Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Gordon F. Sieckmann
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Patent number: 6200499Abstract: Compositions comprising certain amino acids such as aspartic acid, when fully ionized at alkaline pH, function effectively as corrosion inhibitors for ferrous metals in the presence of an aqueous medium. This effect is enhanced with increased fluid velocity.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Solutia Inc.Inventors: Dennis J. Kalota, David C. Silverman
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Patent number: 6190526Abstract: A process for the in situ remediation of soil comprising introducing at least one co-metabolite for treating contaminants in a contaminated soil region into the contaminated soil region wherein the source of the at least one co-metabolite is at least one root zone located within the contaminated soil region, wherein each root zone contains the root system of a plurality of plants capable of releasing the at least one co-metabolite, and transmitting direct electric current through the contaminated soil region between a first electrode and a second electrode having opposite charge, wherein the first electrode is located at a first end of the contaminated soil region and the second electrode is located at the opposite end of the contaminated soil region.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventor: Sa Van Ho
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Patent number: 6177047Abstract: The invention herein relates to water-treatment technology, namely compositions comprising a phosphonic acid, a zinc salt and a metal salt. A preferred metal salt is aluminum tri-chloride whereas amino tris methylene phosphonic acid is a preferred phosphonic species. The use of the compositions in water-treatment methods is also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1997Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Inventors: Krzysztof Kuczynski, Michel Alex Omer Ledent
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Patent number: 5578107Abstract: There is disclosed a caking inhibitor for mono-and diammonium phosphates which is water soluble and effective at small concentrations rendering the phosphates acceptable in most utilities without separation of the inhibitor. The inhibitor is sodium sulfate. Effective amounts of this salt range from about 0.5 percent to about 1 percent by weight in the ammonium phosphates. It is particularly advantageous that this salt is useful in both types of ammonium phosphates.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Robert V. Brill, Louis A. Highfill
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Patent number: 5566069Abstract: A client-client-server computer network includes a portable computer (client) connectable by a data link to a desktop computer (client) which transmits data through an offline batching data link to a host or system server (server) for the electronic collection, processing, and analyzing of agricultural data generated through the operation of a farm. A plurality of client-client computer sub-networks, one for each of a plurality of farms, is anticipated for connection through an offline, batching data link to a single system server such that a master data base may be assembled of data for many farms. Real time, same growing season, analyses and reports may be generated for use by any individual farmer from this master data base. The portable computer includes a nested display driven software for a graphic user interface computer, such as a Personal Digital Assistant, to simplify the data entry process.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1994Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Louis G. Clark, Jr., Michael E. Corum, Donald R. Gummow, Jr., Jeffrey L. McKune, Marc Vanacht
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Patent number: 5464806Abstract: New and useful herbicidal compositions comprising glyphosate and/or agriculturally acceptable salts and an acetylenic diol surfactant structurally characterized by a symmetrically substituted triple bond and adjacent hydroxyl groups or adjacent polymeric oxyalkylated units, and optionally a second surfactant, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1993Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James W. Kassebaum, Miguel M. Dayawon, Joseph J. Sandbrink
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Patent number: 5464807Abstract: The composition of the invention comprises a glyphosate herbicide and a quaternary ammonium compound the latter having the formula ##STR1## wherein --EO-- means an ethylene oxide radical and --PO-- means a propylene oxide radical, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 is an alkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a group having the formula (EO).sub.m --H or a group having the formula EO--(PO).sub.m --H; n (in a compound in which R.sup.3 is an alkyl group) or n+m (in a compound in which R.sup.3 is a group having the formula EO--(PO).sub.m --H), has a value of from about 2 to about 20; and X.sup.- is a suitable anion.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1994Date of Patent: November 7, 1995Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Jean-Pierre Claude, Shuaib A. Khan, Robert W. Mitchell
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Patent number: 5389598Abstract: Disclosed are storage-stable aqueous concentrate formulations of pesticides or plant growth modifying agents containing sufficient amounts of an alkoxylated alkylamine surfactant to insure a high degree of pesticidal or plant growth modifying efficacy, wherein irritancy to eyes resulting from the presence of said surfactant is reduced by the presence of an effective amount of a C.sub.6-22 saturated or unsaturated alkyl monocarboxylic or dicarboxylic acid or mixture of such acids.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1993Date of Patent: February 14, 1995Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Howard C. Berk, James W. Kassebaum
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Patent number: 5354742Abstract: The invention is directed to a pesticide composition comprising free flowing, essentially spherical, water-dispersible granules wherein said water-dispersible granules are from about 150 to about 850 microns in diameter; wherein said granules contain up to about 8.0% by weight moisture; wherein each individual water-dispersible granule is an aggregation of individual spherical microcapsules which contain at least one water-insoluble pesticide within a polymeric shell wall; and wherein said water-dispersible granule disintegrates upon contact with water to release said individual microcapsules.The invention also relates to dry flowable pesticidal formulations of the above water-dispersible granules, together with formulation adjuvants.The invention is further directed to a process for preparing a water-dispersible granule by spary drying an aqueous suspension comprising discrete microcapsules containing at least one water-insoluble pesticide within a polymeric shell wall suspended in an aqueous liquid.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1988Date of Patent: October 11, 1994Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: John M. Deming, John M. Surgant, Sr.
