Patents Issued in September 24, 2024
  • Patent number: 12097445
    Abstract: The invention relates to a toy building element for a modular building game. The toy building element comprises one or more hollow coupling studs for coupling the toy building element to another toy building element in a releasable manner. Each coupling stud extends along a respective longitudinal axis and defines internally an axial through cavity configured to receive, in a removable manner, a locking stud apt to lock the toy building element to another toy building element coupled thereto. Each coupling stud comprises a coupling part and a receiving part for receiving the coupling part of a coupling stud of another toy building element. The coupling part comprises at least a radially flexible portion for engaging/disengaging a receiving part of a coupling stud of another toy building element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Fulvio Monteverde
  • Patent number: 12097446
    Abstract: A toy, game, and/or puzzle building system may comprise variously shaped connectors that are operatively attachable to other connectors or rods. The connectors may include a receiving portion adapted to receive a rod and may connect two, three, four, five, etc. rods in various angles and orientations. The connectors may include a receiving portion adapted to receive another connector. Multiple rods may be connected in 2-D and 3-D configurations and orientations. Both the rods and connectors may be provided in a variety of lengths, shapes, colors, and sizes. Additionally, the connectors may be used with any existing items, such as a plastic or wooden toothpick, straw, stirrer, and the like, that may fit within the receiving portions of the connectors. The toy picks building system may be built into a particular shape, item, vehicle, animal, person, building, scene, or landscape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ATWOOD ROPE MFG
    Inventor: Curtis Dale Atwood
  • Patent number: 12097447
    Abstract: A bubble producing device that includes a housing with a motor, a pump and an air producing device, all of which are electrically connected. A shaft with two ends, one end of which is connected to said housing and the second end is connectable to a bubble producing solution reservoir. A duct connected on one end to the air producing device and on the other end to a nozzle. The nozzle includes an open inner portion and an outer portion, wherein the outer portion includes a trough which surrounds an outer circumference of the nozzle and includes an outlet and an inlet. The inner portion includes a wiper secured therein. A solution channel pumps solution from the reservoir to the outlet to create bubbles and a recirculation channel pumps excess solution from the inlet back to the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LightUpToys.com LLC
    Inventors: Joshua C. Kelly, Christopher D. Kelly, Max Armendariz Lalama
  • Patent number: 12097448
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for fractionating a feedstock into two or more fractions enriched with different components, and more particularly to a method for fractionating a feedstock into two or more fractions by a chromatographic sequential simulated moving bed (SMB) system, wherein the SMB system comprises a separation loop comprising at least 2 compartments; and wherein the method comprises a separation cycle comprising at least one feeding step, at least one circulating step and at least one eluting step; wherein the dissolved substances in the feedstock form a separation profile as they progress through the separation loop; and the separation profile is progressed more than once or less than once through the separation loop in each separation cycle; and wherein at least two flow paths are present in the separation loop during each feeding step of the separation cycle; and at least one of said flow paths is an active flow path and at least one of said flow paths is an inactive flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: International N&H Denmark APS
    Inventors: Jyrki Airaksinen, Kari Laiho
  • Patent number: 12097449
    Abstract: A modular filter element frame (10) and a filter element frame assembly (100, 150) are disclosed. The filter element frame (10) has an elongate body (12) with a central bore (14) extending axially through the body. In cross-section the body has at least three smooth-ended lobes (16) that extend radially therefrom. The lobes are angularly spaced about the central bore such that a longitudinally extending channel (18) is formed along the body between adjacent lobes. Each channel has a plurality of longitudinally spaced apertures (20) extending into the central bore. Axially outer ends (24, 28) of the body are adapted to enable axial stacking thereof with like modular filter element frames to cooperatively form a filter element frame assembly (100, 150) with a required axial length. The assembly may receive a filter sleeve such that the sleeve extends at least partially along an outer periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Larry Schewitz
  • Patent number: 12097450
    Abstract: A movable seal for interfacing between a first surface and a second surface includes a floating portion attached to a non-floating portion by a flexible coupling portion, wherein the non-floating portion is coupled to the first surface by nesting in a groove on the first surface, and wherein the non-floating portion forms a seal between the first and second surfaces when the first surface moves relative to the second surface in a first direction, and wherein the non-floating portion does not form a seal between the first and second surfaces when the first surface moves relative to the second surface in a second opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GRAYL Inc.
