Patents Examined by Vasudevan S Jagannathan
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Patent number: 11203194Abstract: A fire resistant composite containing an inner core having an upper surface and a lower surface and a plurality of fabric layers. Each fabric layer contains a plurality of interwoven tape elements with a base layer of a strain oriented thermoplastic polymer disposed between covering layers of a heat fusible polymer. The fire resistant composite contains a first flame stable thermally conductive layer on the upper surface of the inner core having a high flame stability and a thermal conductivity of at least about 10 W/m-K at 25° C. and a second flame stable thermally conductive layer on the lower surface of the inner core having a high flame stability and a thermal conductivity of at least about 10 W/m-K at 25° C. The fire resistant composite further contains a first fire resistant polymer layer on the first flame stable thermally conductive layer on the side opposite to the inner core.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Milliken & CompanyInventors: Heather J. Hayes, Yunzhang Wang
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Patent number: 11085009Abstract: The present invention is an ethyl vanillin and/or vanillin friable shell-core microcapsule composition prepared by combining ethyl vanillin or vanillin with preformed friable shell-core microcapsules for a time sufficient for the ethyl vanillin or vanillin and microencapsulates to interact. Wash off consumer products and a method for depositing ethyl vanillin or vanillin on a surface are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.Inventors: Joseph Brain, Robert Muir, Tamara Wynn Hopkins
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Patent number: 10913921Abstract: A cleaning system for all laundry, high performance textiles, and sports gear, which includes a washing agent and a protective agent. The washing agent is configured to remove unwanted matter from the high performance textiles, sports gear, and/or other laundry. The protective agent is configured to create a bonded barrier comprising organosilane antimicrobial(s) on the high performance textiles, sports gear, and/or other laundry for protection against odors from bacteria, mold and mildew and/or the like. The washing agent and the protective agent are configured to be used in a two-step water-based treatment process in which the washing agent is provided in a given first step of the treatment process and the protective agent is provided in a given subsequent second step of the treatment process.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: HEX PERFORMANCE, LLCInventor: Drew Westervelt
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Patent number: 10881593Abstract: The present invention relates to benefit agent containing delivery particles, compositions comprising said particles, and processes for making and using the aforementioned particles and compositions. When employed in compositions, for example, cleaning or fabric care compositions, such particles increase the efficiency of benefit agent delivery, thereby allowing reduced amounts of benefit agents to be employed. In addition to allowing the amount of benefit agent to be reduced, such particles allow a broad range of benefit agents to be employed.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Johan Smets, An Pintens, Laura Orlandini, Sandra Jacqueline Guinebretiere, Peggy Dorothy Sands
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Patent number: 10870896Abstract: Solid particulate material containing a) at least one compound containing carbamoylsulphonate groups and b) at least one organic tanning agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Juergen Reiners, Christopher Tysoe, Holger Luetjens, Rafael Grosch, Franz Heinzelmann, Christopher Henzel
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Patent number: 10851330Abstract: Methods are provided for improving the papermaking process. In various embodiments, the methods include the application of alkali material in combination with an anionic polymeric dispersant and/or a hydroxyfunctional carboxylic acid to papermaking fabrics such that the application thereof removes contaminants from the papermaking fabrics and improves the drainage of said papermaking fabrics. Such alkali material in combination with an anionic polymeric dispersant and/or a hydroxyfunctional carboxylic acid can be applied as a single aqueous solution, and may further comprise a surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DuBois Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Harold Laser, Brandon E. Mahler
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Patent number: 10745769Abstract: The invention discloses a method for treating an animal substrate comprising: agitating the moistened animal substrate with a treatment formulation and a solid particulate material in a sealed apparatus wherein the treatment formulation comprises a tanning agent or a tannery process agent. The method can comprise applying the tanning agent or tannery process agent to the animal substrate wherein at least some of the agent so applied originates from the treatment formulation. There is also disclosed an animal substrate obtained by the method. The treatment formulation can be aqueous.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Xeros LimitedInventor: John Edward Steele
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Patent number: 10731230Abstract: The invention concerns a process for tanning hide to obtain leather. The general process for obtaining the intermediary wet blue stage comprises the following steps: a) a picking step with acid and salt, followed by b) a tanning step with chromium salt, followed by c) a basification step. The invention is characterized in that the bath of the pickling step comprises organic acids selected from 2-Methyl glutaric acid (MGA), ethyl succinic acid (ESA) and mixture thereof instead of the traditional strong acid, generally sulfuric acid This process requires less basification agent and enables an increase of the up-taking of the re-tanning products. This invention provides leather with improved mechanical properties.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TECHPOLYMERS INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO LtdaInventor: Wagner Célio Ferraz Lourenço
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Patent number: 10711262Abstract: The storage stability of enzyme granules for detergents can be improved by incorporating a polyamine having a molecule with at least 10% w/w of nitrogen wherein at least 50% of the N atoms are present as amines.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Peter Dybdahl Hede, Ole Simonsen
