Patents Assigned to Dow Global Technology LLC
  • Publication number: 20250256491
    Abstract: According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a multilayer elastic film comprises a core layer, a first outer layer, and a second outer layer. The core layer comprises at least 75 wt % polyolefin elastomer such as an ethylene/alpha-olefin block copolymer or a propylene-based plastomer. The first outer layer and the second outer layer each comprise at least 75 wt % of an ethylene-based copolymer, wherein the ethylene-based copolymer is selected from the group consisting of: (I) from 86 to 95 wt % of ethylene, and from 5 to 14 wt % of an alkyl acrylate; and (II) a combination of an ethylene-based copolymer according to (I) and an ethylene-based copolymer comprising greater than 50 wt % of ethylene, from 5 to 16 wt % of an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated C3-C8 carboxylic acid, and optionally, from 0.5 to 10 wt % of an alkyl acrylate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Aleksandar Stoiljkovic, Karlheinz Hausmann
  • Patent number: 12384803
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a metal-ligand complex catalyst precursor, (L1)(L2)X(R1)(R2), and methods for producing the same from a compound of formula Q2X(R1)(R2). L1 and L2 are independently —R3—Z1 or —R4—Z1. R1 and R2 are independently selected from a hydrogen atom, (C1-C40)hydrocarbyl and, optionally, R1 and R2 are connected to form a ring having from 3 to 50 atoms in the ring, excluding hydrogen atoms. X is Si, Ge, Sn, or Pb. Each Q is independently Ar1—Y1R3— or Ar2—Y2—R4—. R3 and R4 are independently selected from —(CRC2)m—, where m is 1 or 2, and where each RC is independently selected from the group consisting of (C1-C40)hydrocarbyl, (C1-C40)heterohydrocarbyl, and —H. Y1 and Y2 are independently S, Se, or Te. Ar1 and Ar2 are independently (C6-C50)aryl. Ar1—Y1—R3— and Ar2—Y2—R4— are not identical. Each Z1 is independently selected from Cl, Br, and I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hien Q. Do, Philip P. Fontaine, Arkady L. Krasovskiy, Liam P. Spencer, Kelli A. Ogawa, Daniel K. Lesniewski, Russell W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 12384866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition is an ethylene-based polymer composition formed by high pressure (greater or equal to 100 MPa) free radical polymerization. The ethylene-based polymer composition includes ethylene monomer and a mixture of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene molecules (PB-OH). Each PB-OH molecule includes internal alkene groups and terminal alkene groups. Each PB-OH molecule has more internal alkene groups than terminal alkene groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Arkady L. Krasovskiy, Ivan A. Konstantinov, Sarat Munjal, Sean W. Ewart
  • Patent number: 12384861
    Abstract: A process to form a crosslinked composition, said process comprising thermally treating a composition that comprises the following components: a) an olefin/silane interpolymer, b) a cure catalyst, and c) a multi-vinyl compound. A composition comprising the following components: a) an olefin/silane interpolymer, b) a cure catalyst, and c) a multi-vinyl compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Shah, Jordan C. Reddel, Zachary S. Kean, Bethany M. Neilson, Gerald F. Billovits, David D. Devore, Mark F. Sonnenschein, David S. Laitar
  • Patent number: 12378435
    Abstract: A curable coating composition is provided having multi-functionalized acrylic copolymer and amino-functional silicone resin curing agents. The acrylic copolymer of the curable coating composition has, in polymerized form, epoxy functionalized groups and cure compatibility groups and the amino-functional silicone resin is an alkoxy functional siloxane, which optionally is derived from sterically hindered alcohol-amine precursor moieties. The coating compositions are useful in the field of superior weatherable and durable coatings and are useful to replace isocyanate-containing polyurethane based coatings. Also provided are coated articles produced from the curable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Swier, Gary M. Wieber, Erin B. Vogel, John B. Horstman, Susan M. Machelski
  • Patent number: 12378168
