Patents by Inventor Michael Kenneth Laughner

Michael Kenneth Laughner 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).

  • Thermoplastic olefinic compositions
    Patent number: 7906586
    Abstract: Thermoplastic olefinic compositions comprising (a) at least one ethylene/?-olefin polymer having a PRR between 8 and 70 and (b) at least one polypropylene polymer and an (a)/(b) weight ratio of greater than 50/less than 50 to 90/10. The compositions are used in extrusion, calendering, blow molding, foaming and thermoforming processes to make a variety of articles, such as automotive instrument panel skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Laura Bauerle Weaver, Kim Louis Walton, Michael Kenneth Laughner
  • Shear thinning ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymers and their preparation
    Publication number: 20040122190
    Abstract: Shear-thinning ethylene/&agr;-olefin and ethylene/&agr;-olefin/diene monomer interpolymers that do not include a traditional branch-inducing monomer such as norbornadiene are prepared at an elevated temperature in an atmosphere that has little or no hydrogen using a constrained geometry complex catalyst and an activating cocatalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Larry Duane Cady, Morgan Mark Hughes, Michael Kenneth Laughner, Larry Alan Meiske, Deepak Rasiklal Parikh
  • Shear thinning ethylene/&agr;-olefin interpolymers and their preparation
    Patent number: 6680361
    Abstract: Shear-thinning ethylene/&agr;-olefin and ethylene/&agr;-olefin/diene monomer interpolymers that do not include a traditional branch-inducing monomer such as norbornadiene are prepared at an elevated temperature in an atmosphere that has little or no hydrogen using a constrained geometry complex catalyst and an activating cocatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC
    Inventors: Larry Duane Cady, Morgan Mark Hughes, Michael Kenneth Laughner, Larry Alan Meiske, Deepak Rasiklal Parikh