Patents by Inventor Staci Wegener

Staci Wegener 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).

  • Forming ethylene
    Patent number: 9403737
    Abstract: Form ethylene via a method that includes vaporizing elemental sulfur, providing a metal sulfide catalyst, and contacting the metal sulfide catalyst with a mixture of methane and the vaporized elemental sulfur to form ethylene. The mixture has a methane to sulfur molar ratio greater than 1.2:1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Northwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin Marks, Qingjun Zhu, Staci Wegener
  • FORMING ETHYLENE
    Publication number: 20140200383
    Abstract: Form ethylene via a method that includes vaporizing elemental sulfur, providing a metal sulfide catalyst, and contacting the metal sulfide catalyst with a mixture of methane and the vaporized elemental sulfur to form ethylene. The mixture has a methane to sulfur molar ratio greater than 1.2:1.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: DOW Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Tobin Marks, Staci Wegener