    Inventors: Nancie Weston, Travis Merrigan, Michael Bargiel
  • Patent number: 12097451
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vapour compression system (1) is disclosed. Malfunctioning of a gas bypass valve (8) is registered. An actual opening degree of the gas bypass valve (8) is derived, and a target opening degree of the gas bypass valve (8) is derived, based on one or more control parameters of the vapour compression system (1). The actual opening degree is compared to the target opening degree, and the vapour compression system (1) is controlled based on the comparison, and in order to match a mass flow of gaseous refrigerant through the gas bypass valve (8) to the actual opening degree of the gas bypass valve (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DANFOSS A/S
    Inventors: Jan Prins, Frede Schmidt, Kenneth Bank Madsen, Kristian Fredslund
  • Patent number: 12097452
    Abstract: A water drainage device for a filter module is provided with a valve housing that has a valve bore and a valve body received at least in sections thereof in the valve bore. The water drainage device can be transferred from a closed state, in which the valve body seals in relation to a valve seat of the valve bore, into an open state, in which the valve body is lifted off the valve seat, and transferred from the open state into the closed state. The valve body, upon transfer of the water drainage device from the closed state into the open state, moves linearly along the longitudinal axis of the valve bore and away from the valve seat along or at a slant to a direction of gravity in downward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Weindorf, Rafael Salom
  • Patent number: 12097453
    Abstract: In a method for reconditioning an industrial oil and in an oil recovery system therefor, a used industrial oil is reconditioned by adding a liquid separation booster to the used industrial oil, and then the separation booster with attracted impurities is separated from the used industrial oil while leaving at least one specific additive in the oil. The separation booster is designed to attract impurities in the used oil while not attracting at least one specific additive in the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SKF RECONDOIL AB
    Inventors: Fred Sundström, Tomas Östberg, Thomas Persson
  • Patent number: 12097454
    Abstract: A relofted, spunbonded nonwoven web exhibiting a solidity of from less than 8.0%, to at least 3.0%, and exhibiting a Quality Factor of at least 0.30. Methods of making a relofted web; and, methods of using a relofted web as an air-filtration web. e.g. as a filter media or a layer thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Liang Cheng, Xiaoshuan Fu, Zhiqun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12097455
    Abstract: An ultraviolet (UV) air filter device for an HVAC system is disclosed. An example UV air filter device may include a body having a support structure and a filtration media. The example UV air filter device may also include a plurality of ultraviolet (UV) lights provided in the filtration media itself and/or mounted to the support structure. The example UV air filter device may also include a power source to provide electrical energy to the plurality of UV lights. The example UV air filter device may also include a fan or fan device, fan prop or rotor blade to circulate air across the UV lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventors: Chris Schuler, John Thomas Goodwin
  • Patent number: 12097456
    Abstract: An air purifier according to the present disclosure includes a first blower having a first fan configured to generate an air flow from a first suction part toward a first discharge part, a second blower having a second fan configured to generate an air flow from a second suction part toward a second discharge part, an installation space part configured to be formed between the first blower and the second blower, a power transmitter configured to be positioned inside the installation space part, to be fixed to any one of the first blower and the second blower, and to transmit wireless power, and a power receiver configured to be positioned inside the installation space part, to be fixed to the other one of the first blower and the second blower, and to receive wireless power transmitted from the power transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Myungsang Kim, Jihong Kim, Hojung Kim, Bonggyun Park, Yoosool Yoon, Cheolyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 12097457
    Abstract: Provided is a centrifuge media separator for separating blast particulate from fine particulate carried by air flowing from a blast cabinet and through the media separator. The centrifuge media separator comprises an upper panel, a lower panel, and an outer wall. The upper panel has a central opening formed therein. The outer wall is configured in a truncated logarithmic shape and which extends between the upper and lower panels. The outer wall has at least one particulate escape aperture formed therein. The upper panel, lower panel and outer wall collectively define a curvilinear air passageway having an inlet and an outlet. An air foil extends from the outer wall in to the air passageway. The distance than the air foil extends in to the air passageway is adjustable. The inlet is configured to allow a flow of air to enter the air passageway and circulate therethrough toward the outlet. The escape aperture is configured to exhaust the blast particulate out of the passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Media Blast & Abrasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald D. Storer, Robert A. Robinson
  • Patent number: 12097458
