Patents by Inventor Vickie Haygood Osborne

Vickie Haygood Osborne 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).

  • Process for making formic acid utilizing higher-boiling formate esters
    Patent number: 10544077
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for recovering formic acid from a formate ester that allows for recovery of a formic acid product comprising greater than 75 wt. % formic acid. Disclosed is also a process for producing formic acid by carbonylating a carrier alcohol, hydrolyzing the formate ester of the carrier alcohol, and recovering a formic acid product comprising greater than 70 wt. % formic acid. Discloses are carrier alcohols that enable more favorable hydrolysis equilibriums and/or distillation sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Scott Donald Barnicki, Robert Thomas Hembre, Sumit Chakraborty, Vickie Haygood Osborne, Michael Richard Laningham, Stijn Van de Vyver
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING FORMIC ACID UTILIZING HIGHER-BOILING FORMATE ESTERS
    Publication number: 20190039985
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for recovering formic acid from a formate ester that allows for recovery of a formic acid product comprising greater than 75 wt. % formic acid. Disclosed is also a process for producing formic acid by carbonylating a carrier alcohol, hydrolyzing the formate ester of the carrier alcohol, and recovering a formic acid product comprising greater than 70 wt. % formic acid. Discloses are carrier alcohols that enable more favorable hydrolysis equilibriums and/or distillation sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Scott Donald Barnicki, Robert Thomas Hembre, Sumit Chakraborty, Vickie Haygood Osborne, Michael Richard Laningham, Stijn Van de Vyver
  • Production of terephthalic acid di-esters
    Patent number: 7799942
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of a terephthalic acid di-ester by the esterification of terephthalic acid with an alcohol at elevated and normal temperature and pressure while the water of the reaction is removed from the reaction mixture via an inert gas or a column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Vickie Haygood Osborne, Phillip Wayne Turner, Steven Leroy Cook
  • Conversion of terephthalic acid to Di-n-butyl terephthalate
    Patent number: 7741509
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of di-n-butyl terephthalate by the esterification of terephthalic acid with n-butanol in the presence of a strong acid while employing a fractionating column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Steven Leroy Cook, Phillip Wayne Turner, Vickie Haygood Osborne
  • Conversion of terephthalic acid to Di-n-butyl terephthalate
    Publication number: 20080183012
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of di-n-butyl terephthalate by the esterification of terephthalic acid with n-butanol in the presence of a strong acid while employing a fractionating column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Steven Leroy Cook, Phillip Wayne Turner, Vickie Haygood Osborne