Patents Represented by Attorney Ram W. Sabnis
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Patent number: 8334363Abstract: Oxidized and maleated compositions, such as oxidized and maleated tall oil compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers and corrosion inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Phillip W. Hurd, Gary D. Fultz, Brett A. Neumann, John B. Hines
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Patent number: 8299154Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-thermosetting composition made by reacting epichlorohydrin and a primary amine, to the use of that composition for making thermosetting (curable) adhesives suitable for bonding composites, to a method of preparing composites using the thermosetting (curable) adhesives, and to the related composites bonded with the thermosetting (curable) adhesives.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Bobby L. Williamson, Richard M. Rammon
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Patent number: 8257524Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a method of manufacturing wallboard which includes providing a first layer of facing material, creasing the first layer facing material intermittently to create a series of creased portions, providing a gypsum slurry on the first layer of facing material and providing a second layer of facing material over the gypsum slurry. Further, creasing the first layer of facing material intermittently can include intermittently creasing the first layer of facing material in a substantially linear fashion extending in a first direction of the first layer of facing material so that the first layer of facing material exhibits a linear series of creased portions extending in the first direction of the first layer of facing material and a series of portions that are not creased extending in the first direction of the first layer of facing material.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLCInventor: Chad Andrew Frank
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Patent number: 8257554Abstract: A thermosetting urea-formaldehyde (UF) resin composition containing a rheological-enhancing amount of a thickening agent, the use of the resin composition for formulating an adhesive binder for preparing fiber mats and the fiber mats made using the adhesive binder, wherein improved mat properties and faster cure speeds can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Mark Poggi, Kelly Shoemake
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Patent number: 8252866Abstract: The present invention relates to polysaccharides that have been modified by providing azetidinium functionality thereto. Such functionality can be provided by crosslinking a polysaccharide with a resin having azetidinium functional groups. In one or more aspects, the polysaccharide can comprise one or more of starch, guar gum, alginate or derivatives thereof. Polysaccharides having azetidinium functionality according to the present invention are suitable for multiple uses. Such uses include, but are not limited to, removal of one or more solid materials from a liquid, beneficiation of an ore, removal of metallic ions from a liquid; providing oil from bitumen; and removal of mercury from synthetic gypsum. Other uses of the functionalized polysaccharides of the present invention include hydroseeding, dust control and erosion control.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Michael J. Bush, John B. Hines, James T. Wright
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Patent number: 8252427Abstract: The invention comprises an aqueous phenol-formaldehyde resole resin liquid fortified with powdered (e.g., spray dried) phenol-formaldehyde resole resin, preparing wood composites, particularly oriented strand board (OSB), waferboard, particleboard, medium density fiber board, and hardboard, using the solids-fortified liquid resin, and related wood composites bonded with the solids-fortified resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Robert A. Breyer, James H. Knight, Daniel C. Yeager, Herbert J. Kennedy, Harmon E. Brehmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 8246781Abstract: A creping adhesive comprising a PAE composition comprising a reactive, light crosslinked polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin polymer (PAE-type polymer) optionally in combination with a reactive modifier and the corresponding method for of creping cellulosic fiber webs with the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Clay E. Ringold, Karla D. Favors, Dexter C. Johnson, David F. Townsend, Thomas L. Wright, Cornel Hagiopol
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Patent number: 8226848Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for inhibiting the formation or accumulation of ice on a solid surface and for reducing the salt out temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLCInventors: Pablo G. Dopico, Kurt D. Gabrielson, John B. Hines, Brian L. Swift, Dennis L. Kennedy
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Patent number: 8221542Abstract: The present invention describes a fire resistant building material composition, useful for example as a fire door core and to a method of making this composition. The building material of the present invention is prepared from an aqueous mixture of predominately expanded perlite, a small amount of a binder component consisting essentially of calcined gypsum and an organic binder, and optionally a fibrous reinforcement.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLCInventor: Hubert C. Francis
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Patent number: 8101590Abstract: This invention provides compounds of Formula I having the structure where R1, R2, R3 and A are defined in the specification or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof useful as antibacterial agents. Compounds according to Formula (II): where Q, R4, R5, R6 and R10 and A are defined in the specification are useful as chemical intermediates.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Phaik-Eng Sum, Tarek Suhayl Mansour, David Brian How, Darrin William Hopper, Matthew Douglas Vera, Joshua James Sabatini, Jaechul Shim
