Patents Assigned to FMC Corporation
  • Publication number: 20090209424
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel suspension concentrate compositions comprising finely milled crystalline sulfentrazone suspended in an aqueous glyphosate salt phase containing a surfactant component that chemically and physically stabilizes the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Frank J. Dominiani, JR., Timothy Martin, Janie L. Zitomer
  • Patent number: 7576224
    Abstract: Insecticidal (dihalopropenyl) phenylalkyl substituted dihydrobenzofuran and dihydrobenzopyran derivatives of Formula I are disclosed. These compounds provide unexpected insecticidal activity across a spectrum of insect pests combined with desirable physical properties including improved photostability. wherein x and y are integers independently selected from 0 or 1; and B is a bridging group *—(CR16R17)q—(CR18R19)r—(CR20R21)s-Lt-(CR22R23)u—(CR24R25)v—(CR26R27)w—, where the asterisk denotes attachment at A; and q, r, s, u, v and w are integers independently selected from 0, 1 and 2; and t is an integer selected from 0 and 1. A, D, E, G, M, R through R11, and R16 through R27, inclusively, are fully described herein. In addition, compositions comprising an insecticidally effective amount of at least one compound of formula I and methods of controlling insects by applying said compositions to a locus where insects are present or are expected to be present are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: George Theodoridis, Edward J. Barron, Dominic P. Suarez, Y. Larry Zhang, Ping Ding, David M. Roush, Stephen F. Donovan, Frank J. Zawacki, Walter H. Yeager, John W. Lyga, Daniel H. Cohen
  • Patent number: 7576254
    Abstract: Organic compounds are removed from contaminated soil, ground water and the like by treatment with a combination of a water soluble peroxygen compound, such as sodium persulfate, and a pH modifier capable of maintaining a pH greater than about 10, such as a metal hydroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Philip A. Block, Richard A. Brown, David S. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20090194735
    Abstract: A method for the rapid dilution of an aqueous peracid solution, particularly, peracetic acid, in which a concentrated peracid solution is diluted with an aqueous diluent to produce a more dilute peracid solution in which the solution components are already at equilibrium immediately after dilution. The peracid in a preferred embodiment of this method is peracetic acid, for which the aqueous diluent is acetic acid and water, or hydrogen peroxide and water, or acetic acid, hydrogen peroxide and water, whose relative amounts are selected to produce a diluted aqueous peracid acid solution whose peracetic acid, hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid components are in equilibrium immediately after dilution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Emmanuel A. Dada, Donald S. Lapham, III, Joseph C. Richards
  • Patent number: 7550171
    Abstract: Our invention is concerned with a process and equipment and the resulting product. The process and equipment produce simulated cylindrical olive products with a central core. An aqueous alginate or low-methoxy pectate sol containing dispersed olive flesh is co-extruded through a nozzle with a stream of an aqueous solution containing dissolved calcium ions flowing through an inner core of the nozzle at not more than +/?30° to the horizontal into a bath of an aqueous solution containing dissolved calcium ions. The sol of alginate or low-methoxy pectate gels by diffusion of the calcium ions from the co-extruded stream containing dissolved calcium ions and from the aqueous solution containing dissolved calcium ions in the bath. A cylindrical tube of gelled alginate or low-methoxy pectate containing pulped olive is formed with a hollow core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Reid Kelly, Bryan Edwin Barwick, Vijay Arjun Sawant
  • Patent number: 7550168
    Abstract: The invention provides fruit-like products based on alginate or low-methoxy pectate gel which are spherical with two dimples spaced at opposite extremes of the sphere. These are prepared by extruding a sol through a cylindrical nozzle and at the same time extruding a gelling agent through a tube centrally located in the nozzle and co-terminous with it. The extrudate is cut off at the end of the nozzle below the surface of a bath of the gelling agent. The extrudate is allowed to gel by diffusion of calcium ions. The gelling agent is an aqueous solution containing calcium ions. The sol, which is an aqueous alginate or low-methoxy pectate sol, preferably contains dispersed fruit puree. Preferably the solution in the bath has a lower density than the density of the sol. In a preferred form of the invention equipment is used comprising a nozzle, a centrally spaced tube, a gelling bath and a perforated support surface in the bath for the gelling product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Reid Kelly, Bryan Edwin Barwick, Vijay Arjun Sawant
  • Publication number: 20090156401
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for post-emergence selective weed control in turf sites by applying an herbicidal composition comprising sulfentrazone and quinclorac to a locus where weeds are present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: James Walter, Frank Robert Walls, JR.
