New patents for West Virginia inventors

The following U.S. patents were issued this week to West Virginia inventors and/or assignees:

7,253,315  Process for preparing fluorocarboxylic acids
  Inventors: Fu, Ta-Wei (Vienna, WV)
                 Swearingen, Steven H. (Wilmington, DE)
                 Ichida, Takuya (Settsu, JP)
                 Yoshii, Shigeyuki (Settsu, JP)
  Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, JP)
                  E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE)

7,252,755  Viscosity modification of heavy hydrocarbons
  Inventors: Kiser, Melvin D. (Huntington, WV)
                 Boyer, David C. (Huntington, WV)
  Assignee: Marathon Ashland Petroleum Co. (Findlay, OH)

7,252,605  Articulated football goal including sacrificial crossbar
  Inventor: Snider, James L. (Bridgeport, WV)

The following U.S. patent applications were published this week for West Virignia applicants and/or assignees:

20070186283  Apparatus and method for providing program protection engineering, security management, and report preparation for sensitive and classified projects
  Applicants: Brumbaugh, Kenneth Leroy (Ashburn, VA)
                    Low, Howard Bruce (Shepherdstown, WV)
                    Hamilton, Gregory Chase (Rockville, MD)
                    Davis, James Elbert JR. (Manassas, VA)
                    Fan, Wendy Yijun (Centreville, VA)
20070185298  Organosilicate resin formulation for use in microelectronic devices
  Applicants: Baikerikar, Kiran K. (Midland, MI)
                    Feng, Shaoguang (Midland, MI)
                    Hetzner, Jack E. (Reese, MI)
                    Maher, John M. (Charleston, WV)
                    Mills, Michael E. (Midland, MI)
                    Popa, Paul J. (Auburn, MI)
                    Strittmatter, Richard J. (Batavia, IL)
                    Wilson, Larry R. (Beaverton, MI)

20070184918  Golf tee setting device
  Applicant: Ritchie, John I. JR. (Ridgeley, WV)

20070182552  Security screening and support system
  Applicants: Dugan, Regina E. (Rockville, MD)
                    McVeigh, Thomas Emory (Shenandoah Junction, WV)
                    Kotowicz, Jacek (Fairfax, VA)

20070181733  Wire/fiber ring and method for manufacturing the same
  Applicants: Hanusiak, William (Bridgeport, WV)
                    Hanusiak, Lisa (Bridgeport, WV)
                    Spear, Steven (Bridgeport, WV)
                    Rowe, Charles (Wheeling, WV)
                    Parnell, Jeffery (Chelmsford, MA)
  Assignee: SEQUA CORPORATION (Hackensack, NJ)

20070181617  Container insulator capable of being rolled-up
  Applicant: Ramsey, Chevy T. (Idamay, WV)