Patents by Inventor John D. Bruhnke

John D. Bruhnke 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: 9163146
    Abstract: This application relates to thiophene azo carboxylate dyes for use as hueing agents, laundry care compositions comprising such dyes that may serve as hueing agents, processes for making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using the same. The aforementioned dyes contain a formally charged moiety and are generally comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. Such dyes are advantageous in providing a hueing effect, for example, a whitening effect to fabrics, while not building up over time and causing undesirable blue discoloration to the treated fabrics. Such dyes are also generally stable to bleaching agents used in laundry care compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Eduardo Torres, John D. Bruhnke, Sanjeev K. Dey, Gregory S. Miracle
  • Publication number: 20140371435
    Abstract: This application relates to laundry care compositions comprising thiophene azo carboxylate fabric shading dyes and methods of treating a textile comprising such laundry care compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Eduardo Torres, Gregory S. Miracle, John D. Bruhnke
  • Publication number: 20130245242
    Abstract: This application relates to laundry care compositions comprising thiophene azo carboxylate fabric shading dyes and methods of treating a textile comprising such laundry care compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Eduardo Torres, Gregory S. Miracle, John D. Bruhnke
  • Publication number: 20120309945
    Abstract: This application relates to thiophene azo carboxylate dyes for use as hueing agents, laundry care compositions comprising such dyes that may serve as hueing agents, processes for making such dyes and laundry care compositions and methods of using the same. The aforementioned dyes contain a formally charged moiety and are generally comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. Such dyes are advantageous in providing a hueing effect, for example, a whitening effect to fabrics, while not building up over time and causing undesirable blue discoloration to the treated fabrics. Such dyes are also generally stable to bleaching agents used in laundry care compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Eduardo Torres, John D. Bruhnke, Sanjeev K. Dey, Gregory S. Miracle
  • Patent number: 6451071
    Abstract: This invention relates to colorants comprising organic chromophores, in particular reactive dyes, which comprise electrophilic reactive groups, and which are also covalently bonded to fatty amine moieties through amino linking groups. Such colorants provide excellent colorability and long-term stability, both within (or on) colored substrates and upon long-term storage. Such colorants exhibit particularly good coloring and stability within hydrocarbon compositions, such as fuels, mineral oil, and the like, and wax compositions, including candles, crayons, and the like. Methods of making such colorants as well as methods of coloring hydrocarbon and wax compositions are also contemplated within this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2002
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 6287348
    Abstract: This invention relates to colorants comprising organic chromophores, in particular reactive dyes, which comprise electrophilic reactive groups, and which are also covalently bonded to fatty amine moieties through amino linking groups. Such colorants provide excellent colorability and long-term stability, both within (or on) colored substrates and upon long-term storage. Such colorants exhibit particularly good coloring and stability within hydrocarbon compositions, such as fuels, mineral oil, and the like, and wax compositions, including candles, crayons, and the like. Methods of making such colorants as well as methods of coloring hydrocarbon and wax compositions are also contemplated within this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 6048662
    Abstract: This invention relates to antireflective coatings comprising polymeric polyoxyalkylenated colorants. More particularly, the present invention relates to antireflective coatings for utilization in forming thin layers between reflective substrates and photoresist coatings. Such antireflective coatings are very useful and beneficial within the production and fabrication of semiconductors through photolithographic procedures due to the liquid, non-crystallizing nature of polyoxyalkylenated colorants, and the lack of potentially damaging counterions, metals, and/or electrolytes within the inventive antireflective colored coatings. The inventive coatings may also be applied on lenses, mirrors, and other optical components. Methods of forming such antireflective coatings are also contemplated within this invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Inventors: John D. Bruhnke, John G. Lever
  • Patent number: 6034158
    Abstract: This invention relates to a dispersions of polymeric colorants having poly(oxyalkylene) moieties mixed with unsubstituted sorbitan monooleate alone or ethoxylated dodecanol admixed with unsubstituted sorbitan monooleate. Such colorant dispersions are easy to handle and are effectively introduced into wax media, thereby providing significant improvements over other dyestuffs, pigments, and colorants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Michael O. Hunt, John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5789515
    Abstract: A colorant composition has the structure ABXYZ, whereA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and YY is a poly(oxyalkylene)-polysiloxane copolymer; andZ is a terminal group for Y.The colorant composition can be prepared from a reactive dye AB which is reacted with XYZ, a poly(oxyalkylene)-polysiloxane copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5773405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface cleaner composition comprising:1) from 0.1 to 70% of tensoactive, or mixtures thereof;2) from 0 to 95% builder/softener;3) from 0 to 99.9% solvent;4) from 0 to 50% hydrotrope; and5) from 1 to 5000 ppm of a poly(oxyalkylene)-substituted colorant which is liquid in its undiluted state having the structure ABXYZ, where AB is a reactive dye moiety whereinA is an organic chromophore;B is and electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y, selected from the group consisting of NR, O, S, and 4-oxyanilino (--HN--Ph--O--); where R is selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, aryl, and YZ;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety; andZ is a terminal group for Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5770552
