Patents Examined by Rosalynd Keys
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Patent number: 10000514Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing tetraalkoxysilane while saving energy at a high yield. Tetraalkoxysilane can be produced while saving energy at a high yield by the method including a first step of reacting alcohol with carbon dioxide in the presence of a dehydrating agent and/or in a reactor provided with a dehydrating means, and a second step of reacting a reaction mixture obtained in the first step with silicon oxide.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Norihisa Fukaya, Seong-Jib Choi, Jun-Chul Choi, Toshio Horikoshi, Kazuhiko Sato, Hiroyuki Yasuda
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Patent number: 9981992Abstract: A method of producing an alcohol, comprises reducing an aldehyde or a ketone with a hydridosilatrane. The reducing is carried out with an activator.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: The Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois UniversityInventors: Marc J. Adler, Thomas M. Gilbert, Sami E. Varjosaari, Vladislav Skrypai
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Patent number: 9960415Abstract: A silicon-carbon composite. In order to improve the cycle stability of a lithium cell equipped therewith, the silicon-carbon composite is produced by a condensation reaction of silicon particles surface-modified with a first condensation-capable group and carbon particles surface-modified with a second condensation-capable group, the silicon particles being covalently bonded to the carbon particles via the condensation reaction product of the first condensation-capable group and the second condensation-capable group. In addition, a method for the production thereof and to an electrode, an electrode material, and a lithium cell is described.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Pallavi Verma
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Patent number: 9851314Abstract: Provided are novel ligand, a chiral metal complex including the same, and a use of the chiral metal complex for analyzing the chirality of a charged compound by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The chiral metal complex of the present invention may be used as the chiral solvating agent to conveniently analyze the optical purity of charged compounds such as various amine derivatives, carboxylic acid derivatives, cyanohydrin derivatives and charged metal complexes by 1H NMR spectroscopy.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Hyunwoo Kim, Min-Seob Seo
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Patent number: 9845394Abstract: Provided are a method for easily and quickly producing a patterned thin film having a high refractive index and a high transparency, and a highly refractive thin film produced by the method. The method comprises a first step: a step of forming, on a substrate, a coating using a sol containing a metal oxide modified with a phosphorus compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an aliphatic heterocyclic group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group; R2 is a divalent organic residue; and n is 1 or 2); a second step: a step of curing the coating on the substrate obtained in the first step by light irradiation; and a third step: a step of further adding energy to the cured film obtained in the second step by heating and/or light irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignees: OSAKA MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DAIHACHI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kimihiro Matsukawa, Seiji Watase, Koji Mitamura, Manabu Hirata
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Patent number: 9828319Abstract: A process for the acid-catalyzed dehydration of ethanol, the process comprising the steps of distilling an ethanol feedstock (101) comprising at least one nitrogen-containing contaminant to form an overhead stream (102) and a bottom stream comprising ethanol (103), wherein the distillation has a reflux ratio of at least 20:1; and reacting the bottom stream in the presence of an acid catalyst to form a product stream comprising ethylene.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Technip E&C LimitedInventors: Leslie William Bolton, Nigel Stewart Brown, Lewis Adam Heptonstall, Andrew John Hogben, Susan Elizabeth Little, Stephen James Smith
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Patent number: 9809521Abstract: The disclosure relates to cannabinoid derivative compounds, pharmaceutical compositions made thereof, and methods for treating various diseases and disorders including cancer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SUTTER WEST BAY HOSPITALSInventors: Sean D. McAllister, Pierre-Yves Desprez, Anuradha Mahadevan
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Patent number: 9790155Abstract: A method for producing a polyether diol includes the step of subjecting a compound represented by the following general formula (1) to hydrogenation reduction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to provide a specific polyether diol.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Okamoto, Hideyuki Sato, Yoshiaki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9790175Abstract: In the present disclosure there is provided a process for obtaining di-sulfide oil having sodium level below 0.1 ppm wherein a stream comprising di-sulfide oil having sodium level 1 ppm, collected as a waste stream from LPG desulfurization unit, is passed through an alumina bed packed in a column at a pre-determined liquid hourly space velocity (LHSV) and at pre-determined temperature to obtain a treated stream comprising di-sulfide oil having sodium level below 0.1 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Reliance Industries LimitedInventors: Biswajit Shown, Nagarathinam Shenbaga Murthy, Asit Kumar Das, Swapan Ghosh, Bidhayak Das, Rajeshwer Dongara, Anirban Ray, Chirag Dalpatbhai Panseriya, Udayan Sivathanu Ramalakshmi, Atul Kathiria
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Patent number: 9783474Abstract: Described herein are processes for one-step delignification and hydrodeoxygenation of lignin fraction a biomass feedstock. The lignin feedstock is derived from by-products of paper production and biorefineries. Additionally described is a process for converting biomass-derived oxygenates to lower oxygen-content compounds and/or hydrocarbons in the liquid or vapor phase in a reactor system containing hydrogen and a catalyst comprised of a hydrogenation function and/or an oxophilic function and/or an acid function. Finally, also described herein is a process for converting biomass-derived oxygenates to lower oxygen-content compounds and/or hydrocarbons in the liquid or vapor phase in a reactor system containing hydrogen and a catalyst comprised of a hydrogenation function and/or an oxophilic function and/or an acid function.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: William Nicholas Delgass, Rakesh Agrawal, Fabio Henrique Ribeiro, Basudeb Saha, Sara Lynn Yohe, Mahdi M Abu-Omar, Trenton Parsell, Paul James Dietrich, Ian Michael Klein
