Patents Examined by Cephia D. Toomer
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Patent number: 11866669Abstract: A process of making a fuel product from a non-combustible high protein organic material such as a biological by-product or waste material. The moisture content of the high protein organic material is mechanically reduced and dried to reduce the moisture content to less than ten percent (10%). The high protein organic material is pulverized to a particle size of less than about 2 mm. The high protein organic waste material is fed into a combustion chamber and separated during combustion such as by spraying high protein organic waste material within the combustion chamber. Temperature and combustion reactions within the combustion chamber are controlled by controlling the moisture in the combustion atmosphere and energy injections at or downstream of the combustion chamber. The concentration of protein thermal decomposition by-products, temperature, and residence time and/or additions of energy plasma within the combustion chamber environment are controlled to degrade hazardous polyfluoro compounds.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: AKBEV GROUP, LLCInventors: Geoffrey L Larson, Curtis Holmes, Brandon Michael Smith, David D. Wilson
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Patent number: 11845906Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1). C6H6-n—[O—R1—O—CH2—R2—CH2—R3]n??(1) (in the formula (1), n is an integer of 2 or 3, R1 is any one of —CH2CH2—, —CH2CH2CH2— and —CH2CH(OH)CH2—, R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R3 is —OCH2CH(OH)CH2O(CH2)mOH (m in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4)).Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya Fukumoto, Daisuke Yagyu, Tsuyoshi Kato, Katsumi Murofushi
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Patent number: 11846218Abstract: A process is provided for commissioning a particulate filter for the exhaust system of a device powered in whole or in part by an internal combustion engine. The process improves the filtration efficiency of an uncarbonized or decarbonized particulate filter through a single deposition of metal oxide particles via a gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Intineum International Ltd.Inventors: David R. Coultas, Amy J. Challinor, David Jilbert
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Patent number: 11840677Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lubricant composition including a base oil, a thickener and a thickener supplement, and a method of manufacturing the same. The lubricant composition of the present disclosure is effective at improving performance at high-temperature by maintaining the evaporation amount and friction characteristics even at high temperatures, thus inhibiting oil contamination of powertrain parts and the like and maintaining sticking phenomenon even in a high-temperature environment, thereby increasing the durability of parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Jae Hyeon Kim
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Patent number: 11820955Abstract: Compositions, including dispersants, derived from substituted succinic anhydrides and aromatic polyamines. Methods for making compositions, the methods including contacting a substituted succinic anhydride and an aromatic polyamine. Lubricants that include a composition derived from a substituted succinic anhydride and an aromatic polyamine. Methods for improving soot performance.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: International Petroleum Products & Additives Company, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Crow, Xingguo R. Chen, Troy R. Haynes, Brennan William Balzer, Brian Joseph Cereghino
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Patent number: 11821823Abstract: A method and a system for creating a reference standard for hydrogen sulfide concentrations in crude oil are described. The method includes receiving a volume of crude oil in a vessel. A hydrogen sulfide gas is flowed from a pressurized gas cylinder to the vessel to form a hydrogen sulfide gas-crude oil mixture. The hydrogen sulfide gas continues to flow from the pressurized gas cylinder to the vessel at a set pressure for a predetermined time to adjust the hydrogen sulfide concentration in the hydrogen sulfide gas-crude oil mixture to a hydrogen sulfide threshold concentration. The flow of the hydrogen sulfide gas into the vessel is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Radwan Bakor, Anas S. Rushaid
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Patent number: 11814597Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of oxidized wood products, comprising step a) reacting chips of one or more wood products in a basic solution at a pH between 8 and 14 under an oxygen atmosphere at a pressure of at least 0.1 MPa, or at least 0.9 MPa. A copper catalyst may be used in the process.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Organofuel Sweden ABInventors: Luca Deiana, Armando Cordova, Ismail Ibrahem
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Patent number: 11795410Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of esters of octahydro-4,7-methano-1H-indene-5-methanol (TCD-M) or -dimethanol (TCD-DM) and aliphatic C2-C18 monocarboxylic acids as lubricants in low temperature applications. In addition, the present invention relates to low-temperature lubricant compositions comprising said esters.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Jens Kubitschke, Horst Lange, Christoph Balzarek, Joachim Reimer, Gina Prüss
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Patent number: 11788030Abstract: In an aspect, a method is disclosed that includes contacting a composition with an aqueous solution to yield a mixture, where the composition includes one or more of animal fats, animal oils, plant fats, plant oils, vegetable fats, vegetable oils, greases, and used cooking oil, about 5 wt.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: REG Synthetic Fuels, LLCInventors: Ramin Abhari, Martin Haverly, Trevor Fisher
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Patent number: 11788024Abstract: A fuel emulsion for powering a diesel engine contains water, a fuel, and an emulsifier package which contains a quaternary ammonium surfactant. A method for powering a diesel engine with the fuel emulsion involves preparing the fuel emulsion by emulsifying a fuel and water in the presence of the emulsifier package. An emulsifier package for emulsifying a fuel and water contains a quaternary ammonium surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant, which is an alkoxylate. The quaternary ammonium surfactant is obtainable by reacting a quaternizable nitrogen compound containing at least one quaternizable, especially tertiary, amino group with a quaternizing agent; which converts the at least one quaternizable, especially tertiary, amino group to a quaternary ammonium group, where the quaternizing agent is a hydrocarbyl epoxide in combination with a free hydrocarbyl-substituted polycarboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Marcel Harhausen, Thorsten Schoeppe
