Patents by Inventor Robert H. Burns

Robert H. Burns 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: 20240084407
    Abstract: The invention provides a transgenic Glycine max event MON87751, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, progeny plants, and commodity products comprising event MON87751. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON87751, plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides for event MON87751. The invention also provides methods related to event MON87751.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kim A. Beazley, Wen C. Burns, Robert H. Cole, II, Ted C. MacRae, John A. Miklos, Lisa G. Ruschke, Kairong Tian, Liping Wei, Kunsheng Wu
  • Patent number: 4993314
    Abstract: The invention is a new design for a structure such as a stack for exhaust hot gases. One embodiment is that of the top portion of a ship's stack (the watchcap) for exhausting a hot steam plant, a gas turbine, a diesel or other engine, or burner exhaust gases. The function of the invention is to reduce the infrared radiation generated by the hot metal of the exhaust pipe and surrounding structure. This function is accomplished by constructing an annular plenum chamber around a portion of the length of the smokepipe. The plenum chamber has air flow channels, an arrangement of insulation, and openings, top and bottom, so that convective air flow is established at the hot smokepipe wall. The thermal gradient produced also induces a secondary cool-air-flow along an outer wall. Another feature is an arrangement of a double-walled shield extending above, below, and around the terminal end of the smokepipe that blocks the low angle view into the hot smokepipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John R. Braden, Robert H. Burns, Melvin Greenberg
  • Patent number: 4303035
    Abstract: A method of reducing the temperature of hot combustion gases discharging m atop a ship stack and at least partially suppressing infrared radiation thereof by the steps of preheating water to near 100.degree. C. and spraying it into the hot gases at near the base of the stack. Hot water is used because it more readily vaporizes and absorbs the latent heat of vaporization from the gases and exits the stack as a vapor, the radiation from which is more readily absorbed by water vapor, always present above the sea, than is radiation from water droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Robert H. Burns