Patents Issued in July 1, 2003
  • Patent number: 6586349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, and to a semiconductor device, the method including providing a semiconductor substrate; depositing on the semiconductor substrate a composite dielectric material layer including elements of at least two dielectric materials, in which the step of depositing includes providing a first precursor for a first dielectric material at a first rate and providing a second precursor for a second dielectric material at a second rate, in which at least a portion of the at least two dielectric materials are deposited simultaneously. The semiconductor device includes a composite dielectric material layer having a thickness, and including elements of a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material, in which the composite dielectric material layer includes a varying concentration ratio of the first dielectric material to the second dielectric material through the thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Joong S. Jeon, Arvind Halliyal
  • Patent number: 6586350
    Abstract: A net for diffusing light comprising threads of flat yarn, characterized in that the flat yarn has a layer comprising a foamed synthetic resin film capable of diffusing light passing therethrough. Also disclosed is a method for protecting plants from overexposure to sunlight comprising covering the plants with such a net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Polysack Plastic Industries (R.A.C.S.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Felix Guberman, Gal Elazar, Maor Segal
  • Patent number: 6586351
    Abstract: A stab-resisting material includes a carrier coated with solid particles, which is provided on a packet of fabrics, in which the coating on the carrier includes abrasive particles having a diameter of 0.1-3 mm, and in which the packet of fabrics is thicker than 1.5 mm. The abrasive particles may be provided on the carrier by an adhesive, which forms an elastic film after curing. In particular, a fabric made of Aramid or Nylon fibres may be used as the carrier material. The preferred adhesive is a bituminous adhesive or an adhesive with a base of polyurethane. This material is used in particular in protective clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Twaron Products V.O.F.
    Inventor: Joseph Judtih Breukers
  • Patent number: 6586352
    Abstract: A simple, inexpensive, drillable, reduced CTE laminate and circuitized structure comprising the reduced CTE laminate, is provided. The reduced CTE laminate comprises: from about 40% to 75%, preferably from about 55% to 65%, by weight resin; from about 0.05% to 0.3%, preferably from about 0.08% to 0.10%, by weight curing agent; from about 25% to 60%, preferably from about 30% to 40%, by weight, woven cloth; from about 1% to 15%, preferably from about 5% to 10%, by volume, non-woven quartz mat. The present invention also generally relates to a method for reducing the CTE of circuitized structures, and to methods for making reduced CTE laminate and circuitized structures comprising reduced CTE laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Robert Blumberg, Robert Maynard Japp, William John Rudik, John Frank Surowka
  • Patent number: 6586353
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a roofing underlayment system comprising two layers of a coated structural article which comprises a substrate having an ionic charge coated with a coating having essentially the same ionic charge or one layer of such coated structural article in combination with one layer of felt material. The coating of the coated structural article consists essentially of a filler material and a binder material wherein the binder material bonds the filler material together and to the substrate and wherein the coating does not bleed through the substrate. The roofing underlayment system of the present invention can impart a Class B or better (Class A) fire rating to a roof assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Elk Corp. of Dallas
    Inventors: Matti Kiik, Michael L. Bryson, Robert Joseph Tobin, Younger Ahluwalia
  • Patent number: 6586354
