ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,943, issued on March 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Recording method and ink discharge device" was invented by Yuki Okumura (Iwakura, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tanaka (Inazawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording method includes: recording a first image on a recording medium; reading the first image to determine whether the first image is correctly recorded; and when the first image is determined as not being correctly recorded, recording a second image over the first image. The water-based recording ink includes a water-soluble organic solvent which is at least one selected from the group consisting...