Patents Assigned to Merck Patent GmbH
  • Organic dielectric layer and organic electronic device
    Patent number: 10879474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic dielectric layers comprising a polycycloolefinic polymer with a pendent chromophoric group having an absorption maximum in the wavelength range from 230 to 290 nm, and to organic electronic devices comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: PROMERUS, LLC, MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Irina Afonina, Tomas Backlund, Larry F Rhodes, Hugh A Burgoon
  • Composition for forming coating film and method for forming coating film using same
    Patent number: 10875969
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a composition for forming a coating layer having excellent gas barrier performance and a method of forming the coating layer. [Means for Solution] A composition for forming a coating film comprising a specific silicon compound which reacts with a polysilazane by exposure, a polysilazane and an organic solvent, and a method for forming a coating layer comprising coating the composition on a substrate and exposing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Shunji Kawato, Yuki Ozaki, Noboru Satake, Masakazu Kobayashi, Hironori Endo
  • Cyclic amine surface modifier and organic electronic devices comprising such cyclic amine surface modifier
    Patent number: 10879477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyclic amine surface modifier. In addition the present invention also relates to organic electronic devices comprising such cyclic amine surface modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: MERCK PATENT GMBH, INNOVATIONLAB GMBH, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BRAUNSCHWEIG, MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Malte Jesper, Manuel Hamburger, Janusz Schinke, Milan Alt, Klaus Muellen
  • AN ETHYNYL DERIVED COMPOSITE, A COMPOSITION COMPRISING THEREOF, A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A COATING BY IT, AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DEVICE COMPRISING THE COATING
    Publication number: 20200401046
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] An object is to provide a compound with good heat resistance. And another object is to provide a coating made exhibits less film shrinkage, good gap filling property and good planarization. [Solution] The present invention provides an ethynyl derived composite and a composition comprising thereof. And the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a coating by it, and a method for manufacturing a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Shigemasa NAKASUGI, Yusuke HAMA, Hiroshi YANAGITA, Takashi SEKITO, Yuriko MATSUURA
  • PD-L1 antagonist combination treatments
    Patent number: 10869924
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes combination therapies comprising an antagonist of Programmed Death Ligand 1 receptor (PD-L1) and another therapeutic agent, and the use of the combination therapies for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignees: MERCK PATENT GMBH, PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Glen Ian Andrews, Shihao Chen, Alessandra Di Pietro, David Fontana, Zelanna Goldberg, Chia-Yang Lin, Hua Long, Marcella Martignoni, Dimitry Serge Antoine Nuyten, Aron David Thall, Adrian Woolfson
  • Membrane support and membrane filtration device
    Patent number: 10870087
    Abstract: A membrane support, usable for example in a membrane filtration device, comprises a support surface provided on an upstream side of the membrane support and adapted to support a flat filtration membrane thereon, and a drainage structure arranged below the support surface to collect a fluid that has passed the filtration membrane supported on the support surface and guide the fluid away to a downstream side, wherein the support surface has a plurality of recesses distributed over the support surface and formed to absorb expansions of the filtration membrane. The membrane support avoids fold formation of a membrane due to membrane expansion after hydration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Stephane Olivier, Didier Metz
  • Dithioalkylpyrrolopyrroles and the use thereof as dyes
    Patent number: 10868257
    Abstract: Novel dithiopyrrolopyrrole derivatives having dichroic properties which have very high photostability in solution in a liquid-crystalline host are proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer Kirsch, Susann Beck, Michael Junge, Ursula Patwal, Mila Fischer
  • LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE MEDIUM AND LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200385636
    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: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Atsutaka MANABE, Constanze BROCKE, Brigitte SCHULER
  • Organic electroluminescent device, thin luminous film, display apparatus, and lighting apparatus
    Patent number: 10862048
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device contains an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer containing at least one luminous layer. The organic layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. At least one luminous layer contains a ?-conjugated compound exhibiting no overlap between the electron density distributions of the HOMO and the LUMO in the molecule, such that electron transition between the HOMO and the LUMO occurs by a through-space interaction in the molecule. The ?-conjugated compound has a ?-conjugated aromatic ring at a moiety on which at least one of the HOMO and the LUMO is localized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Tomohiro Oshiyama, Hiroshi Kita, Taketo Namikawa, Michihiro Okuyama, Tatsuya Hattori, Yasuo Miyata
  • Compositions comprising at least one polymer and at least one salt, and electroluminescent devices containing said compositions
