Patents Issued in April 28, 2020
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Patent number: 10633289Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a gas sensor element. The gas sensor element has a plate shape extending in a direction of an axis thereof and includes: a detection portion arranged on a front end side of the gas sensor element to detect a specific gas component in a gas under measurement; and a porous protective layer formed around the detection portion. The manufacturing method of the gas sensor element is characterized in that the porous protective layer is formed by press forming of a raw material powder.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTDInventors: Yuri Saito, Tatsuhiko Muraoka, Masaki Nakagawa
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Patent number: 10633290Abstract: High strength transparent corundum ceramics using corundum powder and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method of forming transparent corundum ceramics includes milling corundum powder in aqueous slurry with beads. The method further includes processing the slurry by a liquid shaping process to form a gelled body. The method further includes sintering the gelled body in air and pressing the gelled body by hot isostatic pressing to form a ceramic body.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Fraunhofer-GesellschaftInventors: Mohammed A. Binhussain, Akeel Khalid Alakeel, Majid Mohammed Binmajid, Jens Klimke
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Patent number: 10633291Abstract: A window pane for an interceptor missile includes a light transmissive base material and light transmissive additive particles dispersed within a thickness of the light transmissive base material so as to define stress nodes, the stress nodes localizing, upon applied thermal shock or thermal heating, crack propagation around each stress node and/or between two or more adjacent stress nodes and preventing a continuous crack propagation through any one of a length, a width and a thickness of the window pane.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventor: Robert M. Nichol
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Patent number: 10633292Abstract: A sintered material includes cubic boron nitride grains and a binder, a grain size D50 of the cubic boron nitride grains when a cumulative value of the cubic boron nitride grains is 50% in an area-based grain size distribution being more than 0.5 ?m and less than or equal to 5 ?m, more than or equal to 70 volume % and less than or equal to 98 volume % of the cubic boron nitride grains being included in the sintered material, the binder being composed of A1-xCrxN, where 0?x?1, and a remainder, the remainder being composed of at least one of a first element and a compound including the first element and a second element, the first element being one or more elements selected from a group consisting of W, Co, Ni, Mo, Al, and Cr, the second element being one or more elements selected from a group consisting of nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and boron.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.Inventors: Kazushi Takahama, Yusuke Matsuda, Satoru Kukino
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Patent number: 10633293Abstract: The honeycomb structure body has a dense part at a part in axial direction including a center region of the inflow end face, the dense part having a change ratio of porosity calculated by the following Expression (1) that is 2 to 8%, and has an outside-diameter increasing part, and the honeycomb structure body has a change ratio of average diameter calculated by the following Expression (2) that is 0.2 to 3%, (1?Px/Py)×100, ??Expression (1): in Expression (1), Px denotes the porosity (%) at the center region of the inflow end face, and Py denotes the porosity (%) of a circumferential region of the inflow end face. (1?Dx/Dy)×100, ??Expression (2): in Expression (2), Dx denotes the average diameter (mm) of the inflow end face, and Dy denotes the average diameter (mm) of the outflow end face.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Kondo, Yasushi Kato, Junki Matsuya
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Patent number: 10633294Abstract: A process for treating a substrate made of stone material, preferably in the form of slabs, is provided which process improves the mechanical, thermal and catalytic properties of the substrate. The process includes applying a protective coating to the outer surface of the substrate made of stone material and, to improve adhesion of the protective coating to the outer surface of the substrate, preliminarily subjecting the substrate to one or more pre-treatment steps that eliminate or reduce the presence of pollutants and porosity on the surface of the substrate. The pre-treatment of the substrate made of stone material comprises at least one step of treatment under vacuum conditions inside an autoclave, preferably under pressure conditions lower than 10?2 mbar. Then, after having brought the substrate back to ambient pressure, it is possible to apply and effectively adhere the protective coating to the surface of the stone material.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Antolini Luigi & C. S.p.A.Inventor: Mauro Lunardi
