Patents by Inventor Timothy Walters

Timothy Walters 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: 12377490
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a self-reacting friction stir welding apparatus includes a collar. The collar includes a collar flow inlet, a collar flow outlet, and an internal conduit fluidically coupling the collar flow inlet and the collar flow outlet. The heat exchanger also includes a rotary union having a first rotary-union flow outlet fluidically coupled with the collar flow inlet, a first rotary-union flow inlet fluidically coupled with the collar flow outlet, a second rotary-union flow inlet, and a second rotary-union flow outlet. The rotary union is co-rotatable with the collar. The heat exchanger further includes a manifold that has a first manifold flow outlet fluidically coupled with the second rotary-union flow inlet and a first manifold flow inlet fluidically coupled with the second rotary-union flow outlet. The rotary union is rotatable relative to the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Aaron Parko, Todd Renz, Timothy Walters
  • Publication number: 20250083249
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a self-reacting friction stir welding apparatus includes a collar. The collar includes a collar flow inlet, a collar flow outlet, and an internal conduit fluidically coupling the collar flow inlet and the collar flow outlet. The heat exchanger also includes a rotary union having a first rotary-union flow outlet fluidically coupled with the collar flow inlet, a first rotary-union flow inlet fluidically coupled with the collar flow outlet, a second rotary-union flow inlet, and a second rotary-union flow outlet. The rotary union is co-rotatable with the collar. The heat exchanger further includes a manifold that has a first manifold flow outlet fluidically coupled with the second rotary-union flow inlet and a first manifold flow inlet fluidically coupled with the second rotary-union flow outlet. The rotary union is rotatable relative to the manifold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Aaron Parko, Todd Renz, Timothy Walters
  • Publication number: 20240391234
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system with a droplet measurement apparatus is described herein. The droplet measurement apparatus has a light source with a collimating optical system, an imaging device disposed along an optical path of the collimating optical system, and a droplet illumination zone in the optical path of the collimating optical system, the droplet illumination zone having a varying droplet illumination location, wherein the light source, the imaging device, or both are adjustable to place a focal plane of the imaging device at the droplet illumination location. The droplet measurement apparatus is structured to accommodate at least a portion of a dispenser of the printing system within the droplet illumination zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eashwer Chandra Vidhya Sagar Kollata, Timothy Walter Dion, Tze Hwei Tseeng
  • Publication number: 20240336859
    Abstract: There is provided a surfactant composition for use in stabilizing oil in water emulsions, such as water in diesel emulsion fuels. Components of said surfactant compositions can include zwitterionic materials, ionic liquids, as well as amide compounds and alcohols. Methods for producing said surfactant compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Morteza CHEHEL AMIRANI, Sip Chen LIEW, Timothy Walter Jonathan ROSE, Shinji HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 12103912
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoate from hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture, optionally in the presence of a catalyst, to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Ravi R. Gokarn
  • Patent number: 12076985
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system with a droplet measurement apparatus is described herein. The droplet measurement apparatus has a light source with a collimating optical system, an imaging device disposed along an optical path of the collimating optical system, and a droplet illumination zone in the optical path of the collimating optical system, the droplet illumination zone having a varying droplet illumination location, wherein the light source, the imaging device, or both are adjustable to place a focal plane of the imaging device at the droplet illumination location. The droplet measurement apparatus is structured to accommodate at least a portion of a dispenser of the printing system within the droplet illumination zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eashwer Chandra Vidhya Sagar Kollata, Timothy Walter Dion, Tze Hwei Tseeng
  • Publication number: 20240279152
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for making a dialkyl malonate ester, including a) acidifying a malonate composition comprising: at least 30 wt % based on malonic acid equivalents of a compound of formula I: where M+ is a Group I alkali metal cation or ammonium cation. The malonate composition optionally includes: a compound of formula II: and/or malonic acid. Step a) comprises contacting an organic alcohol and an inorganic acid with the malonate composition to form a first acidified malonate composition comprising: a compound of formula IV: a compound of formula V: and/or malonic acid. R1 and R2 are independently (C1-C8)alkyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Ravi R. GOKARN, Nolan Ray Mente, Ryan Edward Patet
  • Publication number: 20240076262
    Abstract: A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid from a fermentation broth comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid and/or salts thereof comprises the steps of: (a) providing the fermentation broth having a pH of from about 2 to about 8 comprising: 3-hydroxypropionic acid and/or salts thereof, (b) acidifying the fermentation broth; (c) reducing the total sulfate ion and phosphate ion (d) distilling the resulting reduced ion aqueous solution and (e) recovering the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Erik ALLEN, John J. HAHN, Paraskevas TSOBANAKIS, Eric Christopher BOHNERT, Christopher Lawrence FRANK
  • Publication number: 20240059641
    Abstract: A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid by providing the fermentation broth, acidifying the fermentation broth; reducing the total sulfate ion and phosphate ion concentration of the resulting aqueous solution to produce a reduced ion aqueous solution; distilling the resulting reduced ion aqueous solution and recovering the resulting aqueous distillation product comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Erik ALLEN, John J. HAHN, Paraskevas TSOBANAKIS, Eric Christopher BOHNERT, Christopher Lawrence FRANK
