US Patent Issued to Sun Chemical on Sept. 29 for "Printed or coated structures for direct food contact applications" (Turkish, Spanish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,077, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sun Chemical Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Printed or coated structures for direct food contact applications" was invented by Sandra Arcediano (Gallarta, Spain), Jose Ramon Maeso (Gallarta, Spain), Setareh Shirazi (Gallarta, Spain), Hulya Denktas (Izmir, Turkey), Halide Sesli (Izmir, Turkey) and Michael Simoni (Newhey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a printed structure comprising the steps of: (i) providing a substrate; (ii) subsequently printing one or more coating layers of direct food contact (DFC)-compliant overprint varnish (OPV) onto a first side of the ...