ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,217, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method" was invented by Akifumi Nabe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink set, a conveyance section that conveys a recording medium, an image forming section disposed opposite to one side of the conveyance section for performing inkjet recording on the recording medium with the ink set, and a heating section disposed opposite to the image forming section with the conveyance section therebetween for heating the recording medium. The ink set includ...