US Patent Issued to ENTRUST on July 29 for "Plastic card printing with radiation curable material and multiple curing passes" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,821, issued on July 29, was assigned to ENTRUST Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Plastic card printing with radiation curable material and multiple curing passes" was invented by Daniel Sarkinen (Shakopee, Minn.), Ethan Yanna (Shakopee, Minn.), Don Galles (Shakopee, Minn.), Scott Svensson (Shakopee, Minn.) and Bruce Klemann (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for reducing or eliminating a bow in a plastic card that results from applying radiation, such as UV radiation, to a surface of the plastic card to cure radiation curable material that has been applied to the surface. In one embodiment, after printi...