US Patent Issued to SAKATA INX on Sept. 9 for "Aqueous inkjet ink composition, printed matter, and inkjet printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,332, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAKATA INX Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Aqueous inkjet ink composition, printed matter, and inkjet printing method" was invented by Yoichi Sato (Osaka, Japan), Hirohito Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Moriyasu (Osaka, Japan), Eri Ueda (Osaka, Japan) and Takaaki Sano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aqueous inkjet ink composition containing a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, colloidal silica, and water, in which the surfactant includes a surfactant having an HLB value equal to or greater than 3 and less than 10 and a surfactant having an HLB value o...