One involved in research and development must generally have had quite a bit of education and experience. Very often, that will be a "straight line" process: first an Associate's or Bachelor's degree, perhaps a Master's degree or a PhD in some one specialized area, and then research as a "post doc" or in industry, or as a faculty member at some research university. (Bill went from Princeton to the Radio Physics Division of what was then the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Science and Technology (and some other agencies), in Boulder, Colorado.) Those who also become practitioners of patent law later on turn out to gain an additional advantage: inventions fall into all types of technology, especially if one is in private practice, and it is often necessary to learn whole new fields in order to provide the high quality work to which the client is entitled. (Bill was once handed an invention disclosure that showed a new method of extracting the data from a CCD of the kind that is used in the cameras employed in space. His first question, he tells me, was, "What is a CCD?" A patent deriving from the application he wrote did in fact issue.) Other aspects of intellectual property practice may require less science, but more law, and this knowledge can also be of use in an R & D environment, especially as to research contracts. This biography is intended to show some of Bill's background, as some of the "bona fides" to do R&D work. (There turns out to be a lesson in this tale as well, that will be noted on down near the end.)

The undergraduate alma mater: Portland State University
Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts

The scientific alma mater: Princeton University
Master of Science and PhD

The law alma mater: Willamette University College of Law
L.L.D.

These were all excellent institutions, and Bill says he doesn't know how he could have done better, but besides the standard things like foreign language requirements, there was a particular feature of the requirements for a PhD that then existed at Princeton that Bill says needs comment. (Bill qualified in German and French, and at least in science these requirements are not a hard as they may seem : scientific exposition must use precise language in any event, so the language will be very much the same in any language.) So far as Bill knows, every graduate school requires a final oral examination, based partly on the defense of one's thesis but at least at Princeton mostly on other matters, and if you get out of that with a whole skin then some departmental somebody (happily, who will usually be the graduate advisor and indeed it was in Bill's case) comes along and calls you 'Dr. Whoever' and you collapse to the floor in relief. However, it is those 'other matters' in the oral exam that Bill wants outlined.

The research issues taken up in that exam involve subjects that were chosen by the PhD candidate, but that does not make them a soft touch. At some time after filing the thesis, an application to take the oral exam is filed, and in that application those subjects are set out that the candidate has decided to list. This was done by way of ten research proposals, in each of which was expressed some scientific problem for which the answers (so far as the candidate knew) were not known, and the proposal itself then set out some experimental or theoretical protocol that the candidate had conceived that would yield some answers. In what was undoubtedly a prelude to Bill's later arguments before various judges, both at trial or in this or that appellate court, there was a bench behind which there sat a number of graduate school professors, of whom Bill recalls there were six, who would conduct the oral exam. Bill was in the chemistry department, but that did not define the subject matter; only two or three of the research proposals could be in chemistry, and only one of those could touch specifically on the laboratory research that the candidate had actually been doing, and the other seven or eight had to be in other fields. Consequently, Bill's panel included graduate professors from the departments of biology, physics, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, etc., which is to say those fields with respect to which Bill had elected to write research proposals. (GREAT background for the current WEND, LLC  activities, by the way!)

The fundamental truth underlying that scenario should be appreciated. Here we have the candidate, having just finished all the course work and written a thesis, telling various members of a panel of the top drawer researchers in their respective fields, "there is such-and-such scientific problem in that field that you folks have not managed to solve, so here am I now, coming along to tell you how to do it!" Can you imagine such arrogance? One requirement for a PhD must be to have a lot of nerve! (It should be added that the professors are also well aware of the scenario, and while Bill says that he got some pretty sharp questions that had him digging, there was never the slightest sign of talking down to him or deriding him work in any way, except maybe that this one prof had very mobile eyebrows! Bill's lab research, which was fairly straightforward "data digging" even though involving quite specialized equipment, ended up with him as co-author on two papers in the Journal of Chemical Physics listed down below.)