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Patent number: 10633295Abstract: The invention discloses a sound-absorbing material particle and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: step 1, mixing a sound-absorbing raw material with a templating agent and water to prepare a sound-absorbing slurry, filling a reaction kettle with a porous ceramic substrate and the sound-absorbing slurry that are mixed together; step 2, performing hydrothermal crystallization in the reaction kettle to ensure that the sound-absorbing raw material is crystallized on the porous ceramic substrate and constitutes the sound-absorbing material particle together with the porous ceramic substrate; step 3, performing solid-liquid separation on the materials in the reaction kettle; and step 4, drying and roasting the sound-absorbing material particle.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Goertek, Inc.Inventor: Xiaodong Cao
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Patent number: 10633296Abstract: An electronic device includes a first image sensor, a second image sensor, one or more image processing modules, and a display. The first image sensor generates first image data. The second image sensor generates second image data. The one or more image processing modules process one or more image data among the first image and the second image data. The display displays the one or more image data among the first image data or second image data processed by the one or more image processing modules. The thumbnail generation module generates thumbnail data using the one or more image data among the first image data and second image data processed by the one or more image processing modules. A method includes converting the plurality of image data into a format displayable on a display, and generating thumbnail data using the image data of the displayable format.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Woo-Hyun Baek
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Patent number: 10633297Abstract: A method of applying a circumferential coating material on a circumferential surface of a ceramic honeycomb structure to form a circumferential coat layer. The method includes vertically aligning the longitudinal axis of the ceramic honeycomb structure, rotating the ceramic honeycomb structure around the vertically-aligned longitudinal axis, and applying the circumferential coating material on the circumferential surface of the rotating honeycomb structure at a discharge speed of 50 to 120 mm/s, calculated by Discharge speed V [mm/s]=Supplied amount q [g/s] of circumferential coating material÷(Density ? [g/mm3] of circumferential coating material×Area S [mm2] of discharge opening).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Okumura, Tomoya Taguchi
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Patent number: 10633298Abstract: The invention provides compositions, systems and methods for controlling loss of nutrients and other substances from planting sites.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: WaterScience, Inc.Inventor: Robert J. Littmann
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Patent number: 10633299Abstract: The present invention provides a system to aid in the time-release of molybdenum in soil. The system comprises a dry, powdered blend of a calcium source, a molybdenum source, and a second source of calcium and/or molybdenum. The blend is preferably coated onto a dry agronomic carrier (e.g., urea) for application to soil. Advantageously, the calcium sources sequentially contribute to making the soil pH more molybdenum-friendly (i.e., the pH is increased) for an extended period of time.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Compass Minerals USA Inc.Inventors: Elliott Martin, Robert A. Geiger, Mark Goodwin
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Patent number: 10633300Abstract: The present invention relates to increasing longevity of the nitrogen content of soil through improved liquid delivery formulations of nitrification inhibitors. The liquid formulation can also be comprised of nitrification inhibitors and optionally urease inhibitors that are blended solutions of each. The nitrification inhibitors are present in a mixture that comprises both a protic and an aprotic solvent system. The novel formulations are designed to be applied to fertilizers, especially urea and manure based fertilizers. The delivery formulations provide an environmentally sound and inherently safe solvating system that improves the storage stability of the urease inhibitors by utilizing liquid organic non-water containing solvents, maintains the nitrification inhibitors in solution to storage temperatures of at least 10° C., and provides improved application to fertilizer of nitrification inhibitors.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Inventors: Gary David McKnight, Randall Linwood Rayborn, Wei Xu, Raymond Patrick Perkins, Zehui Yang, David Parker, Andrew Semple
