Patents by Inventor Edward Farina

Edward Farina 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: 20060280657
    Abstract: An improved mounting bracket for securing a sensor element to a frame, the mounting bracket also adapted for quick release of a damaged sensor. One embodiment has ledges formed at the upper intersections of a pair of sidewalls and the back wall with a depending rail to exert a downward pressure on a vertically mounted sensor while an alternate embodiment has a pair of upwardly extending flexible tabs and two rounded fingers sized and distanced apart to match thru-holes in the sensor, thereby enabling a horizontally mounted sensor to be accurately positioned upon the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Edward Farina, Russell Butler
  • Patent number: 6582627
    Abstract: A highly stable liquid formulation having broad spectrum preservative properties which constitutes an admixture of an alkanol-substituted DMH, an iodopropynyl compound, a stabilizer of a hydantoin, urea or derivative thereof, and a hydroxyl solvent. Preferably the constituents are dimethyloldimethylhydantoin, 3-iodo-2-propynyl-butyl carbamate, dimethylhydantoin, and a glycol solvent. The preservative preferably has a total formaldehyde content of 5% and less than 0.2% of free formaldehyde. The composition is prepared by successively admixing the alkanol-substituted dimethyl-hydantoin and the stabilizer, the hydroxyl solvent, and the iodopropynyl compound. Also described is a stabilized iodopropynyl compound preferably containing dimethylhydantoin as the stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Lonza Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Jay Lutz, Susan Alcorn Ban, Thomas Edward Farina
  • Patent number: 6143204
    Abstract: A highly stable liquid formulation having broad spectrum preservative properties which constitutes an admixture of a dialkanol-substituted DMH, an iodopropynyl compound, a stabilizer of a hydantoin, urea or derivative thereof, and a hydroxyl solvent. Preferably the constituents are dimethyloldimethylhydantoin, 3-iodo-2-propynylbutyl carbamate, dimethylhydantoin, and a glycol solvent. The preservative preferably has a total formaldehyde content of 5% and less than 0.2% of free formaldehyde. The composition is prepared by successively admixing the dialkanol-substituted dimethylhydantoin and the stabilizer, the hydroxyl solvent, and the iodopropynyl compound. Also described is a stabilized iodopropynyl compound preferably containing dimethylhydantoin as the stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Lonza Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Jay Lutz, Susan Alcorn Ban, Thomas Edward Farina
  • Patent number: 5750061
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing solid halogenated hydantoin products using the process of melt extrusion. The form of the products which can be produced includes tablets, briquettes, pucks, dispensers, "designer" forms such as Christmas ornaments, pellets, and granules. The halogenated hydantoin compounds used in the forms contain methylethylhydantoin or an admixture of methylethylhydantoin and dimethylhydantoin. The halogenated hydantoin compositions used to make the forms can also include additives such as solubility modifiers, compaction aids, fillers, surfactants, dyes, fragrances, dispersants, lubricants, mold releases, detergent builders, corrosion inhibitors, chelants, stabilizers, biocides, bromide sources, or oxidizing halogen compositions. The present invention is also the product which is made via the melt extrusion method. The invention also is a method of obtaining an improved feedstock via melt extrusion and the improved feedstock product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Lonza Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Farina, Kenneth Scott Geick, Julia Anne Falter