Patents by Inventor Gilles Yves Marie Fernand Ganain

Gilles Yves Marie Fernand Ganain 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).

  • Reactive dye compounds
    Patent number: 6723834
    Abstract: A reactive dye compound comprising: (a) at least one chromophore moiety; (b) at least one nitrogen-containing heterocycle (c) a linking group to link each chromophore moiety to each nitrogen-containing heterocycle; characterized in that at least one nitrogen-containing heterocycle is substituted with at least one Y group wherein Y is derived from a hydrated aldehyde, a hydrated ketone, a hydrated alpha-hydroxy ketone, or the hydrated form of formic acid and linked via one of its oxygen atoms to the nitrogen-containing heterocycle thereby forming a hemiacetal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Peter Jeffrey Broadbent, Dong Wei He, David Malcolm Lewis, Gilles Yves Marie Fernand Ganain, Taher Iqbal Yousaf