    Abstract: A method of treating a building for mold contamination including the steps of assessing and locating mold growth areas, constructing a containment barrier around the mold growth areas, vacuuming, abrading and surface treating the mold growth areas, ceilings, walls and window treatments with mold cleaner, replacing air filters from air handlers, removing all registers and vent grills in the treated areas and washing the vent grills with mold cleaner, vacuuming all registers and accessible ductwork, treating the heating and ventilation system, associated ductwork and wall cavities with an atomized mold cleaner, vacuuming all flooring, horizontal surfaces, walls, furniture and mattresses, re-vacuuming all flooring, re-treating the heating and ventilation system and associated ductwork with an atomized mold cleaner and re-treating the work area including any exposed wall cavities with an atomized mold cleaner, deconstructing and discarding containment barrier and reinstalling all registers and vent grills.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: John Bohde
  • Patent number: 12097459
    Abstract: Filtration media, media packs, and filtration elements are described, including fluted filtration media having offset flutes arranged to intermittently contact flutes on adjacent media, including angled and curved flutes. Pleated filtration media with alternating sealed pleat edges are also disclosed, including fluted media with alternating sealed flutes. A media pack can have a first sheet of media and a second sheet of media. The first sheet of media can have a first plurality flutes defining first flute valleys extending between a first face and a second face of the media pack. The second sheet of media can have a second plurality of flutes defining second flute peaks extending between the first face and the second face of the media pack. The first plurality of flutes can be non-parallel to the second plurality of flutes, and each first flute valley contacts one second flute peak at a discrete contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott M. Brown
  • Patent number: 12097460
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to aggregating, neutralizing, and filtering ultra-fine particles in fluids such as air and water. Fluid may be drawn from an ambient environment into a neutralization chamber. Within the neutralization chamber, particles in the fluid may be agglomerated. An acoustic field may be applied to the fluid to agglomerate the particles. The agglomerated particles may be exposed to light. The light may denature or deactivate the agglomerated particles. The agglomerated and inert particles maybe passed through a filter. After agglomeration and neutralization, the fluid may be released back into the ambient environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Material Printing B.V.
    Inventor: Gregor Luthe
  • Patent number: 12097461
    Abstract: A method for treating arsenic-containing flue gas is disclosed. In the method, the arsenic-containing flue gas is subjected to a dry pre-dedusting treatment, and the dedusted flue gas is pre-cooled and then introduced into a vortex quenching system. The arsenic-containing flue gas is divided into high-temperature flue gas and low-temperature flue gas through the vortex quenching system. The outlet temperature of the low-temperature flue gas is dropped below the desublimation temperature of gaseous arsenic trioxide. The low-temperature flue gas is subjected to a gas-solid separation to obtain solid arsenic trioxide and treated flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: BGRIMM TECHNOLOGY GROUP, Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Guoqiang Chen, Senlin Tian, Ping Ning, Xiaosong Yang, Linan Shao, Zhilong Zhao
  • Patent number: 12097463
    Abstract: A gas stream is purified by a TSA adsorption scheme including at least two adsorbers following, in an offset manner, a cycle including an adsorption phase, and a subsequently, a regeneration phase. The regeneration phase includes a depressurization step, a pre-regeneration step and a regeneration step. A gas circulator is used to circulate the gas within the adsorber in the pre-regeneration step in a closed loop while the circulating gas is heated with a heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Golo Zick
  • Patent number: 12097464
    Abstract: An exhaust steam stream having an absolute pressure from 200 kPa to 1,050 kPa and shaft power are produced from an extraction turbine and/or a back-pressure turbine. The exhaust steam stream can be supplied to an amine regenerator of an amine CO2 separation process. The shaft power can be utilized to drive equipment in a hydrocarbon processing plant such as an olefins production plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: David Spicer, James L. Kendall, Steven M. Slack
  • Patent number: 12097465
    Abstract: Systems and methods for removing carbon dioxide from a combustion flue gas and/or air by using a high-pressure aqueous ammonia solvent and a plurality of liquid driven ejectors to absorb and remove the carbon dioxide for carbon capture utilization or storage. The aqueous ammonia solvent is regenerated at a high pressure to save potential compression energy required for the absorption and removal of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Bechtel Energy Technologies & Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles L. Kimtantas
  • Patent number: 12097466
    Abstract: A submersible water desalination apparatus includes a plurality of water separation membrane elements, a product water collector that receives product water from the membrane elements, and a variable output motorized submersible pump having a suction side that receives product water from the product water collector and a discharge side that pumps product water away from the apparatus through a product water conduit for surface or subsurface use. At least a portion of the product water is used to lubricate and optionally also cool at least a portion of the pump, motor or both the pump and motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Natural Ocean Well Co.
