Patents by Inventor Michael Wayne Meffert

Michael Wayne Meffert 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).

  • Fuel composition and method of formulating a fuel composition to reduce real-world driving cycle particulate emissions
    Patent number: 9587190
    Abstract: In order to blend fuels to meet specific regulatory and industry requirements, for instance octane requirements, different octane blending components can be used. One added component includes a composition of higher aromatics content. Unfortunately, this aromatic content may increase the particulate emissions of an internal combustion engine when the high aromatic fuel is combusted in that engine. As explained herein, reducing the aromatics content and replacing that octane increasing requirement with an alternative octane enhancer results in a formulated fuel that will have lower particulate emissions in the real-world driving of that engine as compared with a fuel having higher aromatic content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Meffert, John David Morris, Joseph W. Roos, Huifang Shao
  • FUEL COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF FORMULATING A FUEL COMPOSITION TO REDUCE REAL-WORLD DRIVING CYCLE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS
    Publication number: 20160108332
    Abstract: In order to blend fuels to meet specific regulatory and industry requirements, for instance octane requirements, different octane blending components can be used. One added component includes a composition of higher aromatics content. Unfortunately, this aromatic content may increase the particulate emissions of an internal combustion engine when the high aromatic fuel is combusted in that engine. As explained herein, reducing the aromatics content and replacing that octane increasing requirement with an alternative octane enhancer results in a formulated fuel that will have lower particulate emissions in the real-world driving of that engine as compared with a fuel having higher aromatic content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Wayne Meffert, John David Morris, Joseph W. Roos, Huifang Shao