Patents by Inventor Sharon R. Girolmo

Sharon R. Girolmo 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: 8034422
    Abstract: A manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating composition consisting of non-cationic components, wherein the non-cationic components comprise a binder and anionic particles of average particle size less than 2.5 microns, wherein the ink-receiving top layer comprises at least 50% of the total solids by weight, such that the water-soluble salt of a multivalent metal cation is able to diffuse into the ink-receiving top layer, the method further comprising drying the coating and optionally calendering the coating. Also disclosed is inkjet media made from such method and a method of printing using such inkjet media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dannhauser, Douglas E. Bugner, Sharon R. Girolmo
  • Publication number: 20090213151
    Abstract: A manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating composition consisting of non-cationic components, wherein the non-cationic components comprise a binder and anionic particles of average particle size less than 2.5 microns, wherein the ink-receiving top layer comprises at least 50% of the total solids by weight, such that the water-soluble salt of a multivalent metal cation is able to diffuse into the ink-receiving top layer, the method further comprising drying the coating and optionally calendering the coating. Also disclosed is inkjet media made from such method and a method of printing using such inkjet media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dannhauser, Douglas E. Bugner, Sharon R. Girolmo
  • Patent number: 7569255
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating composition consisting of non-cationic components, wherein the non-cationic components comprise a binder and anionic particles of average particle size less than 2.5 microns, wherein the ink-receiving top layer comprises at least 50% of the total solids by weight, such that the water-soluble salt of a multivalent metal cation is able to diffuse into the ink-receiving top layer, the method further comprising drying the coating and optionally calendering the coating. Also disclosed is inkjet media made from such method and a method of printing using such inkjet media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dannhauser, Douglas E. Bugner, Sharon R. Girolmo
  • Publication number: 20090074995
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an ink-receiving medium comprising the steps of providing a support, treating the support with a salt of a multivalent metal cation, and coating upon one or each side of the support at least one porous ink-receiving top layer from an aqueous coating composition consisting of non-cationic components, wherein the non-cationic components comprise a binder and anionic particles of average particle size less than 2.5 microns, wherein the ink-receiving top layer comprises at least 50% of the total solids by weight, such that the water-soluble salt of a multivalent metal cation is able to diffuse into the ink-receiving top layer, the method further comprising drying the coating and optionally calendering the coating. Also disclosed is inkjet media made from such method and a method of printing using such inkjet media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dannhauser, Douglas E. Bugner, Sharon R. Girolmo
  • Patent number: 5558977
    Abstract: Imaging elements, such as photographic, electrostatographic and thermal imaging elements, are comprised of a support, an image-forming layer, a transparent magnetic layer comprising magnetic particles dispersed in a film-forming binder and a transparent electrically-conductive layer comprising a sputter-deposited layer of a metal oxide. Use of a sputter-deposited metal oxide provides a controlled degree of electrical conductivity and beneficial chemical, physical and optical properties which adapt the electrically-conductive layer for such purposes as providing protection against static or serving as an electrode which takes part in an image-forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Vito A. DePalma, Robert G. Spahn, Bradley K. Coltrain, George N. Musshafen, Sharon R. Girolmo