Bill's panel had those fields noted above in addition to chemistry, and he says he thinks one might have been geology, since one of his research proposals had to do with those hot conical deposits at the bottom of the ocean at which it is now coming to be believed that life on earth began. Among those professors in the panel there could have been (but was not) a Nobel Prize winner, and by chance, it happened that Prof. Eugene Wigner, from whom Bill had audited a course in quantum physics, was indeed awarded the Nobel a little after Bill had left Princeton. The point of Bill's insistence that I tell that tale here in this bio, however, is that Bill says it is impossible for him to express the value to him of that experience; he had checked some years back and found that such practice was no longer being followed at Princeton, but he sure wishes it was. In any event, what it boils down to is that a PhD from Princeton, a truly premier research institution, meant that one was indeed well qualified to do research.

Bill has another interesting tale to tell about graduate school. As an undergraduate, he had never been much enamored of mathematics, except for analytical geometry, as first conceived by Descartes (after whom "Cartesian coordinates" are named). Bill would say, "You know, if you wanted to take the time you could figure out the equations that if graphed out would give you an exact picture of, say, a door knob." But then he thought further, and asked himself, "So what more about the door knob would I know if I did that?" "Nothing," he said. Then in graduate school, an opportunity came along for Bill to join a group that was to do ab initio (you don't have to know what that means to follow this, but it's something like baking a cake "from scratch" rather than by using a cake mix) calculations in quantum chemistry to calculate the properties such as ionization energy of molecules, ions, etc. That would also have taken him onto the IBM 650, but to indicate whether Bill's orientation is to the actual, physical side of things or the math is that, as he says, he thought of that door knob again and decided not to join the group. It's not that such work is not very useful and productive, of course; it's just that it was not Bill's bag. (He also claims that wave functions make him dizzy! But at the same time, he admits having been wrong then -- not for taking the route that he did, but rather in failing at that time to recognize how valuable that kind of really work is -- in this context, one indeed does learn a lot more than had previously been known, since one gets to the inside of things, and that would not be the case in describing the external geometry of a door knob.)

So what does Bill end up doing? Inventing a new way to do computing and such. He insists on calling it an "information processing apparatus" rather than a "computer," since like most computers it does a lot more than just compute. What is common between the two is that there is some processing to be carried out, which may be a problem in mathematics, or perhaps some kind of manipulation of a huge data base such as sorting, or maybe just "data mining," but in any case there will be an algorithm that precisely defines the processing needed. In conventional computers, what is then done is to write a program that will carry out that work; in Bill's system, there is no program, but an entirely different method of approach (that will eventually be described in these pages).

But to get back to the start of things, before college and graduate school Bill's technical background (not including high school) got started when he joined the U. S. Air Force and got sent to the radar school at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss. There was some other stuff in the meantime, but he ended up at Wheeler Field, near Wahiawa at about the center of Oahu, and worked at the early warning radar site (614^th Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) Squadron) at the north end of the island. (That was the same radar that first spotted the Japanese aerial attack in 1941.) After he had been there about a year, the radar site was finally dismantled and much of the equipment was sent back to the Northeast U. S. somewhere for use by a reserve unit, and he got transferred to the 761^st AC&W Squadron near North Bend, OR. While there he qualified in Radio as well as Radar, took some USAFI courses, got his FCC 2^nd Class Radio Operator license, and as a Senior Radar/Radio Maintenance Technician he was responsible for a long range search radar, height finder, and IFF (Identification Friend or Foe), and in radio for UHF, VHF, HF, and amateur radio (HAM) equipment. He says he had electrons running out of his ears: sometimes he could hear the VHF equipment on his bedsprings.

But Bill's interest in the "inner ticking" of things may well really have started much earlier, and even before high school. One remembrance of his was taking apart a radio at a very early age to look at the little people inside doing the talking. And then in high school, there was the day on which Bill asked the teacher, Mr. Victor Hill, where the electrons were in that atom. That no one really knew was just too much for Bill. Living in the quiet, placid country, where everything was always the same and all that was needed to be known was already known (and if not personally known could be found at the library), the extraordinary idea that there were things about our world that were not known was a real eye opener. (Bill recalls thinking, "Hey, maybe I could find out something!") Mr. Hill told Bill to keep that thought in mind, and evidently Bill really did. (Another thing that had bugged Bill in high school came from looking at a beaker of water and a beaker of benzene sitting side by side. They really looked quite the same, but why were they so different? Which did not at all keep him from also being quite convinced when he graduated from high school that he then knew all there was to know -- he had the world by the tail!)

When Bill got out of the Air Force, the first job he could get was wiring up oscilloscopes for Tektronix, but while doing that he also started college part time at night at Portland State College. (Another side of Bill comes from the fact that he could not wire up oscilloscopes very fast, but the ones he did manage to get done were works of art -- the soldering was so neat, and the wires so straight, that he was switched to making the models that would be set up in front of new hires so they could see what their products were supposed to look like; Bill could surely not earn his keep by quantity!) Bill says he did not really know if he was "college material" or not, but there was only one way to find out.

That whole college scene was the most fun he ever had, Bill says, so he ended up staying there for nearly five years, including straight through the summer quarters, ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Chemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology. (PSU didn't run by semesters, but rather Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer terms.) A course was set up so that in the summer term one could take a whole year of Modern Physics, and Bill jumped right into that one -- the concentration on one subject was a great way to do it, Bill says. In his Junior and Senior years, he taught the night labs for the Freshmen in general chemistry, and during another period he worked nights in the lab for the Chipman Chemical Company in Portland. Their products were herbicides -- 2,4-D and 2,4, 5-T (2, 4 di- and 2, 4, 5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid) -- and it was his job, along with three other "lab rats," to analyze both the completed products and production plant grab samples at a couple of different stages of the synthesis. By himself, though, he set up a new infrared analytical technique for the liquid amine forms of both of those solid acids, and also built a laboratory sized pilot plant in which he ran reactions based on the yields and conditions determined from manufacturing samples. (The IR technique of Bill's was published in Analytical Chemistry, in a section that simply published recommended instrument set up parameters or solution concentrations and the like for various analyses.) By then transferring the results of those pilot plant studies out to the plant, the yields out there increased by some 5 - 6%, which amounted to a fair pile of money! ("Facts are facts, and experiment works," Bill says, and experiences like that have colored his way of doing things ever since.)

From college Bill went straight to Princeton in physical chemistry, as Bill had selected, and specifically to study under Prof. Charles P. Smyth in the field of dielectrics. (That had to do with the behavior of molecules in fluids -- that old water- benzene bit from way back in high school again!) Bill's thesis was on the subject of a bit of confusion (as he saw it) in dielectrics theory in which (if this means anything to anyone) the distinction between the intensive and extensive properties of materials was getting a bit mixed up. By treating intensive properties as though they were extensive, one could get nice "data" curves called "Cole-Cole diagrams" that were as smooth as could be, but to Bill's thinking did not represent anything at all like experimental data. There was little damage done there, perhaps, but was damaging to Bill's thinking because it encouraged the practice in which "fitting the curve" was all that counted.

Especially right now in physics, there is substantial concern that the mathematicians might have swallowed physics, and as Bill sees it, it's high time that there was. There is an interesting tale here, too, which oddly enough had its start when Bill was probably a Freshman (or at most a Sophomore) at Portland State, in a comment out of John Dewey in a psychology course. Dewey had written something about there being a "science" to be taught that would be devoted entirely to the basic problem of how to solve problems. That sounded good to Bill, and had there been such a course, he would have taken it. He later learned, of course, that there was such a field of study, in philosophy and especially in the philosophy of science, but this was all at a scholarly level that did not provide students with tools such as trigonometry or chemistry or the like that would allow them to go out and do things. But with Bill, that whole idea still hung around. In graduate school, he had asked Prof. Smyth whether there might be a way to bring in some courses in philosophy in his graduate work in chemistry so that could be pursued, but (not surprisingly) that idea went nowhere. So oddly enough, the tool by which Bill will be able to continue that analyis seems to be coming together in exactly that invention on which this latest patent application is now being written -- solving problems involves information processing, and Bill cannot see how a better tool to aid in processing information could be found.

