Patents by Inventor Wes May

Wes May 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).

  • Publication number: 20150239454
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a controller configured to control the vehicle to operate in an active control mode or a passive control mode. In the passive control mode, the controller may provide a feedback indicator on a human machine interface. In the active control mode, the controller may provide a control command to an engine control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Vivek Anand Sujan, Phani Vajapeyazula, Kenneth Follen, An Wu, Barty L. Moffett, Howard Robert Frost, Suk-Min Moon, Jaidev Khatri, Wes Mays
  • Publication number: 20140224712
    Abstract: A screened sliding drawer assembly comprises an upper plate comprising a central aperture and at least two side apertures disposed on the sides of the central aperture. The screened sliding drawer assembly further comprises at least two removable lids disposed above the at least two side apertures. The screened sliding drawer assembly further comprises a lower plate comprising a second central aperture. The screened sliding drawer assembly further comprises a glide drawer, disposed between the upper plate and the lower plate, comprising at least one screen. The screened sliding drawer assembly further comprises an output channel disposed below the lower plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: MID-CONTINENT COAL AND COKE CO.
    Inventors: Mark Maupin, Wes May, Ben Rankin
  • Patent number: 7824906
    Abstract: The present invention is an anaerobic reactor and preferably a vertically oriented plug flow anaerobic reactor for producing methane from various organic materials. The organic materials preferably have a high organic content. The reactor includes cutting members for cutting bridged or agglomerated material within the reactor. The present invention also includes a process for producing methane from an organic feed stock by continuously charging an organic material into the top portion of a vertically oriented vessel and rotating one or more cutting members at a sufficiently slow rate so that the cutting members cut through bridged or agglomerated material but do not substantially mix contents within the reactor, anaerobically digesting the organic material under mesophilic or thermophilic conditions to produce methane while allowing the organic material to propagate downward through the vessel in a plug flow-like manner and collecting methane gas produced from the anaerobic digestion of the organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: ARCADIS U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Murphy, Jon Forbort, Evan Nyer, Matt Shattuck, Wes May
  • Publication number: 20090023193
    Abstract: The present invention is an anaerobic reactor and preferably a vertically oriented plug flow anaerobic reactor for producing methane from various organic materials. The organic materials preferably have a high organic content. The reactor includes cutting members for cutting bridged or agglomerated material within the reactor. The present invention also includes a process for producing methane from an organic feed stock by continuously charging an organic material into the top portion of a vertically oriented vessel and rotating one or more cutting members at a sufficiently slow rate so that the cutting members cut through bridged or agglomerated material but do not substantially mix contents within the reactor, anaerobically digesting the organic material under mesophilic or thermophilic conditions to produce methane while allowing the organic material to propagate downward through the vessel in a plug flow-like manner and collecting methane gas produced from the anaerobic digestion of the organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Scott Murphy, Jon Forbort, Evan Nyer, Matt Shattuck, Wes May