Patents Issued in May 14, 2024
  • Patent number: 11981589
    Abstract: A device for sludge treatment comprises a supporting frame of an external casing defining a treatment chamber provided with one inlet opening of the sludge to be treated; one discharge opening of the treated sludge; at least one auger element housed within the treatment chamber, and adapted to move the sludge to be treated along a direction of advancement; and filtration means located internally to the treatment chamber and surrounding the auger element; at least one anodic element associated with the auger element, and application means for applying a potential difference between the anodic element and the filtration means, generating an electric field adapted to interact with the sludge to be treated to produce an electro-osmotic process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: X2 SOLUTIONS S.R.L, POLITECNICO DI MILANO
    Inventors: Vittorio Bosi, Emanuele De Risio, Roberto Canziani, Gonzalo Garcìa Fuentes, Simone Visigalli, Giuseppe Di Florio
  • Patent number: 11981590
    Abstract: A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KLEANTU LLC
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Ron Keffer, Robert Horger, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Peter Goodale, Richard Donahue
  • Patent number: 11981591
    Abstract: Water treatment structures may have at least a first geotextile fabric layer; a second geotextile fabric layer; a third geotextile fabric layer; a first filler layer with plastic particles, arranged between the first and second geotextile fabric layers; and a second filler layer with plastic particles, arranged between the second and third geotextile fabric layers, wherein the geotextile fabric layers and the filler layers are within a housing, and wherein the structure is configured such that contaminated water proceeds sequentially through the first geotextile fabric layer, the first filler layer, the second geotextile fabric layer, the second filler layer, and the third geotextile fabric layer. Methods of treating wastewater may involve passing wastewater, after optional oxygenating and pre-filtering, through such alternating layers of geotextile, preferably nonwoven, and polymer particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Cevat Yaman, Omer Aga
  • Patent number: 11981592
    Abstract: A biological nitrogen removal method based on multistage feeding and anoxic/aerobic chambers for adopting a constant flow operation mode, enabling wastewater subjected to primary treatment to enter a first-stage and a second-stage A/O reaction units from two position points; lifting and refluxing an effluent to an influent end of the first-stage units; lifting and refluxing an effluent to an influent end of the second-stage units; and clarifying, separating and discharging an effluent from an outlet end of a third-stage A/O reaction unit. The wastewater treatment mode combines a process based on two-stage wastewater feeding and three-stage anoxic/aerobic chambers with biofilms in different reaction zones, =optimizing and controlling a reflux ratio of each segment according to an amount of organic matters available for denitrification in influent, reducing the impact of hydraulic loading at the cross section in the reactors while removing organic matters and nitrogen-containing pollutants at a low temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xuejun Bi, Xiaolin Zhou, Peng Song, Xiaodong Wang
  • Patent number: 11981593
    Abstract: A glass tube, such as a glass tube for the production of containers for storage of pharmaceutical compositions, facilitates production of pharmaceutical containers with high quality. The glass tube has a relative cross-sectional area deviation defined as QF max - QF min 1.5 ? ? m . QF max - QF min 1.5 ? ? m is less than k*x+t. QFmax is the highest cross-sectional area and QFmin is the lowest cross-sectional area of at least two cross-sections of the glass tube, the cross-sections being spaced apart from each other along a length of the glass tube, and k is 0.0023 m?1, t is less than 0.15 mm2/m and x is QF max + QF min 2 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Lenz, Andreas Langsdorf, Fabian Etzold, Christoph Gross, Ulrich Lange, Markus Ollig, Arne Riecke, Wolfgang Wallat
  • Patent number: 11981594
    Abstract: A method for preparing quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity, includes providing silica powders including hydroxyl groups. The silica powders are dehydroxylated, which includes drying the silica powders at a first temperature, heating the silica powders up to a second temperature and introducing a first oxidizing gas including halogen gas, thereby obtaining first dehydroxylated powders, and heating the first dehydroxylated powders up to a third temperature and introducing a second oxidizing gas including oxygen or ozone, thereby obtaining second dehydroxylated powders. The second dehydroxylated powders are heated up to a fourth temperature to obtain a vitrified body. The vitrified body is cooled to obtain the quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity. The quartz glass prepared by the above method has low content of hydroxyl and high purity. A quartz glass with low content of hydroxyl and high purity is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: ZHONGTIAN TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD., JIANGSU ZHONGTIAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Ming Tang, Meng-Fei Wang, Yi-Gang Qian, Jun-Yi Ma, Xian-Gen Zhang, Yi-Chun Shen, Ya-Li Chen
