US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Tuesday, May 20:
Georgia, Alabama Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Collectibles Holder
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- John C. McDowell of Atlanta, and Roger K. Nix of Florence, Ala., have developed an ornamental design for a holder for collectibles, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D568,606 on May 13. The ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tissue Container
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Gerald J. Keberlein of Hortonville, Wis., has developed an ornamental design for a tissue container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,762 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Trinova ...
British Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Hand-Held Vacuum Cleaner
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Graeme Crawley of Newcastel-upon-Tyne, Great Britain, has developed an ornamental design for a hand-held vacuum cleaner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D569,058 on May 13. The patent has been ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Woven Tape Adjusting Fastener
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Aly Khalifa of Raleigh, N.C., and Shih-Sheng Yang of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a woven tape adjusting fastener, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D568,787 on May ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Knob
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Michael Hart Ricereto of Baltimore has developed an ornamental design for a knob, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,712 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Newell Operating Co., ...
New York Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Ballistic Body Armor Plate
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Caleb Clark Crye and Gregg M. Thompson, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Eric Owen Fehlberg of Queens, N.Y., have developed an ornamental design for a ballistic body armor plate, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent ...
German Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Container
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Nicola Delli Venneri of Meerbusch, Germany, and Ulrike Danne of Pulheim, Germany, have developed an ornamental design for the container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D568,161 on May 6. The ...
U.S., Taiwanese Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Woven Tape Adjusting Fastener
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Aly Khalifa of Raleigh, N.C., and Shih-Sheng Yang of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, have developed an ornamental design for a woven tape adjusting fastener, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D568,782 on May ...
Connecticut Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bottle Portion
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Clarence Sequeira of New Milford, Conn., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a bottle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,747 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to PepsiCo ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Canopy Bed Window Box
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Michael Louis Magener of Temple City, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a canopy bed window box, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,734 on May 13. The original application was ...
California, Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors Develop Vivo Cell Death Imaging Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Francis G. Blankenberg of Menlo Park, Calif., H. W. Strauss of Redwood City, Calif., Jonathan F. Tait of Seattle, and Peter D. Katsikis of Secane, Pa., have developed a method of imaging apoptosis in vivo, using radiolabeled annexin, the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Bottle
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Bruno Lablaine of Chartres, France, has developed an ornamental design for a bottle, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,756 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Reckitt Benckiser NV, ...
Philippine Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Vacuum Cleaner
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Jennifer R. Nardone of Quezon City, Philippines, has developed an ornamental design for a vacuum cleaner, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D569,061 on May 13. The original application was filed on ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Baseball Rally Cap
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Kenneth Niles of Sacramento, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a baseball rally cap, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,583 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Cya Network ...
Indian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Tea Container
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Ramesh Khanna of New Delhi, India, has developed an ornamental design for a tea container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,577 on May 13. The original application was filed on July 10, 2006, ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Food Storage Container
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Brian D. Furlong of Davidson, N.C., has developed an ornamental design for a food storage container, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,693 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Rubbermaid ...
Italian Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Shoe
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, both of Milan, Italy, have developed an ornamental design for a shoe, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. D568,588 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Formation Apparatus
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Morito Morishima of Fukori, Japan, has developed an image forming apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a spindle motor for rotating an optical disk; an optical pick-up for applying laser light to ...
California Inventors Develop Videoconferencing System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Steve Nelson and Ronald Boskovic, both of San Jose, Calif., Victor Ivashin of Danville, Calif., and Sean Miceli of Sunnyvale, Calif., have developed a multi-participant conference system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A videoconferencing ...
Michigan Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pant
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Rosemary Lynch of Lansing, Mich., has developed an ornamental design for a pant, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,580 on May 13. The original application was filed on June 8, 2007, and is ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Pair of Sandal Sneakers
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Ralph G. Alvarado of Boise, Idaho, has developed an ornamental design for a pair of sandal sneakers, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,589 on May 13. The original application was filed on Feb ....
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Recording Apparatus with Recording Drum
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Hiroshi Okamoto and Yoshitomo Wada, both of Kyoto, Japan, have developed an image recording apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An image recording apparatus includes a recording drum rotatable with ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Ham Mold
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Claude Dreano of Mauron, France, has developed an ornamental design for a mold for ham, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,578 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Armor Inox SA, ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Mitsuaki Honma of Yokohama, Japan, and Noboru Shibata of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells ...
