Patents Examined by Mark S Kaucher
  • Patent number: 11976186
    Abstract: The invention provides a flame retardant polyolefin composition comprising a) an ethylene based plastomer with a density in the range of 0.850 to 0.915 g/cm3 and an MFR2 in the range 0.5-30 g/10 min; b) a propylene based plastomer with a density in the range of 0.860 to 0.910 g/cm3 and an MFR2 in the range 0.01-30 g/10 min; and c) a flame retardant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Bhawna Kulshreshtha, Johan Defoer
  • Patent number: 11976184
    Abstract: A process for producing a low density polyethylene with modified melt flow index, comprising subjecting to thermal visbreaking a precursor polyethylene (I) comprising 35% by weight or more of LDPE and blending the so obtained intermediate polyethylene product (II) with an additional polyethylene (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Maus, Timo Hees, Pascal Rebmann, Diana Doetsch, Katharina Elsas, Harilaos Mavridis, Gerhardus Meier
  • Patent number: 11976151
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a polymer polyol, comprising: (a) reacting a first mixture comprising an initiator, a polyol, a diluent, a stabilizer, a styrene-based monomer and a nitrile-based monomer; and (b) continuously adding, to the first mixture, a second mixture comprising an initiator, a polyol, a stabilizer, a styrene-based monomer and a nitrile-based monomer to react, wherein the first mixture and second mixture comprise the stabilizer in a weight ratio of 1:1 to 3, respectively, and a polymer polyol produced according to the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA KUMHO PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seulgi Kim, Gi Jung Kim, Jinwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11976183
    Abstract: A process for producing a low density polyethylene with modified melt flow index, comprising subjecting to thermal visbreaking a precursor polyethylene (I) comprising 35% by weight or more of LDPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Hees, Andreas Maus, Pascal Rebmann, Diana Doetsch, Katharina Elsas, Harilaos Mavridis, Gerhardus Meier
  • Patent number: 11970602
    Abstract: A first composition comprising a first ethylene/?-olefin/diene interpolymer and a second ethylene/?-olefin interpolymer, and wherein the first composition comprises from 0.1 to 1.0 wt % diene, based on the weight of the first composition, and wherein the first composition comprises from 40 to 70 wt % ethylene, based on the weight of the first composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xiaosong Wu, Guang Ming Li, Bo Lv, Tao Han, Colin LiPiShan
  • Patent number: 11965086
    Abstract: A styrene-isoprene-styrene triblock copolymer, a method for manufacturing the same, a composition, and an adhesive composition using the same are provided. The styrene-isoprene-styrene triblock copolymer includes a first polystyrene block, a polyisoprene block, and a second polystyrene block. Based on 100 wt % of the styrene-isoprene-styrene triblock copolymer, the content of the first polystyrene block and the second polystyrene block is 30-50 wt %, and the content of the polyisoprene block is 70-50 wt %. The weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the styrene-isoprene-styrene triblock copolymer is 40,000-75,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LCY CHEMICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Hung Wang, Ging-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 11958926
    Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin having an intended adhesion strength to various substrates even when graft modification may be carried out by using an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure. The modified polyolefin resin may be a modified product of a polyolefin resin and satisfies conditions (A) to (C): condition (A)—a modifying component includes an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative having a cyclic structure; condition (B)—a ring-opening degree expressed by formula (1) is 40 or more; and condition (C)—the polyolefin resin includes an ethylene structural unit, ring-opening degree=modification degree K×ring-opening rate R??(1) wherein, in the formula (1), the modification degree K is a grafting weight (wt. %) of the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative, and the ring-opening rate R is a ring-opening rate (%) of the cyclic structure in the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isamu Ono, Kei Kondo, Koji Kimura, Takato Takenaka, Yuuko Nahara, Shunji Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 11957757
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides method of making a nanoparticle complex wherein the nanoparticle complex comprises a ligand and a metal cation. The disclosure also provides nanoparticle complexes, methods of treating a disease in a patient utilizing the nanoparticle complexes, methods of identifying a disease in a patient utilizing the nanoparticle complexes, and kits involving the nanoparticle complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Feng Li, Wu Chen, Pengyu Chen
  • Patent number: 11952484
    Abstract: An electrical responsive graphene-PVDF material and the manufacturing method thereof is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes three steps. Firstly, prepare a mother solution of PVDF. Then, add graphene powders into the mother solution of PVDF to prepare a graphene-PVDF slurry. At last, remove the solvent from the graphene-PVDF slurry to directly form an electrical responsive graphene-PVDF material. Due to the ability of transforming the non-electrical energy into the electrical energy, the electrical responsive graphene-PVDF material can be formed for many different applications in the form of individual film or of film with a substrate via various film formation methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wei-Sung Hung, Jian-Xiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11945978
    Abstract: The invention is related to fast setting, bio-based hot melt adhesive compositions and use thereof. The bio-based hot melt adhesive compositions are based on renewable-based feedstock, making them environmentally friendly, and particularly suitable for sealing cardboard case, carton, and cardboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Henkel AG & CO. KGaA, Ingevity UK LTD., PURAC Biochem B.V.
