US Patent Issued to Sun Chemical on June 17 for "Method of improving actinic cure of energy curable inks and coatings" (Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,203, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sun Chemical Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Method of improving actinic cure of energy curable inks and coatings" was invented by John G. Tiessen (Northlake, Ill.) and Juanita M. Parris (Carlstadt, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Layers of energy curable inks and coatings containing little to no photoinitiator, are printed over or are covered with ink or coating layers that are not energy curable but do comprise a photoinitiator. All energy curable inks are then simultaneously cured when exposed to actinic radiation that passes through the ink or coating layers that are not energy curable but c...