Patents by Inventor Gerard J. Bourgeois

Gerard J. Bourgeois 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: 4359517
    Abstract: Image-receiving elements and photographic diffusion transfer products providing diffusion transfer transparency images are described. The image-receiving elements include a transparent support carrying, in sequence, an acid-reacting reagent; a first polymeric timing layer possessing decreasing alkaline solution permeability with increasing temperature; a second timing layer comprising cellulose acetate; and an alkaline solution-permeable and dyeable polymeric image-receiving layer comprising a graft polymer having a polymeric backbone and grafted thereto moieties which provide mordant capability. The utilization in the image-receiving elements of the aforedescribed first and second timing layers permits the provision of elements which can be effectively processed over a range of processing temperatures and which are adapted to the provision of transparencies which exhibit desired images without the distracting or otherwise objectionable image defects associated with reticulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1982
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard J. Bourgeois
  • Patent number: 4203766
    Abstract: This invention is concerned with the use of certain pyridine N-oxides in diffusion transfer products and processes employing dye developers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard J. Bourgeois, Russell A. Gaudiana, Ronald A. Sahatjian
  • Patent number: 4071366
    Abstract: Improved diffusion transfer photographic products and processes wherein a distinctive image-receiving sheet comprising a plurality of layers one of which comprises a polymeric material providing quaternary nitrogen groups is integrated with an integral negative-position diffusion transfer film unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1978
    Assignee: Polaroid Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard J. Bourgeois, Ronald A. Sahatjian