US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, May 1:
New York, Connecticut Inventors Develop Oral Active Agent Delivery Compounds
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- John J. Weidner of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Bruce F. Variano of White Plains, N.Y., Shingai Majuru of Brewster, N.Y., Satej Bhandarkar of Garnerville, N.Y., Lynn Sheilds of Port Chester, N.Y., and William E. Bay of Ridgefield, Conn., have developed an oral active agent ...
Louisiana, South Carolina Inventors Develop Naphthalene Derivatives
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Sanaa A. Ibrahim, Roger A. Laine and Betty C. R. Zhu, all from Baton Rouge, La., Gregg Henderson of St. Gabriel, La., Rosemary Patton of Lake Charles, La.,and Feng Chen of Central, S.C., have developed a termite killing method. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
British Inventors Develop Respiratory Disease Treatment Compounds
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Alan Daniel Brown, Kim James, Charlotte Alice Louise Lane, Ian Brian Moses and Nicholas Murray Thomson, all from Sandwich, Great Britain, have developed sulfonamide derivatives for the treatment of diseases, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The ...
New Jersey Inventors Develop Skin Aesthetic Appearance Treatment Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Laurence Dryer of Butler, N.J., and Dmitri Ptchelintsev of Jersey City, N.J., have developed a skin aesthetic appearance prevention method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to compositions and methods for ...
New Jersey, Minnesota Inventors Develop Bioactive Compounds
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Chi-Tang Ho of East Brunswick, N.J., Naisheng Bai of Highland Park, N.J., Slavik Dushenkov of Fort Lee, N.J., Zigang Dong of Rochester, Minn., and Ann M. Bode of Cannon Falls, Minn., have developed a cancer treatment diterpenoid compound. According to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus for Color-Separating
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Kazuhiro Saito, Hiroshi Mori and Mitsuru Uratani, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an image processing program. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus in which an appropriate color separation table is selected ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image-Processing Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Hiroshi Hattori of Gifu-ken, Japan, has developed an image-processing method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention relates to an image-processing device and an image-processing method, and ...
New York Inventors Develop Digital Images Printing, Displaying Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- John R. Fredlund, Michael A. Morba and Charles W. Hicks, all from Rochester, N.Y., Lisa G. Woodworth of Henrietta, N.Y., and Thomas J. Murray of Cohocton, N.Y., have developed a customer image order printing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Connecticut Inventors Develop Mail Communications Status Monitoring Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Deborah R McManus and Srikanth Dasamandam, both of Bethel, Conn., and Surya Sagi of Southbury, Conn., have developed a document production controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring the status of individual ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Page Break Position Controlling Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Koji Okamura of Ibaraki, Japan, has developed a page break position controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus and method which can reliably and ...
COMMERCE COMMITTEE TO EXPLORE IMPROVING CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING
May 01, 2008 ... The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee issued the following news release: The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces a Full Committee hearing on Improving the Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling for Decision-Makers and End-Users to be held ...
TRI-STATE SAFETY BRINGS MULTITUDE OF AGENCIES TOGETHER, FOCUS ON BOATING SAFETY: OFFICIALS TO EMPHASIZE SAFETY AS BOATS LAUNCH DURING MAY 3 EVENT
May 01, 2008 ... The Arizona State Parks issued the following news release: A consortium of state, local and federal boating agencies is hosting the fifth annual Tri-State Boating Safety Fair at Lake Havasu State Park to educate boaters about boating safety May 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The theme ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Processing Apparatus for Condensed Printing
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Koji Ishizaki of Tokyo has developed a data processing device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When multiple pages of a document are condensed and printed on a single sheet of printing media, an image data generator condenses the page image ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Du-Yeul Kim and Byung-Chul Kim, both of Suwon-si, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array a redundant enable signal generating ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Yasuo Gotoh of Souraku-gun, Japan, has developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device according to the present invention where the entire memory area determined by an array of memory ...
Israeli Inventors Develop Real Time Fax Over Packet Based Network
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Abraham Fisher and Dror Meiri, both of Haifa, Israel, Yona Sivan of Safed, Israel, and Oren Somekh of D.N. Emek-Israel, Israel, have developed a method of establishing a fax connection. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Memory Repair System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Albert Wu of Palo Alto, Calif., and Sehat Sutardja of Los Altos, Calif., have developed a memory repair system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a memory module that stores at least one of data and code. A ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Formation Apparatus Controlling Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Fumiharu Nakayama of Yokohama, Japan, has developed a method for controlling image forming device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a user registers a type and a condition of image formation by a terminal, the terminal determines a ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Substrate Thickness Measurement Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Sun-Yong Choi, Chung-Sam Jun and Kye-Weon Kim, all from Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, and Hwan-Shik Park of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a substrate thickness measuring apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method of ...
California Inventor Develops Printing Mechanism for Wireless Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Shingo Yamaguchi of Cupertino, Calif., has developed a printing interface apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for printing electronic document information from a wireless device is described. In one aspect, a ...
