US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 15 for "Thermosensitive recording medium and method for producing thermosensitive recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,263, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Thermosensitive recording medium and method for producing thermosensitive recording medium" was invented by Kaito Sugiura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Shimizu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermosensitive recording medium includes a support; a first underlayer disposed on or above the support; a second underlayer disposed on or above the first underlayer; and a thermosensitive recording layer disposed on or above the second underlayer. The second underlayer and the thermosensitive recording layer are formed by simultaneous curtain coating. Surface smo...