Patents Assigned to Agfa
  • Publication number: 20150032474
    Abstract: A method and system where a user initiates a medical record creation request that is received at a workstation. A results entry structure corresponding to the received medial creation is selected. Result sections entries are received for each of the types of result sections that are required by the record creation request. Result sections entries are stored with the type of result sections within a medical record as stored result sections. The stored result sections are retrievable for generating a medical report from the medical record. A report generation request is received at a workstation and a report structure corresponding to the report generation request is selected. Results sections required by the report generation request are retrieved from medical records and a medical report is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Agfa HealthCare Inc.
    Inventors: George Dobrean, Joost Felix, Wannes Kieckens, Nadia De Paepe
  • Patent number: 8940811
    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; wherein the polymerizable composition of the liquid consists 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 different from the group G1; 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: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventors: Roland Claes, Johan Loccufier
  • Publication number: 20150017405
    Abstract: A dispersion includes metallic, metal oxide, or metal precursor nanoparticles; a thermally cleavable polymeric dispersant an optional dispersion medium; and a thermally cleavable agent. Pastes, coated layers, and patterns may contain the dispersion. A method for producing the specific thermally cleavable dispersant and for producing the metallic nanoparticle dispersions. The dispersions allow the reduction or avoidance of organic residue in coated layers and patterns on substrates, the use substrates of low thermal resistance, and faster processing times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Xavier André, Dirk Bollen
  • Patent number: 8928890
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for optical coherence tomography having an interferometer (20) which has a beam splitter (24), a reflector (25), an illumination arm (21), a specimen arm (22) and a reference arm (23). In order to increase the compactness of the system with at the same time a high image quality a specimen objective is provided in the specimen arm (22) of the interferometer (20) by means of which light is focussed into a focus lying in or on the specimen (1). Moreover, in the reference arm (23) of the interferometer (20) a reference objective is provided by means of which light is focussed onto the reflector (25). The optical properties of the specimen objective differ from the optical properties of the reference objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare N.V.
    Inventors: Rainer Nebosis, Rainer Scheunemann, Edgar-Gerald Kopp
  • Patent number: 8921266
    Abstract: A method for preparing a color laser marked article comprising the steps of: a) infrared laser marking a security element including a polymeric support and a color forming layer comprising a color forming compound, an infrared dye and a polymeric binder comprising vinyl acetate and at least 85 wt % of vinyl chloride based on the total weight of the binder; and b) exposing the laser marked security element with light having a wavelength higher than 440 nm. The light exposure of step b) hinders the falsification of an issued security document without significant increase of background density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Bart Waumans, Paul Callant
  • Patent number: 8921265
    Abstract: A security document precursor including, in order: a) at least one transparent biaxially stretched polyester foil; b) one colorless color forming layer containing at least an infrared absorber, a colorless dye-precursor and a polymeric binder; and c) a polymeric support; wherein the polymeric binder is copolymer including at least 90 wt % of a chlorinated ethylene and 1 wt % to 10 wt % of vinyl acetate both based on the total weight of the binder. Methods for making the security document precursor are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Hubertus Van Aert, Ingrid Geuens, Paul Callant, Bart Waumans
  • Patent number: 8913813
    Abstract: Method and system for determining the spatial response signature of a x-ray detector comprising a photostimulable phosphor by generating a flat field image of the detector, generating a low-pass filtered version of the flat field image and background demodulating the flat field image by pixel-wise dividing it by means of corresponding pixel values in the low-pass filtered version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare N.V.
    Inventors: Marc Cresens, Herman Van Goubergen
  • Patent number: 8912118
    Abstract: A method of color laser marking an article having a polymeric foil with at least one colorless layer containing an infrared absorber, a polymeric binder and a color forming compound; including the steps of:—laser marking the colorless layer with an infrared laser using a first laser operation mode to generate a blue or cyan color; and—laser marking the same colorless layer with an infrared laser using a second laser operation mode to generate a black color, wherein the first laser operation mode applies less energy to the colorless layer than the second laser operation mode. Also disclosed is an article, such as a security document, including a polymeric foil and a colorless layer containing laser marked graphical data having a blue or cyan color and laser marked information having a black color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Paul Callant, Ingrid Geuens, Bart Waumans, Hubertus Van Aert
  • Publication number: 20140361201
    Abstract: An apparatus, a corresponding system, and a method for reading out X-ray information stored in a storage phosphor panel includes an input device, into which a cassette with a storage phosphor panel therein can be input, and a read-out device, in which the storage phosphor panel can be irradiated with stimulation light and the emission light excited in the storage phosphor panel is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA HEALTHCARE NV
    Inventors: Patrick Sandmann, Günther Schindlbeck, Heribert Hammer
  • Publication number: 20140363632
    Abstract: An inkjet printing radiation curable inkjet ink for forming a protective layer during an etching process includes at least 70 percent by weight of a polymerizable composition based on the total weight of radiation curable inkjet ink, wherein the polymerizable composition has an oxygen fraction OFR>0.250 and a weighted polymerizable functionality WPF?0.0050, and the polymerizable composition contains no polymerizable compound with an ethylenic double bond and including a phosphoester group or a carboxylic acid group in the molecule thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA-GEVAERT
    Inventors: Stefaan Smet, Freddy Zutterman, Peter Vermeersch, Johan Loccufier, Ann Willems
  • Patent number: 8908190
