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).

  • Publication number: 20240043786
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Peter LAMMERS, Mark SEGER, Wonkun PARK, Nicholas CSAKAN
  • Patent number: 11814616
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Peter Lammers, Mark Seger, Wonkun Park, Nicholas Csakan
  • Publication number: 20230242405
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Shuguang Deng, Peter Lammers, Kodanda Phani Raj Dandamudi, Mark Seger
  • Patent number: 11345778
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen, Yu Xia, Timothy Chiu, Joshua Lee Ayers
  • Patent number: 10886471
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihua Chen, Darwin Scott Bull, Mark Seger, Timothy Chiu, Yu Xia, Antonio Facchetti
  • Publication number: 20200354510
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shaofeng Lu, Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen, Yu Xia, Timothy Chiu, Joshua Lee Ayers
  • Publication number: 20200299634
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of culturing algae that overcomes catabolic repression of photosynthesis in mixotrophic growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Lammers, Mark Seger, Wonkun Park, Nicholas Csakan
  • Publication number: 20200203613
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Zhihua Chen, Darwin Scott Bull, Mark Seger, Timothy Chiu, Yu Xia, Antonio Facchetti
  • Patent number: 10513707
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Arrowhead Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
  • Patent number: 10381567
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Flexterra, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Ali Mohebbi
  • Publication number: 20180195079
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Arrowhead Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
  • Patent number: 9711728
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Flexterra, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Atsuro Takai, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen
  • Publication number: 20170104160
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Mark Seger, Ali Mohebbi
  • Patent number: 9410162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Arrowhead Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Champa Sengupta Gopalan, Mark Seger, Jose L. Ortega-Carranza
  • Patent number: 9178160
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Polyera Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Atsuro Takai, Mark Seger, Zhihua Chen
  • Patent number: 5764502
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Earl Morgan, Robert Ligon, Mark Seger