Patents by Inventor Mark O'Daniel

Mark O'Daniel 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).

  • Antireflective coatings for high-resolution photolithographic synthesis of DNA arrays
    Patent number: 8859196
    Abstract: The present invention provides an array of polymers and methods of forming arrays of polymers by providing a substrate having a first layer including one or more dielectric coatings on a solid support and a second layer including a plurality of polymers disposed on the first layer. The invention also provides methods for forming an array of polymers on a substrate using light-directed synthesis by providing a substrate having a first layer including one or more dielectric coatings on a solid support, derivatizing the first layer by contacting the first layer with a silanation reagent, and a second layer disposed on said first layer wherein the second layer includes functional groups protected with a photolabile protecting group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Affymetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark O. Trulson, Glenn H. McGall, Bei-Shen Sywe, Lisa T. Kajisa, Dana Truong, Richard P. Rava, Martin J. Goldberg
  • Combined column for separating products of different hydrogenation reactors
    Patent number: 8853469
    Abstract: Recovery of ethanol from a crude product comprising ethyl acetate obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid. The crude product is separated to form an organic stream that may be subjected to hydrogenolysis to form ethanol. The organic phase may comprise ethyl acetate is reacted via hydrogenolysis form ethanol that may be directly or indirectly fed to the separation zone or the hydrogenation reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Victor J. Johnston, David Lee, Mark O. Scates, R. Jay Warner, Heiko Weiner, Radmila Wollrab, Zhenhua Zhou, Emily Duff, Andrew Shuff
  • Integrated process for producing ethanol
    Patent number: 8853467
    Abstract: Processes and systems for forming ethanol from methanol. The process involves carbonylating the methanol to form acetic acid and hydrogenating the acetic acid to form ethanol. In a first aspect, at least some hydrogen for the hydrogenating step is derived from a tail gas stream formed in the carbonylation step. In a second aspect, at least some carbon monoxide for the carbonylation step is derived from a vapor stream in the hydrogenation system. In a third aspect, a syngas stream is separated to form a hydrogen stream and a carbon monoxide stream, and the hydrogen stream is methanated to remove residual carbon monoxide prior to being introduced into the hydrogenation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: James H. Zink, Mark O. Scates, Ronald D. Shaver, G. Paull Torrence
  • Integrated process for producing ethanol from methanol
    Patent number: 8853466
    Abstract: Processes and systems for forming ethanol from methanol. The process involves carbonylating the methanol to form acetic acid and hydrogenating the acetic acid to form ethanol. In a first aspect, at least some hydrogen for the hydrogenating step is derived from a tail gas stream formed in the carbonylation step. In a second aspect, at least some carbon monoxide for the carbonylation step is derived from a vapor stream in the hydrogenation system. In a third aspect, a syngas stream is separated to form a hydrogen stream and a carbon monoxide stream, and the hydrogen stream is methanated to remove residual carbon monoxide prior to being introduced into the hydrogenation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Mark O. Scates, Ronald D. Shaver, G. Paull Torrence, James H. Zink
  • BOTTOM ANTIREFLECTIVE MATERIALS AND COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20140295349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel antireflective coating compositions and their use in image processing. The compositions self-segregate to form hydrophobic surfaces of the novel antireflective coating compositions, the composition being situated between a reflective substrate and a photoresist coating. Such compositions are particularly useful in the fabrication of semiconductor devices by photolithographic techniques. The present invention also related to self-segregating polymers useful in image processing and processes of their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: AZ ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (LUXEMBOURG) S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Huirong YAO, JoonYeon CHO, Zachary BOGUSZ, Salem K. MULLEN, Guanyang LIN, Mark O. NEISSER
  • System and Method for Automatic Person-To-Person Vehicle Matching
    Publication number: 20140289078
    Abstract: Computer-assisted and location-aware sales and marketing systems help buyers and sellers of vehicles find each other when one has (and the other wants) a particular type of vehicle, and when they are in geographic proximity to each other. Extensions of the system allow agents (friends, acquaintances, employees) of the principals to increase the geographic range over which a sales match may be made. Other operational features and modes are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Mark O. PAUL
  • ETHANOL AND ETHYL ACETATE PRODUCTION USING AN ACETIC ACID AND ACETIC ANHYDRIDE MIXED FEED
    Publication number: 20140275641
    Abstract: Ethanol production processes using a mixed feed comprising from 20 to 95 wt. % acetic acid, from 5 to 80 wt. % acetic anhydride, and from 0 to 20 wt. % esters selected from the group consisting of methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, or mixtures thereof are disclosed herein. The process comprises contacting the mixed feed with hydrogen in the vapor phase in a reactor in the presence of a catalyst comprising tin, cobalt, platinum, and combinations thereof to form a crude ethanol product having an ethanol to water molar ratio of greater than 1 and separating the crude ethanol product in one or more distillation columns to yield an ethyl acetate stream and an ethanol stream. The process may be integrated with an acetic anhydride production process to obtain further economic savings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Mark O. Scates
