Patents by Inventor Alan Markworth

Alan Markworth 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).

  • Methods of removing sulfur from a fuel cell electrode
    Publication number: 20060070886
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to an electrode includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to an electrode of a device; determining a waveform of the voltage or the current of the electrical current; representing the waveform by a mathematical description such as a number of points or an analytical function characterized by a number of unknown coefficients and a fixed number of known functions; measuring a function of the device associated with the application of the electrical current; feeding the waveform description and the measurements to an algorithm, which may be in a computer program or other calculating device including manual calculations, including an optimization routine which uses the points or coefficients as independent variables for optimizing the function of the device; and performing the calculations to determine values of the points or coefficients which optimize the function of the device, and thereby determine an optimized waveform of the elect
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: James Saunders, Alan Markworth, Caroline Markworth, Bradley Glenn, Barry Hindin
  • Methods of removing contaminants from a fuel cell electrode
    Publication number: 20050123809
    Abstract: A method of optimizing a waveform of an electrical current applied to an electrode includes the steps of: applying an electrical current to an electrode of a device; determining a waveform of the voltage or the current of the electrical current; representing the waveform by a mathematical description such as a number of points or an analytical function characterized by a number of unknown coefficients and a fixed number of known functions; measuring a function of the device associated with the application of the electrical current; feeding the waveform description and the measurements to an algorithm, which may be in a computer program or other calculating device including manual calculations, including an optimization routine which uses the points or coefficients as independent variables for optimizing the function of the device; and performing the calculations to determine values of the points or coefficients which optimize the function of the device, and thereby determine an optimized waveform of the elect
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: James Saunders, Alan Markworth, Caroline Markworth, Bradley Glenn, Barry Hindin