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Patent number: 5332158Abstract: A spraying apparatus having a sprayer head and an interchangeable cartridge that can dilute and dispense a chemical is disclosed. A first fluid entering the sprayer head mixes with a second fluid that is drawn from the cartridge by aspiration to dilute the second fluid and the mixture is dispensed. The cartridge has an upper cap plate and a cap lid that rotate or slide with respect to each other, to allow easy installation and use, and safe storage of the cartridge for subsequent use. A rotatable valve can permit filling of the cartridge to a pre-selected degree of dilution.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 1992Date of Patent: July 26, 1994Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James J. Styne, Michelle Pillers, Michael Greaney
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Patent number: 5258359Abstract: New and useful herbicidal compositions comprising glyphosate and/or agriculturally acceptable salts and an acetylenic diol surfactant structurally characterized by a symmetrically substituted triple bond and adjacent hydroxyl groups or adjacent polymeric oxyalkylated units, and optionally a second surfactant, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1993Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James W. Kassebaum, Miguel M. Dayawon, Joseph J. Sandbrink
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Patent number: 5092918Abstract: The tendency of herbicidal pyridinedicarbothioates to crystallize and thus to partially lose herbicidal activity when formulated into granules is reduced by including in the granules a small, effective amount of a diester of an alkylene dicarboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 1990Date of Patent: March 3, 1992Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventor: Masuo Kuchikata
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Patent number: 4936901Abstract: The invention herein relates to dry flowable water-dispersible granular formulations and to a process for the preparation thereof.In particular, the water-dispersible granular formulations of this invention comprise a mixture of aggregates of microcapsules of water-insoluble pesticide, e.g., alachlor, or a plant growth regulant encapsulated within a polymeric shell wall and at least one other pesticide, e.g., atrazine or a salt of glyphosate, which is non-encapsulated.The water-dispersible granular formulations of the invention are prepared by mixing appropriate quantities of an aqueous dispersion of the encapsulated component, the non-encapsulated component and formulation adjuvants to form a slurry of the desired viscosity which can be directly extruded than dried or the slurry in more dilute, less viscous form may be spray dried, or agglomerated in fluid beds or rotating disc agglomerators.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1987Date of Patent: June 26, 1990Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: John M. Surgant, Sr., John M. Deming
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Patent number: 4840659Abstract: N-phosphonomethylglycine and novel derivatives thereof useful as phytotoxicants or herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1988Date of Patent: June 20, 1989Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventor: John E. Franz
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Patent number: 4554009Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing sulfenyl chloride derivatives of N-phosphonomethylglycinonitriles which are useful as herbicides or as intermediates for the production of thiosulfenamide derivatives of N-phosphonomethylglycinonitriles which are useful as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1984Date of Patent: November 19, 1985Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James A. Sikorski, Mary A. Hoobler
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Patent number: 4508663Abstract: This invention relates to a process for preparing sulfenyl chloride derivatives of N-phosphonomethylglycinonitriles which are useful as herbicides or as intermediates for the production of thiosulfenamide derivatives of N-phosphonomethylglycinonitriles which are useful as herbicides.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1983Date of Patent: April 2, 1985Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James A. Sikorski, Mary A. Hoobler
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Patent number: 4475943Abstract: This invention relates to .alpha.-hydroxy phosphonates which are useful as herbicides. More particularly, this invention relates to .alpha.-hydroxy phosphonates a process for preparing the same, herbicidal use thereof, and to herbicidal methods and compositions employing the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1983Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventor: Van R. Gaertner
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Patent number: 4454043Abstract: A method for increasing the capacity of a chromatographic system useful for the quantitative determination of at least one component of interest at a trace level concentration in a multi-component composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1980Date of Patent: June 12, 1984Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Chihyuan C. Ting, David F. Tomkins, Melvin L. Rueppel
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Patent number: 4445928Abstract: This invention relates to aminosulfenamide derivatives of N-phosphonomethylglycine triesters which are useful as herbicides and a process for preparing these compounds. This invention further relates to herbicidal compositions containing such derivatives and to herbicidal methods employing such compounds and compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1981Date of Patent: May 1, 1984Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James A. Sikorski, Mary A. Hoobler
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Patent number: 4445929Abstract: This disclosure relates to novel ester derivatives of N-alkylthio and N-cycloalkylthio-N-phosphonomethylglycinonitrile which are useful as herbicides and to a process for producing the same. This disclosure further relates to herbicidal compositions containing such N-phosphonomethylglycinonitrile derivatives and to herbicidal methods employing such compounds and compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1981Date of Patent: May 1, 1984Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: James A. Sikorski, Mary A. Hoobler