Patents Examined by Hannah J Pak
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Patent number: 11976144Abstract: A multistage polymer is provided, comprising: acrylate rich stage comprising: (a) structural units of monoethylenically unsaturated non-ionic, acrylate rich stage monomer selected from C1-22 alkyl (meth)acrylates and mixtures thereof; and (b) carbosiloxane rich stage, comprising: structural units of carbosiloxane monomer of formula (I), wherein a is 0 to 3; wherein d is 0 or 1; wherein R1 is selected from hydrogen, C1-10 alkyl group and aryl group; wherein R2 is selected from hydrogen and C1-10 alkyl group; wherein R8 is —O—Si(CH3)2—O—Si(CH3)3 group; wherein Y is selected from formula (II), (III) and (IV); wherein R4 and R6 are selected from hydrogen and methyl group; wherein R3 and R5 are a C1-10 alkylene group; wherein R7 is C1-10 alkyl group; wherein b is 0 to 4 and wherein c is 0 or 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Silicones CorporationInventors: Hilda G. Buss, Fanwen Zeng, Bryan L. McCulloch, Jodi Mecca, Ralph C. Even, Michaeleen L. Pacholski
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Patent number: 11976179Abstract: Provided is a particle material that achieves excellent mechanical properties and optical properties when dispersed in a transparent resin material in order to solve the problem. In a case where primary particles having particle sizes in a certain range are formed into an aggregate, mechanical properties are enhanced while optical properties are maintained. The primary particles each have compositions different between the inside thereof and the surface thereof. Therefore, the optical properties to be obtained are easily controlled unlike an inorganic substance in which both of the compositions are mixed at an atomic level. The particle material of the present invention is an aggregate including primary particles in which a specific surface area. diameter is not less than 0.8 nm and not greater than 80 nm, the primary particles formed of an inorganic substance in which a composition of a surface and a composition of an inside are different.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ADMATECHS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Hori, Takeshi Yanagihara, Sachie Nagano, Susumu Abe, Yuji Oono, Haruka Katsurayama
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Patent number: 11970580Abstract: A room-temperature-curable organopolysiloxane composition for an oil seal, wherein an organosilane compound containing a specific organo-oxymethyl group and represented by formula (1) below and/or a partial hydrolysis condensate of said compound is used as a curing agent (crosslinking agent), and an organic compound having a guanidine skeleton is added in combination as a curing catalyst. In the formula, each R1 is independently a C1-12 unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group, R2 is a C1-12 unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group, Y is a hydrolyzable group, and n is 0, 1 or 2.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Uta, Shigeki Yasuda, Tetsuro Yamada, Munenao Hirokami, Taiki Katayama, Takafumi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 11964250Abstract: Methods and systems for synthesizing multicompartment capsules are disclosed, as well as multicompartment polymer capsules formed in accordance with disclosed techniques. At least one plurality of polymer capsules are formed via a capsule-forming process. A feed solution and a reservoir solution are provided, each comprising a biopolymer. The feed solution biopolymer and the reservoir solution biopolymer have opposite charges. Droplets of the feed solution are introduced into the reservoir solution, thereby forming via electrostatic complexation a plurality of polymer capsules. At least a portion of the resulting polymer capsules are then encapsulated in a larger polymer capsule via a similar process, wherein the feed solution utilized for the encapsulation process also comprises the formed smaller capsules.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventors: Hyuntaek Oh, Srinivasa R. Raghavan, William E. Bentley, Xi Lu, Jessica Lynn Terrell, So Hyun Ahn
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Patent number: 11958970Abstract: A resin block suitable for dental cutting work may include a resin matrix (A) and spherical filler (B) whose average particle size ranges from 230 to 1000 nm. When 10 mm thick and measured with a colorimeter, the lightness (V) is less than 5.0 and the saturation (C) is less than 2.0 in a Munsell color system of colored light on a black background and a white background. When 1 mm thick, the lightness (V) is less than 5.0 and the saturation (C) is 0.05 or more on a black background, but on a white background, the lightness (V) is 6.0 or more and the saturation (C) is less than 2.0 for Munsell colored light. Resin blocks can be used for dental restoration such that dental prostheses produced from the block not using a pigment/dye are compatible with natural teeth color tone, and the color tone compatibility endures.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Tokuyama Dental CorporationInventors: Takuma Matsuo, Hironobu Akizumi
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Patent number: 11958947Abstract: Provided herein are core-shell microcapsules useful for compartmentalizing biological molecules in solution. Also provided are processes for manufacturing core-shell microcapsules and methods for using core-shell microcapsules to compartmentalize and optionally process biological entities and molecules.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: DROPLET GENOMICS, UABInventors: Jonas Gasparavicius, Vaidotas Kiseliovas, Karolis Leonavicius, Linas Mazutis, Juozas Nainys, Andrius Sinkunas, Giedrius Zolubas, Rapolas Zilionis, Vaida Kurmauskaite, Greta Ruksnaityte, Ignas Ragaisis, Duygucan Gul
