Method for rendering fingerprints visible

• US 20050214441A1
• Filed: 03/23/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Euratom
• Original Assignee: Euratom
• Inventors: Ray, Ian
• Application Number:
  US11/087,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20050214441A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 427/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1172 using fingerprinting

Abstract

The present invention concerns a method for rendering fingerprint(s) visible by subjecting or exposing the surface of the substrate presumably bearing the fingerprint(s), or at least a corresponding region of said surface, to a fuming agent, under adapted conditions. Said method is characterized in that said fuming agent consists of an agent able to react with the fatty substances of the fingerprints and incorporating an additive substance able to mark a film-like material coated or impregnated with an adapted reactive substance, and in that said method also consists in then placing a portion of such a film-like material in a close position to said surface or surface region and, possibly, submitting said exposed portion of said film-like material to a developing or visualisation process.

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