Patents Assigned to Merck Patent GmbH
  • REACTIVE MESOGENS
    Publication number: 20220234988
    Abstract: Reactive mesogens (RMs), mixtures and formulations comprising RMs, polymers obtained from such RMs and RM mixtures, and the use of the RMs, RM mixtures and polymers in optical or electrooptical components or devices, like optical films for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jack Bradford, Kevin Adlem, Naomi Weare, Vicki Poole, Iain Gardiner
  • AROMATIC COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20220238816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compounds of formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—B1—ZL-A2-(Z3-A3)s-G ??(I) in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings given in claim 1, to the use thereof for the formation of molecular layers, in particular self assembled monolayers, to a process for the fabrication of a switching element for memristive devices comprising said molecular layers and to a memristic device comprising said switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM
  • LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE MEDIUM AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20220228065
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula YX in which the parameters have the meanings given in the text, to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the use of the compounds of formula YX for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Atsutaka MANABE, Constanze BROCKE, Brigitte SCHULER
  • Metal complexes
    Patent number: 11393988
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Nils Koenen
  • Organic electroluminescent device
    Patent number: 11393987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a hole-injection layer comprising a metal complex as a main component and a method for producing the organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Ilona Stengel, Frank Voges, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Henning Seim
  • Positive type photosensitive siloxane composition and cured film formed by using the same
    Patent number: 11392032
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a positive type photosensitive composition capable of forming a cured film having high transparency [Means] The present invention provides a positive type photosensitive siloxane composition comprising: a polysiloxane, a diazonaphthoquinone derivative, an additive having a quaternary ammonium structure and the capability of interacting with the polysiloxane, and a solvent. The polysiloxane and the additive interact with each other before exposure, but they lose the interaction after exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Naofumi Yoshida, Megumi Takahashi, Katsuto Taniguchi
  • Gap filling composition and pattern forming method using composition containing polymer
    Patent number: 11392035
    Abstract: [Subject] There is provided a gap filling composition which can reduce pattern collapse and a pattern forming method using the composition. [Solution means] There is provided a gap filling composition including a polymer having a certain structure and an organic solvent. There is provided a pattern forming method using a certain polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Xiaowei Wang, Tatsuro Nagahara
  • EFFECT PIGMENTS
    Publication number: 20220220315
    Abstract: Temperature-stable effect pigments based on multicoated flake-form substrates, and the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, plastics and in particular in glazes, enamels, ceramic or glass-like materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas Hamm, Carsten Griessmann, Nicole Nelischer, Marita Jekel
  • METHOD FOR PREPARING A LIQUID CRYSTAL-BASED SWITCHING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20220220383
    Abstract: A method for preparing a switching element which is operable in and electrically switchable between an optically clear state and a scattering state, wherein one or more polymerisable mesogenic compounds provided in a layer containing a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more mesogenic compounds, one or more chiral compounds and the one or more polymerisable mesogenic compounds are subjected to polymerisation in the presence of a direct current (DC) electric field in the layer. Also, a switching element obtained or respectively obtainable by carrying out the method and to the use of the switching element in a window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roel van Raak, Paul Verbunt
  • Hydrophobic pinning mat for directed self-assembly of diblock copolymer novel compositions and processes for self-assembly of block copolymers
    Patent number: 11384193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel styrenic polymer comprised of the repeat units of structures (I), (II), and (III), wherein R1, R2 and R3 are individually selected from H or a C-1 to C-4 linear alkyl, R5, R7 and R6 are individually selected from a C-1 to C-8 linear alkyl, a C-3 to C-8 linear alkyl and a C-3 to C-8 cyclic alkyl and to the novel composition comprised of this polymer and a spin on organic solvent. In another aspect of this invention it pertains to the use of this composition to create a grafted on a substrate, and a further aspect, this grafted film may be used in a directed self-assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Edward W. Ng
