Lecture presented on April 28, 2003, at the Intl. Soc. for Applications of Supercritical Fluids Meeting in Versailles, France.  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21  -  published on BobSievers.com

The CAN-BD process is based on the methods invented and developed by Sievers, Carpenter, and coworkers, licensed exclusively to AKTIV-DRY® Sievers, R.E. and Karst, U. US Patent 5639441 (1997)   Sievers, R.E. and Karst, U. US Patent 6095134 (2000)   Sievers, R.E., Sellers, S.P. and Carpenter, J.F., WO 00/75281-A2 (2001); national phase entered in US, UK, Japan, Australia, China, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, etc. US Patent has been allowed.   Sievers, R.E., European Patent 0677332 B1, Feb. 27, 2002; registered in UK, Germany, France, Switzerland.   Other patent applications have been filed that are divisionals of the CAN-BD patent filed April 8, 1994, and the European application.