Patents Assigned to FMC Corporation
  • Patent number: 10178865
    Abstract: In one aspect, this invention relates to pest repellent composition comprising a fatty acid and an anthranilate ester. In another aspect, this invention relates to a method of repelling pests employing such composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce C. Black, Linda Varanyak, Shreya Sheth, Jeffrey P. Blancuzzi, Nathan D. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 10167262
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, G and Q are as defined in the Summary of the Invention; P is P1 or P2; and P1 and P2 are as defined in the Summary of the Invention. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention. Also disclosed is a herbicidal mixture comprising (a) a compound of Formula 1, and (b) at least one additional active ingredient selected from (b1) through (b16); and salts of compounds of (b1) through (b16), wherein (b1) through (b16) are as defined in the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Paul Selby, Stephen Frederick McCann, Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Kenneth Andrew Hughes, David Andrew Travis
  • Patent number: 10155718
    Abstract: A method for preparing 3-methyl-2-nitrobenzoic acid is disclosed wherein 1,3-dimethyl-2-nitrobenzene is combined with an oxidation catalayst in the presence of an oxygen source and an initiator, provided that less than 99% of the 1,3-dimethyl-2-nitrobenzene is oxidized. A method for preparing compounds of Formula 7 and Formula 11 is also disclosed wherein the method is characterized by using 3-methyl-2-nitrobenzoic acid as prepared by the method disclosed above wherein R1 is C1-C7 alkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl or C4-C7 alkylcycloalkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Donald J. Dumas
  • Patent number: 10150782
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein Q is and A, R1, m, X1, X2, X3, X4, Y1, Y2 and Y3 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: David Alan Clark, Breena Gloriana Fraga, Wenming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10141568
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal powder protected by a wax. The resulting lithium metal powder has improved stability and improved storage life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Marina Yakovleva, Yuan Gao, Kenneth Brian Fitch, B. Troy Dover, Prakash Thyaga Palepu, Jian-xin Li, Brian Anthony Christopher Carlin, Yangxing Li
  • Patent number: 10112906
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein Q is and Z, R1, R2a, R2b, R2c, R2d, J1, J2 and M are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Khaled Ahmad, Thomas Francis Pahutski, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10081608
    Abstract: Disclosed are triazine derivative compounds exhibiting sufficient herbicidal activity at low application dosage when they are applied to soils and foliage, and an agrochemical composition using the same, in particular herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Shibayama, Ryu Kajiki, Masami Kobayashi, Takashi Mitsunari, Atsushi Nagamatsu
  • Patent number: 10080368
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for benefiting plant growth. In particular aspects, the compositions contain a biologically pure culture of Bacillus sp. D747 strain (deposited as FERM BP-8234) and an insecticide in a formulation suitable for dissolution in a liquid fertilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Timothy M. Martin
  • Publication number: 20180261829
    Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium metal powder protected by a substantially continuous layer of a polymer. Such a substantially continuous polymer layer provides improved protection such as compared to typical CO2-passivation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: FMC Corporation, Lithium Division
    Inventors: Marina Yakovleva, Yuan Gao, Kenneth Brian Fitch, Prakash Thyaga Palepu, Yangxing Li, Christopher Jay Woltermann
  • Patent number: 10003070
    Abstract: Composite compounds of tin and lithium, silicon and lithium, or tin, silicon, and lithium having tin and silicon nano-dispersed in a lithium-containing matrix may be used as electrode materials and particularly anode materials for use with rechargeable batteries. Methods of making the composite compounds include the oxidation of alloys, the reaction of stabilized lithium metal powder with tin and silicon oxides, and the reaction of inorganic salts of lithium with tin and silicon containing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan Gao, Daniel Diesburg, John Engel, Marina Yakovleva, Kenneth Brian Fitch
  • Patent number: 9986679
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of treating setts comprising (a) applying a coating of an alginate optionally containing one or more crop protection agents and/or one or more nutrients, and (b) crosslinking the alginate with a divalent metal ion. Also disclosed are compositions used in the disclosed methods of treating setts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Alessandro Leal Nogueira, Yemel Mayo Ortega, Ricardo Camara Werlang
