Patents Assigned to Merck Patents GmbH
  • Publication number: 20160251492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pigments based on bismuth compounds and to the use thereof, preferably as laser-absorbing additive, and to a process for the preparation thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Helge Bettina KNIESS, Franciscus Gerardus Henricus VAN DUIJNHOVEN, Franciscus Wilhelmus Maria GELISSEN
  • Publication number: 20160254456
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds with benzindenofluorene base bodies and to the use thereof in electronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Heil, Lara-Isabel Rodriguez, Beate Burkhart, Amandine Darsy
  • Patent number: 9428694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) medium, to its use for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS (“polymer sustained”) or PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type, and to LC displays, especially PS or PSA displays, comprising said LC medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Engel, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Christoph Marten, Stephan Derow
  • Patent number: 9428317
    Abstract: In a package (1) for a product (3) with at least one hygroscopic pourable solid, to a shipping container (4) [sic] there is a desiccant wrapper (10) of moisture-tight material that surrounds a product bag (2) filled with the product (3) and in which the desiccant (14) is located on an inner side (11) of the desiccant wrapper (10) facing the product bag (2). The desiccant (14) is located in at least one, preferably in several, desiccant bag(s) (13). The at least one desiccant bag (13) is fixed and covered by a moisture-permeable perforated cover (16) on the inner side (11) of the desiccant wrapper (10). The desiccant wrapper (10) is matched either to the shape of the product bag (2) or to the shape of the shipping container (4). The product bag (2) for holding the product (3) is a nonwoven textile of thermally bonded fibers of high density polyethylene. The desiccant wrapper (10) is a thin wrapper of polyethylene or has such a wrapper or coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Kranz
  • Publication number: 20160244665
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cerium-doped garnet phosphors. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of cerium-doped garnet phosphors, and to the use of these garnet phosphors as conversion phosphors. The present invention furthermore relates to a light-emitting device which contains cerium-doped garnet phosphors according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Tim VOSGROENE, Holger WINKLER, Ralf PETRY, Christof HAMPEL, Andreas BENKER
  • Publication number: 20160248014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to azaborinine derivatives their synthesis as well as their use in organic electronic devices, particularly in organic light emitting devices, organic photovoltaic devices and organic photodetectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Fan ZHANG, Xinyang WANG, Ruizhi TANG, Yubin FU, Xiaodong ZHUANG, Xinliang FENG, Dongqing WU
  • Publication number: 20160248015
    Abstract: The invention relates to boron-containing compounds with bicyclic structural units and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, containing said compounds
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Philipp STOESSEL
  • Publication number: 20160244671
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing a polymer film and to the use of such polymer film as in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or other optical or electro optical devices, for decorative or security applications, as alignment layer or optical retardation film
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Graham SMITH, Owain Llyr PARRI, Sarah WHITEHOUSE, Tara PERRETT
  • Patent number: 9425401
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds suitable for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Elvira Montenegro, Arne Buesing, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Joachim Kaiser
  • Patent number: 9422287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound according to formula (I), to the use thereof in an electronic device and to an electronic device which comprises one or more compounds according to formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Christof Pflumm
  • Patent number: 9425409
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the to the use of the compounds in electronic devices, to processes for the preparation of the compounds, and to electronic devices comprising the compounds, preferably as electron-transport materials, as hole-blocking materials, as matrix materials and/or as emitter materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Schwaiger, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 9425417
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate generally to formulations for use in organic semiconductor layers of organic electronic devices, and more specifically in organic field effect transistors, to organic semiconductor layers prepared from such formulations, and to organic electronic devices and organic field effect transistors encompassing such organic semiconductor layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, Promerus LLC
    Inventors: Piotr Wierzchowiec, Pawel Miskiewicz, Li Wei Tan, Rashmi Bhintade, Paul Craig Brookes, Larry F. Rhodes, Hugh A. Burgoon
  • Patent number: 9425398
    Abstract: The invention describes electronic devices comprising a metal complex compound having at least one anionic ligand containing two P donors, having the formula (I), in which R1 to R4 are, independently of one another, an atom or radical from the group comprising hydrogen, a halogen, R, RO—, RS—, RCO—, RCOO—, RNH—, R2N—, RCONR— and —Si(R)X(OR)3-X, where R=a C1-C40-hydrocarbon and X=1, 2 or 3, and E is a bridge atom from the group with carbon or boron, where an atom or radical from the group with hydrogen, halogen, —CN, R, RO—, RS—, RCO—, RCOO—, RNH—, R2N—, RCONR— and —Si(R)X(OR)3-X, where R=the C1-C40-hydrocarbon and X=1, 2 or 3, is optionally bonded to the carbon, and two radicals from the group with halogen, R, RO—, RS—, RCO—, RCOO—, RNH—, R2N—, RCONR— and —Si(R)X(OR)3-X, where R=the C1-C40-hydrocarbon and X=1, 2 or 3, are optionally bonded to the boron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Wesemann, Hartmut Schubert, Hermann August Mayer, Hartmut Yersin, Andreas Rausch
  • Patent number: 9416314
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical switch element, comprising a liquid-crystalline medium for the temperature-dependent regulation of radiant energy flow. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the optical switch element for the regulation of radiant energy flow between interior spaces and the environment and for the regulation of the temperature of interior spaces. The invention furthermore relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterized in that it comprises 5-95% of a compound of the formula (I), in particular for use in the optical switch elements according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Junge
  • Patent number: 9416310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) and to the use thereof in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices. Furthermore, the present invention relates to electronic devices comprising at least one compound according to the invention, preferably as emitter material or as charge-transport material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Holger Heil, Dominik Joosten, Christof Pflumm, Anja Gerhard
  • Patent number: 9415370
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing polymers by polycondensation catalyzed by transition metals. These polymers are of great importance in, in particular, the fast-growing field of organic semiconductors. The polymers obtained by the process of the invention can be prepared with greater reproducibility and in higher purity than polymers obtained according to the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Niels Schulte, Esther Breuning, Hubert Spreitzer
  • Patent number: 9416133
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I in which R1, R2, R, X1, X2, X3, X4, n1, n2, n3 and n4 have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of Tankyrase, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, central nervous system injury and different forms of inflammation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Staehle, Christos Tsaklakidis, Birgitta Leuthner, Dirk Wienke, Frank Czauderna, Ansgar Wegener
  • Publication number: 20160228551
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition of oligopeptides, preferably cyclic oligopeptides, said composition further comprising one or more lipophilic and/or amphiphilic compounds, in the presence or absence of water as the main ingredients, the use of the lipophilic and/or amphiphilic compounds for making pharmaceutical compositions of said oligopeptides, and methods of making said pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Goodman, Christiane Amendt, Marcus Eber
  • Publication number: 20160233444
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes, especially as emitters. The compounds claimed have the formula: M(L)n(L?)m formula (1), where the compound of the general formula (1) contains a substructure M(L)n of the formula (2) or formula (3), where A is the same or different at each instance and is a group of the formula (A) which follows. Also claimed are processes for preparing such compounds, one of which is shown by way of example (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Anna Hayer, Dominik Joosten, Holger Heil, Rémi Manouk Anémian, Claire Nonancourt
  • Publication number: 20160233443
    Abstract: The invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescence devices, containing said metal complexes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Nils Koenen, Esther Breuning