Bill's experimental work involved the dielectric properties of various molecules in solution, as a way of determining things about molecular structure, and some papers published as a result of that are listed below. Prof. Smyth's lab was trying to 'bridge the gap' between the highest frequency reaches of radio waves and the far infrared, which involved using very spendy klystrons operating in the wavelength range of 4 - 1.25 mm, corresponding to about 75 to 240 GHz (1 GHz = 10⁹ Hz), where a Hz is one cycle per second. This was tough, painstaking experimental work, but mostly just to fill in data gaps (as in a good bit of lab work) with no real scientific questions at stake in any one experiment (although the full body of data would certainly say a lot), so Bill describes it as being deathly boring! (But still a hurdle to be surmounted: at the end, this one klystron did perform up to snuff, and Bill stayed on for several weeks on his own wallet when he did not have to, just to get that last piece of data. Stubborn guy, Bill is!)

Following graduate school, Bill went to work for what was then the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, in the Radio Physics Div., where he worked on adapting that mm-wave work to ellipsometry. What he had been doing at Princeton was measuring the reflection of the mm-wave radiation from a liquid as the thickness of the liquid was slowly increased: the wavelength of the resultant interference curve gave the real part of the complex dielectric constant of the liquid, and the rate of decay in the curve gave the imaginary part of that dielectric constant. From those figures, after some Newton-Raphson curve fitting, one could determine the "relaxation times" of the molecules in solution: infrared generally measures the motions of small chemical groups, while mm-wave and lower frequency radiation measure the motions of the molecules as a whole. Since there are those two quantities -- the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric constant -- to be determined, one needs two independent measurements, and with solids materials to study one could not do that kind of interference measurement. To reflect off a solid, on the other hand, one could use polarized radiation, and instead of varying the thickness of the sample one rotated the plane of polarization of the radiation. (Since one gets elliptical looking curves out of that, the technique is called ellipsometry.) That kept Bill quite busy at NBS except for some work in lasers and nonlinear optics, the object there being to use certain types of crystals as frequency multipliers and thereby extend the range of lasers into shorter wavelengths, i.e, so as to provide higher frequency excitation so that lasing would occur better at those higher frequencies than with just a blast of indiscriminate, broad spectrum excitation energy. (Another chore was helping a colleague write a book on magnetism, specifically by translating into English all the scientific articles in German, French and Russian. (Not as hard a job as it sounds: as noted earlier, scientific writing is fairly consistent across languages, and many terms are the same in all.)

More specifically, Bill was using an optical bench, a simple He/Ne gas laser, detectors, and various other optical gear with single crystals of various nonlinear optical materials to examine the frequency multiplying capabilities of those materials. After some literature searching and computer programming, Bill's group had a paper published in Applied Optics that matched up (at varying levels of resolution) any correspondences between harmonics of the longer wavelength lasers and the fundamental frequencies of shorter wavelength lasers, or more generally of materials having emission lines that might be induced to lase with the right excitation. In the lab, the group discovered an effect that none of them had ever heard of, namely, that at certain angles of incidence, with a round input beam, instead of getting a round output beam (at the multiplied frequency) one saw only the left (looking towards the source) half of that beam. (Both the fundamental and the multiplied beam gave the usual interference fringes, but in the course of going through some particular crystal types, one half of that beam is eliminated as well, presumably from some other interference effect that was not at all clear.) A quick literature search led Bill to Applied Physics Letters, which told him that someone else had found the same phenomenon a few months earlier, but just as a report with no explanation. Bill was just starting to get some good ellipsometric data (with paper strip data encoding! -- would you believe?), gave a talk on millimeter-wave ellipsometry at a Gordon Research Conference in New Hampshire, and was leaping in to publish those results as at least a confirmation of the earlier paper (science operates by other people confirming first results) and to try to derive a mathematical (not just "off the cuff") explanation of that "half beam" phenomenon when . . .

