Patents by Inventor Michele Anne Thornhill

Michele Anne Thornhill 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: 7838473
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition of TBN 8-9 having up to 0.3 wt. % sulfur, up to 0.08 wt. % phosphorus, and a sulfated ash content up to 0.80 wt. %, comprising an overbased magnesium-containing lubricating oil detergent, and 2.5 to 4 wt. % of a nitrogen-containing ashless dispersant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Robert W. Shaw, Michele Anne Thornhill
  • Patent number: 6043200
    Abstract: The compatibility with nitrile ester seals of lubricating compositions containing active sulphur-containing additives may be enhanced bt treating the additives, or concentrates containing them, or the composition themselves, with one or more olefinically unsaturated compounds selected from:(a) acyclic compounds having at least two double bonds with adjacent double bonds separated by two saturated carbon atoms;(b) compounds containing an acyclic ring, which ring contains at least, eight carbon atoms and at least two double bonds, each double bond being separated from the closest adjacent double bond(s) by two saturated carbon atoms; and(c) compounds containing a saturated alicyclic ring and at least one exocyclic double bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Robert Carroll, Brid Dilworth, Michele Anne Thornhill