ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 20 -- Eastman Kodak, Rochester, New York, has been assigned a patent (9,470,977) developed by three co-inventors for a "composition for lithographic printing plate and lithographic printing plate precursor." The co-inventors are Masamichi Kamiya, Oura-gun, Japan, Yasuhiro Asawa, Ota, Japan, and Akira Igarashi, Kumagaya, Japan.

The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2013 (14/422,221). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/ne . . .