Patents by Inventor Ulrich Steinbrenner

Ulrich Steinbrenner 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: 20170127677
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions with clomazone are provided in which clomazone has reduced volatility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Ulrich STEINBRENNER, Ansgar SCHAEFER, Diana Westfalia MORAN PUENTE, Steffen HENKES
  • Publication number: 20170112130
    Abstract: The present invention relates to herbicidal compositions comprising an isoxazolo[5,4-b]pyridine and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds and, if desired, safeners. The present invention also relates to the use of such a composition for controlling unwanted vegetation and to a method for controlling unwanted vegetation, which comprises allowing a composition to act on plants, their seeds and/or their habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes HUTZLER, Helmut KRAUS, Anna Aleksandra MICHROWSKA-PIANOWSKA, Yogesh OTURKAR, Trevor William NEWTON, Stefan TRESCH, Jens LERCHL, Thomas SEITZ, Richard Roger EVANS, Klaus KREUZ, Ulrich STEINBRENNER
  • Patent number: 9622470
    Abstract: Microcapsules comprising a core (a) and a shell (b), wherein the core comprises a salt of an anionic pesticide (a1) and optionally a water immiscible solvent (a2), wherein the cation of the salt of the anionic pesticide is an ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium cation, wherein the groups on the ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium cation, taken together contain at least 12 and no more than 50 cation atoms and wherein the ratio of the number of carbon atoms in the group with the largest number of carbon atoms to the average number of carbon atoms of all groups on the N, P or S-atom is less than 3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Steinbrenner, Thorsten Volland
  • Publication number: 20160295866
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition of benzoxazinone (I) comprising the benzoxazinone (I) in form of particles, wherein at most 50% per volume of the particles have a diameter below 3 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Ulrich STEINBRENNER, Joerg STEUERWALD, Anja SIMON
  • Patent number: 9315716
    Abstract: The use of a surfactant mixture comprising at least one surfactant having a hydrocarbon radical composed of from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and at least one cosurfactant having a branched hydrocarbon radical composed of from 6 to 11 carbon atoms for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Steinbrenner, Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Marcus Guzmann
  • Publication number: 20160057995
    Abstract: Microcapsules comprising a core (a) and a shell (b), wherein the core comprises a salt of an anionic pesticide (a1) and optionally a water immiscible solvent (a2), wherein the cation of the salt of the anionic pesticide is an ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium cation, wherein the groups on the ammonium, phosphonium or sulfonium cation, taken together contain at least 12 and no more than 50 cation atoms and wherein the ratio of the number of carbon atoms in the group with the largest number of carbon atoms to the average number of carbon atoms of all groups on the N, P or S-atom is less than 3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Ulrich STEINBRENNER, Thorsten VOLLAND
  • Publication number: 20150342193
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions are provided comprising at least one comprising at least one compound of formula I wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds listed in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Anja SIMON, Ruediger REINGRUBER, Ulrich STEINBRENNER, Klaus KREUZ, Johannes HUTZLER, Liliana PARRA RAPADO, Thomas SEITZ, Richard Roger EVANS
  • Publication number: 20150335016
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions are provided comprising at least one comprising at least one compound of formula I wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined in the specification and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds listed in the specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Anja SIMON, Ruediger REINGRUBER, Ulrich STEINBRENNER, Klaus KREUZ, Johannes HUTZLER, Liliana PARRA RAPADO, Thomas SEITZ, Richard Roger EVANS
  • Patent number: 8741809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel liquid formulation for crop protection which comprises a) pyraclostrobin; b) at least one organic solvent S1 with a water solubility of less than 2 g/l at 20° C.; c) at least one organic solvent S2 with a water solubility of at least 2 g/l at 20° C., where S2 comprises at least one solvent S2.1 with a water solubility of more than 200 g/l at 20° C. and optionally at least one solvent S2.2 with a water solubility of 2 to 200 g/l at 20° C.; d) at least one anionic surface-active substance SA1; e) at least one nonionic surface-active substance SA2; and f) water. The invention also relates to the use of the crop protection formulation for treatment of plants and seed, and to corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrike Troppmann, Wolfgang Meier, Guenter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Tatjana Levy, Jurith Montag, Tanja Brunner, Reiner Weiler
  • Patent number: 8465668
    Abstract: Surfactants with polyether sulfonate structure, which have a propanonylsulfonic acid group as a head group, a process for preparing such surfactants and their use for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Oetter Günter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Jürgen Huff, Marcus Guzmann
  • Patent number: 8268339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising pesticide and polyalkylene oxide. The invention furthermore relates to pyrrolidone alkylene oxides and the use thereof in agrochemical formulations. It furthermore relates to the use of the composition according to the invention for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired vegetation and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants. Furthermore, it relates to the use of a composition according to the invention for controlling undesired attack by insects or mites on plants and/or for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or for controlling undesired vegetation, where seeds of useful plants are treated with the composition. Finally, the present invention also relates to seed treated with the composition according to the invention. The present invention comprises combinations of preferred features together with other preferred features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Sowa, Ulrich Steinbrenner