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a corresponding method for optical coherence tomography having at least one interferometer for emitting light with which a specimen is irradiated, a specimen arm comprising a specimen objective by means of which light emitted by the interferometer is focused in a focus lying within the specimen, a detector for collecting light which is reflected by the specimen, and a control unit for controlling the system such that during the collection alight, which is respectively reflected at different depths of the specimen, the imaging properties of the specimen objective are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare NV
    Inventors: Rainer Nebosis, Rainer Scheunemann, Edgar-Gerald Kopp
  • Publication number: 20140354740
    Abstract: A white inkjet ink includes a liquid ink vehicle, a first inorganic pigment with a refractive index greater than 1.60 having an average particle size A larger than 200 nm, and a second inorganic pigment having an average particle size B between 40 nm and 90 nm; wherein the number of particles per mm3 NAB complies with the relation: NAB=?{square root over (NA×NB)}?7,500 particles/mm3 with NA representing the number of particles per mm3 having a particle size in the range of A?20 nm to A+20 nm, NB representing the number of particles per mm3 having a particle size in the range of B?20 nm to B+20 nm, the average particle size A is measured by transmission electron microscopy at a 13,500× magnification, and the average particle size B is measured by transmission electron microscopy at a 58,000× magnification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Stefaan Smet, Xavier Andre
  • Publication number: 20140349087
    Abstract: An inkjet ink set consisting of a black inkjet ink, a cyan inkjet ink and two inkjet inks A and B, optionally complemented by a white ink and/or a colourless ink, wherein the inkjet ink A has a hue angle H* between 70 and 85 and a chroma C* between 30 and 80; the inkjet ink B has a hue angle H* between 20 and 40 and a chroma C* between 30 and 80; and the CIE L* a* b* coordinates were determined on polyethylene coated white paper for a 2° observer under a D50 light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA Graphics NV
    Inventors: Jürgen Jung, Rita Torfs, Marc Bernard Graindourze, Rene Geelen
  • Patent number: 8894195
    Abstract: Non-aqueous pigment dispersions exhibit improved dispersion quality and/or stability for a specific selection of naphthol AS pigments and azo pigments by using specific quinacridone dispersion synergists. The non-aqueous pigment dispersions can be advantageously used in inkjet inks inkjet printing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventor: Geert Deroover
  • Patent number: 8889340
    Abstract: A method for making a lithographic printing plate is disclosed which comprises the steps of: (1) providing a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer, a heat-sensitive coating, (2) image-wise exposing said precursor with IR-radiation or heat, and (3) developing said image-wise exposed precursor with an alkaline developing solution, characterised in that a sludge inhibiting agent is present in said precursor or in said developing solution or in said precursor and said developing solution, and wherein said sludge inhibiting agent is a triazaindolisine compound. According to the above method, the formation of sludge is inhibited or reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics, N.V.
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Stefaan Lingier, Mark Lens
  • Patent number: 8888267
    Abstract: Non-aqueous pigment dispersions exhibit improved dispersion quality and/or stability for a specific selection of quinacridone pigments, diketopyrrolo-pyrrole pigments and azo pigments by using specific naphthol AS dispersion synergists. The non-aqueous pigment dispersions can be advantageously used in inkjet inks inkjet printing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventor: Geert Deroover
  • Patent number: 8889338
    Abstract: A method of making a flexographic printing form precursor for laser engraving including the steps of (i) providing at least one layer of a curable composition on a substrate; (ii) curing the at least one layer; wherein the curable composition defining an outermost layer includes at least 0.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition of an organo-silicon compound including at least one polymerizable group; and a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer having three or less polymerizable groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventors: Eddie Daems, Luc Leenders
  • Patent number: 8883873
    Abstract: A polymerizable polymeric photoinitiator according to Formula (I): wherein: PL represents an n+m+p-functional polymeric core; n and m independently represent an integer from 1 to 30; p represents an integer from 0 to 10; o is 0 or 1; INI represents a group selected from the group consisting of a benzophenone, a thioxanthone, a carbazole, a anthraquinone, a camphor quinone, an ?-hydroxyalkylphenone, an ?-aminoalkylphenone, an acylphosphine oxide, a bisacyl phosphine oxide, an acylphosphine sulfide, a phenyl glyoxalate, a benzoin ether, a benzyl ketal, an ?-dialkoxyacetophenone, a carbazolyl-O-acyl-oxime, an ?-haloarylketone and an ?-haloaryl sulfone; L3 and L4 represent a substituted or unsubstituted divalent linking group comprising 1 to 14 carbon atoms; A represents a radically polymerizable functional group selected from the group consisting of an acrylate, a methacrylate, a styrene, an acryl amide, a methacryl amide, a maleate, a fumarate, an itaconate, an vinyl ether, an allyl ether, an allyl ester,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Luc Vanmaele, Hedwige Docx, Nadine Willems
  • Publication number: 20140326164
    Abstract: A method for preparing a surface modified organic pigment includes the steps of a) reacting the organic pigment in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent with a surface modifying reagent to form a surface modified organic pigment; and b) washing and drying the surface modified organic pigment; wherein the surface modifying reagent is represented by Formula (I): wherein, X is selected from the group consisting of O, S and N—R3; Y is selected from the group consisting of —O and NR4; R1 to R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a -aralkyl group, an alkaryl group, and an aryl group and s heteroaryl group; with the proviso that when Y—R1 is different from OH that at least one of R2 to R4 is substituted by at least one functional group having a pKa between 2.5 and 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: AGFA GRAPHICS NV
    Inventors: Johan Loccufier, Nicolas Vriamont, Paul Callant
  • Patent number: 8871015
    Abstract: Non-aqueous pigment dispersions exhibiting improved dispersion quality and/or stability were prepared for a specific selection of naphthol AS pigments, diketopyrrolo-pyrrole pigments and quinacridone pigments, by using specific yellow monoazo dispersion synergists. The non-aqueous pigment dispersions can be advantageously used in inkjet inks inkjet printing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa Graphics NV
    Inventor: Geert Deroover