    Inventors: Patrick Hayes, Michael Harwell, Jennifer Plummer
  • Patent number: 11939463
    Abstract: Provided is a resin composition having a large proportion of polyolefin components, allowing preparation of a solution having a high solid content, having a good solution property after long-term storage, having good pigment dispersibility, and including a modified product of component (A): polyolefin resin with component (B): (meth)acrylic acid and/or (meth)acrylic acid ester, in which the weight ratio of the component (A) to the component (B) ((A)/(B)) is 90/10 to 30/70, and the component (B) contains 20% by weight or more of component (B1): an alkoxy (poly)alkylene glycol mono(meth)acrylic acid ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Kono, Hitomi Abe, Minoru Yada, Naosuke Komoto
  • Patent number: 11939458
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polymer compositions, articles formed from polymer compositions, methods of making polymer compositions, and methods of making articles including polymer compositions. In at least one embodiment, a composition includes: (1) an ethylene polymer, (2) a vinyl alcohol polymer or a polyamide, and (3) a polar polymer or a grafted polyolefin. A composition of the present disclosure may further include a polypropylene polymer. A polar polymer may be an ethylene-acrylic-acid-copolymer, ethylene acrylate copolymer, a polyvinyl acetate, or combination(s) thereof. In at least one embodiment, a film includes a composition having: (1) an ethylene polymer, (2) a vinyl alcohol polymer or a polyamide, and (3) a polar polymer or a grafted polyolefin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Carolyne N. Szala, Martin Machado, Michael Martin-Gatius, Joachim F. Laun, Linda M. Van den Bossche
  • Patent number: 11939459
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition having good liquid repellency. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention at least contains a fluororesin having a crosslinking site, a solvent, and a photopolymerization initiator, and the fluororesin contains a repeating unit derived from a hydrocarbon having a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Central Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuzuru Kaneko, Satoru Miyazawa, Keiko Sasaki, Asuka Sano, Yusuke Nomura
  • Patent number: 11932775
    Abstract: A curable coating composition is provided having multi-functionalized acrylic copolymer and silicone imine resin curing agents. The acrylic copolymer of the curable coating composition has, in polymerized form, epoxy functionalized groups and cure compatibility groups and the silicone imine forms an amino-functional silicone in the presence of water. The coating compositions are useful in the field of superior weatherable and durable coatings and are useful to replace isocyanate-containing polyurethane based coatings. Also provided are coated articles produced from the curable composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Siliicones Corporation
    Inventors: Alan M. Piwowar, Ray E. Drumright, Erin B. Vogel, Gary M. Wieber, Patrick J. Fryfogle, Yanxiang Li, Susan M. Machelski, Paul J. Popa, Adam C. Tomasik, Gerald Lawrence Witucki
  • Patent number: 11932754
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a geosynthetic. In one embodiment, the geosynthetic contains a composition containing (A) a polypropylene and (B) from greater than 0 wt % to less than 3 wt % of a halogen-free flame retardant, based on the total weight of the composition. In another embodiment, the geosynthetic contains a composition containing (A) a polypropylene and (B) greater than 20 wt % zinc sulfide, based on the total weight of the composition. In another embodiment, the geosynthetic contains a composition containing (A) a polypropylene; (B) a halogen-free flame retardant; and (C) greater than 20 wt % zinc sulfide, based on the total weight of the composition. The composition has a specific gravity greater than 1.00 g/cc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Propex Operating Company, LLC
    Inventors: Chastity Adkins, Drew Loizeaux, Scott Manning, Lee Pierce
  • Patent number: 11920024
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method that enables the use of an aqueous solution of a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and an alkali metal neutralized product of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid or carboxymethyl cellulose or a salt thereof, as a binder for secondary batteries, without causing a significant viscosity increase even if stored in the state of an aqueous solution. More specifically, the present invention provides a composition in the form of an aqueous solution containing a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and an alkali metal neutralized product of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or carboxymethyl cellulose or a salt thereof, wherein when the viscosity of the composition after being diluted with water (25° C. or less) to a viscosity of 200±100 mPa·s at room temperature (25° C.) and being adjusted to a temperature of 25° C. is defined as Xa1 (Pa·s), and the viscosity of the composition after being placed in an airtight container and being allowed to stand at 95° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Hashimoto, Koji Fujita
  • Patent number: 11920027
    Abstract: A polymer blend membrane includes a polyether-based copolymer and a polyether polymerized in situ and has high permeability and high selectivity for carbon dioxide. In the polymer blend membrane, the free volume of the polyether-based copolymer is greatly increased, and the adsorption capacity for carbon dioxide is enhanced. Thus, it can have excellent mechanical properties and excellent permeability and selectivity for carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Jong Suk Lee, Munsuk Seong, Heseong An, Ju Ho Shin
  • Patent number: 11912807
    Abstract: A composite for sensing heat or infrared light includes a block copolymer including a first structural group represented by Chemical Formula 1, a second structural group represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a third structural group represented by Chemical Formula 3; and a polyvalent metal ion that is coordinated with a side chain group of the block copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yeong Suk Choi, Tae Hyun Kim, Linghui Wang, Vincenzo Costanza, Zhun Zhou, Chiara Daraio
  • Patent number: 11912829
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a new class of cationic linear polyphosphazenes bearing as side groups a hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) and a spacer group selected from the group consisting of lysine, oligopeptides containing lysine, amino-ethanol, amino-propanol, amino-butanol, amino-pentanol and amino-hexanol, and the polyphosphazene-drug conjugates comprising hydrophobic anticancer drugs by covalent bonding and the preparation methods thereof. The present polyphosphazene-drug conjugates exhibit outstanding tumor selectivity and low toxicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CNPHARM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youn Soo Sohn, Yong Joo Jun, Prakash Gouda Avaji
  • Patent number: 11912931
    Abstract: A polymeric surfactant for use in chemical enhanced oil recovery, including a terpolymer of a first non-ionic monomer, a second non-ionic monomer, and an ionic monomer, the first non-ionic monomer being a hydrophilic monomer and the second non-ionic monomer being a hydrophobic monomer, the ionic monomer being in a lower proportion than the first and second non-ionic monomers. A method of preparation of polymeric surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: YPF TECNOLOGÍA S.A., CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y TÉCNICAS (CONICET)
    Inventors: Omar Azzaroni, Juan Martín Giussi, Agustín Iborra, Isabel Vega