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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:
Nov. 01, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tran V Thien, Harlow, GB;
Ranjan C Patel, Little Hallingbury, GB;
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ; B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430200 ; 450201 ; 450945 ; 503227 ;
Abstract
A method of forming an image in which a color donor element and a receiving element are placed in face-to-face contact and opposed imagewise to infrared radiation, e.g. by laser exposure, in which at least one of the donor and receptor elements comprises a near-infrared absorbing dye which is a squarilium dye having dihydroperimidine terminal groups.