Patents Examined by Lessanework Seifu
  • Patent number: 12291467
    Abstract: A system including a tube for transferring fluid, a fiber optic cable that extends through an interior of the tube, and a light source configured to project high intensity narrow spectrum light into the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Christopher Lane Bailey
  • Patent number: 12291460
    Abstract: A reaction system for preparing soda ash and a reaction method are provided in the present invention. The reaction system includes: a carbonization tower, a reaction crystallization tower, and a first micro-interface unit. A material outlet is arranged at the bottom of the carbonization tower, and the material outlet is connected to the reaction crystallization tower. The first micro-interface unit includes a first micro-interface generator and a second micro-interface generator, the first micro-interface generator is arranged below the liquid level in the carbonization tower, the second micro-interface generator is arranged above the first micro-interface generator, and a connecting pipe is arranged between the second micro-interface generator and the first micro-interface generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: NANJING INSTITUTE OF MICROINTERFACE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhibing Zhang, Lei Li, Haining Sun, Zheng Zhou, Fangyuan Ding, Huimin Qin, Qingdong Zhu, Quan Lu, Xiabing Li
  • Patent number: 12269004
    Abstract: A manufacturing facility (12) is provided. The manufacturing facility (12) includes one or more interconnectable modules (10). At least one of the one or more interconnectable modules (10) includes a housing (14) and a reactor (16) in 5 the housing (14). The housing (14) has at least one charging inlet (18) and at least one discharging outlet (20). The reactor (16) has at least one reactor inlet (22) coupled to the at least one charging inlet (18) of the housing (14) and at least one reactor outlet (24) coupled to the at least one discharging outlet (20) of the housing (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Jie Xiong Jonathan Yeo
  • Patent number: 12268799
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for purifying or disinfecting contaminated air in an environment comprising a filter stack comprising a HEPA filter coated with a nanopolymer configured to puncture virus particles, a light chamber comprising UVC light source and an ion generator, where in the device is configured to take in contaminated air at the top of the device and expel purified air downward and away from each end of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: IATRIXAIR, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Marc McConnaughey, Zuoyu Shi, Chang Chia Jung, Stephens A. Hutchcraft, III
  • Patent number: 12257372
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus, system, and methods, for the diffusing of a liquid composition that has an embedded receptacle. The supporting element for the embedded receptacle serves as the base for the apparatus may contain a light emitting diode that illuminates the components of the apparatus. The apparatus can handle various types of liquid compositions and could also be utilized to diffuse compositions containing oil, fragrances and/or cannabinoids such as cannabidiol or tetrahydrocannabinol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventors: Isaac Lekach, Sam Ristich
  • Patent number: 12240758
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods useful for providing one or more chemical compounds in a substantially pure form. In particular, the systems and methods can be configured for separation of carbon dioxide from a process stream, such as a process stream in a hydrogen production system. As such, the present disclosure can provide systems and method for production of hydrogen and/or carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Rafati, Rodney John Allam
  • Patent number: 12239950
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for nucleic acid synthesis. The method employs a device including at least one deprotection unit to carry out a step of deprotection, at least one coupling unit to carry out a step of coupling, at least one oxidation/thiolation unit to carry out a step of oxidation or thiolation, at least one capping unit to carry out a step of capping, and at least one washing unit to carry out a step of washing. A plurality of reaction vessels for nucleic acid synthesis are moved to the units in accord with a synthesis scheme for a desired nucleic acid sequence and at least two reaction vessels are simultaneously acted upon at several of the units in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Avecia, Inc.
