Patents Assigned to E. I. du Pont Nemours & Company
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Patent number: 10294490Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignees: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Daniel J Altier, Jennifer K Barry, Carol A Hendrick, Lu Liu, Phillip A Patten, Claudia D Perez-Ortega, Eric J Schepers, Weiping Xie, Nasser Yalpani, Jianzhou Zhao, Xiaohong Zhong, Genhai Zhu
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Patent number: 9834483Abstract: Syrup produced in a lignocellulosic biomass fermentation process is used as a binder for soil conditioning materials to make an agricultural composition that is easily handled and applied. The syrup binds powdery soil conditioning materials such as lime and gypsum to form pellets or granules.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Steven W Ogle, Stephanie C. Vrakas, David William Wood
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Patent number: 9579748Abstract: Substrates and methods to fabricate and use millimeter wave Sievenpiper EBG structures such that the conductive portions are internal to an LTCC package.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignees: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANY, WEMTEC Inc.Inventors: Deepukumar M Nair, Michael Arnett Smith, James M Parisi, Elizabeth D Hughes, William E. Mckinzie, III
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Patent number: 9577199Abstract: This invention relates to deuterated aryl-anthracene compounds that are useful in electronic applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a deuterated compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Daniel David Lecloux, Adam Fennimore, Weiying Gao, Nora Sabina Radu, Weishi Wu, Vsevolod Rostovtsev, Michael Henry Howard, Jr., Hong Meng, Yulong Shen, Jeffrey A Merlo, Eric Maurice Smith
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Patent number: 9447386Abstract: Transgenic oilseeds having increased total fatty acid content of at least 10% and altered fatty acid profiles when compared to the total fatty acid content of null segregant oilseeds are described. Novel DGAT genes are used to achieve the increase in seed storage lipids.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Howard Glenn Damude, Ericka Bermudez, Changjiang Li, Knut Meyer, Keith Roesler, Bo Shen, Mitchell C Tarczynski
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Patent number: 9188258Abstract: This invention pertains to an umbilical hose comprising in order a thermoplastic inner liner, at least one fibrous reinforcement layer having a layer thickness no greater than 1.5 mm, comprising continuous filament yarns having a yarn tenacity of at least 13 g/dtex and a linear density no greater than 6667 dtex, and a thermoplastic outer cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Mark Allan Lamontia, Caio P. Faury, David William Litchfield
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Patent number: 9175425Abstract: A hybrid cord formed from a plurality of component plies wherein at least two of the plies are of unequal ply length regardless of the twist of the plies and at least one of the plies has a length that is from 1 to 50 percent longer than the other plies and a method of providing a cord with predetermined twist and component ply lengths.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Nathan W. Love, Brian R. France, Mark Allan Lamontia, Clifford K Deakyne
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Patent number: 9139783Abstract: A process for the hydroprocessing of a low-value light cycle oil (LCO) hydrocarbon feed to provide a high-value diesel-range product. The process comprises a hydrotreatment stage followed by a hydrocracking stage, each of which is conducted under liquid-full reaction conditions wherein substantially all the hydrogen supplied to the hydrotreating and hydrocracking reactions is dissolved in the liquid-phase hydrocarbon feed. Ammonia and optionally other gases formed during hydrotreatment are removed in a separation step prior to hydrocracking. The LCO feed is advantageously converted to diesel in high yield with little loss of hydrocarbon to naphtha.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Hasan Dindi, Alan Howard Pulley, Thanh Gia Ta, Vincent Adam Kuperavage, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150118144Abstract: The present invention relates to dispersible binary and ternary metal chalcogenide nanoparticle compositions that are substantially free of organic stabilizing agents. These nanoparticle compositions can be used as precursor inks for the preparation of copper zinc tin chalcogenides and copper indium gallium chalcogenides. In addition, this invention provides processes for manufacturing coated substrates and thin films of copper zinc tin chalcogenide and copper indium gallium chalcogenide. This invention also provides process for manufacturing photovoltaic cells incorporating such thin films.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: E I Du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventors: Yanyan Cao, Jonathan V. Caspar
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Publication number: 20140141972Abstract: This invention pertains to methods for protecting a propagule or a plant grown therefrom from invertebrate pests comprising contacting the propagule or the locus of the propagule with a biologically effective amount of a compound of Formula I, its N-oxide or an agriculturally suitable salt thereof wherein A and B and R1 through R8 are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also relates to propagules treated with a compound of Formula I and compositions comprising a Formula I compound for coating propagules.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: RICHARD ALAN BERGER, Isaac Billy Annan, George Philip Lahm, John Lindsey Flexner, Thomas Paul Selby, Thomas Martin Stevenson
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Patent number: 8685290Abstract: Disclosed is a plurality of glass-crystalline particles, wherein at least a portion of the glass-crystalline particles comprise a glass component and a crystalline component, and wherein the crystalline component comprises one or more metal oxides wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of: Zn, Ca, Sr, Mg, Ba, and mixtures thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventors: Eric Lee Brantley, John T. Chaplinsky, Howard David Glicksman, James J. Krajewski, Brian J. Laughlin, Kurt Richard Mikeska, Lawrence V. Triboletti
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Publication number: 20140073736Abstract: The present invention deals with a novel curable composition comprising bis-benzoxazine and an amine-functionalized triazine, especially a di-isoimide, and the use thereof in the preparation of encapsulated printed wiring boards, especially flexible printed wiring boards. The curable composition hereof beneficially effects crosslinking of bis-benzoxazine at a lower temperature than has heretofore been provided in the art.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: GEORGE ELIAS ZAHR
