Patents by Inventor Alan Morris
Alan Morris has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250129053Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I) or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein Q, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Suzanna Jane DALE, Philip Michael ELVES, Charles William Frederick KINGSTON, James Alan MORRIS, Samuel Vaughan WATKIN
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Publication number: 20250098679Abstract: Compounds of Formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Louisa WHALLEY, James Alan MORRIS, Christopher James MARTIN, Gordon Richard MUNNS
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Publication number: 20250075660Abstract: A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris
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Publication number: 20250075674Abstract: A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris, Arthur William Sibbach
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Patent number: 12227495Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I) or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein Q, R1, R2, n and m are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Jeffrey Steven Wailes, Janice Black, James Alan Morris, Emma Briggs, Joseph Andrew Tate, Mary Bernadette Aspinall, Sean Ng
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Publication number: 20250043720Abstract: A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris, Eric Barre, Brandon Wayne Miller, Leonardo Aguilar Willys, Victor Moreno Patan
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Publication number: 20250042876Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein Q, R1, R2 and R4 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Suzanna Jane DALE, Philip Michael ELVES, James Alan MORRIS, Samuel Vaughan WATKIN
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Publication number: 20250035038Abstract: A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris
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Publication number: 20250027448Abstract: A heat exchanger positioned within an annular duct of a gas turbine engine is provided. The heat exchanger extends substantially continuously along the circumferential direction and defining a heat exchanger height equal to at least 10% of a duct height. An effective transmission loss (ETL) for the heat exchanger positioned within the annular duct is between 5 decibels and 1 decibels for an operating condition of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger includes a heat transfer section defining an acoustic length (Li), and wherein an Operational Acoustic Reduction Ratio (OARR) is greater than or equal to 0.75 to achieve the ETL at the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Inventors: Scott Alan Schimmels, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Timothy Richard DePuy, Steven B. Morris
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Patent number: 12195610Abstract: Polymer blends, films, and coated substrates that include the polymer blends. The polymer blends include at least 90% by weight low density polyethylene polymer and from 1 to 10% by weight ionomer. The LDPE polymer has a melt index (I2)from 2 g/10 mins to 6 g/10 mins, and a molecular weight distribution from 5 to 11 as determined by a conventional gel permeation chromatography method. The ionomer includes an ethylene acid copolymer, in which from 15% to 70% of acid groups are neutralized by sodium cation based on the total number of acid groups in the acid copolymer. The ethylene acid copolymer is the polymerized reaction product of: at least 50% by wt. ethylene, from 2 wt. % to 40 wt. % of monocarboxylic acid monomer, and from 0 to 20 wt. % of alkyl acrylate, based on the total wt. % of the monomers present in the ethylene acid copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Jong Young Lee, Yifan Dong, Barry Alan Morris, Teresa P. Karjala, Eva-Maria Kupsch
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Patent number: 12077525Abstract: The present disclosure provides compounds of formula (II) and compositions/methods of use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Sally Elizabeth Russell, Sean Ng, James Alan Morris
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Publication number: 20240032541Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein X1, Y1, Y2, Z1, Z2, R1, R2, R6, R9 and n are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Jeffrey Steven WAILES, Russell Colin VINER, James Alan MORRIS, Mary Bernadette ASPINALL, Catherine Mary HOLDEN, Philip Michael ELVES, Sean NG
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Publication number: 20240025853Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound. N-oxide, salt or composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Andrew Duncan SATTERFIELD, Matthew James CAMPBELL, James Francis BEREZNAK, Guy William WHITTINGHAM, Glynn MITCHELL, Christopher John MATHEWS, James Nicholas SCUTT, James Alan MORRIS, Jonathan Wesley Paul DALLIMORE, Timothy Robert DESSON, Katharine Mary INGRAM, Kenneth LING
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Publication number: 20230413820Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein A1, A2, A3, Q, X, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: James Alan MORRIS, Catherine Mary HOLDEN, Samuel Vaughan WATKIN, Philip Michael ELVES
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Patent number: 11851420Abstract: The present invention relates to nitro-vinyl-pyrazole compounds of formula (B) wherein ring A, RB2 and RB3 are as defined in claim 1, as well as the manufacture of such compounds and their subsequent use in the production of agrochemicals and/or pharmaceuticals.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: James Alan Morris, Sally Elizabeth Russell, Sean Ng
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Patent number: 11846912Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to printing systems and methods that may include an ink composition including electrically charged ink particles dispersed in a hydrocarbon liquid and a multilayer film. The multilayer film may include a polymeric core layer; and one or more printing layers adjacent to the polymeric core layer. The one or more printing layers may include at least 50 wt. % of an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer having acid and acrylate functional groups. The ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer having acid and acrylate functional groups may include from 0.5 wt. % to 4 wt. % methacrylic or acrylic acid; from 0.5 wt. % to 4 wt. % acrylate, from 7 wt. % to 40 wt. % vinyl acetate; and the balance ethylene, based on the total weight of the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer having acid and acrylate functional groups.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Juan Carlos Casarrubias, Nicolas Cardoso Mazzola, Barry Alan Morris, Jorge Caminero Gomes
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Patent number: 11787765Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: FMC CorporationInventors: Andrew Duncan Satterfield, Matthew James Campbell, James Francis Bereznak, William Guy Whittingham, Glynn Mitchell, Christopher John Mathews, James Nicholas Scutt, James Alan Morris, Jonathan Wesley Paul Dallimore
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Publication number: 20230312478Abstract: The present invention relates novel di- and tri-substituted pyrazolo-lactam/thiolactam-carboxamide compounds, methods for their production, and intermediates for use in such methods. The invention further extends to herbicidal compositions comprising such derivatives, as well as to the use of such compounds and compositions in controlling undesirable plant growth: in particular, the use in controlling weeds in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: James Alan MORRIS, Sally Elizabeth RUSSELL
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Publication number: 20230301300Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of herbicidal substituted phenyl-pyridazine-diones and substituted phenyl-pyridazinone derivatives of formula (I), in combination with herbicidal pyrazolo-lactam-carboxamides of formula (II) to control undesirable plant growth, in controlling weeds, including broad-leaved and/or narrow-leaved, monocotyledonous and/or dicotyledonous weeds, in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Kenneth LING, Christopher John MATHEWS, Adrian LONGSTAFF, James Alan MORRIS, Sally Elizabeth RUSSELL, Sean NG
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Publication number: 20230303498Abstract: Compounds of the Formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I) and to the use of compounds of Formula (I) for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AGInventors: Suzanna Jane DALE, Zoe Jane ANDERSON, Louisa WHALLEY, Gordon Richard MUNNS, James Alan MORRIS, Paul Matthew BURTON