    Abstract: Methods for producing olefins through hydrocarbon steam cracking include passing a hydrocarbon feed that includes one or more hydrocarbons to a hydrocarbon cracking unit and passing one or more sulfur-containing compounds to the hydrocarbon cracking unit. The sulfur-containing compounds include at least hydrogen sulfide gas, and a flow rate of the sulfur-containing compounds to the hydrocarbon cracking unit is sufficient to produce a molar concentration of elemental sulfur in the hydrocarbon cracking unit of from 10 ppm to 200 ppm. The methods include cracking the hydrocarbon feed in the hydrocarbon cracking unit to produce a cracker effluent and contacting the cracker effluent with a quench fluid in a quench unit to produce at least a cracked gas and a first pygas. The first pygas has a concentration of carbon disulfide less than 50 ppmw based on the total mass flow rate of the first pygas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hangyao Wang, Jorge H. Pazmino, Yu Liu, Georgios Bellos
  • Publication number: 20250243335
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a foam, which may comprise the crosslinked reaction product of a maleic anhydride grafted olefin block copolymer (MAH-g-OBC) and a secondary alcohol. The foam may have a density less than or equal to 0.2 g/cc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Xilun Weng, Hongyu Chen, Jinliang Yan, Wuye Ouyang, Bo Lyu, Kainan Zhang, Chao He
  • Patent number: 12371526
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a metal chelated polyol liquid and/or a metal chelated polyether polyol liquid that can be used in an isocyanate-reactive composition and a reaction mixture for forming a polyurethane polymer. The metal chelated polyester polyol liquid is a reaction product of a chelating polyester polyol having a chelating moiety and a metal compound having a metal ion. The metal chelated polyether polyol liquid is a reaction product of a chelating polyether polyol having a chelating moiety and a metal compound having a metal ion. The chelating moiety of the chelating polyester polyol or the chelating polyether polyol chelates the metal ion to form the metal chelated polyester polyol liquid or the metal chelated polyether polyol liquid, respectively, having a mole ratio of the metal ion to the chelating moiety of 0.05:1 to 2:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: William J. Harris, Dakai Ren, Stephen W. King, Xue Chen
  • Patent number: 12370134
    Abstract: Personal care formulation is provided having multistage polymer, comprising: acrylate rich stage comprising: (a) structural units of monomer selected from C1-22 alkyl (meth)acrylates and structural units of first carbosiloxane monomer of formula (I); and (b) carbosiloxane rich stage, comprising: structural units of second carbosiloxane monomer of formula (I); wherein a is 0 to 3; wherein d is 0 or 1; wherein R1 is selected from hydrogen, C1-10 alkyl group and aryl group; wherein R2 is selected from hydrogen and C1-10 alkyl group; wherein R8 is —O—Si(CH3)3 group; wherein Y is selected from formula (II), (III) and (IV); wherein R4 and R6 are selected from hydrogen and methyl group; wherein R3 and R5 are C1-10 alkylene group; wherein R7 is C1-10 alkyl group; wherein b is 0 to 4 and wherein c is 0 or 1; and wherein the first and second carbosiloxane monomer of formula (I) are same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Tian Lan, Fanwen Zeng, Xiaodong Lu, Inna Shulman, Michaeleen L. Pacholski, Isabelle Van Reeth, Helene Dihang, Tanvi S. Ratani, Jason S. Fisk, Tzu-Chi Kuo, Rachael M. Smith
  • Patent number: 12365776
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing a foamable composition. The foamable composition includes an ethylene-based elastomer, a blowing agent, and a peroxide. The process includes heating the foamable composition to form a pliable formulation. The pliable formulation has (i) a viscosity (0.1 rad/s at 180° C.) from greater than 70,000 Pa·s to 2,000,000 Pa·s, (ii) a tan delta (0.1 rad/s at 180° C.) from 0.2 to less than 2, (iii) a strain hardening index greater than 2.5 to 6, and (iv) an extensional viscosity (1 s?1 at 180° C.) from greater than 400,000 Pa-s to 7,000,000 Pa-s. The process includes introducing the pliable formulation into a mold having an expandable mold cavity and unidirectionally expanding the expandable mold to form a crosslinked foam article. The process includes cooling, in the expanded mold, the crosslinked foam article; and removing the crosslinked foam article from the expandable mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sophie Gina Martha Van Lange, Jozef J. I. Van Dun, Miguel Albertodejusus Prieto
