Patents by Inventor Elaine C. Barber

Elaine C. Barber 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).

  • Patent number: 4668558
    Abstract: An article comprising a shaped, plastic layer or body comprising crosslinked polymer with hard and soft segments or moieties and having a microstructure-bearing surface is prepared by a process comprising filling a mold master, bearing or encoded with the microstructure to be replicated, with a fluid, castable, one-part, preferably solvent-free, radiation addition-polymerizable, crosslinkable, synthetic, organic oligomeric composition (or precursors thereof) having "hard" segments and "soft" polysiloxane segments, exposing the resulting case composition to radiation, preferably actinic radiation such as ultraviolet radiation, and thereby forming said article, e.g., a retroreflective cube-corner sheeting, Fresnel lens or video disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Elaine C. Barber
  • Patent number: 4582885
    Abstract: An article comprising a shaped, plastic layer or body comprising crosslinked polymer with hard and soft segments or moieties and having a microstructure-bearing surface is prepared by a process comprising filling a mold master, bearing or encoded with the microstructure to be replicated, with a fluid, castable, one-part, preferably solvent-free, radiation addition-polymerizable, crosslinkable, synthetic, organic oligomeric composition (or precursors thereof) having "hard" segments and "soft" polysiloxane segments, exposing the resulting case composition to radiation, preferably actinic radiation such as ultraviolet radiation, and thereby forming said article, e.g., a retroreflective cube-corner sheeting, Fresnel lens or video disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1986
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Elaine C. Barber
  • Patent number: D314841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Remington Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Locke, Elaine C. Barber