Patents by Inventor Steffen Maas

Steffen Maas 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).

  • Patent number: 9550965
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Hulskotter, Kevin Patrick Christmas, Stefano Scialla, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Amy Eichstadt Waun, Darren Rees, Sophia Ebert, Bjoern Ludolph, Christof Wigbers, Steffen Maas, Dieter Boeckh
  • Patent number: 9540592
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine, a soil release polymer, and a carboxymethylceullulose, which is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Hulskotter, Stefano Scialla, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Alan Thomas Brooker, Colin Ure, Sophia Rosa Ebert, Bjoern Ludolph, Christof Wigbers, Steffen Maas, Dieter Boeckh, Christian Eidamshaus
  • Patent number: 9435073
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine comprising an electrochemical cell, to a process for electrochemical cleaning of fibers, to laundry detergents for electrochemical cleaning of fibers and to the fibers thus cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Griesbach, Steffen Maas, Florian Stecker, Andreas Fischer
  • Publication number: 20160251304
    Abstract: This invention relates to an etheramine of formula (I) based on glycerine or trimethylolpropane and its manufacturing process, wherein R=H or ethyl, k=0 or 1 A represents a linear or branched alkylene group having C2-C18 carbon atoms, A may be the same as or different from one another, at least one A represents a linear or branched C4-alkylene group, the sum of x, y and z lies in the range of 3 to 100, x?y?1 and z?1, Z=NH2 or OH but at least two Z per molecule are NH2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Sophia EBERT, Björn LUDOLPH, Christof W. WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Dieter BOECKH, Frank HUELSKOETTER, Brian J. LOUGHNANE, Amy EICHSTADT WAUN, Kevin CHRISTMAS, Darren REES, Stefano SCIALLA
  • Publication number: 20160090551
    Abstract: Fabric care compositions, and more specifically, fabric care compositions that include a surfactant system, silicone, and a polyetheramine. Methods of making and using such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Renae Dianna FOSSUM, Frank HULSKOTTER, Nicholas David VETTER, Stefano SCIALLA, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Amy Eichstadt WAUN, Sophia EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christof WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Bernardo M. AGUILERA-MERCADO, Carola BARRERA
  • Publication number: 20160090561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid laundry detergent compositions comprising a polyetheramine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Stefano SCIALLA, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Amy Eichstadt WAUN, Sophia Rosa EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christof WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS
  • Publication number: 20160075970
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine, a soil release polymer, and a carboxymethylceullulose, which is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Stefano SCIALLA, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Alan Thomas BROOKER, Colin URE, Sophia Rosa EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christof WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Dieter BOECKH, Christian EIDAMSHAUS
  • Publication number: 20160052867
    Abstract: This invention relates to polyetheramines based on 1,3-dialcohols, in particular to an etheramine mixture comprising at least 90% by weight, based on the total weight of the etheramine mixture, of anamine of Formula (I) and/or (II), wherein R1-R12 are independently selected from H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, or arylalkyl, wherein at least one of R1-R6 and at least one of R7-R12 is different from H, wherein A1-A9 are independently selected from linear or branched alkylenes having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, preferably 2-10 carbon atoms, most preferably 2-5 carbon atoms, wherein Z1-Z4 are independently selected from OH or NH2, wherein at least one of Z1-Z2 and at least one of Z3-Z4 is NH2, and wherein the sum of x+y is in the range of from 2 to 200, wherein x?1 and y?1; and x1+y1 is in the range of from 2 to 200, preferably 2-20, most preferably 2-10, wherein x1?1 and y1?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Sophia EBERT, Björn LUDOLPH, Christof W. WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Frank HUELSKOETTER, Stefano SCIALLA, Dieter BOECKH, Kevin CHRISTMAS, Amy EICHSTADT WAUN, Brian J. LOUGHNANE, Darren REES, Christian EIDAMSHAUS, Monika CHARRAK, Alexander PANCHENKO
  • Publication number: 20150353869
    Abstract: Detergent compositions comprising anionic surfactant and a carboxymethylated polyalkyleneimine, where the detergent compositions are substantially free of bleach. Methods of using such compositions, for example, to treat a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Patrick Christopher STENGER, Gregory Scot MIRACLE, Steffen MAAS, Alfred OFTRING, Bjoern LUDOLPH
  • Patent number: 9193939
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine, a soil release polymer, and a carboxymethylcellulose, which is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Hulskotter, Stefano Scialla, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Alan Thomas Brooker, Colin Ure, Sophia Rosa Ebert, Bjoern Ludolph, Christof Wigbers, Steffen Maas, Dieter Boeckh, Christian Eidamshaus
  • Publication number: 20150315526
    Abstract: A hard surface cleaning composition comprising: a) from 1% to 60% by weight of the composition of a surfactant system; and b) from 0.1% to 10% by weight of the composition of a cleaning amine of formula: wherein R1 and R4 are independently selected from —H, linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or alkenyl having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and R2 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or alkenyl having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms, R3 is a linear or branched alkyl from 3 to 6 carbon atoms, R5 is H, methyl or ethyl and n=0-3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Steffen MAAS, Roland Bou CHEDID, Christian EIDAMSHAUS
  • Patent number: 9174201
