Patents by Inventor John E. Kirkwood
John E. Kirkwood 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).
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Patent number: 10953626Abstract: A method of forming a coating layer on a fibrous mat to make a coated article includes depositing a coating composition on a carrier material and at least partially embedding a first major surface of a fibrous mat in the coating composition, the fibrous mat including a plurality of mat fibers. The coating composition is at least partially hardened to form a coating layer at the first major surface of the fibrous mat. A second major surface of the fibrous mat opposite the first major surface includes an uncoated portion of the plurality of mat fibers.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: AXALTA COATING SYSTEMS IP CO., LLCInventors: John E. Kirkwood, Michael D. Foster, Herbert D. Temple, James E. Bailey, Michael Deal, Charles R. Harrison, Christopher J. Sanders, Yi-Hsien Teng
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Patent number: 10344478Abstract: An adhesive binder composition for adhering a paper sheet to a gypsum article with a gypsum layer having at least one paper sheet on a major surface thereof. The adhesive binder composition includes a polymeric adhesive and at least one surfactant. The adhesive binder composition resides at a boundary between the gypsum layer and the paper sheet.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignees: Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC, Georgia-Pacific Gypsum, LLCInventors: Michael D. Foster, Nellie Moretz, James E. Bailey, John E. Kirkwood, Brian W. Bland, Ali Fadhel
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Publication number: 20170341337Abstract: A method of forming a coating layer on a fibrous mat to make a coated article includes depositing a coating composition on a carrier material and at least partially embedding a first major surface of a fibrous mat in the coating composition, the fibrous mat including a plurality of mat fibers. The coating composition is at least partially hardened to form a coating layer at the first major surface of the fibrous mat. A second major surface of the fibrous mat opposite the first major surface includes an uncoated portion of the plurality of mat fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: John E. Kirkwood, Michael D. Foster, Herbert D. Temple, James E. Bailey, Michael Deal, Charles R. Harrison, Christopher J. Sanders, Yi-Hsien Teng
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Publication number: 20150064488Abstract: An adhesive binder composition for adhering a paper sheet to a gypsum article with a gypsum layer having at least one paper sheet on a major surface thereof. The adhesive binder composition includes a polymeric adhesive and at least one surfactant. The adhesive binder composition resides at a boundary between the gypsum layer and the paper sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Michael D. Foster, Nellie Moretz, James E. Bailey, John E. Kirkwood, Brian W. Bland, Ali Fadhel
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Patent number: 8597717Abstract: Techniques for the production of flow-oriented collagen gels using hydrodynamics to influence the assembly of collagen fibers. Highly concentrated monomeric solutions of collagen are subjected to shear and extensional flow as they are drawn onto a substrate to induce fibrillogenesis under a high Ph buffer. The produced gel captures the flow induced ordering of molecular collagen upon fibril formation. The depositing or the induction of fibrillogenosis occurs without the application of a magnetic field to the concentration of collagen. These highly oriented 3D scaffolds are capable inducing contact guidance and guiding mammalian cell growth. The collagen fibers mimic the construction of in vivo fibers with the characteristic D-periodicity and the integrin receptors on the fibroblasts respond to this organization. The industrial applications of three-dimensional collagen gels as a biomaterial are widespread from drug delivery to burn repair or tissue engineering system.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Gerald G. Fuller, John E. Kirkwood
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Patent number: 8329246Abstract: Techniques for the production of flow-oriented collagen gels using hydrodynamics to influence the assembly of collagen fibers. Highly concentrated monomeric solutions of collagen are subjected to shear and extensional flow as they are drawn onto a substrate to induce fibrillogenesis under a high Ph buffer. The produced gel captures the flow induced ordering of molecular collagen upon fibril formation. The depositing or the induction of fibrillogenosis occurs without the application of a magnetic field to the concentration of collagen. These highly oriented 3D scaffolds are capable inducing contact guidance and guiding mammalian cell growth. The collagen fibers mimic the construction of in vivo fibers with the characteristic D-periodicity and the integrin receptors on the fibroblasts respond to this organization. The industrial applications of three-dimensional collagen gels as a biomaterial are widespread from drug delivery to burn repair or tissue engineering system.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2010Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Gerald G. Fuller, John E. Kirkwood
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Patent number: 8227574Abstract: In general, the present invention is related to collagen compositions and thin films, and to methods of making and using the same. In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to “woven pattern” or “basket pattern” collagen compositions and thin films, and methods of making.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignees: Fibralign Corporation, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Mikhail Vitoldovich Paukshto, David Harwood McMurtry, Gerald G. Fuller, Yuri Alexandrovich Bobrov, John E. Kirkwood
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Publication number: 20110151563Abstract: In general, the present invention is related to collagen compositions and thin films, and to methods of making and using the same. In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to “woven pattern” or “basket pattern” collagen compositions and thin films, and methods of making.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Mikhail Vitoldovich Paukshto, David Harwood McMurtry, Gerald G. Fuller, Yuri Alexandrovich Bobrov, John E. Kirkwood
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Publication number: 20100227043Abstract: Techniques for the production of flow-oriented collagen gels using hydrodynamics to influence the assembly of collagen fibers. Highly concentrated monomeric solutions of collagen are subjected to shear and extensional flow as they are drawn onto a substrate to induce fibrillogenesis under a high Ph buffer. The produced gel captures the flow induced ordering of molecular collagen upon fibril formation. The depositing or the induction of fibrillogenosis occurs without the application of a magnetic field to the concentration of collagen. These highly oriented 3D scaffolds are capable inducing contact guidance and guiding mammalian cell growth. The collagen fibers mimic the construction of in vivo fibers with the characteristic D-periodicity and the integrin receptors on the fibroblasts respond to this organization. The industrial applications of three-dimensional collagen gels as a biomaterial are widespread from drug delivery to burn repair or tissue engineering system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventors: Gerald G. Fuller, John E. Kirkwood
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Publication number: 20100221521Abstract: Shear thickening fluid suspoemulsions are shown to exhibit unique material properties that have potential application in a broad range of fields of use. Suspoemulsions containing shear thickening fluids as immiscible blends exhibit a nontrivial shear thickening response for volume fractions as low as 10% of STF in the silicone emulsion. Measurements indicate that the system shows phase inversion and it is even possible to form materials with a cocontinuous microstructure with interesting, hysteretic, shear sensitive behavior. Novel STF containing composites with rubbers are formed by blending the shear thickening fluid within the rubber precursors and then adding the catalyzing agent. It was possible to contain STF in each of the silicones tested and the rubbers exhibited different behavior with incased STF. Shear thickening fluid was added to open cell polyurethane to create a Foam-STF composite which was found to exhibit an significant shear thickening response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCHInventors: Norman Wagner, John E. Kirkwood, Ronald G. Egres, JR.