Patents by Inventor William A. Blanton

William A. Blanton 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: 20240004310
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor die with overlay marks, electronic devices that include semiconductor dies with overlay marks, and methods of measuring overlay. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die includes multiple overlay marks, including a first overlay mark and a second overlay mark. The first overlay mark is at a first position on the semiconductor die and includes a first set of patterns with a first orientation. The second overlay mark is at a second position on the semiconductor die and includes a second set of patterns with a second orientation. The first position of the first mark and the second position of the second mark are non-overlapping. In addition, the first orientation of the patterns in the first mark is substantially orthogonal to the second orientation of the patterns in the second mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William Blanton, Deepak Selvanathan, Shakul Tandon, Martin N. Weiss
  • Patent number: 5439583
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for removing residual sulfur from a hydrotreated naphtha feedstock. The feedstock is contacted with molecular hydrogen under reforming conditions in the presence of a less sulfur sensitive reforming catalyst to convert trace sulfur compounds to H.sub.2 S, and to form a first effluent. The first effluent is contacted with a solid sulfur sorbent to remove the H.sub.2 S and form a second effluent. The second effluent is then contacted with a highly selective reforming catalyst under severe reforming conditions. Also disclosed is a method using a potassium containing sulfur sorbent made from nitrogen-free potassium compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Chevron Research and Technology Company
    Inventors: Richard C. Robinson, Robert L. Jacobson, Harris E. Kluksdahl, William A. Blanton, Dennis L. Holtermann, Leslie A. Field
  • Patent number: 5089461
    Abstract: Controlling sulfur oxide emissions from FCC regenerator flue gas by mixing a sulfur sorbent in the circulating inventory and having present in the regeneration zone a chromium/tin sulfur dioxide oxidation promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Alan W. Klaassen
  • Patent number: 4992161
    Abstract: Controlling sulfur oxide emissions from FCC regenerator flue gas by mixing a sulfur sorbent in the circulating inventory and having present in the regeneration zone a chromium/tin sulfur dioxide oxidation promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Alan W. Klaassen
  • Patent number: 4521389
    Abstract: NO.sub.x in flue gas from a regenerator in which an SO.sub.2 oxidation promoter is present is controlled by mixing ammonia with flue gas and passing the mixture through a combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., William L. Dimpel
  • Patent number: 4497598
    Abstract: The vapor space above a bed of fluidizable particles in a chamber is variably controlled by extending a moveable conduit through the upper portion of the chamber to position the conduit inlet at a selectable height above the bed. Fluid flows uniformly up through the bed of particles to fluidize particles to a desired density in the fluid and at a desired rate of flow of such particles through the inlet to the conduit from the so adjusted volume of fluidization space in the chamber. The conduit is externally driven relative to the bed to maintain the particle fluidization volume and flow rate substantially constant. In apparatus form the pick-up conduit is carried by a piston member with sealing means, such as an O-ring, between the piston wall and the chamber sidewall. In an alternate embodiment the fluidizing gas is recirculated in a loop that includes the piston which is fluid permeable to bypass the conduit inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton
  • Patent number: 4434147
    Abstract: Sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide control by use of a sulfur sorbent and sulfur dioxide oxidation promoter in the regenerator and downstream removal of nitrogen oxides by selective catalytic reduction using ammonia injection and trapped cracking catalyst fines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William L. Dimpfl, William A. Blanton
  • Patent number: 4332672
    Abstract: Sulfur oxides are removed from flue gas in a catalyst regenerator in a fluid catalyst cracking system while liquid-hydrocarbon product yield from the system is maintained at a high level by heating a nonzeolitic, silica-containing catalyst to 800.degree.-1500.degree. F.; impregnating 0.1 to 25 weight percent aluminum onto the catalyst particles; and cycling the resulting particles through the cracking reactor and catalyst regenerator in the cracking system, the impregnated catalyst being particularly adaptable for cracking heavy, metals-containing feeds such as residua.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Robert L. Flanders
  • Patent number: 4325926
    Abstract: A waste gas containing sulfur dioxide is desulfurized by contacting the gas with phosphorus-promoted sodium vanadate disposed upon porous alumina having a phosphorus-to-vanadium atomic ratio in the range 0.2-1.8 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4309309
    Abstract: A process for removing coke from particulate catalyst is disclosed, in which nitrogen oxides are formed during combustion of nitrogen-containing coke in an oxidizing atmosphere in the presence of a carbon monoxide combustion promoter in a lower portion of a fluidized bed, and the nitrogen oxides are reacted to form free nitrogen by introducing a vaporizable fuel into an upper part of the fluidized bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4290878
