Patents Examined by John Hardee
  • Oud odorants
    Patent number: 9109187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to some specific 3-(lower alkyl)phenols as key ingredients of perfuming compositions having an oud character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventors: Estelle Delort, Josef Limacher
  • Refrigerant oil for freezers and operating fluid composition for freezers
    Patent number: 9090806
    Abstract: The working fluid composition for a refrigerating machine of this invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant. The refrigerating machine oil of the invention comprises a base oil containing an ether-based compound, an amine salt of an acidic phosphoric acid ester, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of amine-based antioxidants, metal inactivating agents and alicyclic epoxy compounds, and it is to be used together with an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Takigawa, Yuji Shimomura, Masanori Saito, Ken Sawada, Takeshi Okido
  • Fabric care compositions comprising organosiloxane polymers
    Patent number: 9085749
    Abstract: The present composition relates to fabric care compositions comprising an organosiloxane polymer. Methods of using such compositions including contacting a fabric with the composition and rinsing the fabric are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Kerry Andrew Vetter, Bernard William Kluesener, Iskender Yilgor, Christian Herzig, Richard Becker, Rafael Trujillo Rosaldo, Leslie Dawn Waits, Janine A. Flood, Keith Homer Baker, Jennifer Beth Ponder, Mark Gregory Solinsky, Matthew Scott Wagner, Pradipta Sarkar, Emily Suzanne Klinker, Julie Ann O'Neil
  • Fabric treatment compositions
    Patent number: 9080130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fabric treatment compositions containing multi-phase systems, polymers for use in multi-phase systems as well as products comprising such systems and methods of making and using same. Such treatment compositions may be used for example as laundry additives, and/or through the rinse to provide benefits including enhanced softening, color benefits, and wrinkle reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Rajan Keshav Panandiker, Travis Kyle Hodgdon, Lidiany Gonzalez, Ouidad Benlahmar, Reinhold Joseph Leyrer, Volodymyr Boyko, Jules Hanna Mikhael
  • Geminal zwitterionic surfactants as wettability modifiers in enhanced oil recovery processes
    Patent number: 9074123
    Abstract: Geminal zwitterionic surfactants based on bis-N-alkyl, bis-N-alkenyl, N-cycloalkyl or N-aryl bis-beta amino acids or salts thereof as wettability modifiers of rocks such as limestone, dolomite, sand, quartz or heterogeneous lithologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO
    Inventors: Raúl Hernández Altamirano, Luis Silvestre Zamudio Rivera, Violeta Yasmín Mena Cervantes, Hiram Isaac Beltrán Conde, Cecilia de los Ángeles Durán Valencia, Simón López Ramírez, Eduardo Buenrostro González, José Luis Mendoza De La Cruz, Jorge Alberto García Martínez, Erick Emanuel Luna Rojero, David Aarón Nieto Álvarez
  • Absorbing agent, method for manufacturing an absorbing agent and use of an absorbent agent
    Patent number: 9067170
    Abstract: An absorbent agent is provided. The absorbent agent is particularly for separating carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a fossil-fired combustion device. The absorbent agent comprises a two-component mixture including a free amino acid and an amino acid salt, wherein the free amino acid exhibits a surplus compared to the amino acid salt based on the molar concentration. This creates variability in the PCBN value, which may be attained through different absorption and desorption process temperatures. A method for manufacturing the absorbent agent is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ralph Joh, Rüdiger Schneider
  • Perfuming acetal
    Patent number: 9068140
    Abstract: The present invention concerns the use as perfuming ingredient of 4-dimethoxymethyl-1,3-dimethyl-1-cyclohexene in the form of any one of its stereoisomers or a mixture thereof, for instance to impart odor notes of the grapefruit and floral type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Firmenich SA
    Inventor: Piero Fantini
  • Composition and method for treating surfaces
    Patent number: 9062277
    Abstract: Compositions to treat surfaces to affect materials deposited on such surfaces and methods of treating surfaces with such compositions to affect such deposition materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ZAP! Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Wycoff, Don E. Reynolds
  • Refrigerant composition
    Patent number: 9062237
    Abstract: A refrigerant composition consists essentially of three hydrofluorocarbon components selected from HFC134a, HFC125 and HFC143a and an additive selected from a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon or mixture thereof boiling in the range ?50° C. and +40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: RPL Holdings Limited
    Inventors: John Edward Poole, Richard Powell
  • Heat transfer method
    Patent number: 9046348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat transfer method that uses a composition containing from 60 to 95 wt % of 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane and from 5 to 40 wt % of at least one hydrocarbon selected from n-pentane, isopentane and cyclopentane. The invention more particularly relates to a heat transfer method that successively includes the step of evaporating a refrigerant fluid, a compression step, the step of condensing said fluid at a temperature higher than or equal to 35° C., and preferably between 70° C. and 140° C., and the step of expanding said fluid, characterized in that the refrigerant fluid includes from 60 to 95 wt % of 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane and from 5 to 40 wt % of at least one hydrocarbon selected from n-pentane, isopentane and cyclopentane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventors: Laurent Abbas, Wissam Rached
