Patents by Inventor Mark John Goulding

Mark John Goulding 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).

  • Particles for electrophoretic displays
    Patent number: 8593719
    Abstract: This invention relates to colored polymer particles preferably with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, color electrophoretic displays comprising such particle, and new water-soluble dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Mark James, Matthias Koch, Ashley Nathan Smith, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Mark John Goulding, Daniel Walker
  • PARTICLES FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20130244035
    Abstract: This invention relates to polymer particles with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, electrophoretic displays comprising such particle, and new polymerisable dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: The University of Bristol, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Greinert, Marc Uerdingen, Ludger Beylage, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Mark John Goulding, Roger Kemp, Ashley Nathan Smith, Paul Bartlett, Peter Barthen, Walter Frank, Rodrigo Sanchez Garcia
  • WHITE REFLECTIVE POLYMER PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20130078559
    Abstract: This invention relates to white reflective polymer particles prepared by a reverse emulsion solvent removal process, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Mark John Goulding, Roger Kemp, Jonathan Henry Wilson
  • COLOURED POLYMER PARTICLES
    Publication number: 20130075664
    Abstract: This invention relates to coloured polymer particles prepared by a reverse emulsion solvent removal process, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmBH
    Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Nils Greinert, Mark John Goulding, Mark James, Ashley Nathan Smith, Jonathan Henry Wilson
  • DEPOSITION OF NANOPARTICLES
    Publication number: 20120256166
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for deposition of elongated nanoparticles from a liquid carrier onto a substrate, and to electronic devices prepared by this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Lichun Chen, Michael Coelle, Mark John Goulding
  • PARTICLES FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20120041165
    Abstract: This invention relates to coloured polymer particles preferably with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, colour electrophoretic displays comprising such particle, and new water-soluble dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Nils Greinert, Louise Diane Farrand, Mark James, Ashley Nathan Smith, Mark John Goulding, Daniel Walker, Safyan Khan, Paul Reynolds, Susan Hawkins, Roy Hughes
  • PARTICLES FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20110306742
    Abstract: This invention relates to coloured polymer particles preferably with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, colour electrophoretic displays comprising such particle, and new water-soluble dyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Mark James, Matthias Koch, Ashley Nathan Smith, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Mark John Goulding, Daniel Walker
  • COLOURED PARTICLES FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20110297888
    Abstract: This invention relates to coloured polymer particles preferably with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, and to colour electrophoretic displays comprising such particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Louise Diane Farrand, Mark John Goulding, Jonathan Henry Wilson, Ashley Nathan Smith, Mark James, Daniel Walker
  • Substituted anthracenes
    Patent number: 7998540
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel 9- and/or 10-substituted anthracenes, to their use in liquid crystal, light-emitting or semiconducting materials and devices, in anisotropic polymers, optical, electrooptical, decorative, security, cosmetic, diagnostic, electric, electronic, charge transport, semiconductor, optical recording, electroluminescent, photoconductor or electrophotographic applications, and to liquid crystal, light-emitting and semiconducting materials, polymers and devices comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Mark John Goulding, Marcus Thompson, Warren Duffy, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch
  • Bimesogenic compounds and flexoelectric devices
    Patent number: 7544400
    Abstract: The invention relates to bimesogenic compounds of formula (I): R1-MG1-X1-Sp-X2-MG2-R2 wherein R1, R2, MG1, MG2, X1, X2 and Sp have the meaning given in claim 1, to the use of bimesogenic compounds of formula (I) in liquid crystal media and devices, in particular in flexoelectric liquid crystal devices, to liquid crystal media and devices, in particular flexoelectric devices, comprising bimesogenic compounds of formula (I) and to improvements in flexoelectric devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark John Goulding, Kevin Aldem, Warren Duffy, Patricia Eileen Saxton
