Patents by Inventor Clint Brearley

Clint Brearley 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).

  • Microbial deactivation of explosive compositions
    Patent number: 9814918
    Abstract: A method of deactivating an explosive composition being used in a blasting operation, which method comprises exposing the explosive composition to a micro-organism that is indigenous to the environment in which the explosive composition is being used and that is capable of producing an enzyme that degrades the explosive composition, wherein the explosive composition has associated with it a chemical inducing agent that promotes production of the enzyme by the micro-organism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ORICA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD
    Inventors: Clint Brearley, Steven Kotsonis, Kaiyan Liu, Thomas Smylie, Richard Goodridge
  • MICROBIAL DEACTIVATION OF EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20140377844
    Abstract: A method of deactivating an explosive composition being used in a blasting operation, which method comprises exposing the explosive composition to a micro-organism that is indigenous to the environment in which the explosive composition is being used and that is capable of producing an enzyme that degrades the explosive composition, wherein the explosive composition has associated with it a chemical inducing agent that promotes production of the enzyme by the micro-organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Clint Brearley, Steven Kotsonis, Kaiyan Liu, Thomas Smylie, Richard Goodridge