Patents by Inventor Brandon Davis
Brandon Davis 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).
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Patent number: 12649885Abstract: Apparatus and methods to eliminate PFAS from wastewater biosolids through fluidized bed gasification. The gasifier decomposes the PFAS in the biosolids at temperatures of 900-1800° F. Syngas exits the gasifier which is coupled to a thermal oxidizer and combusts at temperatures of 1600-2600° F. This decomposes PFAS in the syngas and creates flue gas. Heat is recovered from the flue gas by cooling the flue gas to temperatures of 400-1200° F. in a heat exchanger coupled with the thermal oxidizer. Various methods inject moisture into the gas stream, controlling temperature through evaporative cooling and/or injecting chemicals that react with gas stream components. Cooled flue gas mixes with hydrated lime capturing decomposed PFAS molecules with spent lime filtered from the cooled flue gas using a filter system that may incorporate catalyst impregnated filter elements, eliminating PFAS from wastewater biosolids and controlling emissions in the resulting flue gas.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: June 9, 2026Assignee: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Matthew Newman, Joel Thornton, Brandon Davis, Renus Kelfkens, Ron Hudson, Mark Robertson
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Patent number: 12644430Abstract: A hydrokinetic turbine system with dynamic tuning capabilities is disclosed. Individual hydrokinetic turbine units are dynamically tuned to accommodate changes in height and flow velocity corresponding to water in a waterway. Dynamically tuning the turbine units to accommodate waterway changes optimizes power generation output. Dynamically tuning a turbine system includes raising or lowering turbine blade height, extending or retracting turbine blade length, and narrowing or widening a turbine mouth, channel, and exit through which water flows. The hydrokinetic turbines may be arranged in an array along a waterway, and each hydrokinetic turbine in the array is connected over a controls system configured to adjust turbine characteristics at each turbine unit in the array for optimizing power generation output for the waterway in which the turbine array is installed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: June 2, 2026Assignee: Emrgy, Inc.Inventors: Emily Morris, Thomas R. Cuthbert, III, John Tuttle, Thorsten Stoesser, Michael Savoie, Brandon Davis
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Publication number: 20260126278Abstract: The present invention pertains to an arrow tracking system that enables a user to locate an arrow after it has been launched. The system includes a nock with an inner housing designed to enclose a GPS module controlled by a micro-controller (MCU). The MCU is activated by a plunger sliding within the nock and also controls a light signaling GPS activation. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a two-unit configuration with a transmitter unit housed within the nock and a receiving unit carried by the user. The transmitter unit includes a nock GPS module, transceiver, and plunger-activated switch. The receiving unit includes a receiving controller coupled to a receiver GPS module and transceiver that calculates distance and directional bearing between units. The receiving unit displays real-time positioning on topographical maps via an integrated screen or mobile device, enabling efficient arrow recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2025Publication date: May 7, 2026Inventors: George T. Murray, Brandon Davis
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Publication number: 20260035630Abstract: A system for processing dewatered biosolids and other municipal waste includes a biosolids dryer coupled to a plasma or ionic reactor (a gasifier). The biosolids dryer mixes dewatered biosolids with heated dried biosolids to produce dried granulated biosolids which are provided to the gasifier. The gasifier implements a high or an ultra-high temperature ionic gasification or reformation process to produce renewable syngas that can be used to provide heat, power, renewable fuels, renewable hydrogen, and/or renewable chemical production. The gasifier generates electrical arcs across the interior of a gasifier reaction chamber creating a localized, controlled temperature in excess of 3,000° C. along with ionic gas or particles (plasma). This ultra-high temperature gasification zone and active ionic environment combine to break down molecules very effectively and efficiently into their constituent atoms, in a process called complete molecular dissociation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: Brandon Davis, Jonathan N. Orr, Peter C. Kong
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Publication number: 20260035629Abstract: A method of processing a material comprising: receiving an input material to be processed within a reaction chamber, the input material comprising a biosolids material; energizing one or more sets of electrodes, each set of electrodes including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, each anode electrode and cathode electrode having an electrode tip exposed to the reaction chamber; and creating an electrical arc between the anode electrode tip and the cathode electrode tip within the reaction chamber to subject at least some of the input material to electrical arcing, thereby reacting at least a portion of the biosolids material and forming a processed material comprising hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Inventors: Peter C. Kong, Brandon Davis
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Publication number: 20250354752Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to drying a wet coated seed material stream comprising an incoming wet granular biosolids stream mixed with a controlled size dried seed material recycling stream to produce a moist air and pellet stream, separating an uncontrolled size dried pellet stream from the moist air and pellet stream, diverting a recycle portion of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to be recycled, diverting the remainder of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to an outlet, resizing oversized pellets from the recycle portion of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to produce the controlled size dried seed material recycling stream, and mixing the controlled size dried seed material recycling stream with the incoming wet granular biosolids stream to produce the wet coated seed material stream. Oversized pellets may be selected using a screen. The oversized pellets may be resized using a crusher inline with the recycle stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: November 20, 2025Applicant: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Renus Kelfkens, Brandon Davis, Joseph Mikhail, Matthew Newman
