Patents by Inventor Julie C. Ferrato

Julie C. Ferrato 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).

  • Liquid crystalline materials and method of making
    Patent number: 4931209
    Abstract: A new family of liquid crystalline or potential liquid crystalline compounds is made relatively cheaply generally by reducing an acid chlorine derivative alkyl or alkoxy benzene or its analogues of an alkyl cyclohexanoic acid to an alkanol derivative, converting the alkanol derivative to a halide such as the bromide or chloride and reacting said halide with a cyano phenol, cyanodiphenol and related compound to form a compound having the formula of equation 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Crystaloid Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Ferrato, Julie C. Ferrato
  • Liquid crystalline materials and method of making same
    Patent number: 4879061
    Abstract: A method of making liquid crystalline compounds of the formula ##STR1## where A represents a cyclohexane ring, n has values of 1, 2 or 3, R1 is an alkyl radical, R2 is an alkyl, alkoxy, or alkylcyclohexyl or cyanide radical, and X1 is lower alkyl and X2, X3 and X4 is alkyl and preferably methyl, ethyl or propyl, hydrogen, halogen and preferably fluorine or cyanide and to the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1989
    Assignee: Crystaloid Electronics Co.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Ferrato, Julie C. Ferrato