Patents by Inventor Patrick Veya
Patrick Veya 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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Publication number: 20240018378Abstract: The present invention provides a UV-Vis radiation curable security ink for producing a security feature for securing value documents, wherein said security feature exhibits a blue color upon viewing in transmitted light and a metallic yellow color upon viewing in incident light. The UV-Vis radiation curable security ink comprises a cationically curable or a hybrid curable ink vehicle, and silver nanoplatelets bearing a surface stabilizing agent of general formula (I) wherein the residue RA is a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; the residue RB is selected from a C1-C4alkyl group, and a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; and Cat+ is an ammonium cation of general formula +NH2RCRD, wherein the residue RC is a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; and the residue RD is selected from a C1-C4alkyl group, and a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Hervé PITTET, Marlyse DEMARTIN MAEDER, Patrick VEYA, Nikolay GRIGORENKO, Andre OSWALD
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Publication number: 20230407116Abstract: The present invention provides a UV-Vis radiation curable security ink for producing a security feature for securing value documents, wherein said security feature exhibits a blue color upon viewing in transmitted light and a metallic yellow color upon viewing in incident light. The UV-Vis radiation curable security ink comprises a cationically curable or a hybrid curable ink vehicle, and silver nanoplatelets bearing a surface stabilizing agent of general formula (I) wherein the residue RA is a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; the residue RB is selected from a C1-C4 alkyl group, and a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; and Cat+ is a cation selected from the group consisting of Na+, K+, Cs+ and Rb+.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Hervé PITTET, Marlyse DEMARTIN MAEDER, Patrick VEYA, Nikolay GRIGORENKO, Andre OSWALD
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Publication number: 20230364639Abstract: The invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents such as for example banknotes and identity documents against counterfeit and illegal reproduction. In particular, the present invention provides methods for producing optical effect layers (OELs) exhibiting one or more indicia (x30) on a substrate (x20), said method comprising a step of exposing a coating layer (x10) comprising non-spherical magnetic or magnetisable pigment particles to a magnetic field of a magnetic-field generating device so as to orient at least a part of the magnetic or magnetisable pigment particles; a step of applying a top coating composition on top of the coating layer (x10) and in the form of one or more indicia (x30), and a step of at least partially curing the coating layer (x10) and the one or more indicia (x30) with a curing unit (x50).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Hervé PITTET, Thibaut MARTINI, Patrick VEYA, Riccardo RUGGERONE, Jean GARNIER
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Patent number: 11712917Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of security documents comprising a security feature, such as a windowed security thread, a security foil, a security patch, a hologram or an ink printed security feature, and a protective coating, and methods of manufacturing of said security documents. The security feature has a security feature thickness tf of at least about 5 ?m (micrometers) and a security feature surface facing away from the substrate consisting of a first region adjacent to the edges of the security feature and a second region non-adjacent to the edges of the security feature. The protective coating covers the security feature surface facing away from the substrate, a first substrate surface adjacent to the edges of the security feature, and a second substrate surface, which is different from the substrate surface covered by the security feature and the first substrate surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Thibaut Martini, Gebhard Ritter, Jean Garnier, Riccardo Ruggerone, Patrick Veya
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Publication number: 20230166551Abstract: The present invention provides a process for manufacturing a security feature for securing a value document, wherein said security feature exhibits a blue color upon viewing in transmitted light and a metallic yellow color upon viewing in Incident light. The manufacturing process comprises the following steps: a) printing a specific UV-Vis radiation curable ink on a transparent or partially transparent region of a substrate of a value document; b) heating the ink layer obtained at step a) at a temperature of about 55° C. to about 100° C. for at least one second so that the ink layer exhibits a metallic yellow color upon viewing in incident light; and c) UV-Vis curing the ink layer obtained at step b) to form the security feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Hervé PITTET, Marlyse DEMARTIN MAEDER, Patrick VEYA, Nikolay GRIGORENKO, Andre OSWALD, Michelle RICHERT
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Publication number: 20230150287Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of security inks suitable for printing security features on substrates, in particular on security documents or articles as well as security features made from said security inks, and security documents comprising a security feature made from said security inks. In particular, the invention provides UV-Vis radiation cationically curable security inks and UV-Vis radiation curable hybrid security inks comprising an ink vehicle and pigments comprising a flake-shaped non-metallic or metallic substrate comprising one or more at least partial coating layers, an at least partial surface treatment layer made of one or more surface modifiers based on perfluoropolyethers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventor: Patrick VEYA
