US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 13 for "Particle, aqueous dispersion, ink jet ink, film-forming method, and image-forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,361, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Particle, aqueous dispersion, ink jet ink, film-forming method, and image-forming method" was invented by Noriaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryo Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shota Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a particle including a polymer P including a bond U that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a urethane bond and a urea bond, and a hydrophilic group, a polymerizable monomer, and a moiety A that is at least one selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane bond and a fluorinated hydrocarbon group; an aq...