Patents by Inventor Allen Scott

Allen Scott 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).

  • Patent number: 9012711
    Abstract: The invention is directed to purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon stream including selective removal of phenol from a process stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, especially aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures that contain higher-than-equilibrium paraxylene, by contact with suitable adsorbents, to provide a product stream having lower concentration of phenol than said process stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: John Di-Yi Ou, Glenn A. Heeter, Shifang L. Luo, Indulis J. Eilands, Jeevan S. Abichandani, Allen Scott Gawlik, Mark W. Nash, Terrance C. Osby, Robert G. Tinger
  • Publication number: 20150068544
    Abstract: A smokeless tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of the product is provided, the smokeless tobacco product including a tobacco material mixed with at least one botanical material, wherein the botanical material comprises at least about 0.1% of the total dry weight of the smokeless tobacco product. One exemplary product is in the form of a snus product contained within a water-permeable pouch, which includes at least about 50% of a pasteurized and fermented particulate tobacco material, based on the total dry weight of the smokeless tobacco product, and a botanical material in particulate form. The botanical material and the smokeless tobacco product can be characterized based on antioxidant content using the ORAC index or the FRAP index. An exemplary product has an ORAC index value of at least about 50 (?mol TE)/g or a FRAP index value of at least about 80 (?mol/Fe2+)/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Serban C. Moldoveanu, Jerry Wayne Marshall, Wayne Allen Scott, Dwayne William Beeson, Daniel Verdin Cantrell
  • Publication number: 20150068545
    Abstract: A smokeless tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of the product is provided, the smokeless tobacco product including a dissolvable or meltable base composition admixed with a tobacco material and a botanical material, wherein the botanical material is present in an amount of at least about 0.1% of the total dry weight of the smokeless tobacco product. The botanical material and the smokeless tobacco product can be characterized based on antioxidant content using the ORAC index or the FRAP index. An exemplary product has an ORAC index value of at least about 20 (?mol TE)/g or a FRAP index value of at least about 50 (?mol/Fe2+)/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Serban C. Moldoveanu, Jerry Wayne Marshall, Wayne Allen Scott, Dwayne William Beeson, Daniel Verdin Cantrell
  • Patent number: 8829824
    Abstract: A nesting stemware drinking vessel generally provides a body and a base releasably interconnectable in at least two configurations, a first configuration forming conventional stemware vessel for containing and drinking liquids and a second configuration wherein portions of the base are enclosed within an interior volume defined by the body to minimize space required for storage of the base and body to eases transport and minimizes the risk of breakage when not in use. Plural locking protrusions on an upper surface of the base releasable frictionally engage with a circumferentially extending inner lip of an aperture of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Inventor: Donald Allen Scott
  • Publication number: 20140082099
    Abstract: In a method for notifying an owner or other rightful user of a mobile device of a misplaced mobile device, a computer receives social networking information about the rightful user of the mobile device. The computer receives, from the mobile device, a set of contextual information that is associated with the mobile device. The computer determines, based on the set of contextual information, whether the mobile device has been misplaced. In response to the computer determining that the mobile device has been misplaced, the computer dynamically identifies, based on the set of contextual information and on the social networking information, one or more contacts associated with the rightful user. In response to the computer determining that the mobile device has been misplaced, the computer sends a notification message to the identified one or more contacts. The notification message indicates that the rightful user's mobile device has been misplaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary Burns, Yuk Lung Chan, Kin Choi, David J.B. Flaherty, Kevin H. Peters, Mark Allen Scott
  • Publication number: 20130324780
    Abstract: The invention is directed to purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon stream including selective removal of phenol from a process stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, especially aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures that contain higher-than-equilibrium paraxylene, by contact with suitable adsorbents, to provide a product stream having lower concentration of phenol than said process stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: John Di-Yi Ou, Glenn A. Heeter, Shifang L. Luo, Indulis J. Eilands, Jeevan S. Abichandani, Allen Scott Gawlik, Mark W. Nash, Terrance C. Osby, Robert G. Tinger
  • Publication number: 20130324779
    Abstract: The invention relates to removal of styrene from hydrocarbon mixtures, and more particularly, removal of styrene from hydrocarbon mixtures containing higher than equilibrium paraxylene concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Glenn A. Heeter, John Di-Yi Ou, Allen Scott Gawlik, Terrance C. Osby, Jeevan S. Abichandani, Robert G. Tinger, Indulis J. Eilands, Shifang L. Luo
  • Patent number: 8364804
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for communicating information regarding a managed resource in a network data processing system. A method, in a network data processing system, for communicating information regarding a managed resource includes receiving management information regarding at least one managed resource. The received management information is converted into a specified format, and the converted management information is then sent to at least one management application in conjunction with the sending of presence information to the at least one management application. The converted management information may then be extracted from the presence information for use in any desired manner. The invention provides a convenient mechanism for communicating status information and other appropriate information regarding a managed resource to interested parties connected to the network data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Ward K. Harold, David Bruce Kumhyr, Neil R. Pennell, Randy Allen Scott
  • Publication number: 20130020333
    Abstract: A nesting stemware drinking vessel generally provides a body and a base releasably interconnectable in at least two configurations, a first configuration forming conventional stemware vessel for containing and drinking liquids and a second configuration wherein portions of the base are enclosed within an interior volume defined by the body to minimize space required for storage of the base and body to eases transport and minimizes the risk of breakage when not in use. Plural locking protrusions on an upper surface of the base releasable frictionally engage with a circumferentially extending inner lip of an aperture of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: GSI Outdoors, Inc.
