ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,233, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Active energy ray curing composition, active energy ray curing ink composition, active energy ray curing inkjet ink composition, container, image forming device, image forming method, and cured matter" was invented by Soh Noguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Okada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahide Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active energy ray curing composition can be applied to cured matter of a first active energy ray curing composition. The active energy ray curing composition contains a second active energy ray curing composition containing...