Patents by Inventor Chinedu David Chikwem
Chinedu David Chikwem 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: 11602710Abstract: Systems and methods of filtering with filter assemblies including a frame having a header structure, an end cap structure, and a plurality of side plates coupling the header structure to the end cap structure are provided. The filter pleated media may include an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface in a direction of flow through the filter assembly, and the filter pleated media may include a pleated configuration. The filter assemblies may further include a support member coupled to a portion of the frame and along at least one of the upstream surface or the downstream surface of the filter pleated media. The support member may at least partially penetrate the pleated configuration and extend into a pleat of the pleated configuration of the filter pleat media.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Wai Poon, Ryder William Pingry, Chinedu David Chikwem
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Publication number: 20210229020Abstract: Systems and methods of filtering with filter assemblies including a frame having a header structure, an end cap structure, and a plurality of side plates coupling the header structure to the end cap structure are provided. The filter pleated media may include an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface in a direction of flow through the filter assembly, and the filter pleated media may include a pleated configuration. The filter assemblies may further include a support member coupled to a portion of the frame and along at least one of the upstream surface or the downstream surface of the filter pleated media. The support member may at least partially penetrate the pleated configuration and extend into a pleat of the pleated configuration of the filter pleat media.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Wai Poon, Ryder William Pingry, Chinedu David Chikwem
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Patent number: 11022350Abstract: Provided is a chiller and system that may be utilized in a supercritical fluid chromatography method, wherein a non-polar solvent may replace a portion or all of a polar solvent for the purpose of separating or extracting desired sample molecules from a combined sample/solvent stream. The system may reduce the amount of polar solvent necessary for chromatographic separation and/or extraction of desired samples. The system may incorporate a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller allows for efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off-the-shelf HPLC column cartridges. The system may further incorporate the use of one or more disposable cartridges containing silica gel or other suitable medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: SUPERCRITICAL FLUID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach, Kim Ferrera, Curtis Ebersold
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Patent number: 10974189Abstract: Systems and methods of filtering with filter assemblies including a frame having a header structure, an end cap structure, and a plurality of side plates coupling the header structure to the end cap structure are provided. The filter pleated media may include an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface in a direction of flow through the filter assembly, and the filter pleated media may include a pleated configuration. The filter assemblies may further include a support member coupled to a portion of the frame and along at least one of the upstream surface or the downstream surface of the filter pleated media. The support member may at least partially penetrate the pleated configuration and extend into a pleat of the pleated configuration of the filter pleat media.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Wai Poon, Ryder William Pingry, Chinedu David Chikwem
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Publication number: 20200188814Abstract: Provided is a supercritical fluid chromatography system, and components comprising such a system, including one or more of a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel, and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller and the use of the chiller allow efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps in the supercritical chromatography system using liquid-phase gas mobile phase. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off the shelf HPLC column cartridges in the supercritical chromatography system. The cyclonic separator efficiently and effectively allows for separation of sample molecules from a liquid phase or gas phase stream of a supercritical fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach
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Patent number: 10610808Abstract: Provided is a supercritical fluid chromatography system, and components comprising such a system, including one or more of a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel, and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller and the use of the chiller allow efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps in the supercritical chromatography system using liquid-phase gas mobile phase. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off the shelf HPLC column cartridges in the supercritical chromatography system. The cyclonic separator efficiently and effectively allows for separation of sample molecules from a liquid phase or gas phase stream of a supercritical fluid.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: SUPERCRITICAL FLUID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach
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Publication number: 20200056815Abstract: Provided is a chiller and system that may be utilized in a supercritical fluid chromatography method, wherein a non-polar solvent may replace a portion or all of a polar solvent for the purpose of separating or extracting desired sample molecules from a combined sample/solvent stream. The system may reduce the amount of polar solvent necessary for chromatographic separation and/or extraction of desired samples. The system may incorporate a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller allows for efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off-the-shelf HPLC column cartridges. The system may further incorporate the use of one or more disposable cartridges containing silica gel or other suitable medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach, Kim Ferrera, Curtis Ebersold
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Publication number: 20180318747Abstract: Systems and methods of filtering with filter assemblies including a frame having a header structure, an end cap structure, and a plurality of side plates coupling the header structure to the end cap structure are provided. The filter pleated media may include an upstream surface and a downstream surface opposite the upstream surface in a direction of flow through the filter assembly, and the filter pleated media may include a pleated configuration. The filter assemblies may further include a support member coupled to a portion of the frame and along at least one of the upstream surface or the downstream surface of the filter pleated media. The support member may at least partially penetrate the pleated configuration and extend into a pleat of the pleated configuration of the filter pleat media.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Wai Poon, Ryder William Pingry, Chinedu David Chikwem
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Publication number: 20180112896Abstract: Provided is a chiller and system that may be utilized in a supercritical fluid chromatography method, wherein a non-polar solvent may replace a portion or all of a polar solvent for the purpose of separating or extracting desired sample molecules from a combined sample/solvent stream. The system may reduce the amount of polar solvent necessary for chromatographic separation and/or extraction of desired samples. The system may incorporate a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller allows for efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off the shelf HPLC column cartridges. The system may further incorporate the use of one or more disposable cartridges containing silica gel or other suitable medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach, Kim Ferrara, Curtis B. Ebersold
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Publication number: 20170246558Abstract: Provided is a supercritical fluid chromatography system, and components comprising such a system, including one or more of a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel, and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller and the use of the chiller allow efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps in the supercritical chromatography system using liquid-phase gas mobile phase. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off the shelf HPLC column cartridges in the supercritical chromatography system. The cyclonic separator efficiently and effectively allows for separation of sample molecules from a liquid phase or gas phase stream of a supercritical fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2015Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: Supercritical Fluid Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Joseph JAMES, Brian Jeffrey WAIBEL, Kenneth Richard KREWSON, Christopher Joseph McWILLIAMS, Chinedu David CHIKWEM, Daniel Alan BRISACH
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Publication number: 20170189831Abstract: Provided is a supercritical fluid chromatography method, system, and components comprising such a system wherein a non-polar solvent may replace a portion or all of a polar solvent for the purpose of separating or extracting desired sample molecules from a combined sample/solvent stream. The method and system are designed to eliminate or reduce the amount of polar solvent necessary for chromatographic separation and/or extraction of desired samples to less than or equal to twenty percent polar solvent within the total volume concentration of the total solvents used, and the technique may include one or more of a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel, and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller and the use of the chiller allow efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps in the supercritical chromatography system using liquid-phase gas mobile phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Kenneth Joseph James, Brian Jeffrey Waibel, Kenneth Richard Krewson, Christopher Joseph McWilliams, Chinedu David Chikwem, Daniel Alan Brisach, Curtis Ebersold, Kim Ferrara