Patents by Inventor Maria Simon

Maria Simon 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: 12146099
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting silica and silicate scale formation via treating an aqueous system containing silica with an effective amount of a chelating agent blended with a polymeric dispersant in a weight ratio range from greater than 1.0:0.5 to less than 1.0:3.0, agent to dispersant, including blends in a weight ratio of 1:1. Specifically, the chelating agent is either EDTA or DTPA, while the polymer dispersant is an acid and alkylene oxide derived dispersant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Puspendu Deo, Maria Simon, Pramod Akhade, Graham P. Abramo, Kaylie L. Young, Somil Chandrakant Mehta
  • Patent number: 11712367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mask-shaped skin treatment device and system. The device comprises one or more coupling agent detectors configured to detect presence of coupling agent on one or more skin portions of a user and one or more heating elements configured to cause local heating of one or more skin portions of the user. The one or more heating elements are configured to cause heat selectively based on the presence of coupling agent measured by the one or more coupling agent detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Evelyn Josefina Maria Simons, Martin Jurna
  • Patent number: 11492538
    Abstract: A method for inhibiting scale comprises adding to a fluid that causes scale formation a polycarboxylic acid or a salt thereof which has a star structure and at least 5 arms. A star polymer comprising a core based on 2,2?-[Oxybis(methylene)]bis[2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol] and 6 arms comprising linear polycarboxylic acids of degree of polymerization (DP) of the arm of at least 2 and in some embodiments up to 15 or more is useful in inhibiting scale formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Puspendu Deo, Antony K. Van Dyk, Paul Clark, David Lunn, Craig Hawker, Maria Simon, Sungbaek Seo, Alaina McGrath
  • Patent number: 11359132
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for inhibiting scale comprising adding to a fluid that causes scale formation a polycarboxylic acid having a polymer backbone and a plurality of branches from the polymer backbone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Puspendu Deo, Antony K. Van Dyk, Paul Clark, David Lunn, Craig Hawker, Maria Simon, Sungbaek Seo, Alaina McGrath
  • Publication number: 20220162495
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inhibiting scale comprising adding to a fluid that causes scale formation a polycarboxylic acid or a salt thereof which has a star structure and at least 5 arms. Also, disclosed is a specific star polymer useful in scale inhibition which comprises a core based on 2,2?-[Oxybis(methylene)]bis[2-(hydroxymethyl)-1,3-propanediol] and 6 arms comprising linear polycarboxylic acids of degree of polymerization (DP) of the arm of at least 2 and in some embodiments up to 15 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Puspendu DEO, Antony K. VAN DYK, Paul CLARK, David LUNN, Craig HAWKER, Maria SIMON, Sungbaek SEO, Alaina MCGRATH
  • Publication number: 20220041918
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for inhibiting scale comprising adding to a fluid that causes scale formation a polycarboxylic acid having a polymer backbone and a plurality of branches from the polymer backbone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Puspendu DEO, Antony K. VAN DYK, Paul CLARK, David LUNN, Craig HAWKER, Maria SIMON, Sungbaek SEO, Alaina MCGRATH
  • Publication number: 20210221723
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting silica and silicate scale formation via treating an aqueous system containing silica with an effective amount of a chelating agent blended with a polymeric dispersant in a weight ratio range from greater than 1.0:0.5 to less than 1.0:3.0, agent to dispersant, including blends in a weight ratio of 1:1. Specifically, the chelating agent is either EDTA or DTPA, while the polymer dispersant is an acid and alkylene oxide derived dispersant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Puspendu Deo, Maria Simon, Pramod Akhade, Graham P. Abramo, Kaylie L. Young, Somil Chandrakant Mehta
  • Patent number: 9512470
    Abstract: Detecting nucleic acid sequences in a sample, such as the detection of pathogenic organisms in clinical samples. More specifically, detecting an infection caused by a pathogenic organism such as a virus or a bacterium in a clinical specimen by means of amplifying and detecting specific nucleic acid sequences from said pathogenic organism. A multiplex assay with the possibility to determine about 30 different target nucleic acid sequences in a single one-tube assay combined with real-time probe detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Pathofinder Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Gerardus Cecilia Maria Reijans, Gijs Josephus Henricus Dingemans, Augustinus Franciscus Maria Simons, Antonia Alberdina Theodora Petronella Brink
  • Patent number: 9222124
