US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Saturday, April 26:
Texas Inventors Develop Improved Network Systems
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Susann Marie Keohane, Gerald Francis McBrearty and Johnny Meng-Han Shieh, all from Austin, Texas, Shawn Patrick Mullen of Buda, Texas, and Jessica Murillo of Hutto, Texas, have developed site accesses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
California Inventors Develop Camera Based Instant Messenger Client
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Remy hZimmermann of Belmont, Calif., Aaron Standridge of Fremont, Calif., and John J. Feldis III of Menlo Park, Calif., have developed a messenger client. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing communication ...
DOD ANNOUNCES NAME OF SOLDIER FROM SPRINGFIELD, MO. KILLED IN IRAQ
Apr 26, 2008 ... The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Blystone, 34, of Springfield, Mo., died April 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds ...
French Inventors Develop Heated Carbon Body Installation Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Jean-Etienne Loncle of Le Haillan, France, and Jacky Minet of Le Pian Medoc, France, have developed a carbon body heat treatment method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Carbon bodies are heated in an oven under low pressure and while ...
Texas Inventors Develop Sulfur Recovery Process
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Jen Kai Chen of Katy, Texas, and Michael Arthur Huffmaster of Houston, have developed a sulfur recovery process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined process for the recovery of sulfur from an acid gas stream. The combined process ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Cartridge Holder for Automated Reprocessor
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Eric Halstead of Beauport, Canada, and Serge Coulombe of Boischatel, Canada, have developed an automated endoscope reprocessor cartridge holde. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge holder for an automated endoscope reprocessor is ...
Washington Inventors Develop Customized Consumer Registration Information Presentation Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Iulian D. Calinov and Li-Fen Wu, both of Redmond, Wash., Hai Zhuang and Gilbert Martin McQuillan, both of Seattle, Wash., and Danpo Zhang of Issaquah, Wash., have developed a registration service provider. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Hydrogen Substrate Production Process
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Guido Peter Pez, Aaron Raymond Scott, Hansong Cheng and Atteye Houssein Abdourazak, all from Allentown, Pa., Alan Charles Cooper of Macungie, Pa., and Frederick Carl Wilhelm of Zionsville, Pa., have developed a hydrogen substrate production process ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Alpha-Alumina Powder
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Hajime Maki and Yoshiaki Takeuchi, both of Niihama, Japan, have developed an alpha-alumina powder production method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing an alpha-alumina powder is described. The method for producing an ...
California Inventors Develop Internet Media Channel Selection Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Robert B. Brydon and Wilburt J. Labio, both of Sunnyvale, Calif., Diane E. Barram of Palo Alto, Calif., Phong H. Le of Oakland, Calif., and Son N. Doan of San Jose, Calif., have developed a channels selection system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Malaysian Inventors Develop In-Protocol Impedance Compensation Controlling Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Serge Bedwani of Folsom, Calif., and Thien Ern Ooi of Penang, Malaysia, have developed a compensation controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of a technique for performing impedance compensation update ...
California, Florida Inventors Develop Variable Fixed Multipliers
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Asher Hazanchuk of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Benjamin Esposito of Oviedo, Fla., have developed multipliers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable logic device includes at least one RAM block generating a first multi-bit calculation ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Scrubbing Fluid Impurities Removal Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Oiva Pehkonen and Tarja Pehkonen, both of Ylojarvi, Finland, Pertti Oittinen of Vastila, Finland, and Markku Helin of Tampere, Finland, have developed a scrubbing fluid impurity removal method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method ...