German Inventors Develop Electronic Control Unit
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Dirk Landau of Dusseldorf, Germany, Philipp Antziopoulos of Neuss, Germany, and Hans-Werner Stottmeister of Korschenbroich, Germany, have developed a data communication interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Data Transfer Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Hiroshi Mizuhashi of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a method of transferring data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing data includes transferring first data from a data line to a first sense amplifier, transferring the first ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Card Making Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Sanae Okuyama and Satoru Shinohara, both of Miyagi, Japan, have developed a card making method and a recording medium. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card making device allowing easy procurement of a character card desired by the user ....
Japanese Inventor Develops Printer with Reception Unit
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Masahiro Minowa of Nagano-ken, Japan, has developed a method for two-color printing. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer has a reception unit for receiving print commands from a host, and has print heads, capable of printing multiple ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Precharge Circuit
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Tae-joong Song of Hwaseong-si, South Korea, and Young-keun Lee of Anyang-si, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a precharge circuit employing an inactive weak ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Digital Image Production Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Eduardus Josephus Willibrordus Van Vliembergen and Albert Ronald Matthias Eijlander, both of Venlo, Netherlands, and Monique Gerardine Miranda Sommer of Eindhoven, Netherlands, have developed a printer recording material management system. An abstract of the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Scanning Type Printing Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Takashi Hoshino, Toshiya Kojima and Seiichi Inoue, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed an ink jet recording method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The scanning type printing apparatus prints an image and/or a text on a recording ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Chip Information Management Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Sumio Ogawa of Tokyo has developed a chip information managing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In replacing word lines having defective addresses with redundant word lines, information is held in a relationship between the word ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Dial-Up Internet Facsimile Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Kyoji Saito of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a service provider of e-mail via telephone line. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dial-up internet facsimile apparatus comprises a modem that makes dial-up connection to a service provider of ...
Italian Inventor Develops Mechanical Part Position Checking System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Andrea Turrini of Bologna, Italy, has developed a system for checking the position of a mechanical part. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for checking the position of a mechanical part, for example a tool of a lathe, ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Formation Device with Memory Assignment Unit
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Yoshiaki Irino of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a memory assignment unit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes an operating system to execute any of a plurality of programs. The image forming device comprises a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Job Processing Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Hideyuki Kidani and Hidetoshi Asasaka, both of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a job processing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing control apparatus performs print processing by sequentially spooling print data received ...
CARGILL ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE/BETTENCOURT B-6 DAIRY, JEROME, APPLIES TO DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY FOR AIR QUALITY PERMIT TO CONSTRUCT
May 01, 2008 ... The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has received a request from Cargill Environmental Finance/Bettencourt B-6 Dairy, Jerome, for an air quality permit to construct. The permit will ...
German Inventor Develops Integrated Memory Module Production Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Helmut Fischer of Oberhaching, Germany, has developed an integrated memory module. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for producing an integrated memory module containing a command decoding device that ...
California Inventor Develops Interferometer for Measuring Perpendicular Translation
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- William Clay Schluchter of Los Altos, Calif., has developed a system for measuring an object. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interferometer provides a large dynamic range for perpendicular displacement measurements. In operation, a ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Memory Array Configuration
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Luca G. Fasoli of San Jose, Calif., and Roy E. Scheuerlein of Cupertino, Calif., have developed semiconductor integrated circuits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit having a three-dimensional memory array provides for a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Mitsuhiro Noguchi, Akira Goda and Hiroyuki Nitta, all from Yokohama, Japan, have developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array having a plurality of data ...
Colorado Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Device Power-Gating Technique
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Kim C. Hardee of Colorado Springs, Colo., has developed an integrated circuit device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high speed power-gating technique for an integrated circuit device having a sleep mode of operation comprises providing ...
French Inventor Develops Watch with Container
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Jean-Michel Baroche of Paris has developed a container-watch. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a watch housing comprising a body made in two parts, connected one to the other. The one of the two parts guarantees the ...
German Inventors Develop Correct Time Automatically Displaying Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Gottfried Auer of Windsbach, Germany, has developed a correct time displaying method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for automatically displaying a correct time and date when initially ...
California Inventor Develops Dual-Port Static Random Access Memory Cell
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Chau-Chin Wu of Cupertino, Calif., has developed a dual-port static random access memory (SRAM) cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-port SRAM cell is disclosed that includes a storage element that is operable to store a data bit ...
North Carolina, Delaware Inventors Develop Interferometer Pressure Sensor
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- William Jacob Craft of Whitsett, N.C., and Rahul Gupta of Wilmington, Del., have developed a pressure sensor manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interferometer pressure sensor includes a reflective film configured to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Seismic Sources Control Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- John Tulett of Yokohama, Japan, has developed seismic sources controlling method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method and apparatus for controlling seismic sources. The method and apparatus enable firing of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Temperature Measurement Apparatus
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Tomohiro Suzuki and Chishio Koshimizu, both of Yamanashi, Japan, have developed a temperature measuring system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light from a light source is split at a first splitter into a temperature measurement beam and a ...
