Patents by Inventor Matthew J. Thayer

Matthew J. Thayer 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).

  • Hydrometallurgical System and Process Using an Ion Transport Membrane
    Publication number: 20160160312
    Abstract: A hydrometallurgical system and process with a hydrometallurgical processing circuit integrated with an ion transport membrane assembly. The ion transport membrane assembly provide oxygen to the hydrometallurgical processing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Thayer, John Michael Repasky, Phillip Andrew Armstrong, John Elliott Bedenbaugh
  • Purification, Recovery, and Recycle of Vent Gas
    Publication number: 20140353886
    Abstract: An apparatus and/or system and method for recycling vent gas from an autoclave is disclosed including cooling and cleaning a vent gas, introducing the cooled and cleaned resultant stream into a purification unit to remove at least a portion of the carbon dioxide and water vapor contained therein, and recycling the purified stream enriched in oxygen into the autoclave or another process requiring enriched oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Thayer, Jianguo Xu
  • Apparatuses and Methods for Cryogenic Cooling in Thermal Surface Treatment Processes
    Publication number: 20080268164
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for preventing the degradation of one or more mask materials during a thermal surface treatment process of a substrate having the steps of mounting at least one mask comprising one or more mask materials onto a substrate; thermally surface treating a surface of the substrate which increases the temperature of the substrate; and cooling the one or more mask materials with cryogenic fluid from at least one cooling means directed at the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Thayer, Zbigniew Zurecki