Patents by Inventor John Aiken

John Aiken 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: 20080017224
    Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Schrible, Robb Gardner, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
  • Publication number: 20070261294
    Abstract: Biodiesel fuels are produced efficiently and at low cost from waste oil feeds containing high concentrations of fatty acids. By first producing an ester of a water immiscible alcohol, water of reaction from the esterification can be easily stripped out with and separated from the alcohol, which is recycled to the esterification reaction. Subsequent transesterification with glycerin produces a feed with a sufficiently low acid value to allow methanolysis using a basic catalyst to proceed rapidly without consumption of large quantities of catalyst or organic acid salt formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventor: John Aiken
  • Publication number: 20070149436
    Abstract: Water-soluble copolymers which comprise, in copolymerized form, (a) 60 to 99% by weight of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated polyalkylene oxide monomer of the formula I H2C?CR1—X—YR2—OnR3 ??I ?in which the variables have the following meanings: ?X is —CH2— or —C(O)—, if Y is —O—; is —C(O)—, if Y is —NH—; is —O— or —O—(CH2)4—, if Y is a chemical bond; ?Y is —O—, —NH— or a chemical bond; ?R1 is hydrogen or methyl; ?R2 is C2-C4-alkylene radicals, which may be identical or different and also linear or branched, but where at least 50% of the radicals R2 are ethylene; ?R3 is C1-C22-alkyl, phenyl, p-(C1-C12-alkyl)phenyl or hydrogen; ?n is an integer from 6 to 50, (b) 1 to 40% by weight of at least one nonquaternized dipolar monomer comprising at least one nitrogen atom, (c) 0 to 39% by weight of other nonionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and (d) 0 to 10% by weight of other anionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomers and have an average molecular weight Mw of from 2000 to 500 00
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Boeckh, Thomas Pfeiffer, Stefan Becker, Marcus Guzmann, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken
  • Publication number: 20060240728
    Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Scheibel, Robb Gardner, Pramond Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
  • Publication number: 20060240727
    Abstract: Compositions or products containing ionic liquids and methods of using the same are also disclosed. Specifically, ionic liquids suitable for use in fabric, hard surface or air treating compositions are disclosed. Also disclosed are ionic liquid cocktails comprising three or more different and charged ionic liquid components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth Price, Richard Hartshorn, Robert Rohrbaugh, William Scheper, Michael Showell, Keith Baker, Mark Sivik, Jeffrey Scheibel, Robb Gardner, Pramod Reddy, John Aiken, Michael Addison
  • Publication number: 20050141506
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products provide communications with a plurality of application instances using a plurality of communication protocol stacks and a single Internet Protocol (IP) address. A stack is established as a routing stack associated with the single IP address. Other stacks which are associated with the single IP address are defined as candidate target stacks and an identification of candidate target stacks and the routing stack is distributed to the stacks. The routing stack is notified when an application associated with a candidate target stack listens to a port of the IP address to establish a current actual target stack. A request to establish a connection to the IP address and the port of the IP address is received and a routing table entry corresponding to the current actual target stack is created to provide a routing path from the routing stack to the current actual target stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: John Aiken, Alfred Christensen, Wesley Devine, David Herr, Mark McClintock
  • Publication number: 20050050202
    Abstract: Connections from a client to respective ones of a plurality of application instances that receive data from a shared communication protocol stack are assigned by defining an affinity between the client and a corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are assigned to the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are distributed to selected ones of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is not defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: John Aiken, Sue Huang, Mark McClintock