Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Cook
Bruce A. Cook 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).
-
Publication number: 20230235924Abstract: Provided are solar collection energy storage and energy conversion or chemical conversion systems. Also provided are tubing components, such as for solar receivers, including Mo and having a MoSiB coating on an external surface. The systems can include a solar receiver containing a heat transfer material or chemically reacting material and can operate at temperatures of 700° C. or higher. The solar receiver can include tubing components selected from a Mo tubing component, a MAX phase material tubing component, a MoSiB composite tubing component, or a combination thereof. The Mo component, when present, can include a coating on surfaces of the Mo component that operate above 700° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Jonathan SCHEFFE, James Arthur TRAINHAM, Bruce COOK
-
Patent number: 11704693Abstract: One embodiment of an existing customer lead generation system comprises a vendor customer information database, a vendor criteria database, a web server, a matching engine, and a transmission component. The vendor customer information database identifies vendor's existing customers. The vendor criteria database determines which leads each vendor wants to receive. Separate criteria may be specified for consumers that are existing customers and consumers that are not existing customers. The web server receives characteristics of a consumer and a product or service. The matching engine compares the consumer characteristics with the vendor customer information database to identify vendors for which the consumer is an existing customer. The matching engine applies existing customer criteria to match the consumer with existing vendors. The matching engine applies non-existing customer criteria to match the consumer with other vendors.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: LMB MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Vincent Lewis, Anson Lee
-
Publication number: 20200167822Abstract: One embodiment of an existing customer lead generation system comprises a vendor customer information database, a vendor criteria database, a web server, a matching engine, and a transmission component. The vendor customer information database identifies vendor's existing customers. The vendor criteria database determines which leads each vendor wants to receive. Separate criteria may be specified for consumers that are existing customers and consumers that are not existing customers. The web server receives characteristics of a consumer and a product or service. The matching engine compares the consumer characteristics with the vendor customer information database to identify vendors for which the consumer is an existing customer. The matching engine applies existing customer criteria to match the consumer with existing vendors. The matching engine applies non-existing customer criteria to match the consumer with other vendors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: Bruce Cook, Vincent Lewis, Anson Lee
-
Patent number: 10565617Abstract: One embodiment of an existing customer lead generation system comprises a vendor customer information database, a vendor criteria database, a web server, a matching engine, and a transmission component. The vendor customer information database identifies vendor's existing customers. The vendor criteria database determines which leads each vendor wants to receive. Separate criteria may be specified for consumers that are existing customers and consumers that are not existing customers. The web server receives characteristics of a consumer and a product or service. The matching engine compares the consumer characteristics with the vendor customer information database to identify vendors for which the consumer is an existing customer. The matching engine applies existing, customer criteria to match the consumer with existing vendors. The matching engine applies non-existing customer criteria to match the consumer with other vendors.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: LMB Mortgage Services, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Vincent Lewis, Anson Lee
-
Publication number: 20190362382Abstract: One embodiment of an existing customer lead generation system comprises a vendor customer information database, a vendor criteria database, a web server, a matching engine, and a transmission component. The vendor customer information database identifies vendor's existing customers. The vendor criteria database determines which leads each vendor wants to receive. Separate criteria may be specified for consumers that are existing customers and consumers that are not existing customers. The web server receives characteristics of a consumer and a product or service. The matching engine compares the consumer characteristics with the vendor customer information database to identify vendors for which the consumer is an existing customer. The matching engine applies existing, customer criteria to match the consumer with existing vendors. The matching engine applies non-existing customer criteria to match the consumer with other vendors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Bruce Cook, Vincent Lewis, Anson Lee
-
Patent number: 10373198Abstract: One embodiment of an existing customer lead generation system comprises a vendor customer information database, a vendor criteria database, a web server, a matching engine, and a transmission component. The vendor customer information database identifies vendor's existing customers. The vendor criteria database determines which leads each vendor wants to receive. Separate criteria may be specified for consumers that are existing customers and consumers that are not existing customers. The web server receives characteristics of a consumer and a product or service. The matching engine compares the consumer characteristics with the vendor customer information database to identify vendors for which the consumer is an existing customer. The matching engine applies existing customer criteria to match the consumer with existing vendors. The matching engine applies non-existing customer criteria to match the consumer with other vendors.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: LMB MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Vincent Lewis, Anson Lee
-
Patent number: 10294548Abstract: The present invention relates to Cu33Al17 alloys and Cu33Al17-based bulk alloys and coatings that exhibit significantly increased hardness characteristics compared to traditional copper-aluminum alloys.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: U.S. Department of EnergyInventors: Iver E. Anderson, Bruce A. Cook, Joel Harringa, Adam Boesenberg, Joel Rieken, Dave Byrd
-
Patent number: 8821701Abstract: A target for use in an ion beam sputtering apparatus made of at least two target tiles where at least two of the target tiles are made of different chemical compositions and are mounted on a main tile and geometrically arranged on the main tile to yield a desired chemical composition on a sputtered substrate. In an alternate embodiment, the tiles are of varied thickness according to the desired chemical properties of the sputtered film. In yet another alternate embodiment, the target is comprised of plugs pressed in a green state which are disposed in cavities formed in a main tile also formed in a green state and the assembly can then be compacted and then sintered.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Inventors: Clifton Higdon, Alaa A. Elmoursi, Jason Goldsmith, Bruce Cook, Peter Blau, Qu Jun, Robert Milner