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Patent number: 10633301Abstract: A process for converting oxygenates to hydrocarbons includes introducing a feed stream having at least one oxygenate into a reaction zone, and introducing a hydrogen gas stream into the reaction zone. In the reaction zone the feed stream and the hydrogen gas stream are simultaneously contacted with a catalyst, and the catalyst includes a solid microporous acid component having 8-MR to 10-MR access. The hydrogen gas stream in the reaction zone has a partial pressure from 1 bar (100 kPa) to 48 bar (4800 kPa), and the reaction zone is at a temperature from 350° C. to 500° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Davy L. S. Nieskens, Aysegul Ciftci Sandikci, Peter E. Groenendijk, Andrzej Malek
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Patent number: 10633302Abstract: The invention provides a process for oligomerization of n-butenes using a nickel-containing aluminosilicate catalyst to produce a product mixture whose ratio of 4,4-dimethylhexene to 3,4-dimethylhexene is determined and monitored. The invention further relates to a process for determining the ratio of the amount of the formed 4,4-dimethylhexene or of the formed 3-ethyl-2-methylpentene to the amount of the formed 3,4-dimethylhexene.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Fabian Nadolny, Stephan Peitz, Guido Stochniol, Robert Franke, Felix Alscher, Cornelia Breitkopf, Wladimir Reschetilowski
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Patent number: 10633303Abstract: A process for the dimerization of ethylene to 1-butene, carried out with a catalytic composition comprising: at least one nickel precursor with an oxidation number of (+II), at least one phosphine ligand with formula PR1R2R3 in which the groups R1, R2 and R3 may be identical or different and which may or may not be bonded together, and at least one activating agent selected from the group formed by chlorinated and brominated hydrocarbylaluminium compounds, used alone or as a mixture, the composition having a molar ratio of the phosphine ligand to the nickel precursor in the range 5 to 30 and a molar ratio of the activating agent to the phosphine ligand greater than or equal to 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Pierre-Alain Breuil, Olivia Chaumet-Martin
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Patent number: 10633304Abstract: An integrated process unit for making one or more alkylate products is provided. The integrated process unit includes (a) a dehydrogenation reactor; (b) a single alkylation reactor; (c) a separator, following the alkylation reactor, that separates effluent from the alkylation reactor into a catalyst phase and a hydrocarbon phase; (d) a distillation unit, following the separator, that receives the hydrocarbon phase and separates it into alkylate products, an unreacted paraffin phase, and an isoparaffin phase; (e) a first recycle line that feeds unreacted paraffin phase to the dehydrogenation reactor; and (f) a second recycle line that feeds isoparaffin phase to the alkylation reactor.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Hye-Kyung Cho Timken, Kenneth John Peinado, Bong-Kyu Chang
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Patent number: 10633305Abstract: One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing a single heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, multiple expander/compressor sets, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Enflex, Inc.Inventors: James Zhao, Shukui Zhao
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Patent number: 10633306Abstract: Implementations described herein generally relate to methods for purifying alpha-olefins. The alpha-olefins may be used to form drag reducing agents for improving flow of hydrocarbons through conduits, particularly pipelines. In one implementation, a method of increasing alpha-olefin content is provided. The method includes providing an olefin feedstock composition having an alpha-mono-olefin and at least one of a diolefin having an equal number of carbon atoms to the alpha-mono-olefin and/or a triolefin having an equal number of carbon atoms to the alpha-mono-olefin. The method further includes contacting the olefin feedstock composition with ethylene in the presence of a catalyst composition including an olefin metathesis catalyst. The method further includes reacting the olefin feedstock composition and ethylene at metathesis reaction conditions to produce an alpha-olefin product comprising the alpha-mono-olefin and alpha-olefins having fewer carbon atoms than the alpha-mono-olefin.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: LiquidPower Specialty Products Inc.Inventor: Stuart N. Milligan
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Patent number: 10633307Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods of preparing a biogas purification system. Embodiments include flushing an adsorber with a gas stream that is separable by the downstream biogas purification process. Other embodiments include using the separable gas stream to flush a saturated adsorber. Additional embodiments include using a gas stream comprised of CO2.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: CALGON CARBON CORPORATIONInventors: Franck Michel Honore, Thomas Anthony Ryan