  • Patent number: 11981595
    Abstract: This burner for producing a fine glass particle deposited body is provided with a metallic gas-feed pipe that forms a burner body, and a cover for covering the gas-feed pipe, wherein: the gas-feed pipe and the cover are integrally formed; the gas-feed pipe has connected thereto a piping through which material gas, oxyhydrogen gas, and seal gas are supplied; and the cover covers, in the axial direction of the burner over a prescribed length and in a given constant outer diameter, the gas-feed pipe and a connection part of the piping connected to a lateral surface of the gas-feed pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomomi Moriya
  • Patent number: 11981596
    Abstract: A fiber draw furnace includes a heated section configured to contain and heat a glass source from which an optical fiber is drawn. A lower extended muffle having a first end and a second end. A gas screen is coupled to the second end of the lower extended muffle configured to allow a gas to flow into the lower extended muffle. A reclaim cylinder is coupled to the lower extended muffle including an outer housing defining a reclaim chamber. A plurality of reclaim ports are tangentially coupled to the outer housing and an inner housing is positioned within the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Yunfei Shao, Xiaoyong Wang, Chunfeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11981597
    Abstract: A display module includes a display panel and a window. The window includes a base substrate and a plurality of functional layers. A central portion of the base substrate is flat, and an edge portion of the base substrate has a rounded shape. An upper portion of the edge portion of the window has the rounded shape and thus protrudes from a lower portion of the edge portion toward the outside. A first functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes an acrylic-based material and/or an epoxy-based material, and a second functional layer of the plurality of functional layers includes a fluorine-based material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunseung Seo, Jonghwan Cho, Yongkyu Kang, Jihyun Ko, Ho Yun Byun
  • Patent number: 11981598
    Abstract: An article is described herein that includes: a glass-based substrate comprising opposing major surfaces; a crack mitigating composite over one of the major surfaces, the composite comprising an inorganic element and a polymeric element; and a hard film disposed on the crack mitigating composite comprising an elastic modulus greater than or equal to the elastic modulus of the glass-based substrate. The crack mitigating composite is characterized by an elastic modulus of greater than 30 GPa. Further, the hard film comprises at least one of a metal-containing oxide, a metal-containing oxynitride, a metal-containing nitride, a metal-containing carbide, a silicon-containing polymer, a carbon, a semiconductor, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Shandon Dee Hart, Jenny Kim, Karl William Koch, III, James Joseph Price, Hannah Shenouda
  • Patent number: 11981599
    Abstract: Herein is described a process for drying wet glass fibre forming packages, the process comprising: providing a wet glass fibre forming package comprising a strand of glass fibres with an aqueous sizing applied to the glass fibres; and subjecting the wet glass fibre forming package to microwave radiation having a frequency in the range of about 750 to about 1050 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Etienne Roux, Philippe Boissonnat
  • Patent number: 11981600
    Abstract: Embodiments of alkali aluminosilicate glass articles that may be chemically strengthened to achieve a maximum surface compressive stress that exceeds compressive stresses that have been achieved in similar glasses are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the fictive temperature of these glass articles may be equal to the 1011 poise (P) viscosity temperature of the glass article. In some embodiments, the strengthened alkali aluminosilicate glass articles described herein may exhibit a maximum compressive stress of at least about 400 MPa, 800 MPa, 930 MPa or 1050 MPa. In some embodiments, the strengthened alkali aluminosilicate glass articles described herein may exhibit a compressive stress layer extending to a depth of layer of at least about 40 ?m (in samples having a thickness of 1 mm). In still other embodiments, these strengthened alkali aluminosilicate glass articles exhibit a parabolic or near-parabolic tensile stress profile in the central region of the glass articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventor: Timothy Michael Gross