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Publication number: 20220305835Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of security inks suitable for printing security features on substrates, in particular on security documents or articles as well as security features made from said security inks, and security documents comprising a security feature made from said security inks. In particular, the invention provides UV-Vis radiation radically curable security inks comprising an ink vehicle and pigments comprising a flake-shaped non-metallic or metallic substrate comprising one or more at least partial coating layers, an at least partial surface treatment layer made of one or more surface modifiers selected from fluoro compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Patrick VEYA, Angèle MONNEY
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Publication number: 20220242159Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of security documents comprising a security feature, such as a windowed security thread, a security foil, a security patch, a hologram or an ink printed security feature, and a protective coating, and methods of manufacturing of said security documents. The security feature has a security feature thickness tf of at least about 5 ?m (micrometers) and a security feature surface facing away from the substrate consisting of a first region adjacent to the edges of the security feature and a second region non-adjacent to the edges of the security feature. The protective coating covers the security feature surface facing away from the substrate, a first substrate surface adjacent to the edges of the security feature, and a second substrate surface, which is different from the substrate surface covered by the security feature and the first substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Thibaut MARTINI, Gebhard RITTER, Jean GARNIER, Riccardo RUGGERONE, Patrick VEYA
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Publication number: 20220219479Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of security inks suitable for printing machine readable security features on substrate, security documents or articles as well as machine readable security feature made from said security inks, and security documents comprising a machine readable security feature made from said security inks. In particular, the invention provides security inks comprising one or more IR absorbing materials wherein said security ink allows the production of a machine readable security feature having the following optical properties: a lightness L* equal to or higher than about 80, a chroma C* smaller than or equal to about 15 and a reflectance at 900 nm smaller than or equal to about 60%.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Marlyse DEMARTIN MAEDER, Claude-Alain DESPLAND, Patrick VEYA
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Patent number: 10391806Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of the protection of security documents, especially banknotes, against illegal actions such as robbery or theft. In particular, the present disclosure relates to the field of ink-stained documents that are resistant to chemicals. The disclosed security documents are covered on at least one side by from about 70% to about 90% of a protective varnish and have from about 10% to about 30% of one or more varnish-free areas with one or more varnish-free indentations, the percentages being based on the total surface of the one side of the security document.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Raynald Demange, Patrick Veya, Alain Mayer, Pierre Degott
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Publication number: 20150259565Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents, in particular banknotes, against premature detrimental influence of soil and/or moisture upon use and time. In particular, it relates radiation curable protective varnishes comprising one or more cationically curable compounds and one or more di-hydroxyl-terminated perfluoropolyether compounds of the general formula HO—(CH2CH2O)c—CH2—CF2O—(CF2—CF2O)a—(CF2O)b—CF2—CH2—(OCH2CH2)d—OH, wherein a and b independently are integers in a range between 0 and 50, wherein a+b?1, and wherein c and d may be the same or different and are in the range of 1-20, and their uses for providing a protective coating or layer on a security document.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Patrick Veya, Jean Garnier
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Publication number: 20150072117Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of the protection of security documents, especially banknotes, against illegal actions such as robbery or theft. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of ink-stained documents that are resistant to chemicals. The disclosed security documents are covered on at least one side by from about 70% to about 90% of a protective varnish and comprising from about 10% to about 30% of one or more varnish-free areas comprising one or more varnish-free indentations (I), the percents being based on the total surface of the one side of the security document.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Raynald Demange, Patrick Veya, Alain Mayer, Pierre Degott
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Patent number: 8540813Abstract: An ink for the engraved copperplate intaglio printing inks is disclosed, which comprises high-molecular-weight dendritic polymer as a binder component. Inks comprising such polymer can be formulated so as to contain a significantly reduced amount of organic solvent (volatile organic components, VOC) while still being in the appropriate viscosity range required by the intaglio printing process. The printed and cured intaglio ink of the present invention has improved chemical and mechanical resistance properties.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Sicpa Holding SAInventors: Anne Grosset, Olivier Lefèbvre, Christophe Schaller, Nicolas Trachsel, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya
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Publication number: 20120286503Abstract: The present invention is related to a coating composition for the production of a magnetically induced image, consisting of volatile components (S) and non-volatile components, the latter consisting of an ink vehicle (I) and magnetically orientable optically variable interference pigment (P), to a process for manufacturing the coating composition, and to the use of the composition for the production of a magnetically induced image coating on a substrate with the help of applied magnetic fields. Said magnetically induced image coating may be used as a security device on value- or identity documents, brand protection labels and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Pierre DEGOTT, Claude-Alain DESPLAND, Patrick MAGNIN, Patrick VEYA, Mathieu SCHMID, Edgar MÜLLER, Albert STICHELBERGER
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Patent number: 8303700Abstract: The present invention is related to a coating composition for the production of a magnetically induced image, consisting of volatile components (S) and non-volatile components, the latter consisting of an ink vehicle (I) and magnetically orientable optically variable interference pigment (P), to a process for manufacturing the coating composition, and to the use of the composition for the production of a magnetically induced image coating on a substrate with the help of applied magnetic fields. Said magnetically induced image coating may be used as a security device on value- or identity documents, brand protection labels and the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Sicpa Holding SAInventors: Pierre Degott, Claude-Alain Despland, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya, Mathieu Schmid, Edgar Mueller, Albert Stichelberger
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Patent number: 8246735Abstract: The present invention is related to a coating composition for the production of a magnetically induced image, consisting of volatile components (S) and non-volatile components, the latter consisting of an ink vehicle (I) and magnetically orientable optically variable interference pigment (P), to a process for manufacturing the coating composition, and to the use of the composition for the production of a magnetically induced image coating on a substrate with the help of applied magnetic fields. Said magnetically induced image coating may be used as a security device on value- or identity documents, brand protection labels and the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: SICPA Holding SAInventors: Pierre Degott, Claude-Alain Despland, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya, Mathieu Schmid, Edgar Müller, Albert Stichelberger
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Publication number: 20110298207Abstract: Disclosed is a security document (D), having a substrate (S) coated with at least one first coating layer (P), and over said first coating layer (P) at least one second coating layer (I), said second coating layer (I) comprising at least one type of magnetic or magnetizable particles (F), wherein indicia are embodied in the coating layer (I) through a selective orientation of the said magnetic or magnetizable particles (F). Further disclosed is a process of making said security document.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: SICPA HOLDING SAInventors: Claude-Alain DESPLAND, Mathieu SCHMID, Patrick VEYA
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Publication number: 20110109076Abstract: An ink for the engraved copperplate intaglio printing Hyperbranched polyesters inks is disclosed, which comprises high-molecular-weight dendritic polymer as a binder component. Inks comprising such polymer can be formulated so as to contain a significantly reduced amount of organic solvent (volatile organic components, VOC) whilst still being in the appropriate viscosity range required by the intaglio printing process. The printed and cured intaglio ink of the present invention has improved chemical and mechanical resistance properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Anne Grosset, Olivier Lefèbvre, Christophe Schaller, Nicolas Trachsel, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya
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Publication number: 20090297796Abstract: A water-based screen printing ink composition which can be used for flexo or gravure printing includes an acrylic or urethane-acrylic copolymer emulsion, a crosslinker, a pigment selected from the group consisting of luminescent pigments, magnetic pigments, optical effect pigments, optically variable pigments, and a catalyst. The crosslinker has at least two different chemical functionalities within the same molecule, a first of which forms a covalent link with the polymer prior to printing and a second of which effects crosslinking of the polymer to cure the printed ink.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: SICPA HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Aline Menoud, Patrick Veya
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Publication number: 20090184169Abstract: The present invention is related to a coating composition for the production of a magnetically induced image, consisting of volatile components (S) and non-volatile components, the latter consisting of an ink vehicle (I) and magnetically orientable optically variable interference pigment (P), to a process for manufacturing the coating composition, and to the use of the composition for the production of a magnetically induced image coating on a substrate with the help of applied magnetic fields. Said magnetically induced image coating may be used as a security device on value- or identity documents, brand protection labels and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: July 23, 2009Applicant: SICPA HOLDING S.A.Inventors: Pierre Degott, Claude-Alain Despland, Patrick Magnin, Patrick Veya, Mathieu Schmid, Edgar Müller, Albert Stichelberger