US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on April 15 for "Electrophotographic method for providing foil images" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,932, issued on April 15, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Electrophotographic method for providing foil images" was invented by Peter S. Alexandrovich (Rochester, N.Y.), Diego A. Diaz (McKinney, Texas) and David F. Cahill (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Foil images are formed simultaneously with color toner images on a receiver material. One or more color toner latent images are formed on the receiver material using dry color toners. Each dry color toner has a (a) polymeric resin, a (b) pigment colorant, and a (c) wax that has a melting temperature defined as Tcolor. A foiling latent image is forme...