Patents by Inventor James Matthew Macdonald

James Matthew Macdonald 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).

  • Publication number: 20220040373
    Abstract: Ocular lenses having UV absorbing properties are disclosed. The ocular lens comprises a hydrogel polymer comprising polymerised residues derived from a polymerisable UV absorber of formula (I): U-L-Py??(I) wherein: U is a UV absorbing moiety; L is a hydrophilic non-polyalkylene glycol linker comprising an anionic, a zwitterionic or a saccharide moiety; and Py is an ethylenically unsaturated polymerisable moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SEED CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao SATO, Yoshiko YAMAZAKI, Johan Sebastian BASUKI, Timothy Charles HUGHES, James Matthew MACDONALD, Kimmo Petteri KEMPPINEN
  • Publication number: 20180148428
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to organic electroluminescent devices comprising thermally activated emission material(s) in an emission layer. The present disclosure is also directed to compounds capable of providing thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and to emission layers comprising at least one of the compounds. The compounds may be used in organic layers such as emission layers of an organic electroluminescence device such as fluorescent OLEDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: James Matthew MacDonald, Jenny Lee O'Connell, Melissa Skidmore, Andrew David Scully, Anthony Wilson, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 8937303
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode, and one or more layers of organic compound arranged between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer, or one or more of the organic compound layers, comprises a compound represented by a substituted imidazole. The substituents on the imidazole ring may be selected from a range of suitable substituents, including: substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic groups, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups or cyano groups. In various aspects of the invention, at least one of the substituent groups may be a substituted or unsubstituted imidazole or thiophene group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: James Matthew MacDonald, Kazunori Ueno, Karl Peter Weber, Tadahiko Hirai, Juo-Hao Li
  • Publication number: 20130264554
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode, and one or more layers of organic compound arranged between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer, or one or more of the organic compound layers, comprises a compound represented by a substituted imidazole. The substituents on the imidazole ring may be selected from a range of suitable substituents, including: substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic groups, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups or cyano groups. In various aspects of the invention, at least one of the substituent groups may be a substituted or unsubstituted imidazole or thiophene group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: James Matthew MacDonald, Kazunori Ueno, Karl Peter Weber, Tadahiko Hirai, Juo-Hao Li
  • Publication number: 20120261650
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode, and one or more layers arranged between the anode and the cathode; wherein at least one of the one or more layers is a light emitting layer and wherein the one or more layers, comprises an organic compound represented by a substituted 2,2?-biimidazole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: James Matthew MacDonald, Mark Bown, Kazunori Ueno, Karl Peter Weber, Jenny Lee O'Connell, Tadahiko Hirai
  • Publication number: 20120091884
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a pair of electrodes forming an anode and cathode, and one or more layers of organic compound arranged between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer comprises heptaazaphenalene derivatives of formula (1). The present invention also relates to the said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: James Matthew Macdonald, Raju Adhikari, Almar Postma, Tadahiko Hirai, Kazunori Ueno