...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7276463 | Polymerization catalyst for α-olefins and process for production of α-olefin polymers therewith A catalyst having a high catalyst activity, which enables the production of an α-olefin polymer improved in stereoregularity by decreasing an amorphous component, and a production method for the α-olefin polymer, are developed. Described are a catalyst for polymer... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7238749 | Two-component mortar composition and its use A two-component mortar composition is described with a curable resin component containing at least one free radical-polymerizable resin, fillers, reactive diluents, solvents, accelerators and/or further conventional mortar components and, separated therefrom to inhi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7078362 | Carbene donor-modified Ziegler-Natta catalysts A modified Ziegler-Natta catalyst system comprising a titanium or vanadium compound, a magnesium compound, a carbene donor, and an aluminum compound is disclosed. The invention includes a process which comprises polymerizing an alpha-olefin in the presence of the ca... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7022763 | Branched olefin copolymer, process for producing the same, and use thereof A branched olefin copolymer demonstrating excellent performance in various uses, comprising a building block (A) represented by formula (1) below and a building block (B) represented by formula (2) below, obtained by e.g. a method which involves sequentially conduct... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7001667 | Alkyd-based free radical wood coating compositions Coating compositions comprising a polymer and an initiator are disclosed. The polymer comprises an alkyd, portion and a free radical curable portion that is pendant from the alkyd portion; the alkyd portion includes one or more fatty acid moieties that can be derive... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6753378 | Branched polyolefin, process for preparing the same, and thermoplastic resin composition containing branched polyolefin The present invention is intended to provide a branched polyolefin having various excellent properties, a process for preparing the branched polyolefin and a thermoplastic resin composition containing the branched polyolefin. This branched polyolefin comprises an ol... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6652916 | Coating material comprising a mixture that consists of at least one wetting agent and of ureas and/or urea derivatives serving as thixotropic agents The invention relates to a coating material containing a binding agent and a cross-linking agent as well as a thixotropic agent based on ureas and/or ureas derivatives, whereby the coating material additionally contains a wetting agent that improves the w... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6512046 | Polymerizable unsaturated polyester resin composition A practical polymerizable unsaturated polyester resin composition is provided, wherein a polyester skeleton derived from collected PET is introduced, for effective utilization of waste PET such as a PET bottle which has recently been considered a large ob... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6333370 | Binder for coating composition A binder for a coating composition is obtainable as the reaction product of a carboxyl-terminated fatty acid ester with an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid ester. The carboxylic fatty acid ester is... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6133357 | Mixtures of thermosets and oxidized polyarylene sulfides Polymer mixtures comprising at least one thermoset and at least one oxidized polyarylene sulfide have particularly good tribological behavior. Oxidized polyarylene sulfides used in these mixtures are polyarylene sulfones or oxidized polyarylene sulfides i... | 10/17/2000 |
| 5688859 | Aqueous binders and their use in aqueous coating compositions The present invention relates to a process for preparing aqueous binders for aqueous coating compositions by reacting a mixture of A) 9.9 to 85 wt. % of a hydroxy- and acid-functional poly(meth)acrylate and B) 14.9 to 90 wt. % of a hydroxy-functional, fatty acid-mo... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5663242 | End-attachment of oligonucleotides to polyacrylamide solid supports for capture and detection of nucleic acids Methods for covalent attachment of oligonucleotides to solid supports such that substantially all of the oligonucleotides are attached via their 5'-ends are provided. The solid supports with attached oligonucleotides are produced. Thiol-oligonucleotides a... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5491192 | Non-aqueous dispersion for alkyd formulation A non-aqueous dispersion for modifying alkyd-containing coating formulations and a method for manufacturing the non-aqueous dispersion are provided. The non-aqueous dispersion contains from about 10 to about 60 parts by weight of a low molecular weight so... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5102925 | Air-drying paint An air-drying paint composition comprising (a) internally cross-linked polymer microparticles produced by emulsion polymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers including at least one cross-linking monomer, (b) a film-forming resin selected from the gro... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5047467 | Process for producing grafted alkyd resin A process for producing a grafted alkyd resin, which comprises graft-copolymerizing an alkyd resin with 0.01 to 5.0% by weight of at least one vinyl monomer selected from the group consisting of nitrogen-containing vinyl monomers and phosphorus-containing... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5026770 | Resin composition and process for preparing this resin composition The invention relates to a resin composition comprising a mixture of resins, a first resin of which consists of the reaction product of an epoxidized fatty acid ester of a polyvalent alcohol with a carboxylic acid and a second resin consists of an ester o... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4973624 | Coating resin composition A resin composition for coating comprising (A) a polyester-modified vinyl copolymer obtained by copolymerization of (a) a polyester resin having 5 to 60% by weight of oil or fatty acid component with special physical limitations, (b) a polymerizable unsat... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4806603 | Polyester resin compositions which can be hardened with little shrinkage Polyester-based mouldings which have been hardened with little shrinkage, do not stick in the mould and therefore can be released from the mould without damage are accessible via moulding compositions containing an unsaturated polyester of defined acid nu... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4624869 | Alkyd resin cure modifiers In high solids alkyd resin coatings the blend of 10 to 50 weight percent of unsaturated polyester or unsaturated polyester urethane cure modifiers improves the cure, hardness, gloss and film properties of alkyd and acrylic resins adapted to cure by oxidat... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4609706 | High solids coatings using unsaturated monoisocyanate adducts of alkyd resins High solids alkyd resin coatings are prepared by reacting at least a portion of the available hydroxyl groups on a resin with an ethylenically unsaturated monoisocyanate monomer. The new products, useful both as the major vehicle resin in high solids coat... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4093577 | Photocurable resin compositions A photocurable resin composition comprising a photopolymerizable photosensitizing compound (A) together with or without a photopolymerizable photosensitizing compound (B), the compound (A) being prepared by esterifying with acrylic or methacrylic acid or ... | 06/06/1978 |