ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,586, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Article with catalytic ink and electrically-conductive pattern" was invented by James S. Honan (Spencerport, N.Y.), Danielle A. Farmer (Rochester, N.Y.) and Kevin Edward Spaulding (Spencerport, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent article is prepared with a transparent polymeric film and an electrically-conductive, metal-containing pattern disposed over a surface of the transparent polymeric film. Such pattern has, in order outwardly from a surface of the transparent polymeric film: a metallic pattern having a first surface facing the transpare...