Patents by Inventor Guy L. McClung

Guy L. McClung 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: 20180113102
    Abstract: Systems for detecting efforts to thwart the sense of smell of service animals and sniffer dogs, and methods for doing same, including systems and methods and systems for detecting the introduction of and for neutralizing the effects of ONM introduced into an area and methods and systems for the controlling the emission of and the direction of the emission of ONM for facilitating encounters with animals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 9784041
    Abstract: A riser having a riser body having an interior surface, an exterior surface, and two spaced-apart ends, at least one identification assembly on the riser body, the identification assembly having an assembly body and a wave energizable apparatus in the body, the assembly body having an interior surface, an exterior surface, and a channel therethrough in which is positioned part of the riser body, the assembly body releasably secured on the riser body, and the wave energizable apparatus positioned within the assembly body. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO L.P.
    Inventors: Nathan Kinert, Leon Ellison, Rheinhold Kammann, Manfred Worms, Clive Lam, Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20170203201
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for word games in which a non-acting player may score points based on a score awarded to an acting player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: GUY L. MCCLUNG, III
  • Publication number: 20160074791
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing nanomaterial from a fluid and/or from a body; and for treating a fluid by passing fluid through a treatment structure, the fluid containing undesirable living things, the treatment structure containing electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver, flowing an electric current in the fluid in the treatment structure via the electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver or silver material to kill undesirable living things in the treatment structure, and killing undesirable things in the treatment structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20160071258
    Abstract: Methods for identifying things or parts of things, e.g., but not limited to, tires or parts of tires, so that responsibility for actions related to the thing or part may be determined; and things with identifier(s) according to the present invention. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20150375234
    Abstract: New, unique and nonobvious materials for wellbore operations produced by pulse combustion, including coating, encapsulating, and/or powderizing; and systems and apparatuses to effect such methods. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20150361760
    Abstract: Wellbore materials with nanomaterial therein, e.g., cements, polymers, composites, shape memory material, swellable material, and epoxies, and systems and methods using such materials, which, in certain aspects, are methods for cementing casing in a wellbore with such cement; the material being heatable material in some aspects, and being one or a combination of electrically resistively heatable material, microwave heatable material, and/or material heatable by the application thereto of a magnetic field. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20150293065
    Abstract: Coatings and heatable coatings containing nanomaterial, which in on aspect is electrically conductive nanomaterial; methods for making such a coating; items with such a coating; and methods for applying such a coating. In one aspect, such a coating is a deicing coating. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Kyle R. Kissell, William D. Stringfellow, John B. Stuart, Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 9023275
    Abstract: Separators and shakers are disclosed with real time monitoring of screen condition; killing apparatus for killing living things in fluid flowing from a separator or shaker; and/or heating apparatus for heating material fed to or flowing from a separator or shaker. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8996382
    Abstract: Systems and methods for inhibiting access to the lips of speaking person including a sound receiving device for receiving speech of a person speaking, the person having lips that move when the person speaks, a blocker connected to the device for blocking the lips of the person speaking while the person is speaking; and, in some aspects, such a blocker with a material addition apparatus to provide added material for the breath of a person speaking, e.g., for preventing the spread of disease or to freshen a speaker's breath. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8973656
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using very small devices, “McNano devices,” to facilitate and enhance operations in the oilpatch. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8911676
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a fluid by passing fluid through a treatment structure, the fluid containing undesirable living things, the treatment structure containing electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver, flowing an electric current in the fluid in the treatment structure via the electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver or silver material to kill undesirable living things in the treatment structure, and killing undesirable things in the treatment structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20140294728
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting efforts to thwart the sense of smell of service animals and sniffer dogs. Methods and systems for detecting the introduction of and for neutralizing the effects of ONM introduced into an area. Methods and systems for the controlling the direction of the emission or ONM or descanter into an area. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8778264
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a fluid by passing fluid through a treatment structure, the fluid containing undesirable living things, the treatment structure containing electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver, flowing an electric current in the fluid in the treatment structure via the electrically conductive nanomaterial with silver or silver material to kill undesirable living things in the treatment structure, and killing undesirable things in the treatment structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8770292
    Abstract: Heatable wellbore material, e.g., cements, polymers, composites, and epoxies, and systems and methods using heatable material, which, in certain aspects, are methods for cementing casing in a wellbore with such cement, the heatable material, in some aspects, being one or a combination of electrically resistively heatable material, microwave heatable material, and/or material heatable by the application thereto of a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20140131945
    Abstract: Word games played so that they can result in a score for a player, a non-acting player; in certain aspects, word games with an element of chance so that a non-acting player can score and/or win against other players and, in certain aspects, a score awarded to a non-acting player based, in whole or in part, on chance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20130333892
    Abstract: Fluids for use in operations involving wellbores and/or earth formations, the fluids including formation protective materials for application to an interior surface of earth and/or of a formation and/or of a fracture and/or of a fluid channel of a fracture; acidizing materials and methods; and, in certain aspects, materials for protecting an earth formation so that acid in acidizing fluids does not cause undesirable formation erosion and/or so that unprotected areas are eroded more than protected areas. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
  • Publication number: 20130277281
    Abstract: Vibratory separators, shale shakers, screens, and screen assemblies, and screening material with nanomaterial thereon and/or therein for strengthening, conductivity enhancement, or both, and methods of using such things. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventor: Guy L. McClung, III
  • Patent number: 8556756
    Abstract: Game apparatus, e.g., a game racquet or a golf club, with selectively variable and maintainable weight distribution, e.g. by moving material (e.g., liquid and/or solid weight members) within or on the apparatus and selectively positioning the weight(s) and maintaining weight position in or on the apparatus; in one aspect, the game apparatus having dual opposed channels for weight members; and in one aspect a set of a plurality of weight members for connection to a game apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Inventors: Karen Therese McClung, Guy L. McClung, III
  • Publication number: 20120244957
    Abstract: Game apparatus, e.g., a game racquet or a golf club, with selectively variable and maintainable weight distribution, e.g. by moving material (e.g., liquid and/or solid weight members) within or on the apparatus and selectively positioning the weight(s) and maintaining weight position in or on the apparatus; in one aspect, the game apparatus having dual opposed channels for weight members; and in one aspect a set of a plurality of weight members for connection to a game apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Karen Therese McClung, Guy L. McClung, III