Patents Examined by Andrew J Oyer
  • Patent number: 12110456
    Abstract: Methods and compositions suitable for forming electrodes and other components of energy storage devices are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: florrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose LaSalle, Alexander Stuart Nichols
  • Patent number: 12104116
    Abstract: A thermally conductive elastomer composition of the present invention contains: 100 parts by mass of a styrene-based elastomer; from 610 to 750 parts by mass of a process oil formed of a petroleum-based hydrocarbon, the a process oil having a weight average molecular weight of not greater than 600; from 25 to 40 parts by mass of a solid nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of 2.0 or greater; from 260 to 640 parts by mass of aluminum hydroxide powder; and from 250 to 340 parts by mass of artificial graphite powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Uchida
  • Patent number: 12098799
    Abstract: A hybrid compound for insulating a substrate is formed by dispersing functionalized inorganic nanomaterials in a non-toxic reagent at a controlled pH using volatile bases to form an aqueous dispersion. The aqueous dispersion is then stirred to form the hybrid compound. The compound is then applied to a substrate and dried to from an insulating layer. The insulating layer protects the substrate from temperatures exceeding 1200 degrees Fahrenheit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NANOTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Claudinei Calado Rezende
  • Patent number: 12095094
    Abstract: A method of producing conductor-speckled active material particles includes agitating conductive particles within an aqueous binder solution that includes a mixture of binder particulates suspended within a water-based medium. An intermediate powder including the conductive particles dispersed amongst the mixture of binder particulates is generated by evaporating water from the aqueous binder solution to generate. Subsequently, the particulate mixture including active material particles and the intermediate powder is agitated to generate a powder mixture of conductor-speckled active material agglomerations. Each of the conductor-speckled active material agglomerations includes a plurality of conductive particles in electrical contact with one or more active material particles. Further, the conductor-speckled active material agglomerations include binder particulates interspersed between one or more active material particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PIXION BATTERIES, INC.
    Inventors: Varun Devaraj, Vikram Devaraj
  • Patent number: 12089386
    Abstract: The present application relates to a composite material, a method for producing the same, and an electromagnetic-wave shielding sheet comprising the same, which can provide a composite material having excellent impact resistance and processability while having excellent heat dissipation performance, a method for producing the composite material, and an electromagnetic-wave shielding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Min Shin, Dong Woo Yoo, Jin Kyu Lee
  • Patent number: 12077452
    Abstract: A process for forming an active cathode material. The process comprises forming a precursor comprising a lithium salt and a multi-carboxylic acid salt of at least one of nickel, manganese or cobalt; heating the precursor in a metal lined vessel to a temperature of no more than 600° C. to form an intermediate material; and heating the intermediate material to a temperature of over 600° C. to form said active cathode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Nano One Materials Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Blondal, Stephen A. Campbell, Annabelle Po Yin Wong, O'Rian Reid
  • Patent number: 12071724
    Abstract: Method of delignification of plant material, said method comprising: providing said plant material comprising cellulose fibres and lignin; exposing said plant material requiring to a composition comprising: an acid; a modifying agent selected from the group consisting of: sulfamic acid; imidazole; taurine; a taurine derivative; a taurine-related compound; alkylsulfonic acid; aryl sulfonic acid; triethanolamine; and combinations thereof; a metal salt; and a peroxide; for a period of time sufficient to remove substantially all (at least 80%) of the lignin present on said plant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SIXRING INC.
