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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:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven D Kloos, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Assignee:
Omonics, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4283044 ; 428195 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a printing medium for use with an ink jet printer. The printing medium includes a substrate and a porous coating layer formed on the substrate using a phase inversion technique. The porous coating layer draws at least one component of an ink solution placed on the porous coating layer into the porous coating layer to dry the ink solution on the porous coating layer.