  • Patent number: 11981601
    Abstract: A composition of matter may include a cement precursor, a phosphazene oligomer and water. A method may include blending a phosphazene oligomer and a cement precursor to form a cement precursor mixture. The method may then include introducing water into the cement precursor mixture to form the cement slurry. A composition of matter may include a cured cement matrix having a polyphosphazene polymer distributed throughout the cement matrix. A method may include cementing a wellbore by introducing a cement slurry into a wellbore, where the cement slurry includes a phosphazene oligomer. The method then includes maintaining the cement slurry such that a cured cement sheath forms, the cement sheath having a polyphosphazene polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Hasmukh A. Patel
  • Patent number: 11981602
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-toughness geopolymer grouting material modified by ultra-high molecular weight fibers and emulsified asphalt, and a preparation method and application thereof, wherein the grouting material comprises the following components in parts by mass: 4-12 parts of emulsified asphalt, 80-100 parts of a geopolymer, 103-126 parts of an alkali-activated solution, 2-3 parts of ultra-high molecular weight fibers and 30-35 parts of water. Compared to the prior art, the grouting material modified by ultra-high molecular weight fibers and emulsified asphalt is simple to prepare, has good fluiditygood, and matches well with road substrate; the good toughness and crack control capability of the ultra-high molecular weight fibers enables this novel grouting material to overcome the problem in durability of common geopolymer-based materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xingyi Zhu, Yafeng Pang, Yuchuan Du
  • Patent number: 11981603
    Abstract: Printable cementitious compositions for additive manufacturing are provided, that have a fresh state and a hardened state. In fresh state, the composition is flowable and extrudable in the additive manufacturing process. In the hardened state, the composition exhibits strain hardening. In one variation, the strain hardening is represented by a uniaxial tensile strength of ?about 2.5 MPa, a tensile strain capacity of ?about 1%, and a compressive strength at 100 hours of ?about 20 MPa. In other variations, the composition includes Portland cement, a calcium aluminate cement, a fine aggregate, water, a high range water reducing agent (HRWRA), and a polymeric fiber, as well as one or more optional components selected from: fly ash, silica flour, microsilica, attapulgite nanoclay, and/or hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose (HPMC). Methods of additive manufacturing with such compositions are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Daniel G. Soltan, Victor C. Li
  • Patent number: 11981604
    Abstract: A concrete crack repair material based on nano materials includes raw materials as follows: seaweed, sulphoaluminate cement, natural sand, nano-silica fume, calcium formate, fly ash, anhydrous calcium sulphoaluminate, a polyester fiber, a water reducing agent, a corrosion inhibitor and water. By reasonably selecting the raw materials of the concrete crack repair material and making a reasonable ratio of the raw materials, the concrete crack repair material is obtained with excellent performance such as good compressive strength, bending strength and bond strength, and excellent impermeability and frost resistance. The concrete crack repair material can be used for the concrete crack repair in the marine environment, which has very important application values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NingboTech University
    Inventors: Chonggen Pan, Yu Hu, Shiyang Qu, Jiawei Zang
  • Patent number: 11981605
    Abstract: A composition including: a first component A, includes: between 68 and 99.9 wt.-% of an aqueous dispersion of at least one polymer, the aqueous dispersion including the polymer with an amount of between 20 and 90 wt.-%; between 0 and 2 wt.-% of a nonionic or ionic dispersing agent; a second component B, includes: between 10 and 30 wt.-% of a nonionic, non-aqueous liquid carrier, between 0 and 20 wt.-% of calcium sulfate, between 10 and 89.9 wt.-% of at least one hydraulic binder, between 0 and 10 wt.-% of a thixotropy agent; wherein both components A and B are prepared and stored separately and mixed directly before application; and with the proviso that the first component A furthermore includes: between 0.1 and 15 wt.-% of a monovalent metal salt, and the second component B furthermore comprises: between 0.1 and 25 wt.-% of a polyamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Ukiwo Onuoha, Steffen Maier, Oscar Larsson
  • Patent number: 11981606