    Abstract: Process for the continuous preparation of an amine by reaction of a primary or secondary alcohol, aldehyde and/or ketone with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary and secondary amines at a temperature in the range from 60 to 300° C. in the presence of a catalyst comprising copper oxide and aluminum oxide, wherein the reaction takes place in the gas phase and the catalytically active composition of the catalyst before reduction with hydrogen comprises from 20 to 75% by weight of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), from 20 to 75% by weight of oxygen-comprising compounds of copper, calculated as CuO, from 0 to 2% by weight of oxygen-comprising compounds of sodium, calculated as Na2O, and less than 5% by weight of oxygen-comprising compounds of nickel, calculated as NiO, and the shaped catalyst body has a pellet shape having a diameter in the range from 1 to 4 mm and a height in the range from 1 to 4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martin Ernst, Bernd Stein, Steffen Maas, Jörg Pastre, Thorsten Johann, Johann-Peter Melder
  • Publication number: 20150275144
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Stefano SCIALLA, Sophia EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christof WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Dieter BOECKH, Christian EIDAMSHAUS
  • Patent number: 9029310
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an enzyme composition comprising enzyme containing polymer particles, which is useful for detergent compositions, in particular for liquid detergent compositions. In these enzyme containing particles, the particles comprise i) at least one enzyme, and ii) at least one polymer P, which is selected from homo- and copolymers having a C—C-backbone, wherein the C—C-backbone carries carboxylgroups, which may be present in the acidic form or in the neutralized form, and wherein the C—C-backbone comprises hydrophobic repeating units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Basf Se, Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Steffen Maas, Volker Schwendemann, Lidcay Herrera Taboada, Heike Pfistner, Dieter Boeckh, Ole Simonsen
  • Publication number: 20150057212
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Kevin Patrick CHRISTMAS, Stefano SCIALLA, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Amy Eichstadt WAUN, Darren REES, Sophia EBERT, Bjoern LUDOLPH, Christof WIGBERS, Steffen MAAS, Dieter BOECKH
  • Patent number: 8933277
    Abstract: A process is provided for recovering components from a low boiler mixture which is obtained in the distillation of hydrogenation effluents from the preparation of polymethylols, by multistage distillation of the low boiler mixture having a tertiary amine, water, methanol, a polymethylol, a methylolalkanal, an alcohol and an alkanal with a methylene group in the alpha position to the carbonyl group. A first distillation stage involves separating the low boiler mixture into a higher-boiling, predominantly water-rich fraction and into a lower-boiling aqueous organic fraction having the tertiary amine. A second distillation stage involves separating the aqueous organic fraction from the first distillation stage into a predominantly amine-containing fraction and a further amine-depleted fraction. The tertiary amine is trimethylamine or triethylamine and the bottom temperature in the second distillation stage is at least 110° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Schlitter, Michael Steiniger, Stefan Rittinger, Tilman Sirch, Steffen Maas
  • Publication number: 20140346057
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing machine comprising an electrochemical cell, to a process for electrochemical cleaning of fibers, to laundry detergents for electrochemical cleaning of fibers and to the fibers thus cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich GRIESBACH, Steffen MAAS, Florian STECKER, Andreas FISCHER
  • Patent number: 8884076
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for distilling an aqueous polymethylol mixture which comprises a polymethylol of the formula (I) (HOCH2)2—C—R2??(I) in which each R is independently a further methylol group or an alkyl group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl or aralkyl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms, a tertiary amine, water and the adduct of tertiary amine and formic acid (amine formate), which comprises performing the distillation in a distillation column which is connected at the bottom to an evaporator, the bottom temperature being above the evaporation temperature of the monoester of formic acid and polymethylol (polymethylol formate) which forms during distillation. The present invention further relates to a composition comprising polymethylol and 1 to 10 000 ppm by weight of polymethylol formate, and to the use thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tilman Sirch, Michael Steiniger, Steffen Maas, Stefan Rittinger, Stephan Schlitter
  • Patent number: 8877977
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of polyalkylenepolyamines by homogeneously catalyzed alcohol amination, in which aliphatic amino alcohols are reacted with one another or aliphatic diamines or polyamines are reacted with aliphatic diols or polyols with the elimination of water in the presence of a homogeneous catalyst and in the presence of hydrogen gas. Polyalkylenepolyamines obtainable by such processes and polyalkylenepolyamines comprising hydroxy groups, secondary amines or tertiary amines. Uses of such polyalkylenepolyamines as adhesion promoters for printing inks, adhesion promoters in composite films, cohesion promoters for adhesives, crosslinkers/curing agents for resins, primers for paints, wet-adhesion promoters for emulsion paints, complexing agents and flocculating agents, penetration assistants in wood preservation, corrosion inhibitors, immobilizing agents for proteins and enzymes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Strautmann, Thomas Schaub, Stephan Hueffer, Steffen Maas, Rocco Paciello
  • Publication number: 20140305339
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of lipophilic polyalkylenepolyamines by homogeneously catalyzed alcohol amination, where aliphatic amino alcohols are reacted with one another or aliphatic diamines or polyamines are reacted with aliphatic diols or polyols with the elimination of water in the presence of a homogeneous catalyst, at least one of the reactants comprising an alkyl or alkylene group having five or more carbon atoms, and after the reaction a phase separation into at least one apolar phase and at least one polar phase being present, the lipophilic polyalkylenepolyamines being present in enriched form in the apolar phase. Polyalkylenepolyamines obtainable by such processes, and polyalkylenepolyamines comprising hydroxyl groups, secondary amines or tertiary amines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Julia Strautmann, Thomas Schaub, Stephan Hueffer, Steffen Maas, Claudia Wood