Well, all good things must come to an end. Anyone who has ever worked for the Government knows that Congress may often decide it can't afford to pay for whatever, and the labs will get thinned out. So Bill headed back to Oregon and went through the Law School at Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon, while he also taught general chemistry, physical chemistry, and physical science at what was then the Oregon College of Education (now Western Oregon State University) in Monmouth, Oregon, a few miles away. During the last year or so he served as a Reserve Deputy in the Polk County Sheriff's Office, since to get trial experience he intended to go into the District Attorney's Office upon qualifying as an attorney. He was then a Deputy District Attorney for about 5 years, worked up to Senior Deputy, and then went into private practice, still doing mostly criminal law but now as the defense and not the prosecution. In both roles he had taken several cases to the Oregon Court of Appeals. The impetus for going into science in graduate school, Bill says, was that the philosophers were conspicuously demonstrating their ignorance of the subject, so he wanted to learn first hand how science really worked, and then some day he could provide a philosophy of science that had a more experientially-based foundation. (That chore is still in the wings, and one day Bill's tome on "Experiential Philosophy" might well appear.)

(The decision to turn to the law rested in part on Bill's feeling that his education in philosophy had not really encompassed the law (other than Aristotle), so he would learn the philosophy of science straight hand. Another impetus for going to law s chool, Bill "confesses," was that while in Colorado he had serve as foreman of the jury in the trial of Joseph Dyer Morse for the rape and murder of Elaura Jean Jacquett, with Morse, at last word, still in prison after somewhere around 40 years ago. If that had happened after Bill got married, he would not have been on that jury -- not that his later-wife Margaret would would have objected, but rather because the murder occurred in one of the organ practice rooms at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Margaret had been a music student and had practiced in that room. Any thinking defense attorney would have had Bill heading for the parking lot. (The grapevine around Boulder says that Morse finally admitted the crime.) That kind of experience will certainly jangle the higher level brain circuits, and Bill had said, "now's the time to learn the law." )

While in Colorado Bill joined the U. S. Navy Reserve as a Lieutenant j.g. (that shortly got rid of the "j. g." part), specifically in the Research Reserve. He had one very interesting duty, Bill says, for a couple of weeks at the Navy Electronics Lab in San Diego, pertaining to organic lasers, and his monthly duties involved sessions at various high tech firms around Boulder and Denver. After coming back to Oregon, for various reasons, but after having a tour back to Colorado in which he was overseeing research contracts by the universities for the Office of Naval Research (ONR), he switched from that to Intelligence, and on that Bill throws in the old, stale joke, "if I tell you I'll have to kill you." But actually, that took Bill to the Naval Intelligence HQ in D. C., the National Archives in Maryland declassifying Korean era records, criminal and security investigations in Seattle, background checks all over Oregon, another trip to San Diego, a cold winter seminar in Montana on future intelligence needs, a trip for an intelligence course at Lowry Air Force Base (now closed) in Denver, a weekend stint in New Orleans (by way of an Air Force General's plane whose pilot was low on flying time), and one whole summer on Ford Island, Oahu, Hawaii, doing intelligence analysis and eating lots of saimin, and then finally Bill got tired of planes, and the family was growing, so he left all that as a Lieutenant Commander. ("I am glad that pilots must maintain their flying hours," Bill says. "During my earlier Air Force service in Hawaii, a bunch of us got to spend a whole day over on Kauai!")

