Patents by Inventor John A. Vermersch

John A. Vermersch 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).

  • Systems and methods for transporting fluids in containers
    Patent number: 6877454
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods for transporting fluids in containers are provided. Such improved systems and methods include floatable container vessels having one or more fluid containers and self-propelled marine transportation vessels that are adapted to be ballasted downwardly to permit the floatable container vessels to be floated onto or off of the marine transportation vessels, and are adapted to be deballasted so as to raise the floatable container vessels out of the water for transportation to another location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Ronald R. Bowen, Richard B. Harley, John A. Vermersch, W. Brett Wilson
  • Systems and methods for transporting fluids in containers
    Publication number: 20020178988
    Abstract: Improved systems and methods for transporting fluids in containers are provided. Such improved systems and methods include floatable container vessels having one or more fluid containers and self-propelled marine transportation vessels that are adapted to be ballasted downwardly to permit the floatable container vessels to be floated onto or off of the marine transportation vessels, and are adapted to be deballasted so as to raise the floatable container vessels out of the water for transportation to another location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Ronald R. Bowen, Richard B. Harley, John A. Vermersch, W. Brett Wilson