US Patent Issued to Sun Chemical on March 31 for "Method of improving actinic cure of energy curable inks and coatings" (Illinois, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,212, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sun Chemical Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Method of improving actinic cure of energy curable inks and coatings" was invented by John G. Tiessen (Northlake, Ill.) and Juanita M. Parris (Carlstadt, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more ink or coating layers that are not energy curable but do comprise a photoinitiator are printed on a substrate. Then one or more layers of energy curable inks and coatings containing little to no photoinitiator are printed over the one or more ink or coating layers that are not energy curable but do comprise a photoinitiator. All energy curable inks are th...