Patents by Inventor Elbert M. Idelson

Elbert M. Idelson 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: 4719175
    Abstract: There are described novel pyrazole compounds represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein Y is a silver halide developing substituent or a precursor thereof; R is --OH, --NH.sub.2 or --NHSO.sub.2 --R.sub.1 ; R.sub.1 is alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms or phenyl; and m and n are the same or different and each is an integer of from 1 to 6. The pyrazole compounds are useful as intermediates in the preparation of azo and azomethine dye developers or as silver halide developing agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1988
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Efthimios Chinoporos, Elbert M. Idelson, Patrick F. King
  • Patent number: 4656117
    Abstract: There are described novel azo and azomethine dye developers which include a pyrazolone moiety having two silver halide developing groups. In one embodiment the dye developers are metal complexed. The dye developer compounds are useful in photographic products and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Efthimios Chinoporos, Elbert M. Idelson, Patrick F. King
  • Patent number: 4404136
    Abstract: Chrome-complexed hexadentate dyes which include an ortho, ortho-dihydroxy azo or azomethine dye moiety, a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid and a linkage connecting the ligand to the dye moiety. In one embodiment the dyes include a photographically useful group and are also useful in photographic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporaton
    Inventors: Elbert M. Idelson, Patrick F. King
  • Patent number: 4336405
    Abstract: There are described novel compounds which include a silver halide developing function, a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid and a radical containing an onium group. The compounds are useful in photography as silver halide developing agents and also may be complexed with metals to form dye developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1982
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4294915
    Abstract: There are described novel compounds which include a silver halide developing function, a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid and a radical containing an onium group. The compounds are useful in photography as silver halide developing agents and also may be complexed with metals to form dye developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4290699
    Abstract: Color is synthesized by dispersing a beam of light to form a spectrum, effectively blocking a portion of the spectrum with a mask, and recombining the light energies of the unblocked portion(s) of the spectrum to synthesize the color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4267252
    Abstract: There are described novel magenta chrome complexed dye developers which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes. These novel magenta dye developers are zwitterionic compounds which include an onium salt such as a quaternary ammonium salt and a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4267253
    Abstract: There are described novel magenta 1:1 chrome-complexed dye developers which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes. These novel magenta dye developers are ionic salts which include a cation and a colorless ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4265811
    Abstract: There are described novel compounds which are chrome-complexed dyes and which include an ortho, ortho' dihydroxyazo dye moiety, an onium salt and a ligand which is a radical of an iminodiacetic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4247455
    Abstract: Novel yellow 2:1 azo-azo or azo-azomethine chrome complexed dye developer particularly useful in diffusion transfer photographic products and processes are presented by this invention. The novel 2:1 chrome complexed dye developers have the following structure: ##STR1## where each A is a phenyl radical; each B is a phenyl or nitrogen containing heterocyclic radical; Y is a silver halide developing substituent; each n is 0 or 1 but at least one n must be 1; R is N or CH; R.sup.1 is ##STR2## if R is N but R.sup.1 is --O-- if R is CH and X is a cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4231950
    Abstract: Novel yellow ortho, ortho' dihydroxy azomethine dyes and metal complexes of such dyes which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes are presented by this invention. The novel yellow ortho, ortho' dihydrozy azomethine dyes have the following structural formula: ##STR1## where n' is the integer 1-8 and m' is the integer 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4219599
    Abstract: Laminated documents such as I.D. cards using a phosphorescent material as a verification or validation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Elbert M. Idelson, Thomas Raphael, Herbert N. Schlein
  • Patent number: 4206139
    Abstract: Novel benzaldehydes of the formula: ##STR1## Where n.sup.1 is the integer 1-8 and each OR.sup.1 group is hydroxy or a protective group which can be converted or removed to provide the dihydroxyphenyl moiety.The benzaldehydes are particularly useful as intermediates in the preparation of yellow azomethine dye developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Elbert M. Idelson, Charles E. Jandrue
  • Patent number: 4206115
    Abstract: Novel yellow ortho carboxy, ortho' hydroxy azo dyes having a silver halide developing capability and conforming to the formula: ##STR1## where X' is hydrogen, hydroxy, carboxy or any substituent that does not adversely affect the solubility of thecompound of said formula in an aqueous alkaline photographic processing composition and does not render the oxidized form of the compound of said formula mobile in such processing composition; R.sup.5 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl having from 1-6 carbon atoms or ##STR2## having from 1-6 carbon atoms); R.sup.6 is hydrogen or alkyl; each R.sup.7 is hydrogen or a protective group which can be removed to provide a dihydroxyphenyl silver halide developing substituent and --alkylene-- has from 1-6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1980
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4174221
    Abstract: Novel yellow 2:1 chrome complexed dye developer particularly useful in photographic products and processes are presented by this invention. The novel 2:1 chrome complexed dye developers have the following structure: ##STR1## where each A is a phenyl radical; each B is a phenyl or nitrogen containing heterocylic radical; Y is a silver halide developing substituent; each n is 0 or 1 but at least one n must be 1; R is N or CH; R.sup.1 is ##STR2## if R is N but R.sup.1 is --O--if R is CH and X is a cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1979
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4166741
    Abstract: Novel yellow ortho, ortho' dihydroxy azomethine dyes and metal complexes of such dyes which are particularly useful in photographic products and processes are presented by this invention. The novel yellow ortho, ortho' dihydroxy azomethine dyes have the following structural formula: ##STR1## WHERE N' IS THE INTEGER 1-8 AND M' IS THE INTEGER 1 OR 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1979
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 4151667
    Abstract: Laminated documents such as I.D. cards using a phosphorescent material as a verification or validation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Elbert M. Idelson, Thomas Raphael, Herbert N. Schlein
  • Patent number: 4061654
    Abstract: Ordered tetrazaporphins prepared from the reaction of an aminoiminosubstituted pyrroline with a trihalosubstituted pyrroline in the presence of an acid acceptor and a hydrogen donor.These compounds are useful as intermediates in the preparation of dyes and pigments, as well as dye developers for photographic processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1973
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 3969120
    Abstract: A blue-colored filter element of an additive color screen possessing enhanced light stability is prepared by applying to a hydrophilic colloid area an acid triphenyl methane dye and a phthalocyanine dye possessing at least two sulfonic acid groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1976
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Elbert M. Idelson
  • Patent number: 3944569
    Abstract: This invention relates to a class of phthalein indicator dyes useful as optical filter agents in photographic processes to protect a selectively exposed photosensitive material from further exposure during processing in the presence of incident light. Such dyes comprise 3,3-disubstituted phthalides and 3,3-disubstituted naphthalides wherein the 3,3 substituents are p-hydroxy carbocyclic aryl radicals wherein one or both of the radicals possess a --CH.sub.2 --NRR' group ortho to the p-hydroxy group and the --CH.sub.2 --NRR' group(s) is capable of rendering the indicator dye substantially non-diffusible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1973
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1976
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley M. Bloom, Elbert M. Idelson, Myron S. Simon, David P. Waller