    Abstract: A multi-microlayer thermoplastic film structure and methods of making the same. More specifically, this invention relates to a multi-microlayer film having a degradable polymer layer and a thermoplastic elastomer layer. Filler materials may be included in either the degradable polymer layer or the thermoplastic elastomer layer. The multi-microlayer films may be formed in a co-extrusion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Vasily A. Topolkaraev, Dave A. Soerens, Oomman P. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6586355
    Abstract: An improved submerged entry nozzle is provided which is useful in the casting of aluminum killed molten steel. The nozzle has an improved slagline sleeve or collar which surrounds the outer portion of the nozzle to protect it from corrosion during the casting process. The slagline sleeve is made from resin bonded zirconia/graphite which has been formulated so that upon curing of the resin to form resite, there is a reduction in the contractile tendency which results in a reduction in stress fracturing. The reduction of the contractile tendency and the resulting resistance to stress fracturing is achieved by adding an effective amount of calcium oxide to the resin-zirconia-graphite mixture which is used to form the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Baker Refractories
    Inventors: Donald B. Hoover, Franklin A. Renda, Donald J. Griffin, Colin Richmond
  • Patent number: 6586356
    Abstract: An electron-withdrawing group-containing metal compound (I) of an atom of the Group III to the Group XII or lanthanide series of the Periodic Table of the Elements, a catalyst component for addition polymerization composed of the compound (I), a catalyst for addition polymerization obtained by contacting the compound (I) with a specific compound (II) of metal of the Group III to the Group XIII or lanthanide series and optionally an organoaluminum compound (III), and a process for producing an addition polymer using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kazuo Takaoki, Tatsuya Miyatake
  • Patent number: 6586357
    Abstract: Chiral diphosphines constituted by an aromatic pentatomic biheterocyclic system, suitable to act as chiral ligands, complexes between said diphosophines and transition metals, and their utilization as chiral catalysts in sterocontrolled reactions, such as diastereo- and enantioselective reduction reactions. Process for the preparation of said chiral diphosophines and process for the preparation of said complexes and for their utilization as chiral catalysts in sterocontrolled reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Chemi S.p.A.
    Inventors: Patrizia Antognazza, Tiziana Benincori, Elisabetta Brenna, Edoardo Cesarotti, Francesco Sannicolo′, Licia Trimarco
  • Patent number: 6586358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bidenitate diimino-complex of nickel or palladium containing at least one group OSi(R)3 wherein each R, equal to or different from each other, is selected from the group consisting of: C1-C20 alkyl, C3-C20 cycloalkyl, C6-C20 aryl, C2-C20 alkenyl, C7-C20 arylalkyl, C7-C20 alkylaryl, C8-C20 arylalkenyl, and C8-C20 alkenylaryl, linear or branched, preferably each R is independently methyl, ethyl or propyl. The present invention also relates to the process for the preparation of bidentate diimino complexes of nickel and palladium as well as the process for their use in olefin polymerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Repsol Quimica, S.A.
    Inventors: Luis Mendez Llatas, Antonio Muñoz-Escalona Lafuente, Juan Campora Perez, Ernesto Carmona Guzman, Manuel Lopez Reyes
  • Patent number: 6586359
    Abstract: A catalytic composition and method of making the same in which a catalytic material has an average pore size distribution sufficiently large to substantially prevent capillary condensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Fred M. Allen, Patrick W. Blosser, Ronald M. Heck, Jeffrey B. Hoke, Terence C. Pole, John J. Steger
  • Patent number: 6586360
    Abstract: Catalytic system for the oxidative dehydrogenation of alkylaromatics (in particular ethylbenzene) or paraffins to the corresponding alkenylaromatics (in particular styrene) or to the corresponding olefins, consisting of: a vanadium oxide; a bismuth oxide; and a carrier based on magnesium, wherein the vanadium, expressed as V2O5, is in a quantity ranging from 1 to 15% by weight, preferably from 2 to 10%, the bismuth, expressed as Bi2O3, ranges from 2 to 30% by weight, preferably from 5 to 25% by weight, the complement to 100 being the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignees: Enichem S.p.A., EniTecnologie S.p.A.
