Patents Examined by Carib A Oquendo
  • Patent number: 12377452
    Abstract: A method for extracting and separating salt alkali from saline alkali soil and soil improvement is disclosed. A foundation pit, square convex edge and cylindrical partition are arranged on a saline alkali land. Nitric or phosphoric acid solution is added to obtain a saline alkali pool. A trench is set around, and/or, a cylinder is set in the center of saline alkali pool. The evaporating material is prepared from vermiculite, laid on plastic wrapping material, and/or added into the cylinder. The salt alkali is precipitated and enriched through natural evaporation. The evaporating material enriched with salt alkali is taken out to be dissolved, separated and washed to obtain saline alkali solution and vermiculite or evaporating material. The vermiculite material is returned for reuse, and the above process is repeated. Alkali solution and intercalation agent are added into saline alkali solution to react and crystallize to obtain functional materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Tarim University
    Inventors: Weiliang Tian, Baolin Zhu, Feng Ren, Jinpeng Hou, Zhong Li, Yiwen Shen, Huiping Ding, Xiaodong Lei
  • Patent number: 12371868
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an eco-friendly high-performance all-solid-waste soil-binding material and a preparation method and use method thereof, and relates to the field of weak soil solidifying agents. The eco-friendly high-performance all-solid-waste soil-binding material includes the following components in parts by weight: a slag powder: 30 parts to 60 parts, a fly ash: 10 parts to 25 parts, a steel-slag powder: 10 parts to 30 parts, an alkaline residue powder: 5 parts to 15 parts, and a lithium-battery solid waste: 5 parts to 15 parts. The implementation of the present disclosure can improve a solidification strength of the soil-binding material, reduce a cost of the soil-binding material, and makes the soil-binding material eco-friendly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Foshan Transportation Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guodong Zeng, Ben'an Shu, Tengyu Yang, Yanfei Ren, Maocong Zhu, Keyi Qiu, Bing Qiu, Jiangang Chen, Junhao Lin
  • Patent number: 12359538
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and a system for sequestering carbon-containing materials in underground wells. An example method includes: obtaining a material comprising a carbon-containing liquid; optionally testing the material for compatibility with an underground well; optionally adjusting a property of the material to improve the compatibility; and providing the material for injection into the underground well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Charm Industrial, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun Meehan, Kelly Hering, Peter Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 12359566
    Abstract: An apparatus for excavating a tunnel includes a cutting wheel equipped with measuring modules of sensor means on its cutting wheel face in order to directly sample the consistency of the material present between the cutting wheel face and a tunnel face by recording different types of measured values characteristic of this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: HERRENKNECHT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Gerhard Wehrmeyer, Linus Möller, Werner Burger, Andreas Kassel
  • Patent number: 12352001
    Abstract: A vibratory hammer (1) for driving or retracting sheet piles, pipes or other elements into or from the soil, comprises a vibration case (2). A clamp (17) is attached to the vibration case (2). The clamp (17) comprises gripping jaws (18) for gripping the sheet piles or other elements. A yoke (3) is connected to the vibration case (2) via one or more vibration damping elements for suspending the vibratory hammer (1) from a hoist cable or the like. In the vibration case (2) an even number of pairwise arranged eccenter weights are rotationally mounted. The vibratory hammer comprises at least one synchronous electric motor (13A) for driving the rotation of the eccenter weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Electric Foundation Equipment B.V.
