Patents by Inventor Thauming Kuo

Thauming Kuo 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).

  • Thermosetting coating compositions
    Patent number: 5256756
    Abstract: Provided are enhanced phenolic-functional polyesters which are useful in enamel compositions. The enamel compostions provide coatings which exhibit superior hardness, impact resistance, acid resistance, and weatherability heretofore unachievable with other polyester-based coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Thauming Kuo
  • Thermosetting coating compositions
    Patent number: 5256758
    Abstract: Provided are novel phenolic functional polyesters which are prepared by a direct polycondensation process. The polyesters formed therefrom are useful in enamel compositions and upon curing provide coatings which exhibit superior hardness, impact resistance and acid resistance heretofore unachievable with other polyester-based coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Thauming Kuo
  • Thermosetting coating compositions
    Patent number: 5256759
    Abstract: Provided are certain curable polyesters which are useful in enamel compositions. The enamel compostions provide coatings which exhibit superior hardness, impact resistance, acid resistance, and weatherability heretofore unachievable with other polyester-based coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Thauming Kuo
  • Thermosetting coating compositions
    Patent number: 5245002
    Abstract: Provided are certain curable polyesters which are useful in enamel compositions. The enamel compositions provide coatings which exhibit superior hardness, impact resistance, acid resistance, and weatherability hereto fore unachievable with other polyester based coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Thauming Kuo
  • Water-dispersible polyester resins and process for their preparation
    Patent number: 5218042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a water-dissipatable or dispersible polyester containing sulfonate groups that has improved stability having a substantial number of capped carboxyl groups attached to the sulfomonomer moieties. This polyester can be prepared by capping the carboxyl end groups of the polyester with oxirane compounds or by polymerizing the reactants wherein one reactant is a diol that is a diester adduct of a glycol and a dicarboxylic acid sulfomonomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Inventors: Thauming Kuo, Keith M. Moody