Patents by Inventor Mark Robert Harkness

Mark Robert Harkness 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).

  • Method for treating contaminated media
    Patent number: 6589776
    Abstract: Contaminated media is treated in a process which comprises adding at least one electron donor to contaminated media under anaerobic conditions to dehalogenate at least one halogen on at least one halogenated hydrocarbon in the presence of dehalogenating microorganisms wherein the electron donor comprises chitin, chitin-derivative, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Mark Robert Harkness
  • BIOREMEDIATION OF HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS BY INOCULATION WITH A DEHALOGENATING MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM
    Publication number: 20020015991
    Abstract: A method for the remediation of a site contaminated with at least one halogenated hydrocarbon, comprising inoculating the site with a microbial consortium which comprises microbes which under anaerobic conditions collectively dehalogenated the at least one halogenated hydrocarbon to one or more non-halogenated compounds. Suitable microbial consortia may be obtained by laboratory culturing of naturally-occurring soil microbes in the presence of a halogenated hydrocarbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 1999
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: MICHAEL JARLATH BRENNAN, KIM ALDEN DEWEERD, KEVIN PATRICK FLANAGAN, MARK ROBERT HARKNESS, JAMES LAWRENCE SPIVACK