Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Frank

Jeffrey A. Frank 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: 20200148562
    Abstract: A method treats an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method includes adding treatment agents to an aqueous system wherein said treatment agents include (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) a compound having formula: M(XO2)n wherein: M is a Group I or Group II metal; X is a halogen; and n is 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey Frank KRAMER, Christy Colleen WENTWORTH
  • Patent number: 10570033
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one example, there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method includes adding treatment agents to an aqueous system wherein said treatment agents include: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) a compound having formula: M(XO2)n wherein: M is a Group I or Group II metal; X is a halogen; and n is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ITALMATCH CHEMICALS GB LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Frank Kramer, Christy Colleen Wentworth
  • Patent number: 10538442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method comprises adding treatment agents to said aqueous system and wherein said treatment agents comprise: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) a halogen oxide compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BWA WATER ADDITIVES UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeffrey Frank Kramer
  • Publication number: 20190292490
    Abstract: Processes of making liquid household care compositions, wherein input materials include liquid base compositions that are characterized as having a relatively low Reserve Alkalinity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas James WILDEMUTH, Jeffrey Frank OMNITZ, Scott William CAPECI, Sarah Ann DELANEY
  • Patent number: 10322444
    Abstract: An apparatus for rotating an inner stamped part with respect to an outer stamped part is provided. The inner stamped part is nested within an aperture formed within the outer stamped part. The apparatus includes a plurality of grippers that include at least a first gripper positioned at a first edge of the inner stamped part and a second gripper positioned at a second edge of the inner stamped part opposite to the first edge. The plurality of grippers is configured to grip the inner stamped part at the first edge and the second edge, respectively. The plurality of grippers is further configured to rotate the gripped inner stamped part about an axis of rotation. The axis of rotation intersects the first gripper and the second gripper. The plurality of grippers is also configured to open to release the inner stamped part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: William R. Moore, Emily Germann, Paul Adams Thompson, John Scott McQueen, Jeffrey Frank Teubl
  • Publication number: 20190169537
    Abstract: Processes of making liquid detergent compositions that include zwitterionic surfactant, such as amine oxide surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas James WILDEMUTH, Jeffrey Frank OMNITZ
  • Publication number: 20190144742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to friction reducers and to well treatment fluids. In one embodiment there is provided a friction reducing composition comprising (a) a phosphonium compound and (b) a polymeric friction reducer. In a further embodiment there is provided a well treatment fluid comprising a phosphonium compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Jeffrey Frank Kramer
  • Patent number: 10233296
    Abstract: A method is presented for forming a collapsed foam film-like structure, the method including positioning a composition applicator adjacent to a hot non-permeable dryer surface, producing a first frothed dispersion or frothed solution from a first dispersion or solution, applying the first frothed dispersion or frothed solution to the dryer surface, allowing the first frothed dispersion or frothed solution to convert to a collapsed foam film-like structure, and scraping the collapsed foam film-like structure from the dryer surface. The method can further include producing a second dispersion or solution, blending the first dispersion or solution and the second dispersion or solution, frothing the blended dispersion or solution, applying the blended frothed dispersion or frothed solution to the dryer surface, and allowing the frothed dispersion or frothed solution to convert to a collapsed foam film-like structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Keyur Desai, Jian Qin, Jeffrey Frank Jurena, Frank Paul Abuto, Susan Elaine Shawver, Donald Eugene Waldroup, Deborah Joy Calewarts
  • Patent number: 10214684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to friction reducers and to well treatment fluids. In one embodiment there is provided a friction reducing composition comprising (a) a phosphonium compound and (b) a polymeric friction reducer. In a further embodiment there is provided a well treatment fluid comprising a phosphonium compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BWA WATER ADDITIVES UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Jeffrey Frank Kramer
  • Publication number: 20180362892
    Abstract: A multi-composition system that includes a first composition having a bleaching system, and a second composition having core-in-shell encapsulates, where the shell includes acrylate material, and where the core includes a benefit agent. Related methods of treating a fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Dennis Allen BECKHOLT, Nalini CHAWLA, Mario Elmen TREMBLAY, Jeffrey Frank OMNITZ, Xinbei SONG
  • Patent number: 10133995
