ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,103, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pressure sensitive adhesive particle and method of producing printed matter" was invented by Takahiro Ishizuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kamiwaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Sumiaki Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Iida (Kanagawa, Japan), Sakae Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satomi Kashiwagi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Susumu Yoshino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensitive adhesive particle includes a styrene resin; and a (meth)acrylate resin, wherein the (meth)acrylate resin contains two kinds of (meth)acrylates as a polymerization ...