    Inventor: Karsten Keller
  • Patent number: 12226763
    Abstract: A dense loading system with wave loader is a device intended to maximize and evenly distribute catalyst within a catalyst reactor. More specifically, the device provides a dense loading machine that uses air/nitrogen to propel catalysts within the space of a catalyst reactor. To accomplish this, the system includes a unique arrangement of components that utilizes a hybrid distribution of catalyst through a specifically shaped catalyst distribution disc. Further, the catalyst distribution disc is subjected to both pneumatic and rotational forces with the help of a sparger system and a motor system. In addition, the system provides a dense loading machine that may be operated manually or autonomously. Further, the device may load catalyst in radial waves, may achieve targeted area loading, and includes a gyroscopic auto alignment system for the catalyst distribution disc. Thus, the dense loading system that can efficiently and evenly distribute catalyst within a catalyst reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Catmasters, LLC
    Inventors: Emir Zahirovic, Marc Angelo Rogato, Richard Visscher
  • Patent number: 12220693
    Abstract: A reactor system and method for catalytic dehydrogenation of saturated C3-C6 hydrocarbons within a reactor placed within a reactor disengager, where the reactor is open at the bottom thereof and open to the disengager, and the exit riser from the reactor is not hard coupled to at least one downstream cyclone. This configuration permits controlling the amount of catalyst within the reactor by varying the level of catalyst in the reactor disengager outside the reactor and permits controlling total catalyst hold-up and/or weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) independently from catalyst flow from the catalyst regenerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLC
    Inventors: Rian Reyneke, Gautham Krishnaiah, Manoji Nagvekar, Mitchell Biondi, Steven Arthur Tragesser, Akhilesh Pratap, Froylan Guzman Calderon, Matthew James Griffiths, Christopher Brian Scharf
  • Patent number: 12208363
    Abstract: A remotely controllable sublimation apparatus that includes a crucible block adapted to retain a crucible containing a solid mixture comprising one or more radionuclides, a first heating block comprising one or more first heating elements configured to selectively generate heat having a first temperature sufficient to at least partially sublime the solid mixture, and a collection vessel coupled to the first heating block. The crucible block is movable, relative to the first heating block, between an open position and a closed positon. When the crucible block is in the closed position, the one or more first heating elements are configured to heat the crucible block to the first temperature, thereby heating the solid mixture and producing a vapor that is collected by the collection vessel and leaving a solid residue in the crucible that substantially consists only of the one or more radionuclides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: David Rotsch, Jerry A. Nolen, Jr., Sergey D. Chemerisov, James L Bailey, Ronald T. Kmak
  • Patent number: 12201738
    Abstract: This invention serves to repurpose existing ethylene oxide sterilization chambers utilizing a novel chemical means of sterilization. Ethylene oxide is a longstanding gaseous sterilant for medical devices but has increasing problems associated with its hazards. Ethylene oxide is a carcinogenic and explosive chemical, and its emissions can be very harmful and cause serious health risks. Due to this, the FDA and many medical device manufacturers are trying to reduce or eliminate the use of the gas. Chlorine dioxide gas is a nearly identical alternative mode of sterilization that is non-carcinogenic and non-explosive. If firms choose to eliminate the use of ethylene oxide but do not want to waste the capital expenditure on existing sterilizers, they can instead utilize the ethylene oxide-to-chlorine dioxide conversion system of the present invention and use an effective and environmentally friendly form of sterilization in a system they already possess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ClorDiSy Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Lorcheim, Paul Lorcheim, Kevin Lorcheim
  • Patent number: 12201756
    Abstract: A low temperature micro plasma ozone generating device for generating ozone by inhaling external air and reacting the sucked air with plasma. The low temperature micro plasma ozone generating device includes a main body having an accommodating space therein; an ozone generating module installed in an internal accommodation space of the main body to generate ozone; an external air supply line installed to be connected to the ozone generating module from an outside of the main body and configured to supply external air of the main body to an inside of the ozone generating module; an ozone discharge line installed to extend from the inside of the ozone generating module to the outside of the main body to discharge the ozone generated by the ozone generating module to the outside of the main body; and a cooling fan installed on one side of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CAST CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12194184
    Abstract: A decontamination device devised to accomplish decontamination with a proper amount of decontamination agent by employing a mist control mechanism to concentrate a mist for decontamination on the surface of an article to be conveyed, and to reduce duration of operations such as aeration increase efficiency of decontamination, and a pass box in which the decontamination device is disposed. The device also includes a mist supply means configured to convert a chemical for decontamination into the mist, and to supply the mist to the inside of a working chamber accommodating the article. The mist control mechanism includes vibration boards adjacent to internal wall surfaces of the working chamber, which are ultrasonically vibrated to generate sound flows from board surfaces by an ultrasound in the vertical direction. The mist supplied to the inside of the chamber is pressed by acoustic radiation pressure to be concentrated on external surfaces of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AIREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Yukihiro Yazaki, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo, Ayumi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12194185
