US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Monday, September 8:
HISTORIAN TO DISCUSS RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE ON CIVIL WAR
Sep 08, 2008 ... Weber State University issued the following news release: Weber State University's Department of History will host historian George C. Rable for this fall's Lampros Lecture on Sept. 17. Rable will present "God as General: Was There a Religious History of the American Civil War?" ...
SCHAFER HAS ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN COMPARATIVE DRAMA JOURNAL
Sep 08, 2008 ... Pennsylvania State University-Beaver issued the following news release: Carol Schafer, associate professor of theatre, integrative arts, and women's studies at Penn State Beaver, has had an article published in the noted journal, Comparative Drama, Vol. 42, Summer 2008, No. 2. Schafer's ...
CAMPUS WELCOMES NEW EMPLOYEES
Sep 08, 2008 ... Pennsylvania State University-Beaver issued the following news release: This fall Penn State Beaver welcomed two new faculty members and a new staff member. Clare Conry-Murray is assistant professor of psychology, Abhijit Dutt is instructor in information sciences and technology ...
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER DISCUSSES LATE STATE BUDGET IN WEEKLY RADIO ADDRESS
Sep 08, 2008 ... Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., issued the text of the following radio address: Hi, this is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with another California Report. We are now 40 days into the new fiscal year and still California has no budget. Maybe this is something the ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Reconfigurable Transmitter
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Niall Eric Shakeshaft and Jussi Heikki Vepsalainen, both of Helsinki, Finland, and Petri Tapani Eloranta and Pauli Mikael Seppinen, both of Espoo, Finland, have developed a radio frequency transmitter. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent ...
U.S., Dutch Inventors Develop Multiple Input, Output Communication System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- James Gardner of San Ramon, Calif., Vincent K. Jones IV of Redwood City, Calif., and D. J. Richard van Nee of De Meem, Netherlands, have developed a communication apparatus. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, ...
Dutch Inventors Develop Wireless Local Area Network Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten of VL Diessen, Netherlands, Hendrik van Bokhorst of MB Nijkerk, Netherlands, and Hans van Driest of MJ Bilthoven, Netherlands, have developed a method of transmitting data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In ...
Florida Inventors Develop Radio Frequency Power Transmission Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Gregory S. Rawlins and Michael W. Rawlins, both of Heathrow, Fla., David F. Sorrells of Middleburg, Fla., have developed a power transmission system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Methods and systems ...
New York, New Jersey Inventors Develop Antenna Array Employing System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Laurence Eugene Malaender of New York, and Reinaldo A. Valenzuela of Holmdel, N.J., have developed a method for increasing data throughput. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "In the method and system, a ...
California Inventors Develop Parallel Concatenated Code System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Kelly B. Cameron, Ba-Zhong Shen, and Hau Thien Tran, all from Irvine, Calif., Christopher R. Jones of Los Angeles, and Thomas Ashford Hughes Jr. of Dana Point, Calif., have developed a method for parallel concatenated encoding. According to a description of ...
British Inventor Develops Modem Tuner
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Nicholas Paul Cowley of Wroughton, Great Britain, has developed a tuner. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tuner includes a mixer which receive first and second inputs via a multiplexer in different frequency ranges from different sources ...
Finnish Inventors Develop Radio Communication System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Ari Hottinen of Espoo, Finland, has developed a radio communications method. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The invention relates to a method for improving the performance of data transmissions over a ...
German Inventors Develop Quasi-Periodic Steady State Initialization Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Rolf Neubert of Unterhaching, Germany, has developed a multi-tone system. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The invention refers to a method for initializing the computation of a quasi-periodic steady ...
California Inventors Develop Circuit Design Functional Verification Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Chung-Wah N. Ip of Fremont, Calif., and Yann Antonioli of Mountain View, Calif., have developed a method for evaluating circuit design properties. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A property used in functional verification of a circuit ...
