Patents Assigned to B
  • Process for the preparation of a polyolefin having one or multiple end-functionalized branches
    Patent number: 10465018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of branched polyolefins having end-functionalized branches via the copolymerization of an olefin monomer and an olefin comprising main group metal hydrocarbyl chain transfer agent. The invention moreover relates to branched polyolefin having end-functionalized branches obtained by said process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Robbert R. Duchateau, Miloud Bouyahyi, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Martin Alexander Zuideveld
  • 10-hydroxystearic acid compositions
    Patent number: 10463587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to topical compositions comprising 10-hydroxystearic acid or a salt thereof in combination with 12-hydroxystearic acid or a salt thereof. The present invention also relates to a method to retard or inhibit the recrystallization of 10-hydroxystearic acid or a salt thereof in a topical composition, said method comprising formulating 10-hydroxystearic acid or a salt thereof in the presence of 12-hydroxystearic acid or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Cyrille Deshayes, Christine Mendrok-Edinger
  • Catheter device with needle guard
    Patent number: 10463839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a catheter device comprising a catheter hub in which a valve member is disposed, a needle fixed in a needle hub, the needle extending through the valve member in the catheter hub in a ready position, and a tubular receptacle in which the needle hub is displaceably guided and biased by a spring in a proximal direction relative to the receptacle, wherein the needle hub is releasably held in the ready position in the receptacle against the force of the spring by frictional force between needle circumference and catheter or catheter hub, which frictional force is reduced on retraction of the needle through the catheter hub such that the force of the spring prevails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventor: Kevin Woehr
  • Process for the manufacture of thermoplastic polymer particles with improved process yield
    Patent number: 10465049
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of thermoplastic polymer particles, including combining a first solution including a thermoplastic polymer and an organic solvent with a second solution including an aqueous solvent and a surfactant to provide an emulsion. The emulsion is transferred into a receiving water to remove the organic solvent and form an aqueous dispersion including a plurality of thermoplastic polymer particles dispersed in the aqueous solvent. The thermoplastic polymer particles having a D50 of 20 to 100 ?m are recovered in a yield of greater than 85%. Thermoplastic polymer particles prepared according to the method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: Viswanathan Kalyanaraman
  • Burner module provided with heat shield and bush, cooker or hob provided therewith and method for manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 10465913
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a burner module for a cooker or hob, the cooker or hob or kitchen provided therewith and method therefor. The burner module according to the invention comprises a carrier arranged under the worktop of the cooker and provided with a gas inlet and a gas outlet, a burner operatively connectable to the carrier, a heat shield arranged during use under and/or around the burner, and a bush provided with a flange arrangeable in an opening in the worktop, wherein the flange rests on or in the worktop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: PCS Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Maikel Bink, Paulus Johannes Maria Van de Kooi
  • Lighting device comprising an improved optical element
    Patent number: 10465899
    Abstract: A lighting device comprising an optical device, a carrier, a light source and a gasket is provided. The optical device has a protrusion with a series of stepped faces. The gasket acts upon one of the faces to provide sealing against environmental factors while a second face determines the distance between the light source and a light exit window of the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Walter Johannes Marie Goerts
  • Implementation of high efficiency battery charger for electronic devices
    Patent number: 10468898
    Abstract: A power converter including a buck converter to receive input power and set operating voltages of the power converter, a current sensing circuit to determine an input current of the power converter, a charge pump circuit to store charge delivered by the voltage regulation circuit and output to a load and to a battery pack a current larger than the input current, and a battery pack controller to control switching and provide feedback within the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Glenn Il Crosby, Peter Christiaans
  • Lighting device with a flexible circuit strip wrapped around a support
    Patent number: 10465856
    Abstract: A lighting device is disclosed. The lighting device comprises a light transmitting housing and a solid state light source carrier (1) arranged inside the housing. The carrier (1) includes a cylindrical support (2), which has two polygon base surfaces (2a, 2b) and a number of side surfaces (2c), and a flexible circuit strip (3) which has several solid state light sources (4) mounted thereon. The strip (3) is wrapped around the cylindrical support (2) so that the strip (3) extends at least once across each base surface (2a, 2b). A method for producing a lighting device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Gerrit Jan Beijer
  • Convertible frictionless to frictional fingertips for a gripper to improve robotic grasp robustness
    Patent number: 10464218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gripper system comprising fingers. The gripper fingers are connectable to a gripper arm. The gripper fingers comprise a roller configured to spin around its central axis or a ball element rotatable in any direction; a stopper configured to stop and/or prevent the spinning of the roller or ball. The present invention also relates to a method for grasping and displacing an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY, TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LTD.