    Inventors: Clay Purdy, Markus Weissenberger, Markus Pagels, Kyle G Wynnyk, Matthew Dewit, Andrew M Corbett
  • Patent number: 12071345
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system for producing synthesis gas, the system including a reactor including a burner, a combustion chamber, and a catalyst chamber, and a mixer upstream of the reactor configured to mix fuel with steam to produce humidified fuel that is provided to the burner of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventors: Brian H. Dennis, Frederick M. MacDonnell
  • Patent number: 12068084
    Abstract: The known fully ceramic microencapsulated fuel (FCM) entrains fission products within a primary encapsulation that is the consolidated within a secondary ultra-high-temperature-ceramic of Silicon Carbide (SiC). In this way the potential for fission product release to the environment is significantly limited. In order to extend the performance of this fuel to higher temperature and more aggressive coolant environments, such as the hot-hydrogen of proposed nuclear rockets, a zirconium carbide matrix version of the FCM fuel has been invented. In addition to the novel nature to this very high temperature fuel, the ability to form these fragile TRISO microencapsulations within fully dense ZrC represent a significant achievement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ULTRA SAFE NUCLEAR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lance Lewis Snead
  • Patent number: 12053658
    Abstract: A forest fire retardant composition contains a retardant compound that includes a potassium salt. The potassium salt may include a potassium salt of an organic acid, a potassium salt of an inorganic acid, or mixtures thereof. The organic acid may include formic acid, acetic acid, propanoic acid, butanoic acid, lactic acid, oxalic acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid, uric acid, malic acid, or citric acid. The inorganic acid may include sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, carbonic acid, or hydrochloric acid. The composition may be in the form of a dry concentrate, a liquid concentrate, or a final diluted product. The final diluted product is effective in suppressing, retarding, and controlling forest fires while exhibiting corrosion resistance and low toxicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: FRS Group, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Hulbert, Robert J. Burnham, Michael S. Schnarr, Gerald Geissler, David W. Wilkening, Joseph McLellan, Michael White, Gerald S. Frankel
  • Patent number: 12051807
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode material which is suitable for use as a material for forming electrodes for use in lithium ion secondary batteries, etc. and which makes it possible to heighten the rate characteristics of batteries. The electrode material is characterized by comprising a polymer having, in a side chain, a fluoflavin skeleton such as that shown by the formula and an inorganic active material, the polymer being contained in an amount of 1 mass % or less with respect to the solid components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: WASEDA UNIVERSITY, NISSAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Oyaizu, Kan Hatakeyama, Tomoki Akahane, Choitsu Go, Takahiro Kaseyama
  • Patent number: 12043573
    Abstract: This invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of resin compositions to substrate materials, pre-treating substrate materials to improve the adhesion of resin compositions to the substrate materials, and/or controlling gel formation of resin compositions. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) compositions to substrate materials using adhesion promoters containing isocyanate groups in a resin composition. The invention also relates to methods for improving the adhesion of resin compositions to substrate materials by pre-treating substrate materials with adhesion promoters containing isocyanate groups. The invention further relates to a method of providing a gel-modified ROMP composition, in which a hydroperoxide is added to a ROMP polymerizable resin composition in order to control gel formation of the polymerizing resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MATERIA, INC.
    Inventors: Li-Sheng Wang, Anthony R. Stephen, Paul W. Boothe, Tessa Schulze, Michael A. Giardello, Mark S. Trimmer, Christopher J. Cruce, Farshad J. Motamedi, Brian Edgecombe
  • Patent number: 12037128
    Abstract: A hydrogen fuel including a safety marker and a method and apparatus for adding the safety marker to the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen fuel may be stored in a tank in a liquid phase and then heated to at least one of a gaseous phase and a supercritical phase. The safety marker may be added to the hydrogen fuel when the hydrogen fuel is in the at least one of the gaseous phase and the supercritical phase after heating the hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen fuel may be delivered in the at least one of the gaseous phase and the supercritical phase to a power generator, such as a gas turbine engine. The safety marker may be a visual safety marker, such as a noble gas, or an odorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Arthur W. Sibbach, Michael A. Benjamin, Paul Burchell Glaser
  • Patent number: 12036578
