Patents Examined by Johann Richter
  • Patent number: 8771649
    Abstract: This invention relates to inducible release vehicle comprised of crosslinked carbohydrates or proteins and an active ingredient. The release is induced by an external stimulus, e.g. an enzyme such as amylase. Such a vehicle can particularly be used in applications for preventing microbial decay or combating microbial infections. Other uses are for oral applications such as providing antdaries or flavoring compounds and for pharmaceutical and/or nutraceutical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
    Inventors: Henricus Matheus Wilhelmus Maria Thijssen, Roy Christiaan Montijn, Johannes Wilhelmus Timmermans, Theodoor Maximiliaan Slaghek, Jacobus Johannes Frederick van Veen, Johannes Wilhelmus Leonardus Boumans
  • Patent number: 8658828
    Abstract: The recovery of toluene diamine from tar waste residues discharged from the synthesis process of toluene diisocyanate comprising steps of: a) grinding the tar waste residues into particles; b) dispersing the particles of tar waste residues into a phase transfer catalyst, alkali and water to obtain a slurry, said phase transfer catalyst being selected from the group consisting of higher alcohols, polyols, polyether compounds and combinations thereof having a boiling point ranging from 120 to 280° C.; c) under the protection of a protective gas, subjecting the slurry to a hydrolysis reaction at a temperature of 120-180° C. under a meter-measured pressure of 0-0.95 MPa to produce toluene diamine; and d) recovering toluene diamine from the hydrolysis reaction solution. The present invention achieves highly efficient recovery of toluene diamine (the recovery rate of TDA is up to 60%) under mild conditions such as 120-180° C. and 0-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cangzhou Fengyuan Environmental Protection Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Deshui Su
  • Patent number: 8507704
    Abstract: A formulation, comprising: a) at least one metal-ligand complex, wherein one or more ligands are selected from the group consisting of ?-diketonates, ?-ketoiminates, ?-ketoesterates, ?-diiminates, alkyls, carbonyls, alkyl carbonyls, cyclopentadienyls, pyrrolyls, alkoxides, amidinates, imidazolyls, and mixtures thereof; and the metal is selected from Group 2 to 16 elements of the Periodic Table of the Elements; and, b) at least one aminoether selected from the group consisting of R1R2NR3OR4NR5R6, R1OR4NR5R6, O(CH2CH2)2NR1, R1R2NR3N(CH2CH2)2O, R1R2NR3OR4N(CH2CH2)2O, O(CH2CH2)2NR1OR2N(CH2CH2)2O, and mixtures thereof, wherein R1-6 are independently selected from group consisting of C1-10 linear alkyl, C1-10 branched alkyl, C1-10 cyclic alkyl, C6-C10 aromatic, C1-10 alkylamine, C1-10 alkylaminoalkyl, C1-10 ether, C4-C10 cyclic ether, C4-C10 cyclic aminoether, and mixture thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov, Xinjian Lei, Daniel P. Spence, John Anthony Thomas Norman, Laura M. Matz
  • Patent number: 8450512
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for a simple process to make 3-aminoorgano functional silanes and siloxanes, free from isomers, by the use of commonly available materials. One embodiment of such a method comprises reacting aminoorgano functional silanes with hexamethyldisilazane in the presence of an acidic catalyst to produce a cyclic gamma-functional aminoorganic silane and beta isomers; separating the cyclic gamma-functional aminoorganic silane and the beta isomers; and converting the separated cyclic gamma-functional aminoorganic silane to pure gamma-aminoalkylsilane or pure aminoorganic siloxane. Also disclosed herein are cyclic derivatives of gamma-functional aminoorganic silanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Genesee Polymers Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Piskoti, Charles R. Piskoti
  • Patent number: 8440849
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of a nitroaniline derivative of Formula (I) for the production of nitric oxide and for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of a disease wherein the administration of nitric oxide is beneficial. The present disclosure furthermore relates to a method for the production of NO irradiating a nitroaniline derivative of Formula (I), a kit comprising a nitroaniline derivative of Formula (I) and a carrier and to a system comprising a source of radiations and a container associated to a nitroaniline derivative of Formula (I). In Formula (I), R and RI are each independently hydrogen or a C1-C3 alkyl group; RII is hydrogen or an alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Sabrina Conoci, Salvatore Petralia, Salvatore Sortino
  • Patent number: 8436199
    Abstract: The invention relates to boron-containing acids of the general formula (I) [B(RF)4-x-y(CN)xFy]?H+ (I), where x=0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, y=0, 1, 2 or 3 x+y?4, and in which the ligands RF may be identical or different and RF stands for a perfluorinated or partially fluorinated C1-12-alkyl group and where the CN group is bonded to the B atom via the C atom, and complexes thereof with a solvent, to salts comprising a cation and the anion of a selection of the acids according to the invention, and to processes for the preparation of the salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Helge Willner, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann
