Patents Assigned to Merck Patents GmbH
  • Patent number: 10364356
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel compounds and to devices which contain these compounds. The application also relates to a device for regulating the passage of energy from an outside space into an inside space, to a window containing the said device, and to uses of the said devices and compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peer Kirsch, Susann Gunst, Michael Junge, Andreas Beyer, Ursula Patwal
  • Patent number: 10367143
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds, which are small molecules or conjugated polymers, containing one or more isoindigo or thienoisoindigo based polycyclic units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), Perovskite based solar cells, organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Lana Nanson, Nicolas Blouin, William Mitchell
  • Patent number: 10364392
    Abstract: A liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase, a dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more and a ratio of the dielectric constant perpendicular to the director (??) to the dielectric anisotropy (??), i.e. (??/??), of 2.0 or less and comprises one or more compounds of formula I: wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the text. An electro-optical display containing such a medium, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect. Methods for using of the compounds of formula I for improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Atsutaka Manabe, Volker Reiffenrath, Brigitte Schuler
  • Patent number: 10364296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new proteins that bind to MMP9 and comprise at least one fragment of a heavy chain variable region and/or at least one fragment of a light chain variable region of an antibody. In particular, the MMP9 binding proteins according to the invention are able to neutralize MMP9 activity and are useful in the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases or cancers. In particular, the MMP9 binding proteins according to the invention are useful in diagnosis of MMP9-related disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: CALYPSO BIOTECH SA, MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Yolande Chvatchko Missotten, Laurence Goffin, Olivier Leger, Steven M. Dunn, Christine Power, Kinsey Maundrell
  • Publication number: 20190225813
    Abstract: A pigment mixture comprising at least two or three interference pigments of different interference colours selected from the colours red, green and blue, suitable for use in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses and in the preparation of pigment preparations, dry preparations and in particular cosmetic formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph SCHMIDT, Carsten PLUEG, Uwe LENZ, Sabine SCHOEN
  • Patent number: 10358601
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid crystalline (LC) medium, to a method of its production and to the use of such LC media in polymer network liquid crystalline (PNLC) light modulation elements operated in the reverse mode. Furthermore, the present invention relates to such light modulation elements, as such, to the use of such light modulation elements as light shutters for transparent OLED displays, and to a method of production of such light modulation elements according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hyun-Woo Bae, Dong-Mee Song, Hoo-Yong Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Yong-Kuk Yun
  • Patent number: 10358600
    Abstract: A polymerizable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound selected from the group of compounds of formula I, at least one monoreactive mesogenic compound selected from the group of compounds of formula II, wherein the parameter A11 to A21, L21, p, P11 to P22, R21, Sp11 to Sp21, X11 to X21, and Z11 to Z21 have one of the meanings as given in claim 1, and at least one carbazole oxime ester photoinitiator. Furthermore, a method for preparation of the polymerizable LC material, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerizable LC material, a method of preparation of such polymer film, and the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Stephen Mulcahy, Iain Gardiner, Jack Bradford, Eduardo Beltran Gracia, Graham Smith
  • Patent number: 10361371
    Abstract: The invention relates to improved fullerene derivatives, to methods for their synthesis and any educts or intermediates used in such methods, to compositions and formulations containing fullerene derivatives, to the use of the fullerene derivatives, compositions and formulations in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices like for example organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices or organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising, or being prepared from, these fullerene derivatives, compositions or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: Nano-C, Inc., Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Edward A. Jackson, Henning Richter, Nicolas Blouin, Stéphane Berny
  • Patent number: 10357608
    Abstract: A reloadable auto injector wherein a syringe assembly is movably positioned between a first position in which the needle is accommodated inside a housing and a second position in which the needle protrudes outside the housing. The assembly comprises a syringe, a plunger rod and a plunger rod driver configured to apply a force to the plunger rod to advance the plunger rod in the syringe for delivering at least one dose of medicament. A syringe driver is configured to apply a force to the assembly thereby moving the assembly from the first position to the second position. A reload handle may be connected to the assembly so that user operation of the reload handle retracts the assembly to the first position and simultaneously reload the syringe driver to thereby ready the auto injector for delivering a further dose of medicament. The plunger rod driver is not re-activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Soeren Bechmann, Flemming Madsen, Esben W. Johansen