    Patent number: 10862038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer containing repeat triarylamine units and comprising at least one salt, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, called OLEDs (OLED=organic light-emitting diodes). The present invention also further relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Fabrice Eckes, Katja Stegmaier, Holger Heil, Henning Seim
  • Composition for forming fine pattern and method for forming fine pattern using the same
    Patent number: 10859916
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a composition for forming a fine pattern having a good pattern shape even after being applied to a thick-film resist, a high size reduction rate and less defects, as well as a method for forming a fine pattern using the same. [Means for Solution] A composition comprising vinyl resin, an amine compound having a specific cage-type three-dimensional structure and a solvent, and a method for forming a fine pattern using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Tomohide Katayama, Takayuki Sao
  • Optical functional film and method for producing the same
    Patent number: 10859733
    Abstract: An optical functional film containing a siliceous material, wherein a refractive index nA of one surface A of said optical functional film to light is larger than a refractive index nb of the other side surface B to light, and the refractive index to light gradually decreases from said surface A to said surface B and wherein when a refractive index of a medium X coming into contact with said surface A is nx and a refractive index of a medium Y coming into contact with said surface B is ny, the relation ny<nb<na<nx is satisfied and wherein the film is manufactured by the steps of a first layer forming step and a second layer forming step; and a heating step of heating to cure said first layer and said second layer, wherein the contacting parts of said first layer and said second layer are compatibilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Toshiakai Nonaka, Naofumi Yoshida, Yuji Tashiro
  • Liquid-crystalline medium, compounds, and high-frequency components
    Patent number: 10858587
    Abstract: Liquid-crystalline media containing one or more compounds of formulae I-1, I-2 and/or I-3 and one or more compounds of formulae II and/or III and components containing these media for high-frequency technology, in particular phase shifters and microwave array antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Wittek, Dagmar Klass
  • Optical fingerprint authentication device
    Patent number: 10853465
    Abstract: An optical fingerprint authentication device includes at least a light source and an image sensor and detects diffused light. The light source is an organic electroluminescence panel. The organic electroluminescence panel comprises a light emitting portion region and a light-transmitting non-light emitting portion, the light emitting portion region being shaped by an organic electroluminescence element. A fingerprint information reader having the image sensor arranged at a position adjacent to the non-light emitting portion is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Omata, Tsukasa Yagi, Natsuki Yamamoto, Hirofumi Ohtani
  • Cladribine regimen for treating progressive forms of multiple sclerosis
    Patent number: 10849919
    Abstract: Specific oral dosings, specific oral dosage forms, and/or specific oral dose regimens including Cladribine can be effective for the treatment of progressive forms of Multiple Sclerosis, especially Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and/or Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Methods of treatment can be based on specific oral dosings, specific oral dosage forms, and/or specific oral dose regimens including Cladribine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Fernando Dangond, Matthias Dotzauer
  • Liquid crystal medium
    Patent number: 10851301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) medium comprising a terphenyl compound and at least two polymerizable compounds, to a process for its preparation, to its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in an LC display of the polymer sustained alignment (PSA) type, and to an LC display, especially a PSA display, comprising it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Hyun-Jin Yoon, Ji-Won Jeong, Eun-Kyu Lee, Min-Ok Jin, Yong-Kuk Yun
  • EFFECT PIGMENTS
    Publication number: 20200369891
    Abstract: The invention relates to glaze- and enamel-stable effect pigments having a top layer comprising at least one tin/antimony mixed oxide, which have improved stability, in particular at temperatures above 1000° C., in glazes, enamels, ceramic or glass-like materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Lukas HAMM, Carsten HANDROSCH, Nicole NELISCHER, Nicole HAFERKORN
  • Stable lyophilisates comprising 5,10-methylene-(6R)-tetrahydrofolic acid
    Publication number: 20200368236
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to stable lyophilisates comprising 5,10-methylene-(6R)-tetrahydrofolic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a dicarboxylic acid, or a salt thereof, as well as, a processes of obtaining the same, and the use of such products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf MOSER, Viola GROEHN, Thomas AMMANN
  • MATERIALS FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICES
    Publication number: 20200369678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rouven Linge, Sebastian Meyer, Aaron Lackner, Holger Heil, Nils Koenen
  • Compositions for electronic devices
    Patent number: 10847727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and formulations for electronic devices comprising mixtures of organic functional materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Anna Hayer, Florian Maier-Flaig, Tobias Grossmann, Dominik Joosten, Holger Heil, Thomas Eberle, Rémi Manouk Anémian