Patents by Inventor Ian Ernest Maxwell

Ian Ernest Maxwell 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).

  • Screening crystallization conditions of organic compounds
    Publication number: 20030153089
    Abstract: A method for identifying crystallization conditions for at least one analyte, including providing a set of compositions, each composition comprising at least one analyte, and inducing or allowing each composition to adopt at least a first condition possibly influencing crystallization and detecting any crystallization in at least one composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Maxim Emile Kuil, Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaeker, Jan Pieter Abrahams, Ian Ernest Maxwell, Jasper Rikkert Plaisier
  • Process for the preparation of hydrocarbons from carbon monoxide and hydrogen
    Patent number: 6479557
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of at least two organic products from a synthesis gas by (i) converting a first synthesis gas feed to a first organic product and a first by-product; (ii) converting a second synthesis gas feed to a second organic product and a second by-product; (iii) separating the first and/or second by-product from, respectively, the first and/or second organic product, and (iv) mixing the separated first and/or second by-product with, respectively, the second and/or first organic product. Preferably, the first organic product is paraffinic hydrocarbons or oxygenates and the second organic product is olefinic hydrocarbons or oxygenates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Lange, Ian Ernest Maxwell, Bob Scheffer