Patent 7427467 was granted and assigned to Konica Minolta on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material comprising a support having: (i) a photosensitive layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains, an organic silver salt and a reducing agent for silver ions on one side of the support; and (ii) a backing layer on a side of the support opposite the photosensitive layer, comprising: (a) organic solid lubricant particles having an average diameter of 1.0 to 30 μm; and (b) inorganic microparticles or organic microparticles.