Patents by Inventor Jamie A. Hern

Jamie A. Hern 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: 6767860
    Abstract: An approach for beneficially incorporating both a solid organic impregnant and a fluid impregnant into filter media particles without the presence or addition of one unduly affecting the performance of the other. The present invention achieves impregnation by combining sublimation and non-bulk absorption techniques. These techniques may be carried out in sequential, simultaneous, overlapping, and/or alternating fashion, or the like. The invention is especially suitable when the filter media particles already contain or are to contain one or more other impregnants, whose function or presence might be adversely affected when conventional methods are used to add the solid organic and fluid materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jamie A. Hern, Simon J. Smith
  • Publication number: 20040127356
    Abstract: An approach for beneficially incorporating both a solid organic impregnant and a fluid impregnant into filter media particles without the presence or addition of one unduly affecting the performance of the other. The present invention achieves impregnation by combining sublimation and non-bulk absorption techniques. These techniques may be carried out in sequential, simultaneous, overlapping, and/or alternating fashion, or the like. The invention is especially suitable when the filter media particles already contain or are to contain one or more other impregnants, whose function or presence might be adversely affected when conventional methods are used to add the solid organic and fluid materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Jamie A. Hern, Simon J. Smith
  • Patent number: 6344071
    Abstract: Filter medium includes at least two kinds of filter media particles. A first plurality of filter media particles includes an extended surface area substrate comprising at least one transition metal impregnant. A second plurality of filter media particles includes an extended surface area substrate comprising a tertiary amine impregnant. In preferred embodiments, at least one and preferably both of the kinds of filter media particles is/are substantially free of chromium, and more preferably contain no detectable chromium. The filtering medium has very broad filtering capabilities. The filtering medium successfully achieves performance levels mandated both by applicable industrial filter approval specifications and by international military filter performance specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2002
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Simon J. Smith, Jamie A. Hern