WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Statement on Senate Passage of the National Defense Authorization Act * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): "This year's NDAA reflects a bipartisan commitment to ensuring our Armed Forces, national security, and broader national defense remain strong and ready to meet  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Oct. 22 -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: * * * MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR'S legacy becomes LEGEND The Majorana Demonstrator experiment at SURF proved the viability of new methods in the search for ultra-rare physics events. As the experiment decommissions, the lessons learned continue to drive future discovery. By Mike Ray, SURF Media Relations Manager Imagine setting a stopwatch at the Big Bang, some 14 billion years  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 21 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12448292 B2, initially filed May 20, 2020) developed by five inventors Howard T. Hartman, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Benjamin D. Coryell, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Jeffery A. Aguiar, Salt Lake City, Utah; Colleen V. Shelton-Davis, Pocatello, Idaho; and Erik P. Luther, Los Alamos, New Mexico, for "Spark plasma sintering methods for fabricating dense graphite."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Idaho. *** Ultrasound Probe Guidance ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 21 -- FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC., Bothell, Washington has been assigned a patent (No. US 12446854 B2, initially filed Aug. 3, 2021) developed by Davin Dhatt, Woodinville, Washington, and Thomas Endres, Sagle, Idaho, for "Ultrasound probe guidance." *** Methods of Forming Microelectronic Devices Including Support Contact Structures, and Related   more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Mexico. *** Compositions Comprising Antibodies or Antibody Fragments Which Bind the P2X4 Receptor ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 21 -- UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS, Albuquerque, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12448440 B2, initially filed Aug. 21, 2020) developed by three inventors Karin Westlund High, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Ravi Venkata Durvasula, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Adinarayana Kun  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Utah. *** Contextual Visual and Voice Search From Electronic Eyewear Device ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 21 -- SNAP INC., Santa Monica, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12450837 B2, initially filed May 12, 2022) developed by six inventors David Meisenholder, Los Angeles, California; Kameron Sheffield, South Jordan, Utah; Joseph Timothy Fortier, Aspen, Colorado; Raymond Zeng, Long Island City, New  more