Patents by Inventor Ruth Figueroa

Ruth Figueroa 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: 20240084050
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure are directed to catalyst systems comprising a metal-ligand complex according to formula (I):
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Robert D. Grigg, Jerzy Klosin, Tulaza Vaidya, Carl N. Iverson
  • Publication number: 20240052075
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards a use of a biphenylphenol polymerization catalyst to make a polymer in a gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization process conducted in a single gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization reactor, wherein the biphenylphenol polymerization catalyst is made from a biphenylphenol polymerization precatalyst of Formula I, and wherein the biphenylphenol polymerization catalyst has a kinetic induction time of greater than 40 seconds as determined by a least squares fit of a first-order exponential for a rate of increase of an instantaneous polymerization rate for the gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. DeWilde, Ruth Figueroa, Leslie E. O'Leary, Susan Brown, David M. Pearson, Jerzy Klosin
  • Publication number: 20240002562
    Abstract: A method of making a poly(ethylene-co-1-alkene) copolymer having a reverse comonomer distribution, the method comprising contacting ethylene and at least one 1-alkene with an effective catalyst therefor under effective gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization conditions, thereby making the poly(ethylene-co-1-alkene) copolymer having a reverse comonomer distribution; wherein the effective catalyst is made by contacting a ligand-metal complex of formula (I), as described herein, with an activator under activating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Leslie E. O'Leary, Susan Brown, Joseph F. Dewilde, Jerzy Klosin, Andrew J. Young, Rhett A. Baillie
  • Publication number: 20220403061
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards the use of a supported biphenylphenol polymerization catalyst made from a biphenylphenol polymerization precatalyst of Formula I via a gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization process under gas-phase or slurry-phase polymerization conditions to make a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Angela I. Padilla-Acevedo, Andrew J. Young, Roger L. Kuhlman, Ruth Figueroa, Susan Brown, Matthew E. Belowich, David R. Neithamer, Jerzy Klosin, David M. Pearson, Mari S. Rosen, Bethany M. Neilson, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Leslie E. O'Leary
  • Patent number: 11242422
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to form an olefin-based polymer, said process comprising polymerizing at least one olefin in the presence of at least one catalyst system comprising the reaction product of the following: A) at least one cocatalyst; and B) a procatalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex of Formula (I), as described herein:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Philip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Endre Szuromi, Carl N. Iverson, Zach T. Rickaway, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Ruth Figueroa, Mehmet Demirors, Mridula Kapur
  • Patent number: 11208503
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a catalyst system comprising metal ligand complexes and processes for polyolefin polymerization using the metal ligand complex having the following structure: Formula I.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hien Q. Do, Philip P. Fontaine, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Tulaza Vaidya, Chunming Zhang, Jerzy Klosin, Ruth Figueroa
  • Publication number: 20210309768
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure are directed to catalyst systems comprising a metal-ligand complex according to formula (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Robert D. Grigg, Jerzy Klosin, Tulaza Vaidya, Carl N. Iverson
  • Patent number: 11111318
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a metal complex formed, wherein the metal complexes are used as pro-catalyst in polyolefin polymerization and comprise the following structure (Formula (I)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hien Q. Do, Philip P. Fontaine, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Tulaza Vaidya, Zach T. Rickaway, Amy E. Floeck (nee Duchnowski), Chunming Zhang, Ruth Figueroa, Jerzy Klosin
  • Patent number: 11041027
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a polymerization process for producing ethylene based polymers comprising polymerizing ethylene and optionally one or more ?-olefins in the presence of a catalyst systems in a reactor system having one or more reactors, wherein the catalyst system comprises; (a) one or more procatalysts comprising a metal-ligand complex of formula (I) below:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Jerzy Klosin, Philip P. Fontaine
  • Patent number: 10870713
    Abstract: A procatalyst for the polymerization of ethylene and optionally one or more alpha-olefins having the structure shown in formula (I) below. Formula (I) is provided. Also provided is a polymerization process using the inventive procatalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Johnathan Delorbe, Phillip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Ravi Shankar, Matthew Yonkey
  • Publication number: 20200247917
