US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Oct. 7 for "Water-based ink for ink-jet recording, ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method and ink storing container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,231, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Water-based ink for ink-jet recording, ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method and ink storing container" was invented by Harumitsu Inoue (Toki, Japan) and Yuki Okumura (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-based ink for ink-jet recording includes: a pigment, resin particles, a solvent and water, wherein the resin particles are resin particles of an acrylic-based polymer; and a storage elastic modulus E at 25deg C. of an ink film, of the water-based ink for ink-jet recording, which is dried and solidified is not less than 9.7x108...