But the scientific bones don't disappear, especially when one had actually started out in philosophy, and although Bill had got involved in some peculiar forensic matters (unearthing bodies and like that!) and had a paper published in Science on blood alcohol tests while functioning as a lawyer, he was more than glad to jump at a job at Oregon State University (the birthplace of Lionel Trains and maraschino cherries) as Patent Manager, since Bill says he had thought he'd get himself qualified in that field. (While at OSU, the birthplace of Lionel trains and the maraschino cherry, he was also digging into new things such as genetic engineering and how the bacteria that make your cheese started our right in life.) In that work he also got to know the insides of airplanes, traveling around the country doing patent licensing when he was not in Corvallis, Oregon, reviewing the invention disclosures of faculty members for possible patenting and licensing. (It occurred to him, he says, that, "hey, I can do that!" meaning inventing, so eventually he put on his inventor hat, which had evidently been back up on a shelf in the closet.) Having "learned the ropes," so to speak, he went to work as a patent attorney (back to Tektronix), then to a small company called Applied Laser Systems in Grants Pass, Oregon, as General and Patent Counsel, and then finally in private practice back near Portland, ultimately moving to Lincoln City, Oregon where there is an ocean. The patent applications and the notion to form a company that would commercialize the inventions got its start when he went into private patent attorney work, but WEND, LLC  really got its start in Lincoln City, where he says he's found both amenable facilities and amenable people. (Hey, that's the rest of us, and I am certainly amenable!)

Bill has been piling up the patents, in fact, having first received U. S. Patent No. 5,905,861 for DATA AUTHENTICATION CIRCUIT, issued May 18, 1999, which can be found by a Quick Search using the patent number on the Patent side of Patent Search. The invention distinguishes between identical sequences of data as to source, i.e., those that originate at the local keyboard or the like are passed through to the CPU; those same data sequences (or any others) that arrive over a modem are not. The locally generated data have an "echo" that is transmitted to one side of an "Echo Enabler" circuit; data arriving at the other side from a modem have no such echo and hence are rejected. The system is automatically inactivated if modem operations are initiated at the local computer, so as, for example, to allow the handshaking necessary to send a FAX, and is then reactivated when those locally initiated operations are terminated. The result: you can't tap into the local hard drive (nor even the CPU) from a remote site, no matter how many passwords you may know or how much you may have "authenticated" your identity. In short, except for data that originate within the particular computer, or unless the operator sitting right there at that computer says otherwise, nothing gets in. The operator can go for coffee, or work away on the computer at whatever, secure in the knowledge that no penetration of the computer can be taking place, even if (perhaps inadvertently) it has been left on line. Hackers, take a hike!!]

A second patent is U. S. Patent No. 6,208,275, issued March 27, 2001, for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL CONCATENATION, that you can also get by a search at Patent Search. This one takes up the fact that with 8-bit bytes coming in through a modem, with CPUs, busses and the like running at 32 bits and getting bigger, to run 8-bit bytes through that size circuitry wastes a large fraction of the capacity of the computer. The device uses gates to "concatenate" (i.e., to tack on, end to end) those 8-bit (or actually, any size) bytes into whatever the actual size capacity of the computer may be, before the computer (i.e., the busses, ALU, etc.) ever sees them. (There is no time loss here, since gates are faster than modems -- or indeed anything else. The gates themselves may, of course, get much faster through nanotubes, quantum dots and the like.) Provision for disassembling a resultant "word" back into its original bytes (if some program may so require) after arriving within the computer are also noted. The device thus may also ct as an S/P converter or what in some circles is called "deserializing" (i.e., the "bytes" coming in are actually single bits). The device of course has many applications other than that context in which it was described.

A third patent, U. S. Patent No. 6,580,378 issued June 17, 2003, for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL DATA ENUMERATION, again obtainable at Patent Search, is a "spinoff" from the application that yielded the second patent noted above. (The patent office says, "Well, now. You have two inventions in this application, so to get them both covered you must get two patents.") What this one does is simply count the 8-bit bytes that pass through the system using the procedures set out in the invention description as a whole. Simple, but it turns out to be extraordinarily useful. The fact that the concatenation method of the patent listed just above cannot handle anything but "bytes" or "datum segments" of a common, fixed length (8 bits was used as an example) leads to the fourth item just below.