  • Patent number: 7547430
    Abstract: Hydrogen peroxide is prepared by an auto-oxidation method via hydrogenation in a microreactor. A working solution containing a reactive carrier compound is hydrogenated with hydrogen in a microreactor and is subsequently auto-oxidized to produce hydrogen peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Dalbir S. Sethi, Emmanuel A. Dada, Kevin Hammack, Xinliang Zhou
  • Patent number: 7544380
    Abstract: The invention relates to process and apparatus for creating shaped objects from incipiently gelling alginate or low-methoxy pectate sol in which the incipiently gelling sol is guided into cavities of a movable belt. V-shaped wiper blades can be used as guides. The sol is preferably fed onto the belt at a rate not greater than the volumetric feed rate of the cavities. The process and apparatus can be used to prepare such products as imitation fruit e.g. by incorporating pureed fruit in the incipiently gelling sol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Reid Kelly, Bryan Edwin Barwick, Vijay Arjun Sawant
  • Publication number: 20090130287
    Abstract: Ultra-fine microcrystalline cellulose compositions are disclosed which comprise co-attrited microcrystalline cellulose and a hydrocolloid. The compositions have a mean particle size of less than 10 microns. The compositions are prepared by subjecting a high solids mixture of microcrystalline cellulose and a hydrocolloid to high shear forces in the presence of an anti slip agent preferably an aqueous solution of an inorganic salt. The compositions are especially useful in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic and industrial applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Domingo C. Tuason, Jose Amundarain, Gregory R. Krawczyk, Edward Selinger, William R. Blakemore, James J. Modliszewski, Joseph Lee, Frank Messick
  • Publication number: 20090131518
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel insecticidal and/or miticidal compositions comprising bifenthrin and a cyano-pyrethroid. The compositions exhibit an unexpected increase in insecticidal activity as compared to the insecticidal activity of the individual components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Herrick, Mark Walmsley, Charles A. Staetz, Nancy Hilton, Hui S. Yang, D.Craig Heim, Hylsa Garcia
  • Publication number: 20090124500
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an insecticidal composition comprising i) a pyrethroid selected from the group consisting of bifenthrin, cypermethrin, zeta cypermethrin, lambdacyhalothrin, betacyhalothrin, alphacypermethrin, tralomethrin, deltamethrin, cyfluthrin, beta-cyfluthrin, esfenvalerate, fluvalinate, etofenprox, permethrin, metofluthrin, resmethrin, bioresmethrin, allethrin, bioallethrin, s-bioallethrin and tetramethrin and ii) a granular fertilizer, and a method for controlling rice water weevil comprising applying an effective amount of the composition to a locus where rice water weevil control is needed or expected to be needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Braun, Jr., Henry R. Mitchell, Robert M. Herrick, D. Craig Heim, Henry Stefanski
  • Publication number: 20090111873
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an insecticidal composition comprising zeta-cypermethrin: a) prepared by an epimerization process, and b) containing a residual amount of an epimerization catalyst, and glycerine, wherein the zeta-cypermethrin is present in an insecticidally effective amount and to methods of using the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Hylsa Garcia, Hui S. Yang
  • Patent number: 7524141
    Abstract: Contaminants, such as volatile organic compounds, are removed from an environmental medium, such as contaminated soil, rock, groundwater, waste water and the like, by treatment with a combination of a persulfate, such as a sodium persulfate, and hydrogen peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Dalbir S. Sethi, Frank C. Sessa, Lawrence J. Kinsman, Philip A. Block
  • Publication number: 20090062122
    Abstract: Protoporphyrinogen oxidase enzyme-inhibiting compounds are useful in compositions and methods for regulating growth of cotton plants. Of particular interest is the use of carfentrazone ethyl and certain metabolites thereof for regulating growth of cotton plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Tom I. Crumby, Joseph P. Reed, Henry R. Mitchell, Stewart Throop, John S. Wilson, John C. Braun, JR.
  • Publication number: 20090043123
    Abstract: A process for the rapid production and stabilization of dilute aqueous peracetic acid in which acetic anhydride and hydrogen peroxide are reacted in an aqueous medium with a stoichiometric excess of hydrogen peroxide and the aqueous medium containing the peracetic acid reaction product is adjusted, as necessary, to a pH of less than about 8 to provide a stabilized dilute peracetic acid solution. The dilute peracetic acid may be produced on site or in situ for treatment of an aqueous medium requiring disinfecting, biocidal, antimicrobial or bleaching treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Copenhafer, Charles J. Nicholson, III, Henry A. Pfeffer
  • Publication number: 20090010983
    Abstract: The invention relates to composites comprising a polysaccharide gelled within pores of a foam and an polysaccharide coating, methods of preparation, and uses thereof, for example, in biomedical applications such as cell culture media and implants, controlled release delivery systems, food applications, industrial applications, and personal care applications such as cosmetic and oral hygiene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Jan Egil Melvik, Therese Andersen
  • Patent number: 7473372
    Abstract: An improved method for treating organic compounds present in soil, groundwater and other environments is disclosed. The method involves the use of a peroxygen compound and a chelated transition metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Philip A. Block, Dalbir S. Sethi, Richard A. Brown, David S. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20080312081
    Abstract: Protoporphyrinogen oxidase enzyme-inhibiting herbicides are useful in a method for controlling unwanted ground shoots of vines and other trunk vegetation. Of particular interest is the use of carfentrazone ethyl and certain metabolites thereof for control of unwanted ground shoots of vines and other trunk vegetation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jean LeBlanc, Michel Sarazin
  • Publication number: 20080306046
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a compound usable for treatment of diseases associated with fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), especially for treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain. [Means for Solution] We have found that a novel pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate derivative and its pharmaceutically acceptable salt has a potent FAAH-inhibitory activity. Further, the pyridyl non-aromatic nitrogen-containing heterocyclic-1-carboxylate derivative of the present invention has an excellent effect for increasing an effective bladder capacity, an excellent effect for relieving urinary frequency and an excellent anti-allodynia effect, and is therefore usable for treatment of urinary frequency and urinary incontinence, overactive bladder and/or pain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishii, Takashi Sugane, Jun Maeda, Fumie Narazaki, Akio Kakefuda, Kentaro Sato, Tatsuhisa Takahashi, Takatoshi Kanayama, Chikashi Saitoh, Jotaro Suzuki, Chisato Kanai