Patents Examined by James Fiorito
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Patent number: 11964258Abstract: Zirconium doped terbium nano oxides (ZrTb2O3). The nano oxides can have an average diameter ranging from about 17 nm to about 22 nm. The nano oxides can be used as a photocatalyst for photodegradation of organic dyes. In an embodiment, the organic dyes include textile wastewater dyes. In an embodiment, the textile wastewater dyes include methylene blue (MB) and/or Congo Red (CR). In an embodiment, the zirconium doped terbium nano oxides (ZrTb2O3) can be prepared by a dual co-precipitation and calcination method.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Mai Mostafa Khalaf Ali, Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, Mohamed Salaheldeen, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Zeid M. Owidah
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Patent number: 11964360Abstract: Embodiments relate to a polishing pad, which comprises a window having a hardness similar to that of its polishing layer. Since the polishing pad comprises a window having a hardness and a polishing rate similar to those of its polishing layer, it can produce an effect of preventing scratches on a wafer during a CMP process. In addition, the polishing layer and the window of the polishing pad have a similar rate of change in hardness with respect to temperature, so that they can maintain a similar hardness despite a change in temperature during the CMP process.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SK ENPULSE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sunghoon Yun, Joonsung Ryou, Jang Won Seo, Jaein Ahn
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Patent number: 11964878Abstract: The present invention relates to an alpha alumina having a high purity, a high density and a low surface area and particularly, to a method to produce such an alpha alumina as well as to the use of the alpha alumina in sapphire production or the production of composite and ceramic bodies.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventors: Reiner Glockler, Holger Mitzel
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Patent number: 11965245Abstract: A method of making an alumina including providing an alumina slurry, aging the slurry, adding a tricarboxylic acid to the aged alumina slurry, further aging the slurry, and spray drying, the method being characterized by the addition of a dicarboxylic acid either at the same time as the tricarboxylic acid, or after the second aging and before the spray drying. The resulting alumina is dispersible at a pH greater than 9.5 above 95% and has a viscosity below 0.4 Pa·S for 10 wt % sols.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventors: Allison L. Hann, Brian C. Peoples
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Patent number: 11958979Abstract: This invention deals with effect pigment mixture comprising platelet-like aluminum effect pigments obtained by grinding of aluminum or aluminum based alloy shot and silvery pearlescent pigments, wherein the silvery pearlescent pigments are taken from the group consisting of: a) pearlescent pigments comprising a transparent substrate which is coated with a high-refractive index layer with n>1.8, which comprises or consists of an iron-oxide with Fe(II)-ions, b) pearlescent pigments comprising a transparent substrate which is coated with a high-refractive index layer with n>1.8, which comprises or consists of titanium suboxide or a pearlescent pigment comprising a substrate with a high-refractive index with n>1.8 layer, which comprises or consists of a titanium suboxide that is optionally coated with a high-refractive index layer with n>1.8, c) pearlescent pigments comprising a transparent substrate which is coated with a high-refractive index layer with n>1.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Eckart GmbHInventors: Carolin Brendel, Klaus Greiwe, Robert Maul, Oliver Bedford, Gunter Kaupp
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Patent number: 11959183Abstract: A product includes a dilute alloy catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction. The catalyst has a majority component and at least one minority component. The majority component is present in a concentration of greater than 90 atomic percent of the catalyst. The majority component is copper, and each minority component is selected from the group consisting of: a transition metal, a main group metal, a lanthanide, and a semimetal. A method includes forming a product on a cathode. The product includes a dilute alloy catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction. The catalyst has a majority component and at least one minority component. The majority component is present in a concentration of greater than 90 atomic percent of the catalyst. The majority component is copper, and each minority component is selected from the group consisting of: a transition metal, a main group metal, a lanthanide, and a semimetal.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Juergen Biener, Sneha Akhade, Monika Biener, Zhen Qi, Joel Varley, Stephen Weitzner, Vedasri Vedharathinam
