Frederic E Mikell
Surgical Assistants and Surgical Technologists at 53 Ave Ct, Greeley, CO

7163770, Jan 16, 2007

Jan 23, 2006

11/337778

Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Anthony P. Kitson - Evans CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Larisa Novoselova - Aurora CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03F 7/11, G03F 7/14, G03F 7/038

430 15, 4302711, 430302, 430326, 430964, 430905, 430910

A positive-working imageable element comprises inner and outer layers and a radiation absorbing compound such as an IR absorbing dye. The inner layer includes a first polymeric material. The ink receptive outer layer includes a second polymeric binder comprising a polymer backbone and an —X—C(═T)—NR—S(═O)— moiety that is attached to the polymer backbone, wherein —X— is an oxy or —NR′— group, T is O or S, R and R′ are independently hydrogen, halo, or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms. After thermal imaging, the element can be developed using an alkaline developer. Use of the particular second polymeric binder reduces sludging in the developer. Its dissolution rate in the developer is slow enough to resist developer attack in the non-imaged areas of the outer layer but rapid enough for the second polymeric binder to be quickly loosened from imaged areas and kept suspended or dissolved for a considerable time.

7241556, Jul 10, 2007

Oct 23, 2006

11/551753

Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Anthony P. Kitson - Evans CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Larisa Novoselova - Aurora CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03F 7/30, G03F 7/11, G03F 7/039

4302711, 430302, 430326, 430905, 430910, 430964

A positive-working imageable element comprises inner and outer layers and a radiation absorbing compound such as an IR absorbing dye. The inner layer includes a first polymeric material. The ink receptive outer layer includes a second polymeric binder comprising a polymer backbone and an —X—C(═T)—NR—S(═O)— moiety that is attached to the polymer backbone, wherein —X— is an oxy or —NR′— group, T is O or S, R and R′ are independently hydrogen, halo, or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms. After thermal imaging, the element can be developed using an alkaline developer. Use of the particular second polymeric binder reduces sludging in the developer. Its dissolution rate in the developer is slow enough to resist developer attack in the non-imaged areas of the outer layer but rapid enough for the second polymeric binder to be quickly loosened from imaged areas and kept suspended or dissolved for a considerable time.

7732118, Jun 8, 2010

May 10, 2007

11/746816

Ting Tao - Fort Collins CO, US
Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Eric Clark - Loveland CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03C 1/00, G03F 7/26

4302701, 4302811, 430302, 430434, 101454

A radiation-sensitive composition includes a radically polymerizable component, initiator composition, a radiation absorbing compound, and a polymeric binder having recurring units that are derived from various ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers provided that at least 40 mol % of the recurring units have a tertiary carbon atom in the backbone and the rest of the recurring units have a secondary or quaternary carbon atom in the backbone. This composition can be used to provide negative-working imageable elements that can be imaged and developed to provide lithographic printing plates that have desired imaging speed and excellent run length without the need for a post-exposure backing step.

7247418, Jul 24, 2007

Dec 1, 2005

11/293554

Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Jayanti Patel - Fort Collins CO, US
Ting Tao - Fort Collins CO, US
Kevin B Ray - Fort Collins CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
James L. Mulligan - Fort Collins CO, US
John Kalamen - Loveland CO, US
Scott A. Beckley - Windsor CO, US
Eric Clark - Loveland CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03F 7/11, G03F 7/039, G03F 7/30

4302711, 4302701, 4302781, 430302, 430325, 430326, 430905, 430910, 430964

Both single-layer and multilayer imageable elements have a substrate and at least one imageable layer. The elements can be used to prepare either negative- or positive-working imaged elements, for example as lithographic printing plates. The imageable elements also include a radiation absorbing compound and a solvent-resistant polymer comprising pendant phosphoric acid groups, pendant adamantyl groups, or both. When this polymer comprises pendant adamantyl groups, they are connected to the polymer backbone through a urea or urethane group. The imageable elements have improved chemical resistance and thermal bakeability from the presence of the unique solvent-resistant polymer.

2010012, May 20, 2010

Nov 20, 2008

12/274488

Anthony P. Kitson - Greeley CO, US
Kevin B. Ray - Hudson NH, US
Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Jayanti Patel - Fort Collins CO, US

G03F 7/027, G03F 7/004, G03F 7/20

4302861, 4302701, 430302

An infrared radiation-sensitive positive-working imageable element has a substrate and single imageable layer that includes a first polymeric binder having urethane or urea moieties in its backbone. The first polymeric binder is also insoluble in water and soluble in a weakly alkaline solution. This imageable element can be imaged and processed using weakly alkaline processing solutions that are free of silicates and metasilicates, which processing solutions may also be used to “gum” the imaged and developed printing surface.

7223506, May 29, 2007

Mar 30, 2006

11/393156

Anthony P. Kitson - Evans CO, US
Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Kevin B. Ray - Fort Collins CO, US
James L. Mulligan - Fort Collins CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Larisa Novoselova - Aurora CO, US
Eric Clark - Loveland CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03F 7/038, G03F 7/039, G03F 7/14

430 15, 4302701, 4302711, 430302, 430326, 430905, 430910, 430964

Single-layer and multilayer imageable elements have a substrate and at least one imageable layer and can be used to prepare positive-working lithographic printing plates. The imageable elements also include a radiation absorbing compound and a solvent-resistant polymer binder comprising an —N(R)—C(═X)—N(R′)—S(═O)— moiety that is attached to the polymer backbone, wherein X is O or S, R and R′ are independently hydrogen, halo, or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms. This solvent-resistant polymer binder is located in the imageable layer closest to the substrate and provides improved chemical resistance.

2008000, Jan 10, 2008

Jun 27, 2006

11/475694

Heidi M. Munnelly - Windsor CO, US
Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Kevin D. Wieland - Greeley CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Paul R. West - Fort Collins CO, US

G03C 1/00

4302701

A radiation-sensitive composition includes a radically polymerizable component and an initiator composition capable of generating radicals sufficient to initiate polymerization of the radically polymerizable component upon exposure to imaging radiation. This composition also includes a radiation absorbing compound, a polymeric binder having poly(alkylene glycol) side chains, and a nonionic phosphate acrylate that has a molecular weight of at least 250. This composition can be used to prepare a negative-working imageable element that is sensitive to suitable imaging radiation and can be imaged at relatively low energy, developed either on-press or off-press, and then used for printing without a post-exposure baking step.

2006004, Mar 2, 2006

Aug 27, 2004

10/928339

Joseph Hunter - Fort Collins CO, US
Saraiya Shashikant - Fort Collins CO, US
Ting Tao - Fort Collins CO, US
Frederic Mikell - Greeley CO, US

G03C 1/492

430276100

Substrates for lithographic printing plate precursors and lithographic printing plate precursors are disclosed. The substrates comprise an aluminum or aluminum alloy support and the a layer of interlayer material on the support. The interlayer material is a co-polymer that comprise (1) acid groups and/or phosphonic acid groups, and (2) silyl groups substituted with three alkoxy and/or phenoxy groups. The lithographic printing plate precursors additionally comprise an imageable layer over the interlayer.

7153632, Dec 26, 2006

Aug 3, 2005

11/196124

Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Heidi M. Munnelly - Windsor CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Kevin D. Wieland - Greeley CO, US

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

G03F 7/033, G03F 7/027, G03F 7/14

4302841, 4302811, 4302831, 430302, 430905, 430910

A radiation-sensitive composition includes a radically polymerizable component that comprises carboxy groups, an initiator composition to generate radicals, and a polymeric binder comprising poly(alkylene oxide) segments and optionally pendant cyano groups. This composition can be used to prepare imageable elements such as negative-working, on-press developable printing plate precursors.

8383319, Feb 26, 2013

Aug 25, 2009

12/546769

Jianbing Huang - Trumbull CT, US
Shashikant Saraiya - Fort Collins CO, US
Frederic E. Mikell - Greeley CO, US
Eiji Hayakawa - Utsunomiya, JP
Hirokazu Fujii - Kumagaya, JP
Akira Igarashi - Kumagaya, JP

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

B41N 1/00, G03F 7/00, G03F 7/26, B41M 5/00

4302711, 4302701, 430302, 101453, 1014631

Lithographic printing plate precursors have been designed so that they can be stored, shipped, and used in stacks without interleaf paper between individual precursors. This is achieved by incorporating polymeric particles having an average diameter of from about 3 to about 20 μm into the outermost precursor layer such as an imagable layer or topcoat. The polymeric particles comprise a core of a crosslinked polymer and have grafted hydrophilic polymeric surface groups that are grafted onto the particle surfaces by polymerizing hydrophilic monomers in the presence of the crosslinked polymeric particles. The lithographic printing plates can be either negative- or positive-working elements.