ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,095, issued on June 3, was assigned to Polaroid IP B.V. (Enschede, Netherlands).

"Microcapsule imaging system including non-photopolymerizable reactive diluent" was invented by Wei You (Taichung, Taiwan), Chun-Jen Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Rong-Chang Liang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Microcapsules including a polymeric shell and an internal phase including a non-photopolymerizable reactive diluent are provided for use in microcapsule imaging sheets. Imaging sheets including microcapsules which include a non-photopolymerizable reactive diluent, and which exhibit improvements in color development (Dmax), discol...