ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,956, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing printed material and system for producing printed material" was invented by Sumiaki Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Sakae Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Saegusa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoichiro Emura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Iida (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Kamiwaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Susumu Yoshino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a printed material includes forming a color image having an image area ratio of 20% or less on a peripheral edge portion of a recording medium by using a color...