Patents Examined by Sathavaram I Reddy
  • Patent number: 11970821
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11958233
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method and inkjet compositions are disclosed. The method includes selectively depositing by inkjet printing, layer by layer, a first composition and a second composition onto a receiving media from different dispensers to form polymerizable deposited layers. The first composition includes one or more free-radical polymerizable compounds and a cationic photoinitiator and is devoid of compounds able to undergo cationic photopolymerization within the first composition. The second composition includes one or more cationic polymerizable compounds and is devoid of cationic photoinitiators. At least one of the compositions includes a radical photoinitiator. The method further includes exposing the deposited layers to actinic radiation to initiate polymerization of the free-radical polymerizable compounds and the cationic polymerizable compounds within the deposited layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: STRATASYS LTD
    Inventors: Ira Yudovin-Farber, Eduardo Napadensky, Avi Levy, Daniel Dikovsky
  • Patent number: 11945972
    Abstract: A composition including a first color shifting pigment having a first color shift that extends from a starting color at normal through a plurality of colors as a viewing angle is increased to a final color, wherein the first color shift rotates counterclockwise relative to, and about, an origin of the L*a*b* color space; and a color filter that transmits a portion of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment and absorbs a remainder of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment; wherein the composition has a second color shift different from the first color shift; and wherein the second color shift has a first portion that rotates counterclockwise relative to the origin and a second portion that rotates clockwise relative to the origin is disclosed. A security device including the composition is included. A method of making the composition and a method of authenticating the security device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Cornelis Jan Delst, Paul Thomas Kohlmann
  • Patent number: 11915623
    Abstract: A flexible display module, a manufacturing method thereof, and a flexible display device are provided. The flexible display module includes a flexible display panel; a back plate, a buffer material layer, a first adhesive layer, and a metal plate under the flexible display panel; a polarizer, a second adhesive layer, and a cover plate on the flexible display panel. The back plate is positioned in a non-bending area. The buffer material layer is positioned in a bending area and is disposed in a same layer as the back plate. A side of the first adhesive layer is bonded to the back plate and the buffer material layer, and another side thereof is bonded to the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11890855
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and an impact resistance layer. The display panel includes a first display area, a second display area, a first folding display area between the first display area and the second display area, a third display area, and a second folding display area between the second display area and the third display area. The first folding display area is out-foldable such that the first display area is faces outside the display device. The impact resistance layer includes a first portion corresponding to the first display area, the first folding display area and the second display area and a second portion corresponding to the second display area, the second folding display area, and the third display area. The first portion has an elastic modulus greater than the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min-Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 11858250
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an electronic device member that is superior in ease of handling, without any loss of flatness or performance (e.g. flexibility and dielectric properties) despite being a dielectric sheet having a dielectric polymer cured material that is physically fragile. Disclosed herein is a layered body including (L1) a single layer or multiple layers of a high dielectric sheet that includes a polymer cured material having a dielectric functional group, and at least one (L2) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and in general further having (L3) an electrode layer and/or (L4) a non-silicone thermoplastic resin layer, and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DOW TORAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukui, Takeaki Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11845879
    Abstract: A recording material including a support having at least one colored surface and a layer of polymeric material is described. The layer including polymeric particles has a core/shell structure, and the particles are either (i) particles having an outermost polymer shell having a calculated Tg of from 40° C. to 80° C., or (ii) particles having an inner polymer shell having a calculated Tg of from 40° C. to 130° C. and an outer polymer shell having a calculated Tg of from ?55° C. to 50° C. The calculated Tg of said outer polymer shell is lower than that of said inner polymer shell, the particles including, when dry, at least one void capable of providing opacity to said layer, and the colored surface has sufficient color density to be visibly contrasting to a surface of the subsequent layer including the polymeric particles disposed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY
    Inventors: Lan Deng, Brian R. Einsla, Chao-Jen Chung, Thomas William Kermis, Rebecca LuAnn Smith
  • Patent number: 11832680
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for color printing onto nonwhite substrates and articles. For example, an article of apparel is provided that includes multiple layers of ink with a combination of a white ink and at least one color ink, and each layer having a ratio of white ink to color ink, wherein the ratio is the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd W. Miller
  • Patent number: 11799997
    Abstract: A display device includes a flat portion defined by a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, a bent portion disposed on at least one side of the flat portion and bent in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, a display panel disposed over the flat portion and the bent portion, a cover window disposed on the display panel and disposed over the flat portion and the bent portion, and a bonding member disposed between the display panel and the cover window, where the bonding member has a modulus that increases as a temperature increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won Seok Kim, Jung Hoon Shin, Ho Yun Byun
  • Patent number: 11795564
    Abstract: This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes an aluminum alloy substrate and an anodized layer overlaying and formed from the aluminum alloy substrate. The anodized layer includes pores, where the pores include (i) dye particles that impart the anodized layer with a color, and (ii) divalent metal cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: James A. Curran, James A. Dean, Todd S. Mintz
  • Patent number: 11795622