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Patent number: 12333442Abstract: Particular embodiments can update a deployed machine learning model with actual entity data depending on anomalies detected in stream data, which can be stored to a computer object, such as a journal. Various embodiments map particular subsets of a larger pool of raw input data to the particular models that need the input data and store the raw input data to computer objects so that the corresponding machine learning models can make predictions according to any suitable policy or triggering event on any of the data located in the computer objects. Such mapping allows each machine learning model to continuously make predictions based on the data it needs.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Uttam B. Ramamurthy, David Dellsperger, Christopher S. Finn, Brandon Davis, James Gritter, Stephen Patel, Maulik Gandhi, Adam Sabaliauskas
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Patent number: 12287283Abstract: An optical sensor may be used to measure the concentration of calcium in a water sample, such as a water sample obtained from industrial process water system like a cooling tower system, a boiler water system, or a waste water system. To measure the concentration of calcium, an indicator or reagent may be added to the water sample to form a complex that absorbs light. The absorbance profile of the complex may be non-linear over a range of calcium concentrations. However, the absorbance profile can be linearized to provide calibration coefficients that are subsequently used to determine the concentration of calcium in samples having unknown calcium concentrations. The linearization of the absorbance profile can allow the optical sensor to be calibrated using two solutions. This can reduce the complexity and cost of calibrating the optical sensor, which may otherwise require at least three calibration solutions to capture the non-linear profile of the absorbance curve.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Hui Li, Bingzhi Chen, Brandon Davis
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Patent number: 12237589Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Patent number: 12187616Abstract: Herein disclosed are apparatus and associated methods related to producing an enhanced surface area biochar product with a desired activation level based on receiving biochar into a processing vessel configured with multiple independently temperature-controlled chambers and counter-flow steam injection, controlling activation levels of the biochar by moving the biochar through the processing vessel and adjusting the temperature of the biochar by injecting steam into at least one temperature-controlled chamber of the processing vessel, recovering volatiles driven off through dehydration using a thermal oxidizer, cooling the biochar to a desired discharge temperature using steam and retention time, and discharging the activated biochar product. The processing vessel may be a calciner, a rotary calciner, or a kiln. Biochar may be heated or cooled to a desired thermochemical processing temperature depending on the temperature of the received biochar.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Joseph Regnery, Joel Thornton, Matthew Newman, Brandon Davis
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Patent number: 12151074Abstract: A method of providing therapeutic treatment by delivering therapeutic aptamers locally to a target site using microneedles includes providing complementary sequence modified microneedles by reacting a complementary sequence (CS) with a polymer thereby forming a covalent bond between the polymer and the CS, forming microneedle patches using an initial casting solution consisting of the polymer, the therapeutic aptamer, and a covalent bond between a complementary sequence (CS) and the polymer, thereby loading the therapeutic aptamer into the microneedles, each microneedle having a base, shaft and tip, physically binding the therapeutic aptamer to the CS, inserting the microneedles into the tissue such that the tips and shafts are embedded into the target site and the bases are on a surface of the target site, and sustained release of the aptamer to the target site due to dissociation of the aptamer from the CS over time.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Yong Wang, James Coyne, David Kauffman, Brandon Davis
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Patent number: 12135888Abstract: A storage system includes solid-state storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the solid-state storage devices, the storage controller including a processing device, to store sets of data at one or more solid-state storage devices of the plurality of solid-state storage devices. The processing device may also generate tags for each of the sets of data based on one or more metadata items associated with each set of data. The processing device may also determine an expected lifespan for each set of data based on the one or more tags generated for the respective set of data. The processing device may also group each of the one or more sets of data into respective ones of a plurality of memory blocks based on the expected lifespan for each set of data, wherein each memory block corresponds to sets of data of a particular expected lifespan.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Matthew Paul Fay, Brandon Davis, Nathan David Parrish, Yanwei Jiang, Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Ronald Karr
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Publication number: 20240348192Abstract: A waterway power generation system and process are provided. The system may include a first turbine and a second turbine, wherein the first turbine is positioned upstream of the second turbine in a waterway; and a floating frame positioned in between the first turbine and the second turbine, wherein the floating frame comprising a string of solar panels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Thomas R. Cuthbert, III, Emily Morris, Sean Kenney, Will Clarizio, Annam Khan, Michael Savoie, Brandon Davis