German Inventors Develop Olefins Hydroformylation Process
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Peter Zehner of Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Michael Nilles of Bobenheim-Roxheim, Germany, have developed an olefins hydroformylation process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Olefins having at least six carbon atoms are bydroformylated in ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Fusible Link Housing
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Truong Quoc Nguyen of Canton, Mich., and Kenneth John Russel of Westland, Mich., have developed a method for interconnecting a relay and fusible link. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly provides a direct electrical connection ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Aminocarboxylate Ligands
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Ramachandran S. Ranganathan and Michael F. Tweedle, both of Princeton, N.J., Radhakrishna K. Pillai of Kendall Park, N.J., Sang I. Kang of Cranbury, N.J., and Edmund R. Marinelli of Lawrenceville, N.J., have developed aminocarboxylate ligands having substituted ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Star Shaped Alumina Catalyst
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Cornelis Roeland Bayense of Gameren, Netherlands, and Durk Ykema of De Meern, Netherlands, have developed a transition alumina extrudate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed to star shaped alumina extrudates with a ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Kitchen Waste Oil Conversion Apparatus
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- William C. Batten and Bruce W. Kyles, both of Asheboro, N.C., have developed a kitchen waste oil conversion system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for conversion of kitchen waste grease to a landfill-acceptable solid ...
British Inventors Develop Magnet Assembly for Enabling Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Process
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Ian Leitch McDougall and Robert Andrew Slade, both of Oxon, Great Britain, and Peter Hanley of Gloucestershire, Great Britain, have developed a magnet assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "magnet assembly ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Phase Lock Loop Jittering Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Chiu-Hung Cheng and Chih-Jen Yen, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a phase lock loop (PLL). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing phase lock time and jittering and a PLL using the same adapted for PLL including a ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Contact-Less Measurement Device
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Philipp Buhler of Zurich, Switzerland, has developed a multi-axis position sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for contact-less measurement of distances in multiple directions of an electrically conductive body comprises a ...
German Inventors Develop Attachable Rod Ignition Coil
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Andreas Vom Schloss of Gaimersheim, Germany, and Bernhard Stock of Adelschlag, Germany, have developed an attachable rod ignition coil for a motor vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an attachable rod ...
California Inventor Develops Phase Lock Loop Gain Compensator
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Ramon A. Gomez of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., has developed a phase lock loop (PLL) gain control apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gain compensator compensates for the gain variation of a varactor-tuned voltage tuned ...
California Inventor Develops High Gain, High Frequency Oscillator Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Sanjeev Kumar Maheshwari of San Jose, Calif., has developed an oscillator amplifier circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amplifier circuit can be used with a resonator to amplify and form a resonating oscillator. The amplifier ...
German Inventor Develops Construction Element for Locking Ring Magnets
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Birgit Garneyer of Ludenscheid, Germany, has developed a construction element for locking ring magnets. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element for use with technical magnets having a mount, the mount to be located in a borehole ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Receiver with No Tracking Error
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Masahiko Ota of Fukushima-ken, Japan, has developed a receiver with no tracking error. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes an up/down counter that controls turning on/off of individual switching units, and a count signal ...
New Hampshire Inventor Develops Radiopharmaceutical Composition Stabilizer
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- John E. Cyr of Bedford, N.H., has developed radiopharmaceutical compositions which are stabilized by addition of a hydrophilic 6-hydroxy-chroman derivative, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,351,397 on ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Amplification Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Koji Takekawa of Kasugai, Japan, has developed an amplification circuit for amplifying minute signals. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an amplification circuit ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Vacuum-Tube Amplifier Output Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Soung Whan Chung of Jeonbuk, South Korea, has developed an output circuit of a vacuum-tube amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output circuit of a conventional vacuum-tube amplifier has shortcomings that a front end ...
New York Inventor Develops Variable Oscillator Compensation Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- David Meltzer of Wappinger Falls, N.Y., has developed a method of compensating a variable oscillator. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to "circuits and methods for compensating a variable oscillator for process and/or ...
U.S., French Inventors Develop Phase Pulling Mitigating Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Biagio Bisanti and Lorenzo Carpineto, both of Antibes, France, Stefano Cipriani and Eric Duvivier, both of Golfe Juan, France, Gianni Puccio of La Gaude, France, Francesco Coppola of Grasse, France, and Martin Alderton of San Diego, have developed a multiple ...