  • On-Site Assembled Foundation Module
    Publication number: 20140261049
    Abstract: A device and method is disclosed for installing a turntable in a foundation. A foundation module having a base with a plurality of holes therein is used for installing the turntable. A first one of the plurality of holes is adapted to receive a foundation material there through for pouring a first section of the foundation and plurality of frame members are adapted to affix to the base. A form having an outer surface is adapted to secure to at least one of the plurality of frame members. The outer surface of the form is adapted retain a portion of the foundation material for pouring a second section of the foundation and the second section of the foundation defines a wall. Part of the turntable is adapted to rotate within the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan W. Knapp, Peter McGonagle, Mark O'Donnell
  • MACHINERY FOUNDATION MODULE
    Publication number: 20140261050
    Abstract: A receiver embedded in and affixed to a foundation, the receiver is adapted to receive a turntable through an opening defined by the floor and walls of the receiver. The turntable is designed to rotate within the opening. The floor of the receiver has holes therein for bolts. The holes are located relative to center of the receiver and the foundation such that a turntable may be affixed to the bolts and rotate within the receiver and foundation. The receiver has a number of flanges both on the walls and on the floor to engage with the foundation. The foundation is created from two pour sections, a first pour for the floor of the foundation and a second pour for the walls of the foundation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan W. Knapp, Peter McGonagle, Mark O'Donnell
  • DUAL UNDERGROUND TUNNEL SYSTEM FOR HYDROCARBON EXPLOITATION
    Publication number: 20140262219
    Abstract: A system for recovering hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation includes an upper tunnel extending through the formation. In addition, the system includes a lower tunnel extending through the formation below a portion of the upper tunnel. Further, the system includes a plurality of conduits extending from the upper tunnel through the formation to the lower tunnel. Still further, the system includes a plurality of wellbores extending from the lower tunnel into a hydrocarbon-bearing portion of the formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Richard Beddoes, Ulric Fournier, Mark O. Johnson, Joseph Kirchner, Thomas Krzewinski, William Thompson, Donald Tolfree, Christopher C. West
  • Machinery Foundation Module
    Publication number: 20140270978
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting machinery and a method for installing the same is disclosed. A frame module including: a base with at least one attachment location, the attachment location for receiving the machinery; and a plurality of frame members affixed to the base, wherein at least one of the frame members defines a plane corresponding to a wall. A foundation has first and second sections and is disposed around the frame module. A portion of the frame module is at least partially submerged within the foundation. The machinery has at least one flange for affixing the machinery to the foundation at the attachment location. The first section of the foundation is disposed below an outside surface of the base and the second section of the foundation defines the wall of the foundation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ryan W. Knapp, Peter McGonagle, Mark O'Donnell
  • HYBRID IR FLASH FOR TRAIL CAMERA
    Publication number: 20140253749
    Abstract: A camera assembly including a camera that has an image-capturing device. The camera assembly also includes an illumination device that is coupled to the camera and that is adapted to illuminate a subject when the camera is capturing an image, and a control unit. The illumination device is capable of illuminating in at least two different peak wavelengths. The control unit automatically configures the camera assembly to use one or more of the at least two different wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: NON TYPICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Mark O. Cuddeback
  • MITIGATING ELECTROMIGRATION EFFECTS USING PARALLEL PILLARS
    Publication number: 20140252644
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with an integrated circuit that includes a plurality of parallel pillar structures is described. In one embodiment, a system includes a design logic configured to analyze a design of an integrated circuit to identify open tracks on each layer by determining a location of structures in each layer of the design. The open tracks are spaces on each layer of the design that are free from structures that obstruct routing the plurality of pillar metals. The system also includes routing logic configured to successively route the plurality of pillar metals in each of the layers of the design based, at least in part, on the parameters and the location of the structures. The routing logic routes pillars of the plurality of pillar metals that are in adjacent layers to be perpendicular and pillar metals that are within a same layer of the design to be parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark O'BRIEN, James G. BALLARD, Kiran VEDANTAM, Mini NANUA, Salvatore CARUSO
  • Integrated process for producing ethanol from methanol
    Patent number: 8829253
