Patents by Inventor Esther Breuning

Esther Breuning 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).

  • Metal Complexes
    Publication number: 20150263297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Esther Breuning, Joachim Kaiser, Christian Ehrenreich
  • Organic electronic device
    Patent number: 9066410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices which comprise aromatic nitrogen heterocyclic compounds, in particular in a hole-injection layer and/or in a hole-blocking layer and/or in an electron-transport layer and/or in an emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Esther Breuning
  • Metal Complexes
    Publication number: 20150171348
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Esther Breuning, Joachim Kaiser
  • Nitrogen-containing condensed heterocyclic compounds for OLEDs
    Patent number: 9012599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1), formula (2), formula (3) and formula (4) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning, Dominik Joosten, Christof Pflumm, Amir Hossain Parham
  • Metal complexes
    Patent number: 9000166
    Abstract: The present invention describes novel ionic metal complexes. Compounds of this type can be employed as functional materials in a number of different applications which can be ascribed to the electronics industry in the broadest sense. The compounds according to the invention are described by the formulae (1) and (1a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Heinrich Becker, Amir H. Parham, Esther Breuning
  • Organic electroluminescent device
    Patent number: 8940407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electronic devices, in particular electroluminescent devices, by using compounds which can have a plurality of isomers, where one of these isomers is present in excess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning, Horst Vestweber, Holger Heil
  • Organic electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 8865321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, which comprise compounds of the formula (1), and to the corresponding compounds and to the use thereof in organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Holger Heil, Dominik Joosten, Christof Pflumm, Anja Gerhard, Esther Breuning, Amir Hossain Parham
  • Materials for organic electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 8859111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 4,4?-substituted spirobifluorenes which are suitable, owing to excellent properties, as functional materials in organic electroluminescent devices. In addition, the present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 4,4?-substituted spirobifluorenes and to the use of these compounds in organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Susanne Heun, Esther Breuning
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20140183422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes, in particular as emitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20140110642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Anja Jatsch, Esther Breuning
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20140091265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning
  • Organic electroluminescent device and boric acid and borinic acid derivatives used therein
    Patent number: 8674141
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of aromatic boronic acid or borinic acid derivatives in organic electronic devices, in particular electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning, Arne Buesing, Amir Hossain Parham, Holger Heil, Horst Vestweber
  • Organic electroluminescence device
    Patent number: 8618317
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic electroluminescence devices containing metal complexes having the formula (1) and metal complexes for use in organic electroluminescence devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Esther Breuning, Hartmut Yersin, Uwe Monkowius
  • COMPOUNDS FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130285036
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic nitrogen heterocycles, and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, which comprise these aromatic nitrogen heterocycles, in particular in a hole-injection layer and/or in a hole-transport layer and/or in a hole-blocking layer and/or in an electron-transport layer and/or in an emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Arne Buesing, Esther Breuning, Christof Pflumm, Amir Hossain, Thomas Eberle, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20130112921
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes which contain polymerisable groups and to the polymers obtained using these metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these polymers. The metal complexes are compounds of the formula (1), containing a moiety M(L)n of the formula (2) or formula (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Anja Gerhard, Esther Breuning, Niels Schulte
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20130112920
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electro-luminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes. M(L)n(L?)m formula (1), where the compound contains a moiety M(L)n of the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Anja Gerhard, Esther Breuning
  • MATERIALS FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130099171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Esther Breuning, Heinrich Becker, Junyou Pan, Herwig Buchholz, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Irina Martynova
  • METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20130082209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, com-prising these metal complexes. M(L)n(L?)m (formula 1), where the compound of the general formula (1) contains a moiety M(L)n of the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Holger Heil, Dominik Joosten, Christof Pflumm, Anja Gerhard, Esther Breuning
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130046094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, which comprise compounds of the formula (1) or (2), and to the corresponding compounds and to the use thereof in organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Esther Breuning, Dominik Joosten
  • ELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING METAL COMPLEXES
    Publication number: 20120286254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising metal complexes of the formula (1), and to the preferred metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Esther Breuning