Patents by Inventor Michael R. Viola

Michael R. Viola 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: 4337293
    Abstract: A system of making custom transfers using as the image transfer implement clear or transparent polyvinyl chloride film in sheeting form that is pretreated in practicing the invention to have on its side that is to bear the image to be transferred a polyvinyl alcohol overcoated adhesion and release coating that forms an incipient image receiving transfer medium, in which system the image that is selected to be transferred is photographed to provide the image of same in the usual photographic negative format, and a section, of appropriate size, of the transfer implement serving film is severed from the stock of such film to provide a transfer sheet that is further processed for completing and sensitizing the sheet transfer medium for photographic application to same, and in enlarge form, the image to be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1982
    Inventor: Michael R. Viola
  • Patent number: 4304837
    Abstract: A system of making custom transfers using as the image transfer implement clear or transparent polyvinyl chloride film in sheeting form that is pretreated in practicing the invention to have on its side that is to bear the image to be transferred a polyvinyl alcohol overcoated adhesion and release coating that forms an incipient image receiving transfer medium, in which system the image that is selected to be transferred is photographed to provide the image of same in the usual photographic negative format, and a section, of appropriate size, of the transfer implement serving film is severed from the stock of such film to provide a transfer sheet that is further processed for completing and sensitizing the sheet transfer medium for photographic application to same, and in enlarge form, the image to be transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1981
    Inventor: Michael R. Viola