ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,662, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Imaging Materials Inc. (Amherst, N.Y.).
"Thermographic imaging element" was invented by Daniel Jude Harrison (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jennifer Lynn Eskra (Lockport, N.Y.) and John Richard Przybylo (Amherst, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermographic substrate assembly includes a colorant and a flexible substrate. This assembly also contains a thermosensitive layer, and the thermosensitive layer contains an elastomeric binder and a multiplicity of voids."
The patent was filed on Oct. 2, 2023, under Application No. 18/375,721.
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