    Inventors: Robert A. Bergstrom, Michael M. Porter
  • Patent number: 12097467
    Abstract: Membrane filtration systems can be used to purify liquid streams for downstream use. In practice, foulant can build-up on the surface of a membrane within a filtration system over time. The effectiveness of the filtration system will deteriorate if the fouling is not properly controlled. In some examples, a method of controlling membrane fouling in a pressurized membrane system involves supplying a feed stream that is predominately air mixed with water to the membrane. In other words, the feed stream a greater volume of air than water, even though it is the water being processed by the membrane. Supplying the pressurized membrane system with a feed stream that contains a greater volume of air than water can yield significantly better performance than supplying the membrane with a feed stream that contains a greater volume of water than air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Seong-Hoon Yoon, Hui Li, Craig Myers, Daniel Meier, Donald Johnson
  • Patent number: 12097468
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an external pressure type hollow fiber membrane component, a filtration membrane component, and a membrane filtration assembly, and provides an external pressure type hollow fiber membrane component, comprising: a housing having an inner cavity; and two end parts respectively provided at two ends of the inner cavity of the housing, the end parts being provided with a plurality of void passages running through the end parts in the axial direction of the housing and a plurality of water collection passages communicated with each other, and the void passages and the water collection passages are staggered at intervals. The present disclosure also provides a filtration membrane component and a membrane filtration assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HAINAN LITREE PURIFYING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Chen, Chen Chen, Lianggang Chen
  • Patent number: 12097469
    Abstract: A cross-flow membrane filtration channel defined by at least one membrane, wherein at least one surface of the channel is inclined at an angle away from a centreline of the channel in a direction of feed flow in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Farhad Zamani, Jia Wei Chew, Ebrahim Akhondi, William Bernard Krantz, Anthony Gordon Fane, Yong Zen Tan
  • Patent number: 12097470
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous membrane including a polymer including a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin as a main component, and a branched polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin as the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, in which the polymer has a value of a of 0.32 to 0.41 and a value of b of 0.18 to 0.42, each of which is determined by approximation according to the formula 1 below from a radius of gyration <S2>1/2 and an absolute molecular weight Mw of the polymer which are measured by GPC-MALS (gel permeation chromatograph equipped with a multi-angle light scattering detector). <S2>1/2=bMwa (Formula 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shun Shimura, Masayuki Hanakawa, Kenta Iwai, Takaaki Yasuda
  • Patent number: 12097471
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to asymmetric membranes and methods for making such membranes, wherein the membranes have a void volume and nanoparticles located in the void volume. The membranes have a variety of applications, including blood purification, water purification, water decontamination and bioprocessing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Gregory R Collins
  • Patent number: 12097473
    Abstract: A multi-layer membrane which has a mixed polyamide selective layer supported on a porous polysulfone layer. The mixed polyamide selective layer includes reacted units of a polyfunctional acyl halide (e.g. trimesoyl chloride) and a diamine mixture containing 4,7,10-trioxa-1,13-tridecanediamine and a cyclic diamine (e.g. piperazine). Methods of fabricating the multi-layer membrane via techniques such as phase inversion and interfacial polymerization are described. The inventive membrane is evaluated on its water flux and salt rejection (e.g. sulfate and chloride salts) capabilities. A water desalination system containing the multi-layer membrane(s) is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventor: Isam Hassan Aljundi
  • Patent number: 12097474
    Abstract: A worm shaft for a mixing and kneading machine particularly for continual processing having a shaft bar, on the circumferential surface of which blade elements are arranged to be spaced apart from one another extending outwards from the circumferential surface of the shaft bar, wherein the blade elements are arranged on the circumferential surface of the shaft bar, at least in one section extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, in two rows extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, and wherein each of the blade elements of the at least one section extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft has an elliptic, oval, or biconvex outer peripheral surface in the top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BUSS AG