    Inventors: Patrizia Ingallina, Luciano Carluccio, Giuseppe Bellussi, Gastone Del Piero, Eugenio Andreoli, Renato Paludetto
  • Patent number: 6586361
    Abstract: A coated catalyst for the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons comprises, on an inert nonporous support, a catalytically active composition comprising a defined amount of vanadium oxide, titanium dioxide, a cesium compound, a phosphorus compound, and antimony oxide, wherein the catalytically active composition is applied in two or more layers and where relative to the inner layer or inner layers the outer layer has an antimony oxide content which is from 50 to 100% lower and wherein the amount of catalytically active composition of the inner layer or layers is from 10 to 90% by weight of the amount of catalytically active composition, and can be used for preparing carboxylic acids and/or anhydrides, in particular phthalic anhydride; also specified is a production process for such catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Heidemann, Stefan Bauer, Gerd Linden, Hermann Petersen
  • Patent number: 6586362
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon solvent comprising a fraction which is obtained by reacting styrene and cumene in the presence of an acid catalyst and contains 85% by weight or more of 1-phenyl-1-(p-isopropylphenyl)ethane and 5% by weight or less of total styrene dimers, and a pressure-sensitive copying material made using said solvent. The hydrocarbon solvent is inexpensive and excellent in dissolving power for dyes, color-developing rate and so forth, and is satisfactorily odorless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Shoko, Yasuo Togami
  • Patent number: 6586363
    Abstract: A substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic recording material comprising a thermosensitive element and a support, the thermosensitive element containing at least one substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, an image tone stabilizer and a binder, wherein the image tone stabilizer is a compound according to formula (I): wherein R1 is hydrogen, an alkali metal ion, an ammonium ion, a phosphonium ion, a sulphonium ion, an alkaline earth ion or an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclic, alkaryl, aralkyl, heteroaryl or aryl group; R2 is an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocyclic, alkaryl, aralkyl, heteroaryl or aryl group; or R1 and R2 together represent the atoms necessary to form a ring structure; and X is hydrogen, an alkali metal ion, an ammonium ion, a phosphonium ion, a sulphonium ion or an alkaline earth ion; and a recording process therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Ivan Hoogmartens
  • Patent number: 6586364
    Abstract: A first heat-sensitive microcapsule of the present invention comprises a shell wall and a liquid coloring composition, and has such a temperature-breaking characteristic that the shell wall is broken by heating to a temperature equal to or higher than a boiling point of the liquid coloring composition. The first heat-sensitive microcapsule is stable to light and easy to handle. A second heat-sensitive microcapsule of the present invention comprises a shell wall, a coloring composition and a heat decomposition-type gas-developing agent, and has such a temperature-breaking characteristic that the shell wall is broken by heating to a temperature equal to or higher than a decomposition temperature of the gas-developing agent. The second heat-sensitive microcapsule can be sensitively broken even by heating in a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Pentax Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Kubota, Minoru Suzuki, Kazuyuki Shimbo, Yutaka Igari
  • Patent number: 6586365
    Abstract: A method to protect corn against feeding damage by one or more pests includes the treatment of corn seed having a transgenic event that is targeted against at least one of the pests with clothianidin pesticide (clothianidin) in an amount that is effective against the same or another of the one or more pests. Seeds having such protection are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jawed Asrar, Frank C. Kohn, Ernest F. Sanders
  • Patent number: 6586366
    Abstract: Oil based emulsifiable concentrates include (a) at least one oil component; (b) at least one surfactant hydrocarboxyl saccharide, particularly a surfactant hydrocarbyl polysaccharide (HPS); and (c) at least one other non-ionic surfactant. The concentrates are typically homogeneous for at least 24 hours and emulsify readily on dilution into water. The concentrates preferably also include: (d) an antifoaming agent, especially a polysiloxane; and/or (e) at least one chemical agent specific to the intended use of the composition, such as an agrochemical, especially a herbicide, or a metal corrosion inhibitor. The concentrates can be diluted readily in water to give emulsion formulations which can be sprayed onto substrates, e.g. when the chemical agent is a herbicide, onto weeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Plc
    Inventors: Mahroussa Auda, Dirk Hoorne, Lodewijk Maria Rogiers
  • Patent number: 6586367