  • Patent number: 12364262
    Abstract: The present invention describes a water-based metal working fluid comprising a base oil, an organic acid, optionally emulsifiers, a concentrate additive, water and a microbial growth control agent which comprises an aminopropanediol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Qi Jiang, Xue Chen
  • Patent number: 12365750
    Abstract: The catalyst system includes a heterogeneous procatalyst, an electron donor, and a hydrogenation procatalyst. The heterogeneous procatalyst includes a titanium species, an aluminum species, and a magnesium chloride component. The hydrogenation procatalyst has the formula Cp2TiXnTiCp2 or Cp2TiXn. In formula Cp2TiXn, each Cp is a cyclopentadienyl substituted with at least one R1, wherein R1 is (C1-C10)alkyl; and each X is independently monoanionic or neutral, wherein each X is independently (C1-C40)hydrocarbon, (C1-C40)heterohydrocarbon, (C1-C40)hydrocarbyl, (C1-C40)heterohydrocarbyl, or a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Linfeng Chen, Kurt F. Hirsekorn, Jeffrey A. Sims, David M. Pearson
  • Publication number: 20250230112
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to processes for converting saturated polyethylene to at least an alkene product. The processes comprise contacting the saturated polyethylene with three or more catalyst components in a reactor, the reactor comprising an alkene reactant. The three or more catalyst components comprise a metathesis catalyst component, an isomerization catalyst component, and a dehydrogenation catalyst component. Contacting causes at least a portion of the saturated polyethylene to undergo dehydrogenation reactions to form unsaturated polyethylene and at least a portion of the unsaturated polyethylene, or products derived therefrom, to undergo metathesis reactions and isomerization reactions to produce an effluent comprising at least the alkene product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicants: Dow Global Technologies LLC, The Regents of the University of California, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Ivan A. Konstantinov, Rafael Huacuja, Alex J. Nett, Mari S. Rosen, Sean W. Ewart, Garrett Strong, Lijun Gao, Nicholas Wang, Vanessa DaSilva, Damien S. Guironnet, Susanna Scott
  • Patent number: 12351707
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to unsaturated polyolefins and processes for preparing the same. The present disclosure further relates to curable formulations comprising the unsaturated polyolefins that show improved crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Munro, Paul J. Brigandi, Jeffrey M. Cogen, Lixin Sun, Colin LiPiShan
  • Patent number: 12350288
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards methods of inducing caspase activity. The methods include contacting a cell with a treatment compound represented by the following Formula (I): where R1 is selected from hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to about 16 carbon atoms; R2 is selected from a hydroxyl group, a tosylate group, an alkoxy group of the formula OR3 where R3 is selected from an alkyl group having from 1 to about 16 carbon atoms, or an ester group of the formula OCOR4, where R4 is an alkyl group having from 1 to about 16 carbon atoms, and n is from 4 to 46,000, with the proviso that when R1 is hydrogen and R2 is a hydroxy group the treatment compound has a number average molecular weight from 10,100 to 2,000,0000 g/mol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Caroline Woelfle-Gupta, Andrew Scott, Matthew LeBaron, Daniel Wilson, Susan L. Jordan, Robert L. Schmitt, Raja Settivari
  • Patent number: 12351552
