Patents by Inventor David Sparrowe

David Sparrowe 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).

  • Patent number: 11882762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel formulations comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and one or more organic solvents. The formulation comprises a viscosity at 25° C. of less than 15 mPas and the boiling point of the solvent is at most 400° C. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these formulations as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and OLED devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: FLEXENABLE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
  • Patent number: 11552266
    Abstract: The present application relates to an organic electronic device, said electronic device comprising a multi-layer electrode as well as an organic semiconducting layer, as well as to a method for producing such organic electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FLEXENABLE LIMITED
    Inventors: David Sparrowe, Pawel Miskiewicz, Mark James
  • Publication number: 20220194506
    Abstract: A light for an ebike, comprising three LEDs, a rechargeable light battery, a charging port, to receive power from an accessory port of an ebike, and control circuitry, programmed so that when the power drain of the LEDs is less than the power input from the accessory port, the battery can be charged and when the power drain of the LEDs is greater than the power input from the accessory port the LEDs can draw power from both the battery and the accessory port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
  • Patent number: 11130837
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds containing one or more 1,3-dithiolo[4,5-d]phthalimide (“DTPI”) units, to methods for their preparation preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these compounds, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: RAYNERGY TEK INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Changsheng Wang, William Mitchell, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 10547004
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting oligomers or polymers containing alkylated dithieno[2,3-d:2?,3?-d?]-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b?]dithiophene units, methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices or organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Mansoor D'Lavari, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 10340457
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds, which are small molecules or conjugated polymers, containing one or more fluorinated polycyclic units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 10270034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds comprising a tetra-aryl indacenodithiophene-based structural unit, the synthesis of such compounds as well as their use in organic electronic devices. The invention further relates to organic electronic devices comprising such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 10134994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel polycyclic polymer comprising fused thiophene units. The present invention also relates to a method for producing such polymer as well as the use of such polymer, particularly in organoelectronic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 9914742
    Abstract: The present invention relates compounds comprising a tetra-heteroaryl indacenodithiophene-based structural unit, the synthesis of such compounds as well as their use in organic electronic devices. The invention further relates to organic electronic devices comprising such compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 9806263
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more diindeno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based polycyclic repeating units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 9695190
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based polycyclic repeating units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 9676901
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more repeating units derived from indacenodibenzothiophene or dithia-dicyclopenta-dibenzothiophene, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 9540064
    Abstract: A lamp with a housing; a battery mounted within the housing; an illumination LED or array thereof mounted on the housing; a status display LED array mounted on the housing; an inertial sensor for sensing change of position and/or orientation of the housing; circuitry adapted to control the lamp between a quiescent state when no LED is ON, an active state when the status display LED array is ON and an illumination state when at least one illumination LED is ON and to: switch from the quiescent state to the active state on detection via the inertial sensor of a position/orientation user action of a first type alone, switching ON one or more status LED and to switch from the active state to the illumination state on detection via the inertial sensor of a position/orientation user action of a second type alone, switching ON one or more illumination LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
  • Publication number: 20160133863
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel formulations comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and one or more organic solvents. The formulation comprises a viscosity at 25° C. of less than 15 mPas and the boiling point of the solvent is at most 400° C. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these formulations as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and OLED devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
  • Patent number: 9317592
    Abstract: A classifier may include logic to parse incoming content and to compare a key term in the content to stored content related to multiple prior messages, where the stored content is classified with respect to one or more categories. The logic may produce a score for the content based on the comparing, relate the score to one of the one or more categories, and produce a result based on the comparing, producing, or relating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Courtney Bowman, Nicolas Fernando Cabrera, Keyon Hedayati, Katherine Marie Hotchkiss, Stephen Tai-Chung Hu, Jared Smith, Isaac David Sparrow, Jeffrey Michael Stone, Juan Bacani Trinidad, David Wiesen
  • Patent number: 9221510
    Abstract: A lamp has a body 100 with a printed circuit board 102 and a battery 104 mounted in the body. An LED 105, mounted on an emitter plate 101, and a reflector 106 are housed on the body at an opposite end to a charging port 103. Adjacent to the port 103 an array of three illumination status blue LEDS 108 and an array of five battery-status red LEDs 109 are provided. Components 103 to 109 are connected to a power management circuit 110, including an Integrated Circuit 111, mounted on the PCB 102. The PCB 102 further includes a capacitive Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometer 123.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
  • Patent number: 9206352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel formulations comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and one or more organic solvents. The formulation comprises a viscosity at 25° C. of less than 15 mPas and the boiling point of the solvent is at most 400° C. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these formulations as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and OLED devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
  • Publication number: 20150255725
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting oligomers or polymers containing alkylated dithieno[2,3-d:2?,3?-d?]-s-indaceno[1,2-b:5,6-b?]dithiophene units, methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices or organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these oligomers, polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Mansoor D'Lavari, David Sparrowe
  • Publication number: 20150144847
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more repeating units derived from indacenodibenzothiophene or dithia-dicyclopenta-dibenzothiophene, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
  • Patent number: 8878165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of electrodes in organic electronic (OE) devices, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs), to devices prepared by such a process, and to materials and formulations used in such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Pawel Miskiewicz, Li Wei Tan, Tomas Backlund, Paul Craig Brookes, David Sparrowe, Toby Cull, Giles Lloyd