US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 25 for "Pretreatment liquid for ink jet ink, ink set, image recording method, method of producing laminate, image recorded material, and laminate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,017, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pretreatment liquid for ink jet ink, ink set, image recording method, method of producing laminate, image recorded material, and laminate" was invented by Ayato Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichiro Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuta Fujino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Miyato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a pretreatment liquid for an ink jet ink, including at least one aggregating agent selected from the group consisting of an organic acid, a polyvalent metal compound, and a metal complex, water, and a urethane resin, in which the urethane resi...