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Patent number: 11952506Abstract: A coating composition is shown and described herein. The coating composition comprises: the (meth)acrylic polymer containing at least one active hydrogen (a), the epoxy silane oligomer composition (b), emulsifier (c), titanium oxide particles (d), a siliceous particulate filler (e) and water (f) optionally one or more additives, where the epoxy silane oligomer composition comprises 5 to 15 weight percent monomer, 5 to 20 weight percent dimer, 5 to 20 weight percent trimer and 45-85 weight percent poly-oligomers components. The coating composition can provide a water-based coating composition exhibiting early water resistance such that defects in the coating are minimized if exposed to water prior to the coating being fully cured.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS INC.Inventors: Paula Reneé Cousino, Michael James Seeber
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Patent number: 11945934Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing smoke suppressants are disclosed. The smoke suppressant molecularly encapsulates a naturally-occurring inorganic substrate, such as expanded volcanic ash. These intercalated smoke suppressant compositions have particular utility for smoke suppression in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), both flexible and rigid compounds as well as other polymeric resins and materials.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mexichem Specialty Compounds, Inc.Inventors: James F. Day, Mark A. Jozokos, William Pavilionis
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Patent number: 11945945Abstract: A resin including up to 99.99 weight percent (wt. %) of a first polyolefin grafted with a functional group selected from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, a carboxylic acid anhydride, an ester functional group or a combination thereof; and 0.01 to 3.0 wt. % of a tin oxide-based catalyst, where the resin includes 0.2 wt. % to 1.5 wt. % of the functional group from the first polyolefin, the wt. % based on a total weight of the resin. The first polyolefin can be selected from a polyethylene, a polypropylene, an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer, a propylene/alpha-olefin copolymer and combinations thereof. The tin oxide-based catalyst can be selected from dibutyltin oxide, dioctyltin oxide and combinations thereof. The resin can be used in a multilayer structure, where a Layer A comprises the resin and a Layer B comprises a polyester, where a first major surface of Layer A is in adhering contact with the second major surface of Layer B.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Regents of The University of MinnesotaInventors: Kunwei Liu, Alex Michael Jordan, Christopher John Ellison, Christopher Ward Macosko, Christopher M. Thurber, Wenyi Huang, Thomas H. Peterson
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Patent number: 11945920Abstract: Thermosensitive fine particles of the present invention include a side chain crystal polymer which is crystallized at a temperature lower than a melting point and which exhibits fluidity at a temperature equal to or more than the melting point. The side chain crystal polymer may include, as a monomer component, a (meth)acrylate having a straight-chain alkyl group having 14 or more carbon atoms. A mean particle diameter of the fine particles may be 0.1 to 50 ?m. The thermosensitive fine particles may include no organic solvents.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NITTA CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Marutani, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Megumi, Hikaru Ito, Takumi Kato, Koji Yamashita
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Patent number: 11932735Abstract: High spherical particles for use in piezoelectric applications may be produced mixing a mixture comprising a graphene oxide-polyvinylidene fluoride (GO-PVDF) composite, a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the PVDF, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature equal to or greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the PVDF to disperse the GO-PVDF composite in the carrier fluid, wherein the GO-PVDF composite has a transmission FTIR minimum transmittance ratio of ?-phase PVDF to ?-phase PVDF of about 1 or less; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the PVDF to form GO-PVDF particles; and separating the GO-PVDF particles from the carrier fluid, wherein the GO-PVDF particles comprise the graphene oxide dispersed in the PVDF, and wherein the GO-PVDF particles have a transmission FTIR minimum transmittance ratio of ?-phase PVDF to ?-phase PVDF of about 1 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Valerie M. Farrugia, Robert Claridge, Hojjat Seyed Jamali
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Patent number: 11932752Abstract: A composite film usable as a separator of an electrochemical device includes hBN nanosheets and at least one polymer. The hBN nanosheets are uniformly dispersed within a matrix of said least one polymer to achieve a highly porous microstructure. Said at least one polymer comprises one or more electrically insulating and electrochemically inert polymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: Mark C. Hersam, Ana Carolina Mazarin de Moraes
