Patents by Inventor Mark Seger
Mark Seger 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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Publication number: 20240400834Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to multimeric dyes, colored dielectric polymer materials, methods of making them and uses thereof. In particular, the application concerns a colored dielectric polymer material comprising a multimeric dye with structure wherein each D is independently a chromophoric unit; each L is independently absent or is a linking group comprising no more than 10 atoms in length as measured in the shortest path from D to A; A is a bridging group; and n is an integer in the range of 1 to 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Zhihua Chen, Shaofeng Lu, Yu Xia, Mark Seger, Shiuan-Iou Lin, Hsiu-Chun Wu, Liang-Je Lai, Jing-Yun Chen
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Publication number: 20240400736Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to colored dielectric polymer materials, methods of making them and uses thereof. In particular, the application concerns a colored dielectric polymer material comprising a crosslinked polymer and a dye dispersed in the crosslinked polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Yu Xia, Shaofeng Lu, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen, Shiuan-Iou Lin, Liang-Je Lai, Hsiu-Chun Wu, Jing-Yun Chen
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Publication number: 20240043786Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Peter LAMMERS, Mark SEGER, Wonkun PARK, Nicholas CSAKAN
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Patent number: 11814616Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Peter Lammers, Mark Seger, Wonkun Park, Nicholas Csakan
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Publication number: 20230242405Abstract: Processing algae includes liquefying algae to yield a mixture including biocrude oil, biochar, and an aqueous component, and treating the biochar to yield a nutrient composition including ammoniacal nitrogen and phosphate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Shuguang Deng, Peter Lammers, Kodanda Phani Raj Dandamudi, Mark Seger
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Patent number: 11345778Abstract: Disclosed are low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers that can be used as active and/or passive organic materials in various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices. In some embodiments, the device can include an organic semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer prepared from such low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers. In some embodiments, the device can include a passivation layer prepared from the low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers described herein. In certain embodiments, a polymer of the disclosure has a repeating unit having the structure (I) in which Q1-Q2 and Q3-Q4 are each independently —C(H)?C(H)— or (II) in which each n is independently selected from 1, 2, 3 and 4, and the polymer includes at least one repeating unit of Formula (I) wherein Q1-Q2 and Q3-Q4 is (II).Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen, Yu Xia, Timothy Chiu, Joshua Lee Ayers
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Patent number: 10886471Abstract: The present teachings relate to novel polymeric materials for electrode treatment. The present polymeric electrode modifiers can be derived from an episulfide monomer via either an acid-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization reaction or a nucleophilic polymerization reaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.Inventors: Zhihua Chen, Darwin Scott Bull, Mark Seger, Timothy Chiu, Yu Xia, Antonio Facchetti
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Publication number: 20200354510Abstract: Disclosed are low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers that can be used as active and/or passive organic materials in various electronic, optical, and optoelectronic devices. In some embodiments, the device can include an organic semiconductor layer and a dielectric layer prepared from such low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers. In some embodiments, the device can include a passivation layer prepared from the low-temperature thermally and/or ultraviolet light curable polymers described herein. In certain embodiments, a polymer of the disclosure has a repeating unit having the structure (I) in which Q1-Q2 and Q3-Q4 are each independently —C(H)?C(H)— or (II) in which each n is independently selected from 1, 2, 3 and 4, and the polymer includes at least one repeating unit of Formula (I) wherein Q1-Q2 and Q3-Q4 is (II).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen, Yu Xia, Timothy Chiu, Joshua Lee Ayers
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Publication number: 20200299634Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Peter Lammers, Mark Seger, Wonkun Park, Nicholas Csakan
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Publication number: 20200203613Abstract: The present teachings relate to novel polymeric materials for electrode treatment. The present polymeric electrode modifiers can be derived from an episulfide monomer via either an acid-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization reaction or a nucleophilic polymerization reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2018Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Zhihua Chen, Darwin Scott Bull, Mark Seger, Timothy Chiu, Yu Xia, Antonio Facchetti
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Patent number: 10513707Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise altering the biosynthesis and accumulation of sucrose in legumes by transforming the plants with the sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) gene of maize, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise altering the assimilation of nitrogen in legumes by transforming the plants with the glutamine synthetase (GS) gene of soybean, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise transforming legume plants with both SPS and GS genes. In addition, embodiments of the present invention relate to enhancing expression of transgenes through the 5? UTR of the glycine max (soybean) cytosolic glutamine synthetase (Gmgln?1) gene.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Arrowhead Center, Inc.Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
