Patents by Inventor Michael Anthony Smith

Michael Anthony Smith 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: 20090290854
    Abstract: A method configured according to the invention receives a user input. Then a recording of an audio file and a corresponding audio timer are initiated. When the audio timer times out, the recording of the audio file is ended, and an image file is captured. In an embodiment of the invention, the audio recording is ended and the image file is captured if the audio timer times out prior to receiving a second user input. In an embodiment of the invention, if the audio timer does not time out prior to receiving a second user input, an image file is captured. In an embodiment of the invention, if the audio timer does not time out prior to receiving a third user input, then the recording of the audio file is ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Piklips LLC
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Smith, David Kazumi Hanabusa
  • Patent number: 5844006
    Abstract: A process for producing liquid and, optionally, gaseous products from gaseous reactants comprises feeding gaseous reactants into a slurry bed of solid particles suspended in a liquid; allowing the reactants to react as they pass upwardly through the slurry bed, thereby to form liquid and, optionally, gaseous products; and separating liquid product from the solid particles by passing, in a filtration zone within the slurry bed, liquid product through a filtration medium in a first direction, so that a cake of the solid particles forms on the filtration medium. The passage of liquid product through the filtering medium is interrupted. The filtering medium is then backflushed by passing a flushing fluid through the filtering medium in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, for at least portions of the periods that the liquid product passage is interrupted, thereby to dislodge the cake from the filtering medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Sasol Chemical Industries (Proprietary) Limited
    Inventors: Berend Jager, Andre Peter Steynberg, Juan Ricardo Inga, Renus Constantyn Kelfkens, Michael Anthony Smith, Francois Erenst Johannes Malherbe