  • Spirobifluorene compounds for organic electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 11387414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to spirobifluorene compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Elvira Montenegro, Amir Hossain Parham, Philipp Stoessel, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Frank Voges, Arne Buesing
  • Enviromentally stable, thick film, chemically amplified resist
    Patent number: 11385543
    Abstract: Environmentally stable, chemically amplified (CA) positive resist compositions are described. These resist compositions are based on a blend of at least two types of polymer platforms. The first platform is a low activation energy, acetal blocked polyhydroxystyrene (PHS) based resin; the second platform is an acrylate based resin containing a high activation energy acid labile group [such as tertiary-butyl acrylate(t-BA)]. The resist composition also contains a photo-acid generator (PAG), a base quencher, a surfactant dissolved in a suitable solvent. Also described, is the use of these resist composition in a method for forming a photoresist relief image on a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Medhat A. Toukhy, Weihong Liu, PingHung Lu
  • Liquid-crystalline media
    Patent number: 11377596
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media which can be used, in particular, for electro-optical displays having active-matrix addressing based on the ECB effect and for IPS (in-plane switching) displays or FFS (fringe field switching) displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Marcus Reuter, Rocco Fortte, Detlef Pauluth, Matthias Bremer, Helmut Haensel, Harald Hirschmann
  • Method for determining ammonium
    Patent number: 11378566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining ammonium or ammonia in aqueous samples in accordance with the known Berthelot method, wherein the risk of incorrectly low results is greatly reduced by additionally measuring the extinction in the absorption range of the nitroprusside used as a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Ralf Olt
  • Crystalline sodium salt of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid
    Patent number: 11377448
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a crystalline sodium salt of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid wherein the molar ratio of 5-methyl-(6S)-tetrahydrofolic acid to sodium is from 1:1.51 to 1:2.5 and/or hydrates and/or solvates thereof, as well as, a process of obtaining the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Rudolf Moser, Viola Groehn, Fritz Blatter, Martin Szelagiewicz, Ruth Boehni Stamm, Markus Ruettimann
  • COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20220204797
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a (meth)acrylate monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Tadashi KISHIMOTO, Yuki HIRAYAMA, Tomohisa GOTO, Teruaki SUZUKI
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220202566
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a system for two-photon or multi-photon irradiating an artificial lens, preferably an intraocular lens preferably arranged within an eye of a patient and a method for locally adjusting a polarizability and/or a refractive index of an artificial lens preferably an intraocular lens preferably arranged within an eye of a patient. The method relates in particular to fabrication of optical profiles by adjusting polarizability through two- or multi-photon processes in a non-destructive manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin SCHRAUB, Lars DOBELMANN-MARA, Simon HELMSTETTER, David MOORE, Stefan RIEDMUELLER, Harald GUENTHER
  • CELL CULTURE MEDIA COMPRISING KETO ACIDS
    Publication number: 20220204918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cell culture media comprising alpha keto acids. The poor solubility of some amino acids like isoleucine, leucine and valine can be overcome by substituting them with the respective alpha keto acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Aline ZIMMER, Ronja SEIBEL, Corinna SCHMIDT, Gregor Franz Werner WILLE, Markus Klaus Robert FISCHER
  • DIAMONDOID COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20220209150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to diamondoid compounds of formula I D1-ZD-(A1-Z1)r-B1-(Z2-A2)s-Sp-G ??(I) in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings given in claim 1, to the use thereof for the formation of molecular layers, in particular self assembled monolayers (SAM), to a process for the fabrication of a switching element for memristive devices comprising said molecular layers and to a memristic device comprising said switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peer KIRSCH, Sebastian RESCH, Henning SEIM
  • Materials for organic electroluminescent devices
    Patent number: 11370965
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cyclic diazaboroles, in particular for use as triplet matrix materials in organic electroluminescent 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 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Amir Parham, Jonas Kroeber, Jens Engelhart, Anja Jatsch, Christian Eickhoff, Christian Ehrenreich