    Abstract: Processes and systems for forming ethanol from methanol. The process involves carbonylating the methanol to form acetic acid and hydrogenating the acetic acid to form ethanol. In a first aspect, at least some hydrogen for the hydrogenating step is derived from a tail gas stream formed in the carbonylation step. In a second aspect, at least some carbon monoxide for the carbonylation step is derived from a vapor stream in the hydrogenation system. In a third aspect, a syngas stream is separated to form a hydrogen stream and a carbon monoxide stream, and the hydrogen stream is methanated to remove residual carbon monoxide prior to being introduced into the hydrogenation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Mark O. Scates, Ronald D. Shaver, G. Paull Torrence, James H. Zink
  • Method and apparatus for jet pump restrainer assembly repair
    Patent number: 8819911
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for repairing and/or preventatively maintaining a jet pump restrainer assembly used in a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), the repair including attaching a bearing plate or plates to a horizontal surface of a jet pump restrainer assembly bracket, the bearing plate or plates acting to supplement and/or replace an existing contact surface between a mixer wedge and the jet pump restrainer assembly bracket of a jet pump restrainer assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
    Inventors: Robin D. Sprague, Michael S. Defilippis, Mark O. Lenz
  • Jet powered multihull networked vessel for providing diving services with an onboard water jetting system and real time diver tracking
    Patent number: 8807058
    Abstract: A diving services multihull vessel with a starboard pontoon and a port pontoon, with dive support stations built into the bow and stern, a port independently operable water jet drive operated by a port diesel engine; a starboard independently operable water jet drive operated by a starboard diesel engine; a dive compressor, a water jetting unit, a hydraulic power unit, a decompression chamber, a generator; a fuel tank, an onboard dive server for tracking divers and monitoring dive operations and presenting the information on the display as well as for tracking sensor signals including diver depth, elapsed time of dive, ambient water temperature around a diver, video and/or audio feed from a diver and presenting on a display, as well as transmitting via a network to a location remote to the vessel, wherein the vessel further includes a helm control connected to a navigation control and the jet drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Aqueos Corporation
    Inventors: Theodore K. Roche, IV, Bradley M. Parro, Travis A. Detke, Mark O. Wieneke, Troy R. Turner
  • Hybrid IR flash for trail camera
    Patent number: 8810718
    Abstract: A camera assembly including a camera that has an image-capturing device. The camera assembly also includes an illumination device that is coupled to the camera and that is adapted to illuminate a subject when the camera is capturing an image, and a control unit. The illumination device is capable of illuminating in at least two different peak wavelengths. The control unit automatically configures the camera assembly to use one or more of the at least two different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Non Typical, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark O. Cuddeback
  • Integrated process for producing ethanol and water balance control
    Patent number: 8809599
    Abstract: Described is an integrated process for producing ethanol from acetic acid in which the water from ethanol production is used to control water balance in the acetic acid production. In one embodiment, the invention comprises carbonylating methanol in a carbonylation system in the presence of a carbonylation catalyst under conditions effective to form acetic acid, hydrogenating the acetic acid in a hydrogenation system in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to form a crude ethanol product comprising ethanol and water, separating the ethanol from the water to form an ethanol stream and a water stream, and directing at least a portion of the water stream to the carbonylation system, e.g., for use in the carbonylation reaction medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Victor J. Johnston, Mark O. Scates, Ronald D. Shaver, Raymond J. Zinobile
  • Producing ethanol using two different streams from acetic acid carbonylation process
    Patent number: 8809598
    Abstract: This invention relates to processes for producing ethanol from at least two different streams obtained by carbonylating methanol. The process comprises the steps of reacting carbon monoxide with at least one reactant in a first reactor containing a reaction medium to produce a reaction solution comprising acetic acid, wherein the at least one reactant is selected from the group consisting of methanol, methyl acetate, methyl formate, dimethyl ether and mixtures thereof and wherein the reaction medium comprises water, acetic acid, methyl iodide, and a first catalyst, purifying the reaction solution to yield an acetic acid product stream and at least one derivative stream, introducing the acetic acid product stream and the at least one derivative stream into a second reactor in the presence of a second catalyst to form a crude ethanol product, and recovering ethanol from the crude ethanol product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Victor J. Johnston, Adam Orosco, Lincoln Sarager, Mark O. Scates, Ronald D. Shaver, James H. Zink
  • Catalysts for producing acrylic acids and acrylates
    Patent number: 8802585
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to a catalyst composition comprising vanadium and titanium. The catalyst composition has a surface area of at least 22.6 m2/g and a plurality of pores, and the plurality of pores have a pore diameter of less than 11.9 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Celanese International Corporation
    Inventors: Heiko Weiner, Josefina T. Chapman, Alexandra S. Locke, Craig T. Peterson, Mark O. Scates, Dick Nagaki