Patents by Inventor Gerald Ivan Brown

Gerald Ivan Brown 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).

  • Fuel composition
    Patent number: 6015441
    Abstract: A fuel oil composition comprising: (A) a major proportion of a middle distillate petroleum fuel having a wax content of less than 2 wt % at 10.degree. C. below the wax appearance point of the fuel, and either: (i) a final boiling point of greater than 355.degree. C. and either a (90-20%) distillation range of greater than 115 .degree. C. or a (FBP-90%) distillation range of 30.degree. C. or greater; or (ii) a final boiling point of greater than 360.degree. C. and either a (90-20%) distillation range of greater than 110.degree. C. or a (FBP-90%) distillation range of 25.degree. C. or greater; or (iii) a final boiling point of greater than 370.degree. C. and either a (90-20%) distillation range of greater than 100.degree. C. or a (FBP-90%) distillation range of 250.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Ivan Brown, Kevin John Morton, Martin John Flannigan
  • Fuel oil compositions
    Patent number: 5906663
    Abstract: Additive compositions comprising an ethylene/vinyl acetate or propionate/vinyl branched carboxylate terpolymer and an ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymer improve the low temperature properties of fuel oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Ivan Brown, Dhanesh Gordon Goberdhan
  • Oil compositions
    Patent number: 5716915
    Abstract: Additives having certain hydrocarbyl groups improve the low temperature properties of hydrocarbon oils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Ivan Brown, Lain More, Robert Dryden Tack, Brian William Davies, Derek A. Towe