ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,097, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Agfa-Gevaert NV (Mortsel, Belgium).
"NIR absorbing inkjet ink, method of recording" was invented by Sophie Lingier (Mortsel, Belgium), Johan Loccufier (Mortsel, Belgium) and Sonny Wynants (Mortsel, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-aqueous inkjet ink comprising a near infrared absorbing particle, a dispersant, a solvent, the dispersant is a polymer comprising an amine group or an acidic group and the solvent is selected from the group consisting of ketones, esters, ethers and alcohols. The non-aqueous inkjet ink can act as a fusing agent in a high speed sintering process. The non-aqueo...