ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,781, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Inkjet recording method" was invented by Makoto Kuronuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiyuki Kobashi (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Hirade (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording method is provided that includes the following steps: applying a pretreatment liquid to a fabric; applying a first white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto an application region of the pretreatment liquid obtained in the applying of the pretreatment liquid, to form an image; applying a second white ink by an inkjet method and a wet on wet method onto the image for...