Patents Assigned to Merck KGaA
  • Patent number: 12178124
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds that can be used in an organic electronic device as an active compound, in particular for use in electronic devices. The invention further relates to a method for producing the compounds according to the invention, and to electronic devices comprising same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Merck KGAA
    Inventor: Philipp Stoessel
  • Patent number: 12108665
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds which are suitable for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, containing said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Amir Parham, Philipp Stoessel, Christian Ehrenreich
  • Patent number: 12069950
    Abstract: The present application concerns compounds for use in electronic devices, processes for preparing the compounds, and electronic devices comprising the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Elvira Montenegro, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Florian Maier-Flaig, Frank Voges
  • Patent number: 11603479
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation containing at least one organic functional material and at least three different organic solvents, selected from at least two different organic solvents A and at least one organic solvent B, wherein at least one organic solvent A has a boiling point in the range from 250 to 350° C. and a viscosity of ?15 mPas, the at least one organic solvent B has a boiling point in the range from 200 to 350° C. and a viscosity of ?10 mPas, and the solubility of the at least one organic functional material in the second organic solvent B is ?5 g/l; as well as to electroluminescent devices prepared by using these formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: MERCK KGAA
    Inventors: Gaëlle Béalle, Christoph Leonhard, Hsin-Rong Tseng, Manuel Hamburger, Margarita Wucherer-Plietker
  • Publication number: 20100181533
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel liquid-crystal compounds, processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, and to LC media and LC displays containing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: MERCK KGAA
    Inventors: Axel Jansen, Detlef Pauluth, Bernd Fiebranz, Bernhard Rieger
  • Publication number: 20080152835
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods for patterning surfaces using contact printing and pastes, pastes for use with the processes, and products formed therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicants: Nano Terra Inc., Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Brian T. Mayers, Jeffrey Carbeck, Wajeeh Saadi, George M. Whitesides, Ralf Kugler, Monika Kursawe, Johannes Canisius
  • Patent number: 7105586
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical retardation film comprising two layers of an anisotropic polymer adjacent to each other or adjacent to both sides of a substrate, characterized in that each layer exhibits a tilted structure with an optical symmetry axis having a tilt angle ? relative to the plane of the layer, to a means to produce substantially linear polarized light comprising such an optical retardation film and to a liquid crystal display comprising such an optical retardation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Verrall, Mark Goulding, Quentin Hodges, Ben Godden
  • Patent number: 7105209
    Abstract: The invention relates to an alignment layer comprising a polymerized liquid crystal material with homeotrophic orientation, to methods of its preparation, to polymerizable liquid crystal compositions and liquid crystal polymers used for the preparation of the alignment layer, to liquid crystal devices comprising the alignment layer, and to a method of controlling the electrooptical steepness of a liquid crystal display comprising at least one alignment layer by varying the surface anchoring energy of the alignment layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Michael Heckmeier, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Georg Lüssem, Kazuaki Tarumi, David Coates, Owain Llyr Parri, Mark Verrall, Mark John Goulding, Stephen Christopher Kitson
  • Publication number: 20040169159
    Abstract: Novel phenylcyclohexanes of the formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: MERCK KGAA
    Inventors: Andreas Wachtler, Reinhard Hittich, Eike Poetsch, Herbert Plach, David Coates, Bernhard Rieger, Joachim Krause
  • Patent number: 6708882
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of representing chemical structural formulae on a display device by means of a chemical symbol or graphic program for producing chemical structural formulae, and a system for representing chemical structural formulae having an apparatus for carrying out the method according to one of claims 1 to 3, comprising a computer and a symbol or graphic program installable thereon for representing chemical structural formulae and at least one memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventor: Klemens Bley
  • Patent number: D818526
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Richard Holt, Andrew Millington, Vinay Mistry, Stuart Dickinson
  • Patent number: D893998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D893999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D902710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D922197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D942268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D951352
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Sven Erfurth, Christian Kuechenthal, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D951768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D969605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Mark Hinkle, Jeffrey Whitford
  • Patent number: D980323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Merck KGaA
    Inventors: Sven Erfurth, Christian Kuechenthal, Jeffrey Whitford