ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,049, issued on May 6, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Printing device" was invented by Akihito Kobayashi (Konan, Japan), Yugo Fukui (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Kawamata (Nagoya, Japan) and Yutaka Takagiwa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a head including a nozzle configured to ejects ink, a platen including a support surface configured to support a printing medium to which a pretreatment liquid is applied, the pretreatment liquid containing a volatile component that reacts with the ink, and a humidified air supply port configured to supply humidified air to the support surfac...