WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 -- Rep. Steve Austria, R-Ohio (7th CD), issued the following news release: In December, Congressman Steve Austria (R - Beavercreek) offered a House Resolution expressing the sense of sympathy of the U.S. House of Representatives and pledging support to the Filipino people to help the country recover and rebuild after December's catastrophic flooding. Congressman Austria released the following statement regarding the calamity: "December 16, 2011, Tropical Storm Washi stru  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Texas. *** Orametrix Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 3 -- Orametrix, Richardson, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,082,769) developed by five co-inventors for a "robot and method for bending orthodontic archwires and other medical devices." The co-inventors are Werner Butscher, Berlin, Friedrich Riemeier, Berlin, Rudger Rubbert, Berlin, Thomas Weise, Berlin, and Rohit Sachdeva, Plano, Texas. The ab  more