ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,877, issued on May 26, was assigned to tesa SE (Norderstedt, Germany).

"Adhesive printing form attachment layer, method for its manufacture, and printing form attachment cylinder comprising the same" was invented by Nils Thebud (Luneburg, Germany), Tobias Winkler (Hamburg, Germany) and Bjorn Zeysing (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an adhesive printing form attachment layer comprising a support, and a permanently sticky layer suitable for receiving a printing form and fixing a printing form during a printing operation provided on the support, wherein the permanently sticky layer compri...