-
Publication number: 20110297535Abstract: A target for use in an ion beam sputtering apparatus made of at least two target tiles where at least two of the target tiles are made of different chemical compositions and are mounted on a main tile and geometrically arranged on the main tile to yield a desired chemical composition on a sputtered substrate. In an alternate embodiment, the tiles are of varied thickness according to the desired chemical properties of the sputtered film. In yet another alternate embodiment, the target is comprised of plugs pressed in a green state which are disposed in cavities formed in a main tile also formed in a green state and the assembly can then be compacted and then sintered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Clifton Higdon, Alaa A. Elmoursi, Jason Goldsmith, Bruce Cook, Peter Blau, Qu Jun, Robert Milner
-
Patent number: 7375343Abstract: A neutron detecting and method of use for a semiconducting material having a formula of M1M2B14 where M1 is aluminum, magnesium, silver, sodium or scandium and M2 is boron, chromium, erbium, holmium, lithium, magnesium, thulium, titanium, yttrium, or gadolinium.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Bruce A. Cook, John Evan Snyder, Alan P. Constant, Yun Tian
-
Publication number: 20070249883Abstract: In a process for oligomerizing an olefinic hydrocarbon feedstock comprising sulfur-containing molecules, the feedstock is contacted in the absence of hydrogen with a first metal oxide catalyst at a temperature in excess of 150° C. and then is contacted under olefin oligomerization conditions with a second catalyst comprising a crystalline molecular sieve, such as ZSM-22 or ZSM-57.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Inventors: Jihad Dakka, Hans Goris, Georges Mathys, Stephen Brown, Bruce Cook
-
Publication number: 20070151167Abstract: A highly wear resistant sintered, hot pressed, or otherwise compacted ceramic composite material is described, consisting of two discrete phases of the form AlxMgyB14 where x and y?1 or like hard, orthorhombic compounds, and TiB2 or like Group IVB transition metal di-borides, and with an unexpectedly high content of transition metal di-boride in the range from 40 to 90 percent (28 to 85 volume percent).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2006Publication date: July 5, 2007Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Joel Harringa, Alan Russell, Justin Peters, Atiq Ahmed
-
Publication number: 20060231459Abstract: This invention relates to fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process for improving the quality of distillates suitable as blend stocks for diesel fuels. The FCC process combines staging the FCC conversion process with interstage molecular separation of multi-ring aromatic species. Lower and higher severity reaction zones in the riser of the FCC reactor are combined with selective molecular separations to improve the production of diesel quality distillates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: George Swan, Bruce Cook, B. Henry, Steven Lowenthal
-
Publication number: 20060231458Abstract: This invention relates to a short contact time (SCT) fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process for improving the yield of distillates and gasoline. An SCT FCC process combines staging the FCC conversion process with interstage molecular separation of multi-ring aromatic species wherein separation of cat bottoms and recycling the separated stream containing saturates and 1- and 2-ring aromatics to the FCC unit results in improved yields of gasoline and other distillates while decreasing bottoms yields.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Inventors: George Swan, Eduardo Mon, Steven Lowenthal, Bruce Cook
-
Publication number: 20060110637Abstract: The present invention includes a fuel cell system and a method to operate a fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes a source of a fuel and water emulsion, receiving the emulsion and a reformer for receiving the emulsion and producing hydrogen, a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell connected to the reformer and able to receive hydrogen from the reformer. The method for operating a fuel cell system including a hydrogen gas oxygen fuel cell includes producing the hydrogen gas from a fuel and water emulsion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2006Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Paul Berlowitz, Bruce Cook, John Robbins, Jack Johnson, Richard Bellows
-
Publication number: 20050279185Abstract: A composite of M/AlMgB14 or M alloy/AlMgB14 is synthesized, where M=Al, Ti, W, or Cu. Small particles and/or fibers of AlMgB14 are distributed throughout a metal matrix to strengthen the resulting composite.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2004Publication date: December 22, 2005Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Alan Russell, Joel Harringa, S. Biner, Iver Anderson
-
Patent number: 6921422Abstract: This invention relates to a ductile binder phase for use with AlMgB14 and other hard materials. The ductile binder phase, a cobalt-manganese alloy, is used in appropriate quantities to tailor good hardness and reasonable fracture toughness for hard materials so they can be used suitably in industrial machining and grinding applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2003Date of Patent: July 26, 2005Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Bruce A. Cook, Alan Russell, Joel Harringa
-
Publication number: 20050100748Abstract: Performance and reliability of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) components enhanced dramatically through the incorporation of protective thin film coatings. Current-generation MEMS devices prepared by the LIGA technique employ transition metals such as Ni, Cu, Fe, or alloys thereof, and hence lack stability in oxidizing, corrosive, and/or high temperature environments. Fabrication of a superhard, self-lubricating coating based on a ternary boride compound AlMgB14 is described in this letter as a potential breakthrough in protective coating technology for LIGA microdevices. Nanoindentation tests show that hardness of AlMgB14 films prepared by pulsed laser deposition ranges from 45 GPa to 51 GPa, when deposited at room temperature and 573 K, respectively. Extremely low friction coefficients of 0.04-0.05, which are thought to result from a self-lubricating effect, have also been confirmed by nanoscratch tests on the AlMgB14 films.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Bruce Cook, Yun Tian, Joel Harringa, Alan Constant, Alan Russell, Palaniappa Molian
-
Publication number: 20040134310Abstract: This invention relates to a ductile binder phase for use with AlMgB14 and other hard materials. The ductile binder phase, a cobalt-manganese alloy, is used in appropriate quantities to tailor good hardness and reasonable fracture toughness for hard materials so they can be used suitably in industrial machining and grinding applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Bruce A. Cook, Alan Russell, Joel Harringa
-
Patent number: 6432855Abstract: A ceramic material which is an orthorhombic boride of the general formula: AlMgB14:X, with X being a doping agent. The ceramic is a superabrasive, and in most instances provides a hardness of 40 GPa or greater.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Iowa State University Reseach Foundation, Inc,.Inventors: Bruce A. Cook, Joel L. Harringa, Alan M. Russell