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Patent number: 10633309Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for preparing tetrafluoropropene utilising three reactors each comprising a catalytic bed containing a catalyst or a preliminary catalyst, and comprising the implementation, separately in each of the reactors, of catalytic reactions or reactions regenerating the catalyst, the quantity of catalyst or preliminary catalyst in the catalytic bed of one of the reactors representing between 90% and 110% of the quantity of catalyst or preliminary catalyst contained in the catalytic bed of one of the other two reactors. The present invention also concerns a facility configured to implement the present method.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCEInventors: Dominique Deur-Bert, Dominique Garrait, Anne Pigamo, Laurent Wendlinger
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Patent number: 10633310Abstract: The invention pertains to a method in which the production of HCFC-123 (2,2-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane) and/or of HCFC-122 (1,1,2-trichloro-2,2-difluoroethane) in at least one reaction step takes place in a microreactor. Particularly, in preferred embodiments of the invention pertains to a method in which the production of HCFC-123 (2,2-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane) and/or of HCFC-122 (1,1,2-trichloro-2,2-difluoroethane) in at least one reaction step takes place in a microreactor that comprises or is made of SiC (“SiC-microreactor”), or in a microreactor that comprises or is made of an alloy, e.g. such as Hastelloy C.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: FUJIAN YONGJING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Hongjun Du, Wenting Wu
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Patent number: 10633311Abstract: A hydrogenation process is disclosed. The process involves reacting a fluoroolefin with H2 in a reaction zone in the presence of a palladium catalyst to produce a hydrofluoroalkane product, wherein the palladium catalyst comprises palladium supported on a carrier wherein the palladium concentration is from about 0.001 wt % to about 0.2 wt % based on the total weight of the palladium and the carrier. Also disclosed is a palladium catalyst composition consisting essentially of palladium supported on ?-Al2O3 wherein the palladium concentration is from about 0.001 wt % to about 0.2 wt % based on the total weight of the palladium and the ?-Al2O3. Also disclosed is a hydrogenation process comprising reacting a fluoroolefin with H2 in a reaction zone in the presence of a palladium catalyst to produce a hydrofluoroalkane product, characterized by: the palladium catalyst consisting essentially of palladium supported on ?-Al2O3 wherein the palladium concentration is from about 0.001 wt % to about 0.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: THE CHEMOURS COMPANY FC, LLCInventors: Patricia Cheung, Concetta Lamarca
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Patent number: 10633312Abstract: The invention concerns a method for purifying and drying a hydrofluoroolefin stream comprising a hydrofluoroolefin, water and impurities composed of halogenated carbon compounds, characterised in that said stream is brought into contact with an adsorbent and in that the purification and the drying processes are carried out simultaneously in one and the same step, said hydrofluoroolefin being a compound of formula (I): CX1X2?CX3CX4X5X6 in which each Xi (i ranging from 1 to 6) represents, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom or a chlorine or fluorine atom, it being understood that at least one of the Xi's represents a fluorine atom.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Arkema FranceInventors: Anne Pigamo, Dominique Deur-Bert, Laurent Wendlinger
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Patent number: 10633313Abstract: A method for maximizing the value of gas streams containing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen including splitting a carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen containing stream into a first fraction and a second fraction, introducing at least a portion of a scrubbed first fraction into a temperature swing adsorption unit to further remove carbon dioxide and to remove water, separating at least a portion of the scrubbed and dried first fraction to produce a carbon monoxide product stream and a hydrogen product stream, combining at least a portion of the hydrogen product stream and the second fraction to produce a methanol-synthesis gas stream, wherein at least a portion of a crude methanol stream, generated after a single pass through the methanol synthesis reactor, is withdrawn and used as a crude methanol product, and wherein the methanol-synthesis gas stream is produced without utilizing a water gas shift reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges ClaudeInventors: Alexander Roesch, Joseph T. Stroffolino, IV
