Patents by Inventor Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney 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: 12193317Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a polycyclic unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: FLEXENABLE TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Changsheng Wang, William Mitchell, Thomas Hodsden, Martin Heeney, Julianna Panidi
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Publication number: 20240400900Abstract: A polymerisable liquid crystal (LC) compound, a corresponding polymerizable LC material, a polymer film with flat, negative, or positive optical dispersion obtainable from such a material, and the use of the polymerisable LC, polymerisable LC material and/or polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting, or luminescent components or devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: MERCK PATENT GmbHInventors: Kevin Adlem, Martin Heeney, James Allen
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Publication number: 20220131078Abstract: The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a polycyclic unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: FLEXENABLE LTDInventors: Changsheng WANG, William MITCHELL, Thomas HODSDEN, Martin HEENEY, Julianna PANIDI
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Patent number: 10950800Abstract: A compound for an infrared light sensing device may be represented by a particular chemical formula and may be included in an infrared light sensing device. An image sensor may include the infrared light sensing device, and an electronic device may include the image sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Imperial Innovations LimitedInventors: Moon Gyu Han, Kyung Bae Park, Yong Wan Jin, Chul Joon Heo, Brett Baatz, Martin Heeney, Minwon Suh, Yang Han, Ji-Seon Kim
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Patent number: 10364317Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more units based on dithieno[3,2-c;2?,3?-e]azepine-4,6-dione that is fused to further aromatic rings, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising, or being prepared from, these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Nicolas Blouin, William Mitchell, Martin Heeney, Jessica Shaw
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Publication number: 20180315933Abstract: A compound for an infrared light sensing device may be represented by a particular chemical formula and may be included in an infrared light sensing device. An image sensor may include the infrared light sensing device, and an electronic device may include the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Moon Gyu HAN, Kyung Bae Park, Yong Wan Jin, Chul Joon Heo, Brett Baatz, Martin Heeney, Minwon Suh, Yang Han, Ji-Seon Kim
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Patent number: 9944663Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing substituted pentacenes, to novel pentacenes prepared by this process, to the use of the novel pentacenes as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, and to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel pentacenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Steven Tierney, Martin Heeney, Clare Bailey, Weimin Zhang
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Publication number: 20170260325Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more units based on dithieno[3,2-c;2?,3?-e]azepine-4,6-dione that is fused to further aromatic rings, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising, or being prepared from, these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicants: Merck Patent GmbH, IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS LIMITEDInventors: Nicolas BLOUIN, William MITCHELL, Martin HEENEY, Jessica SHAW
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Patent number: 8562870Abstract: A polymer dopant for electrially conducting, photoconducting and semiconducting components and devices and novel polymers comprising electron accepting groups that are suitable as polymer dopants.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Iain McCulloch, Martin Heeney, Mark Giles, Maxim Shkunov, Steven Tierney, Clare Bailey
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Patent number: 8529794Abstract: The invention relates to polymers comprising fused selenophene rings, to their use as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices, and to optical, electrooptical or electronic devices comprising them.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2007Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Martin Heeney, Weimin Zhang, Steven Tierney, Iain McCulloch
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Patent number: 8501902Abstract: The invention relates to a process for coupling thiophene or selenophene compounds, in particular for preparing conjugated thiophene or selenophene polymers with high molecular weight and high regioregularity, and to novel polymers prepared by this process. The invention further relates to the use of the novel polymers as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), thin film transistors (TFT), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices. The invention further relates to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel polymers.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Steven Tierney, Martin Heeney, Weimin Zhang, Simon Higgins, Iain Liversedge
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Patent number: 8431682Abstract: The invention relates to regioregular polyselenophenes, to their use as semiconductors or charge transport materials, in optical, electro-optical or electronic devices, and to optical, electro-optical or electronic devices comprising them.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Martin Heeney, Warren Duffy, Iain McCulloch, Simon Higgins, David Crouch, Peter Skabara
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Publication number: 20120305854Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing substituted pentacenes, to novel pentacenes prepared by this process, to the use of the novel pentacenes as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, and to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel pentacenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGInventors: Steven TIERNEY, Martin HEENEY, Clare BAILEY, Weimin ZHANG
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Patent number: 8318048Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing substituted pentacenes, to novel pentacenes prepared by this process, to the use of the novel pentacenes as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, and to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel pentacenes.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Steven Tierney, Martin Heeney, Clare Bailey, Weimin Zhang
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Patent number: 8314416Abstract: Disclosed are formulations that contain an organic semiconducting compound, a hydrophobic surfactant containing a head group that is a chlorosilane, silazane or thiol group and a tail group that is an alkyl, fluoroalkyl or siloxane group, and a non-alcoholic organic solvent, and their uses in electrically conducting, photoconducting and semiconducting components and devices, for example, in integrated circuitry, organic field effect transistors, thin film transistors, organic photovoltaic devices, radio frequency identification tags and organic light emitting diodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Maxim Shkunov, Richard Simms, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch
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Patent number: 8221652Abstract: The invention relates to a process of preparing regioregular polymers, in particular head-to-tail (HT) poly-(3-substituted) thiophenes or selenophenes with high regioregularity and defined molecular weight, to novel polymers prepared by this process, to the use of the novel polymers as semiconductors or charge transport materials in optical, electrooptical or electronic devices including field effect transistors (FETs), electroluminescent, photovoltaic and sensor devices, and to FETs and other semiconducting components or materials comprising the novel polymers.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Timo Hoffart, Birgit Falk, Iain McCulloch, Weimin Zhang, Martin Heeney
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Publication number: 20120112178Abstract: An optoelectronic device comprises electon donor D and acceptor A semiconducting species and an intervening co-oligomeric or copolymeric species provided to alter the energy transfer characteristics of excitons to or from the interface between the said electron acceptor and donor species. The intervening species may be of the form Am-Xn-Do, where m, n and o are each 0 or a positive integer and at least two of A, X and D are present.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITEDInventors: Richard Friend, Wilheim Huck, Guoli Tu, Henning Sirringhaus, Neil Greenham, Martin Heeney
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Patent number: 8114316Abstract: The invention relates to novel mono-, oligo and polymers of thieno[2,3-b]thiophene, to their use as semiconductors or charge transport materials, in optical, electro-optical or electronic devices like LCDs, optical films, FETs or OFETs for TFT-LCDs and IC devices such as RFID tags, electroluminescent devices in flat panel displays or photovoltaic or sensor devices, and further relates to a FET, light emitting device or ID tag comprising the novel polymers.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2005Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Martin Heeney, Clare Bailey, Steven Tierney, Iain McCulloch
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Patent number: 7998540Abstract: The invention relates to novel 9- and/or 10-substituted anthracenes, to their use in liquid crystal, light-emitting or semiconducting materials and devices, in anisotropic polymers, optical, electrooptical, decorative, security, cosmetic, diagnostic, electric, electronic, charge transport, semiconductor, optical recording, electroluminescent, photoconductor or electrophotographic applications, and to liquid crystal, light-emitting and semiconducting materials, polymers and devices comprising them.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter HaftungInventors: Mark John Goulding, Marcus Thompson, Warren Duffy, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch
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Patent number: 7829658Abstract: The invention relates to novel mono-, oligo- and polymeric compounds comprising thienothiazole groups, to their use as semiconductors or charge transport materials, in optical, electro-optical or electronic devices, and to optical, electro-optical or electronic devices comprising the novel compounds.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Merck Patent GesellschaftInventors: Warren Duffy, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch