Patents Assigned to Agfa
  • Patent number: 9416287
    Abstract: A free radical curable liquid for inkjet printing of food packaging materials includes no initiator or otherwise one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of non-polymeric di- or multifunctional initiators, oligomeric initiators, polymeric initiators, and polymerizable initiators; and a polymerizable composition of the liquid consists essentially of: a) 25-100 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds A having at least one acrylate group G1 and at least one second ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable functional group G2 selected from the group consisting of a vinlyether group, an allylether group, and a allylester group; b) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds B selected from the group consisting of monofunctional acrylates and difunctional acrylates; and c) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds C selected from the group consisting of trifunctional acrylates, tetrafunctional acrylates, pentafunctional acrylates and hexafunctional acrylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Roland Claes
  • Patent number: 9408584
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a system label one or more parts of a spine in an image, in particular a computed tomography (CT) image, of a human or animal body, and in order to achieve a reliable spine labeling and a high throughput of images, match a model of a spine segment with segments of the spine in the image by starting matching the model of a spine segment with an initial segment of the spine in the image, wherein the initial segment of the spine in the image is located at an initial position along the spine in the image, and continue to match the model of a spine segment with one or more further segments of the spine in the image, wherein the further segments of the spine in the image are located at positions farther along the spine in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignees: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV, VRVIS FORSCHUNGS GMBH, IMP FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE PATHOLOGIE GMBH
    Inventors: David Major, Jiri Hladuvka, Katja Buhler, Florian Schulze
  • Patent number: 9403395
    Abstract: A color laser markable laminate includes at least a transparent polymeric support and a color forming layer including a leuco dye; an infrared dye; and a polymeric binder including vinyl acetate and at least 85 wt % of vinyl chloride based on the total weight of the binder; wherein the color laser markable laminate includes a specific phenol stabilizer sterically hindered by a ring containing three nitrogen atoms. A method for preparing a color laser marked document is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Bart Waumans, Paul Callant, Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 9406122
    Abstract: A method and a corresponding apparatus and system localizes a spine in an image, in particular a computed tomography (CT) image, of a human or animal body, allowing for a reduced need for computational power and/or memory on the one hand and assuring a reliable localization of the spine on the other hand. The method includes a) acquiring a plurality of slice images of at least a part of a human or animal body, and b) automatically selecting slice images and/or parts of slice images from the acquired plurality of slice images by considering at least one parameter (?z, ?z, ?z, ?z) characterizing a distribution of bones in the acquired slice images, wherein the selected slice images and/or parts of the slice images includes image information about the spine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV, VRVIS FORSCHUNGS GMBH, IMP FORSCHUNGINSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PATHOLOGIE
    Inventors: Jiri Hladuvka, David Major, Katja Bühler
  • Patent number: 9406124
    Abstract: An image is segmented by subjecting the image to an iterative thresholding operation, and a hierarchical representation of clusters is obtained by analyzing the results of each of the iterative thresholding steps to find clusters of adjacent image elements. A type class is assigned to a leaf cluster of the hierarchical representation and the assigned class is propagated towards the top of the hierarchical representation. Then a mask is generated marking the locations of image elements contained in the top ancestral clusters of a specific type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Gert Merckx, Jeroen Cant
  • Publication number: 20160208117
    Abstract: An inkjet printing method includes the steps of jetting ink dots on a substrate of a plurality of radiation curable inkjet inks having a viscosity of no more than 50 mPa·s at 25° C. and a shear rate of 90 s?1, the plurality of radiation curable inkjet inks including a) at least one non-polymerizable, non-polymeric bisacylphosphine oxide present in a concentration of no more than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Johan LOCCUFIER, Roel DE MONDT
  • Patent number: 9393771
    Abstract: A relief print master is created by a printhead that moves in a slow scan direction. The nozzles of the printhead jet droplets of a polymerisable liquid on a rotating drum. The different nozzles jet droplets simultaneously on different layers that have different diameters. As a result, the droplets jetted by different nozzles travel over different distances before landing. The effect of this is that the droplets undergo different position lag as they land on the different layers. By rotating the printhead in a plane that includes the central axis of the rotating drum and a nozzle row this effect can be compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventor: Chris Gullentops
  • Patent number: 9354520
    Abstract: A method of making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of a) image-wise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor, including a support including a hydrophilic surface or a hydrophilic layer and, thereon, a light or heat sensitive coating including a photopolymerizable composition, b) processing the precursor, consecutively, with a first solution and a second solution, to remove the coating from the support in the non-printing areas, wherein the first and second solutions are provided by a cascade system, the second solution overflows into the first solution and the first solution overflows into a container to be treated as waste, and the second solution is regenerated by adding a replenishing solution or a mixture of replenishing solutions at a rate of at least 5 ml/m2 of treated precursor and at most 100 ml/m2 of treated precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Peter Hendrikx, Jan Sinnesael, Roberto Carbonini, Sam Verbrugghe
  • Patent number: 9345443
    Abstract: A method of generating a bone and a soft tissue image of an object includes a dual energy radiography technique wherein weight parameters for calculating these images as a weighted sum of a low energy image PL and a high energy image PH are deduced from a ratio image Log(Pn)/Log(PL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare NV
    Inventor: Tom Bertens
  • Publication number: 20160121597
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a lithographic printing plate precursor includes the steps of providing a support as a web, coating an image recording layer on the front side of the support, and depositing a back layer on the back side of the support using a deposition technique which is capable of depositing the back layer according to a predefined image. The method enables stacking and recutting of lithographic printing plate precursors without the need for interleafs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Stefaan LINGIER, Karen DEMMERS
