Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Riso
Thomas A. Riso 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).
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Patent number: 11923176Abstract: This disclosure provides a reactor system that includes a microwave source configured to generate a microwave energy, one or more energy sources configured to generate a thermal energy and a field-enhancing waveguide (FEWG) coupled to the microwave source. The FEWG includes a field-enhancing zone having a cross-sectional area that decreases along a length of the FEWG. The field-enhancing zone includes a supply gas inlet configured to receive a supply gas, a reaction zone configured to generate a plasma in response to excitation of the supply gas by the microwave energy, a process inlet configured to inject a raw material into the reaction zone, and an afterglow region configured to combine the plasma and the raw material in response to the thermal energy. An outlet outputs a plurality of carbon-inclusive particles resulting from the combination of the plasma and the raw material. Electrodes can be positioned proximate to the reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Patent number: 11107662Abstract: A microwave energy source that generates a microwave energy is disclosed. The microwave energy source has an on-state and an off-state. A control circuit is coupled to the microwave energy source and includes an output to generate a control signal that adjusts a pulse frequency of the microwave energy. A voltage generator applies a non-zero voltage to the microwave energy source during the off-state. A frequency and a duty cycle of the non-zero voltage is based on a frequency and a duty cycle of the control signal. A waveguide is coupled to the microwave energy source. The waveguide has a supply gas inlet that receives a supply gas, a reaction zone that generates a plasma, a process inlet that injects a raw material into the reaction zone, and an outlet that outputs a powder based on a mixture of the supply gas and the raw material within the plasma.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: LytEn, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Tung Van Pham, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Patent number: 10937632Abstract: A processing reactor includes a microwave energy source and a field-enhancing waveguide. The field-enhancing waveguide has a field-enhancing zone between a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area of the waveguide, and also has a plasma zone and a reaction zone. The second cross-sectional area is smaller than the first cross-sectional area, is farther away from the microwave energy source than the first cross-sectional area, and extends along a reaction length of the field-enhancing waveguide. The supply gas inlet is upstream of the reaction zone. In the reaction zone, a majority of the supply gas flow is parallel to the direction of the microwave energy propagation. A supply gas is used to generate a plasma in the plasma zone to convert a process input material into separated components in the reaction zone at a pressure of at least 0.1 atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: LytEn, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Publication number: 20210057191Abstract: A microwave energy source that generates a microwave energy is disclosed. The microwave energy source has an on-state and an off-state. A control circuit is coupled to the microwave energy source and includes an output to generate a control signal that adjusts a pulse frequency of the microwave energy. A voltage generator applies a non-zero voltage to the microwave energy source during the off-state. A frequency and a duty cycle of the non-zero voltage is based on a frequency and a duty cycle of the control signal. A waveguide is coupled to the microwave energy source. The waveguide has a supply gas inlet that receives a supply gas, a reaction zone that generates a plasma, a process inlet that injects a raw material into the reaction zone, and an outlet that outputs a powder based on a mixture of the supply gas and the raw material within the plasma.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Tung Van Pham, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Publication number: 20200402768Abstract: This disclosure provides a reactor system that includes a microwave source configured to generate a microwave energy, one or more energy sources configured to generate a thermal energy and a field-enhancing waveguide (FEWG) coupled to the microwave source. The FEWG includes a field-enhancing zone having a cross-sectional area that decreases along a length of the FEWG. The field-enhancing zone includes a supply gas inlet configured to receive a supply gas, a reaction zone configured to generate a plasma in response to excitation of the supply gas by the microwave energy, a process inlet configured to inject a raw material into the reaction zone, and an afterglow region configured to combine the plasma and the raw material in response to the thermal energy. An outlet outputs a plurality of carbon-inclusive particles resulting from the combination of the plasma and the raw material. Electrodes can be positioned proximate to the reaction zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Publication number: 20200040444Abstract: Plasma spray systems comprise multiple zones wherein the energy required for different processes within the systems can be controlled independently. In some embodiments, a plasma spray system comprises a first zone wherein ionic species are generated from the target material using a first energy input, and the ionic species either combine to form a plurality of particles in the first zone, or form coatings on a plurality of input particles input into the first zone. The plasma spray system can further comprise a second zone, comprising a chamber coupled to a microwave energy source, which ionizes the plurality of particles to form a plurality of ionized particles and form a plasma jet. The plasma spray system can further comprise a third zone, comprising an electric field to accelerate the plurality of ionized particles and form a plasma spray.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Daniel Cook, Joe Griffith Cruz, Thomas Riso
