Patents by Inventor Vishnu A. Patel

Vishnu A. Patel 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: 20240031395
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to cyber-attack resiliency assessment systems and methods. In some embodiments, the system may be configured to assess susceptibility of an operational system and its components to specific cyber-attacks and predict an impact of such attacks and impact to a mission which the operational system is intended to perform and complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Peter A. Kiss, Kevin Scott Kuczynski, Samer Vishnu Patel, Deborah A. Williams, Timothy R. Westran, Gary N. Mayes
  • Patent number: 5232283
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing concurrently downwardly flowing fluids is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a tray extending horizontally across a cross-section of a mixing chamber and having an aperture in the middle. A cap having a pair of opposing openings covers the aperture. Fluids pass through the openings into a pan adjacent a downstream portion of the mixing chamber and spaced below the tray. A tube encircling the aperture is disposed between the cap and the pan. The tube has notches cut into the lower wall to allow the fluids to enter the pan. Radially spaced risers extending from the bottom of the pan provide fluid communication to a downstream portion of the mixing chamber. The risers have upper ends which are above the notches and spaced below the tray. The mixing apparatus can be used between two catalyst beds in a vertical, fixed-bed reactor, wherein a hot, mixed-phase effluent stream is quenched with a hydrogen-rich gas in hydrodesulfurization, hydrocracking, and like processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: The M. W. Kellogg Company
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Goebel, Vishnu A. Patel, Earl L. Whittington, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4346060
    Abstract: A radial ammonia converter system including first and second heat interchangers and first, second and third catalyst beds. The synthesis gas is heated in said first and second interchangers by catalyst bed effluent prior to full flow through each of the catalyst beds. In one embodiment, two of the catalyst beds are mounted with the first and second interchangers in one vessel; and in another embodiment, the first interchanger and second catalyst bed are mounted in one vessel and the second interchanger and first catalyst bed are mounted in a separate vessel. In both embodiments, the radial ammonia converter system is completed by a third catalyst bed in a separate vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1982
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Raymond S. Eagle, Vishnu A. Patel
  • Patent number: 4230669
    Abstract: A radial ammonia converter system including first and second heat interchangers and first, second and third catalyst beds. The synthesis gas is heated in said first and second interchangers by catalyst bed effluent prior to full flow through each of the catalyst beds. In one embodiment, two of the catalyst beds are mounted with the first and second interchangers in one vessel; and in another embodiment, the first interchanger and second catalyst bed are mounted in one vessel and the second interchanger and first catalyst bed are mounted in a separate vessel. In both embodiments, the radial ammonia converter system is completed by a third catalyst bed in a separate vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Raymond S. Eagle, Vishnu A. Patel