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Patent number: 9771311Abstract: Method for coupling a phenol and an arene using selenium dioxide, and also novel phenol-arene derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Katrin Marie Dyballa, Robert Franke, Dirk Fridag, Michael Mirion, Thomas Quell, Siegfried R. Waldvogel
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Patent number: 9771457Abstract: Process for the production of a mercapto-terminated liquid polymer with the formula HS—R—(Sy —R)t —SH, wherein each R is independently selected from branched alkanediyl or branched arenediyi groups and groups with the structure —(CH2)p—O—(CH2)q—O—(CH2)r- and wherein 0-20% of the number of R-groups in the polymer are branched alkanediyl or branched arenediyl groups and 80-100% of the number of R-groups in the polymer have the structure —(CH2)p—O—(CH2)r—, wherein t has a value in the range 1-60, y is an average value in the range 1.0-1.5, q is an integer the range 1 to 8, and p and r are integers the range 1-10. The resulting polymer has an improved ability of recovering its original shape after release from deforming compression forces and improved tendency to recover during the application of those forces.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Jan Tobis, Olaf Klobes, Günter Sonnenburg
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Patent number: 9765001Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing arylpropenes, especially 1-methoxy-4-(1-propenyl)benzene (anethole), by means of thermolysis of the corresponding 1,1-diarylpropanes.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stefan Rüdenauer, Andreas Lanver, Ralf Pelzer, Klaus Ebel, Thomas Fenlon
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Patent number: 9745326Abstract: A bridged alkaline earth metal alkylphenate having reduced monomeric alkylphenol is prepared by reacting (a) a 4-alkylphenol, unsubstituted at the ortho positions, (b) an alkaline earth metal oxide or hydroxide, (c) a bridging agent comprising sulfur or a carbonyl compound of 1 to about 6, or to 4 or to 2, carbon atoms, and (d) a 2,6-dialkylphenol. The amount of the 2,6-dialkylphenol is 0.05 to 3 moles per 1 mole of the 4-alkylphenol; if there is a molar excess of the 2,6-dialkylphenol, then the excess is added after initial reaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Jayasooriya Sujith Perera, Gary M. Walker, Christopher J. Ciolli, Christopher L. Friend
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Patent number: 9745237Abstract: Problem The present invention is to provide a generation method that can generate 3,5-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl alcohol, which was not found at all from raw oyster meat originally, at an extraction phase of oyster meat essence. Solution The present invention heats raw oyster meat from which 3,5-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenzyl alcohol is not detected in a raw state at 98° C. to 100° C. for six hours or more to generate 3,5-dihydroxy-4-methoxybenyl alcohol from oyster meat liquid on which the heating process has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: WATANABE OYSTER LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsugu Watanabe, Takayuki Watanabe, Hideaki Watanabe
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Patent number: 9745422Abstract: Process for the preparation of a mercapto-terminated liquid polymer comprising the steps of: a) reacting (para)formaldehyde with a halo-alcohol to form a reaction mixture comprising bis(2-dihaloalkyl)formal and b) reacting the reaction mixture of step a) with either (i) sodium polysulfide or (ii) a combination of sodium hydrosulfide and sulfur, wherein the process is performed in the presence of a branching agent selected from the group consisting of di-aldehydes and their corresponding actetals and hemi-acetals.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AKZO NOBEL CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Manfred Menzel, Olaf Klobes, Volker Burkhardt
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Patent number: 9745259Abstract: A process for preparing an alcohol ether sulfate is disclosed which comprises: (a) sulfating an alkoxylated alcohol; and (b) neutralizing the sulfated product of step (a) in the presence of a base and a co-solvent having a flash point of at least 60° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Ping Wang, Curtis Bay Campbell
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Patent number: 9732101Abstract: Methods for enhancing cellular uptake of cargo molecules by boronating the cargo molecule, particularly with one or more phenylboronic acid groups. Boronation reagents for reversible boronation of cargo molecules, particularly, cargo molecules having one or more amino groups are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Ronald T. Raines, Thomas P. Smith
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Patent number: 9724322Abstract: The invention features 4-((phenoxyalkyl)thio)-phenoxyacetic acids and analogs, compositions containing them, and methods of using them as PPAR delta modulators to treat or inhibit the progression of, for example, dyslipidemia.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V.Inventors: Gee-Hong Kuo, Rui Zhang, Aihua Wang, Alan R. DeAngelis
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Patent number: 9718752Abstract: The invention provides a process for the recovery of an alkylene glycol from an aqueous stream comprising the alkylene glycol and the corresponding dialkylene glycol, said process comprising the steps of providing the aqueous stream comprising the alkylene glycol and the corresponding dialkylene glycol, providing a first solvent stream, combining said aqueous stream comprising the alkylene glycol and the corresponding dialkylene glycol with said first solvent stream and recovering at least a portion of the alkylene glycol by liquid-liquid extraction, wherein said solvent comprises an amine.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Kai Jürgen Fischer, Wouter Koot, Arlette Wesenhagen, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings