Patents Examined by Joseph W. Drodge
  • Patent number: 11655208
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a 1-carboxy-2-hydroxy-3-iminopropane and an extraction method thereof, and belongs to the technical fields of food, health food and medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiulan Sun, Yongli Ye, Qianqian Hong, Deping Xu, Yinzhi Zhang, Shuxiang Geng
  • Patent number: 11654378
    Abstract: A method of preparing a Senna obtusifolia seed extract rich in anthraquinones and a galactomannan extract includes the following steps: (1) crushing Senna obtusifolia seeds into a Senna obtusifolia seed powder; (2) extracting the Senna obtusifolia seed powder with 40-85% ethanol, filtering to obtain an extract solution and a residue; (3) concentrating the extract solution under vacuum to obtain a concentrated extract solution, spray-drying the concentrated extract solution to obtain the Senna obtusifolia seed extract; (4) extracting the residue with membrane filtered water, conducting a centrifugation to obtain a supernatant; (5) adding ammonium sulfate and ethanol to the supernatant to form a two-phase aqueous system, collecting a bottom layer of the two-phase aqueous system; and (6) conducting an ultrafiltration of the bottom layer with a cut-off molecular weight of 50 k-200 k to obtain a galactomannan extract solution, drying the galactomannan extract solution under vacuum to obtain the galactomannan extra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HENAN ZHONGDA HENGYUAN BIOTECHNOLOGY STOCK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sujing Gu, Ziheng Jin, Yanjun Wen, Linzheng Li
  • Patent number: 11655162
    Abstract: A method of removing boron from water to be treated includes subjecting the water to be treated to reverse osmosis membrane treatment, subjecting at least part of permeated water after the reverse osmosis membrane treatment to cation-removing treatment, and measuring a concentration of boron in the resulting permeated water after the cation-removing treatment, in which a measured value for the concentration of boron is used to regulate at least one of: (a) the recovery rate of water to be treated in the above reverse osmosis membrane treatment, (b) the temperature of the water to be treated, (c) the pH of the water to be treated, (d) the supply pressure of the water to be treated, which pressure is applied to the reverse osmosis membrane during the reverse osmosis membrane treatment, and (e) when the reverse osmosis membrane used for the reverse osmosis membrane treatment should be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Nakamura, Chika Kemmochi
  • Patent number: 11648569
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use for ore beneficiation, of at least one derivative of alkoxylated (polyester)amine. The present invention also relates to the flotation pulp and the tailings comprising said product useful for ore beneficiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Eric Jorda, Alain Baloche, Nathalie Gibert, Isabelle Birken, Gilles Barreto, Jean-Paul Gamet
  • Patent number: 11649183
    Abstract: A water treatment plant includes a central monitoring device, a control device, a control device, and a computation unit, and causes a water treatment apparatus and a water treatment apparatus to execute water treatment. The central monitoring device monitors the water treatment apparatus and the water treatment apparatus. The control device performs a first control for the water treatment apparatus. The control device performs a second control for the water treatment apparatus. The computation unit is located outside the central monitoring device and performs a first computation related to the first control using a first calculation model generated by a first machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Natsumi Hatta, Takushi Kawada, Go Wakamatsu, Kenta Shimoda, Nozomu Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 11642447
    Abstract: A reverse osmosis (RO) system is described that is connectable to a dialysis machine and is capable of using heated purified water to clean and disinfect an external connection section or portion disposed between the RO system and the dialysis unit (or any other external heat tolerant device) without forming a closed loop system between both systems before and during a heat forward process. This can be accomplished without the need for direct/indirect or wired/wireless communication with the dialysis unit or the need to introduce a chemical cleaner or process that would require further rinsing after chemical disinfection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Clinton W. Hulme
  • Patent number: 11642608
    Abstract: A method for preparing a Hovenia dulcis Thunb extract rich in dihydromyricetin includes the following steps: (1) crushing Hovenia dulcis Thunb seeds to obtain a Hovenia dulcis Thunb powder; (2) adding a 10-95% ethanol solution in an amount of 3-15 times of an amount of the Hovenia dulcis Thunb powder, stirring and extracting at 20° C.-80° C. twice; (3) filtering to obtain an extract solution; (4) concentrating the extract solution by evaporating ethanol under reduced pressure to obtain a crude extract, the crude extract having a solid content of 10%-40%; (5) placing the crude extract at ?20° C. to 8° C. for 0.5 to 12 hours; (6) centrifuging the crude extract to obtain a supernatant; and (7) spray-drying the supernatant to obtain the Hovenia dulcis Thunb extract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HENAN ZHONGDA HENGYUAN BIOTECHNOLOGY STOCK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziheng Jin, Sujing Gu, Yanjun Wen, Linzheng Li
