Patents by Inventor Robert W. Duffy Cox

Robert W. Duffy Cox 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: 20150264949
    Abstract: A batch processing control system for a shell egg pasteurizer controls the time and temperature in which batches of shell eggs are held in a pasteurization bath in accordance with a predetermined pasteurization protocol for designated egg size and start temperature. The predetermined pasteurization protocol is preferably statistically verified to optimize batches of eggs having the designated size and start temperature. The system also includes reporting software that generates daily reports to track each respective batch and verify that the batch has been pasteurized according to the statistically verified protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: NATIONAL PASTEURIZED EGGS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Duffy Cox, Hector Gregorio Apolinar Lara Plascencia
  • Publication number: 20130183416
    Abstract: A hatch processing control system for a shell egg pasteurizer controls the time and temperature in which batches of shell eggs are held in a pasteurization bath in accordance with a predetermined pasteurization protocol for designated egg size and start temperature. The predetermined pasteurization protocol is preferably statistically verified to optimize batches of eggs having the designated size and start temperature. The system also includes reporting software that generates daily reports to track each respective batch and verify that the batch has been pasteurized according to the statistically verified protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: National Pasteurized Eggs, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert W. Duffy Cox, Hector Gregorio Apolinar Lara Plascencia
  • Publication number: 20110300023
    Abstract: A batch processing control system for a shell egg pasteurizer controls the time and temperature in which batches of shell eggs are held in a pasteurization bath in accordance with a predetermined pasteurization protocol for designated egg size and start temperature. The predetermined pasteurization protocol is preferably statistically verified to optimize batches of eggs having the designated size and start temperature. The system also includes reporting software that generates daily reports to track each respective batch and verify that the batch has been pasteurized according to the statistically verified protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: NATIONAL PASTEURIZED EGGS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Duffy Cox, Hector Gregorio Apolinar Lara Plascencia
  • Patent number: 6106853
    Abstract: Processes for controlling pollution by: (a) devolatizing vapor phase chemical pollutants (VP's) found in effluents and other bodies and streams of gases and liquids, and (b) stabilizing substrates from which the VP's are released. The offending VP's are converted to less offensive or inoffensive materials by interaction with an appropriately formulated treating agent (VTA/C) containing a primary halogen and at least one additional ingredient selected from the following classes of constituents (optional if bromine is the primary halogen and otherwise required): oligodynamically active metals, cohalogens, adjuncts, and facilitators. The major constituent(s) may be supplied as such, or a source of the constituent may be provided. Actinic radiation can be employed to promote reactions between the VP and the VTA/C, which is often formulated as an aqueous scrubbing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5983830
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and products are disclosed in which an egg is noninvasively infused with oxygen such that the structural integrity of the shell of the egg is not compromised. The method comprises the step of subjecting the external surface of the egg shell to the oxygen under a condition of at least one of vacuum and positive pressure. The oxygen is from a substance selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nascent oxygen, liquid oxygen, oxone, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and potassium permanganate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Inventors: James P. Cox, deceased, by Robert W. Duffy Cox, executor
  • Patent number: 5967080
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and products are disclosed in which an egg is non-invasively infused with oxygen such that the structural integrity of the shell of the egg is not compromised. The method comprises the step of subjecting the external surface of the egg shell to the oxygen under a condition of at least one of vacuum and positive pressure. The oxygen is from a substance selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nascent oxygen, liquid oxygen, oxone, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and potassium permanganate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5964182
    Abstract: A method and products are disclosed in which a fertilized egg is non-invasively infused with oxygen such that the structural integrity of the shell of the egg is not compromised. The method comprises the step of subjecting the external surface of the eggshell to the oxygen under a condition of at least one of vacuum and positive pressure. The oxygen is from a substance selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nascent oxygen, liquid oxygen, oxone, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and potassium permanganate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5807587
    Abstract: A composition and method for preventing and/or reducing stench and septicity from animal waste comprising a sulfur and oxygen-bearing component and one or more aldehydes and/or one or more ketones. The sulfur and oxygen-bearing component is selected from the group consisting of sodium bisulfite, potassium bisulfite, lithium bisulfite, sodium metabisulfite, potassium metabisulfite, lithium metabisulfite, sodium hydrosulfite, potassium hydrosulfite, lithium hydrosulfite and hydrogen sulfite. The aldehyde is selected from the group consisting of formaldehyde, glyoxal, glutaraldehyde, benzaldehyde, acetaldehyde, butryaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, anisaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, citral, glycolic aldehyde, paraldehyde, metaldehyde, heptylaldehyde, octylaldehyde and decylaldehyde. The ketone is selected from the group consisting of diacetyl, ionone, pseudo-ionone, acetylacetone, 3-buten-2-one, mesityl oxide, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, diethyl ketone and dipropyl ketone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5736032
    Abstract: Biowaste treatment agents for treating biowastes in a manner which: (a) keeps noxious and toxic substances from being released from the biowaste, and (b) neutralizes such substances released during the course of stabilizing the biowaste. The treatment agents include a surfactant in an amount of from 1.0 to 99 percent of the treatment agent, a metal component in an amount from 0.5 to 85 percent of the treatment agent, the metal component including a source of zinc, or copper, or a combination of copper with aluminum or iron, and an aldehyde in an amount from 0.1 to 80 percent of the treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5589164
    Abstract: Biowaste treatment agents for treating biowastes in a manner which: (a) keeps noxious and toxic substances from being released from the biowaste, and (b) neutralizes such substances released during the course of stabilizing the biowaste. The treatment agents include a surfactant in an amount of from 1.0 to 99 percent of the treatment agent, a metal component in an amount from 0.5 to 85 percent of the treatment agent, the metal component including a source of zinc, or copper, or a combination of copper with aluminum or iron, and an aldehyde in an amount from 0.1 to 80 percent of the treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5587157
    Abstract: Biowaste treatment agents for treating biowastes in a manner which: (a) keeps noxious and toxic substances from being released from the biowaste, and (b) neutralizes such substances released during the course of stabilizing the biowaste. The treatment agents include a surfactant in an amount of from 1.0 to 99 percent of the treatment agent, a metal component in an amount from 0.5 to 85 percent of the treatment agent, the metal component including a source of zinc, or copper, or a combination of copper with aluminum or iron, and an aldehyde in an amount from 0.1 to 80 percent of the treatment agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5493994
    Abstract: A method and products are disclosed in which a fertilized egg is non-invasively infused with oxygen such that the structural integrity of the shell of the egg is not compromised. The method comprises the step of subjecting the external surface of the eggshell to the oxygen under a condition of at least one of vacuum and positive pressure. The oxygen is from a substance selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nascent oxygen, liquid oxygen, oxone, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, and potassium permanganate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox
  • Patent number: 5431939
    Abstract: Methods of treating liquid, semiliquid and solid foods to make them safer to eat and/or to improve the keeping quality of the product. Among the steps that can be employed are: the use of a biocidally active form of oxygen to reduce the population of indigenous microbes, the removal from the food of indigenous gases which may cause spoilage, the replacement of gases removed from the product with gases which are chemically inert or biologically sterile or both, and the asceptic packaging of the treated product. The selected process steps are carried out for a time and at a temperature sufficient to facilitate production of substantially more natural and safer foods than can be obtained if traditional methods of pasteurization are employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: OED, Inc.
    Inventors: James P. Cox, Jeanne M. Cox, Robert W. Duffy Cox