ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,543, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming method" was invented by Yoshihito Taguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masashi Ikeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming method according to an aspect of the present invention includes supplying a water based ink to an inkjet head at a flow rate of 5 mL/min or more and 120 mL/min or less, and ejecting the supplied water based ink from a nozzle of the inkjet head. The water based ink contains a colorant and a water-insoluble resin having a glass transition temperature of 40deg C. or higher and 100deg C. or lower."
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