  • Patent number: 8436204
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing isocyanates by reacting amines with phosgene, wherein the amine or a mixture of amine and a solvent is mixed in the form of an aerosol with gaseous phosgene and the amine is subsequently reacted with phosgene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Carsten Knoesche, Eckhard Stroefer, Dieter Stuetzer, Bernd Sachweh, Markus Linsenbuhler, Andreas Woelfert
  • Patent number: 8426654
    Abstract: Method for producing fatty alcohols includes splitting vegetable oils and animal fats under pressure into fatty acids and glycerol in counterflow to steam. The reaction product is physically separated into fatty acids and sweet water containing glycerol. The fatty acids are subjected to a distillation, and the separated fatty acid fraction is mixed together with fatty alcohol at 230 to 270° C. and atmospheric pressure. The wax esters obtained by esterification are hydrogenated to fatty alcohols by adding hydrogen on a fixed-bed catalyst, and the reaction product is separated into fatty alcohols and hydrogen. The wax esters are hydrogenated on a fixed bed of uniformly shaped catalyst bodies produced by extrusion, which consist of the main components copper and copper-chromium oxide and the secondary components zinc, aluminum, iron, silicon and alkaline earth elements, at 180 to 220° C. and 70 to 100 bar(a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Lurgi GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Boensch, Klaus Noweck
  • Patent number: 8426629
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a phosphine derivative from a phosphine oxide derivative, which comprises the following steps: (I) mixing a phosphine oxide derivative represented by formula (1) with a chlorinating agent in a polar organic solvent to cause the reaction between these components; and (II-1) adding a salt of a metal having an ionization tendency equal to or lower than that of aluminum to the reaction mixture and carrying out the reductive reaction in the presence of aluminum or (II-2) subjecting the reaction mixture to electrolytic reduction, thereby producing a phosphine derivative represented by formula (2). ArnR3-nP?O (1) ArnR3-nP (2) In formulae (1) and (2), Ar represents an aryl group such as a phenyl group, a phenyl group having a substituent, a heteroaromatic ring group, and a heteroaromatic ring group having a substituent; R represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having a substituent; and n represents an integer of 0 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignees: National University Corporation Okayama University, Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation, Hokko Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Tanaka, Manabu Kuroboshi, Tomotake Yano, Masakatsu Hoshino, Hiromu Kawakubo
  • Patent number: 8426628
    Abstract: A process for preparing an alkylamino-alkylalkoxysilane of formula (I) R—(NR?)—Y—Si(R1)n(OR2)3-n (I) in which R is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R? is a hydrogen (H) or is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, Y is a bivalent alkyl group from the group of —CH2—, —(CH2)2—, —(CH2)3—, —(CH2)(CH(CH3))(CH2)— and —(CH2)4—, R1 and R2 groups are the same or different and are each a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is 0 or 1 or 2, by reacting an alkylamine, used in excess, distilling off excess free alkylamine, treating the remaining product mixture with the alkylaminoalkylalkoxysilane and working up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Just, Philipp Albert, Peter Jenkner
  • Patent number: 8420860
    Abstract: The present invention provides a triarylmethane compound and a color filter containing the compound in a blue pixel portion, the triarylmethane compound being capable of providing a colored material which causes little change in hue over a long period of time even under high temperature or light irradiation. For example, when used for preparing a blue pixel portion of a color filter, the triarylmethane compound is capable of providing a liquid crystal display device or the like which can provide a high-brightness liquid crystal display having excellent brightness over a long period of time even under high temperature or light irradiation. The triarylmethane compound contains, as a counter anion for a basic triarylmethane dye cation, a heteropolyoxometalate anion represented by (P2MoyW18-yO62)6?/6 wherein y=an integer of 1, 2, or 3, and the color filter contains the triarylmethane compound in a blue pixel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kondou, Shougo Yamada, Ryousuke Asami, Katsunori Shimada
  • Patent number: 8420865
