US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 22 for "Lithographic printing plate precursor, method for preparing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,173, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lithographic printing plate precursor, method for preparing lithographic printing plate, and lithographic printing method" was invented by Yusuke Namba (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akinori Fujita (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithographic printing plate precursor has a support and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, and a polymer A. The weight-average molecular weight of the polymer A is more than 15,000 and 150,000 or less, and the ethylenically unsaturated b...