ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,082, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fujifilm Speciality Ink Systems Ltd. (Broadstairs, Great Britain).

"Method of inkjet printing" was invented by Jeremy Ward (Broadstairs, Great Britain), Matthew Kite (Broadstairs, Great Britain) and Sarah Canning (Broadstairs, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of inkjet printing, comprising: (i) inkjet printing an inkjet ink on to a substrate, wherein the ink comprises: an N-vinyl monomer selected from N-vinyl caprolactam, N-vinyl pyrrolidone, N-vinyl piperidone, N-vinyl carbazole, N-vinyl formamide, N-vinyl indole, N-vinyl imidazole, N-vinyl a...