Patents by Inventor Kathleen DiZio

Kathleen DiZio 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).

  • Mitigating Environment, Health, and Safety Complications
    Publication number: 20130041894
    Abstract: A method of identifying a substitute chemical includes receiving, at a computer, a trial set of properties that describes a function in a desired chemical process of a chemical for substitution, performing a distributed search using objective similarity criteria based on the trial set of properties to identify a first set of candidate chemicals, prioritizing the first set of candidate chemicals into a second set of candidate chemicals, determining Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) data parameter values for each chemical of the second set of candidate chemicals, normalizing disparate EHS data parameter values into associated EHS properties, prioritizing the second set of candidate chemicals into a third set of candidate chemicals, and prioritizing the third set of candidate chemicals into a fourth set of candidate chemicals according to the risk posed by the desired chemical process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kathleen A. DiZio, John A. Fitzsimmons, Richard J. Melville, David E. Speed, Ernest L. Timlin, JR., Connie-Nga T. Truong
  • Method of making liquid crystal composite which has interfacial material disposed between liquid crystal and encapsulating medium
    Patent number: 5585947
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for making a liquid crystal composite in which droplets of a liquid crystal material are dispersed in a polymer matrix. At least one further material separates the liquid crystal material from the polymer matrix. This construction permits the polymer matrix to be selected on the basis of its environmental properties and the further material to be selected on the basis of its orientational interactions with liquid crystal material. Light valves made from such a composite exhibit improved electro-optical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventors: John Havens, Kathleen DiZio, Anne Gonzales, Robert H. Reamey, Harriette Atkins, Jinlong Cheng
  • Method of making liquid crystal composite
    Patent number: 5405551
    Abstract: A method is described for making a liquid crystal composite in which droplets of a liquid crystal material dispersed in a matrix material. An encapsulating material at least partially separates the liquid crystal material from the matrix material. This construction permits the matrix material to be selected on the basis of its processing and environmental properties and the encapsulating material to be selected on the basis of its emulsifying ability and orientational interactions with liquid crystal material. Light valves made from such a composite exhibit improved electro-optical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventors: Robert H. Reamey, John Mazzanti, Mark Wartenberg, Gil Garza, John Havens, Anne Gonzales, Kathleen DiZio, Harriette Atkins, Kevin Malloy