Patents Assigned to E
  • Production of very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in oil seed plants
    Patent number: 8084074
    Abstract: Oilseed plants which have been transformed to produce at least 8.0% arachidonic acid (ARA) as well as uses of oils and seeds obtained from such transformed plants in a variety of food and feed applications are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Anthony J. Kinney, Edgar Benjamin Cahoon, Howard Glenn Damude, William D. Hitz, Zhan-Bin Liu, Charles W. Kolar, Jr.
  • Fungicidal amides
    Patent number: 8084468
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, A, G, W1, Q, X, Z, and n are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling plant disease caused by a fungal pathogen comprising applying an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Robert James Pasteris, George Philip Lahm
  • Method of identifying maize plants having increased oil content using quantitative trait locus 6 (QTL6)
    Patent number: 8084208
    Abstract: Compositions related to the quantitative trait locus 6 (QTL6) in maize and methods for their use are provided. The compositions are novel molecular marker loci that are genetically linked with QTL6 and which are associated with increased oil content and/or increased oleic acid content and/or an increased oleic acid/linoleic acid ratio of a plant or plant part thereof. These novel markers are characterized by the presence of at least one polymorphism relative to the corresponding marker locus from the QTL6 region of non-high-oil, non-high-oleic acid maize plants. In some embodiments, the novel marker loci comprise coding sequence for a maize DGAT1-2 polypeptide or biologically active variant thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignees: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: William B. Allen, Bo Shen, Mitchell C. Tarczynski, Mark E. Williams, Peizhong Zheng, Gan-Yuan Zhong
  • Materials leading to improved dental composites and dental composites made therefrom
    Patent number: 8084514
    Abstract: This invention relates to composite materials for restorative dentistry. More particularly, it relates to new components for dental composites, which impart an attractive combination of good mechanical properties and low shrinkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Douglas Robert Anton, Gary Delmar Jaycox
  • Digital line scan camera
    Patent number: 8085299
    Abstract: Disclosed is a digital line scan camera, having at least at least one focal plane, on which at least one linear photosensitive sensor is arranged, an objective lens, and a location measurement system. The location measurement system is used to determine six external location parameters, where the location system measurement comprises a satellite-supported position determination device and an inertial navigation measurement unit. The line scan camera includes at least on two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, which is synchronously driven with the linear sensor. At least one displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is calculated from the data of the minimum of one two-dimensional photosensitive sensor, and where the displacement vector ({right arrow over (x)}) is used to correct the date of the inertial measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Anko Börner, Andreas Eckardt, Frank Lehmann
  • Catalytic process for converting renewable resources into paraffins for use as diesel blending stocks
    Patent number: 8084655
    Abstract: A process for converting renewable resources such as vegetable oil and animal fat into paraffins in a single step which comprises contacting a feed which is a renewable resources with hydrogen and a catalyst which comprises a non-precious metal a first oxide and optionally a second oxide wherein at least one of the first oxide or second oxide comprises a zeolite, through hydrodeoxygenation and one or both of hydroisomerization and hydrocracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Hasan Dindi, Sourav K. Sengupta, Andrew Francis Gonzon, David Richard Corbin
  • High spatial resolution imaging of a structure of interest in a specimen
    Patent number: 8084754
    Abstract: For imaging of a structure, the structure is marked with a substance which can be converted by a switching signal from a first into a second state, and which provides an optical measurement signal in one of its states, only. The switching signal is applied such that at least 10% of the molecules of the substance being in the measurement signal providing state are at a distance from their closest neighbors, which is greater than the spatial resolution limit of imaging the specimen onto a sensor array, which in turn is greater than an average distance between the molecules of the substance. From an intensity distribution of the measurement signal recorded with the sensor array, the position is only determined for those molecules of the substance which are at a distance from their closest neighboring molecules in the measurement signal providing state, which is greater than the spatial resolution limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V.
