Patents by Inventor Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
Christine J. Landry-Coltrain 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).
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Publication number: 20100285406Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is from about 300 to about 4,000 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The laser-ablatable material also comprises at least 0.01 weight % of a depolymerization catalyst that is a Lewis acid or organometallic based catalyst. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 7781373Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyan dye donor element for thermal transfer imaging comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising a mixture of at least two cyan dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, wherein at least one of the at least two cyan dyes is a light stabilizing dye represented by Formula I and a thermal image recording method utilizing the same cyan dye donor element. The present invention also relates to a cyan inkjet dye comprising a light stabilizing cyan dye represented by Formula I.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Donald R. Diehl, Shari L. Eiff, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 7666815Abstract: A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes ethyl cellulose as a binder. The dye-donor element is capable of printing a defect-free image on a receiver element at a line speed of 2.0 msec/line or less while maintaining a print density of at least 2.0.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Linda M. Franklin, Walter H. Isaac, Dennis J. Massa, David M. Teegarden
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Publication number: 20080258344Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20080261028Abstract: Flexographic printing plates and other relief images can be formed from a laser-ablatable element having a laser-ablatable layer that is at least 20 ?m in thickness. The laser-ablatable layer includes a film-forming material that is a laser-laser-ablatable material or the film-forming material has dispersed therein a laser-ablatable material. The laser-ablatable material is a polymeric material that when heated to 300° C. at a rate of 10° C./minute, loses at least 60% of its mass to form at least one predominant low molecular weight product. The element can be imaged by ablation at an energy of at least 1 J/cm2 to provide a relief image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Michael T. Regan, David B. Bailey, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20080182212Abstract: The present invention relates to a cyan dye donor element for thermal transfer imaging comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising a mixture of at least two cyan dyes dispersed in a polymeric binder, wherein at least one of the at least two cyan dyes is a light stabilizing dye represented by Formula I and a thermal image recording method utilizing the same cyan dye donor element. The present invention also relates to a cyan inkjet dye comprising a light stabilizing cyan dye represented by Formula I.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Donald R. Diehl, Shari L. Eiff, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 7335407Abstract: The present invention comprises an inkjet recording element comprising a support having thereon at least two ink receiving layers capable of accepting an inkjet image, at least one of said layers comprising porous polyester particles. The present invention also includes a method of forming an inkjet print comprising providing an inkjet recording element comprising at least two ink receiving layers capable of accepting an inkjet image, at least one of said layers comprising porous polyester particles and printing on said inkjet recording element utilizing an inkjet printer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Jeffrey W. Leon, Linda M. Franklin, Xiaoru Wang
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Patent number: 7324124Abstract: Thermal printers and methods for operating a thermal printer that applies donor material from donor patches on a donor ribbon to a received medium, the donor material being organized into sets, each set including at least one colored donor material patch and a protective material donor patch. A non-visible light is applied to a location on the donor ribbon, and a portion of the non-visible light that is not absorbed by the donor ribbon is sensed. The sensed non-visible light determines whether the portion of the donor ribbon to which the non-visible light has been applied has unused protective donor material thereon.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Robert F. Mindler, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Sharon P. Markel
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Patent number: 7312012Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermal donor comprising a dye mixture and a urea light-stabilizing compound, wherein the light-stabilizing compound is represented by structure I: wherein: R1, R2 and R3 represent a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkenyl group, aralkyl group, aryl group or heterocyclic group, provided that at least one of R1, R2, and/or R3 is a hydrogen atom; R4-R8 represent a hydrogen atom, hydroxyl group, alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkenyl group, aralkyl group, aryl group, heterocyclic group, aryloxy group, or alkoxy group; and R3 forms a heterocyclic ring with either R4 or R8, and an imaging system comprising a donor sheet having a layer containing a dye and an image receiving sheet having a dye receiving layer, wherein either the donor sheet or the image receiving sheet comprises a dye mixture and a urea light-stabilizing compound of structure I.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Donald R. Diehl, Shari L. Eiff, Ramanuj Goswami, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 7273830Abstract: A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes hydroxyalkyl cellulose as a binder. The dye-donor element is capable of printing a defect-free image on a receiver element at a line speed of 2.0 msec/line or less while maintaining a print density of at least 2.0.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, David M. Teegarden, Dennis J. Massa
