Patents by Inventor John L. Marshall
John L. Marshall 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).
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Patent number: 6110638Abstract: A process for generation of acid uses a medium comprising a first acid-generating component capable of generating a first acid, and a secondary acid generator, this secondary acid generator being capable of thermal decomposition to form a secondary acid, the thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator being catalyzed by the first acid. At least part of the medium is exposed to so as to cause formation of the first acid from the first acid-generating component; and the medium is then heated to cause, in the exposed part of the medium, acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator and formation of the secondary acid.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1996Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Roger A. Boggs, Jurgen M. Grasshoff, Eric S. Kolb, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Socorro M. Ramos, Stephen G. Stroud, Stephen J. Telfer, Haixin Yang
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Patent number: 6015907Abstract: 2,4,6-Trisubstituted pyridines wherein at least one of the substituents is a para-(N,N-diarylamino)phenyl group, and the other two substituents are alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl groups are useful as image dyes in acid-mediated imaging media, since the colored forms of these dyes display improved photostability as compared with similar trisubstituted pyridines which lack the para-(N,N-diarylamino)phenyl group. Salts of these trisubstituted pyridines are also useful in sensitizing 'onium salts to blue visible or similar radiation.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventor: John L. Marshall
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Patent number: 6004719Abstract: A process for producing an image uses an imaging medium comprising an acid-generating layer or phase comprising a mixture of a superacid precursor, a sensitizing dye and a secondary acid generator, and a color-change layer comprising an image dye. The sensitizing dye has first and second forms, the first form having substantially greater substantial absorption in a first wavelength range than the second form. The superacid precursor is not capable, in the absence of the first form of the sensitizing dye, of being decomposed by radiation in the first wavelength range. The secondary acid generator is capable of thermal decomposition, catalyzed by superacid, to form a secondary acid. While at least part of the sensitizing dye is in its first form, the medium is imagewise exposed to radiation in the first wavelength range, thereby causing, in the exposed areas of the acid-generating layer, the formation of superacid.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1997Date of Patent: December 21, 1999Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Russell A. Gaudiana, Robert W. Haddock, Serajul Haque, Iris B. Kliman Bloom, John L. Marshall, Socorro M. Ramos, Larry C. Takiff, Stephen J. Telfer, Michael A. Young
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Patent number: 5919608Abstract: The sensitivity to radiation of combinations of cationic electron acceptors (such as phosphonium, sulfonium, diazonium and iodonium salts) with sensitizing dyes, which sensitize these cationic electron acceptors to wavelengths (typically visible wavelengths) to which they are not sensitive in the absence of the dye, can be increased by including with the cationic electron acceptor and the sensitizing dye a supersensitizer which has an oxidation potential lower than that of the sensitizing dye, the supersensitizer being an ionic compound having a cation comprising an ionic grouping, said grouping comprising at least one atom of an element from Group VB, VIB or VIIB of the Periodic Table.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1997Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Serajul Haque, John L. Marshall, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5919950Abstract: Squarylium compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2 are each independently a pyrylium, thiopyrylium, selenopyrylium, benzpyrylium, benzthiopyrylium or benzselenopyrylium nucleus, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic group, can be prepared by reacting a squaric acid derivative of the formula: ##STR2## with a compound of the formula Q.sup.2 CH.sub.2 R.sup.2 in the presence of a base.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1993Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Paulina P. Garcia, John W. Lee, John L. Marshall, Donald A. McGowan, Anthony J. Puttick, Thomas K. Spencer, Stephen G. Stroud, Stephen J. Telfer, Michael J. Zuraw
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Patent number: 5914213Abstract: A process for generation of acid uses a medium comprising a first acid-generating component capable of generating a first acid, and a secondary acid generator, this secondary acid generator being capable of thermal decomposition to form a secondary acid, the thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator being catalyzed by the first acid. At least part of the medium is exposed to so as to cause formation of the first acid from the first acid-generating component; and the medium is then heated to cause, in the exposed part of the medium, acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator and formation of the secondary acid.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Socorro M. Ramos, Stephen G. Stroud, Stephen J. Telfer, Haixin Yang, Roger A. Boggs, Eric S. Kolb
