ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,405, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Agfa-Gevaert NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Radiation curable composition for plating applications" was invented by Romane Andre (Mortsel, Belgium), Fernando Cortes Salazar (Mortsel, Belgium), Mark Lens (Mortsel, Belgium), Hubertus Van Aert (Mortsel, Belgium) and Johan Loccufier (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation curable composition comprising: a) at least one monofunctional (meth)acrylate containing a carboxylic acid group, a phosphoric acid group or a phosphonic acid group; b) an acrylamide; c) at least one polyfunctional (meth)acrylate; characterized in that the radiatio...