California Inventors Develop Asynchronous, High-Bandwidth Memory Component
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Frederick A. Ware and Ely K. Tsern, both of Los Altos, Calif., Craig E. Hampel of San Jose, Calif., and Donald C. Stark of Los Altos Hills, Calif., have developed a memory component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory, Redundancy Repair Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Tetsuro Takenaka of Miyazaki, Japan, has developed a memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor memory in which redundancy repair is carried out on a block basis, when a defective block of memory cells is replaced by a ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Atherosclerosis Detection Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Bastiaan Driehuys of Chapel Hill, N.C., has developed a magnetic resonance spectroscopy method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An in vivo non-invasive method for detecting and/or diagnosing a ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Flavor Pouch
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Bruce Neidle and Cynthia S. Hayes, both of Midlothian, Va., Kenneth Newman of Prince George, Va., Robert T. Mitten of Glen Allen, Va., William R. Sweeney of Richmond, Va., and Danielle R. Crawford of Chester, Va., have developed an ornamental design for a flavor pouch, ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Transistor Level Shifter Circuit
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Wein-Town Sun of Taoyuan County, Taiwan, has developed a circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor level shifter circuit constituted by a plurality of positive metal oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor is included. The ...
French Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Belt
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Philippe Mouquet of Paris has developed an ornamental design for a belt, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,579 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Hermes Sellier, Paris. The ...
Idaho Inventor Develops Built-In System, Circuit Tester
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Jongtae Kwak of Boise, Idaho, has developed a built-in system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A built-in self-test system for a dynamic random access memory device using a data output register of the memory device to apply test signals to ...
North Carolina Inventors Develop Memory Devices Plurality Testing System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Norbert Rehm, Rath Ung and Dirk Fuhrmann, all from Apex, N.C., Rob Perry and Jan Zieleman, both of Cary, N.C., have developed a system for testing a plurality of memory devices. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention ...
New Jersey Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Hooded Jacket
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Robert Wager of Hillsborough, N.J., has developed an ornamental design for a hooded jacket, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,581 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to KBS Apparel Group ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Skirt
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Brian Jeffery Peters of Huntington Beach, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a skirt, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,582 on May 13. The original application was filed on Nov ....
Idaho Inventors Develop Data Synchronization Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Simon J. Lovett of Boise, Idaho, and Dean Gans of Nampa, Idaho, have developed a data synchronizing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a combination is comprised of a plurality of sense amps, each ...
Italian Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Sport Footwear
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Davide Parisotto of Asolo, Italy, has developed an ornamental design for sport footwear, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,584 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Calzaturificio SCARPA, ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Clamping Jig
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Michael Weiby of Bartlett, Ill., has developed an ornamental design for a clamping jig, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,706 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Sears Brands LLC, ...
Texas Inventor Develop Parallel Read for Front End Compression Mode
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Khaled Fekih-Romdhane of Houston has developed a read. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for increasing front-end testing throughput by allowing simultaneous access to multiple banks are provided. Techniques described ...
Michigan Inventors Develop Ornamental Design for Laundry Worksurface
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Jeffrey M. Browne of Benton Harbor, Mich., Robert Fitzpatrick of Holland, Mich., and Seth E. Bixby of Stevensville, Mich., have developed an ornamental design for a laundry worksurface, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued ...
California Inventor Develops Gas Displacement Well System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Mark Kevin Blaisdell of Concord, Calif., has developed well systems. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus is provided for reducing the purge volume of a well during purging and sampling operations. In some system ...
U.S., Israeli Inventors Develop Model-Based Optical Proximity Correction Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Emanuel Gofman and Shlomo Shlafman, both of Haifa, Israel, Dov Ramm of Menashe, Israel, Kafai Lai of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Mark A. Lavin of Katonah, N.Y., Maharaj Mukherjee of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., Alan E. Rosenbluth of Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and Gregg M. Gallatin of ...
German Inventors Develop Wells Ground Layers Permeability Intensifying Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Alexander Steinbrecher of Markkleeberg, Germany, and Karsten Kahle of Bad Schmiedeberg, Germany, have developed a wells permeability intensifying system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for intensifying ...
German Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Cooking Pot
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Nicola Stattmann of Frankfurt, Germany, has developed an ornamental design for a cooking pot, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,677 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Fissler GmbH, ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Stagger Memory Cell Array
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Yeou-Lang Hsieh of Taipei, Taiwan, Ching-Kun Huang of Chupei, Taiwan, and Jeng-Dong Sheu of Taoyaun County, Taiwan, have developed a cell array. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first memory cell area having a ...
Texas, New York Inventors Develop Nanoelectromechanical Memory Cell
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Joseph F. Pinkerton of Austin, Texas, and Jeffrey D. Mullen of New York, have developed memory cells. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) memory cells are provided by anchoring a conductive nanometer-scale beam ...
