Patents by Inventor David McSherry

David McSherry 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: 11939241
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, David McSherry, Allison Brewster, Richard Staub, Renato De Paula, John Wilhelm Bolduc, Robert J. Ryther, Victor V. Keasler
  • Publication number: 20220041473
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Ecolab USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhong LI, David MCSHERRY, Allison Brewster, Richard Staub, Renato De Paula, John Wilhelm Bolduc, Robert J. Ryther, Victor V. Keasler
  • Patent number: 11180385
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA, INC.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, David McSherry, Allison Brewster, Richard Staub, Renato De Paula, John Wilhelm Bolduc, Robert J. Ryther, Victor V. Keasler
  • Patent number: 9902627
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, David McSherry, Allison Brewster, Richard Staub, Renato De Paula, John Wilhelm Bolduc, Robert J. Ryther, Victor V. Keasler
  • Patent number: 9462806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, methods of making and their use as cleaning composition and/or antimicrobial agent, for example in the field of cold aseptic filling (CAF), that are effective at lower concentration, having improved wetting and rinsing properties, wherein the liquid composition comprises a mixture of: a) a C6 to C22 sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid, b) a C1 to C4 percarboxylic acid, c) a C5 to C10 percarboxylic acid, d) a peroxide agent, e) a liquid; wherein the composition comprises free sulfocarboxylic acid, free C1 to C4 carboxylic acid and free C5 to C10 carboxylic acid, wherein the weight ratio of C6 to C22 sulfocarboxylic acid to C6 to C22 sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid is about 0.1:1 to about 25:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Julia Tiekemeier, Petra Vogt, Junzhong Li, David McSherry
  • Publication number: 20160200595
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhong LI, David MCSHERRY, Allison BREWSTER, Richard STAUB, Renato DE PAULA, John Wilhelm BOLDUC, Robert J. RYTHER, Victor V. KEASLER
  • Patent number: 9321664
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Junzhong Li, David McSherry, Allison Brewster, Richard Staub, Renato De Paula, John Wilhelm Bolduc, Robert J. Ryther, Victor V. Keasler
  • Publication number: 20150164071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, methods of making and their use as cleaning composition and/or antimicrobial agent, for example in the field of cold aseptic filling (CAF), that are effective at lower concentration, having improved wetting and rinsing properties, wherein the liquid composition comprises a mixture of: a) a C6 to C22 sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid, b) a C1 to C4 percarboxylic acid, c) a C5 to C10 percarboxylic acid, d) a peroxide agent, e) a liquid; wherein the composition comprises free sulfocarboxylic acid, free C1 to C4 carboxylic acid and free C5 to C10 carboxylic acid, wherein the weight ratio of C6 to C22 sulfocarboxylic acid to C6 to C22 sulfoperoxycarboxylic acid is about 0.1:1 to about 25:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Julia Tiekemeier, Petra Vogt, Junzhong Li, David McSherry
  • Publication number: 20140097144
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to stable percarboxylic acid compositions comprising, inter alia, at least two stabilizing agents, and various uses for water treatments, including water treatments in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention also relates to slick water compositions and gel based compositions that comprise stable percarboxylic acid compositions and the use thereof in oil- and gas-field operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Junzhong LI, David MCSHERRY, Allison BREWSTER, Richard STAUB, Renato DE PAULA, John Wilhelm BOLDUC, Robert J. RYTHER, Victor V. KEASLER
  • Patent number: 7676454
    Abstract: A database has a plurality of entries and a plurality of attributes common to each entry, where each entry corresponds to an individual. A query is received from a querying entity query and is passed to the database, and an answer is received in response. An amount of noise is generated and added to the answer to result in an obscured answer, and the obscured answer is returned to the querying entity. The noise is normally distributed around zero with a particular variance. The variance R may be determined in accordance with R>8 T log2(T/?)/?2, where T is the permitted number of queries T, ? is the utter failure probability, and ? is the largest admissible increase in confidence. Thus, a level of protection of privacy is provided to each individual represented within the database. Example noise generation techniques, systems, and methods may be used for privacy preservation in such areas as k means, principal component analysis, statistical query learning models, and perceptron algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cynthia Dwork, Frank David McSherry, Yaacov Nissim Kobliner, Avrim L. Blum
  • Patent number: 7512587
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for efficiently computing page rankings of web pages or other interconnected objects. The rankings are produced by efficiently computing a principal eigenvector of a page ranking transition matrix. The methods and systems provided herein can be used to produce page rankings in a distributed and/or incremental manner, and can be used to allocate computing resources to processing page rankings for those pages that most demand them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Frank David McSherry
  • Patent number: 7464075
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for efficiently computing personalized rankings of web pages or other interconnected objects. The personalized rankings are produced by efficiently computing an approximation matrix to an ideal personalized page ranking matrix. The methods and systems provided herein can be used to produce search results with particular relevance to an individual searcher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Frank David McSherry, Demetrios Achlioptas
  • Patent number: 7379947
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for computing page rankings more efficiently. Using an interconnectivity matrix describing the interconnection of web pages, a new matrix is computed. The new matrix is used to compute the average of values associated with each web page's neighboring web pages. The secondary eigenvector of this new matrix is computed, and indices for web pages are relabeled according to the eigenvector. The data structure storing the interconnectivity information is preferably also physically sorted according to the eigenvector. By reorganizing the matrix used in the web page ranking computations, caching is performed more efficiently, resulting in faster page ranking techniques. Methods for efficiently allocating the distribution of resources are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Frank David McSherry
  • Publication number: 20030206882
    Abstract: An antimicrobial composition comprising at least one aliphatic antimicrobially effective C6 to C10 fatty acid and at least one coupling agent and a vicocity modifying agent. The composition finds utility for use in teat dips and skin sanitizing and or cleaning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Francis L. Richter, Duane Reinhardt, David McSherry, Keith Lascotte