ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,302, issued on April 7, was assigned to POLAROID IP B. V. (Enschede, Netherlands).

"Crosstalk reduction of microcapsule imaging system" was invented by Rong-Chang Liang (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei You (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Chun-Jen Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microcapsules including a color-filtering shell and a core comprising a leuco dye or dye precursor, a photoinitiator or photosensitizer, and a photohardenable or photosoftenable material are provided for use in microcapsule imaging sheets. The imaging sheets including such microcapsules reduce undesirable crosstalk among the microcapsules of v...