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By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- UT-Battelle , Oak Ridge, Tenn. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,138) developed by 7 Company-inventors for a "lightweight, durable lead-acid batteries." The Company-inventors are Edgar Lara-Curzio , Lenoir City, Tenn. , Ke An , Knoxville, Tenn. , James O. Kiggans Jr ., Oak Ridge, Tenn. , Nancy J. Dudney , Knoxville, Tenn. , Cris...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale, Calif. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,146) developed by Matthias Gottmann , Sunnyvale, Calif. , for a "high temperature fuel cell system for operation with low purity ethanol." The abstract of the patent p...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Illinois Tool Works , Glenview, Ill. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,061) developed by Grant McGuffey , Springfield, Tenn. , for a "metering system for hot melt adhesives with variable adhesive volumes." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent , Trademark Office states: "A method of making an article having ...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- 3M Innovative Properties , Saint Paul, Minn. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,066) developed by Michael Jahns , Gilching, Germany , for "systems , methods for making monolithic gel bodies." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent , Trademark Office states: "Systems , methods for making a monolithic gel bo...
Dispensaries granted a license to sell marijuana for medical use in Massachusetts will be required to pay a US Dollars 50000 annual fee under proposed regulations unveiled Friday by the state Department of Public Health . The regulations, which also include a US Dollars 50 annual registration fee for patients to use marijuana, is intended to create a ?self-financMarketal marijuana industry that suppor...
CALLS have been made for the UK Government to close an "embarrassing" loophole that allows some wind-farm operators to name their own price as compensation for not operating. The issue has been raised by the regulator Ofgem, but the Department of Energy , Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the loophole exists but will not name the exempted companies. The revelation will intensify critici...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Applied Materials , Santa Clara, Calif. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,075) developed by 6 Company-inventors for a "method to minimize wet etch undercuts , provide pore sealing of extreme low k (k<2.5) dielectrics." The Company-inventors are Huiwen Xu , Sunnyvale, Calif. , Mei-Yee Shek , Mountain View, Calif. , Li-Qun Xia , Sant...
Gasoline prices heading into Memorial Day ? the kickoff of the busy summer driving season ? are well below their levels of a year ago, , analysts say they?re unlikely to rise much in coming months. The main reason is the boom in US production of crude oil, which accounts for about 2-thirds of the price of gas. As a result of the controversial drilling process known as ?fracking?? that ...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- NTF Therapeutics, St. Paul, Minn. , , the University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland , have been assigned a patent (8,445,432) developed by 4 Company-inventors for neurturin molecules. The Company-inventors are Richard Penn , Chicago , Pia Runeberg-Roos , Esbo, Finland , Maxim M. Bespalov , Helsinki, Finla...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- 5 Prime Therapeutics, South San Francisco, Calif. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,445) developed by 4 Company-inventors for a "method of promoting hair growth using FGFR4 extracellular domains." The Company-inventors are Thomas Brennan , San Jose, Calif. , Robert Dean , Alameda, Calif. , W....
BUSINESS secretary Vince Cable hailed plans by mobile phone giant Vodafone UK to hire 400 graduates over the next 5 years as a blueprint for British businesses. Mr Cable was today at the Industry player''s Newbury headquarters to unveil plans by Vodafone to boost its graduate intake in response to soaring demand. Vodafone will take on about 80 graduates a year, up from it...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- BASF, Florham Park, N.J. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,402) developed by Lawrence Shore , Edison, N.J. , , Robert J. Farrauto , Princeton, N.J. , for a "preferential oxidation catalyst contai...
THE Company-operative Bank is to stop lending to new corporate customers as it seeks to repair a major hole in its finances - dealing a blow to efforts to ease the borrowing squeeze on small businesses. The move comes after credit ratings agency Moody's downgraded the Company-op to junk status, forcing it to issue a statement that it did not need to be rescued by the taxpayer. It is seeking to re...
