Patents by Inventor Gregory Dean Shay

Gregory Dean Shay 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).

  • Complex hydrophobe-containing oligomers
    Patent number: 5739378
    Abstract: This invention relates to polymers, especially emulsion polymers, and their use for the thickening of a variety of aqueous systems, to methods of thickening utilizing the polymers, to enhancement of such thickening by the addition of surfactants, solvents or non-solvents, and to other aspects including coating compositions and other aqueous systems thickened with the polymers. This invention also relates to new complex hydrophobe-containing oligomers and their use in producing the polymers of this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Duane Jenkins, David Robinson Bassett, Gregory Dean Shay