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for producing olefins includes contacting a hydrocarbon-containing feed with a catalyst in a reactor portion of a reactor system to form an olefin-containing effluent, separating at least a portion of the olefin-containing effluent from the catalyst, passing the catalyst to a catalyst-processing portion of the reactor system and processing the catalyst to produce a processed catalyst and a combustion gas, passing the processed catalyst from the catalyst-processing portion to the reactor portion, and introducing a combustion additive to the reactor system when the combustion gas comprises one or more hydrocarbons in an amount greater than 5% of an LFL of the combustion gas at a temperature and pressure of the catalyst processing portion. The catalyst may include from 1 ppmw to 150 ppmw platinum. The combustion additive may include from 150 ppmw to 1,000 ppmw platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lin Luo, Yang Yang, Adrianus Koeken, Brien Stears, Luis Bollmann, Andrzej Malek, Brian W. Goodfellow
  • Patent number: 12349673
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to compositions that can be used as emulsifiable concentrates in the agriculture industry. In one aspect, a composition comprises (a) 5 weight percent or more of a compound soluble in at least one of N,N-dialkyl fatty amide, an aromatic ketone, an alkyl ketone, a cyclic ketone, or an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent; and (b) an ether ketone solvent according to Formula 1, as described herein, wherein R1 is a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms, wherein R2 is CH3 or CH2CH3, wherein x is 0, 1, or 2, wherein R3 is CH3 when R2 is CH3, and wherein R3 is CH2CH3 when R2 is CH2CH3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sara B. Klamo, David S. Laitar, Keosha L. Cade
  • Patent number: 12350358
    Abstract: An aqueous conditioner formulation for thermally styled hair is provided, including: an aqueous carrier; and a modified carbohydrate polymer, comprising a cellulose ether base material functionalized with (i) trialkyl ammonium moieties of formula (I) wherein R1 is independently a C1-7 alkyl group and wherein the modified carbohydrate polymer has a Kjeldahl nitrogen content, TKN, corrected for ash and volatiles, of 0.75 to 2.5 wt %; and (ii) hydrophobic substituents having 16 carbon atoms; wherein the modified carbohydrate polymer comprises 0.005 to 1.5 wt %, based on weight of the cellulose ether base material, of the hydrophobic substituents; wherein the hydrophobic substituents are randomly distributed across the backbone of the cellulose ether base material; wherein the cellulose ether base material has a weight average molecular weight, MW, of >1,000,000 Daltons; and wherein the modified carbohydrate polymer has <0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Nisaraporn Suthiwangcharoen, Lyndsay M. Leal, Emmett M. Partain, III, Nikhil J. Fernandes, Shannon Golden, Bethany K Johnson
  • Patent number: 12351778
    Abstract: A laundry detergent formulation is provided including a detergent surfactant; a builder; a filler and an antiredeposition agent, including: 10 to 65 wt % of structural units of formula I where each R1 and R2 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a C1-3 alkyl group; 10 to 80 wt % of structural units of formula II wherein where each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a-C (O) CH3 group; and 10 to 65 wt % of structural units of formula III where each R4 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and where at least one of R1 and R2 is a C1-3 alkyl group in at least 1 mol % of the structural units of formula I in the antiredeposition agent; where the antiredeposition agent has a lactone end group and where the antiredeposition agent has a weight average molecular weight of 1,500 to 6,000 Daltons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Backer, Randara Pulukkody, John B. Case, Jr., Saugata Nad, Sangeeta Sanjeev Patel
  • Patent number: 12351781
    Abstract: An aqueous liquid laundry formulation is provided, comprising: a liquid carrier; a cellulase; and a protectant polymer, wherein the protectant polymer comprises: 25 to 65 wt %, based on weight of the protectant polymer, of structural units of formula I wherein each R1 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a —CH3 group; and 35 to 75 wt %, based on weight of the protectant polymer, of structural units of formula II wherein each R2 is independently selected from a —C2-3 alkyl group and wherein each R3 is independently selected from a hydrogen and a methyl group. Also provided is a method of renewing a soiled cotton containing fabric using aqueous liquid laundry formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Anne Oberlin Escoffier, Afua Sarpong Karikari, Robert Butterick, Jordan Sarica