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Publication number: 20140056002Abstract: A flexible layered structure is disclosed having a flexible top conductive layer, a flexible bottom heat sink layer and a flexible dielectric middle layer. The combination has a longitudinal axis and a plurality of defined positions spaced along the longitudinal axis. The defined positions can be used for aligning a circuit and/or for the placement of LED lights. The flexible layered structure can be easily bent to form a LED substrate for shining light in more than one direction while efficiently removing heat arising from the LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Kurt Douglas Roberts
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Patent number: 8628644Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for separating close-boiling and azeotropic components of mixtures, wherein said mixtures contain at least one hydrofluorocarbon compound, using at least one ionic liquid.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: E I du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventors: Mark B. Shiflett, Akimichi Yokozeki
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Publication number: 20130248848Abstract: There is provided a process for forming a contained second layer over a first layer, including the steps: forming the first layer having a first surface energy; treating the first layer with a priming material to form a priming layer; exposing the priming layer patternwise with radiation resulting in exposed areas and unexposed areas; developing the priming layer to effectively remove the priming layer from the unexposed areas resulting in a first layer having a pattern of priming layer, wherein the pattern of priming layer has a second surface energy that is higher than the first surface energy; and forming the second layer by liquid depositions on the pattern of priming layer on the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: E.I. Du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventors: Nora Sabina Radu, Adam Fennimore
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Publication number: 20130061919Abstract: A method of manufacturing an n-type electrode comprising the steps of: preparing an N-type base semiconductor substrate, comprising an n-base layer, a p-type emitter on the n-base layer, a first passivation layer on the p-type emitter, and a second passivation layer on the n-base layer; applying a conductive paste onto the second passivation layer on the n-base layer, wherein the conductive paste comprises, (i) 100 parts by weight of a conductive powder, (ii) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of an aluminum powder with particle diameter of 2 to 12 ?m, (iii) 3.5 to 25 parts by weight of a glass frit, and (iv) an organic medium; and firing the conductive paste at temperature of 910° C. or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: E I DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: ALAN FREDERICK CARROLL, Norihiko Takeda
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Publication number: 20120273390Abstract: The present invention provides a process for hydroprocessing hydrocarbons in liquid full reactors with one or more independent liquid recycle streams. The process operates as a liquid-full process, wherein all of the hydrogen dissolves in the liquid phase and one or more of the recycle streams may actually be zero. Hydrocarbons can be converted in the process to provide liquid products such as clean fuels with multiple desired properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2011Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: E. I. DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: HASAN DINDI, Luis Eduardo Murillo
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Publication number: 20120234384Abstract: A conductive metal via paste comprising particulate conductive metal, a reactant that reacts at temperatures of 600° C. to 900° C. with at least one of the group consisting of Si, SiO2 and SiNx to form an insulating glass, and an organic vehicle is particularly useful in providing the metallization of the holes in the silicon wafers of MWT solar cells. The result is a metallic electrically conductive via between the collector lines on the front side and the emitter electrode on the back-side of the solar cell. The paste can also be used to form the collector lines on the front-side of the solar cell and the emitter electrode on the back-side of the solar cell. Also disclosed are metal-wrap-through silicon solar cells comprising the fired conductive metal paste.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: E.I. DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: ALAN FREDERICK CARROLL, YUELI WANG
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Publication number: 20120105558Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aqueous ink jet ink comprising an ink vehicle and an aqueous dispersion, wherein the aqueous dispersion comprises a solid particle and a polymeric dispersant that has been crosslinked, wherein the polymeric dispersant is a block copolymer comprising an A block and a B block, wherein the A block is a segment having a block size of about 5 to about 18 units, and comprises at least 50% by weight of a monomer, having the following structure: CH2?CRC(O)O(CHR1CH2O)nR2; wherein R and R1 are H, or methyl; R2 is alkyl of 1-4 carbon atoms or phenyl; and n is about 1 about 20; and the B block is a segment comprising an ionic monomer and at least one hydrophobic monomer; and wherein the dispersant comprises a crosslinkable moiety; wherein the crosslinkable moiety is crosslinked with a crosslinking agent selected from the group consisting of epoxide, carbodiimide, oxazoline, isocyanate, and silane; and wherein the aqueous dispersion has a pH of at least about 8.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: May 3, 2012Applicant: E. I. Du Pont Nemours and CompanyInventors: Xiaoqing Li, C. Chad Roberts, Patrick F. McIntyre
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Publication number: 20120004194Abstract: Novel aldehyde-functionalized polysaccharide compositions are described that are more stable in aqueous solution than oxidized polysaccharides or other types of polysaccharides containing pendant aldehyde groups. The aldehyde-functionalized polysaccharides may be reacted with various amine-containing polymers to form hydrogel tissue adhesives and sealants that may be useful for medical applications such as wound closure, supplementing or replacing sutures or staples in internal surgical procedures such as intestinal anastomosis and vascular anastomosis, tissue repair, preventing leakage of fluids such as blood, bile, gastrointestinal fluid and cerebrospinal fluid, ophthalmic procedures, drug delivery, and preventing post-surgical adhesions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: E. I. DU PONT NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Helen S.M. Lu, Steven W. Shuey