ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,904, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Inking system with segmented fountain roller" was invented by Jason D. Steadman (Rochester, N.Y.), Michael G. Shaughnessy (Hemlock, N.Y.) and Carolyn Rae Ellinger (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inking system is used to transfer a plurality of different inks to an anilox roller in a flexographic printing plate in a flexographic printing system. A fountain roller includes a plurality of ink transfer zones separated by recessed zones, and a segmented ink tray includes a plurality of ink tray segments corresponding to each of the ink transfe...