  • Patent number: 11643347
    Abstract: An aeration diffuser system includes an air inlet conduit defining an orifice, an air plenum coupled to the air inlet conduit at the orifice, such that the air plenum and the air inlet conduit are in fluid communication, a diffuser secured to a top of the air plenum, and a plurality of pressure transducers including a first pressure transducer at least partially located inside the air inlet conduit, and a second pressure transducer at least partially located inside the air plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Xylem Water Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: David Lynn Phillips, Jeffrey Daniel Lopes, Don Jones
  • Patent number: 11639298
    Abstract: A water purifier is provided. The water purifier includes a raw water flow path provided to introduce raw water from an outside, a clean water flow path connected to the raw water flow path, pre-treatment filters arranged in parallel on the clean water flow path to filter the raw water, and a water purifying filter arranged on the clean water flow path to receive clean water discharged from the pre-treatment filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungha Park, Jongho Lee, Yeonwoo Cho, Sungpil Choi
  • Patent number: 11633698
    Abstract: A system, method and device are disclosed for bio-processing a feed stream and providing a constant output by operating a continuous single-pass tangential-flow process. The single-pass process provides high conversion concentration while operating at relatively low feed flow rates, and the process can also be used to provide constant output diafiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SPF INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Gaston de los Reyes, Leon Mir
  • Patent number: 11627750
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extracting mycotoxins from grain and other food products or from feed and its subsequent quantification. Fields of application are the food industry, the animal feed industry or biotechnology. The objective of the present invention is to develop an extraction method with which it is possible to uniformly extract mycotoxins with different dissolving properties. It was found that with the aid of aqueous, buffered naphthyl and/or phenyl compounds or their heterocyclical analogues, both hydrophobic and hydrophilic mycotoxins can be extracted. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the buffered solutions of naphthyl and/or phenyl compounds and/or their heterocyclical analogues, which carry at least one sulphonic acid or at least one carbonate acid group, are brought into contact with the grain or other food products or animal feed, the aqueous solution is then separated and the content of the extracted mycotoxins in the aqueous solution is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: R-BIOPHARM AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Johannes Winkle, Dirk Blödorn, Kholoud Zaid, Markus Lacorn
  • Patent number: 11623215
    Abstract: Filtration apparatus for the assay of biological and biochemical reactants, for example, is provided and includes a substrate such as a plate having one or more wells open at each end, and a porous membrane positioned in each well forming a discrete filtering area. The filtration apparatus includes a seal that is in a compressible relationship with the face of the porous membrane, the surface of the compression element, and the well wall. Each well includes a compression element, such as an internal well insert or sleeve, which compresses the seal so that the seal contacts the membrane face, the surface of the compression element, and the well wall in a liquid-tight manner. The compression element may be configured so that it is fixed in the well such as by an interference fit with the well wall or by bonding to a surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip Clark, Kurt E. Greenizen, John Doyle
  • Patent number: 11618698
    Abstract: A waste fluid treatment apparatus includes a sedimentation tank that stores the processing waste fluid with the processing debris contained therein, an inflow port provided on the sedimentation tank for introduction of the processing waste fluid into the sedimentation tank, an acidification unit configured to acidify the processing waste fluid to be introduced from the inflow port into the sedimentation tank, whereby the processing debris is allowed to settle at a higher rate compared with a rate at which the processing debris would settle if the processing waste water is neutral, and an outflow port provided on the sedimentation tank for discharge of acidic supernatant that is obtained by allowing the processing debris in the processing waste fluid to settle in the sedimentation tank from the sedimentation tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Takenouchi, Hiroyuki Kashiwagi, Jun Suwano
  • Patent number: 11612832
    Abstract: An extracting apparatus includes: a first phase transition section that causes a phase transition of an extraction solvent from a gas to a liquid; a second phase transition section that causes a phase transition of the extraction solvent from a liquid to a gas; a treatment tank that stores a treated material, and receives an inflow of the extraction solvent that has been liquefied in the first phase transition section; a first valve that is provided between the second phase transition section and the treatment tank; and a second valve that is provided between the first phase transition section and the treatment tank. The second phase transition section is connected with a recovery valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sano, Sachio Sekiya
