Patents by Inventor Clint Bickmore

Clint Bickmore 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).

  • Method of making composite particles with tailored surface characteristics
    Publication number: 20060150770
    Abstract: The invention describes a procedure to make metal containing composite particles and composite particle suspensions. The procedure is versatile and can produce particles with a variety of particle sizes and compositions. For some applications the metal composite particles can provide the functionality of wholly metallic particles including configurations where the metal is located on the particle surface. Such metals have application in a wide variety of fields, including accomplishing electrochemical reduction and catalysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: John Freim, Clint Bickmore
  • Combustion of emulsions: A method and process for producing fine powders
    Patent number: 5984997
    Abstract: A process for producing nanoscale powders, and the powders so produced. The process comprises mixing an emulsion comprising all of the elements of the desired powder composition and a combustible fuel, and then combusting that emulsion to produce a powder. Powders with a median particle size of less than 50 nm have been made by this process. The process is suitable for the production of many types of powders, including particles and nanowhiskers of simple, doped, and polymetallic powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Nanomaterials Research Corporation
    Inventors: Clint Bickmore, Benjamin Galde, Tapesh Yadav, John Freim