    Abstract: The invention is in the technical field of detecting nucleic acid sequences in a sample, such as the detection of pathogenic organisms in clinical samples. More specifically, the invention relates to the field of detecting an infection caused by a pathogenic organism such as a virus or a bacterium in a clinical specimen by amplifying and detecting specific nucleic acid sequences from the pathogenic organism. It provides a multiplex assay with the possibility to determine about 30 different target nucleic acid sequences in a single one-tube assay combined with real-time probe detection. The method employs multiplex ligation dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) employing labelled primers in combination with labelled, probes and detection of the fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Pathofinder Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Gerardus Cecilia Maria Reijans, Gijs Josephus Henricus Dingemans, Augustinus Franciscus Maria Simons
  • Publication number: 20150284782
    Abstract: Detecting nucleic acid sequences in a sample, such as the detection of pathogenic organisms in clinical samples. More specifically, detecting an infection caused by a pathogenic organism such as a virus or a bacterium in a clinical specimen by means of amplifying and detecting specific nucleic acid sequences from said pathogenic organism. A multiplex assay with the possibility to determine about 30 different target nucleic acid sequences in a single one-tube assay combined with real-time probe detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Martinus Gerardus Cecilia Maria Reijans, Gijs Josephus Henricus Dingemans, Augustinus Franciscus Maria Simons, Antonia Alberdina Theodora Petronella Brink
  • Publication number: 20100297630
    Abstract: The invention is in the technical field of detecting nucleic acid sequences in a sample, such as the detection of pathogenic organisms in clinical samples. More specifically, the invention relates to the field of detecting an infection caused by a pathogenic organism such as a virus or a bacterium in a clinical specimen by means of amplifying and detecting specific nucleic acid sequences from said pathogenic organism. It provides a multiplex assay with the possibility to determine about 30 different target nucleic acid sequences in a single one-tube assay combined with real-time probe detection. The method employs multiplex ligation dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) employing labelled primers in combination with labelled, probes and detection of the fluorescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: PATHOFINDER B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Gerardus Cecilia Maria Reijans, Gijs Josephus Henricus Dingemans, Augustinus Franciscus Maria Simons
  • Publication number: 20080068123
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive apparatus includes a substrate with a top surface, one or more bars being rotatably joined to the surface and having bimorph portions, and a plate rotatably joined to the surface and substantially rigidly joined to the one or more bars. Each bimorph portion bends in response to being heated. The one or more bars and the plate are configured to cause the plate to move farther away from the top surface in response to the one or more bimorph portions being heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Vladimir Aksyuk, Maria Simon, Richart Slusher
  • Publication number: 20070228869
    Abstract: An electro-mechanical actuator includes a comb drive and a deformable connector. The comb drive has a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate. The capacitor plates have teeth capable of inter-digitating. The deformable connector is configured to apply a mechanical restoring force to the first capacitor plate. The deformable connector is configured to restore the first capacitor plate to be at an equilibrium rest position in response to no control voltage being applied across the capacitor. The comb drive is more engaged at the equilibrium rest position than at a mechanical stability threshold of the comb drive. The capacitor plates are disengaged at the equilibrium rest position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Vladimir Aksyuk, Carl Nuzman, Maria Simon, Alan Weiss
  • Publication number: 20070085533
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a substrate and a MEM device. The MEM includes a comb capacitor and a magnetic element physically connected to one electrode of the comb capacitor. The magnetic element is capable of moving the one electrode in a manner that alters a capacitance of the comb capacitor. The apparatus also includes at least one spring physically connecting the magnetic element to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Cristian Bolle, Maria Simon
  • Patent number: 7205451
    Abstract: Nucleotide sequences coding signal transduction components in durable and broad-range resistance strategies based on plant defense. The invention relates to nucleotide sequences derived from a plant genorne, capable of encoding a polypeptide product which can be activated as a signaling molecule in the signal transduction pathway of resistance to a plant pathogen which resistance results from the interaction between polypeptide products encoded by a resistance gene and elicitors encoded by an avirulence gene in said soil pant pathogen wherein the polypeptide product encoded by the nucleotide sequence interacts with a polypeplide product encoded by said resistance gene. The invention further relates to the use of these sequences and/or polypeptide products in the establishment of durable and broad range resistance strategies based on plant defense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Keygene N.V.
