US Patent Issued to Eastman Kodak on Oct. 7 for "Lithographic printing plate precursor and method of use" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,459, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Lithographic printing plate precursor and method of use" was invented by Christopher D. Simpson (Osterode, Germany), Stefanie Hansmann (Osterode, Germany), Saija Werner (Hattorf, Germany) and Jianbing Huang (Trumbull, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "IR-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursors provide a stable print-out image using a unique IR radiation-sensitive composition in an infrared radiation-sensitive image-recording layer. This IR radiation-sensitive composition includes: (1) a free radical initiator composition that comprises an electron...