Patents Examined by Luke Karpinski
  • Patent number: 9925148
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aqueous compositions for use in the manufacture of capsule shells endowed with bulk enteric properties. The present disclosure also relates, in part, to aqueous dispersions suitable for the implementation of said manufacturing process, and to enteric capsule shells and hard capsules obtained therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Capsugel Belgium NV
    Inventors: Hassan Benameur, Dominique Nicolas Cade, Sophie Schreiber
  • Patent number: 9890348
    Abstract: A metathesized natural oil composition comprising (i) a mixture olefins and/or esters, or (ii) a metathesized natural oil, is disclosed. The metathesized natural oil composition has a number average molecular weight in the range from about 100 g/mol to about 150,000 g/mol, a weight average molecular weight in the range from about 1,000 g/mol to about 100,000 g/mol, a z-average molecular weight in the range from about 5,000 g/mol to about 1,000,000 g/mol, and a polydispersity index of about 1 to about 20. The metathesized natural oil composition is metathesized at least once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Cohen, M. Michelle Morie-Bebel, Alexander D. Ilseman, Benjamin Bergmann, Stephen A. DiBiase, S. Alexander Christensen
  • Patent number: 9883670
    Abstract: Nanoparticle compositions for treating citrus greening disease and other plant diseases include a liquid or gel carrier and metal nanoparticles dispersed therein. The metal nanoparticles can be spherical-shaped and/or coral-shaped. Methods of treating plant diseases include applying a nanoparticle composition to an infected plant part to kill the microbe causing the disease. The method may further include removing an infected plant part, such as a branch, treating the infected plant part with a nanoparticle composition, and grafting the plant part (branch) back onto the plant. The plant may particularly be a citrus tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ATTOSTAT, INC.
    Inventor: William Harold Niedermeyer
  • Patent number: 9795710
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a scaffold for tissue engineering that includes a frame structure including one of poly-D-lactic acid and poly-L-lactic acid and a coating layer formed on a surface of the frame structure and including a lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer. The method includes mixing a first granular porous substance including one of poly-D-lactic acid and poly-L-lactic acid with a second granular porous substance including the lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer to prepare a mixture, and pressurizing and heating the mixture in a mold. In the heating, the mixture is heated to a temperature greater than or equal to the melting point of the lactic acid-glycolic acid copolymer and less than the melting point of one of poly-D-lactic acid and poly-L-lactic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Yamanaka, Yuuhiro Sakai, Yusuke Shigemitsu
  • Patent number: 9788540
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors and/or complex III inhibitors for controlling undesired fungal pathogens and simultaneously improving the ratio of harmful to beneficial microorganisms in crops and to a method for treating crops or parts of crops for controlling undesired fungal pathogens and simultaneously improving the ratio of harmful to beneficial microorganisms by treating the crops or parts of crops with a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor and/or a complex III inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Lorianne Fought, Herbert Young, George Musson, Gilbert Labourdette, Dominique Steiger, Heiko Rieck
  • Patent number: 9770030
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel synergistic herbicidal suspoemulsion compositions of fomesafen and fluthiacet-methyl that have superior chemical and physical stability and increased herbicidal action when compared to tank mixtures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Martin, Shiv D. Sharma, Sandra Shinn
  • Patent number: 9717931
    Abstract: Topcially applicable photoprotective compositions having improved sun protection factor, cosmetic properties and/or stability contain: (a) at least one 1,3,5-triazine UV-screening agent, (b) at least one mixture including: (i) at least one arylalkyl benzoate compound, and (ii) at least one oil containing in its structure at least one amide unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Didier Candau, Cecile Fiandino
  • Patent number: 9686983
    Abstract: An inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth, containing chlorthal-dimethyl and aliphatic alcohol selected from decyl alcohol, 2-ethyl hexanol and geraniol in combination; and a method for inhibiting tobacco axillary bud growth, which includes applying the inhibitor for tobacco axillary bud growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SDS BIOTECH K.K.
    Inventors: Motoki Tanaka, Keijitsu Tanaka, Takeshi Shibuya, Eiji Ikuta, Kotaro Yoshinaga, Yuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9675531
    Abstract: A personal care composition is disclosed comprising abrasive particles. The personal care composition may take a variety of forms such as a leave-on composition or an emulsion and/or may comprise one or more actives or agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Denis Alfred Gonzales, Martin Ian James, Geert Andre Deleersnyder, Steven Ray Merrigan, Thomas Allen Desmarais, Paul Robert Tanner, Binwu Tao
  • Patent number: 9635851
    Abstract: Agrochemical aqueous compositions containing at least one organic, solid agrochemically active ingredient which is insoluble in water and, as dispersing and wetting agent, a water soluble polymer based on one or more ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, from 5% to 55% of the carboxylic groups of said water soluble polymer being esterified with a polyalkoxylated polystyrylphenol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: LAMBERTI SPA
    Inventors: Filippo Quaglia, Dario Fornara, Rocco Di Modugno, Cristina Picco, Alessandro D'Aloia, Arianna Benetti, Giovanni Floridi, Giuseppe Li Bassi
  • Patent number: 9572880
    Abstract: Enhanced delivery of compositions for treatment of skin tissue with photoactive plasmonic nanoparticles and light, with embodiments relating to delivery devices using, for example, ultrasound. Treatments are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9561255
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a cosmetic or external skin preparation that has an improved feel in use, e.g., excellent stretching on the skin surface, excellent permeation into the skin, and no stickiness, or crinkles. A cosmetic or an external skin preparation, and a medical instrument, comprising at least one lipid peptide-based gelator that contains a low-molecular lipid peptide of Formula (1): (where R1 to R3 are independently an organic group) or a pharmaceutically usable salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehisa Iwama, Keigo Matsumoto, Takayuki Imoto, Nobuhide Miyachi, Masahiro Goto
  • Patent number: 9452125
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel cosmetic compositions for artificially tanning the skin, utilizing skin-tanning agents and odor-mitigating materials, such as specifically defined starch materials. The compositions reduce the undesirable odors associated with the reaction between the skin-tanning agents, such as dihydroxyacetone, and the skin (chemically known as the Maillard reaction). The method of using those compositions and of formulating those compositions is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Kao USA Inc.
    Inventors: Alisa Ivory Smith, Jordan Cordeiro, Jessica Rustici-Jones
  • Patent number: 9446126
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of thermal treatment of acne with coated metal nanoparticles are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9439964
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of thermal treatment of the skin surface with coated metal nanoparticles are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9439965
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of thermal treatment of the skin surface with metal nanoparticles in surfactant containing solutions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9433678
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. in particular, embodiments of thermal treatment of acne with metal nanoparticles in surfactant containing solutions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9433676
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of hair removal with nanoparticles with coatings that facilitate selective removal from the skin Surface are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9433677
    Abstract: Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of thermal treatment of a pilosebaceous unit with metal nanoparticles in surfactant containing solutions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd James Harris, Alice Ann Chen Kim
  • Patent number: 9434800
    Abstract: A method of embolizing an area of treatment includes providing a composition that includes a radiopaque, non-biodegradable, water-insoluble iodinated benzyl ether of poly(vinyl alcohol) consisting of a poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) having covalently grafted thereon iodinated benzyl groups comprising from 1 to 4 iodine atoms per benzyl group as the only substituents wherein a grafted repeating unit has formula (I) wherein n is from 1 to 4: and introducing the composition into the area of treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignees: ANTIA THERAPEUTICS S.A., UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Yves Chevalier, GĂ©raldine Agusti, Coralie Nyffenegger, Eric Doelker, Olivier Jordan, Gert Andersen