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. |