    Inventor: Donald Allen Scott
  • Publication number: 20090254648
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for communicating information regarding a managed resource in a network data processing system. A method, in a network data processing system, for communicating information regarding a managed resource includes receiving management information regarding at least one managed resource. The received management information is converted into a specified format, and the converted management information is then sent to at least one management application in conjunction with the sending of presence information to the at least one management application. The converted management information may then be extracted from the presence information for use in any desired manner. The invention provides a convenient mechanism for communicating status information and other appropriate information regarding a managed resource to interested parties connected to the network data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Ward K. Harold, David Bruce Kumhyr, Neil R. Pennell, Randy Allen Scott
  • Patent number: 7571224
    Abstract: Method, system and computer program product for communicating information regarding a managed resource in a network data processing system. A method, in a network data processing system, for communicating information regarding a managed resource includes receiving management information regarding at least one managed resource. The received management information is converted into a specified format, and the converted management information is then sent to at least one management application in conjunction with the sending of presence information to the at least one management application. The converted management information may then be extracted from the presence information for use in any desired manner. The invention provides a convenient mechanism for communicating status information and other appropriate information regarding a managed resource to interested parties connected to the network data processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rhonda L. Childress, Ward K. Harold, David Bruce Kumhyr, Neil R. Pennell, Randy Allen Scott
  • Patent number: 7304197
    Abstract: A process and apparatus are provided for converting oxygenate to olefins which comprises: contacting a feedstock comprising oxygenate with a catalyst comprising a molecular sieve under conditions effective to produce a vaporous product comprising the olefins, water and unreacted oxygenate; condensing the vaporous product to provide a liquid stream rich in the water and unreacted oxygenate, and an olefins-rich vapor stream; introducing at least part of the liquid stream to a feed tray in a fractionation tower which provides an oxygenate-rich overhead product and a water-rich liquid bottoms product; providing a liquid, oxygenate-rich stream comprising at least about 20 wt % oxygenate above the feed tray; and passing the olefins-rich vapor stream through a recovery train to recover at least some of the olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Keith H. Kuechler, Jeffrey L. Brinen, James Richardson Lattner, Allen Scott Gawlik
  • Publication number: 20070067945
    Abstract: A canister vacuum cleaner comprises a base, a recovery tank, and a clean solution tank. The vacuum cleaner can be used for dry vacuuming, wet vacuuming, and can distribute cleaning solution to a floor surface and has means for a fluid distribution system and a recovery system. The clean solution tank can be filled with a cleaning solution for distribution to a floor surface and the recovery tank is used for collecting dry or liquid matter recovered from vacuuming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: BISSELL HOMECARE, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Kasper, Allen Scott, Jose Santiago
  • Publication number: 20060288518
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a fluid delivery system including a supply of cleaning fluid and a fluid recovery system for drawing dirty cleaning fluid from the surface to be cleaned. The apparatus can comprise a passageway that passes heated motor cooling air in heat exchange with the cleaning fluid to heat the cleaning fluid. The apparatus can further comprise a mixing manifold that mixes first and second cleaning fluids at different concentrations for different cleaning modes. The apparatus can further comprise a fluid valve having a shape memory alloy actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: BISSELL HOMECARE, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Lenkiwicz, Alan Krebs, Allen Scott, Kurt Ashbaugh, Linsay Ulman, Evelyn Trudell, Gary Kasper
  • Publication number: 20040110787
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula as described herein, which are useful as antiviral agents, in particular, as agents against viruses of the herpes family.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Mark E. Schnute, Michele M. Cudahy, David John Anderson, Thomas M. Judge, Thomas J. Fleck, Paul Matthew Herrinton, Sajiv K. Nair, Allen Scott, William R. Perrault, Steve P. Tanis, James A. Nieman, Sarah A. Collier, Bruce F. Fleck
  • Patent number: 6649881
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a water heater which includes a water container; an element located to heat water in the water container; a sensor located to sense temperature proximate the element; and a controller connected to the element and the sensor, the controller being programmed to energize the element with at least one electrical pulse over a predetermined time interval, comparing temperature information received from the sensor with a predetermined temperature, and disengaging the element in the event that the temperature received from the sensor is greater than a predetermined temperature for the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: American Water Heater Company
    Inventors: Allen Scott, William Stout
  • Publication number: 20030212271
    Abstract: The invention is a process for the preparation of a [2,3-b]pyridine of formula (II) 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventor: Allen Scott
  • Patent number: 6599591
    Abstract: An artificial palm tree having a planar base, a central support, an exterior covering and a separable crown. The central support of the artificial palm tree has one end flexibly affixed to the planar base. An exterior covering constructed around the central support is substantially greater in diameter than the central support and has the separable crown removably affixed to a free end of the central support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventor: K. Allen Scott
  • Patent number: 6495683
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 have any of the values defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds or salts, and methods of preventing or treating a herpesvirus infection using such compounds or salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Pharmacia and Upjohn Company
    Inventor: Allen Scott
  • Publication number: 20020125241
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a water heater which includes a water container; an element located to heat water in the water container; a sensor located to sense temperature proximate the element; and a controller connected to the element and the sensor, the controller being programmed to energize the element with at least one electrical pulse over a predetermined time interval, comparing temperature information received from the sensor with a predetermined temperature, and disengaging the element in the event that the temperature received from the sensor is greater than a predetermined temperature for the predetermined time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Allen Scott, William Stout