Patents by Inventor Max Allen Weaver
Max Allen Weaver 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: 7326423Abstract: Polymerizable light absorbing azo dyes are disclosed useful as monomers in the formation of devices such as, but not limited to ocular lenses. Specifically, intraocular lenses (IOL) are disclosed wherein one or more of the light absorbing dye is covalently bonded to other structural polymers though ethylene unsaturated groups. The resulting IOLs possess light absorbing properties without significant amounts of free (un-bound) azo dye molecules present in the final structural polymer matrix.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Carroll Fleischer
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Publication number: 20070287822Abstract: Disclosed are light absorbing compositions that are useful for marking or tagging articles for security identification, processes for the preparation of the light-absorbing compositions, coating compositions containing the light absorbing compositions and articles coated with the coating compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicant: EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANYInventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Timothy Ray Dawsey, Greg Alan King, Mark Dwight Clark, James Lon Little, Martin Frederick Schick
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Patent number: 7297735Abstract: This invention relates to polycarbonate compositions comprising: (A) at least one polycarbonate comprising repeating units derived from a dihydroxyaromatic compound or a dihydroxyaliphatic compound of the formula HO—Y—OH; and (B) at least one salt prepared from the reaction of one or more acidic phosphorus-containing compounds and one or more hindered amine light stabilizers. The polycarbonate compositions exhibit improved hydrolytic stability.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2003Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Gether Irick, Jr., Max Allen Weaver
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Method for incorporating nitrogen containing methine light absorbers in pet and compositions thereof
Patent number: 7282555Abstract: The present invention is a method for efficiently incorporating a nitrogen containing methine light absorber into a polyester resin. The method includes forming a reaction mixture comprising combining a diol component, a diacid component selected from the group consisting of dicarboxylic acids, dicarboxylic acid derivatives, and mixtures thereof, an antimony containing compound, a phosphorus containing compound, a metal containing compound, and a nitrogen containing methine light absorber. The reaction mixture is polymerized in a polycondensation reaction system. In another embodiment the light absorber is added while the reaction products of one reactor are being transferred to the next reactor in the polycondensation reaction system. The present invention is also directed articles made from the polyester resin.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Max Allen Weaver, Jason Clay Pearson, Dale Milton Blakely, Frederick Leslie Colhoun -
Patent number: 7278737Abstract: Ophthalmic devices are provided having a violet-light vertical cut-off filter abruptly absorbs light between the wave lengths of between approximately and 400 nm and 450 nm such that a curve when plotted as percent transmission versus wavelength has the shape as depicted in FIG. 2. In one embodiment the ophthalmic devices are made from acrylates and the light absorbing compound is an Eastman Yellow 035 MA dye.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Assignee: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.Inventors: Martin A. Mainster, Alan J. Lang, Michael D. Lowery, Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Carroll Fleischer, Gregory Alan King
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Patent number: 7179308Abstract: This invention pertains to certain novel colorant compounds containing one or more ethylenically-unsaturated, photopolymerizable radicals that may be copolymerized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic polymers. Suitable compositions having the present colorants copolymerized therein include, e.g., polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The present invention also pertains to processes for preparing the photopolymerizable colorant compounds. The ethylenically unsaturated colorant compounds may be suitable for use in coatings that are applied to wood, glass, metal, thermoplastics and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Carroll Fleischer, Greg Alan King
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Patent number: 7172634Abstract: This invention pertains to certain novel colorant compounds containing one or more ethylenically-unsaturated, photopolymerizable radicals that may be copolymerized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic polymers. Suitable compositions having the present colorants copolymerized therein include, e.g., polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The present invention also pertains to processes for preparing the photopolymerizable colorant compounds. The ethylenically unsaturated colorant compounds may be suitable for use in coatings that are applied to wood, glass, metal, thermoplastics and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Carroll Fleischer, Greg Alan King
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Patent number: 7141685Abstract: Disclosed are thermally-stable, anthraquinone colorant compounds (dyes) which contain one or more vinyl groups which render the compounds copolymerizable with reactive vinyl monomers to produce colored, polymeric compositions such as acrylate and methacrylate polymeric materials. The compounds possess good fastness (stability) to ultraviolet (UV) light, good solubility in vinyl monomers, good color strength and excellent thermal stability. Also disclosed are (1) coating composition comprising (i) one or more polymerizable vinyl compounds, (ii) one or more of the dye compounds described above, and (iii) a photoinitiator and (2) polymeric materials, i.e., polymers derived from one or more acrylic acid esters, one or more methacrylic acid esters, one or more other polymerizable vinyl compounds or mixtures of any two or more thereof, having copolymerized therein one or more of the anthraquinone colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook, Jos Simon De Wit, Larry Keith Johnson
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Patent number: 7138539Abstract: Disclosed are novel colorant compounds which contain one or more ethylenically-unsaturated (vinyl), photopolymerizable radicals which may be copolymewrized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic coatings and polymers, e.g., coatings and polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The present invention also pertains to processes for the preparation of certain of the photopolymerizable colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2005Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook
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Patent number: 7105688Abstract: This invention pertains to certain novel red anthraquinone colorant compounds containing one or more ethylenically-unsaturated (e.g., vinyl), photopolymerizable radicals that may be copolymerized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic polymers. Suitable compositions having the present colorants copolymerized therein include, e.g., polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The novel colorants possess good fastness (stability) to ultraviolet (UV) light, good solubility in vinyl monomers and good color strength. The present invention also pertains to processes for preparing the photopolymerizable colorant compounds. The ethylenically unsaturated colorant compounds may be suitable for use in coatings that are applied to wood, glass, paper, metal, thermoplastics and the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Max Allen Weaver, Jean Carroll Fleischer
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Patent number: 7060829Abstract: Disclosed are novel colorant compounds which contain one or more ethylenically-unsaturated (vinyl), photopolymerizable radicals which may be copolymewrized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic coatings and polymers, e.g., coatings and polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The present invention also pertains to processes for the preparation of certain of the photopolymerizable colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2003Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook
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Patent number: 7030244Abstract: Disclosed are novel colorant compounds which contain one or more ethylenically-unsaturated (vinyl), photopolymerizable radicals which may be copolymewrized (or cured) with ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to produce colored compositions such as colored acrylic coatings and polymers, e.g., coatings and polymers produced from acrylate and methacrylate esters, colored polystyrenes, and similar colored polymeric materials derived from other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers. The present invention also pertains to processes for the preparation of certain of the photopolymerizable colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook
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Patent number: 6870062Abstract: Disclosed are thermally-stable, anthraquinone colorant compounds (dyes) which contain one or more vinyl groups which render the compounds copolymerizable with reactive vinyl monomers to produce colored, polymeric compositions such as acrylate and methacrylate polymeric materials. The compounds possess good fastness (stability) to ultraviolet (UV) light, good solubility in vinyl monomers, good color strength and excellent thermal stability. Also disclosed are (1) coating composition comprising (i) one or more polymerizable vinyl compounds, (ii) one or more of the dye compounds described above, and (iii) a photoinitiator and (2) polymeric materials, i.e., polymers derived from one or more acrylic acid esters, one or more methacrylic acid esters, one or more other polymerizable vinyl compounds or mixtures of any two or more thereof, having copolymerized therein one or more of the anthraquinone colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook, Jos Simon De Wit, Larry Keith Johnson
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Patent number: 6870063Abstract: Disclosed are thermally-stable, anthraquinone colorant compounds (dyes) which contain one or more vinyl groups which render the compounds copolymerizable with reactive vinyl monomers to produce colored, polymeric compositions such as acrylate and methacrylate polymeric materials. The compounds possess good fastness (stability) to ultraviolet (UV) light, good solubility in vinyl monomers, good color strength and excellent thermal stability. Also disclosed are (1) coating composition comprising (i) one or more polymerizable vinyl compounds, (ii) one or more of the dye compounds described above, and (iii) a photoinitiator and (2) polymeric materials, i.e., polymers derived from one or more acrylic acid esters, one or more methacrylic acid esters, one or more other polymerizable vinyl compounds or mixtures of any two or more thereof, having copolymerized therein one or more of the anthraquinone colorant compounds.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael John Cyr, Max Allen Weaver, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Jason Clay Pearson, Phillip Michael Cook, Jos Simon De Wit, Larry Keith Johnson
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Publication number: 20040195552Abstract: The present invention recites a method comprising reacting in a solvent in the presence of a baseType: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: Max Allen Weaver, James John Krutak, Brian Edison Maxwell, Gerry Foust Rhodes, Samuel David Hilbert, Jean Carroll Fleischer, William Whitfield Parham
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Publication number: 20040192813Abstract: This invention relates to a polymer composition comprising (A) at least one polyester prepared by the reaction of at least one diol with at least one dicarboxylic acid/or dialkyl ester thereof in the presence of a metallic catalyst; (B) a salt comprising at least one suitable phosphorus-containing acid and at least one suitable basic organic compound, such as a hindered amine light stabilizer; (C) at least one ultraviolet light absorbing compound and optionally at least one phenolic antioxidant. A second embodiment of the present invention pertains to a blend of (A) at least one polyester prepared by the reaction of at least one diol with at least one dicarboxylic acid/or dialkyl ester thereof in the presence of a metallic catalyst; (B) a salt comprising at least one suitable phosphorus-containing acid and at least one suitable basic organic compound; (C) at least one ultraviolet light absorbing compound and, optionally, at least one phenolic antioxidant; and (D) at least one polycarbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Gether Irick, Max Allen Weaver
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Publication number: 20040183053Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of an addition salt of at least one hindered amine light stabilizer and at least one acidic phosphorus containing compound. The process comprises the step of combining at least one hindered amine light stabilizer and an acidic phosphorus containing compound so that an addition salt is formed as an isolatable solid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Gether Irick, Greg Alan King, John Peter Mykytka, Max Allen Weaver
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Publication number: 20040180996Abstract: This invention relates to polycarbonate compositions comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Gether Irick, Max Allen Weaver
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Publication number: 20040180994Abstract: This invention relates to a polyolefin composition comprising (A) at least one polyolefin prepared in the presence of at least one Ziegler Natta; (B) a salt comprising at least one suitable phosphorus-containing acid and at least one suitable basic organic compound, such as a hindered amine light stabilizer; (C) at least one phenolic species selected from one or more phenolic compounds selected from phenolic antioxidants and ultraviolet light absorbers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Gether Irick, Max Allen Weaver
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Publication number: 20040180997Abstract: Disclosed are polymer blends comprising a mixture ofType: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Jason Clay Pearson, Douglas Stephens McWilliams, Gether Irick, Max Allen Weaver