    Abstract: Undesired plant growth in cultivations of useful plants which are resistant to phopho-herbicides, may be controlled with herbicidal compositions, which contain, in addition to the usual inert formulation assistants, a phospho-herbicide and a synergistic amount of at least one further herbicide selected from the group comprising prosulfuron, primisulfuron, dicamba, pyridate, dimethenamide and its S-enantiomer, metolachlor and its S-enantiomer, fluometuron, propaquizafop, atrazine, clodinafop, norflurazone, ametryn, terbutylazine, simazine, prometryn, NOA-402989, as well as the compounds of formulae
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Lee, Andreas Zoschke, Hans Peter Lutz
  • Patent number: 6586368
    Abstract: Condensed heterocyclic compounds of general formula (I) wherein T is carbon or nitrogen; when T is carbon, then the bond between T and A is a double bond, the bond between A and Y is a single bond, and Y is oxygen, sulfur, or optionally substituted NH; or when T is nitrogen, then the bond between T and A is a single bond, the bond between A and Y is a double bond, and Y is nitrogen or optionally substituted CH; A is nitrogen or optionally substituted CH; R1 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxymethyl, nitro, or cyano; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxymethyl, nitro, cyano, or the like; R3 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, hydroxymethyl, nitro, cyano, or the like; R4 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, halo-alkyl, hydroxymethyl, nitro, or cyano; and Q is a saturated or unsaturated 5- or 6- membered heterocyclic ring containing one to four nitrogen atoms, or a saturated or unsaturated cyclopentylideneamino group containing one or two nitrogen heteroatoms and one oxygen or sulfur heteroa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Minoru Takano, Shinichi Kawamura, Takashi Komori
  • Patent number: 6586369
    Abstract: Agrochemical compositions having fungicidal action and comprising as active compounds compounds of the formula I where R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkylcarbonyl, formyl or C1-C6-haloalkylcarbonyl; R2 is halogen, C1-C6-alkylthio, C1-C6-alkoxy, C3-C6-cycloalkyl-C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkyl, halo-C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, C1-C6-alkylsulfinyl, halo-C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, cyano or a radical NR13R14; R3-R12 are hydrogen, halogen, C1-C8-cycloalkyl, C1-C6-alkyl, halo-C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, halo-C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, halo-C1-C6-alkylsulfonyl, formyl, C1-C6-alkylcarbonyl, cyano, C1-C6-alkylthio or phenyl, which may be unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, C1-C6-alkyl or halo-C1-C6-alkyl, R13 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, R14 is C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C8-cycloalkyl or, together with R13 and the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, a saturated or unsaturated heterocyclic five- or six-membered ring which contains one or two heteroatoms selected from the group co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Rheinheimer, Karl Eicken, Ingo Rose, Thomas Grote, Eberhard Ammermann, John-Bryan Speakman, Siegfried Strathmann, Gisela Lorenz
  • Patent number: 6586370
    Abstract: The invention provides a superconductor comprising particles made of a metallic boride superconductive material, and a conductive material. The conductive material is selected to be driven to a superconductive state when in proximity to the superconductive material. An unbroken length of the conductive material is located sufficiently close to a plurality of the particles to be driven to a superconductive state by the superconductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Nove' Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew J. Holcomb
  • Patent number: 6586371
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water-based fluid, in particular for drilling, completion or for any other intervention in a well such as a hydrocarbon well, in which the viscosity is controlled by a system constituted by precipitated silica nanoparticles (A) associated with a water-soluble copolymer (B) comprising one or more water-soluble co-monomers (I) having little or no affinity for silica and one or more co-monomers (II) which absorb onto the silica. The invention is of particular application to the secondary recovery of hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Pierre Maroy, Francoise Lafuma, Coralie Simonet
  • Patent number: 6586372
    Abstract: An additive which increases the density of wellbore fluids used during the construction or repair of oil, gas, injection, water or geothermal wells comprises solid colloidal particles of weight average particle diameter (D50) of less than 2 microns, the particles being deflocculated by the action of a dispersant, preferably incorporated during the process of grinding or communication of the particles to the specified particle size. The additives may be used in any wellbore fluid such as drilling, cementing, completion, packing, work-over (repairing), stimulation, well killing and spacer fluids as well as in a dense media separating fluid or in a ship's ballast fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: M-I LLC.