    Inventors: Stefan Hell, Christian Eggeling, Alexander Egner, Jonas Fölling, Andreas Schönle, Mariano Bossi
  • Vehicle toe set adjustment device and method
    Patent number: 8082822
    Abstract: A vehicle toe set adjustment device and method for adjusting a vehicle tie rod includes an adjustment head adapted to be received over a tie rod. The adjustment head includes a surface for engaging a tie rod fastener, a plurality of moveable collet keys mounted on the adjustment head, and a drive member engaging surface. An actuator on the adjustment head moves the collet keys to engage the tie rod after the tie rod is received in the adjustment head. A method is also provided for engaging moveable collet keys on an adjustment head to engage the tie rod for rotation of the tie rod to adjust the toe set of a vehicle wheel. The device and method are useful with a variety of tie rod assemblies on various vehicles having different sized tie rod assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Burke E. Porter Machinery Company
    Inventor: Mark S Hoenke
  • Turbocharger
    Patent number: 8083474
    Abstract: To provide a turbocharger whose lifetime is long, which is capable of inexpensively and precisely performing nozzle vane angle synchronous control by using inexpensive and highly wear resistant components in a link mechanism for driving a rotation mechanism of nozzle vanes of an adjustable nozzle mechanism. As pins fixedly arrayed in a ring plate rotatably supported on the turbocharger, that set an angle of the nozzle vanes for controlling an amount of exhaust gas for rotating a turbine rotor, each pin in which a hard coating with a thickness of approximately 2 ?m which is formed of Al, Cr, Si, and N by physical vapor deposition is formed onto an austenitic stainless steel as a base material, is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignees: Tofuji E.M.I.CO., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hashimoto, Noboru Hamaguchi, Yasuaki Jinnai
  • Image sensor, method for operating an image sensor, and computer program using a time-delayed integration
    Patent number: 8085327
    Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of image elements configured to provide associated image element signals which are dependent on light intensities incident on the image elements. The image sensor includes an accumulation circuit with a plurality of charge storage elements, wherein the accumulation circuit is configured to change charges on the charge storage elements during a phase in dependence on image element signals of respectively associated image elements. The accumulation circuit is further configured to change an association between charge storage elements and associated image elements in successive phases, so that in operation, a charge on one of the charge storage elements depends on image element signals of plural image elements in a plurality of phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Olaf Schrey, Bedrich Hosticka, Werner Brockherde
  • Golf balls containing ionomers and polyamines or tertiary polyamides
    Patent number: 8084541
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising an ionomer and a polyamine or a tertiary polyamide. The polyamine and the tertiary polyamide have a molecular weight of greater than 500 Da and do not contain an ester moiety or a primary amine moiety. The polyamine comprises at least three moieties that are tertiary amines or hindered secondary amines, and the polyamide comprises tertiary amide moieties and no secondary or primary amide moieties. The compositions may optionally include a filler. Further provided are articles such as golf balls and films containing these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Peter A. Morken, Charles John Talkowski
  • Process for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide
    Patent number: 8084238
    Abstract: A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from Acidovorax facilis 72W (ATCC 57746). Glycolic acid is recovered in the form of the acid or salt from the aqueous ammonium glycolate solution using a variety of methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Robert DiCosimo, Anna Panova, Jeffery Scott Thompson, Robert D. Fallon, F. Glenn Gallagher, Thomas Foo, Xu Li, George C. Fox, Joseph J. Zaher, Mark S. Payne, Daniel P. O'Keefe
  • Method and apparatus for periodically measuring the yield point of dispersions, and use thereof
    Patent number: 8082772
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for measuring the yield value of flowable material in a flow of flowable material comprise iteratively wetting a measuring body by the flowable material at a relatively constant temperature, subsequently permitting the flowable material to discharge for a discharge time so that the measuring body achieves approximately constant weight, using a functional unit in communication with the measuring body to determine a residual quantity of the flowable material which adheres to the measuring body after the discharge time, and determining the yield value of the flowable material based upon the quantity of the flowable material adhering on the measuring body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur forderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gottfried Ziegleder, Alexander Beaury
