Patents Examined by Michael F Pepitone
  • Patent number: 11612548
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radiation-curable radiopaque dental composition comprising a resin matrix comprising cross-linkable component(s) as Component A, ethylenically unsaturated component(s) with acidic moiety as Component B, an initiator system comprising photoinitiator(s) as Component C, reducing agent(s) as Component D, Component A containing at least two (meth)acrylate moieties and a brominated aromatic moiety selected from brominated resorcinol, catechol, tyrosol, benzoic acid, or phenol moieties. The composition can be used for producing an x-ray visible dental adhesive composition, restoration primer or dental sealant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Christoph H. Thalacker, Adrian S. Eckert, Henry Loll, Karsten Dede
  • Patent number: 11607371
    Abstract: At least one individually sealed dental composition that includes a layer of a thermoplastic film; a covering film that is a heat sealable or pressure sealable adhesive liner that covers a dental cement composition; a seal around an individual use dosage of the dental cement composition wherein the extrudable dental cement composition is extrudable through a die. The dental cement composition typically has a textured surface thereon and the at least one dry, powdered hydrophilic polymeric substance is engaged with and dispersed on the textured surface of the dental cement composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: OrVance, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Silver, Charles Schryver, Ronald J. Schutt
  • Patent number: 11608437
    Abstract: A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises: about 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin; about 15 to about 100 parts by weight of glass fibers; and about 2 to about 20 parts by weight of a modified olefin copolymer, the modified olefin copolymer comprising an epoxy modified olefin copolymer and a maleic anhydride modified olefin copolymer, wherein the weight ratio of the epoxy modified olefin copolymer and the maleic anhydride modified olefin copolymer is about 1:0.3 to about 1:3. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent impact resistance, chemical resistance, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Lotte Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Min Soo Lee, Eric Arifin, Bong Jae Lee, Seon Hui Lee, Sang Hyun Hong
  • Patent number: 11603457
    Abstract: Provided is a curable composition including oxide particles that include at least indium and tin, and to which a ligand having a hydrocarbon group and a binding site to the oxide particles is bonded; and a polymerizable compound, in which a content of the oxide particles in the composition is 18 mass % or more with respect to a total solid content of the composition; and a cured product of the curable composition or a lens unit including the cured product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Ono, Masahiro Takata, Takeharu Tani
  • Patent number: 11602490
    Abstract: To provide one liquid type dental adhesive composition that exhibits excellent adhesive property to glass ceramics, oxide-base ceramics and tooth substance, and has excellent storage stability, which are contrary features. One liquid type dental adhesive composition contains (a) silane coupling agent represented by general formula (1), (b) acidic group-containing polymerizable monomer, (c) volatile organic solvent, and (d) water. (In the formula, R1 represents an organic group having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acryloyl group, a vinyl group and an epoxy group, R2 represents C4-C8 linear alkyl group, R3 represents C1-C8 alkyl group, and n is integer selected from 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Naoya Kitada, Rei Nishimura, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11602491
    Abstract: A dental filling material comprising bioactive borate glass particles, wherein the particles are at a concentration of 40-60 wt %, a co-monomer resin blend, a photoinitiator, and a co-initiator is provided. Method for applying the dental filling material to a tooth structure are also provided. The temporary filling material re-mineralizes the tooth structure and is removed after 1-7 days for the placement of a permanent filling material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ahmed Samir Ibrahim Bakry, Mona Aly Abbassy, Ali Habiballah Hassan
  • Patent number: 11589977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a kit for preparing a customizable flesh simulating silicone gel or a flesh simulating silicone foam in particular for use in medical devices and a process for preparing said customizable flesh simulating silicone gel or silicone foam, in particular by using a 3D-printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: ELKEM SILICONES USA CORP., ELKEM SILICONES GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Matthew Kihara, Francois Martin, Matthew Ryan, Yan Meng, Leeanne Brown
