Patents by Inventor Michael Edgar Long

Michael Edgar Long has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6114075
    Abstract: A flash device includes a micro-optic array for concentrating light from the flash lamp on a radiation-absorbing dye carrier, thereby sublimating or vaporizing the dye from the radiation-absorbing dye carrier onto a receiver element, e.g. a glass plate or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Edgar Long, Carl Frederick Leidig
  • Patent number: 5961196
    Abstract: A flash device includes a micro-optic array for concentrating light from the flash lamp on a radiation-absorbing dye carrier, thereby sublimating or vaporizing the dye from the radiation-absorbing dye carrier onto a receiver element, e.g. a glass plate or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Edgar Long, Carl Frederick Leidig
  • Patent number: 5686383
    Abstract: A method for preparing a color filter array element is disclosed which includes coating an image receiving layer on one surface of a thin support, with the thin support being rigid in the horizontal plane. Thereafter, a colored pattern of pixel cells is transferred from a colorant donor sheet onto the image receiving layer. The method further includes laminating to a surface of a rigid, transparent support either the coated surface of the thin, rigid support carrying the colored pattern of pixel cells or the other surface of the thin, rigid support, to thereby form the color filter array element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael Edgar Long, Michael Louis Boroson
  • Patent number: 5683836
    Abstract: A method of making black matrix grid lines for a color filter array for use with a liquid crystal display device or the like, comprising providing a photo-thermally sensitive black layer over a support layer; exposing a pattern of electromagnetic radiation onto the photo-thermally sensitive black layer corresponding to the desired pattern of the black matrix grid lines; and peeling off the unexposed portions of the photo-thermally sensitive black layer to thereby form the grid lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles David Deboer, Judith Lynn Fleissig, Helmut Weber, Michael Edgar Long