Patents by Inventor Rainer Herges

Rainer Herges 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).

  • ANALYTICAL PROCESS FOR DETECTING PEROXIDE-, HALOGEN OXOANION-, NITRATE-, NITRAMINE-, AND NITROTOLUENE-BASED EXPLOSIVES
    Publication number: 20220308027
    Abstract: The invention provides an analytical process, which preferably is a one-step process, for detecting in a sample peroxide-based explosives, nitrate-based explosives and/or nitramine-based explosives, the process comprising contacting a sample suspected of containing a peroxide-based compound, especially a peroxide-based explosive, a nitramine, nitrate ester or a nitrate salt, especially a nitrate-based explosive and/or a nitramine-based explosive, with a composition comprising a Ni-porphyrin, an acid and preferably an acid-stable solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Rainer Herges, Morten Peters, Mike Brockmann
  • Molecular switch
    Patent number: 9786420
    Abstract: Photosensitive molecular switch, having a chelate ligand, a metal ion bonded coordinatively to the chelate ligand, the metal ion being selected from the group of metal ions consisting of Mn2+, Mn3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Co2+ and Ni2+, a photochromic system which is bonded covalently to the chelate ligand and can be isomerized by irradiation, this system being bonded coordinatively to the metal ion in one configuration and not bonded to the metal ion in the other configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
    Inventors: Rainer Herges, Olav Jansen, Felix Tuczek, Sugumar Venkataramani
  • Molecular Switch
    Publication number: 20130202538
    Abstract: Photosensitive molecular switch, having a chelate ligand, a metal ion bonded coordinatively to the chelate ligand, the metal ion being selected from the group of metal ions consisting of Mn2+, Mn3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Co2+ and Ni2+, a photochromic system which is bonded covalently to the chelate ligand and can be isomerized by irradiation, this system being bonded coordinatively to the metal ion in one configuration and not bonded to the metal ion in the other configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, CHRISTAN-ALBRECHTS-UNIVERSITAT ZU KIEL
    Inventors: Rainer Herges, Olav Jansen, Felix Tuczek, Sugumar Venkataramani