Utah Inventors Develop Asynchronous Electronic Circuit
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Marshall A Soares of Taylorsville, Utah, and Paul W. Moody of Sandy, Utah, have developed an asynchronous memory array write detection system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention provides an "asynchronous electronic circuit that ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Low Voltage Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Hee-Bok Kang and Jin-Hong Ahn, both of Ichon-shi, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory device for low voltage. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes: a read amplifying unit for transferring a ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Min-Young You of Ichon-shi, South Korea, has developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device comprises: a plurality of banks, each having first and second cell mats, each having a ...
Texas, Minnesota Inventors Develop Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Mark Quadling of Plano, Texas, Henley Quadling of Addison, Texas, and Alan Blair of St. Paul, Minn., have developed a multi-dimensional visual representation method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digitized image of an object may include ...
Arizona Inventor Develops Catadioptric Imaging System with Adaptive Catoptric Surface
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Henry Allen Hill of Tucson, Ariz., has developed a beam splitter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for imaging an object point to an image point, the system including: a beam splitter positioned to receive light rays from ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Low Coherence Interferometry Signal Detection Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Johannes F. de Boer of Somerville, Mass., Guillermo J. Tearney of Cambridge, Mass., and Brett E. Bouma of Quincy, Mass., have developed an apparatus for optical imaging. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Static Random-Access Memory Providing Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Ping-Wei Wang and Yuh-Jier Mii, both of Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, have developed a static random-access memory (SRAM). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a circuit and method for providing a SRAM with reduced power ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Self Refresh Period Signal Generation Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Jae-Youl Lee of Ichon-shi, South Korea, has developed a self refresh period signal generation device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self refresh period signal generating device includes: an internal temperature sensor; an extended mode ...
New Mexico Inventor Develops Optical Displacement Sensor
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Dustin W. Carr of Albuquerque, N.M., has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical displacement sensor is disclosed which uses a VCSEL coupled to an optical cavity formed by a ...
French Inventor Develops Three-Dimensional Measurement System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Bruno Taffet of Toulouse, France, has developed a mobile two-axis assembly. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a three-dimensional measurement system comprising a hardware part and a software part, in which the ...
U.S., British Inventors Develop Pressure Sensors Signals Combining System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Stig Rune Lennart Tenghamn and Claes Nicolai Borresen, both of Katy, Texas, and Svein Torleif Vaage of Weybridge, Great Britain, have developed pressure sensors. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signals of pressure sensors and particle ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Battery-Powered Vacuum Cleaner
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Hideo Iwasaki, Hideyuki Kanai and Motoya Kanda, all from Kanagawa-Ken, Japan, and Katsumi Hisano of Chiba-Ken, Japan, have developed a method for cooling battery-powered vacuum cleaner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-powered ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Grating Biochip Inspection Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Yi Sha Ku and Nigel Smith, both of Hsinchu, Taiwan, Deh Ming Shyu of Miaoli County, Taiwan, and Chun Hung Ko of Changhua County, Taiwan, have developed a grating biochip inspecting system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Young Ok Cho of Sungnam-si, South Korea, and Yeong Taek Lee of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory device. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A semiconductor memory device has a layout ...
Utah Inventor Develops Portable Suction Units
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Robert Wertz of Salt Lake City has developed a vacuum sweeper. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment for portable power and suction units, including a long control tube having a length to extend from a floor to adjacent shoulder ...
Wisconsin, Colorado, California Inventors Develop Communication Multi-Port System
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Robert D. Turney of Watertown, Wis., Paul R. Schumacher of Berthoud, Colo., and Kornelis Antonius Vissers of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed digital logic circuits. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Sub Word Line Drivers Layout Structure
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- In-Chul Jeong, Jun-Hyung Kim, Seung-Min Oh and Jung-Hwa Lee, all from Suwon-si, South Korea, and Soo-Bong Chang of Seoul, South Korea, have developed sub word line drivers. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "layout ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Borehole Seismic Data Processing Method
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Brian Nelson Fuller of Centennial, Colo., and John Marcus Sterling of Littleton, Colo., have developed a borehole seismic data processing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Seismic data recorded by subsurface seismic sensors placed in ...
New Mexico Inventor Develops Optical Displacement Sensor
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Dustin Wade Carr of Albuquerque, N.M., has developed a high-signal-to-noise displacement sensor. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical displacement sensor is disclosed that provides a high signal-to-noise ratio output signal without ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Storage Medium Sync Frame Structure
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Chosaku Noda of Kawasaki, Japan, and Hideo Ando of Hino, Japan, have developed a sync frame structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention aims to improve the "sync code detection reliability while simplifying the sync code ...
California Inventors Develop Computer System Group Membership Identifier
May 01, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- Greg B. Vaughan of Santa Cruz, Calif., and David M. O'Rourke of San Jose, Calif., have developed a computer operating system access control process. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining group membership in a computer ...