    Inventors: Michel Haring, Augustinus Franciscus Maria Simons, Jacobus Hubertus Vossen, Bernardus Johannes Clemens Cornelissen
  • Publication number: 20060267449
    Abstract: Multiple drives are coupled together to cause rotation about a single axis by an arrangement in which two moveable electrode plates flank a fixed electrode plate such that the opposite direction rotations of the two moveable electrode plates are combined. To this end, at least one arm from at least one of the moveable electrode plates is connected to at least one arm of a moveable electrode plate on the opposite side of the fixed electrode plate, e.g., by a spring. The electrode plates may have comb projections. A post may be coupled at one of its ends to the top of one of the moveable electrode plates, and the post's other end is coupled to a plate, e.g., a mirror or other structure to be moved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Vladimir Aksyuk, Maria Simon
  • Publication number: 20060227409
    Abstract: A MEMS device achieves a large angle of rotation of a plate about 2 independent axes by employing a handle portion of the plate which is isolated by respective springs coupling the handle portion to each of two actuators. A first actuator, which rotates the mirror about the same axis as done in U.S. Pat. No. 6,781,744 is essentially the same structure disclosed therein, but with the mirror plate thereof shrunken in size. This shrunken plate is coupled by a spring to the mirror plate of the instant invention. Movement of the shrunken plate causes corresponding movement of the handle portion, and hence the mirror. A second actuator, coupled by another spring to the mirror plate of the instant invention, rotates about a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis and parallel to the substrate. The second actuator includes an actuator plate and an electrode thereunder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Flavio Pardo, Maria Simon
  • Publication number: 20060152105
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive apparatus includes a substrate with a top surface, one or more bars being rotatably joined to the surface and having bimorph portions, and a plate rotatably joined to the surface and substantially rigidly joined to the one or more bars. Each bimorph portion bends in response to being heated. The one or more bars and the plate are configured to cause the plate to move farther away from the top surface in response to the one or more bimorph portions being heated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: Vladimir Aksyuk, Maria Simon, Richart Slusher
  • Publication number: 20060138605
    Abstract: Targeted heating is employed to essentially only heat a material that is used as a spacer and to bond a first chip of a flip-chip to a second chip thereof and not the rest of the chips. In order to heat only the spacer-bonding material, one or more wires are located within, or adjacent to, the spacer-bonding material, and an electrical current is passed through the one or more wires causing them to heat. At the time of final bonding the heat generated by the one or more wires causes the spacer-bonding material to heat to its final curing temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Flavio Pardo, Maria Simon
  • Publication number: 20060126151
    Abstract: An apparatus having a plurality of arrayed MEMS devices, each device having a parallel-plate actuator and a reflective plate, both of which are mechanically coupled to a flexible beam attached between two anchors. Advantageously, the use of parallel-plate actuators in the apparatus alleviates stringent requirements for the alignment of lithographic masks employed in the fabrication process. In one embodiment, each flexible beam has a relatively small thickness and a relatively large length to effect a relatively large displacement range for the corresponding reflective plate. Movable electrodes of different parallel-plate actuators are configured to act as an electrical shield for the flexible beams, which reduces inter-device crosstalk in the apparatus. Reflective plates of different MEMS devices form a segmented mirror, which is suitable for adaptive-optics and/or maskless lithography applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Vladimir Aksyuk, Cristian Bolle, Maria Simon