MEAT wholesaler Henry Hirst predicts an upturn trend in its business despite a volatile period leading to it recording a 21 % slump in sales. The Newcastle firm, founded in 1878, was bought out by Beckett Foods Ltd during the last financial year, an acquisition the group said would enhance its offering to the Industry. The buyout came after the firm reported a pre-tax loss of Pounds 418,...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Illumina , San Diego , has been assigned a patent (8,445,412) developed by Bernard Hirschbein , Hayward, Calif. , , Filiz Gorpe-Yasar , Hayward, Calif. , for a "separation of pyrophosphate release , pyrophosphate detection." The abstract of th...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Procter & Gamble , Cincinnati , has been assigned a patent (8,445,421) developed by Kevin Graham Blyth , Tyne , Wear, United Kingdom , Sarah Jane Douglas , Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom , , Alan Thomas Brooker , Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom , for a "solid det...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Corning , Corning, N.Y. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,394) developed by Bruce Gardiner Aitken , Corning, N.Y. , Adam James Ellison , Painted Post, N.Y. , , Timothy J. Kiczenski , Corning, N.Y. , for an "interme...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Scripps Research Institute , La Jolla, Calif. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,446) developed by 5 Company-inventors for "unnatural reactive amino acid genetic code additions." The Company-inventors are Alexander Deiters , La Jolla, Calif. , Ashton T. Cropp , Bethesda, Md. , Jason W. Chin , Cambridge, United Kingdom , Christopher ...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- International Business Machines , Armonk, N.Y. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,374) developed by Mukta G. Farooq , Hopewell Junction, N.Y. , Ian D. Melville , Highland, N.Y. , , Kevin S. Petrarca , Newburgh, N.Y. , for a "soft error rate mitigation by interconnect structure." The abstract of the patent published by the ...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Semiconductor Components Industries , Phoenix , has been assigned a patent (8,445,375) developed by Michael J. Seddon , Gilbert, Ariz. , , Francis J. Carney , Queen Creek, Ariz. , for a "method for manufacturing a semiconductor component." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent , Trademark Office states: "A...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Cypress Semiconductor , San Jose, Calif. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,381) developed by Krishnaswamy Ramkumar , San Jose, Calif. , , Sundar Narayanan , Sunnyvale, Calif. , for an "oxide-nitride stack gate dielectric." The abstract of the patent...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Cree, Durham, N.C. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,386) developed by Davis Andrew McClure , Raleigh, N.C. , , Nathaniel Mark Williams , Raleigh, N.C. , for a "smoothing method for semiconductor material , wafers produced by same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent , Trademark Office states: "A smo...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Micron Technology , Boise, Idaho , has been assigned a patent (8,445,387) developed by David H. Wells , Boise, Idaho , , Du Li , Meridian, Idaho , for an epitaxial silicon growth. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent , Trademark Office states: "Memory cell structures, incl...
2 childhood cancer survivors will open a fundraising relay event at an athletics stadium. 3-year-old Charlie Mordey , Lily Slater , 8, will begin Cancer Research's Relay for Life at Monkton Stadium in South Tyneside on 2013-07-13 , 14. The event sees relay teams run around the track for 22 hours over the July weekend. So far 46 tea...
By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va. , 2013-05-25 -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , Tarrytown, N.Y. , has been assigned a patent (8,445,434) developed by 4 Company-inventors for "IGF-1 fusion polypeptides , therapeutic uses thereof." The Company-inventors are David J. Glass , Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. , George D. Yancopoulos , Yorktown Heights, N.Y. , Thomas J. Daly , New City, N.Y. , , N...
Inflation or deflation, that is the question: which is more beneficial to savers? Consumer price inflation has dropped to a 7-month low of 2.4 % but average weekly profits are down by 0.7 % on last year. Since 2008, investors have been questioning whether it is inflation or deflation that haunts them. There has historically been inflation , too much of it. In March 2004 , the chancell...
Speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration of a hydrogenation project in Tabriz , Northwest of Iran , Qassemi said over the current Iranian year which has been dubbed the year of political , economic epic, several petrochemical projects will come online that in turn will boost the petrochemical products' share in non-oil exports. He added that petrochemical products accounted for 40 pe...
The state-owned Chinese oil , gas giant Sinopec is eyeing more acquisitions in the North Sea . Yi Zhang , chief executive of Sinopec's Addax subsidiary, said: "There are several targets at the evalu...
Gold prices are looking even more vulnerable after April's price crash, as rampant inflation expected from successive rounds of monetary easing fails to materialise. The idea that record-low interest rates would damage paper currencies , boost inflation was a key factor pushing gold to record highs in the wake of the financial crisis. Ultra -loose monetary policies are still in vog...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visit to London confirmed what many other economic observers have said for some time: the UK Government's austerity policies have gone too far. The IMF has for decades been seen as the guardian of fiscal correctness around the world. When it tells you your macroeconomic policy is too tight, you have to start to worry. Some figures illustrate...
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