ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,526, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ECO3 BV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"Lithographic printing plate precursor" was invented by Faima Lazreg (Mortsel, Belgium), Johan Loccufier (Mortsel, Belgium) and Thomas Billiet (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed including a support and a coating comprising (i) a photopolymerisable layer including a polymerisable compound, a photoinitiator and an asymmetrically substituted infrared absorbing compound."
The patent was filed on June 9, 2021, under Application No. 18/012,319.
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