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Patent number: 11958761Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen isotope adsorbent with differential binding properties and including mesoporous silica doped with fluorine.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONInventors: Hyo Joo Kim, Woo Yong Um
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Patent number: 11958755Abstract: Provided are a barium titanate powder having spherical shape fine particles which have an average particle diameter (D50) in a range of about 140-270 nm, a tetragonal structure having a markedly improved tetragonality (c/a) in a range of 1.007-1.01 in contrast to the conventional composition, and at the same time, a markedly improved crystallinity in a range of 93-96%, thereby showing improved dielectric properties, and a manufacturing method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Korea Inst. of Ceramic Engineering & TechnologyInventors: Moon Hee Choi, Hyeon Jin Jung, Seong Hyeok Choi
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Patent number: 11952677Abstract: A method for effectively removing minute impurities of 1 ?m or less in size that are present on a surface of an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate without etching the surface includes scrubbing a surface of an aluminum nitride single-crystal substrate using a polymer compound material having lower hardness than an aluminum nitride single crystal, and an alkali aqueous solution having 0.01-1 mass % concentration of potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide, the alkali aqueous solution being absorbed in the polymer compound material.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Tokuyama CorporationInventor: Masao Ariyuki
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Patent number: 11951465Abstract: Catalyst systems that are resistant to high-temperature sintering and methods for preparing such catalyst systems that are resistant to sintering at high temperatures are provided. Methods of forming such catalyst systems include contacting a support having a surface including a catalyst particle with a solution comprising a metal salt and having an acidic pH. The metal salt is precipitated onto the surface of the support. Next, the metal salt is calcined to selectively generate a porous coating of metal oxide on the surface of the support distributed around the catalyst particle.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Xingcheng Xiao, Gongshin Qi, Ryan J. Day, Ming Yang
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Patent number: 11938470Abstract: This disclosure relates to red mud compositions. This disclosure also relates to methods of making red mud compositions. This disclosure additionally relates to methods of using red mud compositions.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: UTAH STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Foster Agblevor, Hossein Jahromi, Oleksandr Hietsoi, Shereen Hassan
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Patent number: 11911875Abstract: A flexible abrasive member including a substrate, which carries an array of deposits with embedded abrasive particles, where each deposit has an elongated continuous structure that extends along a center trajectory predominantly in a longitudinal direction across the substrate. The structure has inset portions and recessed portions, which protrude oppositely along a transverse directions from the center trajectory. The inset portions of a deposit are accommodated in the recessed portions of a transversely preceding deposit, and the recessed portions of the deposit accommodate the inset portions of a transversely following deposit, so that the inset portions and recessed portions of neighboring deposits mutually overlap in said transverse directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: KGS DIAMOND AGInventor: Sandro Giovanni Giuseppe Ferronato
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Patent number: 11905624Abstract: Disclosed are porous multi-metal oxide nanotubes and a production method therefor. In one aspect, methods for producing porous multi-metal oxide nanotubes are provided comprising: (a) preparing an admixture comprising metal-acetylacetonate precursors, polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and a solvent component; and (b) producing a nanocomposite from the admixture, wherein metals of the metal-acetylacetonate precursors comprise a non-radioactive alkali metal stable isotope and a non-radioactive alkaline earth metal stable isotope. As such, porous multi-metal oxide nanotubes having a single-phase multivalence may be obtained in high yield without using harmful chemical substances. In addition, the polymer electrolyte membrane including the porous multi-metal oxide nanotubes may have maintained and improved mechanical strength, and thus may have maintained durability even during cell operation and may also have improved proton conductivity even at low humidity.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Ju Ahn Park, Sangaraju Shanmugam