Pennsylvania, New York Inventors Develop Metal Pickling Acid Solution Conversion System
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Douglas R. Olsen of Pawling, N.Y., and Charles D. Blumenschein of Pittsburgh, have developed a metal pickling solution convertion method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of economically converting a spent first ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Switching Amplifier
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Ming Hung Chang of Jhubei, Taiwan, and Fu Yuan Chen of Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, have developed a method for reducing switching interference. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The switching amplifier includes a first half circuit having a ...
Dutch Inventor Develops Transistor Amplifier Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Mark Van Der Heijden of Den Haag, Netherlands, has developed a transistor amplifier circuit for neutralization of feedback capacitance. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor amplifier circuit has a current to current feedback ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Filterless Class D Audio Power Amplifier
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Kuo-Hung Wu of Tainan County, Taiwan, has developed a filterless audio power amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double reference wave modulation scheme for filterless power amplifiers is disclosed for reducing ...
New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Transmitter Power Control Loop for High-Speed Wireless Local Area Networks
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Syed Aon Mujtaba of Watchung, N.J., and Edward E. Campbell of Blandon, Pa., have developed an apparatus for controlling the gain of a power amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low cost, robust method and apparatus for ...
Texas, Washington Inventors Develop Input Stage for Amplifier
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- G. Tyson Tuttle of Austin, Texas, Gregory A. Hodgson of Pflugerville, Texas, and Dan B. Kasha of Seattle, have developed an input stage for an amplifier. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the present invention includes ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Bias Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Yuri Honda of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a transistor bias circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bias circuit includes a voltage stabilizer connected between a control voltage input terminal through a current limit resistor and ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Radio Frequency Amplifier with Pulse Detection Circuit
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Simon Hamparian of Emerson, N.J., has developed a radio frequency (RF) amplifier with pulse detection and bias control. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RF amplifier includes at least one RF amplification stage having an RF input ...
Tennessee Inventors Develop Aqueous Mixture Impurity Removal Process
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Robert Lin and Marcel de Vreede, both of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed an aqueous mixture impurity extraction process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing impurities from an aqueous mixture or purified aqueous by ...
Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Thioflavin Derivatives
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- William E. Klunk and Chester A. Mathis Jr., both of Pittsburgh, and Yanming Wang of Imperial, Pa., have developed an Alzheimer disease diagnosis thioflavin derivative. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to novel ...
French Inventor Develops Long-Lasting Cosmetic Composition for Human Hair
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Valerie De La Poterie of Le Chatelet en Brie, France, has developed a cosmetic composition for hair. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to mascara compositions for ...
California Inventors Develop Phosphorus-Contained Compounds Prodrug
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- K. Raja Reddy, Edward D. Robinson and Bheemarao G. Ugarkar, all from San Diego, and Mark D. Erion of Del Mar, Calif., have developed a phosphate prodrug. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
California Inventors Develop Hair Growth Stimulation Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- David F. Woodward of Lake Forest, Calif., and Amanda M. VanDenburgh of Huntington Beach, Calif., have developed a hair growth enhancement method. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Ultraviolet Sunscreen Reagents
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Rogers E. Harry-O'kuru of Peoria, Ill., has developed an ultraviolet (UV) sunscreen reagent. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A class of UVA and UVB-absorbing esters has been derived from milkweed oil by modification with a variety of ...
German Inventor Develops Burst Transmission Scheme
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Stefan Kornprobst of Stuttgart, Germany, has developed transmitting random access bursts. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless ...
Texas Inventors Develop Energy Consumption Monitoring Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Charles H. Culp, David E. Claridge, Jeffrey S. Haberl and William D. Turner, all from College Station, Texas, have developed an energy consumption controller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remote monitoring and controlling ...
South African Inventor Develops Website Information Automatic Relaying Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Giovanni Giunta of Pretoria, South Africa, has developed a website information relayer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides for a method of automatically relaying website information by e-mail across an electronic ...
California Inventor Develops Mobile Battery Consumption Optimization Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Anil Tiwari of Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a power management method for a mobile users. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to provide power management for a mobile communication device having a ...