    Abstract: A cement-reduced construction composition comprises a) a cementitious binder comprising one or more calcium silicate mineral phases and one or more calcium aluminate mineral phases, and having a Blaine surface area of at least 3800 cm2/g; b) a fine material having a Dv90 of less than 200 ?m, selected from alkali-activatable binders, rock powders and inorganic pigments, or mixtures thereof; c) optionally, an extraneous aluminate source; d) a sulfate source; and e) a polyol. The composition contains a controlled amount of available aluminate, calculated as Al(OH)4?, from the calcium aluminate mineral phases plus the optional extraneous aluminate source; and the molar ratio of total available aluminate to sulfate is 0.4 to 2.0. The construction composition further comprises f) an ettringite formation controller and g) a co-retarder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Construction Research & Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Massimo Bandiera, Peter Schwesig, Bernhard Sachsenhauser
  • Patent number: 11981607
    Abstract: A chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) method for densifying at least one porous component includes placing the at least one porous component inside a crucible, bringing temperature inside the crucible to a value adapted to densify the porous component to transform it into a densified component, bringing pressure inside the crucible between 0.1 KPa and 25 KPa, once operational temperature and pressure are reached, flowing gas inside the crucible, gas being suitable for densifying the porous component to transform it into a densified component, and keeping an oxidizing environment outside the crucible, the external environment lapping against the crucible. The crucible is provided of at least one material having thermal conductivity greater than 30 W/mK from room temperature to at least 1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PETROCERAMICS S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Vavassori, Massimiliano Valle
  • Patent number: 11981608
    Abstract: Luminescent concrete compositions containing cement, fine aggregates such as sand, and a phosphor such as strontium aluminate. Glow-in-the-dark concrete products made therefrom and methods of producing such concrete products are also specified. The glow-in-the-dark concrete products demonstrate good mechanical strength (e.g. compressive strength) and skid resistance. The addition of phosphorescent strontium aluminate provides luminance that persists for up to 10 hours to the concrete products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventors: Muhammad Saleem, Nawaf Isam Ahmed Blaisi
  • Patent number: 11981609
    Abstract: The invention relates to a raw material for producing a refractory product, a use of this raw material, and a refractory product comprising a raw material of this kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Refractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Muehlhaeusser, Raghunath Prasad Rana, Gerald Reif, Milos Blajs
  • Patent number: 11981610
    Abstract: A method for preparing a flowable liquid fertilizer, the method comprising the steps of providing a solution of potassium calcium polyphosphate; and introducing a water-soluble calcium salt to the aqueous solution of tetrapotassium pyrophosphate to form the flowable liquid fertilizer in the form of an aqueous dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Liquid Fertiliser Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Ugesh Chand
  • Patent number: 11981611
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions and methods of making a liquid fertilizer additive of biodegradable polymeric and/or oligomeric nitrification inhibitors comprised of utilizing a non-aqueous polar, aprotic organo liquid (NAPAOL) as the reaction medium for the reaction of aldehyde(s) with cyano-containing nitrification inhibitors that have one or more aldehyde reactive groups selected from the group consisting of a) primary amines, b) secondary amines, c) amides, d) thiols, e) hydroxyls and f) phenols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SOILGENIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gary David McKnight, Randall Linwood Rayborn
  • Patent number: 11981612
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for optimizing a particle size of controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer oxamide particles for single basal fertilization, which comprises the following steps: measuring a pH value of the soil in a region; measuring an organic matter content OM of the soil, with a unit of g·kg?1; measuring a total nitrogen content TN of the soil, with a unit of g·kg?1; collecting an average temperature T at a 10 cm depth of the soil in a rice growing season in the region, with a unit of ° C.; and for a rice variety with a growth duration of D, with a unit of day, calculating a diameter of controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer oxamide particles for single basal fertilization that matches a nitrogen requirement in the rice growth duration by using a formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SOIL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xun Li, Zengqiang Duan, Chunwu Zhu
  • Patent number: 11981613
