Richard A Hicks

US Patent:

51605171, Nov 3, 1992

Filed:

Feb 20, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/841191

Inventors:

Richard E. Hicks - Waban MA
Richard R. Fenner - Walpole MA

International Classification:

B01D 4600

US Classification:

553851

Abstract:

A system for indoor pollution control that purifies ambient air in a room. The air-purification components can be housed, for example, in an item of ordinary furniture such as a chair. This allows large components capable of high purification rates to be used, but without the large space requirements hitherto normally required with previously known high-rate systems. In addition, the air flow is directed so that a localized spatial zone can be preferentially purified without the need for physical enclosures. The system can be used to prevent dispersion of harmful substances such as pathogens or tobacco smoke that originate from a source, and can also create a microenvironment of purified air.

US Patent:

55650775, Oct 15, 1996

Filed:

Sep 26, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/312412

Inventors:

Harris Gold - Lexington MA
Richard E. Hicks - Waban MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
John F. McCoy - No. Chelmsford MA

Assignee:

Foster Miller, Inc. - Waltham MA

International Classification:

B01D 1706

US Classification:

204666

Abstract:

A transverse flow, self-heating electrically conductive sorption system for separating species of different adsorption characteristics in a fluid includes a containment vessel, an electrically conductive permeable sorbent bed having a multiplicity of adsorption sites in said vessel; a porting structure for supplying contaminated fluid in a first direction at one surface of the bed and for receiving the contaminated fluid at another surface of the bed; and a pair of spaced electrodes for applying current through the bed in a second direction transverse to the first direction to self-heat the electrically conductive sorbent bed.

US Patent:

55058256, Apr 9, 1996

Filed:

Sep 20, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/309076

Inventors:

Harris Gold - Lexington MA
Richard E. Hicks - Waban MA
Andrew C. Harvey - Waltham MA
John F. McCoy - Chelmsford MA

Assignee:

Foster Miller Inc. - Waltham MA

International Classification:

B01D 2962

US Classification:

95126

Abstract:

An electrically conductive sorption and in situ regeneration system and method for separating species of different adsorption characteristics in a fluid includes flowing a contaminated fluid through an electrically conductive sorbent bed having a multiplicity of adsorption sites, and providing an electric current through the sorbent bed to heat the bed to increase the adsorption sites available for adsorption by the bed of the more strongly adsorbed specie by inhibiting adsorption by the bed of the less strongly adsorbed specie which might occupy adsorption sites in the bed.

US Patent:

42614198, Apr 14, 1981

Filed:

Jun 14, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/048650

Inventors:

Ronald F. Probstein - Brookline MA
Richard E. Hicks - Waban MA

Assignee:

Water Purification Associates - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

E21B 4300
E21B 4340

US Classification:

166 52

Abstract:

A technique for recovering natural gas from geopressured brines contained in a first aquifer in which the brine is conveyed from the high pressure geopressured aquifer to an underground chamber at lower pressure at a location remote from the geopressured aquifer, the lower pressure within the chamber causing the gas to be released from the brine after entry into the chamber. The released gas is conveyed from the chamber to a suitable gas outlet for use while the brine within the chamber by virtue of its pressure is conveyed to a second upper level discharge aquifer at a location remote from the chamber.

US Patent:

20210342366, Nov 4, 2021

Filed:

May 1, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/864640

Inventors:

- Hopkinton MA, US
Daniel K. O'Reilly - Framingham MA, US
Richard Hicks - Cary NC, US

International Classification:

G06F 16/27
G06F 11/20
G06F 9/455

Abstract:

Techniques for providing an embedded container-based control plane for clustered environments. A clustered storage system includes one to many storage appliances, in which one storage appliance is designated as a “primary appliance” and any other storage appliance(s) is/are designated as a “peer appliance(s).” The primary appliance includes a central database, one peer appliance includes a synchronously replicated database, and any other peer appliances each include an asynchronously replicated database. The primary appliance further includes a global management IP for managing access to the central database. The primary and peer appliances each further include a control plane container for implementing command processing services. The control plane container of the primary appliance further implements command orchestration services. The clustered storage system with central and replicated databases and a distributed control plane avoids the need to re-synchronize data at the time of storage appliance failure and improves scalability.