Patents by Inventor George A. Vaughan

George A. Vaughan 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: 20240083212
    Abstract: An air management system for a vehicle having a first pneumatic circuit and a second pneumatic circuit, in which the first and second pneumatic circuits are pneumatically connected in a neutral position via a cross-flow mechanism. The first pneumatic circuit is configured to independently adjust air pressure of a first side of the vehicle. The second pneumatic circuit is configured to independently adjust air pressure of a second side of the vehicle. The system is configured to establish pneumatic communication between the first and second pneumatic circuits when the air management system is not independently adjusting the adjust air pressure of the first side of the vehicle and the air pressure of the second side of the vehicle in the cross-flow mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: BASE Air Management Limited
    Inventors: Matthew VAUGHAN, David Bryan LEWIS, Joseph CALAWAY, George ARRANTS
  • Patent number: 11311870
    Abstract: A process for reducing the loss of catalyst activity of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst is provided. The process includes preparing a Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalyst by contacting the ZN catalyst with at least one aluminum alkyl compound to produce a reduced ZN catalyst and storing and/or transporting the reduced ZN catalyst for at least 20 days at a temperature of 25° C. or less. The reduced ZN catalyst may be used for polymerizing polyolefin polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Edward F. Smith, George A. Vaughan, Michael Awe, James R. Sollen, Ronald N. Cooke, Sateesh K. Rajput, Ahmed H. Ali
  • Publication number: 20200030785
    Abstract: A process for reducing the loss of catalyst activity of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst is provided. The process includes preparing a Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalyst by contacting the ZN catalyst with at least one aluminum alkyl compound to produce a reduced ZN catalyst and storing and/or transporting the reduced ZN catalyst for at least 20 days at a temperature of 25° C. or less. The reduced ZN catalyst may be used for polymerizing polyolefin polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Edward F. Smith, George A. Vaughan, Michael Awe, James R. Sollen, Ronald N. Cooke, Sateesh K. Rajput, Ahmed H. Ali
  • Patent number: 7600046
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer systems) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick W. Whittle, Vincent L. Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas
  • Patent number: 7469302
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer system(s) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Derrick Wang Whittle, Vincent Louis Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas
  • Publication number: 20080270591
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and computer system for ensuring consistency between data displayed by multiple independent client programs that can simultaneously display server-provided data. The data are accessible only from a server that is not persistently connected to the client computer systems) displaying the data, so the client programs cannot retrieve the data independently without sending a request to the server. Client programs do not poll the server by sending a request to learn that data capable of being displayed by the multiple client programs have been updated. Instead, client programs are notified by the server program receiving the request to change the data at the time the request is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: YAHOO! INC.
    Inventors: Derrick Wang Whittle, Vincent Louis Sollicito, Edward F. Seitz, Brockton Scott Davis, Stephen Kent Owens, Richard George Vaughan, James Zachary Bollas
  • Patent number: 7196148
    Abstract: A 3+ metal complex for coordination polymerization of olefins is disclosed. The precursor metal complex is stabilized by a anionic multidentate ligand and at least two monoanionic ligands. The multidentate ligand and the transition metal form a metallocycle having at least five primary atoms, counting any ?-bound cyclopentadienyl group in the metallocycle as two primary atoms. Olefin polymerization is exemplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Exxon Mobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventor: George A. Vaughan
  • Publication number: 20050032992
    Abstract: The invention comprises an olefin polymerization process comprising contacting ethylene alone or with one or more olefinically unsaturated comonomers with a Group 3-6 metallocene catalyst compound comprising one ?-bonded ring having a C3 or greater hydrocarbyl, hydrocarbylsilyl or hydrocarbylgermyl substituent said substituent bonded to the ring through a primary carbon atom; and, where the compound contains two ?-bonded rings, the total number of substituents on the rings is equal to a number from 3 to 10, said rings being asymmetrically substituted where the number of substituents is 3 or 4. The invention process is particularly suitable for preparing ethylene copolymers having an MIR less than about 35, while retaining narrow CD even at high comonomer incorporation rates, and with certain embodiments providing ethylene copolymers having improved melt strength with the low MIR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Joseph Floyd, Moses Jejelowo, Donna Crowther, George Vaughan, Ching Lue
  • Publication number: 20040024234
    Abstract: A 3+ metal complex for coordination polymerization of olefins is disclosed. The precursor metal complex is stabilized by a anionic multidentate ligand and at least two monoanionic ligands. The multidentate ligand and the transition metal form a metallocycle having at least five primary atoms, counting any &pgr;-bound cyclopentadienyl group in the metallocycle as two primary atoms. Olefin polymerization is exemplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventor: George A Vaughan