US Patent Issued to Sun Chemical on Sept. 30 for "Water-based inks for thermoforming applications" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,570, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sun Chemical Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Water-based inks for thermoforming applications" was invented by Alexander Lahr (Rock Hill, S.C.) and Bruce Marshall (Fort Mill, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides water-based thermoformable printing inks and coatings. The inks and coatings of the invention comprise one or more acrylic emulsions, one or more styrene acrylic emulsions, an adhesion promoter, and water."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2016, under Application No. 15/743,009.

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