    Inventors: Martin Schötzau, Wolfgang Walter
  • Patent number: 12097475
    Abstract: The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The University of Chicago
    Inventors: Rustem F. Ismagilov, Bo Zheng, Cory John Gerdts
  • Patent number: 12097476
    Abstract: A system including a containment assembly for enclosing a medication container may comprise a first housing portion or interface portion having a proximal end and a distal end. The interface portion may include a housing wall which defines a channel spanning from the proximal end to the distal end. The channel may be open at the proximal and distal end. The containment assembly may further comprise only two pierceable septa configured to form a barrier to the channel. The containment assembly may further comprise a variable-volume housing portion having a variable volume chamber. The variable-volume portion chamber of the variable-volume housing portion may be in fluid communication with the distal end of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Jason A. Demers, Frederick Morgan
  • Patent number: 12097477
    Abstract: The present invention presents an automatic compounding machine for food and medicine and relates to the technical field of food and medicine preparation. An automatic compounding machine for food and medicine, including a hatch, the hatch is provided with an automatic powder dropping module for feeding special powder, an automatic water filling module for feeding water, and a bottle holder for supporting a mixing bottle; the bottle holder is provided with a first drive motor, and the drive shaft of the first drive motor is provided with a first mounting plate, and the first mounting plate is provided with two magnetic blocks at intervals. The present invention can be used for mixing and stirring the contents of solid food, tablets or capsules with special powders and pure water into a liquid suspension, thus facilitating the taking of solid food or drugs, and the accurate dosing division of drugs, saving time and effort with high preparation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AUSON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
    Inventor: Enxian Lu
  • Patent number: 12097478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an aerogel blanket, the method including 1) introducing a catalyzed sol and a substrate for a blanket into a reaction vessel to impregnate the catalyzed sol into the substrate for a blanket, and 2) rotating the substrate for a blanket into which the catalyzed sol is impregnated to perform gelation, wherein the catalyzed sol includes a silica precursor composition, and the silica precursor composition includes a silicate containing a hydrophobic group and a tetraalkyl silicate, wherein a molar ratio of the silicate containing a hydrophobic group and the tetraalkyl silicate is 60:40 to 98:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Myung Eun Oh, Mi Ri Kim, Tae Kyeong Kang, Se Won Baek
  • Patent number: 12097479
    Abstract: A separating column (12) for hippuric acid analysis is filled with a filler in which 123 ?mol/g or more of ?-cyclodextrin is chemically bonded to a silica matrix. By using such a filler for the separating column (12) in which 123 ?mol/g or more of ?-cyclodextrin is chemically bonded to the silica matrix, hippuric acid, o-methyl hippuric acid, m-methyl hippuric acid, p-methyl hippuric acid, and mandelic acid can be separated without using a mobile phase containing cyclodextrin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki Yamaguchi, Daiki Fujimura, Hideyuki Otsuki
  • Patent number: 12097480
    Abstract: A composition is provided for removal of a target substance from a fluid stream. The composition may be used to remove polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) from water. The composition comprises a support material comprising an alumina; and a sorbent molecule that comprises a core polymer; wherein the core polymer is covalently linked to the support material; and wherein the sorbent molecule further comprises one or more covalently linked sorbent groups. Processes for removal of target substances such as PFAS are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: PURAFFINITY LTD
    Inventors: Octavia Ann Blackburn, Khai Duong Quang Nguyen, Liberty Jocasta Rockey, Aiden Sinan McGuirk, Alex Michael James, Nathan Clemence, Simon Paul Foxon
  • Patent number: 12097481