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Patent number: 10633314Abstract: A method of selective conversion of Abienol, represented by formula 1, to Sclareodiol, represented by formula 2 by ozonolysis and subsequent reduction. The ozonolysis is carried out at temperatures above ?60° C., preferably in nonhalogenated solvents. R is selected from H, acetals, aminals, optionally substituted alkyl groups, such as benzyl group, carboxylates such as acetates or formates, carbonates such as methyl or ethyl carbonates, carbamates, and any protecting group which can be attached to 1 and cleaved from 2, R? is selected from CH?CH2, an alkyl moiety with C2-C20, e.g. CH2—CH3, or a cycloalkyl or polycycloalkyl moiety with C3-C20, e.g. cyclopropyl, optionally alkylated, respectively, and the wavy bond is depicting an unspecified configuration of the adjacent double bond between C2 and C3.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.Inventor: Fridtjof Schröder
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Patent number: 10633315Abstract: Provided is a process for the preparation of certain 1,4-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane derivatives. The new synthetic procedure involves treating 1,4-dimethylene cyclohexane with an oxidizing agent in the presence of a transition metal catalyst comprising a palladium compound to afford certain oxo-substituted bicyclo[2.2.2]octane species. The process of the invention thus affords a novel and simplified means for the commercial production of a wide variety of bicyclo[2.2.2]octane derivatives.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Yue Rachel Hu, Robert Thomas Hembre, Gerald Charles Tustin, Christopher Harlan Burk
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Patent number: 10633316Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards methods of converting glycerol to an allyl compound, involving deoxydehydrating glycerol with formic acid and heat to form allyl alcohol; and esterifying the allyl alcohol with formic acid and/or phthalic anhydride and heat to form allyl formate and diallyl phthalate. In some instances, the heat is generated by a microwave. In further instances, the methods involve polymerizing the allyl alcohol, allyl formate and/or diallyl phthalate to form poly(allyl alcohol) or poly(allyl formate) or poly (diallyl phthalate). In some instances, the allyl polymers were used for the consolidation of oil sands tailings.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: The Governors of the University of AlbertaInventors: Aman Ullah, Yanet Rodriguez Herrero
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Patent number: 10633317Abstract: Utilizing the common knowledge formula for creation of methanol CO2+3H2?CH3OH+H2O; for each mole of carbon dioxide, three moles of hydrogen are needed to produce one equivalent unit of methanol. Mixing two gases and producing methanol can be accomplished per the one-line diagram concept, FIG. 1, and gas mixing apparatus, FIG. 2; under high pressure (from 3250 to 5000 psi) and high temperature (750 to 800° F.) without the presence of a catalyst. The hypothesis in this case is that the closer the mixing temperature is to the auto-ignition of hydrogen, the higher is the quality of the mixing environment. The mixing temperature in my invention is guided by the auto-ignition of hydrogen in this case (auto-ignition for hydrogen is 932° F. (or 500° C.) and the auto-ignition temperature for methanol is 867° F. (or 464° C.). After mixing the two gases, the result is methanol and water. The first step in this stage is to cool the substance by way of cooling tower, followed by a pressure lowering tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Inventor: Hagop Jake Misirian
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Patent number: 10633318Abstract: Implementations of a method of forming a wax ether composition may include: providing a batch of lipids, drying the batch of lipids, and cooling the batch of lipids. The method may also include dosing, with a catalyst, the batch of lipids at 0.1% to 0.3% by weight of the batch of lipids and dissolving the catalyst in the batch of lipids to form a homogenous solution. The method may include adding at least a molar equivalent of a hydrogen donor to the homogenous solution. The method may include sealing and maintaining the homogenous solution and hydrogen donor under atmospheric pressure under reflux until a chemical reaction between the homogenous solution and the hydrogen donor forms a product comprising an ether.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: International Flora Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Jeff Addy
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Patent number: 10633319Abstract: Provided is a method of efficiently producing a solution composition containing a monoetherified product (III) using a hydroquinone compound (I) and a hydroxyl group-containing etherifying agent (II). The method of producing a solution composition includes: a step (1) of reacting a hydroquinone compound (I) and a hydroxyl group-containing etherifying agent (II) in a two-phase system including an alkaline aqueous solution and a hydrophobic ether solvent, and in the absence of a phase transfer catalyst and a hydrophilic organic solvent; and a step (2) of separating and removing an aqueous phase of a two-phase reaction liquid by liquid separation, and washing an organic phase using an aqueous solution containing a neutral inorganic salt and a hydroxide of an alkali