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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. 30, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfred I-Tsung Pan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harold Lee Van Nice, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; B05D / ; H05H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427536 ; 427534 ; 427539 ; 427491 ; 427569 ; 427244 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method of treating foam for improving wettability. The method includes treating foam with reactive species which interact to produce reaction products. The reaction products are then removed from foam. Finally, after removing reaction products the foam is treated with reactive species which interact to produce additional reaction products.