    Abstract: This invention relates to a continuous process for the preparation of a metal-organic framework comprising a hydrophobic compound. The process comprises the steps of: (a) providing a first component comprising either (i) a metal-organic framework, or (ii) a first reactant which includes at least one metal in ionic form and a second reactant which includes at least one ligand capable of associating with the metal in ionic form in order to form a metal-organic framework. (b) providing a hydrophobic compound, and (c) mixing the first component and the hydrophobic compound in order to form the metal-organic framework comprising the hydrophobic compound. The invention also relates to the use of a hydrophobic polymer, a silane compound and/or a siloxane compound to improve the water stability of a metal-organic framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MOF Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Jose Casaban-Julian, John Breen, Conor Hamill
  • Patent number: 12097482
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for fabricating catalysts for ammonia decomposition. The method may comprise (a) subjecting a catalyst support to one or more physical or chemical processes to optimize one or more pores, morphologies, and/or surface chemistry or property of the catalyst support; (b) depositing a composite support material on the catalyst support, wherein the composite support material comprises a morphology or surface chemistry or property; and (c) depositing one or more active metals on at least one of the composite support material and the catalyst support, wherein the one or more active metals comprise one or more nanoparticles configured to conform to the morphology of the composite support material and/or catalyst support material, thereby optimizing one or more active sites on the nanoparticles for ammonia processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AMOGY, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Sheludko, Junyoung Cha, Young Suk Jo
  • Patent number: 12097483
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust gas purification catalyst with a multilayered structure including an ultra-thin layer with a thickness of 20 micrometers or less and containing Rh, Pd, or both as at least one precious metal component, and to a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes a step of forming an ultra-thin layer having a thickness of 20 micrometers or less as the top layer of the catalyst by applying a polymer coating solution containing a polymer having a functional group capable of chelating with the precious metal component(s) on the surface of the multilayer structure of the catalyst. The disclosed catalyst exhibits improved removal efficiency for THC, CO, and NOx contained compared to an existing thin film-type catalyst. Since the disclosed catalyst is coated with a thin coating layer containing at least a portion of precious metal components, the disclosed catalyst exhibits improved performance while using the same amount of precious metal components as in conventional catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HEESUNG CATALYSTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Do-kyun Lee, Sang-yun Han, Seung Chul Na
  • Patent number: 12097484
    Abstract: Provided are titanium oxide fine particles capable of enhancing the photocatalytic activity of a photocatalyst when mixed with such photocatalyst. There are provided titanium oxide fine particles with at least an iron component and a silicon component solid-dissolved therein, in which the iron and silicon components are each contained in an amount of 1 to 1,000 in terms of a molar ratio to titanium (Ti/Fe or Ti/Si); and a titanium oxide fine particle dispersion liquid in which these titanium oxide fine particles are dispersed in an aqueous dispersion medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Furudate, Tomohiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 12097485
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing small crystal, high aluminum content zincoaluminosilicate crystalline materials having the SSZ-41 framework structure. The compositions made according to that method, as well as uses of the same, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 12097486
    Abstract: A method for producing a hierarchical mesoporous beta includes mixing a beta zeolite with an aqueous metal hydroxide solution and heating the beta zeolite and the aqueous metal hydroxide mixture to produce a desilicated beta zeolite, contacting the desilicated beta zeolite with an ammonium salt solution to produce an intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite, and treating the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite with an acidic solution to produce the hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite. The hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite includes a molar ratio of silicon to aluminum of greater than 12.5, a total pore volume of greater than or equal to the total pore volume of the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite, and an average mesopore size of greater than or equal to the average mesopore size of the hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite. The method may also include calcining the intermediate hierarchical mesoporous beta zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Ke Zhang
  • Patent number: 12097487
