US Patent Issued to SP HOLDING II on June 2 for "Maintaining raw flexible plate integrity using pre-hardened flexible plate regions" (Maryland, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,319, issued on June 2, was assigned to SP HOLDING II ET INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Maintaining raw flexible plate integrity using pre-hardened flexible plate regions" was invented by Lewis B. Jennings (Elkton, Md.) and Peter J. Fronczkiewicz (Lake Wylie, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a component of a flexographic printing system. The component includes an electromagnetic energy source operable to electronically couple to a controller. The electromagnetic energy source is further operable to apply a pre-hardening process to a non-print region of a raw flexible plate. The pre-hardening p...