ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,846, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MIRACLON Corp. (Oakdale, Minn.).
"Mask for low contrast printed highlights" was invented by John Anderson (Pittsburgh), Andreas M. Albat (Squamish, Canada) and Richard R. Bielak (Port Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highlight microdot mask element includes: at least one imaged region having at least one imaged block and being optically transmissive; at least one opaque island formed by at least one non-imaged block, wherein an arrangement of the plurality of imaged regions and the at least one opaque island defines the highlight microdot print surface pattern; and an opaque v...