metal, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Kiriki, Kei Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10633320Abstract: This present disclosure relates to catalytic processes for upgrading crude and/or refined fusel oil mixtures to higher value renewable chemicals, via mixed metal oxide or zeolite catalysts. Disclosed herein are processes passing a vaporized stream of crude and/or refined fusel oils over various mixed metal oxide catalysts, metal doped zeolites, or non-metal doped zeolites and/or metal oxides providing options to valorize fusel oil mixtures to higher value products. Renewable chemicals formed, via these upgrading catalyst platforms, are comprised of, but not limited to, methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK), di-isobutyl ketone (DIBK), isoamylene, and isoprene.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Gevo, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan O. Smith
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Patent number: 10633321Abstract: A method is described for preparing cyclopropyl-substituted acetophenones of the general formula (I).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Bayer CropScience AktiengesellschaftInventor: Christoph Schotes
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Patent number: 10633322Abstract: A process for producing acetic acid comprises a process comprising: (1) carbonylating methanol; (2) separating the reaction mixture into a volatile phase and a less-volatile phase; (3) distilling the volatile phase to forma first overhead rich in a lower boiling component, and an acetic acid stream rich in acetic acid; and at least one step group selected from the group consisting of the following sections (4), (9), and (15): (4) a section for separating impurities from the acetic acid stream to give purified acetic acid, (9) a section for separating the first overhead into a stream rich in acetaldehyde and a stream rich in methyl iodide, and (15) a section for absorption-treating an off-gas from the process with an absorption solvent and forming a carbon monoxide-rich stream and an acetic acid-rich stream.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiko Shimizu, Yoshihisa Mizutani, Hiroyuki Miura
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Patent number: 10633323Abstract: Provided is a method of producing an acid halide solution that is useful in production of a polymerizable liquid-crystal compound. The method of producing an acid halide solution includes: a first step of reacting a specific dicarboxylic acid compound with a halogenating agent in a water-immiscible organic solvent in the presence of at least 1.1 equivalents and not more than 3.0 equivalents of an activator relative to the dicarboxylic acid compound to obtain a reaction liquid including a solution that contains an acid halide compound and an oily liquid that is immiscible with the solution containing the acid halide compound; and a second step of removing the oily liquid from the reaction liquid obtained in the first step to obtain a purified liquid containing the acid halide compound.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: ZEON CORPORATIONInventors: Kanako Sanuki, Kei Sakamoto, Kumi Okuyama, Hiroki Iwaki
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Patent number: 10633324Abstract: This disclosure provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use for the prevention and treatment of inflammatory diseases or degenerative diseases including neurodegenerative diseases. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide compounds related to very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, pharmaceutical compositions containing the provided compounds, and methods of treating a subject with a condition or disease using provided compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeInventors: Nicolas G. Bazan, Nicos A. Petasis
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Patent number: 10633325Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing o-phenyl phenoxyalkyl acrylate, including: transesterifying an acrylate-based compound with a biphenyl alcohol compound in the absence of a solvent and in the presence of a catalyst and a polymerization inhibitor to prepare the o-phenyl phenoxyalkyl acrylate represented by the following formula (II), wherein the catalyst is a compound containing a tin element or a titanium element. According to the method of the present disclosure, the o-phenyl phenoxyalkyl acrylate having transparency and high refractive index can be obtained. Moreover, the method of the present disclosure has the characteristics of high conversion rate and high selectivity, and does not need to add other organic solvents, so that many purification processes can be saved, and the production cost is effectively reduced, which has the value of industrial application.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: China Petrochemical Development Corporation, Taipei (Taiwan)Inventors: Yu-Sen Chen, Min-Chia Huang, Yu-Chiao Liu, Chih-Wei Chang