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Patent number: 10465128Abstract: A thermal cracking apparatus and method includes a body having an inner volume with a longitudinal axis, where a reaction zone surrounds the longitudinal axis. A feedstock process gas is flowed into the inner volume and longitudinally through the reaction zone during thermal cracking operations. A power control system controls electrical power to an elongated heating element, which is disposed within the inner volume. During thermal cracking operations, the elongated heating element is heated to a molecular cracking temperature to generate the reaction zone, the feedstock process gas is heated from the elongated heating element, the power control system uses a feedback parameter for adjusting the electrical power to maintain the molecular cracking temperature at a substantially constant value, and the heat thermally cracks molecules of the feedstock process gas that are within the reaction zone into constituent components of the molecules.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Joe Griffith Cruz, Ryan Balmores, Thomas Riso, Philip David Fulmer, Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash, Ranjeeth Kalluri, Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo
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Publication number: 20180273379Abstract: A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Riso, Philip David Fulmer, Ryan Balmores, Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash, Bryce H. Anzelmo
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Publication number: 20180226229Abstract: A processing reactor includes a microwave energy source and a field-enhancing waveguide. The field-enhancing waveguide has a field-enhancing zone between a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area of the waveguide, and also has a plasma zone and a reaction zone. The second cross-sectional area is smaller than the first cross-sectional area, is farther away from the microwave energy source than the first cross-sectional area, and extends along a reaction length of the field-enhancing waveguide. The supply gas inlet is upstream of the reaction zone. In the reaction zone, a majority of the supply gas flow is parallel to the direction of the microwave energy propagation. A supply gas is used to generate a plasma in the plasma zone to convert a process input material into separated components in the reaction zone at a pressure of at least 0.1 atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Patent number: 9862602Abstract: A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Riso, Philip David Fulmer, Ryan Balmores, Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash, Bryce H. Anzelmo
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Patent number: 9767992Abstract: A processing reactor includes a microwave energy source and a field-enhancing waveguide. The field-enhancing waveguide has a field-enhancing zone between a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area of the waveguide, and also has a plasma zone and a reaction zone. The second cross-sectional area is smaller than the first cross-sectional area, is farther away from the microwave energy source than the first cross-sectional area, and extends along a reaction length of the field-enhancing waveguide. The supply gas inlet is upstream of the reaction zone. In the reaction zone, a majority of the supply gas flow is parallel to the direction of the microwave energy propagation. A supply gas is used to generate a plasma in the plasma zone to convert a process input material into separated components in the reaction zone at a pressure of at least 0.1 atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Lyten, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Stowell, Bryce H. Anzelmo, Thomas Riso
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Patent number: 5592731Abstract: A stator core for rotary high power density electro-mechanical transducers formed of multiple segments which have a plurality of radially oriented teeth. The stator core is a composite of two or more segments circumferentially combined to form a cylindrical stator or armature for electric motors or generators. The segments are wound with wire either when the segments are aligned linearly, when arranged circumferentially on the inside surface of a jig, or about a cylinder. The wound stator can have teeth extending radially outwardly or inwardly, to accommodate an outside or inside rotor.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1994Date of Patent: January 14, 1997Assignee: Unique Mobility, Inc.Inventors: Hao Huang, Michael S. DeBruzzi, Thomas A. Riso
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Patent number: 5382859Abstract: A stator core for rotary high power density electro-mechanical transducers formed of multiple segments which have a plurality of radially oriented teeth. The stator core is a composite of two or more segments circumferentially combined to form a cylindrical stator or armature for electric motors or generators. The segments are wound with wire either when the segments are aligned linearly, when arranged circumferentially on the inside surface of a jig or about a cylinder. The wound stator can have teeth extending radially outwardly or inwardly, to accommodate an outside or inside rotor.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1992Date of Patent: January 17, 1995Assignee: Unique MobilityInventors: Hao Huang, Michael S. DeBruzzi, Thomas A. Riso