    Abstract: A catalyst for inducing thermal desorption of organic matter-contaminated soil and a preparation method thereof, which uses a colloidal mixture of ferroferric oxide and ferric chloride as a catalytic active component of thermal desorption, and carbon tetrachloride as a solvent. Based on the mass of solvent, a mass percentage of catalytic active component is 0.1%-15%. Ammonia water is added dropwise to ferric chloride aqueous solution to react in oil bath to generate a ferroferric oxide colloidal solution, then ferric chloride and obtained ferroferric oxide colloidal solution are added to carbon tetrachloride, and mixed solution is continuously stirred in an oil bath to evaporate solvent water to prepare a catalyst with carbon tetrachloride as solvent. Catalyst is environmentally friendly and can induce thermal desorption of organic matters in soil. 100% desorption of chlorobenzene, o-xylene and benzo[A]anthracene can be achieved at 130° C., and energy consumption of thermal desorption is greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY, NANJING GEKOF INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Xu, Qijie Jin, Mutao Xu, Wenyu Ji, Yao Lu, Mingbo Li, Meng Xu, Jing Song
  • Patent number: 12097488
    Abstract: A steam reforming process to produce synthesis gas from hydrocarbons comprises: a first steam reforming step, wherein a gas stream of hydrocarbon feedstock is supplied into a first reforming section comprising at least a first gas heated reformer, where steam reforming reactions take place forming a partially reformed effluent; a second steam reforming effluent, wherein the partially reformed effluent leaving the first reforming section is supplied to a second steam reforming section comprising at least a second reformer, where in a radiant chamber outside the tubes, an air combustion takes place; the second reformer is a gas heated reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: WOOD ITALIANA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Fabio Ruggeri, Luca Mancuso, Luigi Sangalli
  • Patent number: 12097489
    Abstract: The expanded bed direct-contact system uses a multistage expanded bed chamber for heat exchange between heated particles, falling under the force of gravity, and an upwardly directed stream of cool fluid. As the heated particles fall through a plurality of vertically-arrayed stages of the multistage expanded bed chamber and exchange thermal energy with the stream of cool fluid, a stream of heated fluid, and a volume of cooled particles, are produced. Porous plates are respectively received within the stages of the multistage expanded bed chamber for increasing residence time of the particles, and the porous plates, as well as the plurality of stages, are connected to one another by a plurality of downcomers, each also formed from a porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaker Saeed Abdullah Alaqel, Nader Shaif Esmail Saleh, Rajeh Saadallah Ali Saeed, Eldwin Djajadiwinata, Abdulelah Ibrahim Abdulaziz Alswaiyd, Hany Abdurrahman Al-Ansary, Abdelrahman Mahmoud Elleathy, Sheldon M. Jeter, Zeyad Abdulhman Alsuhaibani, Obida Mohammed Zeitoun, Syed Noman Danish, Ahmad Wadea Khaiyat
  • Patent number: 12097490
    Abstract: This application relates to a sample analyzing apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a base, a connector arranged at an end of the base, and a temperature controlling member mounted on the base and configured to adjust a temperature of the connector. The apparatus may also include a controller configured to adjust heat generation of the temperature controlling member to adjust a bonding force of a pipette tip attached to a surface of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DNABOY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Muntak Son
  • Patent number: 12097491
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method and a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents, which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one embodiment, a analyzer is disclosed including cuvettes for holding the liquid samples and reagents, the cuvettes are arranged in at least one stationary, linear cuvette array. The analyzer further has an optical measurement unit with a stationary light-supplying unit which has at least one light distributor device that feeds the light from a plurality of LED light sources emitting in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range into the inlet windows of the individual cuvettes of the cuvette array. The optical measurement unit further includes a stationary detection unit assigned to outlet windows of the cuvettes and further includes a plurality of photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Meon Medical Solutions GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Herfried Huemer, Arnold Bartel, Patrick Kraus-Füreder, Robert Scholz-Mareich, Wolfgang Sprengers, Michael Bergbaur, Reinhard Marik
  • Patent number: 12097492