    Inventors: Andrew Bradbury, Christopher A. Sawdon
  • Patent number: 6586373
    Abstract: A wet friction material comprises a fiber base material, a filler and a binder: wherein the filler contains a disc-shaped diatomaceous earth; wherein the filler contains at least one of a filler having Mohs hardness of 8 to 9.5 and a diatomaceous earth and the binder contains a specific silicone resin binder; or wherein the binder contains another specific silicone resin binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: NSK-Warner Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Masahiro Mori, Hideki Tatewaki, Sousuke Kawai, Hirokazu Yagi
  • Patent number: 6586374
    Abstract: A synthetic lubricant for gasoline and diesel engines having a viscosity ranging between about 14.5 and 16.5 cs at 100° C., the lubricant containing from about 55 to about 75 volume percent polyalphaolefin having a viscosity of about 6 to 8 cs at 100° C., an ethylene-propylene copolymer, an ester or diester, a packaged additive, a total base number enhancer and a minor effective amount of an antifoamant. A method of use is also provided whereby the subject lubricant is recirculated through an operating engine while periodically monitoring the total base number and adjusting the total base number to a level of about 12.0 by the addition of a total base number enhancer such as calcium phenate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Primrose Oil Company
    Inventor: Edward Alan Paul
  • Patent number: 6586375
    Abstract: This invention relates to a lubricating composition comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity and a minor amount of a salt of at least one nitrogen containing polyacrylate and at least one phosphorus acid ester. The invention also relates to lubricating compositions and concentrates containing the same. The present phosphorus salts of the nitrogen containing copolymers provide improved dispersant, viscosity improver and antiwear properties to lubricating compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. Gahagan, Matthew R. Sivik
  • Patent number: 6586376
    Abstract: A heat resistant lubricating oil composition which exhibits high heat resistance and oxidation resistance under high temperature conditions, and can withstand severe working conditions, as in jet engine turbines. The lubricating oil composition comprises a polyphenylthioether of formula I in a lubricating base oil, comprising any one of a polyol ester, a polyphenyl ether, an organopolysiloxane and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakanishi, Ko Onodera, Makoto Kanbara, Atsuhisa Kobori, Yoshinobu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6586377
    Abstract: Solutions useful to clean contact lenses include a surfactant component in an effective amount; and a viscosity inducing component, preferably selected from cellulosic derivatives and more preferably hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, in an effective amount. Such solutions, which may include one or more additional components, have substantial contact lens cleaning benefits which, ultimately, lead to ocular health advantages and avoidance of problems caused by contact lens wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Graham, Joseph G. Vehige
  • Patent number: 6586378
    Abstract: An aqueous hair stying composition comprises: (i) from 0.1% to 40%, by weight based on total weight, of oily or fatty material, the oily or fatty material including at least one material selected from hydrocarbon oils and glyceride fatty esters. (ii) from 0.1% to 10%, by weight based on total weight, of a hair styling polymer; (iii) from 0% to 30%, by weight based on total weight, of an aerosol propellant; and (iv) from 0% to 5%, by weight based on total weight, of a surfactant. The compositions have improved strength and durability of hair hold and superior sensory feel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Lalitesh Chandra
  • Patent number: 6586379
    Abstract: A soap bar composition containing: (a) an alkyl/alkenyl oligoglycoside; (b) an olefin sulfonate; and (c) a starch component, and wherein the soap bar composition is subtantially free of free fatty acids or their salts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Cognis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Seipel
  • Patent number: 6586380
    Abstract: This invention concerns a composition useful as a paint remover, comprising: alkylene carbonate such as propylene carbonate or ethylene carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, and water, and optionally an alcohol such as benzyl alcohol. In another broad respect, this invention concerns a process for removing paint, comprising: applying a composition containing alkylene carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, and water to a painted surface for a time and under conditions effective to cause blistering or bubbling of the paint. In another broad respect, this invention is a composition useful as a paint remover, comprising: dialkyl carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, and water, optionally containing an alcohol, optionally containing a glycol ether. In another broad respect, this invention is a process for removing paint, comprising: applying a composition containing dialkyl carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, and water to a painted surface for a time and under conditions effective to cause blistering or bubbling of the paint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Edward T. Marquis, Robert E. Baldwin
  • Patent number: 6586381
    Abstract: A water soluble container having disposed therein a liquid cleaning composition containing at least one nonionic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, triethanol amine, water, a perfume and a fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Myriam Mondin
  • Patent number: 6586382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of treating a fabric with a neat bleaching composition comprising a peroxygen bleach and a high molecular weight polymer. Such bleaching composition provides bleaching benefits and enhanced fabric safety. The present invention also relates to a method of reducing the evaporation of a bleaching composition's solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefano Scialla, Pierre Antoine Dresco
  • Patent number: 6586383
    Abstract: The invention relates to catalytically bleaching substrates, especially laundry fabrics, with a bleaching catalyst in the presence of an unsaturated surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Hage, Roelant Mathijs Hermant, Jean Hypolites Koek, Simon Marinus Veerman
  • Patent number: 6586384
    Abstract: A method of delivering a benefit agent to a selected area of a fabric for exerting a predetermined activity, wherein the area is pre-treated with a multi-specific binding molecule which has a high binding affinity to said area through one specificity and is capable of binding to said benefit agent through another specificity, followed by contacting said pre-treated area with said benefit agent, to enhance said pre-determined activity to said area. Preferably, the binding molecule is an antibody or fragment thereof, or a fusion protein comprising a cellulose binding domain and a domain having a high binding affinity to another ligand which is directed to said benefit agent. The method is useful for stain removal, perfume delivery, and treating collars and cuffs for wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Unilever Home & Personal Care USA division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Hemmington, Steven Howell, Julie Little, Cornelis Paul Van Der Logt, Neil James Parry, Richard George Smith
  • Patent number: 6586385
    Abstract: A dishwashing cleaning wipe comprising a fabric wherein the fabric is impregnated with a cleaning composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Co.
    Inventors: Karen Wisniewski, Barbara Thomas
  • Patent number: 6586386
    Abstract: A tablet of compacted particulate cleaning composition, wherein the tablet or a discrete region thereof contains surfactant and detergency builder, characterized by containing about 1-10% by wt. of a composite disintegrant blend comprising, by weight, (a) about 40-70% of a water soluble salt, (b) about 30-60% of a mixture of about 10-90% of cellulosic material and 90-10% of crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone, the tablet having a disintegration rate of at least 100 g/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.
    Inventors: Bala Srinivas, Purvita Patel
  • Patent number: 6586387
    Abstract: A laundry detergent composition which includes a standard detergent formulation and an effective soil releasing amount of vinyl caprolactam homopolymer having a K-value of at least 40, preferably 40-50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: ISP Investments Inc.
    Inventors: Bala Srinivas, Jenn S. Shih
  • Patent number: 6586388
    Abstract: Disclosed are (1) osteogenic devices comprising a matrix containing substantially pure natural-sourced mammalian osteogenic protein; (2) DNA and amino acid sequences for novel polypeptide chains useful as subunits of dimeric osteogenic proteins; (3) vectors carrying sequences encoding these novel polypeptide chains and host cells transfected with these vectors; (4) methods of producing these polypeptide chains using recombinant DNA technology; (5) antibodies specific for these novel polypeptide chains; (6) osteogenic devices comprising these recombinantly produced proteins in association with an appropriate carrier matrix; and (7) methods of using the osteogenic devices to mimic the natural course of endochondral bone formation in mammals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Hermann Oppermann, Engin Ozkaynak, Thangavel Kuberasampath, David C. Rueger, Roy H. L. Pang
  • Patent number: 6586389
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel renal receptors for ligands. Cubilin and megalin are representative examples of such renal receptors. Also provided are potential uses of these renal receptors for treating toxicity in various tissues and for detecting renal damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    Inventors: Pierre J. Verroust, Timothy G. Hammond
  • Patent number: 6586390