    Abstract: In regeneration of a cracking catalyst using platinum to catalyze combustion of CO, the amount of nitrogen oxides formed is decreased by empolying a combustion promoter containing, for each part of platinum, from 0.01 to 1 part of iridium or rhodium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4259176
    Abstract: Removal of sulfur oxides from cracking catalyst regenerator flue gas using particulate alumina is enhanced by employing a zeolitic cracking catalyst containing little or no silica in the catalyst matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1981
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Robert L. Flanders
  • Patent number: 4252635
    Abstract: In removing sulfur oxides from flue gas in a cracking catalyst regenerator in the presence of a silica-containing particulate catalyst by reacting the sulfur oxides with alumina in a particulate solid other than the catalyst, activity loss in the alumina as a result of migration of silica from the catalyst particles to the alumina-containing particles is decreased by using alumina-containing particles which contain sodium, manganese or phosphorus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4243556
    Abstract: In removing sulfur oxides from flue gas in a cracking catalyst regenerator in the presence of a silica-containing particulate catalyst by reacting the sulfur oxides with alumina in a particulate solid other than the catalyst, activity loss in the alumina as a result of migration of silica from the catalyst particles to the alumina-containing particles is lessened by using alumina-containing particles which contain sodium, manganese or phosphorus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4239742
    Abstract: A process is provided for adsorbing sulfur dioxide impurity from an impure gas and producing a hydrogen sulfide-rich gas. In the process, a first adsorbate containing oxidized sulfur is produced by contacting the impure gas with an adsorbent comprising a composite of an alumina support and sodium and vanadium oxides. A second adsorbate containing reduced sulfur is produced by contacting said first adsorbate with carbon monoxide. A gas rich in hydrogen sulfide is then produced by contacting said second adsorbate with water vapor at a temperature in the range 120.degree. C. to 815.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4204945
    Abstract: Carbon monoxide and sulfur oxides are removed from flue gas produced in a catalyst regenerator in an FCC system and sulfur from the flue gas is shifted to form hydrogen sulfide, which is recovered in the gases removed from the cracking reactor in the system by introducing sufficient molecular oxygen into the catalyst regenerator to provide an atmosphere therein having a molecular oxygen concentration of at least 0.1 volume percent, reacting carbon monoxide in the regenerator flue gas with oxygen in contact with a particulate carbon monoxide combustion promoter physically admixed with the cracking catalyst, reacting sulfur oxides in the regenerator flue gas with silica-free alumina included as a discrete phase in the FCC catalyst to form a sulfur-containing solid in the catalyst, and forming hydrogen sulfide in the cracking reactor by contacting the sulfur-containing solid with the hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Flanders, William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4204944
    Abstract: Carbon monoxide and sulfur oxides are removed from catalyst regenerator flue gas in an FCC system using a nonzeolitic cracking catalyst and sulfur from the flue gas is shifted to form hydrogen sulfide, which is recovered in the gases removed from the cracking reactor in the system by reacting carbon monoxide in the regenerator flue gas with oxygen in contact with a particulate carbon monoxide combustion promoter, reacting sulfur oxides in the regenerator flue gas with particulate alumina physically mixed with the nonzeolitic catalyst to form a sulfur-containing solid, and forming hydrogen sulfide in the cracking reactor by contacting the sulfur-containing solid with the hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Flanders, William A. Blanton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4166787
    Abstract: The amount of sulfur oxides in flue gas evolved in a catalyst regenerator in a catalytic cracking system is lowered by incorporating into the cracking catalyst, before using the catalyst in the cracking system, finely divided, high surface area alumina which has been calcined at 700.degree.-1600.degree.0 F. before incorporation into the catalyst. Sulfur oxides react with the calcined alumina in the regenerator to form a sulfur-containing solid. The sulfur-containing solid reacts with hydrocarbon to form fluid sulfur compounds in the FCC reactor, and the sulfur compounds exit the reactor mixed with the cracked hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Joseph Jaffe
  • Patent number: 4165275
    Abstract: Sulfur oxides in flue gas formed during cracking catalyst regeneration are reacted with a zeolitic crystalline aluminosilicate containing sodium cations in the catalyst regenerator to form a sulfur-containing solid, and the sulfur component is removed from the crystalline aluminosilicate in the cracking reactor by contacting the sulfur-containing solid with the hydrocarbon feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Donald W. Blakely
  • Patent number: 4152298
    Abstract: Sulfur oxides are removed from a gas and the sulfur is converted to hydrogen sulfide by the steps of: (1) reacting sulfur oxides in the gas with alumina to form a solid sulfur-containing compound and remove sulfur oxides from the gas; and (2) contacting the solid compound resulting from step (1) with a hydrocarbon at a temperature of about 800.degree.-1300.degree. F. and reacting the solid sulfur-containing compound with components of the hydrocarbon to form hydrogen sulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: Chevron Research Company
    Inventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Robert L. Flanders