    Abstract: A decontamination device configured to provide, on a short time scale, uniform decontamination of target articles without using expensive electron accelerators and to decontaminate such articles in large quantities. The device includes a device body composed of a decontamination region and an aeration region, a conveyance means for conveying an article, a mist supply means, a mist control means, and an aeration means. The mist supply means converts a decontamination agent into a corresponding mist and supplies the mist to the inside of the decontamination region. The mist control means includes vibration boards adjacent to internal wall surfaces of the decontamination region, and these boards are ultrasonically vibrated to generate sound flows from board surfaces by an ultrasound in the vertical direction. The mist inside the decontamination region is pressed by acoustic radiation to concentrate the mist on external surfaces of the article conveyed inside the decontamination region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: AIREX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawasaki, Daisuke Kakuda, Jun Masudome, Haruka Futamura, Yukihiro Yazaki, Tsukasa Kitano, Zhiqiang Guo, Ayumi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 12196374
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of compressing a gas is provided. The system includes a gas storage tank and a liquid holding tank and a hollow cylinder. A piston is disposed in the hollow cylinder dividing the hollow cylinder into a first compartment and a second compartment. A gas collector tank is in fluid connection with the first compartment by an outline line. A radiator is provided in fluid connection with the second compartment and the liquid holding tank. The system also contains a pump. The apparatus system may also be coupled to a reactor system oxidizes a hydrocarbon-containing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Gas Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Ongaro Edoardo, Walter Breidenstein
  • Patent number: 12186726
    Abstract: A chemical synthesis plant comprising: one or more reactors configured for producing, from one or more reactants, a process stream comprising at least one chemical product; a feed preparation system configured to prepare one or more feed streams comprising one or more of the one or more reactants for introduction into the one or more reactors; and/or a product purification system configured to separate the at least one chemical product from reaction byproducts, unreacted reactants, or a combination thereof within the process stream, wherein the chemical synthesis plant is configured such that a majority of the net energy needed for heating, cooling, compressing, or a combination thereof utilized via the one or more reactors, the feed preparation system, the product purification system, or a combination thereof is provided from a noncarbon based energy source, from a renewable energy source, and/or from electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Scott Stevenson, Andrew Mark Ward, Tim Abbott, Kenneth Francis Lawson, Joseph William Schroer, Michael Edward Huckman, Arno Oprins, Zhun Zhao
  • Patent number: 12179167
    Abstract: A structured packing module for a gas phase reactor has a structured packing with a central axis extending along a longitudinal direction, and may further include an inner tube extending coaxially with the structured packing and along the longitudinal direction. The structured packing includes a plurality of corrugated sheets, each arranged circumferentially around the central axis and having a first end and a second end spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal direction. The corrugated sheets are arranged to radially overlap with each other such that corrugations of adjacently disposed corrugated sheets are arranged in a crisscross relationship. The structured packing module includes a gas flow path comprising at least one inter-sheet gas flow path defined between the adjacently disposed corrugated sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Julius Montz GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Ender, Robin Schulz, Thorsten Erik Alexander Hugen
  • Patent number: 12179184
    Abstract: A device for compensating short-term pressure or volume fluctuations of a medium in a continuously managed biopharmaceutical process including a receiving space in fluid communication with a process line through which a medium flows, an equalizing space, which is separated from the receiving space by a deflectable element, and a counter-pressure mechanism in the equalizing space for applying a counter-pressure to the deflectable element towards the receiving space. A method of compensating short-term pressure or volume fluctuations of a medium in a continuously managed biopharmaceutical process including providing a receiving space in fluid communication with a process line through which a medium flows, receiving an excess amount of the medium flowing into the receiving space, charging an energy storage device by the medium flowing into the receiving space, and expelling at least part of the excess amount if the pressure or flow rate falls below a set amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SARTORIUS STEDIM BIOTECH GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Grimm, Jochen Scholz, Matthias Bode
  • Patent number: 12183475
    Abstract: An apparatus is for the automated production of a daughter radionuclide from a parent radionuclide using a generator comprising a solid medium onto which the parent nuclide is fixed and whereby the daughter nuclide is formed by radioactive decay of the parent nuclide. The apparatus includes a fluid circuit including a chromatography column having a head port and a tail port, at least one connection port for connecting the generator to the fluid circuit, at least one inlet port for connecting fluid sources to the fluid circuit and at least one valve controlled by an electronic control unit for selectively connecting the chromatography column, the connection port and the at least one inlet port in various configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Orano Med
    Inventors: Julien Torgue, Patrick Bourdet, Gilbert Andreoletti, Rémy Dureau, Patrick Maquaire
  • Patent number: 12172498
    Abstract: A vehicle oxygen generating system includes a heat source, a power source, a vehicle air handling assembly of a vehicle air conditioning system, an H2O source and an electrochemical oxygen producing device. The oxygen producing device is connected to the H2O source receiving H2O therefrom. The oxygen producing device uses heat from the heat source and electricity from the power source to produce H2 and O2 from H2O. The O2 produced by the oxygen producing device is directed to the vehicle air handling assembly and moved into a passenger compartment of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandeep Patil, Mohammed Hussain Abdul Jabbar