Patents Examined by Erin Hirt
  • Patent number: 9538756
    Abstract: This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: William C. Lo, James E. Hunter, Gerald B. Watson, Akshay Patny, Pravin S. Iyer, Joshodeep Boruwa
  • Patent number: 9510592
    Abstract: This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: William C. Lo, James E. Hunter, Gerald B. Watson, Akshay Patny, Pravin S. Iyer, Joshodeep Boruwa
  • Patent number: 9504651
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and processes for producing liposomes. By providing a buffer solution in a first reservoir, and a lipid solution in a second reservoir, continuously diluting the lipid solution with the buffer solution in a mixing chamber produces a liposome. The lipid solution preferably comprises an organic solvent, such as a lower alkanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: PROTIVA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian MacLachlan, Lloyd Jeffs, Lorne R. Palmer, Cory Giesbrecht
  • Patent number: 9493352
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method of producing nitric oxide comprising (i) providing a composition comprising a metal-organic framework, and (ii) exposing the composition to a nitric oxide-releasing compound. The disclosure also is directed to compositions, coatings, and medical devices comprising a metal-organic framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Melissa M. Reynolds, Benjamin P. Reynolds
  • Patent number: 9492386
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and processes for producing liposomes. By providing a buffer solution in a first reservoir, and a lipid solution in a second reservoir, continuously diluting the lipid solution with the buffer solution in a mixing chamber produces a liposome. The lipid solution preferably comprises an organic solvent, such as a lower alkanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: PROTIVA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian MacLachlan, Lloyd Jeffs, Lorne R. Palmer, Cory Giesbrecht
  • Patent number: 9487698
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds having the general structure: wherein R and R? are independently selected from the group consisting of H, C1-24 alkyl, aryl, C1-24 alkylaryl, aryl(C1-24)alkyl, —C(?O)—R1 (esters), C(?O)—NHR1 (urethanes), or C(?O)—O—R1 (carbonates) wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of C1-24 alkyl, aryl, C1-24 alkylaryl, C1-24 arylalkyl; A is an organic moiety derived from the group consisting of alkylene oxides having 4-12 carbon atoms and aryl epoxides having 8-12 carbon atoms; x=1-300; y=0-200; z=0-200; and with the proviso that R and R? can not be H or ether functionality at the same time. The compounds are useful for improving the water transport characteristics of hydrophobic surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ethox Chemicals, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Francis Palmer, Jr., Calvin M. Wicker, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9480250
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of solid solutions of sparingly soluble pesticides, pulverulent products that are obtained by said method and their use for pesticide formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Karl Kolter, Michael Schönherr, Hermann Ascherl, Cedric Dieleman, Torsten Knieriem, Sebastian Koltzenburg, Holger Türk
  • Patent number: 9475765
    Abstract: The present invention relates to solid forms of herbicide safeners, to processes for their preparation, compositions comprising the solid forms and methods of their use as safeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Ian Kevin Jones, Neil George, John Hone
  • Patent number: 9469617
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in Phyla Nematoda, Arthropoda, and/or Mollusca, processes to produce such molecules and intermediates used in such processes, compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such molecules against such pests. These molecules may be used, for example, as nematicides, acaricides, insecticides, miticides, and/or molluscicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Erich W. Baum, Lindsey G. Fischer, Gary D. Crouse, Thomas C. Sparks
  • Patent number: 9468651
    Abstract: A method for removing moles includes applying a composition containing potassium hydroxide, Beijing Er Guo Tou and talcum powder on the surface of moles on human skin. The composition is applicable to benign moles and not to cancerous moles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Inventor: Yuk Ming To
  • Patent number: 9439432
    Abstract: Provided are an ortho-substituted phenylisoxazoline-based compound with 2,6-difluorobenzyloxymethyl represented by Formula 1, or a racemate or enantiomer thereof, a herbicide including the ortho-substituted phenylisoxazoline-based compound, or the racemate or enantiomer thereof as an active ingredient, and a method of selectively controlling grass weed comprising treating with the ortho-substituted phenylisoxazoline-based compound, or the racemate or enantiomer thereof before or after the grass weed emerges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: MOGHU RESEARCH CENTER LTD, KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Young Kwan Ko, Gyu Hwan Yon, Jae Wook Ryu, Dong Wan Koo, Jun Ho Nam, Sung Wan Pyo, Jae Min Hwang, Suk Jin Koo, Ki Hwan Hwang, Dong Guk Lee, Man Seok Jeon, Nam Gyu Cho, Sung Hun Kim, Jong Su Lim, Kun Hoe Chung
  • Patent number: 9415138
    Abstract: Macroporous 3-D tissue engineering scaffold are manufactured by contacting an article comprising multiple distinct macroparticulate porogens distributed within a polymer scaffold, wherein the porogens are selectively and sequentially dissolvable by corresponding biocompatible stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Fan Yang, Li-Hsin Han, Xinming Tong
  • Patent number: 9404192
    Abstract: Electrolytic acid or alkaline water having a NMR half line width using 17O of from about 45 to less than 51 Hz, and an oxide reduction potential of from ?1000 to +200 mV, or from +600 to +1300 mV, topical compositions that contain such water, uses for such water to hydrate skin, deliver drugs and treat various skin and mucosal conditions, and methods and apparatus for manufacturing the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: APR NANOTECHNOLOGIES s.a.