  • Patent number: 11584097
    Abstract: The invention provides a thermal cast-molding method for producing colored silicone hydrogel contact lenses. The method of the invention comprises: (1) forming, on a molding surface of a mold, a transferable colored polymeric composite film which comprises or consists essentially of a first polymeric film, a second polymeric film and a cured colored image encapsulated therewithin; (2) dispensing a silicone hydrogel lens formulation into the lens-forming cavity of the mold; and (4) thermally curing the third polymerizable composition within the lens-forming cavity for at least about 40 minutes to form the colored silicone hydrogel contact lens, whereby the transferable, colored, and polymeric composite film detaches from the first or second molding surface and becomes integral with the body of the silicone hydrogel contact lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Yun Zhang, Changhong Yin, Richard Charles Breitkopf
  • Patent number: 11571368
    Abstract: A dental polymerizable composition includes: a first component containing a (meth)acrylate, a pentavalent vanadium compound, and a thiourea derivative; and a second component containing a (meth)acrylate and an organic peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Murakami, Hiroaki Kakinuma, Keita Sato
  • Patent number: 11564882
    Abstract: Described is a milling blank for producing an indirect dental restoration, composed of resin or a resin-based composite, containing water in an amount of at least 25% of the water sorption Wsp. Described is further a method for producing such a milling blank or a moulded part produced therefrom for use as an indirect dental restoration, a use of the water sorption method, a kit for producing indirect dental restorations and a method for indirect dental restoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: VOCO GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Maletz, Nils Fontein, Daniel Oldenburger, Manfred Thomas Plaumann
  • Patent number: 11560478
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dental addition silicone impression material containing: an organopolysiloxane; and a nonionic surfactant, wherein the organopolysiloxane contains M units represented by the formula: R3SiO1/2, in which R is a substituted or an unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or an unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or an unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or an unsubstituted alkoxy group or hydroxy group, and three R's are identical or different, and Q units represented by the chemical formula: SiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiya Kaminosono, Kyousuke Hirano
  • Patent number: 11542353
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing photochromic silicone hydrogel (SiHy) contact lenses based on thermal cast-molding technology in a relatively efficient and consistent manner. The method is characterized by selecting a high radical-reactive hydrophilic acrylic monomer while eliminating any low radical-reactive hydrophilic N-vinyl amide monomer in a lens formulation (polymerizable composition), by selecting a weight ratio of low-radical-reactive hydrophilic N-vinyl amide monomer to a high radical-reactive hydrophilic acrylic monomer in a lens formulation if the low radical-reactive hydrophilic N-vinyl amide monomer is needed, and/or by using a relatively high temperature thermal initiator in a lens formulation, to control the lens properties (e.g., water content, elastic modulus, etc.) and lens processability (capability of dry-delensing from molds) of thermally cast-molded SiHy contact lenses while minimizing loss in photochromic ability of resultant SiHy contact lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Weihong Lang, Junhao Ge, Steve Yun Zhang, Daqing Wu
  • Patent number: 11535774
    Abstract: A bitumen cutback composition is described substantially comprising Compound A with a formula: R1-X—R2??[COMPOUND A] where R1 is alkyl or phenyl hydrocarbon group; X is an O—C?O group; and R2 is a C1-C13 hydrocarbon chain branched or non-branched, with none, one, or more than one, oxygen interruption(s). The bitumen cutback composition may comprise: alkyl esters of fatty acids, esters of trihydroxy alcohols, mono ester, or di, or tri, hydroxy alcohols, phenyl alkyl esters, phenoxy alcohols and their esters, ether alcohols and their esters, and combinations thereof. Cutback bitumen mixtures are described comprising bitumen; and bitumen cutback composition. The cutback bitumen mixtures may be configured as a hot mix composition; a cold mix composition; or an emulsion, the emulsion further comprising an aqueous compound. Methods of temporarily reducing a viscosity of bitumen and methods of applying bitumen to a substrate are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TECHNIX ENVIROCUTTER IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Wallace Rae, John Brodie Matthews, Nargess Puladian, Jie Chen, Lijin Kuriachan
