US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Aug. 26 for "Textile printing inkjet ink and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,282, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Textile printing inkjet ink and image forming method" was invented by Masaharu Shiraishi (Hino, Japan) and Masaki Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile printing inkjet ink includes: a pigment; a water-dispersible resin; and an aqueous medium, wherein the water-dispersible resin has tensile strength of 0.1 to 4.5 MPa at 25deg C. and breaking elongation of 500 to 1500% at 25deg C."

The patent was filed on July 14, 2023, under Application No. 18/352,353.

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