US Patent Issued to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on Aug. 5 for "Light trap for UV radiation for curing ink on a printing substrate and printing machine including a light trap" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,664, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Light trap for UV radiation for curing ink on a printing substrate and printing machine including a light trap" was invented by Bernard Beier (Ladenburg, Germany), Silas Falter (Heddesbach, Germany), Andreas Muller (Heidelberg, Germany) and Klaus-Dieter Scharf (Konigsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light trap for ultraviolet radiation for curing ink on a printing substrate contains a shaped body with more than two shape elements succeeding one another. The shaped body has a side facing the printing substrate and embodied to hav...