US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on Oct. 28 for "Coating providing controlled absorption and scattering" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,622, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Coating providing controlled absorption and scattering" was invented by Kevin D. Lofftus (Fairport, N.Y.), Nair Mridula (Penfield, N.Y.) and Sreekumar Cumar (Penfield, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article includes a substrate with a surface, a coating disposed over the surface, and a subtractive colorant which absorbs electromagnetic radiation according to a specified absorption spectrum. The coating includes a binder material and a plurality of porous polymer particles having pores with a distribution of pore sizes adapted to scatter electromagne...