This fourth one is still an application in prosecution, which means: (1) the Patent Office says, "You can't have the patent"; (2) the patent attorney says, "Oh, yes, we can"; and (3) the Patent Office most often agrees, but it has been published. It has the formidable title GATE BASED ZERO-STRIPPING AND VARYING DATUM SEGMENT LENGTH AND ARITHMETIC METHOD AND APPARATUS, and was published on Nov. 6, 2003 as Publication Number US 2003/0206124. It can be seen in text form at Zero Strip, or if you have a viewer that reads TIFF files (obtainable for free through links provided on the Patent Office web pages), the nicely printed application can be seen by clicking on an "IMAGE" link on the page just noted. The basic theory of this application is that computers are coming to have 16-, 32-, -64 and even 128-bit busses and microprocessors, but yet, especially as to what comes in over a modem, a lot of what gets passed through them is the old 8-bit byte, one at a time, which leaves a lot of bit space wasted. The circuitry of the invention automatically strips out all of the leading (left-hand-side) 0's, which convey no information, and then, if the concatenator noted above were also used, as many of the words as could fit together within the bit length of the bus or processor could be transmitted in one shot rather than several. The "datum segments" created by that zero stripping will of course be of varying length, depending upon how many leading 0's might have been in each one, so when all is said and done, then one must have a system that can handle varying length datum segments. Stay tuned, WEND, LLC  has that, too. Would we forget that? The rest of the title, as to an arithmetic method and apparatus, is there simply because the procedures that carry out the zero stripping carry out simple addition and subtraction in the course of so doing, so that is noted also.

The numbers that would be 5 and 6 on this growing list may not end up that way, since the examiner may find more than one invention in No. 4. The latest ones cannot be disclosed yet since they have not yet been filed, except I can say that WEND, LLC  is also getting into more computer security. And I'm still writing and making drawings -- such fun!

However, it had been said up above that there was a lesson in all this, which seems to be as follows: remember the guy who said that if you have to ask the price of the yacht, you can't afford it? This lesson seems to be the other side of that coin: if you're at the point where you are asking whether or not you can do a thing, chances are that you can. You should not waste time wondering whether or not you can do a thing, but should instead just say "I can do that" and start in. Of course you have to have the tenacity to keep going, for however long it takes, but it will only be yourself that will hold you back. Bill says that if he had learned that lesson earlier on, by now that information processing "thing" of his, with all its variable length, zero-stripped datum segments and all that good stuff, would be on the market and he'd be holed up somewhere writing his book.

BACKGROUND

Science and Technology
United States Air Force: Senior Radio and Radar Technician
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry and Physics, Portland State College
Chemical analyst - Agricultural chemicals, Chipman Chemical Co.
Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy and Psychology, Portland State College
Master of Arts - Chemistry, Princeton University, including one year as Teaching Assistant
PhD - Chemistry, Princeton University, including one year as Research Assistant
Research Chemical Physicist, National Bureau of Standards
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Oregon College of Education

Member of:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American Physical Society (APS)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The MIND Association

William S. Lovell, Technology Licensing in the Electronics Industry (Electronic Trend Publications, Saratoga, CA, 1989).

William S. Lovell and Edward Forest, "Tables of Dielectric Constants, Dipole Moments and Dielectric Relaxation Times," Digest of Literature on Dielectrics 24, pp. 55 - 94 (National Academy of Science/National Research Council, 1960).

W. E. Vaughan, W. S. Lovell, and C. P. Smyth, "Microwave Absorption and Molecular Structure in Liquids, XLIV. Investigation of Dielectric Relaxation by anInterferometric Method for the Measurement of Dielectric Constant and Loss at 2.2 mm Wavelength," Journal of Chemical Physics, 36, No. 2, pp. 535 - 539 (Jan. 15, 1962).

W. E. Vaughan, W. S. Lovell, and C. P. Smyth, "Microwave Absorption and Molecular Structure in Liquids, XLV. The Dispersion of Alkyl Halides at
Millimeter Wavelengths," Journal of Chemical Physics, 36, No. 3, pp. 753 - 758 (Feb. 1, 1962).

