Patents by Inventor Gary Thomas Decker

Gary Thomas Decker 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).

  • Method of rendering substrates water repellent using hyperbranched polymers containing silicon atoms
    Patent number: 6103848
    Abstract: Substrates are rendered water repellent by applying to the substrate a hyperbranched polymer containing a silicon atom made by polymerizing a derivatized aminofunctional organosilicon monomer which is the reaction product of an amine functional silane monomer precursor or an amine functional polysiloxane monomer precursor and a derivative of carbonic acid or a cyclic lactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Thomas Decker, Daniel Graiver, Arthur James Tselepis, Dwight Edward Williams
  • Hyperbranched polymers containing silicon atoms
    Patent number: 6001945
    Abstract: An exchange reaction of hydroxyl and alkoxysilane is used as a polymerization avenue yielding hyperbranched polymers. A monomer containing hydroxy alcohol functionality and alkoxy functionality attached to a silicon atom in the monomer is employed, and a simple exchange reaction with driving off of alcohol by-product leads to the desired hyperbranched polymerization and materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Thomas Decker, Daniel Graiver, Arthur James Tselepis
  • Method of rendering substrates water repellent using hyperbranched polymers containing silicon atoms
    Patent number: 5997954
    Abstract: Substrates are rendered water repellent by applying to the substrate a hyperbranched polymer containing a silicon atom made by polymerizing a derivatized aminofunctional organosilicon monomer which is the reaction product of an amine functional silane monomer precursor or an amine functional polysiloxane monomer precursor and a derivative of carbonic acid or a cyclic lactone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Thomas Decker, Daniel Graiver, Arthur James Tselepis, Dwight Edward Williams