Kenneth Robert Hollister

US Patent:

6350431, Feb 26, 2002

Filed:

Oct 28, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/429347

Inventors:

Robert Allen Snow - West Chester PA
Paul Mark Henrichs - Houston TX
Daniel Joseph Delecki - Radnor PA
William Anthony Sanderson - late of Wayne PA
Vinay Chandrakant Desai - Phoenixville PA
Edward Bacon - Audubon PA
Kenneth Robert Hollister - Chester Springs PA
Eric Paul Hohenschuh - Berwyn PA

Assignee:

Nycomed Imaging AS - Oslo

International Classification:

A61K 4900

US Classification:

424 96, 548 3, 548223, 549402, 549427, 549455

Abstract:

This invention provides a physiologically tolerable light imaging contrast agent compound having a molecular weight in the range 500 to 5000000 and containing at least two chromophores having delocalized electron systems as well as at least one polyalkylene oxide (PAO) moiety having a molecular weight in the range 60 to 100000.

US Patent:

6662040, Dec 9, 2003

Filed:

Dec 10, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/458008

Inventors:

Paul Mark Henrichs - Houston TX
Marten Eriksen - Oslo, NO
Pal Rongved - Oslo, NO
Wolfgang Hans Heinrich Gunther - West Chester PA
Robert Allen Snow - West Chester PA
Kenneth Robert Hollister - Chester Springs PA
Gregory Lynn McIntire - West Chester PA
Steven Blair Coffey - Pawcatuk CT

Assignee:

Amersham Health AS - Oslo

International Classification:

A61B 600

US Classification:

600431, 600407, 600410, 600436, 600437, 600473, 600476, 424 92, 424 93, 424 952, 424 96

Abstract:

The invention relates to a method of generating an image of an animate human or non-human animal body or part thereof. The method comprises administering to said body a physiologically tolerable contrast agent comprising a radiation absorbing component and/or a pressure inducing component, exposing said body to radiation, detecting pressure waves generated in said body by said radiation and generating an optoacoustic image therefrom of at least a part of said body containing the administered contrast agent.

US Patent:

20020102214, Aug 1, 2002

Filed:

Oct 24, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/983551

Inventors:

Karen Catherin Briley-Saebo - Oslo, NO
Kenneth Kellar - Wayne PA, US
David Ladd - Wayne PA, US
Kenneth Hollister - Wayne PA, US
Atle Bjornerud - Oslo, NO

Assignee:

NYCOMED IMAGING AS.

International Classification:

A61K049/00

US Classification:

424/009360, 424/009364

Abstract:

This invention relates to a set of aqueous marker compositions, each composition having a selected 1/Tvalue which is substantially invariant over an at least 10 C. temperature range between 15 and 40 C. and preferably over an at least 2% magnetic field strength range about a selected field strength value between 0.01 and 5T and comprising an aqueous matrix material having a non-zero 1/Ttemperature dependence within said temperature range with distributed therein a first paramagnetic material having a Trelaxivity which is substantially invariant within said range(s) and/or a second paramagnetic material having within said ranges(s) and Trelaxivity which has a non-zero temperature dependence of opposite polarity to the temperature dependence of 1/Tof said matrix material, said set containing a plurality of said compositions with different selected 1/Tvalues preferably encompassing at least the range 1.0 to 2.5 s, said set preferably comprising at least one said composition containing said second paramagnetic material and at least one said composition containing said first paramagnetic material, where i in Tis 1 or 2.

US Patent:

42071097, Jun 10, 1980

Filed:

Apr 5, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/893557

Inventors:

Gerald A. Campbell - Webster NY
Kenneth R. Hollister - Pittsford NY
Richard C. Sutton - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G03C 178
G03C 196
G03C 168

US Classification:

430536

Abstract:

Copolymers containing an acrylamidophenol as a crosslinking site and the corresponding crosslinked polymers are disclosed. The acrylamidophenol unit can be copolymerized with a wide variety of other monomers to provide crosslinkable and crosslinked polymers with useful properties. The acrylamidophenol unit provides for crosslinking at low pH with conventional crosslinking agents. The acrylamidophenol monomer unit is present in the copolymer from about 0. 5 to 50 percent by weight and has the formula: ##STR1## wherein: x is 1 or 0, L is a linking group, R represents hydrogen or methyl, and R. sup. 1 through R. sup. 5 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, alkyl from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and aryl from 6 to 10 carbon atoms; with the proviso that at least one of R. sup. 1 through R. sup. 5 is hydroxy and at least one of the positions ortho or para to said hydroxy has a hydrogen atom attached thereto.

