ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,410, issued on June 17, was assigned to Agfa NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Manufacturing methods of decorative surfaces" was invented by Jens Lenaerts (Mortsel, Belgium), Johan Loccufier (Mortsel, Belgium) and Aleix Costa (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing decorative surfaces including the steps of inkjet printing an image on a first thermoplastic foil by jetting and curing one or more pigmented free radical curable inkjet inks on the first thermoplastic foil: applying and curing a free radical curable liquid as an adhesive layer on the inkjet printed image: and heat pressing the first thermoplastic...