US Patent Issued to MIRACLON on Nov. 18 for "Flexographic printing mask with laser thermal imaging film" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,639, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MIRACLON Corp. (Oakdale, Minn.).

"Flexographic printing mask with laser thermal imaging film" was invented by Elsie Anderson Fohrenkamm (St. Paul, Minn.), Muluken N Taye (St. Paul, Minn.), Huiqun Wang (St. Paul, Minn.) and Mohammad Zaki Ali (Mendota Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mask element for flexographic printing is provided. The mask element can be used for preparing a mask that has a mask image. The mask element can include: a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; a barrier layer on the transparent polymeric carrier sheet, wherein the barrier layer comprises non-crosslink...