ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,283, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printed product and method of producing printed product" was invented by Koromo Shirota (Kanagawa, Japan), Masataka Yashima (Tokyo), Taichi Shintou (Saitama, Japan), Tsuyoshi Santo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoyuki Noda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed product including: a yellow image formed on an image receiving sheet including a coloring material receiving layer and a surface protective layer formed on the yellow image, wherein the yellow image and the surface protective layer are formed by sequentially applying heat to a yellow coloring material layer for form...