Patents by Inventor Katharina BERZ
Katharina BERZ 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: 11542343Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer selected from the group consisting of xanthan gum, carrageenan, guar gum, chitosan, alginate and combinations thereof; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising up to 100 mol-% repeating units according to Formula (1a): wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTDInventors: Dirk Fischer, Katharina Berz, Gundula Starkulla
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Patent number: 11401362Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 40 mol-% to 99 mol-% of repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 5 mol-% crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; (c) from 0.99 mol-% to 59.99 mol-% of repeating neutral structural units; wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: CLARIANT INTERNATIONAL LTDInventors: Dirk Fischer, Katharina Berz, Gundula Starkulla
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Patent number: 11339241Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 90 mol-% to 99.9 mol-%, preferably 95 mol-% to 99.5 mol-% of repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 10 mol-%, preferably to 5 mol-%, more preferably to 3 mol-% of crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk Fischer, Katharina Berz, Gundula Starkulla
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Patent number: 11306170Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 40 mol-% to 99.9 mol-% repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 5 mol-% crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; (c) from 0.01 mol-% to 88.51 mol-% of neutral structural units; (d) from 1.98 mol-% to 20 mol-% of anionic structural units, wherein the repeating anionic structural units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least one carboxylate anion, and wherein the repeating anionic structural units are different from units (a); wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk Fischer, Katharina Berz, Gundula Starkulla
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Patent number: 10836951Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing water-soluble or water-swellable polymers containing acryloyldimethyltaurate, neutral monomers, and monomers with carboxylate groups. The monomers undergo free radical polymerisation in precipitation in a polar solvent or solvent mixture, providing that an additional polar organic solvent is contained if the polar solvent contains 2-methyl-2-propanol, a ketone or both.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk Fischer, Christoph Kayser, Claudia Diemel, Katharina Berz
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Publication number: 20200017618Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 40 mol-% to 99 mol-% of repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 5 mol-% crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; (c) from 0.99 mol-% to 59.99 mol-% of repeating neutral structural units; wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk FISCHER, Katharina BERZ, Gundula STARKULLA
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Publication number: 20200017619Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 40 mol-% to 99.9 mol-% repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 5 mol-% crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; (c) from 0.01 mol-% to 88.51 mol-% of neutral structural units; (d) from 1.98 mol-% to 20 mol-% of anionic structural units, wherein the repeating anionic structural units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least one carboxylate anion, and wherein the repeating anionic structural units are different from units (a); wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk FISCHER, Katharina BERZ, Gundula STARKULLA
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Publication number: 20200010598Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising: (a) from 90 mol-% to 99.9 mol-%, preferably 95 mol-% to 99.5 mol-% of repeating units according to Formula (1) (b) from 0.01 mol-% to 10 mol-%, preferably to 5 mol-%, more preferably to 3 mol-% of crosslinking or branching units, wherein the crosslinking or branching units result from the incorporation of a monomer comprising at least two olefinically unsaturated double bonds; characterised in that the components (i) and (ii) are polymerised by radical precipitation polymerisation in a polar solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk FISCHER, Katharina BERZ, Gundula STARKULLA
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Publication number: 20190359735Abstract: A water-soluble and/or water-swellable hybrid polymer comprising: (i) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% water-soluble and/or water-swellable polysaccharide polymer selected from the group consisting of xanthan gum, carrageenan, guar gum, chitosan, alginate and combinations thereof; (ii) from 5 wt.-% to 95 wt.-% synthetic polymer comprising up to 100 mol-% repeating units according to Formula (1a): wherein components (i) and (ii) are polymerized by radical precipitation polymerization in a polar solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk FISCHER, Katharina BERZ, Gundula STARKULLA
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Publication number: 20180171208Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing water-soluble or water-swellable polymers containing acryloyldimethyltaurate, neutral monomers, and monomers with carboxylate groups. The monomers undergo free radical polymerisation in precipitation in a polar solvent or solvent mixture, providing that an additional polar organic solvent is contained if the polar solvent contains 2-methyl-2-propanol, a ketone or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Dirk FISCHER, Christoph KAYSER, Claudia DIEMEL, Katharina BERZ
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Publication number: 20180155478Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing water-soluble or water-swellable polymers, containing a) 5 to 98 mol. %, preferably between 20 and 80 mol. % of one or more recurrent structural units of formula (1), where R1, R2 and R3 represent hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, Y represents a chemical bond, O, CH2, C(CH3)H, C(O)NR2, A represents a chemical bond, O, arylene, phenylene, linear or branched C1-C12-alkylene, a linear mono-hydroxyalkylene group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms or a linear or branched di-hydroxyalkylene group with 3 to 6 carbon atoms, D stands for S(O), POH, POR3 or PO-Q+, Q+ stands for H+, Li+, Na+, K+, 1/2 Ca++, 1/2 Mg++, 1/2 Zn++, 1/3 Al+++, 1/4 Zr++++ or for mixtures of these ions, and b) 2 to 95 mol. %, preferably 20 to 80 mol.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: Clariant International Ltd.Inventors: Christoph KAYSER, Dirk FISCHER, Claudia DIEMEL, Katharina BERZ