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for hydrogen isotope exchange of organic molecules that can be carried out with no alteration in the chemical structure of the organic molecules. Methods can be utilized to incorporate a particular hydrogen isotope on an organic molecule (e.g., deuteration or tritiation) or to remove a particular hydrogen isotope from an organic molecule (e.g., detritiation).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: George K. Larsen, III, Tyler C. Guin, Joseph E. Meany, Jay B. Gaillard, Mark C. Elvington
  • Patent number: 11981614
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon is produced by applying mechanical energy to a metal body containing stainless steel by solid-solid contact so that a contact pressure per unit area is 30 kPa or more, in the presence of a gas containing carbon dioxide and a hydrogen source, thereby adding hydrogen to carbon dioxide. Further, a hydrocarbon is produced by providing a reaction vessel for applying mechanical energy to a metal body by solid-solid contact in the presence of a gas containing carbon dioxide and a hydrogen source, a gas introduction unit for introducing the gas containing carbon dioxide to the reaction vessel, a hydrogen source introduction unit for introducing the hydrogen source to the reaction vessel, and a gas discharge unit for discharging a gas containing the hydrocarbon produced in the reaction vessel, and adding hydrogen to the carbon dioxide in the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miki Itoh, Hironao Sajiki, Yoshinari Sawama, Miki Niikawa, Kwihwan Park
  • Patent number: 11981615
    Abstract: A method for chemically reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) with a red mud catalyst composition is provided includes introducing a gaseous mixture of CO2 and H2 into a reactor containing particles of the red mud catalyst composition. The method further includes reacting at least a portion of the CO2 and H2 in the gaseous mixture in the presence of the red mud catalyst composition at a temperature of 200 to 800° C., and under a pressure ranging from 5 to 100 bar to form a gaseous product including a chemical reduction product of the CO2. A volume ratio of the CO2 to the H2 in the gaseous mixture is in a range of 1:10 to 10:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Aniz Chennampilly Ummer, Galal Atef Ahmed Nasser, Syed Ahmed Ali, Mohammed Ahmed Yahya Sanhoob, Akolade Idris Bakare
  • Patent number: 11981616
    Abstract: A method for preparing 3,3?-diaminobenzidine, the method comprising the following steps: subjecting 4,4?-biphenol and N,N-dimethylsulfamoyl chloride to an esterification reaction in a specified solvent at 40-70° C. to obtain 4,4?-biphenyl bis(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonate) as a first intermediate; subjecting the 4,4?-biphenyl bis(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonate) to a chlorination reaction with a chlorinating reagent under acidic conditions to obtain 3,3?-dichloro-4,4?-biphenyl bis(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonate) as a second intermediate; subjecting the second intermediate 3,3?-dichloro-4,4?-biphenyl bis(N,N-dimethylaminosulfonate) to an ammonolysis reaction with anammoniation reagent in the presence of a combined catalyst to obtain a crude product of 3,3?,4,4?-tetraaminobiphenyl, wherein the combined catalyst is a mixture of proline, a cuprous salt and a phase transfer catalyst; and subjecting the crude product of 3,3?,4,4?-tetraaminobiphenyl to a post-treatment to obtain a purified 3,3?,4,4?-tetraaminobiphenyl product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: Hubei Huida High-Tech Co., Ltd, Borun High-Tech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Ling, Yongfang Li, Kun Wang, Lizhu Chen, Wei Yin, Jinying Zhang
  • Patent number: 11981617
    Abstract: Provided are pamoate salts of ketamine having a stoichiometry of 2:1 of ketamine to pamoate, including R, S-ketamine pamoate, S-ketamine pamoate, or R-ketamine pamoate, and crystalline or amorphous forms of the pamoate salts, and having excellent safety and properties for pharmaceutical applications. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the pamoate salts of ketamine and their uses in treating a CNS disease or serving as an anesthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Alar Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Tong-Ho Lin, Yung-Shun Wen, Chia-Hsien Chen, Wei-Ju Chang
  • Patent number: 11981618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel p62 ligand compound, a stereoisomer, hydrate, solvate or prodrug thereof, and a pharmaceutical or food composition for preventing or treating proteinopathies comprising the same as an active ingredient. The p62 ligand compound according to the present invention can be usefully used as a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention, amelioration or treatment of various proteinopathies by activating autophagy in cells and thus selectively eliminating in vivo proteins, organelles and aggregates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOTAC INC.