    Inventors: Daniël De Jager, Adis Bajric, Joannes Christoffel Werri, Alexander Jorissen
  • Patent number: 12320244
    Abstract: Methods and systems for storing hydrogen in a salt cavern are provided. Particularly, the storage processes involve: placing the storage facility into service and subsequently creating additional cavern capacity; using hydrogen as a protective blanket during solution mining; using a predetermined cylindrical region within the salt formation as a sufficiently impermeable barrier; and maintaining cavern integrity by maintaining a predetermined quantity of hydrogen within the predetermined cylindrical region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: NeuVentus, LLC
    Inventors: David Sean Branch, Diego Miguel Rubio, Samuel William Porter
  • Patent number: 12318825
    Abstract: A soil remediation system and a soil remediation method. The soil remediation system comprises a heating unit (5) and a pumping/injecting device for pumping underground water in soil and injecting a remediation agent into the soil. The soil remediation method comprises the following treatments: heating soil to be remediated; pumping underground water; and injecting a remediation agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: BCEG ENVIRONMENT REMEDIATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Peng Liu, Yunxiao Wei, Shupeng Li, Jiexi Zhang, Yilan Xing, Dixiang Wang, Lin Xie, Bo Li, Lina Wang
  • Patent number: 12320088
    Abstract: A connection device for fastening two expanded cellular confinement structures includes: an insertion member; an integral shank extending perpendicular from the insertion member; and an integral handle member extending perpendicular from the shank at an end of the shank remote from the insertion member. One or more barbs may project from the insertion member. The device can have a washer section between the handle member and insertion member. The handle can be curved, or it can be in the shape of a polygon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Reynolds Presto Products Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Dickey, Bryan Scott Wedin, Cory Scott Schneider, Katie Lynn Bouchard, Joseph Paul George, Jennifer Ann Vander Linden
  • Patent number: 12318824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of contaminated soil remediation, and in particular to an emergency disposal method and system suitable for contaminated soil, and the system includes a pretreatment unit, a feed weighing unit, a giant-grain soil remediation unit, a fine-grain soil removal unit, a fine-grain soil deep remediation unit, a coarse-grain soil enhanced remediation unit, a waste liquid treatment unit and a dispensing unit. According to the emergency disposal method and system, which takes the traditional leaching remediation technology as a main line and integrates a variety of technical processes with high remediation efficiency, good remediation effects on the soil of different soil types, different contamination types and different contamination levels can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaoyong Liao, You Li, Congmao Wang, Hongying Cao, Chao Xiao
  • Patent number: 12320080
    Abstract: In a self-propelled construction machine (1), in particular recycling machine or stabilizing machine, for working a ground (20), comprising at least one machine frame, a working device (10) for working the ground, which is supported on the machine frame (2), wherein the working device is at least partially enclosed by a housing, wherein the housing comprises a plate each at the front and rear end as seen in the main direction of travel that closes off the mixing chamber of the housing towards the front and the rear, respectively, wherein the front plate is adjustable by means of at least one front adjustment device and the rear plate is adjustable by means of at least one rear adjustment device, wherein, in a first working operation, the rear plate as seen in the main direction of travel is supported on the ground in a floating position, it is provided that in a second working operation, the front plate as seen in the main direction of travel is supported on the ground in a floating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Menzenbach
  • Patent number: 12312760
    Abstract: A segmented wall system includes a first course extending in a first direction and comprising a first wall block and a second wall block. A rear side of the first wall block is connected to a first side of a first tail block and a rear side of the second wall block is connected to a first side of a second tail block. The segmented wall system further includes a second course stacked on the first course. The second course includes a third wall block having a rear side connected to a first side of a third tail block. The rear side of the third tail block has a width in the first direction that is equal to or greater than a width in the first direction of the rear side of the third wall block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Keystone Retaining Wall Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Lundell
  • Patent number: 12297719
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and systems for injecting and/or sequestering carbon-containing materials in underground wells, and, in some examples, for using the carbon-containing materials for enhanced oil recovery and well abandonment. An example method includes: obtaining a mixture including biochar particles and a liquid; and providing the mixture for injection into an underground well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Charm Industrial, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun Kinetic, Kelly Kinetic, Peter Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 12297156
    Abstract: Emulsion explosives with gas bubbles that are resistant to in-borehole migration or coalescence are disclosed herein. Such emulsions can be sensitized by mechanically introducing gas bubbles into the emulsion. Gassing can be performed at any of multiple points from initial formation of the emulsion to delivery of the emulsion into the borehole. Resistance to gas bubble migration and coalescence can be achieved by homogenization, without the need for bubble stabilization agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Dyno Nobel Inc.