    Abstract: The laboratory device includes an elongated handle with ergonomic grips. The device has a center recess for a rod to slide or rotate. The blade head attaches at the distal end of the elongated handle. The rod has geared teeth that interact and mesh with the gears on the blade head allowing the user to manipulate the angle of the blade head via rod. The rod in the proximal position of the handle is disposed at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the handle such that the blade head and handle are positioned for insertion into and removal of a tissue culture vessel. When the rod is moved distally or rotated the blade head position is disposed perpendicularly, acute or obtusely in relationship to the longitudinal axes of the handle such that the blade head provides optimal raking opportunities for the device to collect cell colonies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Jae Go Kwon
  • Patent number: 12097493
    Abstract: A kit or set including a planar sample carrier having an absorbent membrane layer suitable for absorbing liquid blood components is provided, and wherein at least a portion of the blood components is able to dry in the membrane layer, wherein the sample carrier is additionally provided on an outer side with an optically readable code, additionally including a closable cuboidal box having a bottom surface that has a rectangular base surface and that additionally has a first opening, additionally including a planar receiving element having a base surface that corresponds to the base surface of the bottom surface, wherein the receiving element has a second opening and a holder that together are designed such that, on mounting the sample carrier in the holder and subsequently inserting the receiving element into the box on the bottom surface of the box, the optical code is visible through the first opening in the bottom surface and also through the second opening in the receiving element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG
    Inventors: Thomas Pfeiffer, Stephan Proost, Lisa Honold
  • Patent number: 12097494
    Abstract: This document provides methods, devices, and systems for detecting the presence, absence, or amount of two or more analytes present within a small volume (e.g., less than 10 ?L) of a sample (e.g., a blood sample) obtained from a mammal (e.g., a human such as a human neonate). For example, methods and materials for using plasma separation and multiplex analyte detection to detect two or more analytes (e.g., proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, intact cells, intact viruses, intact microorganisms, and/or chemicals) within a small volume of a blood sample are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Alan M. Gonzalez Suarez, Alexander Revzin
  • Patent number: 12097495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for detecting polynucleotides in a sample and for quantifying polynucleotide load in a sample. The polynucleotides can be associated with a disease, disorder, or condition. In some applications, methylated DNA is quantified, e.g., in order to determine the load of polynucleotides in a sample. The present disclosure also provides methods and compositions for determining the load of fetal polynucleotides in a biological sample, e.g., the load of fetal polynucleotides (e.g., DNA, RNA) in maternal plasma. The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for detecting cellular processes such as cellular viability, growth rates, and infection rates. This disclosure also provides compositions and methods for detecting differences in copy number of a target polynucleotide. In some embodiments, the methods and compositions provided herein are useful for diagnosis of fetal genetic abnormalities, when the starting sample is maternal tissue (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Hindson, Serge Saxonov, Phillip Belgrader, Kevin D. Ness, Michael Y. Lucero, Billy W. Colston, Jr., Shawn Paul Hodges, Nicholas J. Heredia, Jeffrey Clark Mellen, Camille Bodley Troup, Paul Wyatt
  • Patent number: 12097496
    Abstract: The application relates to microfluidic apparatus and methods of use thereof. Provided in one example is a microfluidic device comprising: a first fluidic input and a second fluidic input; and a fluidic intersection channel to receive fluid from the first fluidic input and the second fluidic input, wherein the fluidic intersection channel opens into a first mixing chamber on an upper region of a first side of the first mixing chamber, wherein the first mixing chamber has a length, a width, and a depth, wherein the depth is greater than about 1.5 times a depth of the fluidic intersection channel; an outlet channel on an upper region of a second side of the first mixing chamber, wherein the outlet channel has a depth that is less than the depth of the first mixing chamber, and wherein an opening of the outlet channel is offset along a width of the second side of the first mixing chamber relative to the fluidic intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nutcracker Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Eldridge, Ximiao Wen