    Inventors: Yong Tae Kwon, Chang Hoon Ji, Srinivasrao Ganipisetti, Hee Yeon Kim, Su Ran Mun, Chan Hoon Jung, Eui Jung Jung, Ki Woon Sung
  • Patent number: 11981619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to alkoxylated esteramines of Formula (I) and salts thereof. Esteramines according to the present invention may be used in cleaning composition, for example in liquid laundry detergents. They lead to improved cleaning performance of said compositions, for example when used in cold water washing conditions. They surprisingly boost grease cleaning performance of liquid laundry detergents, especially under cold water washing conditions. Whiteness is also improved. The esteramine according to the present invention show improved compatibility in liquid laundry detergent formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bjoern Ludolph, Sophia Ebert, Christian Bittner
  • Patent number: 11981620
    Abstract: A new synthetic route to 4,4?-diiodoazobenzene compound using homooxidative cross-coupling of an aryl diazonium salt using a Cu-catalyzed Sandmeyer-style reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Obadah Subhi Abdel-Rahman
  • Patent number: 11981621
    Abstract: A method for operating a plant for synthesizing methanol, wherein a synthesis gas flow having hydrogen and carbon oxides is supplied to a synthesis gas compressor of the plant to increase the pressure of the synthesis gas flow. The pressure-increased synthesis gas flow is supplied to a methanol reactor arrangement of the plant for partial conversion to methanol. The plant has a hydrogen recovery arrangement which obtains an H-recycling flow including hydrogen from a recovery flow supplied from the methanol reactor arrangement, which hydrogen is converted at least in part to methanol. Upon failure of the synthesis gas compressor, the synthesis gas flow continues to be supplied to the methanol reactor arrangement for partial conversion to methanol. Following failure of the synthesis gas compressor, a line arrangement of the plant is switched such that the H-recycling flow is adjusted to compensate for a pressure loss in the methanol reactor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignees: GASCONTEC GMBH, THYSSENKRUPP UHDE GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Schulz
  • Patent number: 11981622
    Abstract: A method and catalyst for producing an alcohol, which method includes supplying water and a C2-C5 olefin to a reactor and performing hydration in a gas phase using a solid acid catalyst. The solid acid catalyst is one in which a heteropolyacid or a salt thereof is supported on a silica carrier. The silica carrier is obtained by kneading a fumed silica obtained by a combustion method, a silica gel obtained by a gel method, and a colloidal silica obtained by a sol-gel method or a water glass method; molding the resulting kneaded product; and calcining the resulting molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Oguchi, Gen Inoue, Toshihiro Kimura, Masafumi Koyano, Takuya Kuzutani
  • Patent number: 11981623
    Abstract: Methods for utilizing carbon dioxide to produce multi-carbon products are disclosed. The systems and methods of the present disclosure involve: reducing CO2 to produce a first product mixture comprising an alcohol product mixture comprising one or more alcohols and a paraffin product mixture comprising one or more paraffins; dehydrating the alcohol product mixture to form an olefin product mixture comprising one or more olefins; oligomerizing the olefin product mixture to form a higher olefin product mixture comprising unsaturated paraffins and optionally aromatics; and reducing the higher olefin product mixture to form a higher hydrocarbon product mixture comprising unsaturated paraffins and optionally aromatics. Catalyst materials and reaction conditions for individual steps are disclosed to optimize yield for ethanol or jet fuel range hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Air Company Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stafford W. Sheehan, Chi Chen, Nicholas J. Steinke
  • Patent number: 11981624
    Abstract: The present disclosure encompasses crystalline polymorphs of Rigosertib Sodium, processes for preparation thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventors: Pavel Kolesa, Roman Gabriel, Alexandr Jegorov
  • Patent number: 11981625