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Patent number: 10381567Abstract: The present teachings relate to new organic semiconducting compounds and their use as active materials in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The present compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The present compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Ali Mohebbi
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Publication number: 20180195079Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise altering the biosynthesis and accumulation of sucrose in legumes by transforming the plants with the sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) gene of maize, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise altering the assimilation of nitrogen in legumes by transforming the plants with the glutamine synthetase (GS) gene of soybean, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise transforming legume plants with both SPS and GS genes. In addition, embodiments of the present invention relate to enhancing expression of transgenes through the 5? UTR of the glycine max (soybean) cytosolic glutamine synthetase (Gmgln?1) gene.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: Arrowhead Center, Inc.Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
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Patent number: 9711728Abstract: The present teachings relate to polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds generally include as repeating units at least one annulated thienyl-vinylene-thienyl (TVT) unit and at least one other pi-conjugated unit. The annulated TVT unit can be represented by the formula: where Cy1 and Cy2 can be a five- or six-membered carbocyclic ring. The annulated TVT unit can be optionally substituted at any available ring atom(s), and can be covalently linked to the other pi-conjugated unit via either the thiophene rings or the carbocyclic rings Cy1 and Cy2. The other pi-conjugated unit can be a conjugated linear linker including one or more unsaturated bonds, or a conjugated cyclic linker including one or more carbocyclic and/or heterocyclic rings.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: Northwestern University, Flexterra, Inc.Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Atsuro Takai, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen
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Publication number: 20170104160Abstract: The present teachings relate to new organic semiconducting compounds and their use as active materials in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The present compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The present compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Ali Mohebbi
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Patent number: 9410162Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise altering the biosynthesis and accumulation of sucrose in legumes by transforming the plants with the sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS) gene of maize, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise altering the assimilation of nitrogen in legumes by transforming the plants with the glutamine synthetase (GS) gene of soybean, and closely related regulatory genes. Embodiments of the present invention further comprise transforming legume plants with both SPS and GS genes. In addition, embodiments of the present invention relate to enhancing expression of transgenes through the 5? UTR of the glycine max (soybean) cytosolic glutamine synthetase (Gmgln?1) gene.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Arrowhead Center, Inc.Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
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Patent number: 9178160Abstract: The present teachings relate to certain polymeric compounds and their use as organic semiconductors in organic and hybrid optical, optoelectronic, and/or electronic devices such as photovoltaic cells, light emitting diodes, light emitting transistors, and field effect transistors. The disclosed compounds can provide improved device performance, for example, as measured by power conversion efficiency, fill factor, open circuit voltage, field-effect mobility, on/off current ratios, and/or air stability when used in photovoltaic cells or transistors. The disclosed compounds can have good solubility in common solvents enabling device fabrication via solution processes.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignees: Northwestern University, Polyera CorporationInventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Atsuro Takai, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen
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Patent number: 5764502Abstract: An electric power generation system having two main sources of ac power comprises a first and a second main power conversion and distribution unit (MPCDU1, MPCDU2), each electrically coupled to one of the sources of ac power. The MPCDUs controllably supply ac electric power to an associated main distribution bus and additionally convert that power to a second type of power. This second type of power is supplied to an associated secondary distribution bus and to a converted power output. The system also includes an auxiliary source of ac power and an auxiliary power conversion and distribution unit (APCDU) which is electrically coupled to the auxiliary source. The APCDU controllably supplies ac electric power to a ground service distribution bus and additionally converts that power to a second type of power which is then supplied to an associated secondary distribution bus and to a converted power output.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Earl Morgan, Robert Ligon, Mark Seger