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including an interconnect structure. The interconnect structure may have a segment of a passivant layer including a SAM. The SAM may include head groups, and chains attached to the head groups. The chains include functional groups that are cross-linkable at end or side of the chains to result in chain extension by reacting with another SAM or polymer, densification by crosslinking with an adjacent SAM, or polymerization having an initiator as the SAM or the SAM attached to another SAM. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Gstrein, James M. Blackwell, Eungnak Han, Rami Hourani, Tayseer Mahdi
  • Patent number: 12034167
    Abstract: Disclosed is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, a binder, and a dispersion medium. The binder includes a polymer (A) containing an aromatic vinyl monomer unit and a linear alkylene structural unit having a carbon number of at least 4. The proportion of the binder in the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid is 30 mass % or less, and the viscosity change rate of the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid as measured under predetermined conditions before and after leaving the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for 1 week is 50% or more and 300% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Murase, Naoki Takahashi, Shinsuke Sugawara
  • Patent number: 12034117
    Abstract: A liquid composition containing a solvent, an inorganic solid electrolyte, and a dispersant is provided. The dispersant is soluble in the solvent. A 10% volume fraction-component's particle diameter (D10), a 50% volume fraction-component's particle diameter (D50), a 90% volume fraction-component's particle diameter (D90), and a mode diameter (Dm) of solids contained in the liquid composition satisfy D90/D10>10, D50<1 ?m, and Dm<2 ?m, where D10, D50, D90, and Dm are measured by a laser diffraction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomomasa Kajita, Hiromichi Kuriyama, Satoshi Nakajima, Yoshio Itoh, Shigeo Takeuchi, Yuji Sone, Aya Utsuki, Kayato Ohya
  • Patent number: 12023535
    Abstract: An aqueous fire extinguishing agent and a preparation method thereof are provided, which are used for making a throw-type fire extinguisher. The aqueous fire extinguishing agent is composed of two compositions of A and B. The composition A is a fortified water added with a flame retardant (e.g., one or more of ammonium chloride, diammonium hydrogen phosphate and ammonium polyphosphate), a wetting agent (e.g., alkyl polyglycoside) and a colloid (e.g., polyacrylamide solution). The composition B is a regulator. After the composition A and the composition B are mixed, a discharge rate/speed of fire extinguishing substances is increased, so that an escape passage/route can be opened up quickly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Nan Chang Hang Kong University
    Inventors: Jun Zhang, Junxiong Chen, Zixuan Xie, Zhiao Li, Jingheng Nie, Shuyu Chen, Peipei Li, Haitao Ding
  • Patent number: 11996557
    Abstract: A method for relithiating cathode material from spent lithium-based batteries, the method comprising: (i) mixing delithiated cathode material and a lithium salt with an ionic liquid in which the lithium salt is at least partially soluble to form an initial mixture; (ii) heating the initial mixture to a temperature of 100° C. to 300° C. to result in relithiation of the delithiated cathode material; and (iii) separating the ionic liquid from the relithiated cathode material; wherein, in embodiments, the cathode material is a lithium metal oxide, wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Al, Zr, Ti, Nb, and combinations thereof, or wherein the cathode material has the formula LiNixMnyCozO2, wherein x>0, y>0, z>0, and x+y+z=1; wherein, in some embodiments, the ionic liquid has a nitrogen-containing cationic portion, such as an imidazolium ionic liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Huimin Luo, Sheng Dai, Tao Wang, Ilias Belharouak, Jianlin Li, Yaocai Bai
  • Patent number: 11986798
    Abstract: A highly permeable superabsorbent is prepared by a process comprising polymerizing an aqueous monomer solution comprising a) at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer which bears acid groups and is optionally at least partly in salt form, b) at least one crosslinker, c) at least one initiator, d) optionally one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers copolymerizable with the monomers mentioned under a), and e) optionally one or more water-soluble polymers; drying the resulting polymer, optionally grinding the dried polymer and sieving the ground polymer, optionally surface postcrosslinking the dried and optionally ground and sieved polymer, wherein, after drying, grinding or sieving, and, if surface postcrosslinking is conducted, during or after this surface postcrosslinking, x-ray-amorphous aluminum hydroxide powder is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christophe Bauduin, Thomas Daniel
  • Patent number: 11982048
    Abstract: A water repellent composition containing: (A) water repellent particles in which the number of surface alkyl groups on the water repellent particles is 600×1018-50,000×1018 per 1 g of water repellent particles; (B) a water-repellent resin which is a polymer having a long-chain C7-40 hydrocarbon group; and (C) a liquid medium. The water-repellent particles preferably have an average primary particle size of 1-100 nm. Also disclosed is a method for treating a fiber using the water repellent composition, a method for producing a treated textile product, a film formed from the water repellent composition, and a textile product treated with a treatment liquid containing the water-repellent composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Tanaka, Rena Inamasu, Yuko Shiotani, Shouta Shibutani, Masahiro Higashi, Tomohiro Yoshida, Norimasa Uesugi