Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361455 | Anti-reflective coatings Anti-reflective materials such as bottom anti-reflective coatings (BARC's) and sacrificial light absorbing materials (SLAM) may be made more effective at preventing coherent light or electron beam reflection from a substrate by including in the anti-reflective mater... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7326509 | Composition for forming anti-reflective coating for use in lithography There is provided a composition for forming anti-reflective coating for use in a lithography which has a high effect of inhibiting reflected light, causes no intermixing with resist layers, affords excellent resist patterns, has a higher dry etching rate compared wi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320947 | Static dissipative textile and method for producing the same The present invention relates generally to a static dissipative textile having an electrically conductive surface achieved by coating the textile with an electrically conductive coating in a variety of patterns. The electrically conductive coating is comprised of a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7303865 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material including, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and a non-photosensitive layer, wherein th... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300730 | Creating an optically tunable anti-reflective coating The present invention provides methods and system for improving the accuracy of measurements made using optical metrology. The present invention relates to methods and systems for changing the optical properties of tunable resists that can be used in the production ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7244532 | Holographic recording medium A holographic recording medium includes a holographic recording carrier including a first light transmittable substrate, a second light transmittable substrate and a holographic recording layer sandwiched therebetween, a first antireflection film formed on the surfa... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7223529 | Silver halide light-sensitive element A silver halide light-sensitive photographic element comprising a support having on one side thereof at least one cyan image forming hydrophilic colloid layer comprising a cyan image dye forming coupler, and an outermost protective overcoat layer providing a coeffic... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7157214 | High-speed thermally developable imaging materials High-speed aqueous-based black-and-white photothermographic materials are imageable in any suitable fashion using ultraviolet, visible, infrared, or X-radiation. They can have one or more thermally developable imaging layers on either or both sides of the support an... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7144635 | Tear resistant heat sealable packaging structure A tear resistant laminated comprised of a paper or paperboard substrate, and adhesive layer, a tear resistant layer secured to the adhesive layer, and a heat-sealable material. The tear resistant material has a a tear strength as measured by the Elmendorf tear propa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144689 | Antistatic properties for thermally developable materials The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having ex... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141361 | Thermally developable materials with improved conductive layer Buried backside conductive layers with increased conductive efficiency can be provided for thermally developable materials using a specific organic solvent mixture to coat a protective overcoat directly disposed over the conductive layer. This organic solvent mixtur... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7118849 | Photothermographic materials with UV absorbing compounds Photothermographic materials are coated with imaging layers and an antihalation layer between the support and thermally developable imaging layers on one or both sides of the support. Such materials can be arranged in association with one or more phosphor intensifyi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112399 | Photothermographic materials with opaque crossover control means Photothermographic materials are coated with thermally developable imaging layers on both sides of the support. Such materials can be arranged in association with one or more phosphor intensifying screens capable of providing emission at a predetermined wavelength i... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7094524 | Thermally development imaging materials having backside stabilizers Thermally developable photothermographic materials comprise a backside layer that includes a backside stabilizer to reduce fog formation in high humidity conditions, thereby providing improved shelf stability. Useful backside stabilizers include an amine organic bas... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7087366 | Method for chemical sensitization of silver halide for photothermographic use A photothermographic emulsion is prepared by chemically sensitizing silver halide grains formed by oxidative decomposition of a diphenylphosphine sulfide compound on or around the silver halide grains. This procedure uses a unique sequence of steps and provides incr... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087364 | Antistatic properties for thermally developable materials The use of metal antimonates at high metal antimonate to binder ratios in buried backside conductive layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials allows the use of thin backside overcoat layers. The combination provides antistatic constructions having ex... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088432 | Dynamic mask projection stereo micro lithography Three-dimensional structures are fabricated by a process in which a 3D solid model is designed by software at a PC and sliced into a series of 2D layers. Each 2D layer is displayed at a dynamic mask via micro-mirror deflections projected onto a photoresist to form a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083906 | Heat-developable photosensitive material A heat-developable photosensitive material having on a support at least one light-sensitive layer comprising an organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide and a reducing agent and at least one light-insensitive layer, which comprises an antihalation dye ca... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7063941 | Method for chemical sensitization of silver halide for photothermographic use A photothermographic emulsion is prepared by chemically sensitizing silver halide grains by oxidative decomposition of an organic sulfur-containing compound on or around the silver halide grains. This procedure uses a unique sequence of steps and provides increased ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7041243 | 5-layer co-extruded biaxial-oriented polypropylene synthetic paper and its production process The invention discloses a 5-layer co-extruded biaxial-oriented polypropylene synthetic paper which is a 5-layer laminated structure with thickness between 30–300 μm comprising the uppermost layer (A) of paper sheet or resin, the second layer (B) of paper sheet or... