US Patent Issued to XEIKON PREPRESS on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and method for treating and transporting a relief printing plate precursor" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,786, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to XEIKON PREPRESS N.V. (Ypres, Belgium).

"Apparatus and method for treating and transporting a relief printing plate precursor" was invented by Bart Wattyn (Dentergem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for preparing a relief plate precursor, such as a printing plate precursor, that has to be treated. The apparatus includes a transport bar provided with at least one penetration element, preferably a plurality of penetration elements; and a plate coupling station configured for coupling a relief plate precursor to the transport bar by causing a penetration by the at least one pene...