Patents Examined by Yong L Chu
  • Patent number: 12220683
    Abstract: An amine-functionalized adsorbent and a method for preparing the same are provided. The amine-functionalized adsorbent includes a metal-organic framework (MOF) material and polymeric amine, the crystal structure of the MOF material is a three-dimensional cage-like pore structure, and the polymeric amine is loaded inside the three-dimensional cage-like pore structure. The amine-functionalized adsorbent has high adsorption capacity and rapid adsorbing speed of carbon dioxide at room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: DECARBON TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zuotai Zhang, Feng Yan, Xin Sun, Jiyun Xu
  • Patent number: 12221352
    Abstract: Provided is a method for stably conducting a process for producing chlorosilanes by a chlorination reaction of metallic silicon. When producing chlorosilanes by the chlorination reaction of the metallic silicon, metallic silicon having a sodium content of 1 ppm or more and 90 ppm or less in terms of element and an aluminum content of 1000 ppm or more and 4000 ppm or less in terms of element is used as the metallic silicon. An average particle diameter of the metallic silicon is preferably about 150 ?m to 400 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Ogihara, Shoji Iiyama, Kunihiko Matsumura
  • Patent number: 12214334
    Abstract: A supported catalyst particles include oxide carrier particles and noble metal particles supported on the oxide carrier particles, wherein the mass of the noble metal particles is less than or equal to 5 mass % based on the mass of the oxide carrier particles, and the average particle size of the noble metal particles measured by transmission electron microscopy is 1.0-2.0 nm, with the standard deviation ? less than or equal to 0.8 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nihashi, Shogo Kawamura, Tomomasa Aikawa, Isao Naito, Shogo Shirakawa, Masahide Miura, Nobuyuki Takagi, Norimichi Shimano
  • Patent number: 12208370
    Abstract: Modified chemical structures of cardanol extracted from cashew nut shell oil, and the use of the same to prepare imidazolium ionic liquids (IILs). The IILs can be used to prepare different types of silica, magnetite and calcium carbonate nanoparticles (NPs) as multifunctional oilfield chemicals for use in various oil spill collection, de-emulsification, viscosity improvement, asphaltene dispersant, and enhanced oil recovery applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ayman M. Atta, Hamad A. Al-Lohedan, Abdelrahman O. Ezzat, Ali K. Aldalbahi
  • Patent number: 12208371
    Abstract: Modified chemical structures of cardanol extracted from cashew nut shell oil, and the use of the same to prepare imidazolium ionic liquids (IILs). The IILs can be used to prepare different types of silica, magnetite and calcium carbonate nanoparticles (NPs) as multifunctional oilfield chemicals for use in various oil spill collection, de-emulsification, viscosity improvement, asphaltene dispersant, and enhanced oil recovery applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ayman M. Atta, Hamad A. Al-Lohedan, Abdelrahman O. Ezzat, Ali K. Aldalbahi
  • Patent number: 12194443
    Abstract: Present exemplary embodiments provide a nano-hybrid catalyst including: a two-dimensional platinum (Pt) nanodendrite sheet layer with a controlled crystal plane; and a NiFe layered double hydroxide nanosheet layer, in which the two-dimensional platinum (Pt) nanodendrite sheet layer with the controlled crystal plane and the NiFe layered double hydroxide nanosheet layer are alternately stacked, and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: In Su Lee, Dutta Soumen, Yurim Hong
  • Patent number: 12194434
    Abstract: Modified chemical structures of cardanol extracted from cashew nut shell oil, and the use of the same to prepare imidazolium ionic liquids (IILs). The IILs can be used to prepare different types of silica, magnetite and calcium carbonate nanoparticles (NPs) as multifunctional oilfield chemicals for use in various oil spill collection, de-emulsification, viscosity improvement, asphaltene dispersant, and enhanced oil recovery applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ayman M. Atta, Hamad A. Al-Lohedan, Abdelrahman O. Ezzat, Ali K. Aldalbahi
  • Patent number: 12195332
    Abstract: A method for producing a weakly acidic hypochlorous acid aqueous solution comprises (A) an ion-exchange step for generating molecular hypochlorous acid dissolved in a mixed solution by mixing a raw material aqueous solution composed of an aqueous solution of a metal salt of hypochlorous acid with an acidic ion-exchange resin to perform ion exchange between the metal ions and the hydrogen ions, and (B) a separation step for separating the acidic ion-exchange resin from the mixed solution after the ion-exchange step and obtaining weakly acidic hypochlorous acid aqueous solution in which molecular hypochlorous acid is dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TOKUYAMA DENTAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayumi Takahashi, Eibu Sakata, Kouichirou Hirata, Hideki Kazama
