Patents by Inventor Mark Alan Lewis

Mark Alan Lewis 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: 20250002418
    Abstract: A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: mixing particles of an inorganic material with a liquid vehicle and a binder material to form a liquid-particulate-binder stream; mixing the liquid-particulate-binder stream with an atomizing gas, directing the liquid-particulate-binder stream into an atomizing nozzle thereby atomizing the particles into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of the liquid vehicle, he binder material, and the particles; conveying the droplets toward the plugged honeycomb body by a gaseous carrier stream, wherein the gaseous carrier stream comprises a carrier gas and the atomizing gas; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the deposited agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Fei Xia, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Publication number: 20240400465
    Abstract: A filtration article having a honeycomb filter body that includes a plurality of intersecting porous walls including surfaces that define a plurality of channels extending in a longitudinal direction from an inlet end to an outlet end. The plurality of channels includes inlet channels that are open at the inlet end and sealed at locations longitudinally spaced away from the inlet end, and outlet channels that are open at the outlet end and sealed at locations longitudinally spaced away from the outlet end. Inorganic deposits are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, at least some of the walls. The inorganic deposits are bound to each other, to the walls, or to both, by a silicon-containing precursor binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: William Peter Addiego, Xiaoran Fang, Thomas Jean Glasson, Roychelle Sheneen Ingram-Ogunwumi, Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Patent number: 12129208
    Abstract: Green ceramic batch mixtures include: at least one inorganic batch component, preferably cordierite; at least one binder, preferably polyisoprene, poly(vinyl formal), poly(vinyl methyl ether), polybutadiene carboxy terminated; and an inverse emulsion having a continuous phase, an aqueous dispersed phase, and at least one emulsifier, preferably at least one functionalized silicone compound having at least one functional group chosen from a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, hydroxyl-terminated ethylene oxide groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Patent number: 12116321
    Abstract: A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: mixing particles of an inorganic material with a liquid vehicle and a binder material to form a liquid-particulate-binder stream; mixing the liquid-particulate-binder stream with an atomizing gas, directing the liquid-particulate-binder stream into an atomizing nozzle thereby atomizing the particles into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of the liquid vehicle, the binder material, and the particles; conveying the droplets toward the plugged honeycomb body by a gaseous carrier stream, wherein the gaseous carrier stream comprises a carrier gas and the atomizing gas; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the deposited agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Fei Xia, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Patent number: 12091366
    Abstract: Filtration articles herein exhibit excellent filtration efficiency and pressure drop before and after water durability testing. The articles comprise: a honeycomb filter body; inorganic deposits disposed within the honeycomb filter body at a loading of less than or equal to 20 grams of the inorganic deposits per liter of the honeycomb filter body. The inorganic deposits are comprised of refractory inorganic nanoparticles bound by a high temperature binder comprising one or more inorganic components. At least a portion of the inorganic deposits form a porous inorganic network over portions of inlet walls of the honeycomb filter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: William Peter Addiego, Xiaoran Fang, Thomas Jean Glasson, Roychelle Sheneen Ingram-Ogunwumi, Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Publication number: 20240277492
    Abstract: A prosthetic coupling device includes an internal mount including a proximate shaft portion and a distal mounting portion, a threaded sleeve formed around the distal mounting portion of the internal mount, the threaded sleeve including outer threads, and a rotatable barrel formed around the proximate shaft portion and the distal mounting portion of the internal mount, the rotatable barrel including internal barrel threads that interface with the outer threads of the threaded sleeve. The prosthetic coupling device further includes a detachable coupler formed to fit within the distal mounting portion of the internal mount, the detachable coupler including a coupler detent formed on a radially external surface of the detachable coupler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Patent number: 11718824