    Abstract: The invention provides novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded by such polynucleotides and mutants or variants thereof that correspond to a novel human prothrombinase-like polypeptide. These polynucleotides comprise nucleic acid sequences isolated from cDNA library from human ovary (Hyseq clone identification number 7735656). Other aspects of the invention include vectors containing processes for producing novel human prothrombinase-like polypeptides, and antibodies specific for such polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Hyseq, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana A. Haley, Bryan J. Boyle, Alice S. Ho, Matthew C. Arterburn, Y. Tom Tang, Chenghua Liu, Radoje T. Drmanac, Nancy K. Mize
  • Patent number: 6586391
    Abstract: The mechanism of hypertension following acute NO synthase blockage is via endothelin-mediated vasoconstriction. Thus, NO appears to inhibit endothelin activity by blocking its expression and not as a chronic direct acting vasodilator. Administration of an endothelin antagonist to a patient in a ‘normal’ physiological state may result in specific regional vasodilation. This treatment finds utility in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Queen's University at Kingston
    Inventors: James D. Banting, Jeremy P. W. Heaton, Michael A. Adams
  • Patent number: 6586392
    Abstract: The present invention provides antiviral proteins, peptides and conjugates, as well as methods of obtaining these agents. The antiviral proteins, peptides and conjugates of the present invention can be used alone or in combination with other antiviral agents in compositions, such as pharmaceutical compositions, to inhibit the infectivity, replication and cytopathic effects of a virus, such as a retrovirus, in particular a human immunodeficiency virus, specifically HIV-1 or HIV-2, in the treatment or prevention of viral infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventor: Michael R. Boyd
  • Patent number: 6586393
    Abstract: The invention relates to an antibiotic substance of microbial origin, arbitrarily denominated GE23077 complex and the individual factors which constitute it, a mixture of said factors in any proportion, the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions thereof, and their use as an antibacterial agent having a selective inhibitory activity against E. coli RNA polymerase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Biosearch Italia S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ismaela Ciciliato, Emiliana Corti, Edoardo Giacomo Sarubbi, Stefania Stefanelli, Nicoletta Montanini, Flavia Marinelli, Michael Kurz, Enrico Selva
  • Patent number: 6586394
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a chromatographically recovered polypeptide having the N-terminal amino acid sequence Ala-Leu-Asp-Thr-Asn-Tyr-Cys-Phe-Arg-Asn-Leu-Glu-Clu-Asn-Cys-Cys-Val. This polypeptide is known as TGI, TGI-1 and TGI-2. It is also referred to as TGF-&bgr;3. The invention is also directed to a compositions which comprises the chromatographically recovered polypeptide. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical compositions to inhibit the growth of epithelial cells or heal a wound or treat a burn consisting of the chromatographically recovered polypeptide. The invention is also directed to methods which comprise administering to a subject an effective amount of the chromatographically recovered so as to thereby inhibit the growth of epithelial cells, or heal the wound or treat the burn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth K. Iwata, John R. Stephenson, Leslie I. Gold
  • Patent number: 6586395
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel peptides and compositions capable of modulating apoptosis in cells, and to methods of modulating apoptosis employing the novel peptides and compositions of the invention. In one aspect, the invention is directed to novel homologs of bcl-2 designated CDN-1, CDN-2, and CDN-3, and fragments, variants, homologs and derivatives thereof, which are capable of modulating apoptosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Tanox, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael C. Kiefer, Philip J. Barr
  • Patent number: 6586396
    Abstract: The cDNA sequence encoding porcine brain natriuretic peptide and related genes encoding canine and human peptides with natriuretic activity are disclosed. The gene is shown to make accessible the DNAs encoding analogous natriuretic peptides in other vertebrate species. The genes encoding these NPs can be used to effect modifications of the sequence to produce alternate forms of the NPs and to provide practical amounts of these proteins. The NPs of the invention can also be synthesized chemically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Scios, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Jeffrey Seilhamer, John Lewicki, Robert M. Scarborough, J. Gordon Porter
  • Patent number: 6586397
    Abstract: The present invention concerns isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the novel TIE ligands NL1, NL5 and NL8, the proteins encoded by such nucleic acid molecules, as well as methods and means for making and using such nucleic acid and protein molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Godowski, Austin L. Gurney
  • Patent number: 6586398
    Abstract: The present invention broadly relates to the field of protein modification, and, more specifically, the attachment of water soluble polymers to novel erythropoietin stimulating protein (NESP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Amgen, Inc.
    Inventors: Olaf Kinstler, Colin Gegg, Aimee Freeman, Thomas Boone