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).
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Publication number: 20240004310Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: William Blanton, Deepak Selvanathan, Shakul Tandon, Martin N. Weiss
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Patent number: 5439583Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 1993Date of Patent: August 8, 1995Assignee: Chevron Research and Technology CompanyInventors: Richard C. Robinson, Robert L. Jacobson, Harris E. Kluksdahl, William A. Blanton, Dennis L. Holtermann, Leslie A. Field
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Patent number: 5089461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 4, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Alan W. Klaassen
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Patent number: 4992161Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 1988Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Alan W. Klaassen
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Patent number: 4521389Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 1983Date of Patent: June 4, 1985Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., William L. Dimpel
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Patent number: 4497598Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 19, 1982Date of Patent: February 5, 1985Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton
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Patent number: 4434147Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 1982Date of Patent: February 28, 1984Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William L. Dimpfl, William A. Blanton
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Patent number: 4332672Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 1978Date of Patent: June 1, 1982Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Robert L. Flanders
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Patent number: 4325926Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 7, 1980Date of Patent: April 20, 1982Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4309309Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 1980Date of Patent: January 5, 1982Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4290878Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 1980Date of Patent: September 22, 1981Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4259176Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 1979Date of Patent: March 31, 1981Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Robert L. Flanders
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Patent number: 4252635Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 1980Date of Patent: February 24, 1981Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4243556Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 1978Date of Patent: January 6, 1981Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4239742Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 1978Date of Patent: December 16, 1980Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventor: William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4204945Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 1978Date of Patent: May 27, 1980Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: Robert L. Flanders, William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4204944Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 1978Date of Patent: May 27, 1980Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: Robert L. Flanders, William A. Blanton, Jr.
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Patent number: 4166787Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 1977Date of Patent: September 4, 1979Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Joseph Jaffe
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Patent number: 4165275Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 1977Date of Patent: August 21, 1979Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Donald W. Blakely
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Patent number: 4152298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 1978Date of Patent: May 1, 1979Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: William A. Blanton, Jr., Robert L. Flanders