    Abstract: Disclosed are sulfide-based compounds which are a product of a Michael addition reaction between a sulfur-containing donor group and an unsaturated hydrocarbon moiety. The sulfide-based compounds may be used in compositions and methods for inhibiting corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Moloney, Ashish Dhawan, Carter Silvernail
  • Patent number: 11981626
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a donor compound that releases COS and/or CS2, which can be converted to H2S. The donor compound embodiments described herein can be used to deliver H2S to a subject or a sample and further can be used to administer therapeutic agents. Methods of making and using the donor compound embodiments also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: University of Oregon
    Inventors: Michael D. Pluth, Yu Zhao
  • Patent number: 11981627
    Abstract: Novel organoselenium selective ligands are presented and designed to determine metal ions in a sample. These ligands are used as complexing agents in a dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure of copper and zinc ions. The procedure has a shortened extraction time, minimal organic solvent types, and lower amounts of solvents, as well as easy operation and high enrichment efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hany Mohamed Abd El-Lateef Ahmed, Saadeldin Elsayed Ibrahim Shabaan, Mai Mustafa Khalaf Ali, Mohamed Gouda, Wael I. Mortada
  • Patent number: 11981628
    Abstract: Use of a method for reduction of heavy end formation and catalyst loss in a hydroformylation process, wherein the method comprises the steps; a) Reacting an olefin and syngas in a reactor assembly (1) utilizing at least one catalyst and at least one ligand, b) Separating an obtained aldehyde from a mixture of aldehyde, catalyst, ligand and early heavy ends in a distillation unit (2), c) Entering the mixture of catalyst, ligand, early heavy ends and rest aldehyde into a short residence time evaporator unit (3) having at least a first rest aldehyde stripper stage (3a) and at least one last early heavy ends stripper stage (3b). Said evaporator units (3) being of a falling film and/or wiped film type, d) That the catalyst/ligand mixture from a lower end (3b1) of the at least one last early heavy ends stripping stage (3b) is entered into a cooling unit (4) immediately after stripping of early heavy ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PERSTORP AB
    Inventors: Matias Kangas, Stefan Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11981629
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for reducing heavy end formation and catalyst loss in a continuous hydroformylation process, where an olefin or an olefin mixture is reacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a reactor assembly (1) in the presence of a rhodium complex catalyst, comprising at least one organobisphosphite ligand, in order to produce an aldehyde. Said method comprising the addition of an epoxide to the reaction mixture and the continuous or discontinuous removal of early heavy ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PERSTORP AB
    Inventors: Matias Kangas, Stefan Nilsson
  • Patent number: 11981630
    Abstract: Disclosed are an abietane type diterpene compound, a preparation method and an application thereof, relating to the technical field of anti-tumor compounds, where the compound has a chemical structure as shown in the following formula I: Leucosceptrum canum is extracted to prepare the abietane type diterpene compound according to the present application, and the prepared compound is effectively applied in inhibiting human lung cancer cell A549 and human myeloid leukemia cell HL-60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Mingfeng Xu, Xiaohong Deng, Jinfeng Liang, Yidi Chen, Jing Ren, Qin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11981631
    Abstract: Disclosed are processes for converting an alkyne to an olefin comprising feeding a molecular-oxygen-containing gas stream into a converting zone of an alkyne converter along with an alkyn-containing feed mixture comprising hydrocarbons and molecular hydrogen to contact the converting catalyst. The converting catalyst can be regenerated online as a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Mark D. Thompson, David R. Slim, Grant H. Schumacher, Mark A. Nierode, May-Ru Chen, David B. Looney, Keng-Fai Kuan, Mary M. Rethwisch
  • Patent number: 11981632