US Patent:

42476739, Jan 27, 1981

Filed:

Oct 15, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/085138

Inventors:

Ignazio S. Ponticello - Rochester NY
Kenneth R. Hollister - Pittsford NY
Richard C. Tuites - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

C08F 2608

US Classification:

526263

Abstract:

Compounds useful in making crosslinkable polymers having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl; R. sup. 1 is cyano or ##STR2## wherein R. sup. 2 is alkyl; Z is --X--R. sup. 3 --X-- or ##STR3## wherein each --X-- is --O-- or --NR. sup. 4 --, provided at least one --X-- is --NR. sup. 4 -- wherein R. sup. 4 is hydrogen or alkyl, R. sup. 3 is divalent hydrocarbon and D. sub. 1 and D. sub. 2 together are the carbon atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 7 membered ring. These compounds can be homopolymerized or copolymerized with each other or with other polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers to give crosslinkable polymers. Such polymers can be purified by conventional purification techniques such as dialysis, diafiltration, ultrafiltration without losing their capability of crosslinking. The resulting purified polymers are particularly useful in photographic materials as gelatin extenders, binders or polymeric color couplers.

US Patent:

42835046, Aug 11, 1981

Filed:

Oct 11, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/083742

Inventors:

Gerald A. Campbell - Webster NY
Kenneth R. Hollister - Pittsford NY
Richard C. Sutton - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

C08F 2238
C08F12238
C08F21204
C08F22058

US Classification:

525261

Abstract:

Copolymers containing an acrylamidophenol as a crosslinking site and the corresponding crosslinked polymers are disclosed. The acrylamidophenol unit can be copolymerized with a wide variety of other monomers to provide crosslinkable and crosslinked polymers with useful properties. The acrylamidophenol unit provides for crosslinking at low pH with conventional crosslinking agents. The acrylamidophenol monomer unit is present in the copolymer from about 0. 5 to 50 percent by weight and has the formula: ##STR1## wherein: x is 1 or 0, L is a linking group, R represents hydrogen or methyl, and R. sup. 1 through R. sup. 5 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, hydroxy, alkyl from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and aryl from 6 to 10 carbon atoms; with the proviso that at least one of R. sup. 1 through R. sup. 5 is hydroxy and at least one of the positions ortho or para to said hydroxy has a hydrogen atom attached thereto.

US Patent:

43406556, Jul 20, 1982

Filed:

Jun 18, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/160809

Inventors:

Kenneth R. Hollister - Pittsford NY
Harold T. Thomas - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

G03E 176
G01D 1510
G11B 724

US Classification:

430 14

Abstract:

Improved thermal and mechanical barrier layers coated on the recording layer of an optical recording element are disclosed. The improved layers comprise water-soluble polymers having a glass transition temperature when dry of at least 100. degree. C. and preferably at least 150. degree. C. These barrier layers are easily coated and do not significantly degrade the performance of the element. Optional layers such as spacer layers and topcoat layers coated on the barrier layers are also disclosed.

US Patent:

43462316, Aug 24, 1982

Filed:

Jun 9, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/157600

Inventors:

Ignazio S. Ponticello - Rochester NY
Kenneth R. Hollister - Rochester NY
Richard C. Tuites - Rochester NY

International Classification:

C07C103133

US Classification:

560178

Abstract:

Compounds useful in making crosslinkable polymers having the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl; R. sup. 1 is cyano or ##STR2## wherein R. sup. 2 is alkyl; Z is --X--R. sup. 3 --X-- or ##STR3## wherein each --X-- is --O-- or --NR. sup. 4 --, provided at least one --X-- is --NR. sup. 4 -- wherein R. sup. 4 is hydrogen or alkyl, R. sup. 3 is divalent hydrocarbon and D. sub. 1 and D. sub. 2 together are the carbon atoms necessary to complete a 5 to 7 membered ring. These compounds can be homopolymerized or copolymerized with each other or with other polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomers to give crosslinkable polymers. Such polymers can be purified by conventional purification techniques such as dialysis, diafiltration, ultrafiltration without losing their capability of crosslinking. The resulting purified polymers are particularly useful in photographic materials as gelatin extenders, binders or polymeric color couplers.