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029834 | Thermally developable imaging materials having backside stabilizers Thermally developable photothermographic materials comprise a backside layer that includes a backside stabilizer to reduce fog formation in high humidity conditions, thereby providing improved shelf stability. Useful backside stabilizers are nitrogen-containing arom... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7025949 | In-vivo diagnostic method by means of near infrared radiation This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluoresc... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6977305 | Modified carbocyanine dyes and their conjugates Chemically reactive carbocyanine dyes incorporating an indolium ring moiety that is substituted at the 3-position by a reactive group or by a conjugated substance, and their uses, are described. Conjugation through this position results in spectral properties that a... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974662 | Thermal base precursors Improved compounds and base precursors that undergo thermal decomposition are disclosed. Thermal base precursors, and in particular, a novel class of salts of arylsulfonylacetic acids as bleaching agents or promoting for photothermographic use are disclosed. Composi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6964842 | Black-and-white aqueous photothermographic materials Aqueous-based photothermographic materials comprise a hydrophilic binder, preformed silver halides, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent composition, and one or more benzothiazolium, benzoselenazolium, or benzotellurazolium salts as antifoggants. These photother... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6958208 | Methods of providing color photographic image using acidic stop and rinse solutions Photographic processing of color photographic materials can be carried out using polyphosphonic acids or salts thereof in acidic “stop” solutions or wash solutions after color development. When used in acidic stop solutions, the polyphosphonic acid is preferably... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955806 | Ionene polymers and their use as antimicrobial agents Disclosed are ionene polymers having antimicrobial activity. “Ionene polymers” as used in this invention are cationic polymers in which a substantial proportion of the atoms providing the positive charge are quaternized nitrogens located in the main polymeric ch... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6953825 | Treated carbonaceous compositions and polymer compositions containing the same Treated carbonaceous compositions comprising a carbonaceous material, preferably a carbon black, and an ester polymer treating agent. Also disclosed are polymer compositions incorporating the treated carbonaceous compositions and articles of manufacture formed from ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6942960 | Photothermographic materials containing doped high iodide emulsions Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and photothermographic imaging materials include photosensitive silver halide grains that comprise at least 15 mol % iodide based on total silver in the grains and are doped with bismuth (+3). These materials have increase... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6936405 | Organic polymeric antireflective coatings deposited by chemical vapor deposition An improved method for applying organic antireflective coatings to substrate surfaces and the resulting precursor structures are provided. Broadly, the methods comprise chemical vapor depositing (CVD) an antireflective compound on the substrate surface. In one embod... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6926885 | In-vivo diagnostic method by means of near infrared radiation This invention relates to an in-vivo diagnostic method based on near infrared radiation (NIR radiation) that uses water-soluble dyes and their biomolecule adducts, each having specific photophysical and pharmaco-chemical properties, as a contrast medium for fluoresc... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6849373 | Antireflective coating compositions comprising photoacid generators The invention provides new light absorbing crosslinking compositions suitable for use as an antireflective composition, particularly for deep UV applications. The antireflective compositions of the invention comprise a photoacid generator that is activated during ex... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6844145 | High-speed thermally developable imaging materials and methods of using same High-speed black-and-white photothermographic materials can be imaged in any suitable fashion using ultraviolet, visible, infrared, or X-radiation. They can have one or more thermally developable imaging layers on either or both sides of the support and can be image... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6828070 | Photosensitive material comprising reversibly decolorable colored layer and image-forming method using same A photosensitive material comprising a substrate and a reversibly decolorable colored layer disposed thereon, wherein the reversibly decolorable colored layer is reversibly colored and decolored, the reversibly decolorable colored layer is in a colored state at 25 ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6800429 | Imaging materials with conductive layers containing electronically conductive polymer particles An imaging material comprising a support having disposed thereon: a) at least one image-formning layer, and b) at least one transparent electrically conductive antistatic layer that comprises electronically conductive polymer particles, a neutral-charge conductivity... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6780575 | Record-shifted scanning of silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic elements The present invention is directed to a method of scanning silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic film. In particular, the present invention comprises record shifting by means by employing at least one infrared dye in a color unit of the f... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6764749 | Method to improve the resolution of a photolithography system by use of a coupling layer between the photo resist and the ARC A method to improve the resolution of a photolithography system by using one or more coupling layers between a photo resist and an anti-reflective coating. The coupling layer(s) compensate for a mis-match in indexes of reflection between the photo resist and anti-re... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762013 | Thermally developable materials containing fluorochemical conductive layers Nonpolymeric fluorochemicals defined as by the following Structure I are useful in thermally developable materials. The fluorochemicals are defined as follows: Rf—R—N(R1)(R2)(R3)+X− | 07/13/2004 |
| 6746830 | Silver halide photosensitive material and image-forming method using heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer conta... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6740480 | Fingerprint protection for clear photographic shield The invention provides a photographic element comprising a transparent polymer sheet, at least one layer containing negative working photosensitive silver halide and at least one upper protective shield to protect the surface of said transparent polymer. ... | 05/25/2004 |
