US Patent Issued to ASAHI KASEI on March 25 for "Manufacturing method of flexographic printing plate and printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,655, issued on March 25, was assigned to ASAHI KASEI K.K. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method of flexographic printing plate and printing method" was invented by Hiroki Akiyama (Tokyo), Akinao Nakamura (Tokyo), Takumi Ishii (Tokyo) and Yusuke Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a manufacturing method of a flexographic printing plate, including a development step of subjecting a plate surface of a flexographic printing original plate including at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, and an infrared ablation layer sequentially stacked to brushing with a brush while supplying an organic solvent-ba...