Patents by Inventor Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
Miguel Carrasco-Orozco 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: 10158079Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers of benzodithiophene, methods and materials for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, and to OE devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Steven Tierney, Nicolas Blouin, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
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Patent number: 10050201Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers of benzodithiophene, methods and materials for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, and to OE devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Steven Tierney, Nicolas Blouin, William Mitchell, Changsheng Wang, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
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Patent number: 9837613Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzo[2,1,3]thiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid bis-ester, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Steven Tierney, Nicolas Blouin, Frank Egon Meyer, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Patent number: 9805838Abstract: The invention relates to a formulation comprising p-type and n-type organic semiconductors (OSC) and one or more organic solvents, its use for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially for bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, to a process for preparing an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, using the formulation, and an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, prepared using such a process or formulation.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Toby Cull, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Patent number: 9647222Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for the use of polycycloolefins in electronic devices and more specifically to the use of such polycycloolefins as gate insulator layers used in the fabrication of electronic devices, the electronic devices that encompass such polycycloolefin gate insulator and processes for preparing such polycycloolefin gate insulator layers and electronic devices encompassing such layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, Promerus LLCInventors: David Christoph Müller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Andrew Bell, Edmund Elce, Larry F. Rhodes, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Hendra Ng, Pramod Kandanarachchi, Steven Smith
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Patent number: 9590178Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing one or more 4,8-dioxycarbonylalkyl-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene repeating units or their thioester derivatives, methods for their preparation and monomers used therein, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Nicolas Blouin, Amy Phillips, Steven Tierney, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Toby Cull
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Patent number: 9559305Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers comprising in their backbone one or more divalent donor units, like for example benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene-2,6-diyl (BDT), that are linked on both sides to an acceptor unit, to methods of preparing the polymers and educts or intermediates used in such preparation, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing the polymers, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductors organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Nicolas Blouin, Amy Phillips, Lana Nanson, Steven Tierney, Toby Cull, Priti Tiwana, Stephane Berny, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
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Publication number: 20160267337Abstract: Disclosed is a detector array for vein recognition technology, which contains an absorber of radiation, a security system that contains the detector array as well as a method for vein recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Klaus BOFINGER, Miguel CARRASCO-OROZCO, Priti TIWANA
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Patent number: 9287505Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on thieno[3,4-b]thiophene, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Nicolas Blouin, William Mitchell, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer, Steven Tierney
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Patent number: 9287504Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzodifuran, benzodipyrrole or benzodithiophene, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Nicolas Blouin, Steven Tierney, William Mitchell, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
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Publication number: 20150372246Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for the use of polycycloolefins in electronic devices and more specifically to the use of such polycycloolefins as gate insulator layers used in the fabrication of electronic devices, the electronic devices that encompass such polycycloolefin gate insulator and processes for preparing such polycycloolefin gate insulator layers and electronic devices encompassing such layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: David Christoph Müller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Andrew Bell, Edmund Elce, Larry F. Rhodes, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Hendra Ng, Pramod Kandanarachchi, Steven Smith
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Patent number: 9175123Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for the use of polycycloolefins in electronic devices and more specifically to the use of such polycycloolefins as gate insulator layers used in the fabrication of electronic devices, the electronic devices that encompass such polycycloolefin gate insulator and processes for preparing such polycycloolefin gate insulator layers and electronic devices encompassing such layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignees: Merck Patent GmbH, Promerus LLCInventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Andrew Bell, Edmund Elce, Larry F. Rhodes, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Hendra Ng, Pramod Kandanarachchi, Steven Smith
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Patent number: 9153784Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzo[2,1,3]thiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid bis-ester, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Steven Tierney, Nicolas Blouin, Frank Egon Meyer, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Publication number: 20150270490Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on benzo[2,1,3]thiadiazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid bis-ester, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: William MITCHELL, Steven TIERNEY, Nicolas BLOUIN, Frank Egon MEYER, Miguel CARRASCO-OROZCO
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Patent number: 9048433Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing one or more thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2,5-dione and/or furo[3,2-b]furan-2,5-dionerepeating units or their thioketone derivatives, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Nicolas Blouin, Steven Tierney, William Mitchell, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Publication number: 20150105560Abstract: The invention relates to formulations comprising ionic organic compounds for use in electron transport layers or electron collecting layers of organic electronic (OE) devices, more specifically in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, to electron transport layers comprising or being made through the use of such formulations, and to OE and OPV devices comprising such formulations or electron transport layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2013Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Stephane Berny, Amy Phillips, Priti Tiwana, Toby Cull, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Nicolas Blouin
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Publication number: 20150076418Abstract: The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers comprising in their backbone one or more divalent donor units, like for example benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene-2,6-diyl (BDT), that are linked on both sides to an acceptor unit, to methods of preparing the polymers and educts or intermediates used in such preparation, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing the polymers, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductors organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Nicolas Blouin, Amy Phillips, Lana Nanson, Steven Tierney, Toby Cull, Priti Tiwana, Stephane Berney, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer
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Patent number: 8883546Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing improved electronic devices, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs), with patterned insulator and organic semiconductor layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Publication number: 20140230900Abstract: The invention relates to a formulation comprising p-type and n-type organic semiconductors (OSC) and one or more organic solvents, its use for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially for bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, to a process for preparing an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, using the formulation, and an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, prepared using such a process or formulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: Toby Cull, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
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Publication number: 20140209839Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing one or more 4,8-dioxycarbonylalkyl-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene repeating units or their thioester derivatives, methods for their preparation and monomers used therein, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBHInventors: William Mitchell, Nicolas Blouin, Amy Phillips, Steven Tierney, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Toby Cull