ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,562, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NFSC Holdings LLC (Stuart, Fla.).

"UV/LED printing and finishing process" was invented by Casey R. Shingary (Stuart, Fla.), Gustavo Lopez (Parkland, Fla.) and Samuel J. Ferguson (Vero Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV/LED printing and finishing process is disclosed. The printing and finishing process improves the manner in which printing, permanent bonding, and finishing is performed on products containing low surface energy plastics, such as high-density polyethylene furniture. The process includes abrading a surface of the low surface energy plastic and then applying a corona or p...