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing hydrogen, carbon, and ethylene from a methane-containing feedstock even without recycling of unreacted methane by providing a single process or system in which a methane-containing feedstock is subjected to two methane conversion steps. The method includes a first conversion step of producing hydrogen and carbonaceous materials and a second conversion step of producing acetylene from unreacted methane and hydrogen discharged from the first conversion step while maintaining a good methane conversion and suppressing coke formation, followed by separating and recovering ethylene and hydrogen produced through selective hydrogenation of acetylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Min Yun, Hee Soo Kim, Ji Hoon Lee, Jung Geun Jang, Dae Hyun Choo
  • Patent number: 11981633
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for upgrading a bio-based material, the method including pretreating bio-renewable oil(s) and/or fat(s) to provide a bio-renewable raw material, deoxygenating the bio-renewable raw material, followed by separation, to provide a propane feed, and subjecting the propane feed to dehydrogenation and to separation to provide a propylene material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NESTE OYJ
    Inventors: Antti Ojala, Risto Vapola, Anna Karvo, Rogier Van De Velde
  • Patent number: 11981634
    Abstract: A process for preparing a compound of formula (I) HR1R2C—CF2—(C?O)—Y starting with a compound of formula (II) R1R2C?CX—(C?O)—Y or of formula (III) HR1R2C—CX1X2—(C?O)—Y placed in contact with hydrofluoric acid; R1 and R2 being independently selected from H, F, Cl, Br, I, C1-C20-alkyl, C6-C20-aryl and C2-C20-alkenyl, C3-C20-cycloalkenyl and C3-C20-cycloalkyl; X1 and X2 being independently selected from F, Cl, Br and I on condition that X1 and X2 are not simultaneously F; Y being selected from the group of H, C1-C20-alkyl, C1-C20-haloalkyl, C6-C20-aryl, —OH, —OR, —NH2, —NHR, —NR2, —SR, C3-C20-cycloalkyl, C3-C20-cycloalkenyl and C2-C20-alkenyl; R being independently selected from the group of C1-C20-alkyl, C6-C20-aryl and C2-C20-alkenyl, C3-C20-cycloalkenyl and C3-C20-cycloalkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCE
    Inventor: Laurent Wendlinger
  • Patent number: 11981635
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop to reduce an amount of liquid hydrocarbons exposed by the separator to the regeneration stream over one or more durations for which an average C5+ hydrocarbon content of the regeneration stream is reduced or minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Tobias Eckardt, Justin Pan, Manish Mehta
  • Patent number: 11981636
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel compounds of Formula I wherein each of Ra, Rb, Rd and Re is independently H; Rc is selected from the group consisting of H, hydroxyl, halo, alkyl, alkoxy, CF3, SO2CH3, and morpholino, R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl, or —CH?C(CH3)2; and R2 is specific substituted cyclic amino groups. The invention also discloses pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treating neurogenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: COGNITION THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Gilbert M. Rishton, Gary C. Look, Susan M. Catalano
  • Patent number: 11981637
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to (2-{4-[(2,2-dimethylpropanoyl)oxy]-1H-indol-3-yl}ethyl)(methyl)azanium chloride (4-pivaloyloxy-N-methyltryptammonium chloride), crystalline 4-pivaloyloxy-N-methyltryptammonium chloride, and specific crystalline forms thereof, including crystalline form 1 of 4-pivaloyloxy-N-methyltryptammonium chloride, to compositions containing the same, and to methods of treatment using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CAAMTECH, INC.
    Inventor: Andrew R. Chadeayne
  • Patent number: 11981638
    Abstract: Disclosed are a phenyl amino sodium propionate derivative, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. Specifically, disclosed are sodium 3-(4-(2-(9H-carbazole-9-yl)ethoxy)phenyl)-2-((2-(4-(4-(2-sodium forrnate-2-((2-(4-fluorobenzoyl)phenyl)amino)ethyl)phenoxy)benzoyl)phenyl)amino)propionate, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof for quality control of a bulk drug or formulation of Chiglitazar or a derivative thereof. Particularly, the compound can be used as a control substance or standard substance for the detection of impurities/related substances in Chiglitazar or a sodium salt drug thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHIPSCREEN BIOSCIENCES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xianping Lu, Zhibin Li, Xianghui Wang, Weijun Gao, Xingyu Deng