Patents by Inventor Thomas R. Sage

Thomas R. Sage 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).

  • Patent number: 9719179
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein process produced/flowback water, such as high total dissolved solids produced water, to generate high purity, high value products with little to no waste. The generated high purity, high value products include caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, and/or sodium hypochlorite. Further, the methods and systems disclosed herein generate high quality brine for electrolysis through the systematic removal of contaminants such as but not limited to suspended solids, iron, sulfides, barium, radium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, fluoride, heavy metals, organic carbon, recoverable hydrocarbons, silica, lithium, and/or nitrogen containing compounds. Further, some products generated by the systems and methods disclosed herein may be recovered and reutilized or sold for other uses, such as carbon dioxide, calcium oxide, chlorine, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, and/or barium sulfate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: High Sierra Energy, LP
    Inventors: Mark A. Marcin, Thomas R. Sage
  • Publication number: 20140069821
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein process produced/flowback water, such as high total dissolved solids produced water, to generate high purity, high value products with little to no waste. The generated high purity, high value products include caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, and/or sodium hypochlorite. Further, the methods and systems disclosed herein generate high quality brine for electrolysis through the systematic removal of contaminants such as but not limited to suspended solids, iron, sulfides, barium, radium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, fluoride, heavy metals, organic carbon, recoverable hydrocarbons, silica, lithium, and/or nitrogen containing compounds. Further, some products generated by the systems and methods disclosed herein may be recovered and reutilized or sold for other uses, such as carbon dioxide, calcium oxide, chlorine, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, and/or barium sulfate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Mark A. Marcin, Thomas R. Sage
  • Publication number: 20130313199
    Abstract: The systems and methods disclosed herein process produced/flowback water, such as high total dissolved solids produced water, to generate high purity, high value products with little to no waste. The generated high purity, high value products include caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, and/or sodium hypochlorite. Further, the methods and systems disclosed herein generate high quality brine for electrolysis through the systematic removal of contaminants such as but not limited to suspended solids, iron, sulfides, barium, radium, strontium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, fluoride, heavy metals, organic carbon, recoverable hydrocarbons, silica, lithium, and/or nitrogen containing compounds. Further, some products generated by the systems and methods disclosed herein may be recovered and reutilized or sold for other uses, such as carbon dioxide, calcium oxide, chlorine, magnesium oxide, calcium carbonate, and barium sulfate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: High Sierra Energy, LP
    Inventors: Mark A. Marcin, Thomas R. Sage
  • Publication number: 20030143469
    Abstract: A mask useable to direct an electron beam having a cone side and a grade side. The cone side includes a plurality of troughs that extend partially into the mask but do not extend to the grade side. Apertures are formed in the bottoms of the troughs that extend through to the grade side. The apertures are separated by both actual and virtual tie bars. In a preferred embodiment, some of the virtual tie bars extend from the grade side, through the trough to the cone side. The occurrence of these cone side virtual tie bars varies in concentration across the extent of the mask such that the concentration is heavy in areas where clipping is desired, and light in areas where clipping is not desired. In another preferred embodiment, the size, shape and location of the cone side virtual tie bars vary across the extent of the mask to accommodate for the angle of the electron beam travel and the necessity for localized clipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas R. Sage, Lance M. Benjamin, Jeffrey Z. Wang, Leo B. Kriksunov
  • Patent number: 6562249
    Abstract: In an improved method of etching apertures in a thin metal sheet to form a shadow mask for a color picture tube, the metal sheet has a first acid-resistant stencil on one major surface thereof and a second acid-resistant stencil on the other major surface thereof. At least one of the stencils has openings therein at locations of intended apertures. The improvement comprises the steps of magnetically holding the metal sheet with a flat magnetic assembly, and moving the magnetic assembly magnetically holding the metal sheet thereon through an etching chamber. The magnetic assembly includes a magnetic layer that is supported on an acid-resistant board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignees: BMC Industries, Inc., Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Inventors: Craig Clay Eshleman, Charles Michael Wetzel, Randall Eugene McCoy, Leo B. Kriksunov, Lance Benjamin, Derek Harris, Thomas R. Sage
  • Publication number: 20020070196
    Abstract: In an improved method of etching apertures in a thin metal sheet to form a shadow mask for a color picture tube, the metal sheet has a first acid-resistant stencil on one major surface thereof and a second acid-resistant stencil on the other major surface thereof. At least one of the stencils has openings therein at locations of intended apertures. The improvement comprises the steps of magnetically holding the metal sheet with a flat magnetic assembly, and moving the magnetic assembly magnetically holding the metal sheet thereon through an etching chamber. The magnetic assembly includes a magnetic layer that is supported on an acid-resistant board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: BMC Industries, Inc. and Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Clay Eshleman, Charles Michael Wetzel, Randall Eugene McCoy, Leo B. Kriksunov, Lance Benjamin, Derek Harris, Thomas R. Sage