Patents by Inventor Wayne Carlson

Wayne Carlson 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: 8632742
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for controlling, mercury emissions, and more particularly, to methods for controlling mercury re-emissions from a wet flue gas desulfurizer used in a combustion process. A method of controlling mercury re-emission from a combustion process includes measuring either mercury concentration, oxidation-reduction, potential (ORP), and/or sulfide concentration within a scrubber liquor of a wet flue gas desulpherizer (wFGD); correlating the mercury concentration, ORP, and /or sulfide concentration with an amount of mercury re-emission additive required in the scrubber liquor to reduce and/or prevent mercury re-emission to a selected level; and adjusting the rate of addition of mercury re-emission additive into the scrubber liquor to attain the selected level of mercury re-emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nalco Company
    Inventors: Bruce A. Keiser, Jitendra Shah, John V. Meier, Robert W. Dorner, Jianwei Yuan, Rebecca L. Stiles, Wayne Carlson, Darlington Mlambo
  • Patent number: 8609784
    Abstract: A UV-protective water-soluble polyaminoamide comprising UV-absorbing end groups, wherein the polyaminoamide absorbs ultraviolet light radiation having a wavelength of about 200 nm to about 420 nm, compositions comprising the UV-protective polyaminoamide and methods of treating substrates with the UV-protective polyaminoamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Nalco Company
    Inventors: Yin Hessefort, Mingli Wei, Wayne Carlson
  • Publication number: 20090297462
    Abstract: A UV-protective water-soluble polyaminoamide comprising UV-absorbing end groups, wherein the polyaminoamide absorbs ultraviolet light radiation having a wavelength of about 200 nm to about 420 nm, compositions comprising the UV-protective polyaminoamide and methods of treating substrates with the UV-protective polyaminoamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Yin Hessefort, Mingli Wei, Wayne Carlson
  • Publication number: 20060031656
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for return processing in storage pools. A plurality of physical volumes are allocated to a first storage pool. A determination is made whether the first storage pool has more than a threshold number of empty physical volumes. If the first storage pool has more than the threshold number of empty physical volumes, then at least one empty physical volume is returned to a second storage pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Wayne Carlson, Kevin Gibble, Gregory Kishi
  • Publication number: 20050262326
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for borrow processing in storage pools. A plurality of physical volumes are allocated to a first storage pool. A determination is made whether the first storage pool has less than a threshold number of empty physical volumes. If the first storage pool has less than the threshold number of empty physical volumes, then at least one empty physical volume is borrowed to the first storage pool from a second storage pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Wayne Carlson, Kevin Gibble, Gregory Kishi, Mark Norman, Jonathan Peake
  • Publication number: 20050180933
    Abstract: A UV-protective composition comprising a water-soluble polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups and a modifier, wherein the polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups absorbs ultraviolet light radiation having a wavelength of about 200 nm to about 420 nm, and methods of treating substrates with the UV-protective polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Mingli Wei, Yin Hessefort, Wayne Carlson
  • Publication number: 20050154180
    Abstract: A UV-protective water-soluble polyaminoamide comprising UV-absorbing end groups, wherein the polyaminoamide absorbs ultraviolet light radiation having a wavelength of about 200 nm to about 420 nm, compositions comprising the UV-protective polyaminoamide and methods of treating substrates with the UV-protective polyaminoamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Yin Hessefort, Mingli Wei, Wayne Carlson
  • Publication number: 20050129653
    Abstract: A cosmetically acceptable composition for treating skin comprising about 0.1 to about 20 weight percent, based on polymer solids, of an anionic polymer composed of from about 10 to about 80 mole percent of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid or a base addition salt thereof and from about 90 to about 20 mole percent of one or more anionic or nonionic monomers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Yin Hessefort, Douglas Betts, Wayne Carlson, Loralei Brandt, Jennifer Smith
  • Publication number: 20050092970
    Abstract: A UV-protective composition comprising a water-soluble polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups, wherein the polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups absorbs ultraviolet light radiation having a wavelength of about 200 nm to about 420 nm, and methods of treating substrates with the UV-protective polyaminoamide containing 1,3-diimine groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventors: Mingli Wei, Yin Hessefort, Wayne Carlson
  • Patent number: 5375316
    Abstract: A conveyored bale dewiring system for safe severing and removal of bale strap material from about a compressed bale composed of a planar table with an integral conveyor system, an overhead cutting assembly on an articulated balanced 4-bar linkage, a grasping blade and opposing meshed puller gears, a rotating drum anvil and rotating drum cutter head assembly, and containment safety shroud. The system consists of a continually moving conveyor on which the bales are loaded; a cutting head which floats over the top of irregular shaped bales and automatically grabs and cuts each strand in succession as the bale is moving forward on the conveyor, and a grabber and chopper unit which simultaneously grabs each strand and pulls it down through the conveyor deck into a rotary drum anvil which chops the wire or bands into a manageable length and deposits it into a holding bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Harris Waste Management Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Carlson, Carl N. Winans, Frank Maniatis, Thomas Johnstone