Patents Assigned to 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTY COMPANIES
  • X-FOLD LESS IMIQUIMOD IMPURITIES AT TWO MONTHS BETWEEN REFINED AND COMPENDIAL
    Publication number: 20100120827
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • METHODS FOR IMPROVING IMIQUIMOD AVAILABILITY AT TWO MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS AND SIX MONTHS BETWEEN REFINED AND COMPENDIAL
    Publication number: 20100120831
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • METHOD OF PREPARING A PHARMACEUTICAL CREAM AND MINIMIZING IMIQUIMOD IMPURITY FORMATION (AT LEAST FOUR MONTHS STORAGE)
    Publication number: 20100120832
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • METHOD OF PREPARING A PHARMACEUTICAL CREAM AND MINIMIZING IMIQUIMOD IMPURITY FORMATION (AT LEAST SIX MONTHS STORAGE)
    Publication number: 20100120833
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • METHOD OF TREATING A DERMAL AND/OR MUCOSAL ASSOCIATED CONDITION
    Publication number: 20100120836
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • METHOD OF REDUCING IMIQUIMOD IMPURITY FORMATION
    Publication number: 20100120819
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • X-FOLD LESS IMIQUIMOD IMPURITIES AT SIX MONTHS BETWEEN REFINED AND COMPENDIAL
    Publication number: 20100120829
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical formulations and methods including an immune response modifier (IRM) compound and an oleic acid component are provided where stability is improved by using oleic acid have low polar impurities such as peroxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Alexis S. Statham, Robert J. Nelson
  • Spray gun with rotatable reservoir
    Patent number: 7712682
    Abstract: A reservoir (402) for connection to a spray gun has a lid (410) provided with an outlet spout (415) that is rotatably received in a socket of an inlet adaptor (419) connectable to the spray gun. The lid (410) has a spring leg (425) spaced from the outlet spout (415) with a projection (426) at the distal end for self-latching engagement with a flange (423) of the adaptor (419) to secure releasably the reservoir (402) to the spray gun. The engagement of the projection (426) and flange (423) enables the reservoir (401) to be rotated through 360° to adjust the position of the reservoir (402) while attached to the spray gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Stephen C. P. Joseph, Daniel E. Siltberg
  • Self-monitoring radio network
    Patent number: 7715799
    Abstract: A headset monitoring system includes a plurality of headsets and a base station. Each headset includes a microphone, a speaker, a transceiver, and a memory device for storing an identification code, and the base station includes a transceiver, a microprocessor, a memory device, and a user interface. The base station is configured to send and receive data to and from the headsets and is further configured to identify headsets that are not functioning properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gebran J. Sabongi, Ronald W. Hall
  • Structured surface articles containing geometric structures with compound faces and methods for making same
    Patent number: 7712904
    Abstract: A prepared substrate including an array of cube corner cavities and protrusions interspersed between the cube corner cavities is described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Gerald M. Benson, Kenneth L. Smith
  • Curable adhesive articles having topographical features therein
    Patent number: 7713604
    Abstract: Curable adhesive articles having topographical features and methods of making curable adhesive articles are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Jie Yang, Kenneth J. Callahan, Ying-Yuh Lu, Yaoqi J. Liu
  • Filter change indicator
    Patent number: 7713339
    Abstract: An air filter monitoring system for indicating when to clean or replace a flexible air filter includes an air filter having a peripheral frame and an interior filtering region, a fixed support structure for receiving the air filter and maintaining the perimeter of the filter frame in a generally fixed position while allowing the interior filtering region to flex in response to air flow through the filter, and a filter change indicator having a predetermined bias force. The filter change indicator is arranged to contact the interior filtering region of the filter, wherein when the predetermined bias force is reached, the filter change indicator is activated to notify a user to clean or replace the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Ronald C. Johansson
  • Durable optical element
    Patent number: 7713597
    Abstract: A durable optical film or element includes a polymerized structure having a microstructured surface and a plurality of surface modified colloidal nanoparticles of silica, zirconia, or mixtures thereof. Display devices including the durable microstructured film are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Clinton L. Jones, Brant U. Kolb, Emily S. Goenner, John T. Brady, Christopher A. Haak
  • Socket for connecting ball-grid-array integrated circuit device to test circuit
