Patents by Inventor Nichola Kyle

Nichola Kyle 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).

  • Patent number: 12018219
    Abstract: A method of improving the transportation of a crude oil which has been recovered from a crude oil well, the method comprising adding one or more glycerophospholipid(s) to a crude oil before and/or during the transportation of said crude oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: INFINEUM INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Nichola Kyle, Paul D. Kerby, Colin Morton, Michael S. Perryman
  • Publication number: 20220235285
    Abstract: A method of improving the transportation of a crude oil which has been recovered from a crude oil well, the method comprising adding one or more glycerophospholipid(s) to a crude oil before and/or during the transportation of said crude oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Nichola Kyle, Paul D. Kerby, Colin Morton, Michael S. Perryman
  • Patent number: 11308272
    Abstract: A computing system runs a productivity application that maintains an integrated, time ordered revision/undo stack. Entries in the revision/undo stack identify revision operations that a user has made to a document and corresponding undo operations that can be executed to undo the revision operation. The computing system detects an undo input indicative of a user actuating un undo actuator to undo a previous operation, that is prior to a most current operation that the user has performed. An operational transform system identifies an undo operation in the undo stack, corresponding to the revision that the user selected in the revision/undo stack. The operational transform system traverses the revision/undo stack to identify subsequent operations that were performed subsequent to the previous operation, and identifies one or more transforms to be applied to the undo operation based upon the identified subsequent operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James Richard Sturms, Ying Zhang, Sherman Chee Ming Der, Nicholas Kyle Ryan, Dmitri Viktorovich Kotchetov, Sanjay Krupakar Bhat
  • Patent number: 10995287
    Abstract: Fouling and/or asphaltene agglomeration (or flocculation) in midstream processes and transportation and in upstream transportation of a hydrocarbon oil is reduced by providing in the oil an additive combination including; (A) a polyalkenyl-substituted carboxylic acid or anhydride, and (B) a metal detergent system comprising a hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate metal salt or a hydrocarbyl-substituted sulfonate metal salt or a mixure of both salts or a complex thereof, where the mass:mass ratio of (A) to (B) is in the range of 20:1 to 1:20 and the treat rate of the additive is in the range of 5 to 10000 ppm by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Paul D. Kerby, Andrew C. Sutkowski, Krzysztof J. Maranski, Nichola Kyle
  • Publication number: 20200224109
    Abstract: Fouling and/or asphaltene agglomeration (or flocculation) in midstream processes and transportation and in upstream transportation of a hydrocarbon oil is reduced by providing in the oil an additive combination including; (A) a polyalkenyl-substituted carboxylic acid or anhydride, and (B) a metal detergent system comprising a hydrocarbyl-substituted hydroxybenzoate metal salt or a hydrocarbyl-substituted sulfonate metal salt or a mixure of both salts or a complex thereof, where the mass:mass ratio of (A) to (B) is in the range of 20:1 to 1:20 and the treat rate of the additive is in the range of 5 to 10000 ppm by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Paul D. Kerby, Andrew C. Sutkowski, Krzysztof J. Maranski, Nichola Kyle