  • Patent number: 9974308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid termiticide compositions comprising a pyrethroid and a neonicotinoid selected from the group consisting of imidacloprid, nithiazine, thiamethoxam, dinotefuran, nitenpyram, thiacloprid and clothianadin, these compositions result in an increase in termite mortality at low application rates and a continuous chemical barrier of a termiticide in soil surrounding and beneath a structure in a locus where termites are suspected or known to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: James B. Ballard, Cristi L. Palmer, Kim Watson
  • Patent number: 9949481
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an insecticidal water based suspension concentrate formulation comprising a water-soluble insecticide selected from the group consisting of N-cyanomethyl-4-(trifluoromethyl)nicotinamide and (EZ)-1-(6-chloro-3-pyridylmethyl)-N-nitroimidazolidin-2-ylidineamine and at least one water-soluble salt selected from the group consisting of magnesium sulfate (hydrated and anhydrous forms) and sodium sulfate, wherein the water-soluble insecticide is present in an insecticidally effective amount and methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Liu, Robin W. Dexter
  • Patent number: 9930886
    Abstract: In one aspect, this invention relates to a nematode repellent composition comprising an effective nematode repellent amount of a fatty acid and an anthranilate ester. In another aspect, this invention relates to a method of repelling nematodes employing such composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce C. Black, Linda Varanyak
  • Patent number: 9918468
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling volunteer crop weeds in a crop by applying to weeds a herbicidally effective amount of a synergistic herbicidal composition that includes bromoxynil and a protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) inhibitor are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitchell Long, James Betts, David Strilchuk
  • Patent number: 9896345
    Abstract: Electrode materials such as LixMnO2 where 0.2<x?2 compounds for use with rechargeable lithium ion batteries can be formed by mixing LiMn2O4 compounds or manganese dioxide compounds with lithium metal or stabilized and non-stabilized lithium metal powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan Gao, Marina Yakovleva, Kenneth Brian Fitch
  • Publication number: 20180007906
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel synergistic herbicidal suspoemulsion compositions of fomesafen and fluthiacet-methyl that have superior chemical and physical stability and increased herbicidal action when compared to tank mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy M Martin, Shiv D Sharma, Sandra L Shinn
  • Patent number: 9844220
    Abstract: Novel active compound combinations comprising a carboxamide of the general formula (I) (group 1) in which A, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the description, and the active compound groups (2) to (23) listed in the description have very good fungicidal properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann, Peter Dahmen, Ralf Dunkel, Hans-Ludwig Elbe, Anne Suty-Heinze, Heiko Rieck
  • Patent number: 9827170
    Abstract: Toothpaste compositions are disclosed. The toothpaste composition comprises a binder; a surface active agent; an abrasive; a humectant; and water; in which: (1) the abrasive is silica, the composition additionally comprises a silica thickener, and the composition comprises 1 to 7 wt % of the silica thickener, less than 15 wt % of the silica abrasive, 45 to 70 wt % water, 0.8 to 3.0 wt % of a surface active agent; 0.05 to 3.0 wt % the binder; or (2) the abrasive is silica, the composition additionally comprises a silica thickener, the composition comprises 2 to 22 wt % total silica, 0.8 to 3.0 wt % of a surface active agent; 0.05 to 3.0 wt % the binder, and the composition additionally comprises about 0.1 to 8.0 wt % of non-colloidal microcrystalline cellulose, colloidal microcrystalline cellulose, or a mixture thereof; or (3) the binder is a calcium based abrasive, the binder is a cellulose gum, and the composition comprises 25 to 55 wt % of the calcium based abrasive, 35 to 60 wt % water, 0.8 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Vijay Kamalakant Gadkari, Vinayak Bhalchandra Randive, Mahalingam Ramanan Venkat, Namita Ashok Betrabet, Sitaram Anant Kadam
  • Patent number: D825714
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: FMC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lamar Buckelew, David Wheeler, Neil Destefano, Timothy M. Martin, Adam Prestegord, Shawn Grant, Gary Grant