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors Develop Email Message Categorization Separator
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Martin M. Wattenberg of Winchester, Mass., Bernard J. Kerr of Boston, Darrell J. Loverin of Boxborough, Mass., Jodi L. Coppinger of Merrimack, N.H., and Paul B. Moody of Hyde Park, Vt., have developed a document category separator. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors Develop Internet Document Collaboration Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Julio Estrada and Maurice B. Shore, both of Carlisle, Mass., Joseph A. Russo of Westford, Mass., and Miguel A. Estrada of Hollis, N.H., have developed an Intranet document publishing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collaboration ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Automating Interaction Method, Host Computing Device
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Tetteh Akiti of Lenexa, Kan., has developed a host computer host computer communication method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a method and computer-readable media for automating interaction with a host computer. Input values ...
New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Child Node Graph Display Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Gopalan Arun and Carl J. Evankovich, both of Nashua, N.H., David Mor of Merrimack, N.H., and Lory Dean Molesky of Lexington, Mass., have developed a child node scroller. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques employed in displays of ...
California, New Jersey Inventors Develop Serial Concatenated Coder
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 --Aamod Khandekar and Robert J. McEliece, both of Pasadena, Calif., and Hui Jin of Glen Gardner, N.J., have developed a method for receiving message bits. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder ...
California Inventors Develop Script Graphical User Interface Providing System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Vivek Sharma and Sundeep Nayak, both of Fremont, Calif., and Srinivasu Gottipati of Santa Clara, Calif., have developed a system for generating a graphical user interface (GUI). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present ...
California Inventors Develop Electronic Information Organizing Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Elizabeth Charnock and Steven L Roberts, both of Foster City, Calif., and Curtis Thompson of Berkeley, Calif., have developed a method of visualizing information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of organizing information is ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Instant Messaging Interface, Informational Tool Tip
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- James Andrew Canfield and Gregory Alan Willis, both of Arlington, Va., Kenneth Carbone of Annandale, Va., David Fairlie Colburn of Reston, Va., Linda Nols Myers of Purcellville, Va., and Thomas E. Van Lenten of Ashburn, Va., have developed an instant messaging user ...
Washington Inventors Develop Handling Open Browser Request
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- David Dawson-Granados of Seattle, and Benjamin R. Peart of Redmond, Wash., have developed an Internet browser. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a single window browser environment, a request to open a new browser window is either ...
California Inventors Develop Graphical User Interface Design
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Alix A. Homes of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Marcia Weinberger of Sherman Oaks, Calif., have developed a method of presenting configurable multi-level parameter values. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphical user interface (GUI) is ...
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WEATHERS HANNA WITH MINIMAL DAMAGE
Sep 08, 2008 ... The District of Columbia Office of Homeland Security issued the following news release: The District of Columbia weathered Tropical Storm Hanna with minimal damage. The city activated its emergency operations center (EOC) at noon on Friday in preparation for the storm, which was ...
$20 CREDIT AVAILABLE TO NEW CUSTOMERS OF PIONEER TELEPHONE
Sep 08, 2008 ... The Maine Office of the Public Advocate issued the following notice: Maine residents who sign up for a long-distance phone plan with long-distance rates that are among the lowest available can get a $20 incentive to do so, the Maine Public Advocate Office said Friday. This is an ...
Washington Inventors Develop Data Connection Attributes Identification Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Firdosh K. Bhesania of Kirkland, Wash., and Mark E. Maszak of Sammamish, Wash., and John Charles Dunn of Issaquah, Wash., have developed a computer data connection attribute. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying data ...
Indian Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Test Method Utilizing Sequential Scan Based Technique
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Naga Satya Srikanth Puvvada and Nikila Krishnamoorthy, both of Bangalore, India, Sandeep Jain of Rewari, India, and Jais Abraham of Kerala, India, have developed a method of testing an integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Semiconductor Memory Device, Test Control Circuit
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Hee Bok Kang of Daejeongwangyeok-si, South Korea, and Jin Hong Ahn of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a semiconductor memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device having a test control circuit ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Digital Information Data Detection, Decoding System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Hongwei Song and German Feyh, both of Boulder, Colo., have developed a method of detecting and decoding data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data detection and decoding system in which a single parity bit added to the end of each code ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Electronic Document Content Summarizing Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Jianwei Yuan of Cumming, Ga., and Olav A. Sylthe of Atlanta, have developed a method of electronic document summary information generation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document summary which includes an assemblage of a plurality of ...
