"Diamonds
are forever. E-mail comes close.”--
June Kronholz (born 1947), American journalist
What if you find a patent of interest and want to contact one of the inventors
listed for that patent? How do you find
the inventor’s email address?
Here is a case study that can help. It
is not infallible … but who is?
First, the steps in the procedure are …
Find a patent of interest
Determine the name of the Inventor you want to
contact
Ascertain the Original Assignee
Search for email address patterns for the
Original Assignee
Use the patterns to create likely email addresses
for the Inventor
We’ll begin with the following patent, which turned up during a recent Google®
Patents search. Let’s pretend that we want to find an email address for inventor William J. Novak.
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PATENT
Low temperature adsorbent for removing
sulfur from fuel
Original Assignee
Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company
Inventors
William J. Novak, Joseph E. Gatt
Publication number: US20130109895 A1
Application number: US 13/622,043
Publication date: May 2, 2013
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods for removing sulfur from a hydrocarbon
fuel or fuel precursor feedstream, such as methods comprising contacting a
hydrocarbon fuel or fuel precursor feedstream having a relatively low sulfur
content with a sulfur sorbent material comprising an active copper component
disposed on a zeolitic and/or mesoporous support under conditions sufficient to
reduce the sulfur content by at least 20 wt % and/or to about 15 wppm or below,
thus forming a hydrocarbon fuel product. In some advantageous embodiments, the
contacting conditions can include a temperature of about 392° F. (about 200°
C.) or less.
Free Full Text Source: https://www.google.com/patents/US20130109895
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Google® the Assignee: email Exxonmobil Research
And Engineering Company
One result …
Digital Refining - ExxonMobil Research
and Engineering
www.digitalrefining.com/74,sponsors,ExxonMobil_Research_and_Engi...
tsl.email@exxonmobil.com
... ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company is a wholly owned research and
engineering subsidiary of Exxon Mobil ...
It appears that people who work for the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Company will have emails with the extension @exxonmobil.com.
Google®: "email * * exxonmobil.com"
Note that the quotes are
important. They instruct the engine to
search for the string as a phrase. The
asterisks are important, too. They are
wildcards which instruct the engine to search for anything that happens to
occupy those positions in the search string.
Two results from Google® reveal two patterns …
daniel.bilbao@exxonmobil.com
mary.c.weichel@exxonmobil.com
Now we Google®: William J. Novak “email * exxonmobil.com”
Again, note the quote marks and the asterisk.
This search results in the following article …
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Maximising
premium distillate by catalytic dewaxing – DigitalRefining
Free Full Text Source: www.digitalrefining.com/data/articles/file/1351675167.pdf
by T Hilbert - 2011
Tim Hilbert, Mohan Kalyanaraman, Bill Novak, Joesph Gatt, Béatrice Gooding and
Stephen McCarthy ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE).
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Browsing to the end of the article, where brief bios of the authors appear, we
find another clue …
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Bill
Novak is Senior Engineering Associate in ExxonMobil Process Research
Laboratories, where he is responsible for new leads and licensing for
hydroprocessing and coordinates intellectual property for hydroprocessing and
lubes. He has over 30 years’ experience in oil refining technology, mainly in
hydroprocessing, reforming, FCC and lubes.
Joseph Gatt is a Senior Researcher in ExxonMobil Process Research Laboratories,
currently working on new leads in hydrotreating and dewaxing catalysis,
centring on diesel and biodiesel operation. He holds a PhD in chemical
engineering from Purdue University.
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Aha! Our inventor William is also known
as Bill.
Now we can construct several possible email addresses for the inventor …
Bill.novak@exxonmobil.com
William.novak@exxonmobil.com
William.j.novak@exxonmobil.com
Caveat … I have not tested any of the email addresses, so all three may be
bogus. But there is a high degree of
probability that one of them will turn out to be genuine.
One thing that is not bogus is this blog (www.desulf.blogspot.com) … follow it
and let your colleagues know about it.
They will thank you for the tip.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Conference Alert: Petrotech 2014
“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.” -- George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
Petrotech 2014, the 11th such event, is scheduled for 12-15 January 2014, New Delhi, India.
From its Web (http://www.petrotech.in/):
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"The PETROTECH series of International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibitions is a biennial platform for national and international experts in the oil & gas industry to exchange views and share knowledge, expertise and experiences. The event also aims to explore areas of growth in petroleum technology, exploration, drilling, production and processing, refining, pipeline, transportation, petrochemicals, natural gas, LNG, petroleum trade, economics, legal and human resource development, marketing, research & development, information technology, safety, health and environment management in the oil & gas sector. As the prime showcase of India's hydrocarbon sector, this mega event attracts scientists, technologists, planners and policy makers, management experts and entrepreneurs to solicit their views in order to catalyse achievement of global energy security."
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Presentations from the 10th Petrotech conference (2012) included:
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The Downstream Value Chain And The Critical Role Of Innovation & Technology For The Future Of Energy,
Ed D Daniels, Shell
Latest Improvements in VGO based Hydrocracking Technologies, Patrick Bourges, Axens India Pvt. Ltd
Novel Approach to Claus based sulfur recovery, Dr. Matt Thundyil, GTC Technology
Preventing the Most Common Environmental Excursions on the FCC, Dr. John Dunleavy, Intercat
Selective Processing Strategies for Maximizing FCC Light Cycle Oil Production, Rahul R Pillai, KBR,
Methanol To Gasoline Technology, Mitch Hindman, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
Future Reforming Technologies for Refinery Hydrogen Generation Units, Dr. Kedar Vasant Patwardhan, Larsen & Toubro Limited
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