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a metal complex formed, wherein the metal complexes are used as pro-catalyst in polyolefin polymerization and comprise the following structure (Formula (I)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hien Q. Do, Philip P. Fontaine, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Tulaza Vaidya, Zach T. Rickaway, Amy E. Floeck, Chunming Zhang, Ruth Figueroa, Jerzy Klosin
  • Publication number: 20200247936
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a catalyst system for use in forming a multi-block copolymer, said copolymer containing therein two or more segments or blocks differing in chemical or physical properties, a polymerization process using the same, and the resulting polymers, wherein the composition comprises the admixture or reaction product resulting from combining: (A) a first olefin polymerization procatalyst, (B) a second olefin polymerization procatalyst capable of preparing polymers differing in chemical or physical properties from the polymer prepared by procatalyst (A) under equivalent polymerization conditions, and (C) a chain shuttling agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: David D. Devore, Daniel J. Arriola, Arkady L. Krasovskiy, Edmund M. Carnahan, Curt N. Theriault, Gordon R. Roof, Timothy T. Wenzel, Jerzy Klosin, Ruth Figueroa
  • Publication number: 20200109224
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to form an olefin-based polymer, said process comprising polymerizing at least one olefin in the presence of at least one catalyst system comprising the reaction product of the following: A) at least one cocatalyst; and B) a procatalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex of Formula (I), as described herein:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Philip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Endre Szuromi, Carl N. Iverson, Zach T. Rickaway, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Ruth Figueroa, Mehmet Demirors, Mridula Kapur
  • Publication number: 20200109220
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a catalyst system comprising metal ligand complexes and processes for polyolefin polymerization using the metal ligand complex having the following structure: Formula I
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Hien Q. Do, Philip P. Fontaine, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Johnathan E. DeLorbe, Tulaza Vaidya, Chunming Zhang, Jerzy Klosin, Ruth Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10597473
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a polymerization process for producing ethylene based polymers comprising polymerizing ethylene and optionally one or more a-olefins in the presence of one or more first catalyst systems and optionally one or more second catalyst systems in a reactor system having one or more reactors, wherein the first catalyst system comprises; (a) one or more procatalysts comprising a metal-ligand complex of formula (I) below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Jerzy Klosin
  • Patent number: 10526431
    Abstract: The instant invention provides a procatalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex of Formula (I): (Formula I), wherein M, X, n, each Z, L, R21, R22 and R1 through R20 are each described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Philip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Endre Szuromi, Carl N. Iverson, Zach T. Rickaway, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Ruth Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10519260
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to form an olefin-based polymer, said process comprising polymerizing at least one olefin in the presence of at least one catalyst system comprising the reaction product of the following: A) at least one cocatalyst; and B) a procatalyst comprising a metal-ligand complex of Formula (I), as described herein: (Formula I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Philip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Endre Szuromi, Carl N. Iverson, Zach T. Rickaway, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Ruth Figueroa, Mehmet Demirors, Mridula Kapur
  • Publication number: 20190328647
    Abstract: A hair care composition directed to 8-16% of one or more surfactants; 0.01-10% of one or more surfactant soluble antidandruff agents; 0.01-5% of one or more cationic polymer having a molecular weight (MW) of about 250,000 to about 2,600,000 g/mol and a charge density (CD) of from about 0.25 to about 7.0 meq/g; wherein CD+8×10?7*MW-1.5?0 and wherein the composition has a deposition efficiency of from about 1.4× to about 3× that of a control composition wherein the control composition comprises 14% SLE1S, no polymeric constituents, 1% of the surfactant soluble antidandruff agent at a pH of about 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Debora W. Chang, Eric Scott Johnson, Rebekah Ruth Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10239974
    Abstract: The invention provides an ethylene-based polymer comprising the following properties: a) a ZSVR value from 1.2 to 2.6, b) a MWD from 1.5 to 2.8, and c) a tan delta (0.1 rad/s; 190 C) from 5.0 to 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mridula Kapur, Mehmet Demirors, Philip P. Fontaine, Jerzy Klosin, Endre Szuromi, Carl N. Iverson, Zach T. Rickaway, Andrew J. Young, Susan G. Brown, Ruth Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10214622
    Abstract: The instant invention provides procatalysts and catalyst systems for olefin polymerization, olefin based polymers polymerized therewith, and process for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jerzy Klosin, Ruth Figueroa, Pulikkottil J. Thomas, Mehmet Demirors, Sylvie Desjardins, Mridula Kapur, Philip P. Fontaine