Steven James Ankabrandt

Title: Steven James Ankabrandt: Patent Innovation in Chemical Compliance.

Introduction

Steven James Ankabrandt is an inventor associated with Kingsport, Tennessee, and Eastman Chemical Company. His patent work addresses how manufacturers can identify the chemical compositions in products and assess whether those products comply with government regulations.

Latest Patents

Ankabrandt is credited with 1 patent: “Methods and Systems for Deriving Chemical Compositions That Are Present in a Chemical Product and for Determining Compliance of Chemical Products with Government Regulations.”

The invention describes a method for analyzing a product’s bill of material. It identifies components that contain subcomponents, replaces those components with their subcomponents in a revised bill of material, and derives the chemical compositions present in the product. In some embodiments, the resulting compositions are compared with stored regulatory standards to assess compliance.

Career Highlights

Ankabrandt’s patent reflects an application of information systems to product composition analysis and regulatory compliance. By tracing components through their subcomponents, the method is designed to help determine which chemical compositions may be present in a manufactured product.

Collaborations

The supplied information identifies Bryan Robert Swenson and Paul Jayaraj Rajiah as Ankabrandt’s coworkers. It does not specify whether they collaborated with him on this patent.

Conclusion

Steven James Ankabrandt’s patent focuses on deriving product chemical compositions from bills of material and using that information to evaluate regulatory compliance.