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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernard A Lea, Harlow, GB;
Ronald W Burrows, Harlow, GB;
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ; G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430522 ; 430517 ; 430619 ;
Abstract
Images produced in photothermographic emulsions using silver halide as a light-sensitive material therein suffer from light scattering effects on the silver halide. Acutance dyes, many of which are novel, are disclosed which can absorb scattered light and which are bleached at the development temperature of the photothermographic composition.