Patents by Inventor Rick D. MONTGOMERY

Rick D. MONTGOMERY 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).

  • Device and methods for determination of molecular weight distributions of polymers and distributions of other polymer properties without physical separation
    Patent number: 11940384
    Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property. The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Yokogawa Fluence Analytics, Inc., THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    Inventors: Wayne Frederick Reed, Rick D. Montgomery, Michael Felix Drenski, Aide Wu
  • DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS OF POLYMERS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER POLYMER PROPERTIES WITHOUT PHYSICAL SEPARATION
    Publication number: 20230144017
    Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property. The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Wayne Frederick REED, Rick D. MONTGOMERY, Michael Felix DRENSKI, Aide WU
  • Device and methods for determination of molecular weight distributions of polymers and distributions of other polymer properties without physical separation
    Patent number: 11474044
    Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: ADVANCED POLYMER MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES, INC., THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    Inventors: Wayne Frederick Reed, Rick D. Montgomery, Michael Felix Drenski, Aide Wu
  • DEVICE AND METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS OF POLYMERS AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF OTHER POLYMER PROPERTIES WITHOUT PHYSICAL SEPARATION
    Publication number: 20190128812
    Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Wayne Frederick REED, Rick D. MONTGOMERY, Michael Felix DRENSKI, Aide WU