DR. MICHAEL SCOTT MILLER, MD
Psychiatric at Merton Minter St, San Antonio, TX

2012023, Sep 13, 2012

Mar 11, 2011

13/046181

Ronghua WEI - San Antonio TX, US
Richard L. JOHNSON - San Marcos TX, US
Christopher RINCON - San Antonio TX, US
Michael A. MILLER - San Antonio TX, US

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE - San Antonio TX

C23C 14/48, C23C 16/503

427523, 427525, 118723 MP, 427527

A method and system for plasma immersion ion processing including providing a hollow substrate having an interior surface defining an interior and a gas feed tube extending through the interior, wherein the gas feed tube is hollow and includes a wall having a plurality of holes defined therein. The method and system may also include heating the gas feed tube to a temperature in the range of 50° C. to 650° C.; supplying a precursor gas to the interior of the hollow substrate through the plurality of holes in the gas feed tube and generating a plasma; and applying a negative bias to the hollow substrate relative to the gas feed tube to draw ions from the plasma to the interior surface to form a coating on the interior surface.

2004019, Oct 7, 2004

Oct 31, 2003

10/698964

Kenneth McElrath - Houston TX, US
Kenneth Smith - Houston TX, US
Jeffrey Bahr - Houston TX, US
Thomas Wainerdi - Katy TX, US
David Karohl - Houston TX, US
Daniel Colbert - Houston TX, US
Michael Miller - San Antonio TX, US
Henry Oviatt - San Antonio TX, US
Eric Cline - Westfield NJ, US

H01M004/96, H01M004/92, B05D005/12, H01M008/10, H01M004/88

429/044000, 502/101000, 429/030000, 427/115000

Electrodes for polymer electrolyte membrane and direct methanol fuel cells comprise carbon nanotubes and catalytically active metal. In one embodiment, anode electrodes are prepared by depositing catalytic metal on carbon nanotubes, and forming the carbon nanotubes into a membrane. Anode electrodes comprising carbon nanotubes provide higher fuel cell performance with a much lower platinum loading than conventional carbon-based electrode material having a much higher platinum loading. In another embodiment, a catalyst ink comprising carbon nanotubes and a catalytic metal-loaded carbon powder was used to form an electrode membrane. The catalyst ink comprising carbon nanotubes and catalyst-loaded carbon powder can optionally comprise an ionically conductive polymer, such as a perfluorosulfonic acid/PTFE copolymer. In another embodiment, a fuel cell electrode comprising carbon nanotubes and catalytically active metal is a free-standing electrode. In another embodiment of a membrane electrode assembly, carbon nanotubes are sandwiched between a catalyst-loaded electrode and a polymer electrolyte membrane.

6267017, Jul 31, 2001

Aug 8, 2000

9/633946

Michael A. Miller - San Antonio TX
Stephen J. Hudak - San Antonio TX

Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio TX

G01N 3300

73866

A transducer cell array for electrochemical and electromechanical spectroscopy testing. The array has rows and columns of electrolytic volume cell elements that are spatially uniform. A reference electrode is common to all volume elements. Each counter electrode is individually addressable. The total impedance response provides a spatial image of the surface being tested.

8574407, Nov 5, 2013

Jan 19, 2011

13/009163

Michael A. Miller - San Antonio TX, US

Southwest Research Institute - San Antonio TX

G02B 5/00, B01J 19/12, B01J 19/08, C01B 3/00

20415715, 42218604

The present invention relates to plasmonic structures of metal dielectrics and their use in corresponding processes that elicit surface plasmons which may then be employed to influence a chemical transformation. The frequency of a plasmon may be tuned to couple with a selected vibrational mode of a selected molecule to undergo a selected transition, such as transitions to a metastable state, bond rearrangement and/or chemical transformation via the breaking and reforming of bonds.

2003002, Jan 30, 2003

Dec 28, 2001

10/028710

Michael Miller - San Antonio TX, US
Craig Wall - San Antonio TX, US

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE - San Antonio TX

H01M008/02

429/012000, 429/013000

A fuel cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a third electrode interposed between the anode and the cathode electrodes. The third electrode preferably includes an electrically conductive component. The third electrode preferably includes a metallic and a polymer grid and/or a conducting polymer. The third electrode may be used to control processes of the anode and/or the cathode electrodes. The third electrode may also be used to monitor the health of any component of the fuel cell.

2004022, Nov 11, 2004

Mar 26, 2004

10/810103

Thomas Owen - Helotes TX, US
Michael Miller - San Antonio TX, US

Southwest Research Institute

G01N031/00, G06F019/00

702/024000

A method of determining the amount of nitrogen in a gas mixture. The constituent gases of the mixture are dissociated and transformed to create a substance that may measured using nondispersive infrared adsorption techniques.

2007011, May 24, 2007

Dec 20, 2006

11/613278

Thomas E. Owen - Helotes TX, US
Michael Miller - San Antonio TX, US

C01B 21/02, G01N 33/00

436106000, 423351000

A method of determining the amount of nitrogen in a gas mixture. The constituent gases of the mixture are dissociated and transformed to create a substance that may measured using nondispersive infrared adsorption techniques.