    Inventors: Yoav Golan, Amir Shapiro, Elon Rimon
  • Method for forming spacers using silicon nitride film for spacer-defined multiple patterning
    Patent number: 10468251
    Abstract: A method of forming spacers for spacer-defined multiple pattering (SDMP), includes: depositing a pattern transfer film by PEALD on the entire patterned surface of a template using halogenated silane as a precursor and nitrogen as a reactant at a temperature of 200° C. or less, which pattern transfer film is a silicon nitride film; dry-etching the template using a fluorocarbon as an etchant, and thereby selectively removing a portion of the pattern transfer film formed on a top of a core material and a horizontal portion of the pattern transfer film while leaving the core material and a vertical portion of the pattern transfer film as a vertical spacer, wherein a top of the vertical spacer is substantially flat; and dry-etching the core material, whereby the template has a surface patterned by the vertical spacer on a underlying layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Dai Ishikawa, Atsuki Fukazawa, Toshiharu Watarai
  • Vibration sensor
    Patent number: 10464569
    Abstract: One example discloses a vibration sensor, comprising: an RF receiver circuit configured to receive an RF input signal; an RF signal characterization circuit configured to measure an attribute of the RF input signal over a set time-period; wherein the attribute of the RF input signal varies based on a physical motion between the vibration sensor and an RF source transmitting the RF input signal; and a vibration profiling circuit configured to map the attribute of the RF input signal to a vibration level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Anthony Kerselaers, Liesbeth Gommé
  • Load powered via supply or re-chargeable source
    Patent number: 10468910
    Abstract: In various embodiments, an apparatus for driving a load is disclosed. In one example, the apparatus comprises an input configured to, in a first state, receive an input signal, an output configured to, in the first state, provide a first output signal to a series arrangement of the load and a source, wherein the first output signal is configured to feed the load and to charge the source with input power provided via the input signal, and a converter configured to, in a second state different from the first state, convert a source signal from the source into a second output signal destined for the load, wherein the second output signal is configured to feed the load with source power provided by the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Kumar Arulandu, Antonius Petrus Marinus Dingemans, Jean-Paul Marie Gerard Linnartz, Marco Haverlag
  • plants with increased fruit yield
    Patent number: 10465201
    Abstract: Provided herein are Solanum lycopersicum plants with increased fruit yield and to seeds or fruits of the present Solanum lycopersicum plants. Also provided herein are methods for increasing the fruit yield of Solanum lycopersicum plants. Further provided are fruits and seeds of the present Solanum lycopersicum plants. Solanum lycopersicum plant with increased fruit yield including the SP3D and SP gene, or at least the promoter sequence thereof, of Solanum pennelli or another Solanum species such as Solanum neorickii, Solanum chmielewskii, Solanum chilense, Solanum parviflorum, Solanum pimpinellifolium, and Solanum peruvianum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
    Inventors: Ilja Roobeek, Marieke Ykema, Martijn Petrus van Stee, Geert Johannes De Boer
  • Process for the production of light olefins and aromatics from a hydrocarbon feedstock
    Patent number: 10465131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for increasing the production of a light olefin hydrocarbon compound from a hydrocarbon feedstock, comprising the following steps of: (a) feeding a hydrocarbon feedstock into a reaction area for ringopening (b) separating reaction products, which are generated from said reaction area, into an overhead stream and a side stream; (c) feeding the side stream from (b) to a gasoline hydrocracker (GHC) unit, (d) separating reaction products of said GHC of step (c) into an overhead stream, which contains hydrogen, methane, ethane, and liquefied petroleum gas, and a stream, which contains aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, and a small amount of hydrogen and non-aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, (e) feeding the overhead stream from the gasoline hydrocracker (GHC) unit into a steam cracker unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: Arno Johannes Maria Oprins
  • System and method for cleaning and sterilizing a water flow
    Patent number: 10464821
    Abstract: A system for cleaning and sterilizing a water flow comprises a main treatment line with a pump to pump water from a water storage, a main filter, a sterilizing station and a system outlet. The main filter is provided with a first filter element and a backflush member to rinse the first filter element with backflush water. The secondary treatment line connects to an outlet of the backflush member, and has a backflush filter to remove silt from the backflush water. The main filter is designed such that the pressure difference over the first filter element is at least 0.1 bar (10 kPa) and the backflush filter is designed such that the pressure difference over the backflush filter element is less than 0.05 bar (5 kPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: B.V. SCHEEPSWERF DAMEN GORINCHEM
    Inventor: Matthijs Schuiten
  • Process for purifying a COstream in order to avoid corrosion by hydrochloric acid
    Patent number: 10464008
    Abstract: A process for purifying a by-product stream comprising primarily CO2 that emanates from a an ethylene glycol plant, where the by-product stream may contain organic chlorides and water. The process employs an adsorbent to remove one or more organic chlorides from the by-product stream to produce pure or substantially pure CO2. To improve the efficiency of the organic chloride adsorbent, prior to the organic chloride adsorption process, a moisture adsorbent may be employed to remove at least some of the water from the by-product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Selvakumar Subramanian, Dhaneesh Varappurath Sukumaran, Satish Angadi
  • Spinach variety NUN 06202 SPS
    Patent number: 10463001
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of spinach, NUN 06202 SPS as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventor: Frederike Koerber
  • Alignment sensor for lithographic apparatus
    Patent number: 10466601
    Abstract: A lithographic apparatus includes an alignment sensor configured to determine the position of an alignment target having a periodic structure. The alignment sensor includes a demultiplexer to demultiplex a number of intensity channels. The demultiplexer includes a number of stages arranged in series and a number of demultiplexing components, each demultiplexing component operable to divide an input radiation beam into two radiation beam portions. The first stage has a first demultiplexing component that is arranged to receive as an input radiation beam an incident radiation beam. Each successive stage is arranged such that it has twice the number of demultiplexing components as a preceding stage, each demultiplexing component of each stage after the first stage receiving as an input one of the radiation beam portions output from a demultiplexing component of the preceding stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: ASML Netherlands B.V., ASML Holding N.V.
    Inventors: Alessandro Polo, Simon Gijsbert Josephus Mathijssen, Patricius Aloysius Jacobus Tinnemans, Scott Douglas Coston, Ronan James Havelin
  • orchid plant named ‘PHALFUZOP’
    Patent number: PP31025
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALFUZOP’, particularly characterized by having yellow striped and netted flowers with yellow and red-purple lips, 1 to 3 peduncles that are long and sturdy, leaves that are obovate, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Coleus plant named ‘Docogrefalig’
    Patent number: PP31031
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Coleus plant named ‘Docogrefalig’, characterized by its compact to outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; variegated leaves that are greyed purple and light green yellow with light green-colored margins; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Ruth Kobayashi