Patents by Inventor Gerald Anthony Murphy

Gerald Anthony Murphy 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).

  • Process for printing an aqueous ink composition
    Patent number: 7658488
    Abstract: A process for printing flat substrates, in which the said substrate is printed with an ink composition including (a) a basic dye together with (b) an aliphatic carboxylic acid having at least four carbon atoms, (d) a binder resin, and water, yields water-resistant prints having a high depth of shade and high chroma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Patrice Bujard, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Véronique Hall-Goulle, Ulrich Strahm, Marco Meneghini, Alex Känzig
  • Metallocenyl phthalocyanines as optical recording media
    Patent number: 7378221
    Abstract: Mixtures of metallocenyl phthalocyanines obtainable by reacting a mixture A comprising two phthalocyanines: with a metallocene derivative in the presence of a catalyst, and also oligomeric metallocenyl phthalocyanines, processes for preparing them, their use for, inter alia, optical recording and optical recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Jürgen Beyrich, Rudolf Blattner, Jean-Luc Budry, Wolfgang Freitag, Colin Morton, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Beat Schmidhalter, Michael Schulz, Heinz Spahni, Christian Stern, Annemarie Wolleb, Heinz Wolleb, Roland Zoelper
  • Process for printing using aqueous ink composition
    Patent number: 7261404
    Abstract: A process for printing flat substrate, in which the said substrate is printed with ink composition including a) a basic dye together with b) an aliphatic carboxylic acid having 4–24 carbon atoms, c) a pigment, d) a binder resin and water, yields water-resistant prints having a high depth of shade and high chroma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Patrice Bujard, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Véronique Hall-Goulle, Ulrich Strahm, Marco Meneghini, Alex Känzig
  • Metallocenyl phthalocyanines as optical recording media
    Patent number: 7034148
    Abstract: Mixtures of metallocenyl phthalocyanines obtainable by reacting a mixture A comprising two phthalocyanines (I) and (II) with a metallocene derivative in the presence of a catalyst, and also oligomeric metallocenyl phthalocyanines, processes for preparing them, their use for, inter alia, optical recording and optical recording media
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Jürgen Beyrich, Rudolf Blattner, Jean-Luc Budry, Wolfgang Freitag, Colin Morton, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Beat Schmidhalter, Michael Schulz, Heinz Spahni, Christian Stern, Annemarie Wolleb, Heinz Wolleb, Roland Zoelper
  • Process for printing using aqueous ink composition
    Publication number: 20040165049
    Abstract: A process for printing flat substrates, in which the said substrate is printed with an ink composition comprising a) a basic dye together with b) an aliphatic carboxylic acid having at least four carbon atoms, and water, yields water-resistant prints having a high depth of shade and high chroma.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Inventors: Patrice Bujard, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Veronique Hall-Goulle, Ulrich Strahm, Marco Meneghini, Alex Kanzig
  • Metallocenyl phthalocyanines as optical recording media
    Publication number: 20040132990
    Abstract: Mixtures of metallocenyl phthalocyanines obtainable by reacting a mixture A comprising two phthalocyanines (I) and (II) with a metallocene derivative in the presence of a catalyst, and also oligomeric metallocenyl phthalocyanines, processes for preparing them, their use for, inter alia, optical recording and optical recording media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Jurgen Beyrich, Rudolf Blattner, Jean-Luc Budry, Wolfgang Freitag, Colin Morton, Gerald Anthony Murphy, Beat Schmidhalter, Michael Schulz, Heinz Spahni, Christian Stern, Annemarie Wolleb, Heinz Wolleb, Roland Zoelper