Patents by Inventor Meredith Hampton

Meredith Hampton 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).

  • HIGH FIDELITY NANO-STRUCTURES AND ARRAYS FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20100147365
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes an electron accepting material and an electron donating material. One of the electron accepting or donating materials is configured and dimensioned as a first component of a bulk heterojunction with a predetermined array of first structures, each first structure is substantially equivalent in three dimensional shape, has a substantially equivalent cross-sectional dimension, and where each first structure of the array of first structures has a substantially equivalent orientation with respect to adjacent first structures of the predetermined array forming a substantially uniform array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Joseph M. DeSimone, Ginger Denison Rothrock, Zhilian Zhou, Edward T. Samulski, Meredith Hampton, Stuart Williams
  • Disposable container
    Publication number: 20040000563
    Abstract: A pillow or sachet disposable dispenser in which a container has a relatively rigid flexible spine adhered to an inside surface of one of the flexible sheet that form the container with a protrusion extending through an aperture in the sheet. The protrusion has a line of weakness that will rupture when flexed providing an opening through which the material in the container can be expelled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Christiaan Rendle, Meredith Hampton