US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on March 4 for "Method for fabricating impermeable porous particles" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,957, issued on March 4, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Method for fabricating impermeable porous particles" was invented by Kevin D. Lofftus (Fairport, N.Y.), John Leonard Muehlbauer (Stafford, N.Y.) and Mridula Nair (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing core/shell particles includes forming a suspension of ethylenically unsaturated monomer droplets containing one or more monomers and a porogen in an aqueous medium containing a first stabilizer and a polymerization initiator, wherein at least one of the monomers is a cross-linking monomer, and wherein the first stabilizer is an i...