  • Patent number: 11612831
    Abstract: Devices and methods for the high-pressure treatment of bulk material by extraction and/or impregnation. The bulk material is arranged in the interior volume of a pressure vessel device and is treated at a high pressure while sealed off from the surroundings. The high-pressure treatment is performed batchwise in a closed system in the pressure vessel device in a pressure-tight fashion. The bulk material is fed batchwise to the interior volume with the pressure vessel device closed and being arranged on at least one treatment level and, after the high-pressure treatment has occurred, being discharged batchwise from the interior volume with the pressure vessel device closed. The invention furthermore relates to the use of a supporting tray module with at least one treatment level for the high-pressure treatment in a closed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignees: UHDE HIGH PRESSURE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Volkmar Steinhagen, Ansgar Herber
  • Patent number: 11612897
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for selectively recovering a sulphide mineral from an ore applying a collector being an alkylated triphenyl phosphorothionate. Further, the present invention is directed to the use of said alkylated triphenyl phosphorothionates to separate a target mineral from iron sulphide and/or silicate gangue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Adrian Mauricio Villanueva Berindoague, Alexej Michailovski, Scott Alexander Dickie, Daniel Chipfunhu
  • Patent number: 11608282
    Abstract: Provided are hybrid electrochemical and membrane-based systems for removing silica from water stream to achieve ultra-pure water. The silica concentration of a feed water stream may dictate the most effective and economical variation of disclosed hybrid processes to use. For example, for a feed water stream having a silica concentration of 1-30 ppm, a hybrid system for treating the feed water includes an electrodialysis reversal unit, the electrodialysis reversal unit comprising an inlet stream and a product outlet stream; a reverse osmosis unit, the reverse osmosis unit comprising an inlet stream and a product outlet stream, wherein the inlet stream of the reverse osmosis unit comprises the product outlet stream of the electrodialysis reversal unit; and an electrodeionization unit, the electrodeionization unit comprising an inlet stream and a product outlet stream, wherein the inlet stream of the electrodeionization unit comprises the product outlet stream of the reverse osmosis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Imperio Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Michael James Connor, Jr., Amanda Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11607696
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating non-sulfidic ores with a collector composition containing a primary and a secondary collector, wherein the primary collector is selected from the group of amphoteric and anionic surface active compounds and the secondary collector is an ethoxylated fatty acid wherein the average degree of ethoxylation is higher than 0 and less than 2, to collector compositions suitable for use in the above process, and to pulp comprising such collector compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Natalija Smolko-Schvarzmayr, Göran Thomas Ljungdahl, Johan Ekeroth, Åsa Hele'n Jeanette Kleberger Hellström, Emelie Svensson
  • Patent number: 11602701
    Abstract: A method for extracting and isolating terpenes and aromatic compounds from Cannabis plant material by the steps of grinding the cannabis plant material to obtain a ground cannabis, performing a CO2 supercritical extraction upon a first portion of the ground cannabis, wherein said supercritical extraction is performed at temperature below freezing, between ?30 to 0 centigrade, for a period of 3 to 5 hours, at between 1000-1300 psi, performing a steam distillation upon a second portion of the ground cannabis, performing a butane extraction upon a third portion of the ground cannabis, wherein the butane extraction is performed at a temperature between ?30 to 0 centigrade, performing an alcohol extraction upon a fourth portion of the ground cannabis, wherein the alcohol extraction is performed at a temperature between ?30 to 0 centigrade, performing a maceration upon a fifth portion of the ground cannabis, wherein the maceration is performed with coconut oil at a temperature of between 40-70 centigrade, combining
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: XERBAL USA, LLC.
    Inventor: Peter Matravers
  • Patent number: 11598180
    Abstract: The invention discloses an experimental device for natural gas hydrate solid-state fluidized mining and crushing, the experimental device comprising a power liquid supply module, a hydrate suction module, a pipeline conveying module, a hydrate fluidized crushing module, a secondary processing module and an experimental data information collection and processing module. An experimental method for the experimental device comprises: turning on the power liquid supply module, the hydrate suction module, the pipeline conveying module, the hydrate fluidized crushing module and the secondary processing module, and collecting pressure and flow data at a plurality of locations by the experimental data information collection and processing module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guorong Wang, Shouwei Zhou, Qingyou Liu, Qingping Li, Qiang Fu, Yufa He, Pu Yang, Lin Zhong