1.   Also in August, Jerome Kurtzberg and John Lew won a patent for a voice-controlled wheelchair.

2.   An Argentine inventor has won a patent for a data recorder designed to be installed in cars to capture information about traffic accidents.

3.   And Robert Brooks of Westport, Conn., has won a patent for a mold that creates columns of snow that can be sculpted into different shapes.

4.   At Compaq Computer Corp., Charles Sellers has won a patent for a computer that consumes less power when it is on but not in use.

5.   Both won patents this year.

6.   A Mountain View drug company won a patent yesterday for a rub-on cream or gel that might do for women what Viagra has done for men.

7.   A Maryland biopharmaceutical company has won a patent for what it calls a nicotine vaccine.

8.   A University of Southern California researcher has won two patents that may be the first to confer ownership to an herb as a medicine.

9.   After watching other new biopharmaceutical companies struggle for years to make their own discoveries, win patents and begin clinical trials, Todaro is taking an alternate route.

10.   Bruce Bryan, a surgeon and founder of a Pittsburgh company called Prolume Ltd. has won a patent for a self-illuminating extract made from bioluminescent creatures.