  • Patent number: 11536880
    Abstract: A method of using an absorber of electromagnetic radiation, includes absorbing electromagnetic radiation with the absorber finely distributed or dissolved in a carrier material. The absorber is a crystal water-free iron(II) orthophosphate of the general formula Fe3(PO4)2 or crystal water-free iron(II) metal orthophosphate, iron(II) metal phosphonate, iron(II) metal pyrophosphate or iron(II) metal metaphosphate of the general formula FeaMetb(POc)d, where a is a number from 1 to 5, b is a number from >0 to 5, c is a number from 2.5 to 5, d is a number from 0.5 to 3 and Met represents one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, the transition metals (d block), the metals and semimetals of the third, fourth and fifth main groups, and the lanthanoids or combinations of the above mentioned phosphates as absorbers of electromagnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Chemische Fabrik Budenheim KG
    Inventors: Rüdiger Wissemborski, Christian Litterscheid, Rainer Schnee, Franziska Welsch-Papenbreer, Joachim Adolf
  • Patent number: 11518847
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a composition that includes where R1 includes at least one of a saturated hydrocarbon and/or an unsaturated hydrocarbon, R3 includes at least one of a saturated hydrocarbon and/or an unsaturated hydrocarbon, A includes at least one of a saturated hydrocarbon or an unsaturated hydrocarbon, 1?x?1000, and 1?y?1000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Gregg Tyler Beckham, Nicholas A. Rorrer
  • Patent number: 11510851
    Abstract: The invention relates to an application device with a handle part and an application part, the application part having a surface onto which a redox initiator system is located, the redox initiator system comprising either hydrophilic oxidizing agent(s) and hydrophobic reducing agent (s), or hydrophobic oxidizing agent(s) and hydrophilic reducing agent(s). The invention also relates to a kit comprising the application device, a method of producing the application device and a method or curing a curable composition using the application device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Christoph H. Thalacker, Henry Loll
  • Patent number: 11504306
    Abstract: A dental glass ionomer cement composition that exhibits high mechanical properties. In particular, the dental glass ionomer cement composition of the present disclosure comprising (a) non-crosslinked polyalkenoic acid, (b) water, (c) crosslinked polyalkenoic acid: 0.01 to 10 wt. %, and (d) acid-reactive glass powder, exhibits extremely high compressive strength by including the crosslinked polyalkenoic acid in the specified content range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHOFU INC.
    Inventors: Shuji Sakamoto, Shun Shimosoyama, Katsuya Kimoto
  • Patent number: 11504303
    Abstract: A dental tissue regenerative composition. The composition includes a combination of (1) human dental pulp stem cells and (2) at least one of human umbilical vein endothelial cells or vascular endothelial growth factor. The combination is encapsulated in a light-activated gelatin methacrylate hydrogel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignees: TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE, THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: Pamela C. Yelick, Ali Khademhosseini
  • Patent number: 11484476
    Abstract: A gutta-percha-silver composite with determined weight percentage and particle size, is provided. The composite exhibits electro-conductivity greater than the standard gutta-percha composites. The new material simplifies root canal treatments, shortens the times both for clinician and patients, and reduces the exposure to patients from X-rays. The material is not only electro-conductive; it is anti-bacterial, which improves the outcomes of the procedures. Also, it has improved thermal conductivity, and mechanical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
    Inventors: Fabio Savoldi, Jukka Pekka Matinlinna, Kit Hon James Tsoi, Corrado Paganelli, Luca Visconti, Giovanni Rasia Dal Polo
  • Patent number: 11485067
    Abstract: A resin composition for a modeling material for use in shaping a modeling material (4) by an ink-jet photofabrication method, the resin composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of the whole resin composition, 19 to 49 parts by weight of a water-insoluble monofunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer (A), 15 to 50 parts by weight of a di- or more-functional polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer (B), 10 to 45 parts by weight of an oligomer (C), and a photopolymerization initiator (D). By this resin composition for a modeling material, a photofabrication product having good dimensional accuracy can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Kitou, Taeko Izumo