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Patent number: 5741630Abstract: A process for producing and fixing an image uses an imaging medium comprising an acid-generating layer or phase comprising a mixture of a superacid precursor, a sensitizer and a secondary acid generator, and a color-change layer comprising an image dye. The sensitizer can absorb radiation of a sensitizer wavelength which does not, in the absence of the sensitizer, cause decomposition of the superacid precursor to form the corresponding superacid. The secondary acid generator is capable of acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition by the first acid to form a second acid, and the image dye undergoes a color change upon contact with the second acid. The medium is imagewise exposed to radiation of the sensitizer wavelength, thereby causing the sensitizer, in exposed areas, to decompose superacid precursor with formation of the fist acid. The medium is then heated to cause, in the exposed areas, acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator and formation of the second acid.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1994Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: John L. Marshall, Rita S. Shon Baker, Larry C. Takiff, Stephen J. Telfer, John C. Warner
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Patent number: 5631118Abstract: A process for producing an image uses an imaging medium comprising an acid-generating layer or phase comprising a mixture of a superacid precursor, a sensitizing dye and a secondary acid generator, and a color-change layer comprising an image dye. The sensitizing dye has first and second forms, the first form having substantially greater substantial absorption in a first wavelength range than the second form. The superacid precursor is capable of being decomposed to produce superacid by radiation in a second wavelength range, but is not, in the absence of the sensitizing dye, capable of being decomposed by radiation in the first wavelength range. The secondary acid generator is capable of acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition by unbuffered superacid to form a secondary acid.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1995Date of Patent: May 20, 1997Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Russell A. Gaudiana, Robert W. Haddock, John L. Marshall, Larry C. Takiff, Stephen J. Telfer, Michael A. Young
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Patent number: 5582956Abstract: A process for producing and fixing an image uses an imaging medium comprising an acid-generating layer or phase comprising a mixture of a superacid precursor, a sensitizer and a secondary acid generator, and a color-change layer comprising an image dye. The sensitizer can absorb radiation of a sensitizer wavelength which does not, in the absence of the sensitizer, cause decomposition of the superacid precursor to form the corresponding superacid. The secondary acid generator is capable of acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition by the first acid to form a secondary acid, and the image dye undergoes a color change upon contact with the secondary acid. The medium is imagewise exposed to radiation of the sensitizer wavelength, thereby causing the sensitizer, in exposed areas, to decompose superacid precursor with formation of the fist acid. The medium is then heated to cause, in the exposed areas, acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator and formation of the secondary acid.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1995Date of Patent: December 10, 1996Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Anne Ehret, John L. Marshall, Rita S. S. Baker, Larry C. Takiff, Stephen J. Telfer, John C. Warner
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Patent number: 5578424Abstract: Acid can be generated by exposing a mixture of a superacid precursor and a dye to actinic radiation of a first wavelength which does not, in the absence of the dye, cause decomposition of the superacid precursor to form the corresponding superacid, thereby causing absorption of the actinic radiation and decomposition of part of the superacid precursor, with formation of a protonated product derived from the dye, then irradiating the mixture with actinic radiation of a second wavelength, thereby causing decomposition of part of the remaining superacid precursor, with formation of unbuffered superacid. Preferably, following these irradiations, the imaging medium is heated while the superacid is admixed with a secondary acid generator capable of being thermally decomposed to form a second acid, the thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator being catalyzed by the presence of the superacid.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1995Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Anthony J. Puttick, Lloyd D. Taylor, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5534388Abstract: Acid can be generated by exposing a superacid precursor to actinic radiation effective to generate superacid from the superacid precursor and heating the superacid in admixture with a secondary acid generator capable of undergoing thermal decomposition to produce a secondary acid. The superacid catalyzes decomposition of the secondary acid generator, thus increasing the quantity of strong acid present in the medium. The resultant secondary acid can be used to effect a color change in an acid-sensitive material, so providing an imaging process.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 1995Date of Patent: July 9, 1996Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Mark R. Mischke, Anthony J. Puttick, Lloyd D. Taylor, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5453345Abstract: Acid can be generated by exposing a mixture of a superacid precursor and a dye to actinic radiation of a first wavelength which does not, in the absence of the dye, cause decomposition of the superacid precursor to form the corresponding superacid, thereby causing absorption of the actinic radiation and decomposition of part of the superacid precursor, with formation of a protonated product derived from the dye, then irradiating the mixture with actinic radiation of a second wavelength, thereby causing decomposition of part of the remaining superacid precursor, with formation of unbuffered superacid. Preferably, following these irradiations, the imaging medium is heated while the superacid is admixed with a secondary acid generator capable of being thermally decomposed to form a second acid, the thermal decomposition of the secondary acid generator being catalyzed by the presence of the superacid.