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Patent number: 8063041Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polymorphic Form D of bazedoxifene acetate, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment using the same, and methods of preparing the same.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Paolo Andreella, Roberto Brescello, Ivan Michieletto, Mauro Maffini, Nicola Catozzi, Andrea Nicoli, Paolo Fornasari, Massimo Verzini, Livius Cotarca, Franco Brazzarola
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Patent number: 8017144Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved system for controlled release of a bone growth promoting compound and to a flowable composition for its formation. The flowable composition is composed of a bone growth promoting compound, a thermoplastic polymer and an organic solvent. The flowable composition is capable of forming a biodegradable and/or bioerodible microporous, solid polymer matrix. The matrix is useful as an implant in patients (humans and animals) for delivery of a bone growth promoting compound to certain tissues.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Francis Dumont, Richard L. Dunn, Scott A. Jeffers, Richard W. Korsmeyer, Mei Li, Vishwas M. Paralkar, Mingxing Zhou
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Patent number: 7998965Abstract: The present invention relates to modulators of metalloproteinase activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Phaik-Eng Sum, Jerauld Stanley Skotnicki, Steve Yik-Kai Tam, Tarek Suhayl Mansour, David Brian How, Joshua James Sabatini, Jason Shaoyun Xiang, Eric Feyfant
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Patent number: 7998978Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein: R1, R2, Z1, t, and ring A are as defined in the specification. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I) and methods of treating a condition that is mediated by the modulation of JNK, such as diabetes, the method comprising administering to a mammal an effective amount of a compound of formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Liming Huang, Song Liu, Elizabeth A. Lunney, Simon P. Planken
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Patent number: 7994333Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of anti-inflammatory substances, and more particularly to novel compounds that act as antagonists of the mammalian adhesion proteins known as selectins. In some embodiments, methods for treating selectin mediated disorders are provided which include administration of compound of Formula I: wherein the constituent variables are defined herein.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Neelu Kaila, Silvano L. Debarnardo, Kristin M. Janz, Raymond T. Camphausen, Patricia Ward Bedard, Adrian Huang
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Patent number: 7981912Abstract: The invention relates to indole acetic acid compounds which function as antagonists of the CRTH2 receptor. The invention also relates to the use of these compounds to inhibit the binding of prostaglandin D2 and its metabolites or certain thromboxane metabolites to the CRTH2 receptor and to treat disorders responsive to such inhibition.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Youssef L. Bennani, Lawrence Nathan Tumey, Elizabeth Ann Gleason, Michael Joseph Robarge
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Patent number: 7947712Abstract: The present invention relates to 8-Hydroxyquinoline Compounds; compositions comprising an 8-Hydroxyquinoline Compound; and methods for treating or preventing a metalloproteinase-related disorder, such as, an arthritic disorder, osteoarthritis, malignant neoplasm, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerosis, age-related macular degeneration, myocardial infarction, a corneal ulceration, an ocular surface disease, hepatitis, an aortic aneurysm, tendonitis, a central nervous system disorder, abnormal wound healing, angiogenesis, restenosis, cirrhosis, multiple sclerosis, glomerulonephritis, graft versus host disease, diabetes, an inflammatory bowel disease, shock, invertebral disc degeneration, stroke, osteopenia or a periodontal disease or comprising administering an effective dose of an 8-Hydroxyquinoline Compound to a mammal in need thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Matthew G. Bursavich, Sabrina Lombardi, Adam M. Gilbert, Leif Mark Laakso, Gulnaz Khafizova, David Brian How, Joshua James Sabatini, Phaik-Eng Sum, Jeremy Clemens
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Patent number: 7923446Abstract: The present invention relates to biaryl sulfonamides and their use as, for example, metalloproteinase inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Jason Shaoyun Xiang, Steve Yikkai Tam, Yonghan Hu, Phaik-Eng Sum, David Brian How, Darrin William Hopper, Matthew Douglas Vera, Joshua James Sabatini, Thomas Saltmarsh Rush, III, Elisabeth Ann Morris, Katy Evangelia Georgiadis
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Patent number: 7919490Abstract: The present invention provides novel purinones and purines useful for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disease, mast cell mediated disease and transplant rejection.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Irina Neagu, David Diller, Celia Kingsbury, Adolph C. Bohnstedt, Michael J. Ohlmeyer, Vidyadhar Paradkar, Nasrin Ansari
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Patent number: 7915268Abstract: The present invention provides novel purines useful for the prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, mast cell mediated disease and transplant rejection.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Yingchun Lu, Celia Kingsbury, Adolph Bohnstedt, Michael Ohlmeyer, Vidyadhar Paradkar