  • Patent number: 11834402
    Abstract: A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid from a fermentation broth comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid and/or salts thereof comprises the steps of: (a) providing the fermentation broth having a pH of from about 2 to about 8 comprising: 3-hydroxypropionic acid and/or salts thereof, (b) acidifying the fermentation broth; (c) reducing the total sulfate ion and phosphate ion (d) distilling the resulting reduced ion aqueous solution and (e) recovering the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Erik Allen, John J. Hahn, Paraskevas Tsobanakis, Eric Christopher Bohnert, Christopher Lawrence Frank
  • Patent number: 11834403
    Abstract: A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid by providing the fermentation broth, acidifying the fermentation broth; reducing the total sulfate ion and phosphate ion concentration of the resulting aqueous solution to produce a reduced ion aqueous solution; distilling the resulting reduced ion aqueous solution and recovering the resulting aqueous distillation product comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Erik Allen, John J. Hahn, Paraskevas Tsobanakis, Eric Christopher Bohnert, Christopher Lawrence Frank
  • Publication number: 20230348353
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for recovering a malonate comprising a compound of the formula HOC(O)CH2C(O)OM, wherein M is a Group I alkali metal cation or ammonium cation, the method comprising the steps of a) removing water from a fermentation broth comprising malonate to obtain an aqueous concentrate; and b) recovering the malonate comprising the compound of the formula I from the aqueous concentrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Ravi R. GOKARN, Nolan R. MENTE
  • Publication number: 20230294398
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system with a droplet measurement apparatus is described herein. The droplet measurement apparatus has a light source with a collimating optical system, an imaging device disposed along an optical path of the collimating optical system, and a droplet illumination zone in the optical path of the collimating optical system, the droplet illumination zone having a varying droplet illumination location, wherein the light source, the imaging device, or both are adjustable to place a focal plane of the imaging device at the droplet illumination location. The droplet measurement apparatus is structured to accommodate at least a portion of a dispenser of the printing system within the droplet illumination zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eashwer Chandra Vidhya Sagar Kollata, Timothy Walter Dion, Tze Hwei Tseeng
  • Publication number: 20230286895
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoates from hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture, optionally in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Anthony Louis DURAN, Stephen C. EDGAR, Ravi R. GOKARN
  • Patent number: 11697284
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system with a droplet measurement apparatus is described herein. The droplet measurement apparatus has a light source with a collimating optical system, an imaging device disposed along an optical path of the collimating optical system, and a droplet illumination zone in the optical path of the collimating optical system, the droplet illumination zone having a varying droplet illumination location, wherein the light source, the imaging device, or both are adjustable to place a focal plane of the imaging device at the droplet illumination location. The droplet measurement apparatus is structured to accommodate at least a portion of a dispenser of the printing system within the droplet illumination zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eashwer Chandra Vidhya Sagar Kollata, Timothy Walter Dion, Tze Hwei Tseeng
  • Patent number: 11691941
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoates from hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture, optionally in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Anthony Louis Duran, Stephen C. Edgar, Ravi R. Gokarn
  • Publication number: 20220267246
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoates from hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture, optionally in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Anthony Louis DURAN, Stephen C. EDGAR, Ravi R. GOKARN
  • Publication number: 20220267245
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing alkyl hydroxyalkanoate from hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottoms. The methods generally comprise the steps of obtaining a hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom, adding a mono-alcohol to the hydroxycarboxylic acid recovery bottom to obtain a first mixture, heating the first mixture, optionally in the presence of a catalyst, to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product, and recovering an alkyl hydroxyalkanoate fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Ravi R. GOKARN
  • Publication number: 20220219448
    Abstract: An inkjet printing system with a droplet measurement apparatus is described herein. The droplet measurement apparatus has a light source with a collimating optical system, an imaging device disposed along an optical path of the collimating optical system, and a droplet illumination zone in the optical path of the collimating optical system, the droplet illumination zone having a varying droplet illumination location, wherein the light source, the imaging device, or both are adjustable to place a focal plane of the imaging device at the droplet illumination location. The droplet measurement apparatus is structured to accommodate at least a portion of a dispenser of the printing system within the droplet illumination zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Kateeva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eashwer Chandra Vidhya Sagar KOLLATA, Timothy Walter DION, Tze Hwei TSEENG
  • Publication number: 20220153677
    Abstract: A method for recovering a composition enriched in 3-hydroxypropionic acid by providing the fermentation broth, acidifying the fermentation broth; reducing the total sulfate ion and phosphate ion concentration of the resulting gaseous solution to produce a reduced ion aqueous solution; distilling the resulting reduced ion aqueous solution and recovering the resulting aqueous distillation product comprising 3-hydroxypropionic acid
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Timothy Walter ABRAHAM, Erik ALLEN, John J. HAHN, Paraskevas TSOBANAKIS, Eric Christopher BOHNERT, Christopher Lawrence FRANK