    Abstract: An aqueous cell culture medium composition includes an aqueous cell culture solution configured to support the culture of mammalian cells. The composition further includes a synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide dissolved in the aqueous cell culture solution. The synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide is configured to attach to the surface of a cell culture article under cell culture conditions. Incubation of the aqueous cell culture medium composition on a cell culture surface under cell culture conditions results is attachment to the surface of the synthetic polymer conjugated to the polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Caracci, David Henry, Jessica Jo Kelley, Mark Alan Lewis, Yue Zhou
  • Patent number: 11505499
    Abstract: Green ceramic mixtures include at least one inorganic component, at least one organic binder, and a stable emulsion including at least one lubricant, at least one aqueous solvent, and at least one emulsifier. Methods for forming ceramic bodies include forming a green ceramic mixture including a stable emulsion and extruding the green ceramic mixture. The methods and green ceramic mixtures can be used to produce green and fired ceramic bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20220055949
    Abstract: Green ceramic batch mixtures include: at least one inorganic batch component, preferably cordierite; at least one binder, preferably polyisoprene, poly(vinyl formal), poly(vinyl methyl ether), polybutadiene carboxy terminated; and an inverse emulsion having a continuous phase, an aqueous dispersed phase, and at least one emulsifier, preferably at least one functionalized silicone compound having at least one functional group chosen from a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, hydroxyl-terminated ethylene oxide groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20220033309
    Abstract: Green ceramic mixture for extruding into an extruded green body includes one or more inorganic components selected from the group consisting of ceramic ingredients, inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients, and combinations thereof, at least one mineral oil, and from about 0.01 wt % to about 0.45 wt % of an antioxidant based on a total weight of the inorganic component(s), by super addition. The mineral oil has a kinematic viscosity of ?about 1.9 cSt at 100° C. The at least one antioxidant may have a degradation-rate peak temperature that is greater than the degradation-rate peak temperature of the at least one mineral oil. In some embodiments, the at least one mineral oil includes greater than about 20 wt % alkanes with greater than 20 carbons, based on a total weight of the at least one mineral oil. Methods of making an unfired extruded body using the batch mixture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Castilone, Cecilia Sarah Flynn, Mark Alan Lewis, William Joseph Murray, Manivannan Ravichandran, Rachel Marie Shaver, Molly Kyser Walton
  • Publication number: 20210284957
    Abstract: An aqueous cell culture medium composition includes an aqueous cell culture solution configured to support the culture of mammalian cells. The composition further includes a synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide dissolved in the aqueous cell culture solution. The synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide is configured to attach to the surface of a cell culture article under cell culture conditions. Incubation of the aqueous cell culture medium composition on a cell culture surface under cell culture conditions results is attachment to the surface of the synthetic polymer conjugated to the polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Caracci, David Henry, Jessica Jo Kelley, Mark Alan Lewis, Yue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210197105
    Abstract: Methods for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: atomizing particles of an inorganic material into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of an aqueous vehicle, a binder material, and the particles, evaporating substantially all of the aqueous vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material, and depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body, wherein the agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls. Plugged honeycomb bodies comprising porous walls and inorganic material deposited thereon are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Yunfeng Gu, Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Patent number: 11046931
    Abstract: An aqueous cell culture medium composition includes an aqueous cell culture solution configured to support the culture of mammalian cells. The composition further includes a synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide dissolved in the aqueous cell culture solution. The synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide is configured to attach to the surface of a cell culture article under cell culture conditions. Incubation of the aqueous cell culture medium composition on a cell culture surface under cell culture conditions results is attachment to the surface of the synthetic polymer conjugated to the polypeptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Coming Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Caracci, David Henry, Jessica Jo Kelley, Mark Alan Lewis, Yue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210179501