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Patent number: 10633326Abstract: A method for producing esters of an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid are disclosed, the method includes reacting a three or four carbon beta-hydroxyalkanoate composition or mixtures thereof with a mono-alcohol under heating conditions to form a reaction product and distilling the reaction product to recover a composition containing at least fifty percent by weight of the ester of the alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Timothy Walter Abraham, Ravi R. Gokarn
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Patent number: 10633327Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing diamines and polyamines of the diphenylmethane series, by condensing aniline and formaldehyde followed by an acid-catalysed rearrangement at different production capacities. Adapting the respective molar ratios of the total used aniline to the total used formaldehyde and of the total used acid catalyst to the total used aniline allows the rearrangement reaction to be fully completed despite the change in dwell time inevitably associated with a change in production capacity and ensures that no undesired fundamental changes occur in the product composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Covestro Duetschland AGInventors: Thomas Knauf, Stefan Wershofen, Klaus-Gerd Gruner, Volker Hartjes
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Patent number: 10633328Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: BASF SEInventors: 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
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Patent number: 10633329Abstract: A method for preparing a lisinopril intermediate is provided. The method includes: treating (R)-hydroxy-4-phenylbutyrate with sulfonyl chloride in an organic solvent in the presence of a base to obtain a solution of sulfonate; reacting the obtained solution with a salt of trifluoroacetyl lysine; and obtaining a N2-[1-(S)-alkoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl]-N6-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine by separating after the reaction is completed. The method provided has a shorter synthesis route, is easy to operate, has a low cost, and is suitable for industrial production.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: ZHEJIANG HUAHAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD., ZHEIJIANG HUAHAI TIANCHENG PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG HUAHAI LICHENG PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Songqing Wang, Peng Dong, Yang Zheng, Quanjun Li
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Patent number: 10633330Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing liquid, storage-stable isocyanate mixtures having carbodiimide (CD) and/or uretonimine (UI) groups or prepolymers derived therefrom, wherein (i) in a first step, a starting isocyanate which is an organic isocyanate or a mixture of two or more organic isocyanates is partly carbodiimidized with a catalyst K of the formula cyclo-C4H6P(O)R, where the substituent R is a saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted, especially halogen-substituted, organic radical, and then (ii) in a second step, the carbodiimidization reaction is stopped at a temperature of ?80° C. by adding a stopper, the stopper used being an organic silane S of the general formula HnSiX4-n, where n is a natural number in the range from 1 to 3, where X is a saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted, especially halogen-substituted, organic radical.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Hans-Detlef Arntz, Torsten Hagen, Ernst Felske
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Patent number: 10633331Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of a urea product suitable for being diluted with water so as to form an aqueous urea comprising solution for use in a unit for the reduction of NOx in combustion engine exhaust gases, also known as Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) or to be used in De NOx systems of exhaust vapor from industrial furnaces. The process comprises obtaining an aqueous urea solution from or after a recovery section in a urea production process. This solution, which has a low content of impurities, is subjected to flash crystallization at a low pressure, so as to obtain a solid crystallized urea containing product, which is a free-flowing powder containing less than 0.2 wt. % water. This product is packaged under conditions such that the water content in the packaged product is maintained below 0.2 wt. %. The invention can also be used in a method of increasing the capacity of an existing urea plant.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Stamicarbon B.V.Inventor: Johannes Henricus Mennen
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Patent number: 10633332Abstract: Methods for removing oxyanions from water according to the following steps: (i) dissolving an oxyanion precipitating compound into the aqueous source to result in precipitation of an oxyanion salt of the oxyanion precipitating compound; and (ii) removing the oxyanion salt from the water containing the oxyanion to result in water substantially reduced in concentration of the oxyanion; wherein the oxyanion precipitating compound has the following composition: wherein A is a ring-containing moiety and Xm? is an anionic species with a magnitude of charge m. The invention employs bis-iminoguanidinium compounds according to Formula (1a) as well as neutral precursor compounds according to Formula (1), which can be used for removing undesirable species from aqueous solutions or air, such as removal of sulfate from water and carbon dioxide from air.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: UT-BATTELLE, LLCInventors: Radu Custelcean, Charles A. Seipp, Neil J. Williams
