Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Jude Patricia

Jeffrey Jude Patricia 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: 7005407
    Abstract: A thermally imageable element having a thermally imageable layer, wherein the thermally imageable layer has a thermal amplification additive and a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of phenolic type compounds and amine type compounds. These stabilizers present in thermally imageable layers maintain NIR stability during manufacture, and when the thermally imageable elements containing them are used in thermal imaging processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Rolf Dessauer, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Gregory Charles Weed
  • Patent number: 6881526
    Abstract: A process for adjusting the energy of an imaging laser for imaging of a thermally imageable element including the steps of: (a) providing an imaging unit having a non-imaging laser and an imaging laser, the non-imaging laser having a light detector which is in communication with the imaging laser, (b) contacting a receiver element with the thermally imageable element in the imaging unit, wherein the receiver element comprises a light attenuating layer having a front surface and a back surface; (c) actuating the non-imaging laser to expose the thermally imageable element and the receiver element to an amount of light energy sufficient for the light detector to detect the amount of light reflected from the thermally imageable element and light attenuating layer of the receiver element; and (d) actuating the imaging laser to focus the imaging laser in order to expose the thermally imageable element to an amount of light energy sufficient for imaging the thermally imageable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: John E. Bobeck, Richard Albert Coveleskie, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Alan Lee Shobert, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr., Harry Richard Zwicker
  • Publication number: 20040048175
    Abstract: A process for adjusting the energy of an imaging laser for imaging of a thermally imageable element including the steps of: (a) providing an imaging unit having a non-imaging laser and an imaging laser, the non-imaging laser having a light detector which is in communication with the imaging laser, (b) contacting a receiver element with the thermally imageable element in the imaging unit, wherein the receiver element comprises a light attenuating layer having a front surface and a back surface; (c) actuating the non-imaging laser to expose the thermally imageable element and the receiver element to an amount of light energy sufficient for the light detector to detect the amount of light reflected from the thermally imageable element and light attenuating layer of the receiver element; and (d) actuating the imaging laser to focus the imaging laser in order to expose the thermally imageable element to an amount of light energy sufficient for imaging the thermally imageable element
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: John E. Bobeck, Richard Albert Coveleskie, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Alan Lee Shobert, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr, Harry Richard Zwicker
  • Publication number: 20040027445
    Abstract: A thermally imageable element having a thermally imageable layer, wherein the thermally imageable layer has a thermal amplification additive and a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of phenolic type compounds and amine type compounds. These stabilizers present in thermally imageable layers maintain NIR stability during manufacture, and when the thermally imageable elements containing them are used in thermal imaging processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Rolf Dessauer, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Gregory Charles Weed
  • Patent number: 6407037
    Abstract: A receiver element for use in a thermal imaging process, wherein a surface of a pigment-image receiving layer of the receiver element has a roughness, and the surface is brought into contact with a thermally imageable element, wherein the pigment-image receiving layer provided on the receiver element has an average roughness (Ra) of less than about 1&mgr; and has surface irregularities having a plurality of peaks, at least about 50 of the peaks having a height of at least about 200 nm and a diameter of about 100 pixels over a surface area of about 458&mgr; by about 602&mgr;. These roughened receiver elements substantially reduce the micro-dropouts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: E. I. duPont de Nemours And Company
    Inventors: David N. Prugh, Jeffrey Jude Patricia, Harvey Walter Taylor, Jr.