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a laundry detergent composition, e.g, granular or liquid, comprising:a) from 5 to 70% of tensoactive, or mixtures thereof,b) from 2 to 95% builders;c) from 0 to 25% additives; andd) from 1 to 5000 ppm of a poly(oxyalkylene)-substituted colorant which is liquid in its undiluted state having the structure ABXYZ, where AB is a reactive dye moiety whereinA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y, selected from the group consisting of NR, O, S, and 4-oxyanilino (--HN--Ph--O--); where R is selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, aryl, and YZ;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety; andZ is a terminal group for Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5770557
    Abstract: A fabric softener composition comprising:a) from 3 to 50% by weight of fabric softener, or mixtures thereof;b) a liquid carrier including water, the pH of the composition being less than 7, andc) from 1 ppm to 5000 ppm of a poly(oxyalkylene)-substituted colorant which is a liquid in its undiluted state having the structure ABXYZ, where B is a reactive dye moiety whereinA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y, selected from the group conisting of NR, O, S, and 4-oxyanilino (--HN--Ph--O--); where R is selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, aryl, and YZ;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety; andZ is a terminal group for Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5766268
    Abstract: A colorant composition which can be liquid in the neat form at 25.degree. C., having the structure ABXYZ, whereA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety comprising the formula (C.sub.a H.sub.2a O).sub.m (C.sub.b H.sub.2b O).sub.n where a and b are different and from 1 to 8, m is at least 3, n is 0 to 15; andZ is a terminal group for Y.The colorant composition can be prepared from a reactive dye AB which is reacted with XYZ, a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety containing a nucleophilic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5725794
    Abstract: A color-stable antifreeze composition containing a polyhydric alcohol, a corrosion inhibitor and a poly(oxyalkylene)-substituted colorant having the structure ABXYZ, whereA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety; andZ is a terminal group for Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Bruhnke, Steven E. Brown
  • Patent number: 5723060
    Abstract: An antifreeze composition is provided having a polyhydric alcohol, a corrosion inhibitor and a colorant of the formula: ##STR1## wherein m and n are independently selected from 0, 1, 2 or 3; M is cation; A is SO.sub.3 M or SO.sub.2 R.sup.3, where R.sup.3 is alkylene-SO.sub.3 M; R.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, C.sub.1-8 alkoxy, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, amino, sulfoxy, carboxy and R.sup.2 ; and R.sup.2 is NHR.sup.4, where R.sup.4 is triazine or triazine substituted with aminophenylsulfonate, chloro, dichloro, fluoro, or R.sup.2 is CO.sub.2 M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Bruhnke, Steven E. Brown
  • Patent number: 5669937
    Abstract: Iodine stains may be removed from a substrate, such as a textile, by applying a solution of carboxyalkene, having a site of unsaturation at the 4, 5-, 5, 6- or 6, 7- position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel T. McBride, John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5456725
    Abstract: A process for temporarily coloring a polyamide substrate is provided whereby a poly(oxyalkylene) substituted methine colorant is applied to the substrate followed by heating the substrate with superheated steam at a temperature of 250.degree. F. or greater, which effectively decolorizes the methine colorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1995
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5218137
    Abstract: Light activated acyl-enzymes of the formula: ##STR1## are disclosed. In the compounds of Formula (III), ENZ is an enzyme, X is O or S, Y is --NR.sub.3 R.sub.4, --OR.sub.5, or --SR.sub.5, and Z is a nucleophile. m is 0 to 3 and n is 1 or 2. Y is substituted on the ring at either or both of the 4 and 6 position.R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently H, C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl.R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently H, C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl, except that R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are not simultaneously both H. R.sub.5 is C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl.Methods of using the acyl-enzymes and intermediates for making the acyl-enzymes are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Ned A. Porter, John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5114851
    Abstract: Light activated acyl-enzymes of the formula: ##STR1## are disclosed. In the compounds of Formula (III), ENZ is an enzyme, X is O or S, Y is --NR.sub.3 R.sub.4, --OR.sub.5, or --SR.sub.5, and Z is a nucleophile. m is 0 to 3 and n is 1 or 2. Y is substituted on the ring at either or both of the 4 and 6 position.R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently H, C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl.R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently H, C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl, except that R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are not simultaneously both H. R.sub.5 is C1 to C4 alkyl, C3 to C4 unconjugated alkenyl, or C3 to C4 unconjugated alkynyl.Methods of using the acyl-enzymes and intermediates for making the acyl-enzymes are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Duke University
    Inventors: Ned A. Porter, John D. Bruhnke