  • Liquid crystal composition for use in bistable liquid crystal devices
    Patent number: 7335404
    Abstract: The invention is directed to the use of a liquid crystal composition in a bistable liquid crystal device and especially in a single polariser reflective or transflective zenithal bistable nematic liquid crystal device as well as a bistable liquid crystal device comprising the liquid crystal composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Mark John Goulding, Matthew Francis, John Clifford Jones, Stephen Beldon
  • Tolane derivatives and liquid crystalline medium
    Patent number: 7255811
    Abstract: Tolane compounds of the formula I wherein R1, R2, L1, L2 and L3 are as defined herein, are described. Further described are liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one tolane compound of formula I as well as liquid-crystal display elements containing such a liquid-crystalline medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Kevin Adlem, Patricia Saxton, Mark John Goulding, Martin Heeney
  • Homeotropic alignment layer
    Patent number: 7105209
    Abstract: The invention relates to an alignment layer comprising a polymerized liquid crystal material with homeotrophic orientation, to methods of its preparation, to polymerizable liquid crystal compositions and liquid crystal polymers used for the preparation of the alignment layer, to liquid crystal devices comprising the alignment layer, and to a method of controlling the electrooptical steepness of a liquid crystal display comprising at least one alignment layer by varying the surface anchoring energy of the alignment layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Michael Heckmeier, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Georg Lüssem, Kazuaki Tarumi, David Coates, Owain Llyr Parri, Mark Verrall, Mark John Goulding, Stephen Christopher Kitson
  • Liquid-crystalline mixtures
    Patent number: 7052744
    Abstract: Nematic liquid-crystal mixtures comprising one or more compounds of the formula I in which R1 and R2 are as defined herein, are suitable for use in TN and STN liquid-crystal displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Sven Schuepfer, Renate Graulich, Martina Weidner, Kevin Adlem, Mark John Goulding, Patricia Saxton
  • 1,4-Di-(trans-4-cyclohexyl)benzene derivatives and their use in liquid crystal media and liquid crystal devices
    Patent number: 7041347
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of the formula I in which Ra, Rb, L and r are as defined herein, are suitable for use in, for example, TN and STN liquid crystal displays
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Martina Weidner, Sven Schüpfer, Renate Graulich, Mark John Goulding, Martin Heeney, Warren Duffy
  • Pyrans as liquid crystals
    Patent number: 7022865
    Abstract: A tetrahydropyran derivative comprising at least three cyclic rings and one aromatic endgroup of the formula A a process for preparing said tetrahydropyran derivatives, and the use of said tetrahydropyran derivatives as a component in a liquid crystal composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark John Goulding, Warren Duffy, Kevin Adlem, Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn, Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Volker Meyer, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Michael Heckmeier, Georg Lüssem
  • Pyrans as liquid crystals
    Patent number: 6974607
    Abstract: Tetrahydropyran derivatives having at least one ester group (—CO—O—) and at least one group —CN, —NCS, —F, —Cl, —OCHF2, —OCF3, —CF3, —OCHFCF3, —OCF2CHFCF3, SF5, or —OCF2CF3; a process for preparing said tetrahydropyran derivatives, and the use of said tetrahydropyran derivatives as a component in a liquid crystal composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark John Goulding, Warren Duffy, Kevin Adlem, Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn, Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Volker Meyer, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Michael Heckmeier, Georg Lüssem
  • Tolane derivatives and liquid crystalline medium
    Publication number: 20040236138
    Abstract: Tolane compounds of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Kevin Adlem, Patricia Saxton, Mark John Goulding, Martin Heeney
  • Liquid-crystalline mixtures
    Publication number: 20040197494
    Abstract: Nematic liquid-crystal mixtures comprising one or more compounds of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Sven Schuepfer, Renate Graulich, Martina Weidner, Kevin Adlem, Mark John Goulding, Patricia Saxton
  • 1,4-Di-(trans-4-cyclohexyl)benzene derivatives and their use in liquid crystal media and liquid crystal devices
    Publication number: 20040164276
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Harald Hirschmann, Martina Weidner, Sven Schuepfer, Renate Graulich, Mark John Goulding, Martin Heeney, Warren Duffy