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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2019
Applicants:

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Inventors:

Sean Doris, San Francisco, CA (US);

Warren Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Naveen Chopra, Mississauga, CA;

Bradley Rupp, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert Street, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignees:

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 10/00 (2006.01); B01J 19/08 (2006.01); B01J 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 10/00 (2013.01); B01J 10/002 (2013.01); B01J 10/007 (2013.01); B01J 19/0013 (2013.01); B01J 19/088 (2013.01); B01J 2219/002 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00051 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00162 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00164 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00177 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00186 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00227 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00234 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0805 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0877 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a chemical reactor, which can comprise a substrate for facilitating chemical reactions occurring at triple-phase boundaries. One possible substrate may further comprise a set of dynamically controllable sites and/or pixels upon which control signals may affect a desired formation of gas bubbles over an active catalytic (or other desired) solid surface in a liquid flow—wherein a chemical reaction in two or more phase boundaries may occur. In yet another embodiment, a control algorithm may send control signals to controllable sites/pixels to maximize the operation of the reactor according to a desired metric (e.g., product formation) that may input a set of sensor data to affect its control.


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