    Abstract: In some examples, a service provider may determine, for a time of day and a day of a week, orders received by individual merchants of a plurality of merchants over a past period of time. The service provider may further determine, for the time of day and day of the week, based at least in part on the orders received over the past period of time, a first merchant predicted to receive an order. Based at least in part on a pickup location of the first merchant, the service provider may send a communication to a first courier device associated with a first courier of a plurality of couriers. For example, the communication may include location information for a recommended location to which the first courier is to move to be in position for picking up an order from the merchant that is predicted to receive the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Lee Reiss, Ajit Kalidindi Varma, Jeffrey Frank Iacono, Richard David Din
  • Patent number: 10043149
    Abstract: In some examples, a service provider may receive, from a buyer device, a first order for a first item to be prepared by a first merchant. The service provider may determine a second item offered by the first merchant, or another merchant, that can be added on to the first order by determining a preparation time for the first item, and determining that the second item offered by the first merchant, or the other merchant, has a preparation time less than the preparation time for the first item. The service provider may further determine a threshold time for ordering the second item based on a difference between the preparations time for the first item and the second item. The threshold time may be presented on the buyer device to indicate an amount of time the buyer has to add the second item to the first order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Frank Iacono, Benjamin R. Bernstein, David S. Howland
  • Publication number: 20180216029
    Abstract: Concentrated surfactant compositions that include an alkyl alkoxylated sulfate surfactant and an alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine, and process for making such compositions. Detergent compositions made from such concentrated surfactant compositions, and process for making such detergent compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Douglas James WILDEMUTH, Jeffrey Frank OMNITZ, Nicole Lee ARLEDGE, Patrick Christopher STENGER, Scott William CAPECI
  • Publication number: 20180201451
    Abstract: An apparatus for rotating an inner stamped part with respect to an outer stamped part is provided. The inner stamped part is nested within an aperture formed within the outer stamped part. The apparatus includes a plurality of grippers that include at least a first gripper positioned at a first edge of the inner stamped part and a second gripper positioned at a second edge of the inner stamped part opposite to the first edge. The plurality of grippers is configured to grip the inner stamped part at the first edge and the second edge, respectively. The plurality of grippers is further configured to rotate the gripped inner stamped part about an axis of rotation. The axis of rotation intersects the first gripper and the second gripper. The plurality of grippers is also configured to open to release the inner stamped part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: William R. Moore, Emily Germann, Paul Adams Thompson, John Scott McQueen, Jeffrey Frank Teubl
  • Patent number: 10004233
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method comprises adding treatment agents to said aqueous system and wherein said treatment agents comprise: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) an oxazolidine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: BWA Water Additives UK Limited
    Inventor: Jeffrey Frank Kramer
  • Patent number: 9957173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method comprises adding treatment agents to said aqueous system and wherein said treatment agents comprise: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) an nitro compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BWA Water Additives UK Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey Frank Kramer, Christy Colleen Wentworth
  • Publication number: 20170327391
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one example, there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method includes adding treatment agents to an aqueous system wherein said treatment agents include: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) a compound having formula: M(XO2)n wherein: M is a Group I or Group II metal; X is a halogen; and n is 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: BWA WATER ADDITIVES UK LIMITED
    Inventors: JEFFREY FRANK KRAMER, CHRISTY COLLEEN WENTWORTH
  • Patent number: 9753104
    Abstract: A conditioning system includes a sample chamber capable of receiving a specimen as well as first and second specimen-holding fixtures positioned within the sample chamber and configured to apply mechanical stimulation to a specimen held by the fixtures. The system has at least one port capable of providing a fluid to the sample chamber. The chamber is sized and shaped so that it can be inserted into an imaging device which can record images of a specimen held by the fixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: TA Instruments-Waters L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kyle P. Duffin, Jason L. Chinavare, Thomas M. Hays, Troy D. Nickel, Chrysanthi Williams, Anthony Blythe, Jeffrey Frank Dunn, Steven Michael Jones, Janet Lenore Ronsky
  • Publication number: 20170101331
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method comprises adding treatment agents to said aqueous system and wherein said treatment agents comprise: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) an nitro compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: JEFFREY FRANK KRAMER, CHRISTY COLLEEN WENTWORTH
  • Publication number: 20170094975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to water treatment. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating an aqueous system to inhibit growth of one or more micro-organisms therein and/or to reduce the number of live micro-organisms therein. The method comprises adding treatment agents to said aqueous system and wherein said treatment agents comprise: (a) a phosphonium compound; and (b) an oxazolidine compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventor: JEFFREY FRANK KRAMER