Patents by Inventor Curt N. Theriault

Curt N. Theriault has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200247936
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a catalyst system for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first olefin polymerization procatalyst, (B) a second olefin polymerization procatalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by procatalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: David D. Devore, Daniel J. Arriola, Arkady L. Krasovskiy, Edmund M. Carnahan, Curt N. Theriault, Gordon R. Roof, Timothy T. Wenzel, Jerzy Klosin, Ruth Figueroa
  • Patent number: 9422375
    Abstract: Provided is a non-cyclopentadienyl-based chromium-ligand complex, preferably a chromium-ligand complex of formula (J): LCr(RA)m(D)k (J), wherein L is a non-Cp monoanionic ligand; Cr (chromium) is in a formal oxidation state of +3 or +2; when Cr formally is Cr+3, either m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbylene (a hydrocarbylene chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)) or m is 2 and each RA independently is hydrocarbyl (a dihydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)), wherein each hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbylene of RA independently is unsubstituted or substituted by from 1 to 5 RAS; each RAS independently is a neutral aprotic heteroalkyl, neutral aprotic heterocycloalkyl, neutral aprotic heteroaryl, or neutral aprotic aryl; when Cr formally is Cr+2, m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbyl (a hydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)); k is an integer of 0 or 1; D is absent when k is 0 or D is a neutral ligand when k is 1; wherein the chromium-ligand complex of formula (J) is overall neutral and lacks a cyclopentadien
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew D. Christianson, Timothy S. De Vries, Robert D J Froese, Matthias S. Ober, Jasson T. Patton, Duane R. Romer, Gordon R. Roof, Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Curt N. Theriault, Dean M. Welsh, Timothy T. Wenzel, Paul H. Moran
  • Patent number: 9296836
    Abstract: Provided is a non-cyclopentadienyl-based chromium-ligand complex, preferably a chromium-ligand complex of formula (J): LCr(RA)m(D)k (J), wherein L is a non-Cp monoanionic ligand; Cr (chromium) is in a formal oxidation state of +3 or +2; when Cr formally is Cr+3, either m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbylene (a hydrocarbylene chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)) or m is 2 and each RA independently is hydrocarbyl (a dihydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)), wherein each hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbylene of RA independently is unsubstituted or substituted by from 1 to 5 RAS; each RAS independently is a neutral aprotic heteroalkyl, neutral aprotic heterocycloalkyl, neutral aprotic heteroaryl, or neutral aprotic aryl; when Cr formally is Cr+2, m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbyl (a hydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)); k is an integer of 0 or 1; D is absent when k is 0 or D is a neutral ligand when k is 1; wherein the chromium-ligand complex of formula (J) is overall neutral and lacks a cyclopentadien
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew D. Christianson, Timothy S. De Vries, Robert D. Froese, Matthias S. Ober, Jasson T. Patton, Duane R. Romer, Gordon R. Roof, Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Curt N. Theriault, Dean M. Welsh, Timothy T. Wenzel, Paul H. Moran
  • Publication number: 20160053031
    Abstract: Provided is a non-cyclopentadienyl-based chromium-ligand complex, preferably a chromium-ligand complex of formula (J): LCr(RA)m(D)k (J), wherein L is a non-Cp monoanionic ligand; Cr (chromium) is in a formal oxidation state of +3 or +2; when Cr formally is Cr+3, either m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbylene (a hydrocarbylene chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)) or m is 2 and each RA independently is hydrocarbyl (a dihydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)), wherein each hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbylene of RA independently is unsubstituted or substituted by from 1 to 5 RAS; each RAS independently is a neutral aprotic heteroalkyl, neutral aprotic heterocycloalkyl, neutral aprotic heteroaryl, or neutral aprotic aryl; when Cr formally is Cr+2, m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbyl (a hydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)); k is an integer of 0 or 1; D is absent when k is 0 or D is a neutral ligand when k is 1; wherein the chromium-ligand complex of formula (J) is overall neutral and lacks a cyclopentadien
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew D. Christianson, Timothy S. De Vries, Robert DJ Froese, Matthias S. Ober, Jasson T. Patton, Duane R. Romer, Gordon R. Roof, Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Curt N. Theriault, Dean M. Welsh, Timothy T. Wenzel, Paul H. Moran
  • Publication number: 20150148502
    Abstract: Provided is a non-cyclopentadienyl-based chromium-ligand complex, preferably a chromium-ligand complex of formula (J): LCr(RA)m(D)k (J), wherein L is a non-Cp monoanionic ligand; Cr (chromium) is in a formal oxidation state of +3 or +2; when Cr formally is Cr+3, either m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbylene (a hydrocarbylene chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)) or m is 2 and each RA independently is hydrocarbyl (a dihydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)), wherein each hydrocarbyl or hydrocarbylene of RA independently is unsubstituted or substituted by from 1 to 5 RAS; each RAS independently is a neutral aprotic heteroalkyl, neutral aprotic heterocycloalkyl, neutral aprotic heteroaryl, or neutral aprotic aryl; when Cr formally is Cr+2, m is 1 and RA is hydrocarbyl (a hydrocarbyl chromium-ligand complex of formula (J)); k is an integer of 0 or 1; D is absent when k is 0 or D is a neutral ligand when k is 1; wherein the chromium-ligand complex of formula (J) is overall neutral and lacks a cyclopentadien
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Matthew D. Christianson, Timothy S. De Vries, Robert D. Froese, Matthias S. Ober, Jasson T. Patton, Duane R. Romer, Gordon R. Roof, Lixin Sun, Endre Szuromi, Curt N. Theriault, Dean M. Welsh, Timothy T. Wenzel, Paul H. Moran
  • Publication number: 20080171839
    Abstract: A catalyst composition, method of formation and process of use in the polymerization of olefin monomers, said composition comprising a catalyst compound, an activator capable of converting said catalyst compound into an active catalyst for addition polymerization, optionally a carrier, further optionally a liquid diluent, and a hydroxycarboxylate metal salt additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph N. Coalter, Jan W. Van Egmond, Curt N. Theriault, Roger B. Painter
  • Patent number: 7365039
    Abstract: A catalyst composition, method of formation and process of use in the polymerization of olefin monomers, said composition comprising a catalyst compound, an activator capable of converting said catalyst compound into an active catalyst for addition polymerization, optionally a carrier, further optionally a liquid diluent, and a hydroxycarboxylate metal salt additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph N. Coalter, III, Curt N. Theriault, Jan W. Van Egmond, Roger B. Painter