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Patent number: 7244691Abstract: A print assembly including a dye-donor element and a receiver element, wherein the print assembly has a donor having a dye-donor layer having a first glass transition temperature and at least one dye, and a receiver having a dye-receiving layer having a second glass transition temperature on a support, wherein the print assembly has a receiver/donor dye partition coefficient of at least 2.5 when the print assembly is heated above the higher of the first or second glass transition temperature for a time sufficient to achieve an equilibrium state of dye distribution between the dye-donor layer and dye-receiving layer. The print assembly can be used at fast print speeds of 2.0 msec/line or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Dennis J. Massa, Ramanuj Goswami, Walter H. Isaac, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, David M. Teegarden
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Patent number: 7235513Abstract: A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes a binder including an hydroxyalkanoic acid polyester and one or more co-binder, wherein the co-binder is not polyester.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Walter H. Isaac, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, David M. Teegarden
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Patent number: 7211364Abstract: A thermally conductive material, a donor element including the material, a method of printing using the donor element, and a print assembly including the donor element are described, wherein the thermally conductive material includes at least two immiscible or incompatible organic polymers, or a block or graft copolymer, wherein the constituent homopolymer repeat units that form the copolymer are prepared from chemical species that would form mutually immiscible or incompatible polymers, and thermally conductive particles having a short axis of less than or equal to 0.2 microns.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Linda M. Franklin
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Patent number: 7128972Abstract: The present invention comprises wrinkled polymer particle comprising a polyester-containing particle having a surface covered with at least one wrinkle comprising folds, ridges, crevices and channels. The present invention further comprises a method of forming wrinkled polyester-containing particles comprising preparing a mixture of an organic phase and an aqueous phase, said mixture comprising an unsaturated precursor polyester, a water immiscible organic solvent, at least one organic-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and initiator, subjecting said mixture to high energy emulsification, initiating crosslinking of said polyester after emulsification, and removing said water immiscible organic solvent to recover wrinkled polyester-containing particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Inventors: Jeffrey W. Leon, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Patent number: 7059714Abstract: The present invention discloses an ink printing method including the steps of: a) providing an ink printer that is responsive to digital data signals; b) loading said printer with an image-recording element including a support having thereon at least one image-receiving layer comprising polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, wherein said polymeric particle is stabilized by a hydrophobically capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant; c) loading said printer with an ink composition; and d) printing on said image-recording element using said ink composition in response to said digital data signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeanne E. Kaeding, Jeffrey W. Leon, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Gregory E. Missell, Dennis E. Smith
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Patent number: 6972139Abstract: A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes a polyvinylacetal copolymer as a binder.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David M. Teegarden, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Walter H. Isaac, Dennis J. Massa
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Patent number: 6866902Abstract: An ink recording element is described comprising a support having thereon at least one image-receiving layer comprising polymeric particles in a polymeric binder, wherein the polymeric particle is stabilized by a hydrophobically-capped oligomeric acrylamide dispersant.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeanne E. Kaeding, Jeffrey W. Leon, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Gregory E. Missell, Dennis E. Smth
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Patent number: 6753051Abstract: The present invention comprises an ink recording element comprising a support having thereon at least one ink receiving layer, the layer comprising wrinkled particles. The present invention also includes a method of forming a print comprising providing an ink recording element comprising at least one ink receiving layer capable of accepting an ink image, the layer comprising wrinkled particles and printing on the ink recording element utilizing a printer.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Jeffrey W. Leon
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Publication number: 20040023027Abstract: The present invention comprises wrinkled polymer particle comprising a polyester-containing particle having a surface covered with at least one wrinkle comprising folds, ridges, crevices and channels. The present invention further comprises a method of forming wrinkled polyester-containing particles comprising preparing a mixture of an organic phase and an aqueous phase, said mixture comprising an unsaturated precursor polyester, a water immiscible organic solvent, at least one organic-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and initiator, subjecting said mixture to high energy emulsification, initiating crosslinking of said polyester after emulsification, and removing said water immiscible organic solvent to recover wrinkled polyester-containing particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 5, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeffrey W. Leon, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain
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Publication number: 20030197773Abstract: The present invention discloses an ink printing method using an image-recording element which provides an image having excellent image quality and superior dry time comprising the steps of:Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2002Publication date: October 23, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jeanne E. Kaeding, Jeffrey W. Leon, Christine J. Landry-Coltrain, Alan R. Pitt, Trevor J. Wear, Gregory E. Missell, Dennis E. Smith