  • Patent number: 9326741
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the treatment of stimulable phosphors and/or screens for use in diagnosis, in particular medical radiography. The method comprises subjecting the stimulable phosphors and/or screens to an epoxide containing gaseous compound, promptly following their manufacture. By applying the method according to the invention yellowing of the stimulable phosphors and/or screens is prevented in a safe and efficient manner; thereby the disadvantages known as such resulting from such yellowing will not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Agfa Healthcare NV
    Inventors: Paul Leblans, Jean-Pierre Tahon
  • Patent number: 9329479
    Abstract: A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor includes a coating containing a photopolymerizable layer and optionally an intermediate layer between the photopolymerizable layer and the support, wherein the coating further includes a polysiloxane, the polysiloxane being present in the photopolymerizable layer and/or in the optional intermediate layer, and the polysiloxane is obtained by reacting at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (I) and at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (II):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Marin Steenackers, Sam Verbrugghe
  • Patent number: 9328320
    Abstract: A maintenance liquid for inkjet printers includes at least 50 wt % of at least one ether solvent according to Formula (I) or (II) with the wt % based on the total weight of the maintenance liquid: R1(CO)x(OR2)yOR3??Formula (I), and R4CO(OR5)zOCOR6??Formula (II), wherein R1, R4 and R6 independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R2 rand R5 independently represent an ethylene group or a propylene group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; x represents an integer of 0 or 1; y and z independently represent an integer of 1 to 4; and wherein the maintenance liquid contains no more than 25 ppm of peroxide expressed as hydrogen peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Raphael Voets, Jaymes Van Luppen, Eric Hoes, Johan Loccufier
  • Publication number: 20160112603
    Abstract: A method including the steps of selecting an n-ink model for a color device, for transferring a set of colorant values in colorant space to a set of color values in color space; selecting a printer characteristic of the n-ink model, wherein the printer characteristic indicates the regularity of the n-ink model; evaluating, for the n-ink model, a set of one or more values and/or ranges for the printer characteristic, thus determining the regularity of the n-ink model; and modifying the n-ink model such that the modified n-ink model is regular, if, based on the evaluation, the n-ink model was not regular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Marc MAHY, Koen VANDE VELDE, Dmitry TUNITSKY
  • Patent number: 9309341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable jettable fluid for making a flexographic printing master characterized in that the jettable fluid has a viscosity measured at jetting temperature of less than 15 mPa·s and comprises at least 50 wt. % of a mixture of a cyclic monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer, a monofunctional urethane acrylate oligomer and a difunctional (meth)acrylate monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventors: Eddie Daems, Luc Vanmaele
  • Publication number: 20160084966
    Abstract: A method and device for reading out X-ray image information stored in a storage phosphor layer with a stimulating light beam includes deflecting the stimulating light beam to alternately move it in a first direction and in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, across the storage phosphor layer. During the movements of the stimulating light beam in the first direction and the second direction, detection emission light emitted by the storage phosphor layer and converting them into corresponding first and second detector signals, respectively. The first and second detector signals are compared with each other. The first and/or second detector signals, which were obtained during the movements of the stimulating light beam across the storage phosphor layer in the first direction and second direction, respectively, are corrected dependent on the results of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Georg REISER, Stephan MAIR, Malte SCHULZ, Ralph THOMA
  • Publication number: 20160070173
    Abstract: A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor includes a support and a coating containing a photopolymerisable layer; characterised in that the coating includes a compound including at least one moiety having a structure according to Formula (I) at a level above 10% wt and below 40% wt relative to the total dry weight of the ingredients of the coating: wherein n represents an integer equal to 0 or 1; L1 represents a divalent linking group; with the proviso that the carbonyl groups in Formula (I) are bonded to a carbon atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Johan LOCCUFIER, Marin STEENACKERS, Sam VERBRUGGHE, Kristof HEYLEN
  • Patent number: 9278949
    Abstract: A polymerizable thioxanthone according to Formula (I): wherein A represents a thioxanthone moiety; R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aryl group, and a heteroaryl group; n represents 1 or 2; and R3 represents a moiety including at least one free radical polymerizable group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, an acrylamide, a methacrylamide, a styrene group, a maleate, a fumarate, an itaconate, a vinyl ether, a vinyl ester, an allyl ether, and an allyl ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventor: Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 9275773
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispersion comprising metallic, metal oxide or metal precursor nanoparticles and a polymeric dispersant, the dispersant comprising an anchor group with affinity for the metallic, metal oxide or metal precursor nanoparticles that is chemically bonded to a polymeric backbone characterized in that the dispersant has a 95 wt. % decomposition at a temperature below 300° C. as measured by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis. It further relates to metallic fluids or inks prepared from the dispersion and to the preparation of the dispersion and the metallic fluid or inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Xavier André, Dirk Bollen, Johan Loccufier
  • Patent number: 9258297
    Abstract: A computing device is disclosed for securely sharing restricted content. The computing device includes a memory storing computer readable instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the computer readable instructions. The computer readable instructions configure the one or more processors to, collectively, receive a share request to share the restricted content; in response to the share request, encode a link with encrypted access information, the access information including a first password and identifying the restricted content; receive an access request for access to the restricted content from a client device executing the link, the access request including the encrypted access information; receive a second password from the client device in association with the access request; and grant the client device access to the restricted content in response to determining the first password matches the second password. A method and a computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: AGFA HEALTHCARE
    Inventors: Paul Alexander Lipton, Mohannad A K Hussain, Ronald James Leisti