    Inventors: Yongge Chen, Roberto De Noni
  • Patent number: 9375001
    Abstract: The present invention provides insecticidal compositions for killing flies. The composition comprises a core material, a sugar layer comprising a supersaturated solution of sugar and a toxicant, which binds the core material and is dried on the core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: WELLMARK INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Kim W. Yang, William B. Warner, Doug Vangundy, Tracy McFadden, Richard Moorman, I-Hsiung Wang
  • Patent number: 9353095
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel crystalline form A of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione. The invention also relates to a process for the production of this crystalline form and formulations for plant protection which contains the novel crystalline form of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Reinhard, Tiziana Chiodo, Bernd Wolf, Stefan Scherer, Matthias Bratz, Matthias Witschel, Trevor William Newton, Thomas Seitz
  • Patent number: 9333262
    Abstract: Mixtures of Guerbet alcohols, their use in cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical preparations, and also cosmetic and/or pharmaceutical preparations comprising mixtures of Guerbet alcohols are described. Of suitability as petroleum jelly substitute are in particular Guerbet alcohol mixtures with a melting range, measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), between ?20° C. and +70° C., where the width of the melting range comprises at least 30 temperature degrees and the maximum of the melting range is 35±10° C. These are obtainable for example by reacting a) 55 to 95% by weight of cetylstearyl alcohol, b) 5 to 45% by weight of fatty alcohols with a chain length of from 8 to 22 carbon atoms and c) optionally an aliphatic diol having at least 3 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Kempers, Rolf Kawa, Stefan Brüning, Jadranka Milardovic, Eike Ulf Mahnke, Heinz-Josef Krüppel, Markus Dierker, Burkhard Beckedahl
  • Patent number: 9328101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel crystalline form B of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione The invention also relates to a process for the production of this crystalline form and formulations for plant protection which contains the novel crystalline form of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Reinhard, Tiziana Chiodo, Bernd Wolf, Stefan Scherer, Matthias Bratz, Matthias Witschel, Trevor William Newton, Thomas Seitz
  • Patent number: 9326508
    Abstract: The invention relates to (S)-3?-methyl-abscisic acid, and esters thereof, and methods of using and making these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Valent BioSciences Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Wang, Daniel F. Heiman, Gregory D. Venburg
  • Patent number: 9284269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to solid forms of herbicide safeners, to processes for their preparation, compositions comprising the solid forms and methods of their use as safeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Syngenta Limted
    Inventors: Ian Kevin Jones, Neil George, John Hone
  • Patent number: 9278075
    Abstract: A composition of matter for use in encapsulating a drug is expressed by formula (1) or formula (2): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; A is a hydrophilic polymer chain; L1 and L3 are each a linking group; B is a cation-containing group; R3 is a side chain of an amino acid; z is an integer of 5 to 500; x is an integer of 40% or more of z; y is 0 or a positive integer; z-x-y is 0 or a positive integer; p is an integer of 1 to 10; and q is an integer of 1 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: NANOCARRIER CO., LTD., THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Kazunori Kataoka, Ronald James Christie, Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kanjiro Miyata, Shigeto Fukushima, Yu Matsumoto, Takahiro Nomoto, Yasuki Kato