Caterpillar experienced setback on the tenth of december, in the fight for thier patents on the ACERT deisel engine systems. The USPTO examiner has rejected the majority of the claims within the caterpillar patents, because they are based on the patents of 77 year old inventor Clyde Bryant.

The ACERT diesel engine provides an unprecidented level of effeciency. Caterpillar continues to fight for thier right to exploit the patent.

Bryant's patents date back to 2001, although two caterpillar engineers were awarded a national "inventor of the year award" earlier this year.

A New Jersey newspaper reports young minds at work. Innovation is encouraged at an early age in Sharon Hennessy's class room.

Hennessy teaches an enrichment program at the school, and as part of her invention unit lesson, she invited an inventor to speak to her would-be inventors.

Inventor Lisa Williams Ascolese arrived at the school on Nov. 23 carting a suitcase that contained the tools she would use to plumb the young minds and encourage the children to think and to access their own unique creativity.

Ascolese, a resident of Howell, has created products that are sold on television and in stores. She operates a consultation business, Inventive Minds, Freehold, through which she helps inventors learn the process that can lead to their product being marketed. Ascolese also speaks to students of all ages during presentations in schools.

Tiny Sensory Cells Can Measure and Control Building Environments

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2004--Osman Ahmed works in a realm that most of us would associate with science fiction, so it's no surprise that it took more than a few nanoseconds for a recent dose of reality to sink in. Ahmed, a senior principal engineer for Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., has been selected "Inventor of the Year" by his company's parent company, Siemens AG, of Germany.

"This is a wonderful time of my life," says the father of two who makes his home in Hawthorn Woods, Ill., a short distance from Buffalo Grove, the U.S. headquarters of Siemens Building Technologies.

The Associate Press reports that Japanese University Researchers in TOKYO are developing an "electronic eye"
This device, is very much like the device I have posted as the cure for the blind. Much closer than the University of Washington attempt.

The article states that the device, outfited with a tiny camera, can recognize white stripes of crosswalks and colors of traffic lights.

The article says "Researchers say the electronic eye, being developed at Kyoto Institute of Technology, could one day be adapted for broader use to help the blind or visually impaired get around without a walking stick or seeing-eye dog."

Though evidently a prototype isn't ready yet, the researchers hope to eventually be able to mount this device on, you guessed it a pair of glasses.

The article as I found it is located here WBOC.Com

The original article I posted about my own device is located at Cure for the Blind

The article states "Alan Bradbury, a member of Croydon Round Table of Inventors, has helped to set up website www.inventorbase.com which will provide impartial advice on how people can get their innovative ideas up and running, while providing information on issues like patenting and protecting an idea."

I have personally registered at this site, and look forward to actively participating in it's content. I invite you to do the same.

A former employee of a major Japanese food manufacturer, Ajinomoto Co. is set to recieve 150 million yen for his part in the invention of an artificial sweetener through a mediated settlement.

This sets a precident, as it is the first time an inventor has been awarded payment of more than 100 million yen for invention resulting from employment.

"This is a major step forward, as it raises the possibility that engineers employed by companies will receive large financial rewards for their inventions," a lawyer for the plaintiff, 63-year-old Masayorhi Naruse, said.

Naruse had been the head of an Ajinomoto research institute, and filed suit with the Tokyo District Court, seeking compensation for his part in the invention of the artificial sweetener called aspartame invented in 1982.

Ajinomoto has been estimated by the courts to have gained almost 8 billion yen in profit from aspatame, although Naruse's effort on the development of the project was only estimated at 2.5 percent.

With the ever growing corporate greed here in the US, where a job at the local Heinz factory will have you signing away all rights to any intellectual property that you come up with while in the employ of said company, it is only safe to hope that such suits will eventually make thier way across the ocean, and take a large chunk of international corporate conglomerates profits back to the actual progenitors of them.

SINGAPORE (AFP) -- Scientists in Singapore have invented a contact lens capable of releasing precise amounts of medication to treat glaucoma and other eye diseases, doing away with eye drops, the developers said.

The government-backed Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) is now looking for partners to commercialize the product, which also minimizes the harmful seepage of drugs to other body organs.

"Glaucoma accounts for 20 percent of blindness in Singapore and is rapidly becoming the second major cause of blindness in Asia after cataracts," the IBN said in a statement.

"Contact lens wearers with dry eyes may also benefit from this invention as the material can be modified to produce self-lubricating contact lenses," it added.

According to industry studies, the eye care market is undergoing exponential expansion due to population growth, ageing, widening of licensing for prescription of ophthalmic drugs and novel technologies.

Angeles City - Inventor of fuel saving device asks his government to release the details of his invention that date back to 1973, says ABS-CBN News.

The device called the "Khaos Super Turbo Charger" is evidently an air compression device that feeds the engine extra air even at idle. The result is more efficiency and higher performance, while saving fuel, and reducing emmisions.

Pablo Planas, 67, inventor of the Khaos Super Turbo Charger, said his fuel-saving and emission-reducing device would help the country’s economy if the President releases the records of his invention.

Planas claims that the device can help vehicle owners cut down fuel consumption by 15 to 50 percent. He further claims that his invention reduces emissions by 99 percent and that it would take only 15 minutes to install the device if the engine being fitted is in good condition.

After reading this article, I couldn't help but remember all the so called experts that I saw on the local and national news here in the US after gas prices began to sky rocket just over a year ago. One after another they lined up to say that all the fuel saving devices available on the internet and so forth were nothing but utter rubish. And maybe most of them are. But maybe none of them are. I have never tried any of them, have you? Did those "experts" present me with any proof that they had tested these devices, and that they did not work? No.

What I remember that they did bother to say was that "if any of these things worked, don't you think the major auto manufacturers would be implementing them?" What gives me any reason to believe that? It's not like we saw them jump on the automobile safety bandwagon until you voted for safer cars with your dollar. If we all go out and vote for hybrids with our dollars, maybe you will see some dramatic, and of course "newly discovered" fuel saving technologies spring forth from the ever enlightened crowd at the big three US auto manufactures.

Besides, if you do your homework, and some simple math, you will find out that the "big three" here in the US don't make thier money off selling cars any more. They make it off 'financing' the sale of those vehicles. Think of it as a shiny, sporty bank account where you pay ALL the high rate interest.

And I ask you, since when does my bank care how much I spend on gas? :)

12-08-04 NOTE: This Story has recieved a lot of attention. A new forum has been opened, dedicated to the discussion and recreation of the Khaos Turbo Charger. We welcome your input.