Patents by Inventor Daniel Stedman Connor

Daniel Stedman Connor 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: 7683224
    Abstract: A fuel or fuel blendstock for jet, gas turbine, rocket, and diesel engines, particularly jet, rocket, and diesel engines that utilizes components of conventional petroleum not currently utilized for jet, gas turbine, rocket, and diesel fuels, such as benzene, linear, and lightly branched alkanes, that may be alkylated with aromatic moieties to make monoaromatics for use in jet and diesel fuels. Additionally, a fuel having such monoaromatics having multiple desired properties such as higher flash point, low pour point, increased density, better lubricity, aerobic degradability, reduction in toxicity, and additionally can deliver benefits in blendstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Patent number: 7560603
    Abstract: A fuel or fuel blendstocks for jet, gas turbine, rocket, and diesel engines, particularly jet and rocket engines utilizing components of conventional petroleum not currently utilized for jet, gas turbine, rocket, and diesel fuels, such as benzene, butanes, butanes, and methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE) alkylated with aromatic moieties to make monoaromatics used in jet and diesel fuels. Additionally, a fuel having such monoaromatics has multiple desired properties such as higher flash point, low pour point, increased density, better lubricity, aerobic degradability, reduction in toxicity, and additionally can deliver benefits in blendstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Publication number: 20090112450
    Abstract: A fuel management system of a vehicle and a refueling system for gasoline stations to handle a fuel system for improved fuel efficiency which can be contained in a fuel tank having a gasoline phase comprises gasoline or gasohol; and an anti-knock phase comprising an anti-knock agent comprising a glycol anti-knock subagent, water and one or more of a second anti-knock subagent selected from the group of methanol, ethanol and mixtures thereof, such that the anti-knock agent phase is substantially immiscible with the gasoline phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Publication number: 20090107031
    Abstract: A fuel system for improved fuel efficiency which can be contained in a single fuel source, such as a fuel tank of a vehicle, having a gasoline phase comprises gasoline or gasohol; and an anti-knock phase comprising a glycol anti-knock subagent, water and one or more of a second anti-knock subagent selected from the group of methanol, ethanol and mixtures thereof; such that the anti-knock agent phase is substantially immiscible with the gasoline phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Daniel Stedman Connor
  • Patent number: 7338541
    Abstract: Novel clean fuels comprising selected nonlinear long chain saturated primary monohydric/dihydric alcohol derivatives and mixtures thereof; novel diols and/or diol derivatives; and processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels as well as processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels concurrently with making nonlinear alcohols for use by the detergent industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe
  • Patent number: 7202205
    Abstract: Processes for making particularly branched, especially monomethyl-branched or nongeminal dimethyl-branched surfactants used in cleaning products; preferred processes comprising particular combinations of two or more adsorptive separation steps and, more preferably, particular OXO and/or alkylation steps; products of such processes, including certain modified primary OXO alcohols and/or alkylbenzenes, modified primary OXO alcohol-derived alkoxylated alcohols, alkylsulfates and/or alkoxysulfates; alkylbenzensulfonate surfactants, and consumer cleaning products, especially laundry detergents, containing them. Preferred processes herein more specifically use specific, unconventional sequences of sorptive separation steps to secure certain branched hydrocarbon fractions which are used in further process steps to make olefins useful in OXO processes or as alkylating agents for arenes or for other useful surfactant-making purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Kevin Lee Kott, Phillip Kyle Vinson
  • Patent number: 6992057
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Patent number: 6916777
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Patent number: 6908894
    Abstract: A surfactant composition comprising: alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system comprising at least two isomers of the alkylarylsulfonate surfactant of the formula: wherein: L is an acyclic aliphatic hydrocarbyl of from 6 to 18 carbon atoms in total; M is a cation or cation mixture and q is the valence thereof; a and b are numbers selected such that said composition is electroneutral; R? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; R? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; R?? is selected from H and C1 to C3 alkyl; any of R? and R? is nonterminally attached to L and at least one of R? and R? is C1 to C3 alkyl; and A is aryl; and wherein: said alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system comprises two or more isomers with respect to positions of attachment of R?, R? and A to L; in at least about 60% of said composition, A is attached to L in the position which is selected from positions alpha- and beta- to either of the two terminal carbon atoms thereof; and wherein further said alkylarylsulfonate surfactant system has
