Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Ludermann

Thomas J. Ludermann 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).

  • Thermally developable materials with buried conductive backside coatings
    Patent number: 7258968
    Abstract: Thermally developable materials including photothermographic and thermographic materials having a buried conductive backside layer comprising one or more binder polymers, and an antistatic compound that is an organic solvent soluble alkali metal salt of any of a perfluorinated aliphatic carboxylic acid having 2 or 3 carbon atoms, a perfluorinated aliphatic sulfonate, or a tetrafluoroborate, provide antistatic coatings that exhibit little dependence on humidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary E. LaBelle, Thomas J. Ludermann, Kumars Sakizadeh, Thomas J. Kub