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Patent number: 11788026Abstract: The present invention provides a hydraulic fluid comprising: (a) 40 to 2000 ppm by weight in terms of nitrogen content of a corrosion inhibiting agent which is one or more compounds of formula (I): and/or tribologically acceptable salts thereof, wherein in formula (I): each R1 is independently a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, x is 0 to 4, each of R2 and R3 is independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R4 is —NR5R6 or —OR7, each of R5 and R6 is independently an aryl group comprising 6 to 14 carbon atoms, optionally substituted with one or more hydrocarbyl groups comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R7 is a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and in each of said hydrocarbyl groups containing 2 or more carbon atoms, the carbon chain may, independently, optionally be interrupted by one or more ether groups; (b) 0.1 to 1% by weight of an ashless dispersant; and (c) a major amount of a base oil.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Helen Dyer, Jason Bell
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Patent number: 11767482Abstract: High quality coke products made in horizontal ovens such as heat recovery, non-recovery or Thompson ovens from an optimized coal blend. The coke products have unique properties such as an oblong shape and improved Coke Strength after Reaction (CSR) and Coke Reactivity Index (CRI) properties.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLCInventors: John Francis Quanci, Jonathan Perkins
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Patent number: 11753276Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator load bearing member includes a plurality of load bearing cords and a woven fabric including a plurality of warp yarns along a length of the load bearing member and a plurality of weft yarns transverse to the length of the load bearing member. The woven fabric includes a central portion and lateral edge portions extending along the length of the load bearing member. The central portion includes the load bearing cords interlaced with the woven fabric. The lateral edge portions each include terminal ends of the weft yarns. The central portion has a first plurality of warp yarns situated between laterally outermost ones of the cords. The lateral edge portions have a second plurality of warp yarns between the laterally outermost ones of the cords and the terminal ends of the weft yarns.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Michael Paul Humbert, Scott Alan Eastman, Daniel A. Mosher, Wenping Zhao
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Patent number: 11753598Abstract: A process and system for producing an engineered fuel product that meets customer specifications for composition and combustion characteristics is provided. The engineered fuel product is preferably a high-BTU, alternative fuel that burns cleaner than coal or petroleum coke (petcoke) and has significantly reduced NOx, SO2 and GHG emissions.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: WM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, L.L.C.Inventors: Richard A. Toberman, Thomas F. Perry
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Patent number: 11753599Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for improving phosphorus retention and improving antiwear performance in an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle, comprising lubricating the internal combustion engine of the hybrid vehicle with a lubricating oil composition comprising: greater than 50 wt. % of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; and an amount of one or more zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate compound(s) sufficient to provide: from about 100 ppmw phosphorus to about 1000 ppmw phosphorus, based on a total weight of the lubricating oil composition; and from about 10 ppmw zinc to about 1200 ppmw zinc, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Huifang Shao, Mark Devlin, Paul Ransom, Guillaume Carpentier
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Patent number: 11746468Abstract: A defibrating method includes the steps of: preparing a material which contains fibers and a compound represented by the following formula (1); and defibrating the material. RO(0)m(PO)nH??(1) In the formula, R represents an alkyl or an alkenyl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms or an alkylaryl group including an alkyl group which has 4 to 20 carbon atoms, E represents an ethylene group, P represents a propylene group, m and n each represent an average number of added moles, m represents a numerical value of 0 to 20, n represents a numerical value of 1 to 10, and (EO)m(PO)n represents a block addition structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Aoyama
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Patent number: 11739284Abstract: A composite material comprising a plurality of polymer chains fixed to a base and swelled with a mixture which contains a salt and a hydrogen bond-donating compound and has a melting point maintained at 100° C. or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: NISSHINBO HOLDINGS INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Satoshi Kubota, Gen Masuda, Takaya Sato, Hiroyuki Arafune
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Patent number: 11730207Abstract: The present disclosure is a sock that has a leg that extends up a person's calf and a foot integral with the leg that cover's the person's foot. The sock further has a footie coupled to the foot, coupled partially up the sides of the foot, coupled partially to the heel turn, and coupled around the toes, the footie comprising a coarse material and configured to receive water such that when the sock is worn, the coarse material sloughs off dry skin, dead skin, callouses and removes toxins from the person's feet.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventor: Susan Jones
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Patent number: 11732207Abstract: A lubricating oil composition for an internal combustion engine has a HTHS viscosity at 150° C. of 2.55-2.84 mPa·s and includes: (A) a lubricating base oil including (a) mineral base oil(s) and/or (a) synthetic base oil(s), and having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 3.8-4.6 mm2/s; (B) 1000-2000 mass ppm, in terms of metal content, of a metallic detergent including (a) metal salicylate detergent(s), and delivering ?10 mmol/kg of total salicylate soap base per kilogram of the composition; (C) 1.0 to 4.0 mass % of a comb-shaped poly(meth)acrylate having a Mw of 350,000-1,000,000 and a PDI of ?4.0; and (D) 100-1000 mass ppm, in terms of nitrogen, of a succinimide dispersant including (i) (a) non-modified succinimide dispersant(s) and/or (ii) (a) boric acid-modified succinimide dispersant(s), wherein the (i) and the (ii), in total, deliver ?70 mass % of total nitrogen content of the component (D).Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Nakazawa
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Patent number: 11732205Abstract: A quaternary ammonium compound of formula (I): wherein R0, R1, R2 and R3 is each independently an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group, X is a linking group, R4 is an optionally substituted alkylene group, R5 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group, and n is 0 or a positive integer, provided that n is not 0 when R5 is hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Innospec LimitedInventors: Matthew Petts, Katherine Le Manquais, Alan Norman Ross