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Patent number: 10633333Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein, A is R6(R7)s, N, O, S, or —NR5—; R6 is an s-valent organic group; R7 is each independently, —O—, —S—, —NR5— or —O—P(?O)OR4?—; R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; R4? is each independently, a hydrocarbon group; R5 is each independently, a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group; and s is an integer of 1-10.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Tadashi Kanbara, Tsuyoshi Noguchi, Toshikazu Takata, Hiromitsu Sogawa, Toyokazu Tsutsuba
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Patent number: 10633334Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for synthesizing asymmetrical sulfide compounds and asymmetrical ether compounds from a variety of ether, sulfide, alcohol, and thiol reactants that are contacted in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Conversions of the limiting reactant to the desired asymmetrical sulfide or asymmetrical ether compound generally exceed 50%.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Daniel M. Hasenberg, Kenneth M. Lassen, Jason L. Kreider, Henry Hwu
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Patent number: 10633335Abstract: A compound, which is 1-(1,3-bis(methylthio)propoxy)-3-(methylthio)propan-1-ol, a composition containing the compound, a method for the preparation thereof, a method for preparing 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde by reacting 1-(1,3-bis(methylthio)propoxy)-3-(methylthio)propan-1-ol with acrolein, and also to the use of 1-(1,3-bis(methylthio)propoxy)-3-(methylthio)propan-1-ol or compositions containing the compound for the storage and/or transport of 3-methylthiopropionaldehyde and/or methyl mercaptan.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbHInventors: Judith Hierold, Sascha Ceylan, Stephan Rautenberg, Harald Jakob, Christian Kaiser, Andrea Kopp, Lucas Geist
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Patent number: 10633336Abstract: The present invention relates to novel dopamine D2 receptor ligands. The invention further relates to functionally-biased dopamine D2 receptor ligands and the use of these compounds for treating or preventing central nervous system and systemic disorders associated with dysregulation of dopaminergic activity. The present invention relates to novel compounds that modulate dopamine D2 receptors. In particular, compounds of the present invention show functional selectivity at the dopamine D2 receptors and exhibit selectivity downstream of the D2 receptors, on the 0-arrestin pathway and/or on the cAMP pathway.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Edward Holson, Florence Fevrier Wagner, Michel Weiwer, Edward Scolnick, Michelle Palmer, Luka Dordevic, Michael C. Lewis, Jennifer Q. Pan, Yan-Ling Zhang, Qihong Xu
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Patent number: 10633337Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutical technology, and crystal forms of a 9-aminomethyl substituted tetracycline compound and a process for preparing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to crystal forms of the compound represented by formula (1), a process for preparing crystal forms of the compound represented by formula (1) and use of said crystal forms in manufacture of medicament for treating and/or preventing an infection disease caused by tetracycline-sensitive bacteria and/or tetracycline-resistant bacteria.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: KBP Biosciences Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhenhua Huang, Mei Hong, Chen Jiang
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Patent number: 10633338Abstract: This invention provides compound having a structure of Formulas: Uses of such compounds for treatment of various indications, including prostate cancer as well as methods of treatment involving such compounds are also provide.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYInventors: Paul Rennie, Artem Tcherkassov, Robert N. Young, Christophe M. Andre
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Patent number: 10633339Abstract: There is described a ROR? modulator of the formula (I), or stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or prodrugs thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The compound of the invention may be useful in methods for modulating ROR? activity in a cell and methods for treating a subject suffering from a disease or disorder in which the subject would therapeutically benefit from modulation of ROR? activity, for example, autoimmune and/or inflammatory disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: T. G. Murali Dhar, Zili Xiao, Michael G. Yang