ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,599, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MIMAKI ENGINEERING Co. Ltd. (Nagano, Japan).

"Ink composition for inkjet and method for inkjet recording" was invented by Masanobu Shinohara (Nagano, Japan) and Hitomi Narumiya (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink composition for inkjet and a method for inkjet recording are provided. The ink composition for inkjet includes: a pigment, a water, an alkanediol having a carbon number of 6 or more and 10 or less; and a resin emulsion. A minimum value of a mass ratio of the alkanediol to the ink composition for inkjet is 10%. And, the method includes: performing a typing by attaching ...