Singapore Inventor Develops Submersible Well Pump Installation Procedure
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Boon Sun See of Geylang Bahru, Singapore, has developed an electrical pump assembly installing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing an electrical pump assembly in a subsea wellhead member avoids having to run the ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Jeffrey Henderson of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,602 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to NIKE Inc., Beaverton, ...
U.S., Canadian Inventors Develop Register File with Selectable Keeper Circuit
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Steven K. Hsu of Lake Oswego, Ore., Ram Krishnamurthy of Portland, Ore., and Bhaskar P. Chatterjee of Waterloo, Canada, have developed a register file. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A register file includes a multi-level multiplexer ...
Texas Inventors Develop Wellbore Operations Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Frank Benjamin Springett and Raul Araujo, both of Houston, Eric T. Ensley of Cypress, Texas, and Dean A. Bennett of Katy, Texas, have developed methods for wellbore operations. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Induction Heating Cooker
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Hiroyuki Tanaka of Kadoma, Japan, has developed an ornamental design for an induction heating cooker, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,673 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Device
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Katsutoshi Urabe and Yuji Uji, both of Tokyo, have developed a memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device of the present invention includes a memory cell array wherein data is stored in a ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Tubular Element Stepwise Expansion Expander System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Wilhelmus Christianus Maria Lohbeck and Djurre Hans Zijsling, both of Rijswijk, Netherlands, have developed a tubular element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "expander system for radially expanding a tubular ...
Texas Inventors Develop Gas Lift Barrier Orifice Valve
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- James H. Kritzler of Pearland, Texas, James H. Holt of Conroe, Texas, Vic Randazzo of Houston, and Walt R. Chapman of Kingwood, Texas, have developed a barrier orifice valve for gas lift. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gas lift valve ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Chain Reaction Control Circuit
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Tsung-Chun Chen and Tsung-Te Lee, both of Hsin-Tien, Taiwan, have developed a chain reaction control circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chain reaction control circuit for parallel power supply provides greater power without ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Capturing Apparatus with Variable Communication Forms
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Masayuki Ueyama of Osaka, Japan, has developed an image capturing apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "In an image capturing apparatus which can be remotely operated from an operation terminal, to ...
California Inventor Develops Electronic Assembly Video Inspection System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Joseph L. Vilella of San Diego has developed a method for visually inspecting electronic assemblies. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically assessing the quality of a printed circuit board assembly using digitized ...
Texas Inventors Develop Debris Reduction Perforating Apparatus
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Jerry L. Walker of Fort Worth, Texas, and Jim Gilbert of Rio Vista, Texas, have developed a subterranean wellbore perforating apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating apparatus includes a plurality of shaped charges each ...
California Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Chair
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Armen Sevada Gharabegian of Glendale, Calif., has developed an ornamental design for a chair, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,626 on May 13. The original application was filed on Sept. 19, ...
Montana Inventor Develops Honeycomb Structure Inspection System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Brian Smithgall of Bozeman, Mont., has developed a method for inspecting a honeycomb structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for inspecting a honeycomb structure having a plurality of parallel channels includes ...
West Virginia, Texas Inventors Develop Subsurface Materials Underground Treatment Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Joseph A. Zupanick of Pineville, W.Va., and Monty H. Rial of Dallas, have developed subsurface materials. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for underground treatment of subsurface materials comprises providing an injection pattern ...
Texas Inventor Develops Semiconductor Wafer Edge Inspection Method
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Hak Chuah Sim Dallas has developed a system for inspecting a system for inspecting a wafer. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge inspection method for detecting defects on a wafer edge normal surface includes acquiring a set of digital ...
German Inventors Develop Reference Level Determining System
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Georg Braun of Holzkirchen, Germany, Maksim Kuzmenka of Munich, Germany, and Hermann Ruckerbauer of Moos, Germany, have developed a level determiner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit exhibits a signal input, means for determining ...
Texas Inventors Develop Subsurface Safety Valve
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Thomas D. MacDougall of Sugar Land, Texas, and Dwayne E. May of Humble, Texas, have developed a subsurface safety valve using method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsurface safety valve comprises a tubular body adapted for placement ...
U.S., German Inventors Develop Phase Change Memory
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Ulrike Gruening-von Schwerin of Munchen, Germany, and Thomas Happ of Tarrytown, N.Y., have developed a memory. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes transistors in rows and columns providing an array, first conductive lines in ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Ornamental Design for Shoe Upper Portion
May 20, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- Leo S. Chang of Portland, Ore., has developed an ornamental design for a portion of a shoe upper, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. D568,601 on May 13. The patent has been assigned to Nike Inc., ...