    Abstract: A method for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: mixing particles of an inorganic material with a liquid vehicle and a binder material to form a liquid-particulate-binder stream; mixing the liquid-particulate-binder stream with an atomizing gas, directing the liquid-particulate-binder stream into an atomizing nozzle thereby atomizing the particles into liquid-particulate-binder droplets comprised of the liquid vehicle, he binder material, and the particles; conveying the droplets toward the plugged honeycomb body by a gaseous carrier stream, wherein the gaseous carrier stream comprises a carrier gas and the atomizing gas; evaporating substantially all of the liquid vehicle from the droplets to form agglomerates comprised of the particles and the binder material; depositing the agglomerates onto the porous walls of the plugged honeycomb body; wherein the deposited agglomerates are disposed on, or in, or both on and in, the porous walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Alan Lewis, Cai Liu, Dale Robert Powers, Todd Parrish St Clair, Jianguo Wang, Huiqing Wu, Fei Xia, Xinfeng Xing, Danhong Zhong
  • Publication number: 20200361825
    Abstract: Green ceramic batch mixtures include at least one inorganic batch component, at least one organic binder, and a water-in-oil emulsion including at least one lubricant, at least one aqueous solvent, and at least one emulsifier. Methods for forming ceramic bodies include forming a green ceramic batch mixture including a water-in-oil emulsion and extruding the green ceramic batch mixture. The methods and batch mixtures can be used to produce green and fired ceramic bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20200317580
    Abstract: Green ceramic mixtures include at least one inorganic component, at least one organic binder, and a stable emulsion including at least one lubricant, at least one aqueous solvent, and at least one emulsifier. Methods for forming ceramic bodies include forming a green ceramic mixture including a stable emulsion and extruding the green ceramic mixture. The methods and green ceramic mixtures can be used to produce green and fired ceramic bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Alan Lewis
  • Publication number: 20200231506
    Abstract: Green ceramic mixture for extruding into an extruded green body includes one or more inorganic components selected from the group consisting of ceramic ingredients, inorganic ceramic-forming ingredients, and combinations thereof, at least one mineral oil, and from about 0.01 wt % to about 0.45 wt % of an antioxidant based on a total weight of the inorganic component(s), by super addition. The mineral oil has a kinematic viscosity of ?about 1.9 cSt at 100° C. The at least one antioxidant may have a degradation-rate peak temperature that is greater than the degradation-rate peak temperature of the at least one mineral oil. In some embodiments, the at least one mineral oil includes greater than about 20 wt % alkanes with greater than 20 carbons, based on a total weight of the at least one mineral oil. Methods of making an unfired extruded body using the batch mixture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Castilone, Cecilia Sarah Flynn, Mark Alan Lewis, William Joseph Murray, Manivannan Ravichandran, Rachel Marie Shaver, Molly Kyser Walton
  • Publication number: 20200109363
    Abstract: An aqueous cell culture medium composition includes an aqueous cell culture solution configured to support the culture of mammalian cells. The composition further includes a synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide dissolved in the aqueous cell culture solution. The synthetic polymer conjugated to a polypeptide is configured to attach to the surface of a cell culture article under cell culture conditions. Incubation of the aqueous cell culture medium composition on a cell culture surface under cell culture conditions results is attachment to the surface of the synthetic polymer conjugated to the polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Caracci, David Henry, Jessica Jo Kelley, Mark Alan Lewis, Yue Zhou
  • Patent number: 10603633
    Abstract: Disclosed is a honeycomb support structure comprising a honeycomb body and an outer layer or skin formed of a cement that includes an inorganic filler material having a first coefficient of thermal expansion from 25 C to 600 C and a crystalline inorganic fibrous material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion from 25 C to 600 C. Skin cement composition controls level of cement liquid/colloid components, for example water, colloidal silica, and methylcellulose migration into the substrate during the skin application process to form barrier to skin wetting and staining during the washcoating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Keith Norman Bubb, Thomas Richard Chapman, Kenneth Joseph Drury, Christopher Lane Kerr, Mark Alan Lewis, Robert John Locker, Huthavahana Kuchibhotla Sarma, Todd Parrish St Clair
  • Patent number: 10497898
    Abstract: A laser weldable device housing substrate, device housing and related method are provided. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a thin inorganic particle layer supported by the first surface. The inorganic particle layer includes a plurality of particles arranged in a layer on the first surface. The particles have an average diameter of less than or equal to 1.0 ?m, and the inorganic particle layer has an average thickness of less than or equal to 5 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Heather Debra Boek, Theresa Chang, Leonard Charles Dabich, II, Mark Alan Lewis, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Mark Alejandro Quesada, Wageesha Senaratne, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov