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).
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Patent number: 11882762Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: FLEXENABLE TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
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Patent number: 11552266Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: FLEXENABLE LIMITEDInventors: David Sparrowe, Pawel Miskiewicz, Mark James
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Publication number: 20220194506Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
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Patent number: 11130837Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: RAYNERGY TEK INCORPORATIONInventors: Changsheng Wang, William Mitchell, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 10547004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Mansoor D'Lavari, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 10340457Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 10270034Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 10134994Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 9914742Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 9806263Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 9695190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Mansoor D'Lavari, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 9676901Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 2, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 9540064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
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Publication number: 20160133863Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
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Patent number: 9317592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 9221510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Inventor: Roger Lionel David Sparrow
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Patent number: 9206352Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Philip Edward May, Mark James, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Stephen Bain, Paul Craig Brookes, Edgar Kluge, Li Wei Tan, David Sparrowe, Magda Goncalves-Miskiewicz
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Publication number: 20150255725Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Mansoor D'Lavari, David Sparrowe
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Publication number: 20150144847Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Mansoor D'Lavari, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Steven Tierney, David Sparrowe
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Patent number: 8878165Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Pawel Miskiewicz, Li Wei Tan, Tomas Backlund, Paul Craig Brookes, David Sparrowe, Toby Cull, Giles Lloyd