  • Patent number: 8178117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation comprising (a) at least one pesticide; and (b) at least one non-ionic surfactant of formula (I): R1—O-(AO)x—(H); wherein R1 represents straight-chain or branched alkyl having 4 to 20 carbon atoms; AO is ethyleneoxy, propyleneoxy or a mixture of ethyleneoxy and propyleneoxy; and x correspond to values from 2 to 30; and (c) at least one ionic tristyrylphenyl alkoylate; and (d) at least one oil; and (e) water, wherein the pesticide is present in the aqueous phase in form of a suspension and the oil is essentially free of pesticide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Claude Taranta, Wolfgang Meier, Karl Strauss, Arnold Kraushaar, Ulrich Steinbrenner
  • Patent number: 8124658
    Abstract: Surfactants of the general formula R1—X where R1 is an aliphatic C17H35-alkyl radical and X is a hydrophilic group, and the mean degree of branching of the R1 radical is from 2.8 to 3.7. Mixtures which comprise such surfactants and the use of such surfactants and of mixtures thereof for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Oetter Günter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Marcus Guzmann, Andrea Haunert, Rainer Papp, Jens Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8080588
    Abstract: Surfactants of the general formula R1—X where R1 is an aliphatic C17H35-alkyl radical and X is a hydrophilic group, and the mean degree of branching of the R1 radical is from 2.8 to 3.7. Mixtures which comprise such surfactants and the use of such surfactants and of mixtures thereof for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Marcus Guzmann, Andrea Haunert, Rainer Papp, Jens Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20110260101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surfactant mixture comprising (A) a short-chain component comprising the alkoxylation product of alkanols, where the alkanols have 8 to 12 carbon atoms and the average number of alkoxy groups per alkanol group in the alkoxylation product assumes a value from 0.1 to 30, the alkoxy groups are C2-10-alkoxy groups and the alkanols have an average degree of branching of at least 1; and (B) a long-chain component comprising the alkoxylation product of alkanols, where the alkanols have 15 to 19 carbon atoms and the average number of alkoxy groups per alkanol group in the alkoxylation product assumes a value from 0.1 to 30, the alkoxy groups are C2-10-alkoxy groups and the alkanols have an average degree of branching of at least 2.5; and/or phosphate esters, sulfate esters and ether carboxylates thereof. The present invention also relates to formulations comprising such surfactant mixtures, to methods of producing the surfactant mixtures and to their use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Rittig, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Wolfgang Spiegler, Michael Stoesser, Inge Langbein, Richard Baur
  • Publication number: 20110247830
    Abstract: Surfactants of the general formula R1—X where R1 is an aliphatic C17H35-alkyl radical and X is a hydrophilic group, and the mean degree of branching of the R1 radical is from 2.8 to 3.7. Mixtures which comprise such surfactants and the use of such surfactants and of mixtures thereof for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Marcus Guzmann, Andrea Haunert, Rainer Papp, Jens Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20110251061
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising pesticide and polyalkylene oxide. The invention furthermore relates to pyrrolidone alkylene oxides and the use thereof in agrochemical formulations. It furthermore relates to the use of the composition according to the invention for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired vegetation and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants. Furthermore, it relates to the use of a composition according to the invention for controlling undesired attack by insects or mites on plants and/or for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or for controlling undesired vegetation, where seeds of useful plants are treated with the composition. Finally, the present invention also relates to seed treated with the composition according to the invention. The present invention comprises combinations of preferred features together with other preferred features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Sowa, Ulrich Steinbrenner
  • Publication number: 20110240309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for foam extinguishants which do not comprise any organofluorine compounds and nevertheless meet the highest demands on the extinguishing properties. The inventive compositions comprise at least one fatty alcohol, at least one thickener and at least one acrylic polymer, but the composition does not comprise any organohalogen compounds, more particularly any organofluorine compounds. The present invention also relates to the use of such a composition for production of a foam extinguishant and to the use of the composition for fighting fires, especially for fighting fires of organic liquids, known as liquid fires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Arend Jouke Kingma, Astrid Schmidt Prestewitz, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Thomas Leonhardt, Gerhard Ruhle, Cihan Sahin, Veronika Weigelt
  • Publication number: 20110195846
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel liquid formulation for crop protection which comprises a) pyraclostrobin; b) at least one organic solvent S1 with a water solubility of less than 2 g/l at 20° C.; c) at least one organic solvent S2 with a water solubility of at least 2 g/l at 20° C., where S2 comprises at least one solvent S2.1 with a water solubility of more than 200 g/l at 20° C. and optionally at least one solvent S2.2 with a water solubility of 2 to 200 g/l at 20° C.; d) at least one anionic surface-active substance SA1; e) at least one nonionic surface-active substance SA2; and f) water. The invention also relates to the use of the crop protection formulation for treatment of plants and seed, and to corresponding methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrike Troppmann, Wolfgang Meier, Guenter Oetter, Ulrich Steinbrenner, Tatjana Levy, Jurith Montag, Tanija Brunner, Reiner Weiler
  • Publication number: 20110190175
    Abstract: The use of a surfactant mixture comprising at least one surfactant having a hydrocarbon radical composed of from 12 to 30 carbon atoms and at least one cosurfactant having a branched hydrocarbon radical composed of from 6 to 11 carbon atoms for tertiary mineral oil extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Steinbrenner, Christian Bittner, Günter Oetter, Marcus Guzmann