material and a binder matrix ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Dielectric Lens Design Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Tomohiro Nagai of Kyoto-Fu, Japan, has developed a manufacturing method of a dielectric lens. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A design process first determines a desired aperture distribution, then converts the electric power ...
Florida Inventor Develops Telephone Usage Controller
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- James Edward Dickens of Ocoee, Fla., has developed a communication device controlling device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for controlling the use of a communication device make a determination as to whether a ...
Utah Inventor Develops Pressure Regulator Valve
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Ronald E. Childers of South Jordan, Utah, has developed a diaphragm type regulator valve. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure regulator valve including a valve seat separating a fluid flowpath into an upstream region and a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Improved Stem Protector System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Lynn H. Elliott of Houston has developed a valve stem protection system According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved stem protector system for valves including an assembly, preferably a sleeve assembly, structured and sized for ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Microfibrous Fuel Cell Manufacturing Process
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Ray R. Eshraghi of Cary, N.C., Martin E. Ketterer of Apex, N.C., and Yongchao Si of Chapel Hill, N.C., have developed a process for manufacturing microfibrous fuel cells. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a ...
California Inventor Develops Non-Photolithographic Wire Grid Polarizer Formation Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Michael J. Little of Oak Park, Calif., has developed a non-photolithographic wire grid polarizer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a plurality of parallel metal lines on a substrate of thin film elastomeric material ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Antenna with Rod-Like Core
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Kazuaki Abe of Iruma, Japan, and Kaoru Someya of Kiyose, Japan, have developed an antenna. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antenna includes a rod-like core configured by an amorphous metal formed into a bulk configuration, and a coil ...
Louisiana Inventor Develops Covering Structure with Soil Anchors
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Nanette Palmer of Shreveport, La., has developed a soil anchor covering structureAccording to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A covering structure with soil anchors is disclosed. The covering structure includes multiple support poles, a canopy ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Tire Condition Monitoring Apparatus Transmitter
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Michiya Katou of Ichinomiya, Japan, has developed a tire condition monitoring apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter in an apparatus for monitoring a condition of a tire of a vehicle includes a circuit portion and a ...
Turkish Inventor Develops Lightweight Water Insoluble Material
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Ismail Girgin of Ankara, Turkey, has developed a lightweight water insoluble material. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lightweight, water insoluble and ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Chip Antenna
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Jae Chan Lee of Kyungki-do, South Korea, has developed a chip antenna with new mono-pole structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a chip antenna including first and second conductor patterns formed on ...
German Inventors Develop Module Manufacturing Method for Fluid Treatment
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Wolfgang Diemer of Waldstetten, Germany, Klaus Figgle of Weil der Stadt, Germany, Klaus Feifel of Schwabisch Gmund, Germany, have developed a module for fluid treatment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module enabling individual ...
Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Container Manufacturing Inspection/Control System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Frank E. Semersky of Holland, Ohio, Scott W. Steele of Perrysburg, Ohio, Donald Wayne Miller of Waterville, Ohio, William E. Schmidt of Gibsonia, Pa., and Ronald A. Puvak of Butler, Pa., have developed a container manufacturing inspection and control ...
Swiss Inventors Develop Anonymously Messages Transmission Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Roger Lagadec of Regensdorf, Switzerland, and Eric Lauper of Bern, Switzerland, have developed a message securely transmitting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for anonymously transmitting a message by means of a ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develops Copper Metal Recovery System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Shen-Tsung Huang and Ta-Chiang Chang, both of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a copper metal recovery process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to a copper metal recovery system, able to integrate ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Speech Recognition System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Robert Wesley Bossemeyer, Jr. of St. Charles, Ill., has developed a dial-up service accessing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of accessing a dial-up service involves the following steps: dialing a service number; ...
Texas Inventors Develop Editable Surface Approximation System
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Sean Spicer and Zitao Xu, both of Katy, Texas, have developed editable surface approximating methods. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods are disclosed for automatically approximating an editable surface from a three ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Gallium-Nitride Single-Crystal Substrate
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Katsushi Akita and Takuji Okahisa, both of Itami, Japan, have developed a gallium-nitride deposition substrate. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to gallium-nitride (GaN) ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Cast Iron Member Manufacturing Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Yoshimi Ueda and Takao Watanabe, both of Utsunomiya, Japan, Toshiaki Onuma and Takeshi Sasaki, both of Tochigi-ken, Japan, have developed a cast iron member manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nitrogen trapping agent ...
Norwegian Inventor Develops Storage Container Manufacturing Method
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Frank Stengrimsen of Lorenskog, Norway, has developed a method for manufacturing a long-term storage container. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for manufacturing a long-term storage container for storage ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Analog Signal Generator
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Takaaki Shoji of Saitama, Japan and Tomoyuki Kenmotsu of Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a digital circuit driver. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analog signal generator and digital circuit driver comprises an analog signal generator ...
Italian Inventor Develops Wood Fragments Gluing Process
Apr 25, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 25 -- Paolo Benedetti of S. Damaso, Italy, has developed a process for gluing wood scale. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The process includes a weighing operation of a mass of material a glue is to be spread on, and thereafter a spraying ...