Patents by Inventor Patrick Lam

Patrick Lam 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).

  • Publication number: 20230235153
    Abstract: A polyethylene homopolymer composition having a weight average molecular weight Mw, of from 75,000 to 95,000; an Mz of from 200,000 to 325,000; a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of from 6 to 12 and a melt index, I2 of from 1.5 to 2.8 grams per 10 minutes can be used to prepare films having a good balance of optical properties and resistance to moisture transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Monika Kleczek, Eric Vignola
  • Publication number: 20230130048
    Abstract: An all polyethylene multilayer film structure having alternating layers of (A) a linear low density polyethylene and (B) a high density polyethylene has improved performance properties relative to a film structure in which the (A) and (B) layers are arranged in a block like or random manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Marzieh EBRAHIMI, Soheil SADEGHI, Patrick LAM, Vinod KONAGANTI, Norman AUBEE
  • Publication number: 20220402192
    Abstract: A Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene (BOPE) process uses a selected polyethylene having a medium density and a very broad molecular weight distribution. The use of this selected polyethylene facilitates stretching in the BOPE process in comparison to previously used polyethylene resins having a higher density and/or a narrower molecular weight distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A.
    Inventors: Norman AUBEE, Owen LIGHTBODY, Maryam FEREYDOON, Bronwyn GILLON, Patrick LAM, Shivendra GOYAL
  • Publication number: 20220024190
    Abstract: Multilayer films are prepared from an ethylene interpolymer product having a density of from 0.905 to 0.914 g/cc and a melt index, I2, of from 2.5 to 4.5 g/10 minutes, wherein the ethylene interpolymer product comprises: (i) a first ethylene interpolymer; (ii) a second ethylene interpolymer, and; (iii) optionally a third ethylene interpolymer; and wherein the ethylene interpolymer product has a Dilution Index, Yd, of greater than 0 degrees. In an embodiment, the first ethylene interpolymer is made with a single site catalyst and the second ethylene interpolymer is made with a heterogeneous Ziegler Natta catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A.
    Inventors: Maryam Fereydoon, Stephen Salomons, Norman Aubee, Shivendra Goyal, Patrick Lam
  • Patent number: 11142599
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an ethylene copolymer having a density of from 0.912 g/cm3 to 0.925 g/cm3, a melt flow ratio (I21/I2) of from 20 to 30, and a normal comonomer distribution profile in a GPC-FTIR analysis, wherein the normal comonomer distribution profile has a slope of from ?3.5 to ?7.5, where the slope is defined as the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 300,000 minus the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 30,000. The ethylene copolymers have improved bulk density and when made into film, provide good physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Mark Kelly
  • Publication number: 20200255563
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an ethylene copolymer having a density of from 0.912 g/cm3 to 0.925 g/cm3, a melt flow ratio (I21/I2) of from 20 to 30, and a normal comonomer distribution profile in a GPC-FTIR analysis, wherein the normal comonomer distribution profile has a slope of from ?3.5 to ?7.5, where the slope is defined as the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 300,000 minus the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 30,000. The ethylene copolymers have improved bulk density and when made into film, provide good physical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Mark Kelly
  • Patent number: 10676552
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an ethylene copolymer having a density of from 0.912 g/cm3 to 0.925 g/cm3, a melt flow ratio (I21/I2) of from 20 to 30, and a normal comonomer distribution profile in a GPC-FTIR analysis, wherein the normal comonomer distribution profile has a slope of from ?3.5 to ?7.5, where the slope is defined as the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 300,000 minus the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 30,000. The ethylene copolymers have improved bulk density and when made into film, provide good physical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Mark Kelly
  • Publication number: 20200148869
    Abstract: This invention relates to barrier films which are prepared from a blend of at least two high density polyethylene (hdpe) resins and a nucleating agent. The films are used to prepare packaging for dry foods such as crackers and breakfast cereals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Monika Kleczek, Eric Vignola
  • Patent number: 10370469
    Abstract: Ethylene/1-butene copolymers made with a single site catalyst system have high melt strength and good processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Robert Quaiattini
  • Patent number: 10344111
    Abstract: Ethylene copolymers made in the gas phase using a phosphinimine based single site catalyst supported on a passivated inorganic oxide support. The ethylene copolymers have a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution and good rheological parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Darryl J Morrison, Patrick Lam
  • Publication number: 20190144649
    Abstract: This invention relates to barrier films which are prepared from a blend of at least two high density polyethylene (hdpe) resins and a nucleating agent. The films are used to prepare packaging for dry foods such as crackers and breakfast cereals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Monika Kleczek, Eric Vignola
  • Patent number: 10275516