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Lee Kott, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Daniel Stedman Connor, Phillip Kyle Vinson
  • Patent number: 6896708
    Abstract: Novel clean fuels comprising selected nonlinear long chain saturated primary monohydric/dihydric alcohols and mixtures thereof, novel diols; and processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels as well as processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels concurrently with making nonlinear alcohols for use by the detergent industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophil Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe
  • Patent number: 6890894
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Patent number: 6861400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel hydrophobic soil dispersants having the formula: wherein A units are arylene units, one of which is phenyl, anthryl, or phenanthryl; each R is independently hydrogen, linear or branched C1-C4 alkyl, —O(R3O)mR4, and mixtures thereof; R3 is C2-C4 linear or branched alkylene, R4 is hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, phenyl, phenyl sulphonate, —CH2CH(SO3M)CH2OH, —CH2CH(OH)CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eSO3M, —(CH2)fCO2M, —(CH2)eCH(SO3M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)eCH(SO2M)-CH2SO3M, —(CH2)fPO3M, —PO3M, or mixtures thereof; M is hydrogen or a water-soluble cation, the index f is an integer from 1 to 6, the index e is an integer from 0 to 6, m is an integer from 0 to 25; R1 is a sulphonate group; R2 is an amino group; [CAP] is a chain capping unit selected from i) hydrogen; ii) an aryl unit having the formula: iii) an aryl unit having the formula: iv) an aryl unit having the formula: v) an aryl unit having the formula: vi) and mixtures thereof; R5 is hydrogen, —CH2OH, —CH2OSO3M, —CH3, and mix
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Rafael Ortiz
  • Patent number: 6774099
    Abstract: A hand dishwashing compositions comprising; a) about 0.1% to about 99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Scheibel, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Kevin Lee Kott, Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Phillip Kyle Vinson, William Michael Scheper, Chandrika Kasturi
  • Publication number: 20040097392
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Publication number: 20040092418
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Maria Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Publication number: 20040092419
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Publication number: 20040087461
    Abstract: Novel fatty acids and derivatives thereof such as salts, new surfactant systems comprising one or more of these compounds, consumer products such as laundry products, personal care products, pharmaceutical compositions, industrial cleaners, and the like comprising said compounds or surfactant systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Deborah Jean Back, Toan Trinh, Phillip Kyle Vinson, Roland George Severson, Thomas Anthony Cripe, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett -St. Laurent, Mark Robert Sivik, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Marc Johan Declercq, Hugo Jean Marie Demeyere
  • Publication number: 20040076654
    Abstract: Personal care compositions and methods for using them are provided. More particularly, the present invention relates to branched alcohol-based (alcohol and/or its derivatives) personal care compositions and methods employing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Kyle Vinson, Robert Emerson Stidham, Daniel Stedman Connor, Jack Clinton Heffner, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Jeffrey John Scheibel, Kevin Lee Kott
  • Publication number: 20040016174
    Abstract: Novel clean fuels comprising selected nonlinear long chain saturated primary monohydric/dihydric alcohol derivatives and mixtures thereof; novel diols and/or diol derivatives; and processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels as well as processes for making clean synthetic jet fuels and/or clean synthetic diesel fuels concurrently with making nonlinear alcohols for use by the detergent industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe
  • Patent number: 6673961
    Abstract: Processes for making particularly branched, especially monomethyl-branched or nongeminal dimethyl-branched surfactants used in cleaning products; preferred processes comprising particular combinations of two or more adsorptive separation steps and, more preferably, particular alkylation steps; products of such processes, including certain modified alkylbenzenes, modified alkylbenzenesulfonate surfactants, and consumer cleaning products, especially laundry detergents, containing them. Preferred processes herein more specifically use specific, unconventional sequences of sorptive separation steps to secure certain branched hydrocarbon fractions which are used in further process steps as alkylating agents for arenes or for other useful surfactant-making purposes. Surprisingly, such fractions can even be derived from effluents from current linear alkylbenzene manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Stedman Connor, Jeffrey John Scheibel, James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent, Thomas Anthony Cripe, Kevin Lee Kott, Phillip Kyle Vinson