  • Carbon nanotube binding peptides
    Patent number: 8084574
    Abstract: Peptides have been generated that have binding affinity to carbon nanostructures and particularly carbon nanotubes. Peptides of or the invention are generally about twelve amino acids in length. Methods for generating carbon nanotube binding peptides are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Anand Jagota, Steven Raymond Lustig, Siqun Wang, Hong Wang
  • Grouping advertisement subavails
    Patent number: 8087045
    Abstract: Method and system for creating one or more advertising avail sections (subavails) and thereupon aggregating the subavails to form one or more groups of subavails. The advertisement opportunities (avails) may be divided into sections (subavails) with each section being directed at a particular target audience (group). The subavails are then aggregated into one or more groups of subavails so that the groups of subavails can be sold to the advertisers. The grouping of subavails is generally based on a correlation wherein the subavails are characterized based on one or more characteristics. The groups of subavails are formed based on one or more shared characteristics. The advertiser has an option to buy a group of subavails (rather than an avail in prior art), whereby the advertiser may reach a targeted group of an audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Prime Research Alliance E, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Eldering, Gregory C. Flickinger, John P. Blasko
  • Process for the synthesis of diaminopyridines from glutarimidines
    Patent number: 8084569
    Abstract: A liquid-phase process is provided for the synthesis from glutarimidines of diaminopyridines and related compounds, which are used industrially as compounds and as components in the synthesis of a variety of useful materials. The synthesis proceeds by means of a dehydrogenative aromatization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Aaron Minter, Berlin Stokes
  • Laminated articles comprising a sheet of a blend of ethylene copolymers
    Patent number: 8084129
    Abstract: Disclosed laminates particularly useful as safety glazings comprising a polymeric interlayer sheet, wherein the polymeric interlayer sheet comprises a blend composition of an ethylene copolymer A and an ethylene copolymer B, which has a melt flow rate of less than 100g/10 min, as determined in accordance with ASTM D1238 at 190° C. and 2.16 kg, and wherein the ethylene copolymer A comprises copolymerized units of ethylene and about 3 to about 20 wt % of an ester or anhydride of a C4-C8 unsaturated acid having two carboxylic acid groups and the ethylene copolymer B comprises copolymerized units of ethylene and about 6 to about 40 wt % of a polar monomer selected from the group consisting of vinyl acetate, alkyl(meth)acrylates, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Richard T. Chou
  • Top operating telescoping adjustable valve box and valve stem assembly
    Patent number: 8082945
    Abstract: A top operating telescoping adjustable valve box and valve stem assembly that incorporates a telescoping valve stem actuating system which, when coupled to a service valve, allows for the operation from ground level without the removal of a plug or lid. The system has a large range of vertical adjustability. The upper and lower sections of the assembly are in frictional connection with each other, which allows no transmittal of force to the lower section when any upward force to the upper section is applied, thus reducing damage to the buried valve and pipeline. The assembly provides a tracing block terminal, located on the top base, to allow for the connection of tracing wire from the valve top to the service pipe for service line location. The assembly also incorporates the placement of a tamper proof cap for the prevention of unauthorized operation of valve stem system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: E-Z Innovations, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dennis Wayne White, John Leonard Jacobs
  • THICK-FILM PASTES CONTAINING LEAD- AND TELLURIUM-OXIDES, AND THEIR USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110308595
    Abstract: The present invention provides a thick-film paste for printing the front-side of a solar cell device having one or more insulating layers. The thick-film paste comprises an electrically conductive metal, and a lead-tellurium-oxide dispersed in an organic medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Alan Frederick Carroll, Kenneth Warren Hang, Brian J. Laughlin, Kurt Richard Mikeska, Carmine Torardi, Paul Douglas Vernooy
  • ELECTRO-OPTIC DISPLAYS, AND PROCESSES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION
    Publication number: 20110310461
    Abstract: A color display has continuous areas of a single color covering a plurality of sub-pixel electrodes. Each sub-pixel of a given color has sub-pixels of the same given color disposed along at least two of its adjacent edges. Each area of a single color may cover a 2×2 array of sub-pixel electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: E INK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alain Bouchard, Thomas H. Whitesides, Michael D. Walls, Steven P. Dudek