Patents by Inventor GUNTER SCHMOZ

GUNTER SCHMOZ 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF BIODEGRADABLE STARCH ESTERS
    Publication number: 20010037018
    Abstract: The invention covers a process to manufacture biodegradable starch esters which can be processed into extrudates, formed parts and sheeting. The starch is activated with a carboxylic acid/carboxylic anhydride mixture through partial swelling and the onsetting esterification reaction at simultaneous conversion of the water entrained in the starch and partially esterified with a carboxylic anhydride up to the desired degree of substitution with progressing swelling and disintegration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: ROLF KAKUSCHKE, INNO RAPTHEL, HARTMUT STOYE, GUNTER SCHMOZ