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel peroxide scavenger comprising a phosphine compound represented by general formula [I]: wherein Z1 and Z2 each represents a cyclic group; Ar represents an arylene group; R represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group; Y represents phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), or bismuth (Bi); and R1, R2, and R3 each represents a cyclic group, particularly a peroxide scavenger that can scavenge peroxides such as reactive oxygen species which are generated in mitochondria upon exposure to oxidative stress and localized in mitochondria. The phosphine compound of the invention is oxidized by the peroxides localized in mitochondria to increase the fluorescence intensity, whereby the peroxides can be scavenged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Fukuoka University
    Inventors: Kosei Shioji, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Kentaro Okuma
  • Patent number: 8415497
    Abstract: The present invention relates to active bactericidal, antibacterial, anti-infective, antimicrobial, sporicidal, disinfectant, antifungal and antiviral compounds and compositions and to new uses of these compositions in therapy. This specification also describes methods of use for the new compounds and compositions. The specification further describes methods for preparing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Novabay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin Najafi, Rakesh K. Jain, Timothy P. Shiau, Eddy Low, Satheesh K. Nair
  • Patent number: 8404346
    Abstract: Novel materials for chromatographic separations, processes for their preparation, and separation devices containing the chromatographic materials. In particular, the novel materials are porous inorganic/organic hybrid monolith materials, which desirably may be surface modified, and which offer more efficient chromatographic separations than that known in the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Waters Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas H. Walter, Julia Ding, Marianna Kele, John E. O'Gara, Pamela C. Iraneta
  • Patent number: 8404896
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (Ia) and (Ib), wherein A, B, C, R1and R14 are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Mark E. Salvati, James A. Johnson, Ningning Xu
  • Patent number: 8404897
    Abstract: Embodiments of methods for preparing 3-aminopicric acid from picric acid is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises combining lithium hydroxide, picric acid, and a first solvent to form a first solution, combining lithium hydroxide, hydroxylamine hydrochloride, and a second solvent to form a second solution, combining the first solution with the second solution to form a mixture, and cooling the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company
    Inventors: John W. Fronabarger, Michael D. Williams
  • Patent number: 8394991
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-substituted phenylamidines of the general formula (I), to a process for their preparation, to the use of the amidines according to the invention for controlling unwanted microorganisms and also to a composition for this purpose, comprising the phenoxyamidines according to the invention. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for controlling unwanted microorganisms by applying the compounds according to the invention to the microorganisms and/or their habitat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Klaus Kunz, Ralf Dunkel, Joerg Nico Greul, Kerstin Ilg, Birgit Kuhn, Wahed Ahmed Moradi, Thomas Seitz, Darren James Mansfield, Oliver Guth, Peter Dahmen, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Arnd Voerste, Dale Robert Mitchell, Tom Hough, Jean-Pierre Vors
  • Patent number: 8383867
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing fluorinated organic compounds, including hydrofluoropropenes, which preferably comprises converting at least one compound of formula (I): CF3CFnCHmXa-m??(I) to at least one compound of formula (II) CF3CZCHZ??(II). where each X is independently Cl, F, I or Br; each Z is independently H or F; n is 1 or 2; m is 1, 2 or 3, provided that when n is 1, m is 1 or 2; a is 2 or 3, and a-m?0. Certain embodiments include the step of reacting fluorinated C2 olefin, such as tetrafluoroethylene, with a Cl addition agent under conditions effective to produce a compound of formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Sudip Mukhopadhyay, Haridasan K. Nair, Rajesh K. Dubey, Rajiv R. Singh, George A. Shia
  • Patent number: 8383861
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the manufacture of one or more ethanolamines and one or more ethyleneamines starting from the reaction of ethylene oxide with ammonia to produce one or more ethanolamines and the conversion of the ethanolamine(s) to ethyleneamine(s). The present invention also relates to separating alkylethyleneamines from ethyleneamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: David Do, Christopher H. Domke, Jacinto Lopez-Toledo, David M. Petraitis, Thomas Z. Srnak
  • Patent number: 8377851
    Abstract: The method of altering the alkaloid composition of a poppy plant comprising the step of applying an effective amount of acylcyclohexanedione compound or agriculturally acceptable salt thereof to said poppy plant or locus thereof. Further, the present invention also provides the method of altering the alkaloid composition of a poppy plant comprising the step of applying an effective amount of methyl jasmonate or agriculturally acceptable salt thereof to said poppy plant or locus thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Cotterill