[May 24, 2013] Honeywell International Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 24 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (8,445,866) developed by James Kane, Lawrenceville, N.J., William Ross Rapoport, Bridgewater, N.J., and Carsten Lau, Niedersachsen, Germany, for a "refractive index matched phosphors and substrates for security applications." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Phosphor compositions are provided that can be incorporated into or onto plastic substrates as covert security features. The plastic substrates can be transparent and the phosphor compositions have a refractive index that effectively matches the refractive index of the plastic substrate to maintain the transparency. The phosphor compositions have absorption in the infrared, thus enabling excitation and detection of the compositions with an infrared emitting source." The patent application was filed on Dec. 13, 2010 (12/966,036). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,445,866&OS=8,445,866&RS=8,445,866 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. AS0524AK0524-880809 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]