  • Publication number: 20190218457
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, PSA, PS-VA, PM-VA, SS-VA, PALC, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS or PS-FFS effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Harald HIRSCHMANN, Martina WINDHORST
  • Publication number: 20190218459
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polymerisable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound and at least one compound of formula CO-1, wherein R1, R2, L1, L2, L3, and n have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates also to a method for its preparation, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerisable LC material, to a method of preparation of such polymer film, and to the use of such polymer film and said polymerisable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dong-Mee SONG, Yong-Hyun CHOI, Jae-Hyun KANG, Yong-Kuk YUN
  • Patent number: 10355223
    Abstract: The application relates to compounds having functional substituents in a specific spatial arrangement, to devices comprising same, and to the preparation and use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Tobias Grossmann, Anja Jatsch, Thomas Eberle, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Christof Pflumm, Lars Dobelmann
  • Patent number: 10355217
    Abstract: The present invention relates to certain fluorenes, to the use of the compounds in an electronic device, and to an electronic device comprising at least one of these compounds. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds and to a formulation and composition comprising one or more of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Pfister, Frank Stieber, Elvira Montenegro, Teresa Mujica-Fernaud, Frank Voges
  • Patent number: 10351557
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), to the use of compounds of the formula (I) in electronic devices, and to electronic devices containing one or more compounds of the formula (I). The invention furthermore relates to preparation processes for compounds of the formula (I) and to formulations comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rocco Fortte, Christof Pflumm, Constanze Brocke, Amir Hossain Parham
  • Patent number: 10353265
    Abstract: This invention relates to electrophoretic fluids, the use of these fluids for the preparation of an electrophoretic display device, and electrophoretic displays comprising such fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Greinert, Thomas Bauer, Matthias Koch, Wolfgang Hechler
  • Patent number: 10351771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium comprising at least one compound of the formula I, in which R1 has the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and to the use thereof in liquid-crystalline media and in electro-optical liquid-crystal displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mark Goebel, Lars Lietzau, Sabine Schoen, Andreas Pohle
  • Publication number: 20190214581
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a polycydic unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Graham MORSE, Lana NANSON, William MITCHELL, Michal KROMPIEC, Mansoor D'LAVARI, Agnieszka PRON
  • Publication number: 20190211259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to mixture comprising a semiconductor nanocrystal, optical medium, optical device and to fabrication thereof, the present invention further relates to use of mixture and to use of optical medium in an optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Sanaa KHALIL, Ehud SHAVIV
  • Publication number: 20190212601
    Abstract: Device for controlling transmission of radiation, comprises a first substrate comprising a first conductive layer; a second substrate comprising a second conductive layer; an active layer positioned between the first and second conductive layers for controlling the transmission of radiation by altering its light transmissivity dependent on a voltage applied to the first and second conductive layers; a first contact providing a first electrical connection to the first conductive layer; a first portion of an adhesive or solder for attaching a first proximal end of the first contact to the first conductive layer; a second contact providing a second electrical connection to the second conductive layer; and a second portion of adhesive or solder for attaching a second proximal end of the second contact to the first or second conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Ties de JONG, Casper van OOSTEN
  • Publication number: 20190211266
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photosensitive composition, and a color conversion medium. The present invention further relates to a use of the photosensitive composition in a color conversion medium fabrication process, and to a use of the color conversion medium in an optical device. The invention furthermore relates to an optical device and method for preparing the color conversion medium and the optical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Yuki HIRAYAMA, Tadashi KISHIMOTO, Masayoshi SUZUKI, Daishi YOKOYAMA, Katsuto TANIGUCHI, Teruaki SUZUKI