ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,676, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Graz, Austria).
"Elastic embossing lacquer having high optical dispersion" was invented by Dieter Nees (Thannhausen, Austria), Ursula Palfinger (Albersdorf-Prebuch, Austria), Stephan Ruttloff (Anger, Austria) and Johannes Gotz (Gleisdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embossing lacquer containing radical polymerizable compounds (A) to (D) that have an overall aromatic content of at least 20 wt %: compound (A), which is a non-crosslinking compound and has an aromatic content of at least 40 wt %; compound (B), which is a crosslinking comp...