ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,351, issued on July 28.

"Process for the treatment of the photopolymer material that constitutes the matrix plates in flexographic printing" was invented by Ira Nicoletti (Mira, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the treatment of a photopolymer material that constitutes matrix plates in flexographic printing includes: shredding and refining the matrix plates into pieces and subsequent cold grinding to obtain a powder; mixing the powder with a thermosetting resin and an amine hardener; carrying out a first phase of turbomixing; carrying out a first phase of cooling; carrying out a second phase of turbomixing; carrying ...