Patents by Inventor Christopher S. Liu

Christopher S. Liu 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: 20240138924
    Abstract: A first ultrasonic beacon transmission includes a first pilot signal and a first encoded information signal. An apparatus may detect the first pilot signal and decode, based on the first pilot signal, the first encoded information signal to identify a medical system associated with the first ultrasonic beacon transmission. Based on the first encoded information signal, the apparatus may enter into a first pairing state in which the apparatus is communicatively paired with the medical system. While the apparatus is operating in the first pairing state and within a threshold time of entering the first pairing state, the apparatus may detect a second pilot signal included in a second ultrasonic beacon transmission, which also includes a second encoded information signal. Based on the detection of the second pilot signal within the threshold time, the apparatus may continue operating in the first pairing state without decoding the second encoded information signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: A. Jonathan McLeod, Mahdi Azizian, Alan S Bradley, Christopher R. Burns, Wen Pei Liu
  • Patent number: 5567211
    Abstract: A motor fuel additive composition comprising a mixture of an amido alkanolamine and a polyisobutylene amine is provided. A fuel composition providing intake valve and combustion chamber detergency is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph M. Russo, Christopher S. Liu, Thomas F. DeRosa, Benjamin J. Kaufman, Scott O. Lindholm, James R. Ketcham
  • Patent number: 5520829
    Abstract: Lube oils of improved properties contain ethylene-propylene copolymer bearing moieties derived from the reaction product of allyl glycidyl ether and a heterocyclic amine such as N-(3-aminopropyl) morpholine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Maria M. Kapuscinski, Christopher S. Liu, Larry D. Grina, Ronald E. Jones
  • Patent number: 5448710
    Abstract: Circuitry facilitates configuration of a memory within an interface card. The configuration includes configuring the memory size and the memory address space. A register stores configuration information from the computer system. Control lines are connected to the register and distribute information from the register to locations on the interface card. A comparator produces an output which indicates whether an address on address lines from the computer system is addressing memory locations within the memory. The comparator does this by comparing address bits on a first set of the address lines with control bits on a first set of the control lines. Logical circuitry, connected between a subset of the first set of the address lines and the comparator, is used to mask, from the comparator, address bits on the subset of the first set of address lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventor: Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 5445750
    Abstract: A lubricating oil composition comprising(1) a major portion of a lubricating oil of a base oil viscosity, and(2) a minor portion of an antioxidant-dispersant lubricating additive prepared by the process comprising:(a) reacting a polyethyleneamine with an alkenylsuccinic acid anhydride to form a mono- and/or bis-alkenylsuccinimide;(b) adding to said mono-and/or bis-alkenylsuccinimide, a bis(hydroxyaromatic) substituted carboxylic acid and, optionally, another acylating agent to form an acylated mono-and/or bis-alkenylsuccinimide;(c) recovering said acylated mono-and/or bis-alkenylsuccinimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Chafetz, Christopher S. Liu, Brian L. Papke, Thomas A. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 5075383
    Abstract: An additive composition comprising a graft and amine-derivatized copolymer prepared from ethylene and at least one C.sub.3 to C.sub.10 alpha-monoolefin and, optionally, a polyene selected from non-conjugated dienes and trienes comprising from about 15 to 80 mole percent of ethylene, from about 20 to 85 mole percent of said C.sub.3 to C.sub.10 alpha-monoolefin and from about 0 to 15 mole percent of said polyene, said copolymer having a number average molecular weight ranging from about 5,500 to 50,000 and having grafted thereon at least 1.8 molecules of a carboxylic acid acylating function per molecule of said copolymer and reacting said grafted copolymer with an amino-aromatic polyamine compound from the group consisting of an N-arylphenylenediamine, an aminocarbazole, an aminoindole, an amino-indazolinone, an aminomercaptotriazole, and an amino-perimidine to form said graft and amine-derivatized copolymer, and a lubricating oil composition containing same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Cyril A. Migdal, Theodore E. Nalesnik, Nicholas Benfaremo, Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 4948524
    Abstract: An additive composition prepared by reacting a polymer prepared from ethylene and at least one C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 alpha-monoolefin and optionally a polyene selected from non-conjugated dienes and trienes comprising from about 15 to 80 mole percent of ethylene from about 20 to 85 mole percent of said C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 alpha-monoolefin and from about 0 to 15 mole percent of said polyene and having an average molecular weight ranging from about 5,000 to 500,000 with a nitrosodiphenylamine compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## in which R and R.sup.1 represent hydrogen or an alkyl, alkenyl, or alkoxyl radical having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and a lubricating oil composition containing same is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Maria M. Kapuscinski, Theodore E. Nalesnik, Robert T. Biggs, Harry Chafetz, Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 4904404