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11795340
    Abstract: A reactive ink composition comprising a UV-C radiation sensitive polymer, an acid scavenger, a photoinitiator, and a pH-sensitive dye. A method to print a composition onto a UV-C radiation dosimeter using a “layer-by-layer” deposition technique, as well as a dosimeter comprising the reactive ink composition, useful in monitoring the efficiency of a UV-C radiation sterilization or disinfection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: TERRAGENE S.A., TERRAGENE LLC
    Inventors: Esteban Lombardía, Adrián Jesús Rovetto
  • Patent number: 11795334
    Abstract: A photo-curable ink composition is provided, the composition including: a polymer including a structural unit represented by General Formula 1 below; and a radical-polymerizable monomer, in which a total content of a monofunctional radical-polymerizable monomer and a bifunctional radical-polymerizable monomer is 50% by mass or more with respect to a total amount of the composition: in which, in General Formula 1: R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; X represents an oxygen atom or —NR2—, R2 representing a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; Y represents a group including at least one selected from the group consisting of a thioether structure, a phosphorus atom, and a hindered phenol structure; and * represents a bonding site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Suzuki, Noriaki Sato, Ichiro Koyama
  • Patent number: 11800656
    Abstract: The invention aims to provide an electronic device housing that can maintain the antenna performance without deteriorating the radio communication performance, ensures uniform characteristics as one molded electronic device housing in spite of consisting of a plurality of members, and show excellent features in terms of the degree of warpage and dimensional accuracy as well as small deformation in high temperature environments and high mass productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsushige Hamaguchi, Takashi Fujioka, Masato Honma
  • Patent number: 11794459
    Abstract: The disclosed panels generally comprise a protective layer composed of a paper impregnated with a melamine resin. The protective layer may be incorporated into a panel comprising a rigid composite core, such as a plastic composite core or a mineral composite core. Disclosed are also methods for manufacturing the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Columbia Insurance Company
    Inventors: Anthony Drevet, Philippe Erramuzpe, Shawn Liao, Felix Herrera
  • Patent number: 11794505
    Abstract: A resin dispersion for dye receiving layer of a thermal transfer image-receiving sheet, including a polyester resin particle and an aqueous medium. The polyester resin particle includes a polyester resin that is a polycondensate of an alcohol component including at least one of a propylene oxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane and an ethylene oxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane, and a carboxylic acid component including an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid compound having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less. A molar ratio of the propylene oxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane to the ethylene oxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane in the alcohol component is 0/100 or more and 40/60 or less. A molar ratio of the ethylene oxide adduct of 2,2-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane to the aliphatic dicarboxylic acid compound having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less is 2.1 or more and 15 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Fukuri, Hiroto Soma, Christopher Johnson
  • Patent number: 11799199
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an electronic device housing that is able to maintain the antenna performance without deteriorating the radio communication performance, excellent in terms of the degree of warpage and dimensional accuracy, and mass productivity. The electronic device housing includes a fiber reinforcing member (a) and a fiber reinforcing member (b), wherein the fiber reinforcing member (a) contains a resin (a1) and a fiber (a2), the fiber (a2) being in the form of discontinuous fibers; the fiber reinforcing member (b) contains a resin (b1) and a fiber (b2), the fiber (b2) being in the form of continuous fibers; the projected area of the fiber reinforcing member (a) accounts for 60% or more of the total projected area, which accounts for 100%, of the housing projected onto the plane of the top face; and requirements (i) and/or (ii) given below are met: (i) the resin (a1) is a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of more than 265° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsushige Hamaguchi, Takashi Fujioka, Masato Honma
  • Patent number: 11706874
    Abstract: A method to manufacture an article comprises applying an ink to a substrate. The ink includes a liquid vehicle, a plurality of solid metal particles, a plurality of gallium-containing particles, and a thermally activated flux. The method further comprises curing the ink by heating the substrate to within an activation temperature range of the flux. The article manufactured by this method comprises a substrate, an electronically conductive film arranged on the substrate, and an adherent barrier layer covering both the substrate and the film. The film includes a plurality of solid metal particles with a gallium-based liquid metal bridging the plurality of solid metal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Siyuan Ma, James David Holbery
  • Patent number: 11679580
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a ceramic shell, a mobile terminal and a method for manufacturing the ceramic shell. The ceramic shell includes a multi-layer ceramic blank sheet including a plurality of alternately overlapped ceramic blank sheets having at least one white ceramic blank sheet overlapped with at least one color ceramic blank sheet, wherein two of the plurality of alternately overlapped ceramic blank sheets on an outermost side of the multi-layer ceramic blank sheet are both white ceramic blank sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jihong Liu, Jinlong Wang
  • Patent number: 11680175
    Abstract: A composition including a first color shifting pigment having a first color shift that extends from a starting color at normal through a plurality of colors as a viewing angle is increased to a final color, wherein the first color shift rotates counterclockwise relative to, and about, an origin of the L*a*b* color space; and a color filter that transmits a portion of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment and absorbs a remainder of the first color shift of the first color shifting pigment; wherein the composition has a second color shift different from the first color shift; and wherein the second color shift has a first portion that rotates counterclockwise relative to the origin and a second portion that rotates clockwise relative to the origin is disclosed. A security device including the composition is included. A method of making the composition and a method of authenticating the security device are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Cornelis Jan Delst, Paul Thomas Kohlmann