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Patent number: 11904297Abstract: This invention generally relates to a process for manufacturing a lithium selective adsorption/separation media, and more particularly, to a process for manufacturing a lithium selective adsorbent/separation media using a recycled and augmented intercalation reaction liquor. The recycled and augmented intercalation reaction liquor is formed during intercalation and neutralization of the adsorbent manufacturing process.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ILIAD IP COMPANY, LLCInventor: Charles R. Marston
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Patent number: 11909016Abstract: A hydrometallurgical process is described that can isolate and recover NIMH battery constituents in high-value form: the nickel and cobalt hydroxides (cathode) as nickel and cobalt hydroxides; elemental nickel and cobalt (metallic anode) as nickel and cobalt hydroxides; rare earth metals (metallic anode) as oxides of rare earth metals, conductive carbon (electrodes) as conductive carbon, and the magnetic nickel-plated steel grids (electrodes) and battery cases in a relatively clean and directly smeltable form. The isolation portion of the process isolates the rare earth metals in oxide form from the nickel hydroxide and the cobalt hydroxide. If present, titanium, aluminum, and yttrium are isolated as oxides with the rare earth metal oxides.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: American Hyperform, Inc.Inventor: William Novis Smith
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Patent number: 11896958Abstract: Zirconium doped terbium nano oxides (ZrTb2O3). The nano oxides can have an average diameter ranging from about 17 nm to about 22 nm. The nano oxides can be used as a photocatalyst for photodegradation of organic dyes. In an embodiment, the organic dyes include textile wastewater dyes. In an embodiment, the textile wastewater dyes include methylene blue (MB) and/or Congo Red (CR). In an embodiment, the zirconium doped terbium nano oxides (ZrTb2O3) can be prepared by a dual co-precipitation and calcination method.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Mai Mostafa Khalaf Ali, Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, Mohamed Salaheldeen, Ahmed M. Abu-Dief, Zeid M. Owidah
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Patent number: 11896968Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for producing lanthanide doped layered double hydroxides (Ln-doped LDHs). The method includes the steps of preparing a carbonate free alkaline solution; preparing a solution of metal salts comprising a salt of a lanthanide; co-precipitating the alkaline solution and the solution of metal salts to form a mixture and Ln-doped LDH precipitate wherein the pH of the mixture is maintained at a constant value; aging the precipitate; and separating the precipitate from the solution. The alkaline solution is an aqueous ammonia solution. The present disclosure is also related to lanthanide-doped layered double hydroxides (La-doped LDHs) obtainable by such a method, as well as to the use of the lanthanide-doped layered double hydroxides obtainable by such a method.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignees: VITO NV, UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPENInventors: Elena Mihaela Seftel, Bart Michielsen, Steven Mullens, Pegie Cool, Vera Meynen
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Patent number: 11891524Abstract: A particle including a core particle; and a vapor deposited colorant including an organic colored material that encapsulates the core particle. The particle can be a special effect pigment or a thin film interference pigment. Methods of making the particle are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Alberto Argoitia, Larry Meredith, Carole Thoraval, Vladimir Raksha
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Patent number: 11891559Abstract: A shaped abrasive particle including a body comprising a first major surface, a second major surface, and a side surface extending between the first major surface and the second major surface, the body comprising a sharpness-shape-strength factor (3SF) within a range between about 0.7 and about 1.7 and a Shape Index within a range between at least about 0.01 and not greater than about 0.49.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC.Inventors: Christopher Arcona, David F. Louapre, Samuel S. Marlin, Doruk O. Yener, Jennifer H. Czerepinski, Kristin Breder, Flavien Fremy
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Patent number: 11894564Abstract: Cobalt and copper-doped nickel Cu/Co—Ni-ferrite nanoparticles having a general formula CuxCoxNi(1-x)Fe2O4 can be a catalyst for electrooxidation of methanol in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC). The catalyst can be an efficient anode for DMFC in alkaline electrolytes. The Cu/Co—Ni-ferrite nanoparticles can have a sponge-like structure with irregular pores. A diameter of the Cu/Co—Ni-ferrite nanoparticles can range from about 8 nm to about 30 nm.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, Mai Mustafa Khalaf Ali, Ibrahim Abdelhamid Mohamed Elsayed Elshaer, Hadyl Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef