US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 3 for "On-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor, method of preparing lithographic printing plate, lithographic printing method, and compound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,888, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"On-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor, method of preparing lithographic printing plate, lithographic printing method, and compound" was invented by Natsumi Hirano (Shizuoka, Japan), Akira Sakaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuaki Enomoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Naoyuki Hanaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor including a support, and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polym...