    Inventors: John Halander, Casey L. Nelson, Jeremiah R. Beagley, Cornelis Kome
  • Patent number: 12286866
    Abstract: Described is a method for enhanced carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration in geological formations. The method includes dissolving CO2 in a low salinity fluid to form a CO2-brine solution. The low salinity fluid includes sodium (Na+) ions and sulfate (SO42?) ions. The CO2-brine solution is injected into a geological formation, and the CO2 reacts with the geological formation to produce solid carbonate minerals for CO2 sequestration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Zuhair AlYousif, Subhash C. Ayirala, Muhammad M. Almajid, Moataz Abu AlSaud
  • Patent number: 12280409
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a barrier paper comprising a paper coated with polyvinyl alcohol composition, and a method for reducing diffusion of soil fumigant using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Morikawa, Pablo Garcia, Levi Neufeld
  • Patent number: 12276197
    Abstract: A tunnel excavation device includes a front body portion configured to support a cutter head and a rear body portion. The rear body portion includes a gripper carrier and a gripper portion. The gripper carrier is disposed in a rear of the front body portion. The gripper portion is provided on the gripper carrier. The gripper portion includes a groove portion and a wheel portion. The groove portion is formed in a recess shape toward the rear main body. The wheel portion is disposed in the groove portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Sekiyama, Hiroshi Asano, Taku Arakawa, Shinichi Terada, Eiichi Morioka
  • Patent number: 12276443
    Abstract: A system and method for geothermal resource development which comprises generating a plunging fracture at a wellbore using a dense fracture fluid. In one embodiment a compliant elastic material may be pushed to the propagating tips of fractures where they screen out the fracture tip and stop fracture propagation. The method may further comprise injecting additional fluid to increase the net pressure in the fracture, thereby increasing the width of the fracture. The system may further comprise providing a heat exchanger disposed about the bottom of the wellbore or providing an apparatus for circulating water into the fracture in order to address natural convection occurring in the fracture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Quidnet Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard K. Schmidt, Aaron H. Mandell
  • Patent number: 12270162
    Abstract: A road milling cutting disc includes a support body in a disc shape, the support body includes a circumferential surface and a bottom surface which are arranged sequentially in that order from top to bottom, the bottom surface is configured to be arranged facing toward a road surface, the circumferential surface surrounds the bottom surface and is connected to the bottom surface along an edge of the bottom surface, the bottom surface is provided with multiple first cutting teeth around a rotational axis of the support body, and the circumferential surface is provided with multiple second cutting teeth around the rotational axis of the support body. Problems of cutting and flattening protruding rocks on the road surface are solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BROWN STONE TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD
    Inventor: Xiaojian Chen
  • Patent number: 12264447
    Abstract: A retaining wall system includes at least one wall block, at least one ground-stabilizing base body supporting the at least one wall block, a fastening body under the at least one ground-stabilizing base body, and at least one tension link attached to the at least one wall block and to the fastening body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Robert Gordon McIntosh
  • Patent number: 12258862
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of disaster model experiment of underground engineering, and more particularly to an experimental system for surrounding rock crack evolution and water inrush disaster change in a tunnel excavation of a near-covered karst cave. The experimental system includes a base, an upper crossbeam, standing columns, an experimental cabin, guide rails, a tunnel excavation device and an experimental control system. By setting a tunnel excavation device instead of the traditional manual excavation experimental system, the step-by-step excavation of the tunnel is realized. A camera inside the tunnel mold collects real-time images of the whole process of tunnel excavation. The front side plate is separated from the whole experimental cabin, such that the deformation and damage of the front side of the physical model can be directly observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Linyi University
    Inventors: Hailong Wang, Chuanyang Jia, Guibin Zhang, Xiaoyuan Song, Xizhen Sun, Keming Liu, Xianbin Yu, Wei Li