Patents by Inventor James Anthony Cella

James Anthony Cella 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).

  • Patent number: 8741442
    Abstract: A surface modified electrode, included in an electronic device comprises an electrode layer, and a functional organic material. The functional organic material comprises an amine-substituted polymeric material which is on the surface of and in contact with the electrode layer. Such surface modified electrodes are useful for producing electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Christian Maria Anton Heller, Jie Liu
  • Publication number: 20130248840
    Abstract: Solution processes for fabricating an optoelectronic devices include contacting an electroluminescent layer comprising an alcohol-insoluble electroluminescent polymer with an alcoholic solution of a compound of formula Ia to form an electron transporting layer directly disposed on the electroluminescent layer; and depositing a metal cathode layer on the electron transporting layer; wherein R1 is, independently at each occurrence, C1-20 hydrocarbyl; at least one of R1 is R3; R2 is independently at each occurrence hydrogen, C1-20 hydrocarbyl, C1-20 hydrocarbyloxy, C1-20 thioether, C1-20 hydrocarbylcarbonyloxy or cyano; R3 is C1-20 hydrocarbyl containing at least one S, N, O or P atom between carbon atoms; a is independently at each occurrence 0, 1 or 2; and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 8364419
    Abstract: A system, device and methods, for determining at least two analytes, wherein the system and device include at least one resonant sensor circuit that includes a sensing material that predictably affects the resonant complex impedance response of a sensor electrode. The sensing material has at least two material properties that change when the materials are exposed to two or more analytes. The system and device also include a processor that generates a multivariate sensor response pattern that is based at least in part on a change in the two material properties of the sensing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, James Anthony Cella, Cheryl Margaret Surman, Kelly Scott Chichak, Steven Go
  • Patent number: 8361587
    Abstract: An optical article comprising a primary mark disposed on the optical article and a secondary mark disposed on the optical article in close proximity to the primary mark. The primary mark comprises a first optical-state change material and the secondary mark comprises a second optical-state change material. The optical article is transformed from a pre-activated state to an activated state when a localized authorized activation method is used that selectively activates the primary mark. The optical article is transformed from a pre-activated state to an deactivated state when a non-localized unauthorized activation method is used that activates the secondary mark along with the primary mark resulting in the second optical-state change material undergoing a reverse color change when compared to the first optical-state change material. An optical article with a single mark including multiple color change optical-state change material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media, LLC
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, David Gilles Gascoyne, Ben Purushotam Patel, Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr., James Mitchell White, Gregory Allen O'Neil, Andrea Jeannine Peters, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Trevor James Dale, Whitney Jeanne Olson, Marc Brian Wisnudel
  • Patent number: 8101699
    Abstract: The invention relates to polymers useful in optoelectronic devices and comprising structural unit of formula I: wherein R1 and R2 are independently at each occurrence, hydrogen, a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C3-C20 aromatic radical, or a C3-C20 cycloaliphatic radical; R3 is H or alkyl; a and b are, independently at each occurrence 0, or an integer ranging from 1 to 3; and Ar is a direct bond or aryl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Qing Ye, Jie Liu, James Anthony Cella, Eisaku Katoh
  • Patent number: 8052892
    Abstract: Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang, Elliott West Shanklin, Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8053536
    Abstract: The present invention relates to process comprising reacting a polyfluorenes comprising at least one structural group of formula I with an iridium (III) compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are independently alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R5is H or CHO; R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R11 and R12 taken together form a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring; R13 is independently at each occurrence halo, nitro, hydroxy, amino, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, or substituted arylalkyl; Ar is aryl, heteroaryl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl, or a combination thereof; X is selected from a direct bond, alky, substituted alkyl, and combinations thereof; Y is CHO or NH2; Z is CHO or NH2 where Z does not equal Y; and p is 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Scott Chichak, Larry Neil Lewis, James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 8048956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to process comprising reacting a polyfluorenes comprising at least one structural group of formula I with an iridium (III) compound of formula II The invention also relates to the polyfluorenes, which are products of the reaction, and the use of the polyfluorenes in optoelectronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Scott Chichak, Larry Neil Lewis, James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 7977413
