US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Feb. 18 for "Pressure-responsive particles, cartridge, apparatus for manufacturing printed matter, method for manufacturing printed matter, and printed matter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,885, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pressure-responsive particles, cartridge, apparatus for manufacturing printed matter, method for manufacturing printed matter, and printed matter" was invented by Takako Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Iida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure-responsive particles include pressure-responsive base particles and resin particles, in which the pressure-responsive base particles contain a styrene-based resin that contains styrene and other vinyl monomers as polymerization components and a (...