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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:
Dec. 03, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
John E Keevert, Jr, Rochester, NY (US);
Shane C Weber, Woodbridge, CT (US);
Ramesh Jagannathan, Rochester, NY (US);
Gerald W Klein, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ; G03C / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430569 ; 430567 ; 430642 ; 435 691 ;
Abstract
Certain synthetically prepared biopolymers are useful as peptizers in the preparation of photographic silver halide emulsions and elements. Such materials can be used as either nucleation or growth peptizers in place of common peptizing colloids, such as gelatins. The biopolymers can be prepared using recombinant or chemical synthetic methods and designed to have a particular affinity (either high or low) for silver ions. Thus, they can be used to control silver halide grain morphology in the emulsions.