    Abstract: A thermally responsive ink composition consisting of at least one halochromic optical-state change material, at least one base, at least one solvent, and at least one binder material. The pH of the ink composition is such that the halochromic optical-state change material remains in its basic state until it is acted upon by a thermal stimulus. The ink composition is capable of transforming from a first optical state to a second optical state upon a change in pH caused by exposure to a thermal stimulus. A thermally responsive ink composition consisting of at least one quaternary onium salt of an halochromic optical-state change material, at least one solvent, and at least one binder material is also disclosed. Coating compositions prepared using these ink compositions and optical articles comprising these coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: NBCUniversal Media LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Jeannine Peters, James Anthony Cella, Thomas Joseph Fyvie, David Gilles Gascoyne, Timothy Leigh Chuck, James Mitchell White, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Whitney Jeanne Olson, Marc Brian Wisnudel, Trevor James Dale
  • Patent number: 7973126
    Abstract: Polymers including at least one structural unit derived from a compound of formula I or including at least one pendant group of formula II may be used in optoelectronic devices wherein R1, R3, R4 and R6 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, oxaalkyl, alkylaryl, aryl, arylalkyl, heteroaryl, substituted alkyl; substituted alkoxy, substituted oxaalkyl, substituted alkylaryl, substituted aryl, substituted arylalkyl, or substituted heteroaryl; R1a is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is alkylene, substituted alkylene, oxaalkylene, CO, or CO2; R2a is alkylene; R5 is independently at each occurrence hydrogen, alkyl, alkylaryl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, carboxy, substituted alkyl; substituted alkylaryl, substituted aryl, substituted arylalkyl, or substituted alkoxy, X is halo, triflate, —B(OR1a)2, or ?located at the 2, 5- or 2, 7-positions; and L is derived from phenylpyridine, tolylpyridine, benzothienylpyridine, phenylisoquinoline, dibenzoquinozaline, fluorenylpyridine, ketopyrrole, 2-(1-naphthyl)benzo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph John Shiang, Kelly Scott Chichak, James Anthony Cella, Larry Neil Lewis, Kevin Henry Janora
  • Patent number: 7968004
    Abstract: Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang, Elliott West Shanklin, Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7910386
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the preparation of organic light-emitting devices comprising a bilayer structure made by forming a first film layer comprising an electroactive material and an INP precursor material, and exposing the first film layer to a radiation source under an inert atmosphere to generate an interpenetrating network polymer composition comprising the electroactive material. At least one additional layer is disposed on the reacted first film layer to complete the bilayer structure. The bilayer structure is comprised within an organic light-emitting device comprising standard features such as electrodes and optionally one or more additional layers serving as a bipolar emission layer, a hole injection layer, an electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, a hole transport layer, exciton-hole transporting layer, exciton-electron transporting layer, a hole transporting emission layer, or an electron transporting emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph John Shiang, Kevin Henry Janora, Gautam Parthasarathy, James Anthony Cella, Kelly Scott Chichak
  • Publication number: 20100327735
    Abstract: Optoelectronic devices include triplet blocking compounds of formula I wherein R1 is, independently at each occurrence, C1-20 hydrocarbyl and at least one of R1 is R3; R2 is independently at each occurrence C1-20 hydrocarbyl, C1-20 hydrocarbyloxy, C1-20 thioether, C1-20 hydrocarbylcarbonyloxy or cyano; R3 is —R4XR5; R4 is a direct bond, C1-20 aryl, C1-20 arylalkyl, C1-20 alkylaryl, C1-20 substituted aryl, C1-20 substituted arylalkyl, or C1-20 substituted alkylaryl; R5 is C1-20 hydrocarbyl or C1-20 hydrocarbyl containing at least one S, N, O or P atom between carbon atoms; R6 is C1-20 alkyl or C1-20 substituted alkyl; X is —O—, —S—, —COO—, —OOC—, —CSS—, —SSC—, NR6 or PR6; a is independently at each occurrence 0, 1 or 2; and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 7830081
    Abstract: Optoelectronic devices include polysiloxanes derived from hydrosilation of an organometallic compound of formula L2MZ, wherein L and Z are independently bidentate ligands; at least one of L and Z comprises alkenyl, alkenylaryl, alkenyloxy, alkenyloxyaryl, alkynyl, alkynylaryl, alkynyloxy, alkynyloxyaryl, substituted alkenyl, substituted alkenylaryl, substituted alkenyloxy, substituted alkenyloxyaryl, substituted alkynyl, substituted alkynylaryl, substituted alkynyloxy, substituted alkynyloxyaryl, acrylate, methacrylate, or a combination thereof; and M is Zr, Nb, Mo, Tc, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Cd, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Hg, Ga, Ge, In, Sn, Sb, Tl, Pd, Bi, Po, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, or Lu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Larry Neil Lewis, Kelly Scott Chichak, James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Publication number: 20100270537
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprises a cathode; an electron-transporting layer comprising a compound of formula I; a light emitting-layer; and an anode; wherein R1 and R2 are independently at each occurrence, hydrogen, a C1-C20 aliphatic radical, a C3-C20 aromatic radical, or a C3-C20 cycloaliphatic radical; R3 is H or alkyl; a and b are, independently at each occurrence 0, or an integer ranging from 1 to 3; n is 2 or 3; and Ar is an aryl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Qing Ye, James Anthony Cella, Jie Liu, Eisaku Katoh
  • Publication number: 20100268479
    Abstract: A system for selectively determining at least two analytes, comprising at least one resonant sensor circuit comprising a sensing material that predictably affects the resonant complex impedance response of a sensor electrode, wherein the sensing material having at least two material properties that change upon exposure to two or more analytes; and a processor that generates a multivariate sensor response pattern that is based at least in part on a change in the two material properties of the sensing material and a sensing device and methods adapted to detect an analyte using the same sensor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, James Anthony Cella, Cheryl Margaret Surman, Kelly Scott Chichak, Steven Go
  • Publication number: 20100234493
    Abstract: A thermally responsive ink composition consisting of at least one halochromic optical-state change material, at least one base, at least one solvent, and at least one binder material. The pH of the ink composition is such that the halochromic optical-state change material remains in its basic state until it is acted upon by a thermal stimulus. The ink composition is capable of transforming from a first optical state to a second optical state upon a change in pH caused by exposure to a thermal stimulus. A thermally responsive ink composition consisting of at least one quaternary onium salt of an halochromic optical-state change material, at least one solvent, and at least one binder material is also disclosed. Coating compositions prepared using these ink compositions and optical articles comprising these coating compositions are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrea Jeannine Peters, James Anthony Cella, Thomas Joseph Fyvie, David Gilles Gascoyne, Timothy Leigh Chuck, James Mitchell White, Matthew Jeremiah Misner, Whitney Jeanne Olson, Marc Brian Wisnudel, Trevor James Dale
  • Publication number: 20100144992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to process comprising reacting a polyfluorenes comprising at least one structural group of formula I with an iridium (III) compound of formula II The invention also relates to the polyfluorenes, which are products of the reaction, and the use of the polyfluorenes in optoelectronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kelly Scott Chichak, Larry Neil Lewis, James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Publication number: 20100144976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to process comprising reacting a polyfluorenes comprising at least one structural group of formula I with an iridium (III) compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are independently alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R5is H or CHO; R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R11 and R12 taken together form a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring; R13 is independently at each occurrence halo, nitro, hydroxy, amino, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, or substituted arylalkyl; Ar is aryl, heteroaryl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl, or a combination thereof; X is selected from a direct bond, alky, substituted alkyl, and combinations thereof; Y is CHO or NH2; Z is CHO or NH2 where Z does not equal Y; and p is 0, 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Kelly Scott Chichak, Larry Neil Lewis, James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang
  • Patent number: 7731866
    Abstract: Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Anthony Cella, Joseph John Shiang, Elliott West Shanklin, Paul Michael Smigelski