New York Inventors Develop Product Parts Use Minimizing Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 3 -- Sudhir M. Desai, Dean A. St. Pier and Anne-Marie L. Sweetland, all from Wappingers Falls, N.Y., James A. O'Connor of Ulster Park, N.Y., and Theodore V. Purvin Jr. of Kingston, N.Y., have developed a method for minimizing the use of product parts.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of parts in products is managed to minimize the use of parts that will reach their end of life prior to the products for which those parts are usable. To man . . .