    Abstract: In various embodiments, documents are searched and retrieved via receipt of a search query, electronically identifying a reference set of relevant documents, providing a search set of documents, creating a database comprising at least some of the documents of the search set and the reference set, computationally classifying the documents in the database, extracting keywords from the search set and one or more classified sets, optionally filtering the extracted keywords, and electronically identifying at least some of the documents from the database that contain one or more of the extracted keywords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Gary King, Margaret Roberts, Patrick Lam
  • Publication number: 20180346623
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an ethylene copolymer having a density of from 0.912 g/cm3 to 0.925 g/cm3, a melt flow ratio (I21/I2) of from 20 to 30, and a normal comonomer distribution profile in a GPC-FTIR analysis, wherein the normal comonomer distribution profile has a slope of from ?3.5 to ?7.5, where the slope is defined as the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 300,000 minus the number of short chain branches per 1000 carbons at a molecular weight of 30,000. The ethylene copolymers have improved bulk density and when made into film, provide good physical properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Mark Kelly
  • Patent number: 10066093
    Abstract: Barrier films are prepared from a blend of two high density polyethylene blend components and a high performance organic nucleating agent. The two high density polyethylene blend components have substantially different melt indices. Large reductions in the moisture vapor transmission rate of the film are observed in the presence of the nucleating agent when the melt indices of the two blend components have a ratio of greater than 10/1. The resulting barrier films are suitable for the preparation of packaging for dry foods such as crackers and breakfast cereals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Norman Dorien Joseph Aubee, Douglas Checknita, P Scott Chisholm, Patrick Lam, Sarah Marshall, Denny Paul Sauvageau, Tony Tikuisis, Tingting Yu Chuang
  • Patent number: 10023730
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to manufactured articles containing ethylene interpolymers. Specifically, films, containers and lids comprising at least one layer of an ethylene interpolymer product, or a blend containing an ethylene interpolymer product, where the ethylene interpolymer product has: a Dilution Index (Yd) greater than 0; total catalytic metal ?3.0 ppm; ?0.03 terminal vinyl unsaturations per 100 carbon atoms, and; optionally a Dimensionless Modulus (Xd) greater than 0. The ethylene interpolymer products have a melt index from about 0.4 to about 100 dg/minute, a density from about 0.950 to about 0.970 g/cm3, a polydispersity (Mw/Mn) from about 2 to about 25 and a CDBI50 from about 55% to about 97%. Further, the ethylene interpolymer products are a blend of at least two ethylene interpolymers; where one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a single-site catalyst formulation and at least one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a heterogeneous catalyst formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Tieqi Li, XiaoChuan Wang, Christopher John Brooke Dobbin, Fazle Sibtain, Kenneth Edward Taylor, Hamidreza Khakdaman
  • Publication number: 20180066130
    Abstract: Barrier films are prepared from a blend of two high density polyethylene blend components and a high performance organic nucleating agent. The two high density polyethylene blend components have substantially different melt indices. Large reductions in the moisture vapor transmission rate of the film are observed in the presence of the nucleating agent when the melt indices of the two blend components have a ratio of greater than 10/1. The resulting barrier films are suitable for the preparation of packaging for dry foods such as crackers and breakfast cereals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Norman Dorien Joseph Aubee, Douglas Checknita, P Scott Chisholm, Patrick Lam, Sarah Marshall, Denny Paul Sauvageau, Tony Tikuisis, Tingting Yu Chuang
  • Publication number: 20180022844
    Abstract: Ethylene/1-butene copolymers made with a single site catalyst system have high melt strength and good processability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Robert Quaiattini
  • Patent number: 9850369
    Abstract: Barrier films are prepared from a blend of two high density polyethylene blend components and a high performance organic nucleating agent. The two high density polyethylene blend components have substantially different melt indices. Large reductions in the moisture vapor transmission rate of the film are observed in the presence of the nucleating agent when the melt indices of the two blend components have a ratio of greater than 10/1. The resulting barrier films are suitable for the preparation of packaging for dry foods such as crackers and breakfast cereals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Norman Dorien Joseph Aubee, Douglas Checknita, P Scott Chisholm, Patrick Lam, Sarah Marshall, Denny Paul Sauvageau, Tony Tikuisis, Tingting Yu Chuang
  • Patent number: 9815925
    Abstract: Ethylene/1-butene copolymers made with a single site catalyst system have high melt strength and good processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick Lam, Victoria Ker, Robert Quaiattini
  • Publication number: 20170247485
    Abstract: Ethylene copolymers made in the gas phase using a phosphinimine based single site catalyst supported on a passivated inorganic oxide support. The ethylene copolymers have a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution and good rheological parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Darryl J Morrison, Patrick Lam