Patents by Inventor Toby Cull

Toby Cull 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).

  • Electrode treatment process for organic electronic devices
    Patent number: 8878165
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of electrodes in organic electronic (OE) devices, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs), to devices prepared by such a process, and to materials and formulations used in such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Pawel Miskiewicz, Li Wei Tan, Tomas Backlund, Paul Craig Brookes, David Sparrowe, Toby Cull, Giles Lloyd
  • ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FORMULATION
    Publication number: 20140230900
    Abstract: The invention relates to a formulation comprising p-type and n-type organic semiconductors (OSC) and one or more organic solvents, its use for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially for bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, to a process for preparing an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, using the formulation, and an OE device, especially a BHJ OPV device, prepared using such a process or formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Toby Cull, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
  • CONJUGATED POLYMERS
    Publication number: 20140209839
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel polymers containing one or more 4,8-dioxycarbonylalkyl-benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b?]dithiophene repeating units or their thioester derivatives, methods for their preparation and monomers used therein, blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, the use of the polymers, blends, mixtures and formulations as semiconductor in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers, blends, mixtures or formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: William Mitchell, Nicolas Blouin, Amy Phillips, Steven Tierney, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Toby Cull
  • Process for preparing an electronic device
    Patent number: 8637343
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing an electronic device using a protection layer, and to improved electronic devices prepared by this process, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Simon Dominic Ogier
  • BANK STRUCTURES FOR ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20130285026
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate generally to the use of polycycloolefinic polymers as a structure defining material in organic electronic devices, and more specifically to separators, insulating structures or bank structures of such devices and to organic electronic devices comprising such structures, to processes for preparing such structures and to organic electronic devices encompassing such structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: Promerus LLC, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Pawel Miskiewicz, Tomas Backlund, Philip Edward May, Toby Cull, Larry F. Rhodes, Edmund Elce, Andrew Bell
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AN ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130153885
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing improved electronic devices, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs), with patterned insulator and organic semiconductor layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco
  • ELECTRODE TREATMENT PROCESS FOR ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120319097
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of electrodes in organic electronic (OE) devices, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs), to devices prepared by such a process, and to materials and formulations used in such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Pawel Miskiewicz, Li Wei Tan, Tomas Backlund, Paul Craig Brookes, David Sparrowe, Toby Cull, Giles Lloyd
  • INTERLAYER FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120056249
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for the use of polycycloolefins in electronic devices and more specifically to the use of such polycycloolefins as interlayers applied to fluoropolymer layers used in the fabrication of electronic devices, the electronic devices that encompass such polycycloolefin interlayers and processes for preparing such polycycloolefin interlayers and electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicants: Promerus LLC, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: David Christoph Mueller, Pawel Miskiewicz, Toby Cull, Piotr Wierzchowiec, Andrew Bell, Edmund Elce, Larry F. Rhodes, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Hendra Ng, Pramod Kandanarachchi, Steven Smith
  • GATE INSULATOR LAYER FOR ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120056183
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for the use of polycycloolefins in electronic devices and more specifically to the use of such polycycloolefins as gate insulator layers used in the fabrication of electronic devices, the electronic devices that encompass such polycycloolefin gate insulator and processes for preparing such polycycloolefin gate insulator layers and electronic devices encompassing such layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicants: Promerus LLC, Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Pawel Miskiewicz, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Andrew Bell, Edmund Elce, Larry F. Rhodes, Kazuyoshi Fujita, Hendra Ng, Pramod Kandanarachchi, Steven Smith
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ORGANIC ELECTRONIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110227055
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a closed field unbalanced magnetron sputter ion plating process in the preparation of organic electronic devices or components thereof, and to organic electronic devices, or components thereof, obtainable by such a process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNG
    Inventors: Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Paul Craig Brookes, Katie Patterson, Frank Egon Meyer, Mark James, Toby Cull, David Christoph Mueller
  • PROCESS FOR PREPARING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100108999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing an electronic device using a protection layer, and to improved electronic devices prepared by this process, in particular organic field effect transistors (OFETs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTING
    Inventors: David Christoph Mueller, Toby Cull, Simon Dominic Ogier