William S. Lovell, "Molecular and Ionic Interactions in Dielectrics," Digest of Literature on Dielectrics 29, pp. 81 - 198 (National Academy of Science/National Research Council, 1965).

W. S. Lovell, M. H. Anderson and F. E. Seiller, "Laser Harmonics Useable for Frequency Translation," Applied Optics, 6, pp. 1430 - 1432 (1967).

W. S. Lovell and L. M. Thiel, "Interferometric Measurements of the Complex Dielectric Constant of Liquids," National Bureau of Standards Technical Note 369 (Aug. 1968).

William S. Lovell, "Breath Tests for Determining Alcohol in the Blood," Science, pp. 264 - 272 (Oct. 20, 1972).

William S. Lovell, "Evidence in Oregon 'D.U.I.L.' Cases," Willamette Law Journal, Winter, pp. 11 - 37 (1973).

William S. Lovell, "Moving Beyond High Tech (Guest Opinon)," Statesman-Journal, Salem, OR, March 29, 1983.

William S. Lovell, "How We Can Realize State's Potential (Guest Opinion)," Statesman-Journal, Salem, OR, Aug. 21, 1983.

William S. Lovell and Lois Huffman, "A Critique of the New 'Chip Design' Protection Law," Computer Law Reporter, Jan/Feb, 1986.

William S. Lovell, U. S. Patent No. 5,905,861, issued May 18, 1999: DATA AUTHENTICATION CIRCUIT

William S. Lovell, U. S. Patent No. 6,208,275, issued Mar. 27, 2001: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL CONCATENATION

William S. Lovell, PCT/US02/326162002/032616, filed Oct. 11, 2002; Published Apr. 22, 2004, as Int. Pub. No. WO 2004/033044 A1: SELF-POWERED, WEARABLE PERSONAL AIR PURIFIER FOR BREATHING AND BODY PROTECTION (International completed; now going to National Stages.)

William S. Lovell, U. S. Patent No. 6,580,378, issued Jun. 17, 2003: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL DATA ENUMERATION

William S. Lovell, Pub. No. 2003/0206124, Publ. Nov. 6, 2003: GATE-BASED ZERO-STRIPPING AND VARYING DATUM SEGMENT LENGTH AND ARITHMETIC METHOD AND APPARATUS (Allowed but not yet issued.)

William S. Lovell, U. S. Appl. Ser. No. 10/746,609, filed Dec. 23, 2003: ASYNCHRONOUS, DATA-ACTIVATED CONCATENATOR FOR VARIABLE LENGTH DATUM SEGMENTS (In process.)

William S. Lovell, U. S. Appl. Ser. No. 10/823,462, filed Apr. 11, 2004: SELF-POWERED, WEARABLE PERSONAL AIR PURIFIER FOR BREATHING AND BODY PROTECTION (In process.)

William S. Lovell (In draft.)

William S. Lovell (In draft.)

William S. Lovell, "Millimeter-Wave Dielectric Measurements," Conf. Elec. Insul. (Nat'l Acad. Science/Nat'l Res. Council), Poconos, PA, 1961.

William S. Lovell, "Millimeter-Wave Ellipsometric Measurements of the Complex Dielectric Constant of Solids and Liquids," Gordon Research Conf. (Theoretical Chemistry), NH, Aug. 1966.

William S. Lovell, "Millimeter-Wave Ellipsometry," Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB, March, 1967.

William S. Lovell, "The Presumption of Sanity -- A Rule of Law?," Univ. of Oregon Medical School, Portland, OR, Feb. 1973.

William S. Lovell, "Employer-Employee Agreements, Patenting and Licensing," Western Inventor's Council Innovation Workshop, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Oct. 1982.

William S. Lovell, "University Technology Transfer," Oregon State University Foundation Center, Corvallis, OR, Oct. 1982.

William S. Lovell, "Patent Chemistry -- and Society," American Chemical Society, Portland, OR, Section, Oct. 16, 1986.

William S. Lovell, "Regional Technology Transfer Centers," Oregon Applied Research Association, Tigard, OR, Dec. 12, 1988.

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