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Publication number: 20240165448Abstract: A plasma or ionic reactor or gasifier implements an ultra-high temperature ionic gasification process that can be used in an environmentally friendly manner to dispose of dried biosolids from, for example, wastewater treatment plants as well other waste feed stocks such as municipal solid waste (MSW) to produce, for example, renewable syngas that can be used to provide heat, power, renewable fuels, renewable hydrogen, and/or renewable chemical production. The systems described herein do so by generating electrical arcs across the interior of the gasifier reaction chamber creating a localized, controlled temperature in excess of 3000 C along with ionic gas or particles (plasma). This ultra-high temperature gasification zone and active ionic environment combine to very effectively and efficiently break down molecules into their constituent atoms, in a process called complete molecular dissociation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Brandon Davis, Peter C. Kong
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Patent number: 11955732Abstract: Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Erkan Alpman, Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe, Omer Asaf, Kameran Azadet, Rotem Banin, Miroslav Baryakh, Anat Bazov, Stefano Brenna, Bryan K. Casper, Anandaroop Chakrabarti, Gregory Chance, Debabani Choudhury, Emanuel Cohen, Claudio Da Silva, Sidharth Dalmia, Saeid Daneshgar Asl, Kaushik Dasgupta, Kunal Datta, Brandon Davis, Ofir Degani, Amr M. Fahim, Amit Freiman, Michael Genossar, Eran Gerson, Eyal Goldberger, Eshel Gordon, Meir Gordon, Josef Hagn, Shinwon Kang, Te Yu Kao, Noam Kogan, Mikko S. Komulainen, Igal Yehuda Kushnir, Saku Lahti, Mikko M. Lampinen, Naftali Landsberg, Wook Bong Lee, Run Levinger, Albert Molina, Resti Montoya Moreno, Tawfiq Musah, Nathan G. Narevsky, Hosein Nikopour, Oner Orhan, Georgios Palaskas, Stefano Pellerano, Ron Pongratz, Ashoke Ravi, Shmuel Ravid, Peter Andrew Sagazio, Eren Sasoglu, Lior Shakedd, Gadi Shor, Baljit Singh, Menashe Soffer, Ra'anan Sover, Shilpa Talwar, Nebil Tanzi, Moshe Teplitsky, Chintan S. Thakkar, Jayprakash Thakur, Avi Tsarfati, Yossi Tsfati, Marian Verhelst, Nir Weisman, Shuhei Yamada, Ana M. Yepes, Duncan Kitchin
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Patent number: 11947795Abstract: A storage system and related method are for operating solid-state storage memory in a storage system. Zones of solid-state storage memory are provided. Each zone includes a portion of the solid-state storage memory. The zone has a data write requirement for the zone for reliability of data reads. The storage system adjusts power loss protection for at least one zone. The adjusting is based on the data write requirement for the zone and responsive to detecting a power loss.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Andrew R. Bernat, Brandon Davis, Mark L. McAuliffe, Zoltan DeWitt, Benjamin Scholbrock, Phillip Hord, Ronald Karr
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Publication number: 20240014337Abstract: A device for radiation detection includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a macroscale structure disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The macroscale structure comprises a composite arrangement of nanocrystalline particles. The nanocrystalline particles comprise a lead chalcogenide material. The nanocrystalline particles establish conductive paths between the first electrode and the second electrode without an intervening conductive polymer agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Nicholas KOTOV, Drew VECCHIO, Brandon DAVIS, Mark HAMMIG
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Publication number: 20230348276Abstract: Herein disclosed are apparatus and associated methods related to producing an enhanced surface area biochar product with a desired activation level based on receiving biochar into a processing vessel configured with multiple independently temperature-controlled chambers and counter-flow steam injection, controlling activation levels of the biochar by moving the biochar through the processing vessel and adjusting the temperature of the biochar by injecting steam into at least one temperature-controlled chamber of the processing vessel, recovering volatiles driven off through dehydration using a thermal oxidizer, cooling the biochar to a desired discharge temperature using steam and retention time, and discharging the activated biochar product. The processing vessel may be a calciner, a rotary calciner, or a kiln. Biochar may be heated or cooled to a desired thermochemical processing temperature depending on the temperature of the received biochar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Joseph Regnery, Joel Thornton, Matthew Newman, Brandon Davis
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Publication number: 20230303937Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to drying a wet coated seed material stream comprising an incoming wet granular biosolids stream mixed with a controlled size dried seed material recycling stream to produce a moist air and pellet stream, separating an uncontrolled size dried pellet stream from the moist air and pellet stream, diverting a recycle portion of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to be recycled, diverting the remainder of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to an outlet, resizing oversized pellets from the recycle portion of the uncontrolled size dried pellet stream to produce the controlled size dried seed material recycling stream, and mixing the controlled size dried seed material recycling stream with the incoming wet granular biosolids stream to produce the wet coated seed material stream. Oversized pellets may be selected using a screen. The oversized pellets may be resized using a crusher inline with the recycle stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Renus Kelfkens, Brandon Davis, Joseph Mikhail, Matthew Newman
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Patent number: 11731877Abstract: Herein disclosed are apparatus and associated methods related to producing an enhanced surface area biochar product with a desired activation level based on receiving biochar into a processing vessel configured with multiple independently temperature-controlled chambers and counter-flow steam injection, controlling activation levels of the biochar by moving the biochar through the processing vessel and adjusting the temperature of the biochar by injecting steam into at least one temperature-controlled chamber of the processing vessel, recovering volatiles driven off through dehydration using a thermal oxidizer, cooling the biochar to a desired discharge temperature using steam and retention time, and discharging the activated biochar product. The processing vessel may be a calciner, a rotary calciner, or a kiln. Biochar may be heated or cooled to a desired thermochemical processing temperature depending on the temperature of the received biochar.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ARIES CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Joseph Regnery, Joel Thornton, Matt Newman, Brandon Davis