Texas Inventor Develops Computer Command Sequence Selection User Interface
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Theodore David Wugoski of Fort Worth, Texas, has developed a macro command automatic generation signal. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, signal, system, software, and user interface for selecting command sequences and saving the ...
Washington Inventors Develop Computer File System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Relja Ivanovic of Redmond, Wash., David G. De Vorchik of Seattle, and Chris J. Guzak of Kirkland, Wash., have developed a graphical representation method of computer file. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing ...
California Inventor Develops Markup Language Enhanced Visual Table Editing System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Heidi Bauer Williams of San Francisco has developed a method for editing web language. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for editing a table within a hypertext markup language editor is described, the method comprising ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Information Processing Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Hiromi Ikeda of Kanagawa, Japan, and Makoto Hirota of Tokyo, have developed a technique associated with a multimodal user interface, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,421,655 on Sept. 2. The ...
Washington Inventors Develop Media Player User Interface Interaction System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Jeffrey Fong, David Franklin and Thamer Abanami, all from Seattle, have developed a user interface for interacting with a media player. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for interfacing with playback of media by a media ...
Washington Inventor Develops Electronic Commerce Action Provision Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Jeff Reynar of Woodinville, Wash., has developed an semantically labeled string based electronic document providing system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for recognizing strings, labeling the strings with a semantic category ...
South Korean Inventors Develop System-on-Chip, Built-in-Self-Test Circuit
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Jong-Ho Kim and Hae-Young Rha, both of Seoul, South Korea, Jong-Chul Shin of Suwon-si, South Korea, and Kee-Won Joe of Yongin-si, South Korea, have developed an automatic circuit test equipment. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Texas Inventor Develops Integrated Circuit Signal Interface
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Lee D. Whetsel of Parker, Texas, has developed an integrated circuit test interface. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimized joint test action group (JTAG) interface is used to access JTAG Tap Domains within an integrated circuit ....
Colorado Inventors Develop Integrated Circuit Tester Configuration Error Control Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Stephen D. Jordan of Fort Collins, Colo., and Joel Buck-Gengler of Longmont, Colo., have developed an integrated circuit tester. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and circuits for efficient configuration an error data crossover ...
German Inventors Develop Semi-Conductor Component Test Device
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Thorsten Bucksch and Martin Meier, both of Munchen, Germany, have developed a semi-conductor memory component test device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a semi-conductor component test procedure, and a ...
Washington, Idaho Inventors Develop Information Enhanced Turbo Product Code Decoder System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Eric John Hewitt and Tom Leroy Hansen, both of Pullman, Wash., Peter Sean Ladow of Redmond, Wash., and Alan Robert Danielson of Moscow, Idaho, have developed a method of organizing a codeword. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Intelligent Media Error Checking Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Tzueng-Yau Lin of Tai-Chung Hsien, Taiwan, has developed a media error check detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent streaming media error check detection method and apparatus. The claimed embodiment discloses an ...
New York Inventor Develops Visual Gap Based Document Segmentation Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Daniel Egnor of New York has developed a web document search engine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document may be segmented based on a visual model of the document. The visual model is determined according to an amount of visual ...
Florida Inventors Develop Audio Code Extraction Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- David H. Wright of Clearwater, Fla., Daniel Nelson of Tampa, Fla., and Ronald G. Schwerer of Belleair Beach, Fla., have developed an audio/video code decoding system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to extract audio ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Data Communication Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Ramesh Mantha of Toronto, and Frank Kschischang of Mississauga, Canada, have developed a data communication device utilising automatic repeat request system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication method for puncturing of ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device, Termination Resistor Circuit
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Daisuke Morioka of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a semiconductor integrated circuit. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a signal line, a test load circuit and a termination circuit. The signal line is ...
California Inventor Develops Semiconductor Memory Device Test Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Sathya P. Kaginele of Mountain View, Calif., has developed a method for testing memory device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each match line of a memory device such as a content addressable memory (CAM) device and a related part of a ...
Texas Inventor Develops Computer System Temperature Controlling Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Julianne Frances Haugh of Austin, Texas, has developed a method for controlling computer system temperature. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and media for controlling temperature of a system are disclosed. More ...