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Patent number: 10662400Abstract: The present invention provides a microcapsule composition produced by crosslinking of a polybranched polyamine and a small amine, which is used for stabilizing detergent components.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Amra Tihic Rasmussen, Kim Bruno Andersen, Katarina Larson, Lotte Elisabeth Nissen, Martin Noerby, Ole Simonsen, Tue Rasmussen
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Patent number: 10640917Abstract: An aqueous blend of an azetidinium functionalized polymer and a polymer having quaternary amine groups is disclosed for use as aqueous pretreatment for substrates such as textiles and garments that are going to be digitally printed. The pretreatment may further comprise wetting agents, surfactants, and preservatives. The pretreatment may be dry or wet immediately prior to digital printing and may be heat treated to bond the pretreatment to the substrate and/or the subsequent print ink.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: LUBRIZOL ADVANCED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Yun-Long Pan, Gary A. Anderle, Stacy L. Rohde
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Patent number: 10253232Abstract: An ester-based lubricating oil for use in a rotary screw compressor utilizing a chlorine-free hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant such as R-134a contains a product obtained from a reaction of tripentaerythritol and a mixed C5-C10 monocarboxylic acid, or a product obtained from a reaction of dipentaerythritol and a mixed C5-C10 monocarboxylic acid, and optionally a product obtained from a reaction of dipentaerythritol and a C5 monocarboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: PATECH FINE CHEMICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hsinheng Li, Jeng-Shiang Tsaih, Hsu-Hua Tang, Jung-Tsung Hung, Chih-Wei Wu, Tai-Her Tsai, Hsin-Li Huang
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Patent number: 10060073Abstract: Metallic based oily soils can be removed from garments by subjecting the garments to a pre-wash in an aqueous solution of a hydroxy diphosphonic acid such as HEDP under acidic conditions. Pre-washing the garments in the aqueous solution of HEDP at about 100 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15 minutes effectively removes the greasy soils, allowing them to be further laundered with an alkaline detergent composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Washing Systems, LLCInventors: Matt Praechter, Roy Praechter, Dave Tibbitts
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Patent number: 9957352Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing polyether carbonate polyols by the addition of alkylene oxides and carbon dioxide onto H-functional starter compounds. The method is characterized in that at least one urethane alcohol according to formula (II) is used as an H-functional starter compound, wherein R 1 represents a linear or branched C2 to C24-alkylene which can be optionally interrupted by heteroatoms such as O, S or N and can be substituted; R2 represents a linear or branched C2 to C24-alkylene which can be optionally interrupted by heteroatoms such as O, S or N and can be substituted; R3 represents H, linear or branched C1 to C24-alkyl, C3 to C24-cycloalkyl, C4 to C24-aryl, C5 to C24-arylalkyl, C2 to C24-alkenyl, C2 to 24-alkinyl, that can each be optionally interrupted by heteroatoms such as O, S, or N and/or may each be substituted with alkyl, aryl, and/or hydroxyl.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AGInventors: Jörg Hofmann, Monika Heinz, Hartmut Nefzger, Kai Laemmerhold, Bert Klesczewski, Thomas E. Müller, Aurel Wolf, Jens Langanke
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Patent number: 8193266Abstract: The use of compounds of the general formula I in aqueous binder-containing formulations, wherein the variables are each as defined as follows: R1 is selected from C1-C20-alkyl, straight chain or branched, or CO—C1-C19-alkyl or CO—C2-C19-alkenyl, straight chain or branched, R2 in each occurrence is the same or different and selected from C1-C3-alkyl, R3 is selected from C1-C20-alkyl, straight chain or branched, or CO—C1-C19-alkyl or CO—C2-C19-alkenyl, straight chain or branched, x is from 0 to 20, y is from 0 to 20, provided x and y are not both zero, a is from 1 to 3.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karl Siemensmeyer, Johann Mueller, Stefan Kuhn, Karl-Heinz Weigert, Oihana Elizalde
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Patent number: 8187712Abstract: To provide a plastic polarized lens which is excellent in processability and the like as well as in adhesion property of the polarized film, and a method of producing the same. In the plastic polarized lens of the present invention, layers comprised of thiourethane-based resins obtained by reacting (A) isocyanate compounds with (B) active hydrogen compounds are stacked on both sides of a polarized film comprised of thermoplastic polyester formed under a predetermined temperature condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignees: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Hopnic Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Ryu, Seiichi Kobayashi, Yoshimitsu Aiiso
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Patent number: 8183320Abstract: The invention is directed to the use of maleic esters selected from compounds of formulae (I), (II) and (III), as copolymerizable emulsifiers in the emulsion polymerization of olefinically unsaturated monomers, in which A is a C3-C40 alkyl group; X, Y and Z independently are hydrogen or methyl; B and D independently are sulfate, phosphate or hydrogen; n and p independently are numbers in the range from 0 to 40; and m is a number in the range from 2 to 40.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Cognis IP Management GmbHInventors: Ronald Klagge, Uwe Held, Thomas Mausberg, Katharina Hömberg, Thomas Schliwka
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Patent number: 8168723Abstract: Preparing brominated styrenic polymer by maintaining a mixture formed from (i) brominating agent, (ii) a solvent solution of styrenic polymer, and (iii) aluminum halide catalyst, at ?20 to +20° C., and terminating bromination in 20 minutes or less. New brominated anionic styrenic polymers have better melt flow and/or lower initial ?E values than the best previously-known brominated anionic styrenic polymers. Other features of such new polymers include high thermal stabilities at 320° C. and/or very low initial color values. Brominated styrenic polymers, especially brominated anionic styrenic polymers, are useful as flame retardants for thermoplastic polymers.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Charles H. Kolich, Jeffrey Todd Aplin, John F. Balhoff