ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,957, issued on April 29, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Inkjet recording apparatus and program" was invented by Takuya Ishigai (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus of a scanning type includes: a treatment liquid head that ejects a treatment liquid having a flocculation effect on a coloring material ink and a coloring material; and an ink head that ejects the coloring material ink in a single carriage, wherein the ink head does not pass through a treatment liquid discharging part after discharging the treatment liquid in a same scan."
The patent was filed on March 6, 2023, under Appl...