Patents by Inventor Barry A. Wells

Barry A. Wells 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: 12120402
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for outputting secondary media assets are disclosed. One or more secondary media assets may be associated with objects already existing within a first media asset. The one or more secondary media assets may be indicated according to a manifest file and may be output during execution of a trick play command during output of the first media asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Leslie Chapman, Barry Mcmillan, Leemay Nassery, Austin Wells
  • Patent number: 5443622
    Abstract: Impurity streams generated during the pyrometallurgy of copper are hydrometallurgically processed at ambient pressure for recovery of primary values in an energy-efficient manner and with the capture and conversion of metallic impurities to states that are acceptable for disposal into the environment. Hallmark features of the various embodiments of this invention include the water leach of flue dust, the extraction of water-soluble copper as a separate product, a controlled acid leach stage in which bismuth is solubilized, the return of copper to the smelting process as a sulfide, the ability to operate the various process stages at essentially ambient pressure, and the gradual reduction in temperature over the course of the process without the use of indirect heating or cooling operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Kennecott Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Gabb, Kenton E. Sutliff, Barry A. Wells, J. Philip Evans
  • Patent number: 4149880
    Abstract: Highly toxic metallurgical waste materials from copper smelting and/or refining operations are processed on a cyclic basis for recovering copper values therefrom while protecting the environment from contamination. The waste materials, usually smelter flue dust and/or refinery sludge containing copper values and principally arsenic, bismuth, lead, antimony, and cadmium, as toxic values, with or without added sulfuric acid, are reacted in an autoclave at an overpressure atmosphere of O.sub.2. The resulting solution, pregnant with copper and still containing a significant amount of arsenic, i.e. from about 0.5 to about 2.0 grams per liter, is subjected to copper cementation on metallic iron to recover copper and to provide iron values in the solution while substantially eliminating residual toxic constituents, surprisingly without the evolution of arsine gas. The copper-barren but iron-containing solution is then recycled to the leaching step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1979
    Assignee: Kennecott Copper Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Prater, Barry A. Wells
  • Patent number: 4026988
    Abstract: Molybdenum is selectively extracted from an aqueous solution containing various other metal values, e.g. copper, arsenic, iron, bismuth, antimony, tin, and lead in addition to molybdenum. The molybdenum-bearing solution is adjusted to a pH of about 2.0 or less, and, then, intimately contacted with an organic extracting solution containing an alpha-hydroxy oxime. The loaded organic phase, containing extracted molybdenum values, is separated from the aqueous raffinate, and the molybdenum values contained in the organic phase are stripped therefrom using an aqueous stripping solution containing ammonium hydroxide. The efficiency with which the molybdenum is stripped from the loaded organic solution is poor unless nonylphenol is present in the organic solution as it is being stripped. The nonylphenol can be added to the system anytime prior to the ammonium hydroxide stripping step, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Kennecott Copper Corporation
    Inventors: Barry A. Wells, Don Richard Clark