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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7935463 | Reusable paper media with compatibility markings and printer with incompatible media sensor A reusable image forming medium, including a substrate; an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, wherein an irradiation of the imaging layer produces an image; and a signature material coated on or impregnated into the substrate or the imaging l... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7875408 | Bleachable materials for lithography Compositions comprising photobleachable organic materials can be bleached by 193 nm light, and brought back to their original state by stimuli after exposure. (reversible photobleaching). We use these compositions in art-known contrast enhancement layers and as a pa... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7736825 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing a resettable or reversible contrast enhancing layer in a multiple exposure system A device manufacturing system and method are used to perform multiple exposures utilizing a resettable or reversible contrast enhancing layer. A radiation sensitive layer is formed on a substrate. A resettable or reversible contrast enhancing layer is formed on the ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7718325 | Photochromic material, inkless reimageable printing paper, and methods An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, where the imaging layer includes as a photochromic material a spiropyran compound having a conjugated pathway, dispersed in a polymeric binder, wherein th... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7709164 | Solvent-less process for producing transient documents An image forming method including (a) providing a reimageable medium comprised of a substrate and a photochromic material, wherein the medium is capable of exhibiting a color contrast and an absence of the color contrast; (b) exposing the medium to an imaging light ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7678515 | Thermally gated photochromic medium The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to image forming mediums useful for reimageable and transient documents. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an image forming medium comprising thermally gated photochromic materials comprising diarylethene ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7666558 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate, and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, wherein the imaging layer includes a photochromic polymer, optionally dispersed in a polymeric binder or a phase change binder, the photochromic polymer i... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7655366 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into a substrate, where the imaging layer is formed of an imaging composition that includes a solvent or a polymeric binder, and a photochromic material selected from substitu... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7582398 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photobase generator and a coupling agent. In the image forming medium, irradiation of the imaging layer cause the photob... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7572560 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate, and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, wherein the imaging layer includes an imaging composition including a photochromic or photochromic-thermochromic material dissolved or dispersed in a sol... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7569316 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate, and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, wherein the imaging layer includes an imaging composition including a photochromic or photochromic-thermochromic material dissolved or dispersed in a sol... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7541119 | Inkless reimageable printing paper and method An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photochromic material dispersed in an ionomer, optionally with an additional polymeric binder, and where the photochrom... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7521159 | Multicolor electronic paper A reimagable medium and a method for “writing” to a reimagable medium are disclosed. The reimagable medium includes a liquid crystal layer, one or more photochromic layers and an electric field generating apparatus. The electric field generating apparatus suppli... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7485397 | Reusable printing plate, printing press and printing unit having the printing plate, process for imaging the printing plate and process for preparation of a fluorinated organic phosphonic acid A reusable printing plate, in particular for use both in wet offset printing and in dry offset printing, includes a printing area and a metal oxide surface treated with at least one fluorinated phosphonic acid. A printing press and a printing unit having the printin... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7436379 | Reversible image display medium Disclosed is a reversible image display medium which can be repeatedly used and can display high quality images, in which cells between the two substrates accommodate a dry developer containing at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developing particles h... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432027 | Dual-layer protected transient document A reimageable medium including a transparent substrate having a first side and any opposing side, a protective layer and an imaging layer. The protective layer can be located on the first side of the transparent substrate and the imaging layer can be located on the ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7410750 | Multicolored photochromic display A multicolored display and process for forming such a display is provided. The multicolored display includes marking particles comprising a mixture of photochromic materials. The photochromic materials each exhibit a first “invisible” photochromic state at a fir... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7381506 | Reimageable paper An image forming medium includes a substrate and a mixture including a photochromic material and a solvent wherein the mixture is coated on the substrate, such that the photochromic material exhibits a reversible homogeneous-heterogeneous transition between a colorl... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7367119 | Method for forming a reinforced tip for a probe storage device Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media. In an embodiment, the tip comprises a substantially hollow structure formed of a metal. The tip can be formed by depositing a first metal layer over silicon ther... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7351460 | Information recording medium, information recording device, and information recording method An information recording medium includes an insulating member, first and second electrodes formed in one plane of the insulating member, and a conductive layer having an electrochromic material providing continuity with the first and second electrodes. A gap between... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336524 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a contact probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the contact probe can include a silicon core having a conductive coating. Contact pro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332432 | Method for manufacturing wiring, thin film transistor, light emitting device and liquid crystal display device, and droplet discharge apparatus for forming the same As a semiconductor device, specifically, a pixel portion included in a semiconductor device is made to have higher precision and higher aperture ratio, it is required to form a smaller wiring in width. In the case of forming a wiring by using an ink-jet method, a do... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324125 | Method for automatic adjustment of media settings for a printer A method for automatically adjusting the setting of a thermal printer when a new roll of media is inserted in the printer. A maximum and a minimum energy needed to print are determined. This information is used to determine a coarse energy setting. The printer next ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321503 | Method of driving memory device to implement multiple states A method of driving a multi-state organic memory device which includes an organic memory layer between upper and lower electrodes. The method comprises continuously applying voltages having different polarities to conduct switching into a low resistance state, and a... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317814 | Authentication system and method An authentication system using a correlator that correlates an input with a reference wherein at least one of the input and reference comprises a phase volume mask having structures, preferably points, that are each less than about six microns in size and can have a... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316875 | Photochromic paper with improved bistability An image forming medium including at least a polymer and a photochromic compound such as spiropyran embedded in the polymer, wherein spiropyran molecules of the spiropyran compound are chelated by a cation. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316891 | Method of developing a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor with a gum solution A method of making a lithographic printing plate is disclosed which comprises the steps of providing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising (i) a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309630 | Method for forming patterned media for a high density data storage device Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the cells being electrically isolated from the other of the cells by a m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301887 | Methods for erasing bit cells in a high density data storage device Methods in accordance with the present invention can be applied, in an embodiment, to a media comprising a phase change material to alter a resolved portion of the phase change material to have a resistance different from a resistance of the bulk material. A tip hav... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300727 | Method for forming temporary image An image forming method composed of: (a) providing a reimageable medium composed of a substrate and a photochromic material, wherein the medium is capable of exhibiting a color contrast and an absence of the color contrast; (b) exposing the medium to an imaging ligh... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297751 | Photocontrolled photochromic electroluminescent and electroconductive polymers for photonics The invention relates to photochromic monomers based on benzothiophenes and a method for preparing them, and to photochromic polymers-polyazomethines that are reversibly photocontrollable due to the introduction of photochromic fragments from the class of dihetaryle... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294182 | Composition for water-removable ink The present invention provides a composition for water-removable ink with an effect of coupling retardation by using an aliphatic alcohol as a solvent, which is selected from a group comprising n-butyl alcohol, n-propyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and pentanol, so th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291400 | Decorative sheet The present invention improves a surface protective layer in the resistance to marring to the extent not achieved even if the surface protective layer is made of a crosslinked cured product of an ionizing radiation-curable resin and added with silica. When forming a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285364 | Permanent, removable tissue markings The present invention provides microparticles that create permanent tissue markings, such as tattoos, designed in advance for change and/or removal on demand, as well as methods for implanting the microparticles in tissue and changing and/or removing the resulting m... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282320 | Apparatus for three-dimensional optical data storage and retrieval A three dimensional optical data storage and retrieval system that includes a three dimensional optical data storage medium and an apparatus for providing access to data stored on the medium. The data storage medium includes an optical data storage material which ei... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273766 | Variable density and variable persistent organic memory devices, methods, and fabrication An organic memory device comprising two electrodes having a selectively conductive decay media between the two electrodes provides a capability to control a persistence level for information stored in an organic memory cell. A resistive state of the cell controls a ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260051 | Molecular memory medium and molecular memory integrated circuit A molecular memory media having a media surface and a platform with read/write heads. The platform and media are moved to allow one of addition, removal, and repositioning of atoms, electrons, and charges on a surface of the media. The media is a material capable of... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259744 | Dielectrophoretic displays A dielectrophoretic display comprises a substrate having walls defining at least one cavity, the cavity having a viewing surface and a side wall inclined to the viewing surface; a suspending fluid contained within the cavity; a plurality of at least one type of part... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242513 | Encapsulated electrophoretic displays having a monolayer of capsules and materials and methods for making the same An encapsulated electrophoretic display having a plurality of non-spherical capsules disposed substantially in a single layer on a substrate. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238460 | Optical recording medium, production method thereof and method of using same Disclosed is an optical recording medium, comprising a polymer alloy forming a phase-separated domain structure of a coating object, and a volatile substance interacting with the polymer alloy. The volatile substance in a vapor state is deposited on the surface of s... | 07/03/2007 |
