Intellectual Property Office

Patents Issued

Chemistry

1999

  • US 5,866,659 Functionalized Olefin/Para-alkylstyrene
  • US 5,898,062 Poly (Organophazene) Hydrogels
  • US 5,914,388 Synthesis Polyphosphazenes with Controlled Molecular Weight and Polydisperity
  • US 5,936,127 Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis with Chiral Heterocyclic Compounds
  • US 5,965,627 Blends of Polyurethane and Polyphosphazene and Their Use as Flame-Retardant Foamed Compositions
  • US 5,976,434 Method for Preparing Hydrophilic Polypropylene Membrane

2000

  • US 6,015,862 Functionalized a-Olefin/Para-alkylstyrene Terpolymers
  • US 6,025,202 Self-Assembled Metal Colloid Monolayers
  • US 6,037,500 Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis
  • US 6,063,973 Transition and Main Group Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Branched Polymers from Ethylene and a-Olefins
  • US 6,077,916 Biodegradable Mixtures Of Polyphoshazene And Other Polymers
  • US 6,093,758 Phosphorylation Of Phosphazenes
  • US 6,096,849 Linear Copolymers Of Alpha-olefins And Divinylbenzene Having Narrow Molecular Weight And Composition Distributions And Process For Preparing Same
  • US 6,111,041 Palladium (II) Catalyized Polymerization Of Norbornene And Acrylates
  • US 6,114,574 Preparation Of Aromatic Acids
  • US 6,149,868 Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering From Metal Nanoparticle-Analyte-Noble Metal Substrate Sandwiches
  • US 6,150,576 Transition and Main Group Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Branched Polymers from Ethylene and a-Olefins

2001

  • US 6,207,868 Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis
  • US 6,232,257 Main Group and Transition Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Branched Polymers from Ethylene and a-olefins
  • US 6,235,061 Polyorganophsophazene Matrices for Bone Replacement
  • US 6,242,264 Self-Assembled Metal Colloid Monolayers
  • US 6,242,663 Powerful Reductant for Decontamination of Groundwater and Surface Streams
  • US 6,248,837 A New Process of Preparing Polyolefin Diblock Copolymers Involving Borane Chain Transfer Reaction in Transition Metal-Mediated Olefin Polymerization
  • US 6,255,493 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions Based on Chiral Amine Oxazolinyl Ligands
  • US 6,265,493 A Process of Preparing Linear Copolymers of Alpha-Olefins and Divinylbenzene With Narrow Molecular Weight and Composition Distributions
  • US 6,278,024 Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis
  • US 6,284,402 Quaternary Metal Alloys for Use in Fuel Cells
  • US 6,291,387 Main Group Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Polymers from Ethylene and a-olefins
  • US 6,300,440 Copolymerization of Acrylates with Norbornenes
  • US 6,303,717 Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Hyperbranched Hydrocarbon Polymers from Ethylene and a-olefins
  • US 6,303,723 New Radical Initiator for Allylamine Polymerization

2002

  • US 6,355,749 Electrostrictive Polymers BAsed on Semicrystalline Terpolymers Containing Vinglidene Difluroride, Trifluroethylene and Third Manomer
  • US 6,420,502 A New Class of "Living" Free Radical Initiators Based on Alkylperoxydiarylborane Derivatives
  • US 6,432,716 Investigations Into Mechanisms of Molecular Desorption Induced by keV Ion Bombardment of Organic Surfaces
  • US 6,489,416 Main Group Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Polymers from Ethylene and a-olefins
  • US 6,399,787 Conformationally Rigid Chiral Phosphines and Phosphinites for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,344,594 Highly Selective Ethylene Trimerization Using a Chromium-free Catalyst
  • US 6,339,166 Phosphinimine Modification of Organic Polymers
  • US 6,380,392 New Ligands Based on Chiral 2-Amino-2'-hydroxy-1, 1'-binaphthyl and Related Frameworks for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,392,008 Organic-Phosphazene Block Copolymers via Amine, Alcohol, and Phosphine Terminated Polystyrenes
  • US 6,479,600 Polyolefin Containing A Terminal Styrene or Styrene Derivative Unit
  • US 6,380,416 Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis
  • US 6,476,233 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions Based on Chiral Amine Oxazolinyl Ligands
  • US 6,451,727 Transition Metal-Catalyzed Reactions Based on Chiral Amine Oxazolinyl Ligands
  • US 6,414,102 A Process of Preparing Linear Copolymers of Alpha-Olefins and Divinylbenzene With Narrow Molecular Weight and Composition Distributions
  • US 6,423,412 Ferroelectric Relaxor P(VDF-TrFE) Copolymers
  • US 6,337,406 New Chiral Phospholanes for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,482,910 Polynorbornenes with Pendant Cyclotriphosphazenes

2003

  • US 6,593,440 Copolymerization of Acrylates with Norbornenes
  • US 6,579,726 GANS Particles
  • US 6,579,721 GANS Particles
  • US 6,597,194 High Resolution Dopant Profiling Using a Tunable AC Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  • US 6,605,237 Polyphosphazenes as Gel Polymer Electrolytes
  • US 6,515,088 A New Class of "Living" Free Radical Initiators Based on Alkylperoxydiarylborane Derivatives
  • US 6,653,485 3, 3'-Substituted C hiral Biaryl Phosphines and Phosphinites for Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions
  • US 6,518,384 Main Group and Transition Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Novel Branched Polymers from Ethylene and a-olefins
  • US 6,558,546 Use of pH Sensitive Phosphohydrazine Polymers to Create "Plug-Pore" Membranes
  • US 6,521,769 New Chiral Biaryl Phosphines and Tunable Phosphines for Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reactions
  • US 6,576,772 New Chiral Phosphines in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,525,210 Asymmetric Hydrogenation Using Transition Metal Catalysts with Chiral Binaphane Ligands

2004

  • US 6,689,485 Powerful Reductant for Decontamination of Groundwater and Surface Streams
  • US 6,759,157Polyphosphzenes as Proton Conducting Membranes
  • US 6,727,377New Chiral Phospholanes for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,686,428 New Transition Metal Catalyzed Reactions
  • US 6,828,271 Asymmetric Hydrogenation Using Transition Metal Catalysts with Chiral Binaphane Ligands
  • US 6,797,341 Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition of Magnesium Diboride and Other Boride Thin Films
  • US 6,835,534Chemical Functionaliztion Nanolithography
  • US 6,730,284 Method and Apparatus for Increased Yield of Carbon Fibers and Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Chemical Vapor Deposition

2005

  • US 6,855,657 3, 3'-Substituted C hiral Biaryl Phosphines and Phosphinites for Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions
  • US 6,946,569 New Chiral Phospholanes for Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,929,915 Methods for Nucleic Acid Manipulation
  • US 6,913,849 Method of Screening Compositions for Electrocatalytic Activity in a Gas Diffusion Electrode
  • US 6,969,694 New Chiral Phosphines in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Catalysis
  • US 6,869,583 Purification of Carbon Filaments Produced by Different Catalytic Methods and Use for Hydrogen Storage
  • US 6,890,506 Method for Controlling the Diameter of Carbon Nanotube

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