US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on May 27 for "Inking system with plurality of fountain roller elements" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,652, issued on May 27, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Inking system with plurality of fountain roller elements" 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 system including a plurality of coaxial fountain roller elements, each fountain roller element having an ink transfer zone with an ink transfer zone radius, wherein the...