Washington Inventors Develop Context-Aware Cellular Phones
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Gopal Parupudi of Issaquah, Wash., Stephen S. Evans of Seattle, WAsh., and Edward F. Reus of Woodinville, Wash., have developed a context-aware and location-aware cellular phones. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Context-aware and ...
Texas Inventor Develops Business Data Processing Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Steven G. Doughty of Plano, Texas, has developed a data processor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and carrier medium for locating processing parameter values in a financial service organization (FSO) computer system ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Policy Proxy
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Neil Adams and Herb Little, both of Waterloo, Canada, and Michael K. Brown of Kitchener, Canada, have developed a policy proxy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the ...
Washington Inventors Develop Object Persistence Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Beysim Sezgin, Jose A. Blakeley and Denis Y. Altudov, all from Redmond, Wash., and Ramachandran Venkatesh of Bellevue, Wash., have developed an object persistence system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new persistence format for ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Satellite Television Wireless Telephony Network
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- David S Benco of Winfield, Ill., Kevin J Overend of Elmhurst, Ill., Baoling S Sheen of Naperville, Ill., Sandra Lynn True of St. Charles, Ill., and Kenneth J Voight of Sugar Grove, Ill., have developed a satellite television derivative programming. According ...
California Inventors Develop Advertisement Displaying Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Stuart Ozer and Michael Patrick Hart, both of San Francisco, Wei Wei Ada Cho of Mountain View, Calif., and Carolyn Khanh Chau of Campbell, Calif., have developed an advertisement displayer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, ...
Missouri Inventors Develop Storage Space Sharing Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- James N. Rothbarth of St. Louis, Mo., and Paul Becker of Eureka, Mo., have developed a storage space sharing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application and method for transmitting copies of data to a remote back-up site for ...
California Inventors Develop Accurate Radio Time Measurement Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Stephen William Edge and Bollapragada V. J. Manohar both of San Diego, Calif., have developed an improving accuracy of radio timing measurement method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "system, method, apparatus, ...
Texas Inventor Develops Mobile Device Preferred Wireless Network Detection Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Ojas T. Choksi of Plano, Texas, has developed a system for detecting a mobile wireless network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and system for detecting a wireless network includes receiving at a mobile ...
Washington Inventors Develop Contextually Sensitive Tool
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Jeff Reynar of Woodinville, Wash., Paul Broman of Renton, Wash., and Joe Keng Yap of Sammamish, Wash., have developed a sensitive tool. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and ...
California Inventors Develop Database System Commands Processing Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Nithya Muralidharan of Foster City, Calif., and Daniel Manhung Wong of Sacramento, Calif., have developed databases. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing intrusions in a database system is provided. When the database ...
California, Minnesota Inventors Develop Optimized Load Prediction Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Milan Bjelogrlic of San Dimas, Calif., and Petar Ristanovic of Maple Grove, Minn., have developed a load prediction method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method for optimizing security constrained unit ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Inter-Base Station Controller Soft Handoff
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Michael Green and Boaz E. Bryger both of Zichron Yaacov, Ill., and Jeremy M. Stein and Sergio Kolor both of Haifa, Ill., have developed a soft handoff performing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method ...
California Inventors Develop Handoff Wireless Communications System
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Andrew Charles Merson and Samuel Bandele Odedina both of San Diego. and Philip Wayne Liddell of Vista, Calif., have developed a wireless communications system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for ...
Finnish Inventor Develops Communication System Hard Handover Method
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Juha Sipila of Nokia, Finland, has developed a controller of a communication system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is related to a controller of a communication system, the controller comprising: means for determining ...
U.S., Japanese Inventors Develop Structured Document Data
Apr 26, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 -- Hirowo Inoue, Yuji Suga, Hidetomo Sohma, Masahiko Takaku and Yuji Kobayashi, all from Kanagawa, Japan, Kentaro Matsumoto and Jun Fujisawa, both of Tokyo, and Katsuki Ishii of Arlington, Mass., have developed a document data. According to the U.S. Patent & ...