Patents by Inventor Thomas C. Haley

Thomas C. Haley 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: 20130339117
    Abstract: A system and method allows a consumer to gift an incentive and/or offer to a recipient, which can be applied to a transaction conducted by the recipient. The incentives are given and redeemed without requiring issuance or utilization of a gift card that is distinct from payment instruments (such as a debit or credit card) utilized by the recipient prior to receiving the incentive. Instead, the monetary value of the incentive given by the purchaser is transferred from an account owned by the purchaser to an intermediate account owned by a third party. When the recipient redeems the incentive, the monetary value of the incentive is automatically transferred from the intermediate account to an account owned by the recipient. In this manner, the purchaser does not have to give either a physical or virtual incentive card and hence, the incentive is not subject to gift card regulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: David W. Chapman, Thomas J. Burgess, Francis Correra, Judy C. Frank Duff, Thomas C. Haley, Douglas M. Spear, JR.
  • Patent number: 5867549
    Abstract: Methods are provided to at least slow the dissolution of silica in an aqueous environment. In the subject methods, the silica surface is contacted with a multivalent metal cation capable of complexing with oxygen atoms present on the silica surface, where contacting is preferably accomplished by introducing a source of the multivalent metal cation into the aqueous environment. The subject methods find particular use in the inhibition of the dissolution of silica comprising neutron poisoning materials employed in the storage of spent nuclear fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Lindquist, Thomas C. Haley