    Patent number: 7714602
    Abstract: A simple structure socket 10 for connecting a ball grid array integrated circuit device to a test circuit has a base 14, contacts 26 arranged corresponding to the ball grid array, a nest assembly 16 of two comb structures 70 and a lever assembly 18 for spacing opposed tip portions of each contact away from each other to define a gap for receiving a ball. The lever assembly has two rectangular frames 86 each made of a distal cross piece 94, a proximal cross piece and two side pieces connecting the distal and proximal cross pieces. The two rectangular frames are arranged so that the side pieces are intersected at substantially mid portions thereof. This allows that, by depressing the proximal cross pieces toward the base, the distal cross pieces forces the comb structures toward each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Masahito Naito, Takayuki Nagumo
  • Acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives with aziridine crosslinking agents
    Patent number: 7714076
    Abstract: A pre-adhesive composition is described comprising an acid-functional (meth)acrylate copolymer and an aziridine crosslinking agent, which when crosslinked provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive and pressure-sensitive adhesive articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Larry R. Krepski, Timothy D. Filiatrault, Shaun D. McCracken, Maureen A. Kavanagh, Babu N. Gaddam
  • Method of assembling an optical connector and an optical connector
    Patent number: 7712974
    Abstract: An optical connector and a method of assembling an optical connector that is capable of avoiding generation of unnecessary tension in the optical fiber cable in which plain fiber portions are optically connected to each other using a splice assembly. The optical connector comprises a connector housing having splice means configured to abut a stripped and cleaved end surface of a plain fiber of an optical fiber cable (2) onto an end of a fiber stub predisposed in the splice means to form an optical connection; and a cable fixing assembly (26, 40), that includes a cable fixing member (26) and a cable holder (40), for fixing an outer covering (2c) of the optical fiber cable (2) introduced into said connector housing (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Akihiko Yazaki, Tomoyasu Oike, Takaya Yamauchi
  • Optical fiber loopback test system and method
    Patent number: 7715678
    Abstract: A telecommunications enclosure includes a housing for retaining telecommunication lines therein, the housing including at least one of a splice closure and a terminal closure. At least one of the terminal closure and the splice closure includes a loopback testing station having at least one coupling mounted therein. The coupling is adapted to receive a first terminated end of a first telecommunication line and adapted to receive a second terminated end of a second telecommunication line. The testing station permits loss testing of installed distribution lines at a terminal from a central network facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas E. Bludau, James D. Erhardt, David Scarponi, George W. Lutgens
  • Donor sheet, color filter, organic EL element and method for producing them
    Patent number: 7713676
    Abstract: A donor sheet for transferring an image pattern to an image receiving element by a thermal imaging process using laser beam, comprising a base having formed in order on the base a light-to-heat conversion layer, and a transfer layer containing an image component which is melted by heating due to an action of the light-to-heat conversion layer and transferred to the image receiving element in a patterned form, in which the image component of the transfer layer contains an ink-repellent or solvent-repellent compound in an optimized amount. Using the donor sheet, it becomes possible to produce an separation member such as partition pattern and black matrix of a color filter by a shortened manufacturing step with ease and accuracy at high contrast, and can impart excellent ink repellency to the separation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Yoji Tsukamoto, Masaru Iwasawa, Tatsuya Shimoda, Satoru Miyashita, Hiroshi Kiguchi
  • Solar control multilayer film
    Patent number: 7709092
    Abstract: A multilayer film article is disclosed. The multilayer film article includes an infrared light reflecting multilayer film having alternating layers of a first polymer type and a second polymer type, a hardcoat layer that is the reaction product of a hardcoat composition that includes at least one organic polyethylenically unsaturated compound, at least one fluoroalkyl pendent siloxane compound, infrared light absorbing nanoparticles, and a polymerization initiator. The hardcoat layer being disposed adjacent the multilayer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Zai-Ming Qiu, Raghunath Padiyath
  • Clip with cutting blade
    Patent number: D615394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Scott D. Pearson, Joy A. Packard, Peter J. Newbould, Ivana Babic