    Abstract: A lubricating oil contains, as a multifunctional additive, a polymer such as an ethylene - propylene copolymer, bearing graft moieties derived from allyl glycidyl ether, or glycidyl methacrylate as a graft monomer polymer being functionalized with (i) N-vinyl pyrrolidone and (ii) a Mannich base formed by the reaction p-nonyl phenol, N-(aminoethyl) piperazine, and formaldehyde.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1990
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Nicholas Benfaremo, Maria M. Kapuscinski, Larry D. Grina
  • Patent number: 4877834
    Abstract: A lubricating oil contains a carbon-carbon backbone polymer containing residual unsaturation and bearing graft moieties derived from graft monomers containing ethylenic unsaturation and an epoxide moiety, and bonded to at least one of said graft moieties through an opened epoxide moiety, a Mannich base, prepared by reaction of an amine, an aldehyde, and a hindered phenol containing an active hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Donald J. Clarke, Larry D. Grina
  • Patent number: 4845157
    Abstract: A diesel fuel of improved flow properties at low temperatures which contains a linear, substantially oil-soluble polymer having a carbon-carbon backbone bering a graft moiety derived from, as a graft monomer, an unsaturated-hydrocarbon ester of an (C.sub.1 -C.sub.18) alkyl alcohol containing an ethylenically unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Mark D. Levin, Constance A. Gallagher, Christopher S. Liu, William A. Buscher, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4842756
    Abstract: Lubricating oils of improved oxidative stability, dispersancy, and viscosity index contain ethylene-propylene copolymer bearing allyl glycidyl ether or glycidyl methacrylate graft monomer--which has been functionalized with 2,5-dimethyl aniline or 2,6-dimethyl morpholine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Maria M. Kapuscinski, Larry D. Grina, Ronald E. Jones
  • Patent number: 4836943
    Abstract: An oil containing a viscosity index improver of improved oxidative stability contains, as an anti-oxidant system 2,6-di-t-butylphenol and 1-3-aminopropyl-2-pipecoline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Maria M. Kapuscinski, Christopher S. Liu, Ronald E. Jones, Larry D. Grina
  • Patent number: 4826613
    Abstract: Lubricating oil of improved dispersancy and viscosity index contains ethylene-propylene polymer bearing glycidyl methacrylate graft which as been functionalized with mercaptoacetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Hart, Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 4812261
    Abstract: Lubricating oil of improved dispersancy and anti-oxidancy contains an ethylene-propylene copolymer onto which has been graft polymerized allyl glycidyl ether, the graft polymer having been thereafter functionalized with (i) N-vinyl pyrrolidone and (ii) a Mannich base formed from N-(aminoethyl) piperazine, formaldehyde, and nonyl phenol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Nicholas Benfaremo, Maria M. Kapuscinski, Larry D. Grina
  • Patent number: 4798678
    Abstract: An oil containing a viscosity index improver of improved oxidative stability contains, as an anti-oxidant system, 2,6-di-t-butylphenol and N-aminoethylpiperazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Larry D. Grina, Maria M. Kapuscinski
  • Patent number: 4795577
    Abstract: Lubricating oils of improved properties contain a terpolymer of isocyanatoethyl methacrylate, lauryl methacrylate, and stearyl methacrylate which has been coupled with phenothiazine and 3-dimethylaminopropylamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Hart, Maria M. Kapuscinski, Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 4790948
    Abstract: Lubricating oils of improved properties contain a terpolymer of glycidyl methacrylate, lauryl methacrylate, and stearyl methacrylate which has been functionalized or coupled with phenothiazine and with N-methyl piperazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, William P. Hart, Maria M. Kapuscinski
  • Patent number: 4780230
    Abstract: A lubricating oil contains a carbon-carbon backbone polymer containing residual unsaturation and bearing graft moieties derived from graft monomers containing ethylenic unsaturation and an epoxide moiety, and bonded to at least one of said graft moieties through an opened epoxide moiety, a Mannich base, prepared by reaction of an amine, an aldehyde, and a hindered phenol containing an active hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher S. Liu, Donald J. Clarke, Larry D. Grina
  • Patent number: 4769043
    Abstract: A VII olefin copolymer, prepared by grafting allyl amine onto EPM or EPT, permits attainment of improved dispersancy and viscosity index in oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Maria M. Kapusciniski, Benjamin J. Kaufman, Christopher S. Liu
  • Patent number: 4767553
    Abstract: Lubricating oils of improved properties contain a terpolymer of maleic anhydride, lauryl methacrylate, and stearyl methacrylate which has been functionalized or coupled with phenothiazine and with N-methyl piperazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Hart, Maria M. Kapuscinski, Christopher S. Liu