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Patent number: 11932718Abstract: Exfoliated nanoplatelets functionalized with a non-polar moiety, such as an ethylene or propylene derived polymer, are useful for forming composites, films, and polymer blends.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: The Texas A&M University System, Formosa Plastics CorporationInventors: Hung-Jue Sue, Joseph Baker, Mingzhen Zhao, Hong-Mao Wu, Wen-Hao Kang, Jen-Long Wu
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Patent number: 11926728Abstract: Described herein are self-healing polymers comprising a base polymer and at least one healing agent disposed in the base polymer under pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: Jayram Shivajirao Desai, Shireesh Pankaj
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Patent number: 11920009Abstract: The present disclosure provides a masterbatch polyamide polymer capable of conferring stain resistance to a terminated polyamide polymer while substantially maintaining the processability of the terminated polyamide polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals LLCInventors: Veera Nelliappan, David J. Loy, Farzaneh Talebi, Joseph Weston, Ann Schoeb
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Patent number: 11919772Abstract: A method to make heteroatom doped polymer nanosphere/carbon nanospheres uses aromatic amine and aldehyde as raw materials, and in the presence of a compound represented by formula I, reacts the aldehyde with the compound represented by formula Ito form a Schiff base, and then reacts the aromatic amine with the resulting Schiff base, wherein the reaction is conducted in an aqueous solution system at a mild reaction temperature (10° C. to 50° C.) under stirring. The resulting polymer nanospheres are subject to centrifugation and drying, followed by calcination in an inert atmosphere to obtain carbon nanospheres. The nanospheres product prepared using the method has controllable dimensions and morphology, an even particle size, and homogeneously doped heteroatoms.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Rongwen Lu, Minghui Liu, Yingcen Liu, Hua Lin, Caicheng Song
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Patent number: 11912877Abstract: Compositions comprising Group 13 element-based coupling agents and/or aluminum-based substrates and methods for making such compositions are provided. Compositions herein further comprise an inorganic substrate, a functionalized polymer, or a combination thereof. Such compositions may further comprise a secondary coupling agent having two or more functional groups. Compositions comprising a particulate inorganic substrate dispersed in a polymer form composite materials having improved mechanical properties. Compositions comprising a monolithic inorganic substrate having at least one surface bonded to a polymer layer form articles having improved surface properties.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: Patrick Brant, Justin Smith
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Patent number: 11912904Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a method for preparing an adhesive composition, in which an aqueous phase comprising a modified colloidal silica is mixed with an organic phase comprising one or more monomers in the presence of an initiator, wherein conditions are maintained such that polymerisation of the one or more monomers occurs to form an aqueous polymeric dispersion, wherein; (i) the aqueous polymeric dispersion comprises polymer particles with protective colloid on their surface; (ii) the modified colloidal silica comprises colloidal silica particles with at least one surface-bound hydrophilic organosilane moiety and/or comprises colloidal silica particles with at least one additional element on its surface, the element being able formally to adopt a +3 or +4 oxidation state; and (iii) the initiator is at least partially soluble in water.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Per Anders Restorp, Hans Lagnemo, Peter Harry Johan Greenwood
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Patent number: 11905358Abstract: The invention relates to highly filled urethane systems, methods of making the urethane systems, and their use in commercial applications. More particularly, the invention includes urethane systems with a substantial amount of mineral filler that have acceptable cure kinetics and mechanical properties. The urethane systems include an isocyanate component, a polyol component, and a mineral filler that, in certain embodiments, is selected from talc, mica, calcium carbonate and mixtures or blends thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: STOCKMEIER URETHANES USA, INC.Inventors: Michael Hugh Quinn, Gabrielle Lynn Hamner
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Patent number: 11898306Abstract: The present application relates to a sizing agent composition, a carbon fiber material and a composite material. The sizing agent composition comprises specific compositions, thereby producing a sizing agent having emulsion droplets with specific diameter. The sizing agent has excellent emulsion stability, and it can efficiently improve hygroscopicity and dimensional stability of the carbon fiber material. Besides, the sizing agent can improve bonding properties between the carbon fiber material and resin matrix, therefore enhancing properties of the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Hsuan-Yin Chen, Long-Tyan Hwang