  • Low-temperature and average-temperature refrigeration
    Patent number: 9039922
    Abstract: The invention relates to binary compositions of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and difluoromethane, as a heat transfer fluid in compression, low-temperature and average temperature refrigeration systems, with exchangers operating in counterflow mode or in split flow mode with counterflow tendency. The invention also relates to a heat transfer method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventor: Wissam Rached
  • Cooling agent for cold packs and food and beverage containers
    Patent number: 9039924
    Abstract: Safe, stable, non-toxic and recyclable cooling compositions comprising solid particulate compounds that undergo an endothermic process when mixed with water such that the resulting mixture is useful for cooling surfaces, liquids and solids. The compositions always include one or more compounds from a group consisting of endothermic compounds that contain potassium; one or more compounds from a group of endothermic compounds that contain nitrogen; and at least one compound from a group consisting of ammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, ammonium polyphosphate, ammonium pyrophosphate and ammonium metaphosphate such that the compound or mixture of compounds in this group is at least 1% by weight of the final composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Frosty Cold, LLC
    Inventors: David D. Leavitt, John R. Bergida
  • Binary compositions of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and of ammonia
    Patent number: 9028706
    Abstract: A binary composition of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and of ammonia, and also to the use thereof, in particular as a heat transfer fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Wissam Rached, Jean-Christophe Boutier
  • Pyrimidine derivatives and their use in perfume compositions
    Patent number: 9029535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyrimidine derivatives and their use in perfume compositions. The novel pyrimidine derivatives of the present invention are represented by the following formula: wherein m and n are integers of 0 or 1, with the proviso that when m is 0, n is 1 and when m is 1, n is 0; and wherein the dashed circle represents either single or double bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: International Flavors & Fragances Inc.
    Inventors: Robert P. Belko, Paul D. Jones, Anthony T. Levorse, Jr., Michael G. Monteleone, Anubhav P. S. Narula, Franc T. Schiet
  • Process for preparing concentrated alkali metal hypochlorite solutions
    Patent number: 9023236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing concentrated alkali metal hypochlorite solutions. One subject of the invention is more particularly a process for preparing concentrated bleach which may have a chlorine content of greater than 100 chlorometric degrees, and that has a low content of chlorates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Bossoutrot
  • Gemini surfactants, process of manufacture and use as multifunctional corrosion inhibitors
    Patent number: 9023785
    Abstract: Gemini surfactants of bis-N-alkyl polyether, bis-N-alkenyl polyether, bis-N-cycloalkyl polyether, bis-N-aryl polyether bis-beta or alpha-amino acids or their salts, are produced for use as multifunctional corrosion inhibitors, which protect and prevent corrosion of ferrous metals exposed to acidic, basic and neutral liquids when transporting or storing crude oil and liquid fuels. The surfactants are also used to inhibit corrosion of equipment and pipes used in cooling systems in petroleum and petrochemical equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo
    Inventors: Raul Hernandez Altamirano, Violeta Yasmin Mena Cervantes, Luis Silvestre Zamudio Rivera, Hiram Isaac Beltran Conde, Simon Lopez Ramirez
  • Thickener containing a cationic polymer and softening composition containing said thickener, in particular for textiles
    Patent number: 9018154
    Abstract: A method for softening laundry employs a softening composition, which includes at least one thickener containing a cationic polymer obtained by polymerization: of a cationic monomer; of a monomer with a hydrophobic nature, of formula (I): wherein R1=H or CH3 R2=alkyl chain having at least 16 carbon atoms X?O, m?5, y=z=0, or X?NH, m?z?5, y=0, or X?NH, m?y?5, z=0, of a nonionic monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: S.P.C.M. SA
    Inventor: Frederic Blondel
  • Heat transfer fluid replacing R-410A
    Patent number: 9011711
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat transfer method using a ternary composition containing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1-difluoroethane and difluoromethane, as a heat transfer fluid in refrigeration systems, to replace the R-410A mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventor: Wissam Rached
  • Personal care compositions with improved hyposensitivity
    Patent number: 9006169
    Abstract: The present invention provides personal care compositions comprising a carrier and a mixture of essential oil components having specific levels of eucalyptol, terpene materials and auxiliary fragrance materials. The compositions herein gentle to skin and have a fragrance and activity similar if the composition were made using the pure extracted essential oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Christine Marie Cahen
  • Methods of replacing heat transfer fluids
    Patent number: 9005467
    Abstract: Various uses of tetrafluoropropenes, particularly (HFO-1234) in a variety of applications, including refrigeration equipment, are disclosed. These materials are generally useful as refrigerants for heating and cooling, as blowing agents, as aerosol propellants, as solvent composition, and as fire extinguishing and suppressing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv R. Singh, Hang T. Pham, David P. Willson, Raymond H. Thomas, Mark W. Spatz, David A. Metcalf