Patents by Inventor William Lee Gately

William Lee Gately 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).

  • Polycarbonate isolation through homogenization devolatization
    Patent number: 6489372
    Abstract: Polymer are removed from organic solvent-polymer mixtures by preparing a liquid-liquid dispersion of finely dispersed solvent droplets containing polymer in water, adding this liquid-liquid dispersion to a stirred vessel containing water or other suitable liquid and rapidly evaporating the solvent to produce a slurry of the polymer in a liquid from which the solid polymer particles are recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Qiwei He, Paul Russell Wilson, Paul William Buckley, Allen Wai Yee Ko, Larry Allen Divins, William Lee Gately, Ganesh Kailasam
  • Process for treating methylchlorosilanes by-products
    Patent number: 5876609
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a novel process for the hydrolysis of the by-products produced during the manufacture of methyldichlorosilanes comprising combining the by-products with an aqueous medium, optionally comprising a surfactant, at a pH range of at least about 7 and at a temperature of above about 0.degree. C. to produce a solid material in which copper and other metals are retained in a solid phase thereby resulting in a product with a high copper content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Lee White, Sunita Singh Baghel, Luisito Alvarez Tolentino, Mark Kromer Barr, David Cheney DeMoulpied, William Lee Gately, Jan-Willem Goedmakers, Jeffrey David Hallen, Edward Francis Kennedy, Bang Mo Kim, Ray Walton Shade, Matthew David Butts