Kodak Assigned Patent for Fusible Inkjet Recording Media

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<p><font size=”5″><strong>Kodak Assigned Patent for Fusible Inkjet Recording Media</strong></font></p>
<p><font size=”4″> ALEXANDRIA, Va.,– Eastman Kodak, Rochester, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (8,298,634) developed by Kurt M. Schroeder, Spencerport, N.Y., Lawrence P. DeMejo, Rochester, N.Y., and Gregory E. Missell, Lima, N.Y., for a “fusible inkjet recording media.”<br />
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The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An inkjet printing system contains an inkjet printer loaded with a recording element comprising a support and an ink receiving layer containing: a) fusible polymeric particles; and b) a water soluble block copolymer having ethylene oxide and propylene oxide segments, the copolymer exhibiting a Draves wetting coefficient, for a 0.1 wt % solution in water at 25.degree. C., of not more than 360 seconds. An inkjet printing method and an inkjet recording medium are also contemplated.”<br />
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The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2008 (12/241,355). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=82,98,634&OS=82,98,634&RS=82,98,634</font></p&gt;

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December 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM