Patents by Inventor Christopher P. Mencher

Christopher P. Mencher 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).

  • Magnetics-on-film image area recording head and interface
    Patent number: 5502528
    Abstract: A photographic still camera for receiving an elongated filmstrip having a cross-curvature in the cross film direction across said filmstrip and having a substantially transparent magnetic layer deposited on the film surface and for recording or reproducing information on or from the magnetic layer in the image area in and relation to the exposure of image frames of the filmstrip. A magnetic head is formed of a plurality of frustums including inner frustums supporting a plurality of active head gaps in an interior region and at least one further outer frustum on each side of the inner frustums in the cross film direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wlodzimierz S. Czarnecki, George W. Brock, Kent R. Gandola, Joseph de Lellis, Christopher P. Mencher