Wisconsin Inventors Develop Electronic Media Document Publication System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Ignatius M. Zettel of New Berlin, Wis., and Kevin R. Clayton of Waterloo, Wis., have developed an electronic data file publishing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of publishing an electronic data file to a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Digital Data Recording Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Taku Hoshizawa and Osamu Kawamae, both of Yokohama, Japan, and Shigeki Taira of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a method of reproducing digital data. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Longitudinal Position Data Error Correction Provision Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Glen A. Jaquette and Paul J. Seger, both of Tucson, Ariz., and Roy D. Cideciyan of Rueschlikon, Switzerland, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou of Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a data error correction method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Information Storage Medium
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Kyung-geun Lee, In-sik Park, Jung-wan Ko and Du-seop Yoon of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, have developed a method of recording information. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information storage medium includes a drive zone having a ...
California Inventors Develop Data Communication, Storage Error Detection Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Clifton James Williamson of Soquel, Calif., and Peter Igorevich Vasiliev of Cupertino, Calif., have developed a data error detection method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is an error detection and correction ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Digital Data Reproduction Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Taku Hoshizawa and Osamu Kawamae, both of Yokohama, Japan, and Shigeki Taira of Kawasaki, Japan, have developed a method for recording digital data. According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Data Recovery Apparatus
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Ji-hyun In and Kwang-yoon Lee, both of Seongnam-si, South Korea, and Hyo-jun Kim and Tae-sun Chung, both of Seoul, South Korea, have developed a flash memory data recovery method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data recovery apparatus ...
Maryland Inventor Develops Computer Reusable Data Markup Language
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Russell T. Davis of Bethesda, Md., has developed a computer markup language system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide a computer markup language, referred to as Reusable Data Markup Language (RDML), and a data ...
German Inventor Develops Gesture-Based Reporting Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Bruce Reiner of Seaford, Germany, has developed an image-based reporting method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to gesture-based reporting system and method, which includes a client computer with ...
Texas Inventors Develop Digital Electronic Circuit Test Input Generation Method
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Marvin W. Martinez Jr. and David B. Erickson, both of Plano, Texas, have developed a method for generating circuit test input. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating test input includes initializing a current pseudo-random value at a ...
Washington Inventor Develops Schemaless Data Mapping System
Sep 08, 2008 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- Yiu-Ming Leung of Kirkland, Wash., has developed a payload data mapping method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for mapping payload data to a spreadsheet list. The present invention comprises a system for mapping ...
Defense Logistics Agency Seeks Clamping Catches
Sep 08, 2008 ... PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 -- The Defense Logistics Agency said it was looking to buy clamping catches. The NAICS code for this requirement is 332510. All request for quotations are due by Sept. 22. The solicitation (No. SPM5L208TA468) was posted on Sept. 5 and is available at: ...
Defense Logistics Agency Seeks Hexagon Plain Nuts
Sep 08, 2008 ... PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 -- The Defense Logistics Agency said it was looking to buy hexagon plain nuts.The NAICS code for this requirement is 332722. This acquisition is a 100 percent small business set-aside.All request for quotations are due by Sept. 22.The solicitation (No. SPM5A708T8598) was ...
Defense Logistics Agency Seeks Shear Bolts
Sep 08, 2008 ... PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 -- The Defense Logistics Agency said it was looking to buy shear bolts. The NAICS code for this requirement is 332722. All request for quotations are due by Sept. 19.The solicitation (No. SPM8E608T9683) was posted on Sept. 4 and is available at: ...
Defense Logistics Agency Seeks Instruments, Laboratory Equipment
Sep 08, 2008 ... RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 8 -- The Defense Logistics Agency said it was looking to buy instruments and laboratory equipment.All request for quotations are due by Sept. 22.The solicitation (No. SPM4M108TN651) was posted on Sept. 6 and is available at: ...
Defense Logistics Agency Seeks Band Saw Metal Blades
Sep 08, 2008 ... PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8 -- The Defense Logistics Agency said it was looking to buy band saw metal blades. The NAICS code for this requirement is 333515. All request for quotations are due by Sept. 19.The solicitation (No. SPM8E308T4681) was posted on Sept. 4 and is available at: ...