ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,519, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pressure sensitive adhesive particle, cartridge, apparatus for producing printed material, method for producing printed material, printed material, sheet for producing printed material, and method for producing sheet for producing printed material" was invented by Kiyohiro Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Sumiaki Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Kamiwaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensitive adhesive particle includes a styrene resin that contains, as polymerization components, styrene and a vinyl monomer other than ...