  • Patent number: 12195337
    Abstract: A bundle of carbon nanotubes (CNT), comprising a plurality of CNT with lengths of at least about 7 microns, wherein the bundle has a diameter of less than about 12 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Chasm Advanced Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ricardo A. Prada Silvy, Sathish Kumar Lageshetty
  • Patent number: 12191486
    Abstract: A method for preparing a positive electrode active material for a lithium battery consisting of a lithiated oxide comprising titanium and optionally one or more other metal elements comprising the following successive steps: a) a step of forming a precipitate comprising titanium and the optional other metal element(s) by contacting a titanium coordination complex and, if necessary, at least one salt of the other metal element(s) with an aqueous medium; b) a step of recovering the precipitate thus formed; c) a step of calcining the precipitate in the presence of a lithium source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: David Peralta, Carole Bourbon, Jean-François Colin, Nathalie Herlin-Boime, Jérémie Fondard
  • Patent number: 12179187
    Abstract: Nanoparticles that can be used as hydrosilylation and dehydrogenative silylation catalysts. The nanoparticles have at least one transition metal with an oxidation state of 0, chosen from the metals of columns 8, 9 and 10 of the periodic table, and at least one carbonyl ligand, preferably a silicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: ELKEM SILICONES FRANCE SAS, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON I, CPE LYON FORMATION CONTINUE ET RECHERCHE—CPE LYON CFR, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS
    Inventors: Valérie Meille, Chlóe Thieuleux, Laurent Veyre, Iurii Suleimanov, Thomas Galeandro-Diamant, Magali Bousquie
  • Patent number: 12179176
    Abstract: Rare earth element containing catalysts for dehydrogenating paraffins and the methods of making the catalysts are disclosed. A rare earth modified alumina support in eta-alumina form, theta-alumina form, or combinations thereof is impregnated with chromium-containing solution. The chromium-impregnated support is then subjected to calcination processes. The produced catalyst contains the rare earth element, chromium, and alumina. The crush strength of the produced catalyst is greater than 0.4 daN/mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Biju Maippan Devassy, Rekha Mahadevaiah, Prashant Kumar Raichur Krishtacharya, Vinod Sankaran Nair
  • Patent number: 12179173
    Abstract: Compositions are provided for efficient uranium extraction, for example from wastewater, seawater, or other water sources. The compositions can include a functionalized porous organic polymer functionalized with one or more uranium binding moieties, e.g. having a plurality of amidoxime or amidrazone groups covalently attached thereto. The compositions can include covalent organic frameworks, porous aromatic frameworks, and various porous organic polymers, especially those having a hierarchical pore size distribution over a range of pore sizes. The compositions can have functional groups such as amidoxime or an amidrazone covalently attached thereto. The hierarchical pore size distribution can be determined based upon at least 60% of the pore sizes in the range of pore sizes having a pore volume of at least 0.01 cm3 g?1 in the pore size distribution at 77 K. Methods of making the compositions and methods of using the compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    Inventors: Shengqian Ma, Qi Sun, Briana Aguila
  • Patent number: 12171229
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel heteroaryl-triazole and heteroaryl-tetrazole compounds of the general formula (I), in which the structural elements Y, Q1, Q2, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meaning given in the description, to formulations and compositions comprising such compounds and for their use in the control of animal pests including arthropods and insects in plant protection and to their use for control of ectoparasites on animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alexander Arlt, Werner Hallenbach, Hans-Georg Schwarz, Martin Fuesslein, Heinz-Juergen Wroblowsky, Estella Buscato Arsequell, Marc Linka, Kerstin Ilg, Arunas Jonas Damijonaitis, Ulrich Ebbinghaus-Kintscher, Ulrich Goergens, Yolanda Cancho Grande, Peter Jeschke, Joachim Telser, Iring Heisler, Andreas Turberg