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1993Date of Patent: September 26, 1995Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Anthony J. Puttick, Lloyd D. Taylor, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5445917Abstract: Acid can be generated by exposing a superacid precursor to actinic radiation effective to generate superacid from the superacid precursor and heating the superacid in admixture with a secondary acid generator capable of undergoing thermal decomposition to produce a secondary acid. The superacid catalyzes decomposition of the secondary acid generator, thus increasing the quantity of strong acid present in the medium. The resultant secondary acid can be used to effect a color change in an acid-sensitive material, so providing an imaging process.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1994Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Mark R. Mischke, Anthony J. Puttick, Lloyd D. Taylor, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5441850Abstract: A process for producing an image uses an imaging medium comprising an acid-generating layer or phase comprising a mixture of a superacid precursor, a sensitizing dye and a secondary acid generator, and a color-change layer comprising an image dye. The sensitizing dye has a unprotonated form and a protonated form, the protonated form having substantially greater substantial absorption in a first wavelength range than the unprotonated form. The superacid precursor is capable of being decomposed to produce superacid by radiation in a second wavelength range, but is not, in the absence of the sensitizing dye, capable of being decomposed by radiation in the first wavelength range. The secondary acid generator is capable of acid-catalyzed thermal decomposition by unbuffered superacid to form a second acid.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: John L. Marshall, Larry C. Takiff, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 5395736Abstract: Acid can be generated by exposing a superacid precursor to actinic radiation effective to generate superacid from the superacid precursor and heating the superacid in admixture with a secondary acid generator capable of undergoing thermal decomposition to produce a secondary acid. The superacid catalyzes decomposition of the secondary acid generator, thus increasing the quantity of strong acid present in the medium. The resultant secondary acid can be used to effect a color change in an acid-sensitive material, so providing an imaging process.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1993Date of Patent: March 7, 1995Assignee: Polaroid CorporationInventors: Jurgen M. Grasshoff, John L. Marshall, Richard A. Minns, Mark R. Mischke, Anthony J. Puttick, Lloyd D. Taylor, Stephen J. Telfer
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Patent number: 4475570Abstract: A water hydrant is provided with a number of valves operable to eliminate freezing problems and to prevent backflow into potable water, thereby precluding the danger of contamination. Water and air valves operate in conjunction such that trapping of water in the hydrant is averted by the admission of air after each closing of the water valve. By a somewhat different arrangement in outlet spout valving, air is also admitted to the spout after each closing of the water valve or other reduction in water pressure, the spout valving having the additional feature of blocking backflow, all of which meets the anti-contamination requirements of the hydrant.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1981Date of Patent: October 9, 1984Assignee: Prier Brass Manufacturing Co.Inventors: Daniel W. Pike, Phillip J. Crawley, John L. Marshall, Steve A. Martin
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Patent number: 4324253Abstract: An apparatus for generating electrical pulses which are suitable for application to selected areas of the user's body for pain control or muscle stimulation. The current level, pulse width, pulse rate, voltage level and pulse configuration are all controlled to produce the desired effects. The apparatus includes a timing circuit which emits pulses of selected width and repetition rate. The pulses from the timing circuit energize a switching circuit which selectively connects the primary of a pulse transformer to a power source. The transformer is so constructed and arranged that it operates near saturation, thereby effectively operating as a current limiter, which helps to prevent spikes in the electrical pulse output of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1979Date of Patent: April 13, 1982Inventors: Ronald W. Greene, John L. Marshall
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Patent number: 4147171Abstract: An apparatus for generating electrical pulses which are suitable for application to selected areas of the user's body for pain control or muscle stimulation. The current level, pulse width, pulse rate, voltage level and pulse configuration are all controlled to produce the desired effects. The apparatus includes a timing circuit which emits pulses of selected width and repetition rate. The pulses from the timing circuit energize a switching circuit which selectively connects the primary of a pulse transformer to a power source. The transformer is so constructed and arranged that it operates near saturation, thereby effectively operating as a current limiter, which helps to prevent spikes in the electrical pulse output of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1977Date of Patent: April 3, 1979Inventors: Ronald W. Greene, John L. Marshall
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Patent number: D259058Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1978Date of Patent: April 28, 1981Inventor: John L. Marshall
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Patent number: D355222Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: February 7, 1995Assignee: Plasti-Line, Inc.Inventors: John L. Marshall, J. Michael Milner