ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,814, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Photosensitive resin printing plate precursor, and method of manufacturing printing plate using said precursor" was invented by Kenji Ido (Okazaki, Japan), Tsutomu Abura (Okazaki, Japan) and Norihito Tachi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensitive resin printing plate precursor includes at least a support and a photosensitive resin layer, wherein the photosensitive resin layer contains at least a polymer (A) having an ethylenic double bond, a compound (B) having an ethylenic double bond, and a photopolymerization initiator (C); wherein the pho...