Patents by Inventor Bruce Lerner

Bruce Lerner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8460540
    Abstract: A hydrocracking catalyst comprising zeolite crystallized as a layer on the surface of a porous alumina-containing matrix, said zeolite-layered matrix arranged in a configuration to provide macropores in which the zeolite layer is provided on the walls of the macropores. Hydrogenating metals can be incorporated into the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Stockwell, Bruce A. Lerner
  • Patent number: 8372772
    Abstract: A hydrocracking catalyst comprising zeolite crystallized as a layer on the surface of a porous alumina-containing matrix, said zeolite-layered matrix arranged in a configuration to provide macropores in which the zeolite layer is provided on the walls of the macropores. Hydrogenating metals can be incorporated into the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Stockwell, Bruce A. Lerner
  • Publication number: 20100075832
    Abstract: A hydrocracking catalyst comprising zeolite crystallized as a layer on the surface of a porous alumina-containing matrix, said zeolite-layered matrix arranged in a configuration to provide macropores in which the zeolite layer is provided on the walls of the macropores. Hydrogenating metals can be incorporated into the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: David M. Stockwell, Bruce A. Lerner
  • Patent number: 7470022
    Abstract: Glasses are provided having one temple which is clipped to a cap, preferably to the brim or visor of a cap. The temple is associated with at least one joint which permits the lens portions to be pivoted from a use position before a user's eyes to a storage position along the user's head over one ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Inventor: Bruce Lerner
  • Publication number: 20080024715
    Abstract: Glasses are provided having one temple which is clipped to a cap, preferably to the brim or visor of a cap. The temple is associated with at least one joint which permits the lens portions to be pivoted from a use position before a user's eyes to a storage position along the user's head over one ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventor: Bruce Lerner
  • Publication number: 20070272593
    Abstract: A hydrocracking catalyst comprising zeolite crystallized as a layer on the surface of a porous alumina-containing matrix, said zeolite-layered matrix arranged in a configuration to provide macropores in which the zeolite layer is provided on the walls of the macropores. Hydrogenating metals can be incorporated into the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: David Stockwell, Bruce Lerner
  • Patent number: 7240370
    Abstract: Glasses are provided having one temple which is clipped to a cap, preferably to the brim or visor of a cap. The temple is associated with at least one joint which permits the lens portions to be pivoted from a use position before a user's eyes to a storage position along the user's head over one ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Inventor: Bruce Lerner
  • Publication number: 20060005299
    Abstract: Glasses are provided having one temple which is clipped to a cap, preferably to the brim or visor of a cap. The temple is associated with at least one joint which permits the lens portions to be pivoted from a use position before a user's eyes to a storage position along the user's head over one ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventor: Bruce Lerner
  • Patent number: 6716338
    Abstract: A fluid catalytic cracking catalyst made from microspheres that initially contain kaolin, a dispersible boehmite alumina and a sodium silicate or silica sol binder. The kaolin portion contains hydrous kaolin and optionally spinel, or mullite, or both spinel and mullite made via kaolin which has been calcined through its characteristic exotherm. Calcination of the hydrous clay to metakaolin and formation of in-situ zeolite by treatment with sodium silicate yields a catalyst containing Y-faujasite and transforms the dispersible boehmite into a transitional alumina. The catalyst can be used to crack resid or resid-containing feeds as the alumina phase formed from the dispersible boehmite passivates nickel and vanadium contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Rostam Madon, David H. Harris, Mingting Xu, David Stockwell, Bruce Lerner, Glenn W. Dodwell
  • Publication number: 20030130107
    Abstract: A fluid catalytic cracking catalyst made from microspheres that initially contain kaolin, a dispersible boehmite alumina and a sodium silicate or silica sol binder. The kaolin portion contains hydrous kaolin and optionally spinel, or mullite, or both spinel and mullite made via kaolin which has been calcined through its characteristic exotherm. Calcination of the hydrous clay to metakaolin and formation of in-situ zeolite by treatment with sodium silicate yields a catalyst containing Y-faujasite and transforms the dispersible boehmite into a transitional alumina. The catalyst can be used to crack resid or resid-containing feeds as the alumina phase formed from the dispersible boehmite passivates nickel and vanadium contaminants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Rostam Madon, David H. Harris, Mingting Xu, David Stockwell, Bruce Lerner, Glenn W. Dodwell
  • Publication number: 20030089640
    Abstract: A fluid catalytic cracking catalyst made from microspheres that initially contain kaolin, a dispersible boehmite alumina and a sodium silicate or silica sol binder. The kaolin portion contains hydrous kaolin and optionally kaolin which has been calcined through its characteristic exotherm. Calcination of the hydrous clay to metakaolin and formation of in-situ zeolite by treatment with sodium silicate yields a catalyst containing Y-faujasite and transforms the dispersible boehmite into a transitional alumina which contains a gamma alumina phase. The transitional alumina may contain a delta alumina phase as well. The catalyst can be used to crack resid or resid-containing feeds as the alumina phase formed from the dispersible boehmite passivates nickel and vanadium contaminants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2001
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Rostam Madon, David H. Harris, Mingting Xu, David Stockwell, Bruce Lerner, Glenn W. Dodwell
  • Patent number: 5559067
    Abstract: An in situ process for making improved zeolitic fluid cracking catalyst by spray drying a mixture of hydrous kaolin, gibbsite and spinel, essentially free from metakaolin, calcining the resulting microspheres to convert the hydrous kaolin to metakaolin whereby the gibbsite is hydrothermally converted to a transitional alumina, and reacting the microspheres composed of a mixture of spinel, transitional alumina and metakaolin with a seeded alkaline sodium silicate solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce A. Lerner, David M. Stockwell, Rostam J. Madon