Patents by Inventor Scott W. Gibson

Scott W. Gibson 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).

  • Plant growth regulator compositions
    Patent number: 6288009
    Abstract: The invention provides novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions which have improved hygroscopicity and corrosion characteristics. The novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions of the invention can be readily prepared from technical mepiquat chlorid inter alia by electrochemical ion exchange processes or by quaternization of N-methylpiperidine with dimethylcarbonate as starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignees: BASF Corporation, BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reiner Kober, David G. Hobbs, Scott W. Gibson, Kenneth Eugene Fersch, Wilhelm Rademacher, Jörg Botzem, Markus Frede, Matthias Dernbach, Reimer Göttsche, Reinhard Dötzer
  • Plant growth regulator compositions
    Patent number: 6248694
    Abstract: The invention provides novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions which have improved hygroscopicity and corrosion characteristics. The novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions of the invention can be readily prepared from technical mepiquat chlorid inter alia by electrochemical ion exchange processes or by quaternization of N-methylpiperidine with dimethylcarbonate as starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Kober, David G. Hobbs, Scott W. Gibson, Kenneth Eugene Fersch, Wilhelm Rademacher, Jörg Botzem, Markus Frede, Matthias Dernbach, Reimer Göttsche, Reinhard Dötzer
  • Plant growth regulator compositions
    Patent number: 6224734
    Abstract: The invention provides novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions which have improved hygroscopicity and corrosion characteristics. The novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions of the invention can be readily prepared from technical mepiquat chlorid inter alia by electrochemical ion exchange processes or by quaternization of N-methylpiperidine with dimethylcarbonate as starting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignees: BASF Aktiengesellschaft, BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Reiner Kober, David G. Hobbs, Scott W. Gibson, Kenneth Eugene Fersch, Wilhelm Rademacher, Jörg Botzem, Markus Frede, Matthias Dernbach, Reimer Göttsche, Reinhard Dötzer
  • Safening effect of combinations of glyphosate and acifluorfen
    Patent number: 5525577
    Abstract: A method minimizing herbicidal injury to agricultural plants and crops while controlling undesirable weeds associated with said agricultural plants comprises applying thereto an effective quantity of N-phosphonomethyl-glycine and 4-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrodiphenyl ether, particularly acifluorfen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Turner, Scott W. Gibson