  • Patent number: 12161120
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inorganic pigment with the function of a catalyst that can be activated by light from the entire visible spectrum but also in the absence of light, to a process for obtaining it, to various formulations containing this inorganic pigment and its use. The present invention also provides a method of destroying pathogens represented by irradiating with electromagnetic radiation from the entire visible spectrum (400 nm-700 nm) the surfaces on which they have been applied—formulations containing the inorganic pigment. Additionally, the invention provides the use of the pigment disclosed herein for its catalytic, bactericidal, virucidal and de-pollution activity in the absence of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SPECTRUM BLUE AS
    Inventor: Razvan-Catalin Bucuresteanu
  • Patent number: 12157674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure comprising YO2 and B2O3, wherein Y stands for a tetravalent element, said process comprising (i) preparing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2, one or more sources for B2O3, one or more organotemplates, and seed crystals, (ii) crystallizing the mixture obtained in (i) for obtaining a layered precursor of the MWW framework structure, (iii) calcining the layered precursor obtained in (ii) for obtaining the zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure, wherein the one or more organotemplates have the formula (I) R1R2R3N??(I) wherein R1 is (C5-C8)cycloalkyl, and wherein R2 and R3 are independently from each other H or alkyl, and wherein the mixture prepared in (i) and crystallized in (ii) contains 35 wt.-% or less of H2O based on 100 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller, Stefan Maurer, Yu Dai, Feng-Shou Xiao, Xiangju Meng, Yeqing Wang
  • Patent number: 12157110
    Abstract: Semiconductor particles are used as a photocatalyst for inducing a water-splitting reaction where water molecules decompose into oxygen molecules and hydrogen molecules by addition of a co-catalyst and light irradiation, the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium. A synthesis method of a semiconductor for the photocatalyst includes a synthesis step of synthesizing the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium by mixing strontium chloride (SrCl2), strontium titanate (SrTiO3), and scandium oxide (Sc2O3) and firing the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., KONAN GAKUEN
    Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Ryota Tomizawa, Tatsuya Hasegawa, Shigeru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12152287
    Abstract: Process for the recovery of transition metal from spent lithium ion batteries containing nickel, wherein said process comprises the steps of (a) heating a lithium containing transition metal oxide material to a temperature in the range of from 400 to 1200° C., (b) treating said heat-treated material with water, (c) treating the solid residue from step (b) with an acid selected from sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, methanesulfonic acid, oxalic acid and citric acid, (d) adjusting the pH value to 2.5 to 8, (e) removing compounds of Al, Cu, Fe, Zn or combinations of at least two of the foregoing from the solution or slurry obtained in step (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rohde, Torben Adermann, Thomas Michael Ryll, Kerstin Schierle-Arndt, Fabian Seeler, Sabine Weiguny, Michael Zeilinger
  • Patent number: 12151944
    Abstract: A device for producing a tetrahydroborate, the device including a reaction chamber inside which a hydrogen plasma is generated, a sample stage which is provided in the reaction chamber and on which a borate is placed, and a hydrogen ion shielding member which is provided to cover at least some of the borate to be placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiko Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 12151233
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to hydrogen-selective oxygen carrier materials and methods of using hydrogen-selective oxygen carrier materials. The hydrogen-selective oxygen carrier material may comprise a core material, which includes a redox-active transition metal oxide; a shell material, which includes one or more alkali transition metal oxides; and a support material. The shell material may be in direct contact with at least a majority of an outer surface of the core material. At least a portion of the core material may be in direct contact with the support material. The hydrogen-selective oxygen carrier material may be selective to combust hydrogen in an environment that includes hydrogen and hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Brian W. Goodfellow, Manish Sharma, David F. Yancey, Andrzej Malek, Eric E. Stangland